As they entered the room, she tossed a glance at the chalkboard. A list of items were written on it in Japanese for the homeroom students who used that room to plan their Field Day activities, but it was along the side so she doubted it would be much of a problem. Hikaru took her bag from her and she sighed before falling him down the aisle to their desks. He set her bag on her desk and she slid into the seat just as he did with his own, and shot her a silly grin.
"I plan on figuring you out, Lillian Fukui-chan, you can count on it. I'm going to figure out everything about you; from your past all the way down to what you're most afraid of," he said softly, almost as if it were a promise, before he winked at her. She stared at him unblinkingly for a moment before turning back around and facing the front of the room where, thankfully, the Sensei had begun their lesson for the day.
A/N: Oh, the moment you've all been waiting for! Lilac is meeting the mysterious stranger :P
D/C:
Hazie ~ *pouts* I don't think I own Ouran ...
Lillian ~ How many times do we have to say you don't? Geez, think you'd know that by now ...
Lilac ~ Lily! Be nice to her!
Hazie ~ T.T I do not own Ouran Highschool Host Club
Lilac POV
Tuesday, May 26th, 3:10pm, Courtyard Fountain
I still have five minutes until whoever it is shows up ... Lilac frowned, looking at her watch. She tossed a glance over her shoulder at where Lillian stood behind a bush and nodded a little in response to her sisters' nod. She'd decided to tell Lillian since they always did this if one of them received a love letter, so of course she had told Lillian during class about it.
Three minutes ...
She adjusted her skirt beneath her legs and began to tap her foot against the cement ground, her shoe tapping lightly in a rhythmic pattern. She tightened her grip on her bag for a moment before loosening it and opening the flap with a soft snap. Rifling through it for a moment, she finally pulled out the letter that she had gotten and unfolded it before smoothing the paper out.
Two minutes ...
"I wonder who it could be?" she thought out loud, subconsciously fiddling with the paper on top of her bag. All that she had to go on was the letter K and who knew who it could be? It had to be someone in one of her classes, a guy that she had interacted with at least once, and there were quite a few guys with the letter K at the beginning of their name.
3:15pm ...
"Fukui-chan?"
Lilac jerked away from her thoughts at the male voice and looked up from the paper, which she had been staring at as she concentrated, and stood up. The boy was hiding behind a pillar several feet away and she couldn't tell who he was from the view.
"Show yourself, please," she requested, her bag on the bench and the note caught between her index finger and thumb.
The boy slowly moved out from behind the pillar and her brow rose in surprise, her mouth opening in a small O shape.
"Kenta-kun?" she asked in surprise. The boy was tall with wavy black hair and gleaming gray eyes. He was well-built despite rich people's common lack of wanting to work out too much, and he stood at about the height of six-foot-six-inches.
Kenta made his way over to her, his left hand rubbing nervously at his upper right arm. "Hello Fukui-chan. I can tell that you got my letter," he said, his deep voice laced with uncertainty.
"Yeah, I got your letter. But did you mean to send it to Lilac? I'm Lillian, I think you tucked it into my book by mistake," Lilac said, crossing her arms lazily beneath her breasts, her hand with the letter hanging slightly down.
Kenta immediately began to blush a furious red and he quickly bowed his head. "Yeah, I meant to send it to your sister, Lillian-chan," he rushed out, before looking back up at her. "I'm sorry."
Lilac smiled, tapping her chin lightly with her free hand. "That's okay. But I have a question. How about instead of my sister, do you think you could like me instead?" she asked curiously, smiling up at him.
He blinked and looked down at her for a moment, seeming slightly confused by this question, before he smiled a little. "I guess I probably could. Sure," he agreed with a nod.
"Great!" she said, clapping her hands together once, before turning sideways and facing away from him. "Lillian, he said he could date you instead," she called.
Her sister made her way out from behind the bush and walked over to her at a leisurely pace, as if she had all the time in the world, and Kenta began to sputter in disbelief.
"What is this? What's going on? I thought you for Lillian!"
"That's only because that's what we wanted you to think, you asshole," Lillian said as she reached them. She eyed her nails, almost with disinterest at the current conversation with the boy. "You said you'd accept either one of us as your girlfriend, therefore you're an asshole," she shrugged.
Kenta continued to sputter before his face turned a furious red color and his hands clenched at his sides. "You're no better than those Hitachiin twins. They do the exact same thing to girls. Screw you both," he spat before turning on his heel and storming away.
Lillian and Lilac stared after him for a moment before Lilac heard Lillian begin to chuckle. "Anger issues," she practically sang whiles till chuckling. "Maybe he should go to some classes for that."
Lilac smiled at her sister before turning to face her. "Come on, Lillian; we need to hurry over to meet Hikaru-kun and Kaoru-kun to plan the Field Day activities," she said, already turning and starting to walk away.
Lillian nodded and walked after her before catching up and walking beside her. Although Lillian wouldn't admit it, Lilac could tell that she was looking forward to seeing Hikaru-kun.
A soft smile lifted to her face. I'm happy for her. She could use a little bit of joy and excitement in her life. Hikaru-kun will be good for her, if he ever bucks up the courage to ask her on a date and if Lillian ever bothers to admit to herself that she likes him, of course ...
Lillian POV
Tuesday, May 26th, 3:30pm, Field Day activities area
"We could put the karaoke stage right over here and the sign up booth about ten feet in front of it, to the right. We'll need about one-hundred-fifty folding chairs to put in front of the stage, about fifteen feet away. Let's do ten rows with fifteen chairs each and we can put cushions on the seat of the chair so it isn't cold, and small, lacy cloths on the back so they look better. We can have the seats in the front row be reserved for the chair board members who want to watch."
Lillian turned to face Hikaru with a question on her face. "Do you think that would work?" she asked, tapping the corner of her lips with the end of her pen.
The five had split up into two groups. Haruhi, Lilac and Kaoru had gone to plan the band, which would be put on a stage beside the bleachers beside the track while Hikaru and Lillian had stayed back to plan the karaoke contest and then go inside the theater to plan the play.
Hikaru grinned at her before giving her a thumbs up. "That should work. Who should we have working the sign up booth?"
"Well, we'll have people switching off and on so no two people are there all day in the sun. I'd say we should have three groups of two that can switch in and out throughout the day at certain times. Lilac said she'd work the equipment since it'll be from our father's company and he doesn't want anyone he doesn't know working it, and Kaoru said he'd keep watch on the band. Haruhi said she'd go from the band, to here to the play and back again, making rounds, since everyone said that since I came up with the idea I should be directing the play, so I'll need to be there all day. You're the only one that isn't going to be doing anything yet," she said, already sketching out the layout of the karaoke contest.
"I could produce the play alongside you," he offered, trailing her around like a lost puppy.
"I don't need a producer."
"What if someone gets sick or hurt and you need to take over their role and there's no one to direct it?"
Lillian paused mid-stride and looked over at him, where he was standing and giving her the puppy dog eyes.
"Oh, God, not the face," she groaned, bringing her clipboard up so it was between their faces. After a few moments, she lowered it a little, only to find him still doing it. With another groan, she sighed. "Fine, you can produce it. But you can't change anything about the play that I choose and you're only there in case something goes wrong," she said firmly, looking directly into his eyes.
"That will work," he said with a shrug, as if indifferent to her decision but still obviously pleased by it.
Rolling her eyes, Lillian continued to sketch out the layout before finally finishing. "I was thinking something like this," she said, holding up the paper for him to see.
He studied it for a moment before nodded a few times. "You're a really good artist. Have you ever thought of becoming one?" he asked, looking at her.
She hesitated for a moment before shrugging a little and nodding. "Yeah, I did at one point ... But that dream ended awhile ago and I doubt I'll ever become one," she said quietly, flipping the papers down over the sketch. On the top paper a list of names were scrawled beneath Play, Karaoke, and Band.
"Well, why'd you give up on it?" he asked, dropping down onto one of the benches.
She whirled on him, her face darkening, and practically shouted, "It's none of your business, so stay out of it!" at him, before whirling away once more and furiously scribbling across the list.
He sat there for a moment and she could feel the waves of hurt and stun coming off of him, radiating against her back, and she let out a little breath. "Sorry, I just ... Don't want to talk about it is all," she said quietly, stopping her hand mid-stroke.
He was quiet for another moment before she heard him rise and walk around in front of her. His finger went under her chin and tilted her head up, his face almost directly in hers, and he gazed at her for a moment, before he gently pressed his lips to her forehead. "It's alright, I understand," he said softly. They stayed like that for another full minute before he released her chin and stepped back, dropping down to sit cross-legged in the grass. "Let's go over the list of names again and see who we can assign to what," he said, patting the ground beside him. She hesitated for a second before dropping down beside him, her skirts splaying around her legs and the grass tickling her bare legs, seeing as she never wore tights. They were too itchy in her mind.
"Well, we have a lot of people that want to do the play, but for the two plays I have in mind - both of which are musicals - we only have some key roles. The names of the plays are The Sound of Music and Grease. Have you ever heard of them?" she asked, going down over the list.
Hikaru shook his head no and she went back to speaking once more. "Well, in The Sound of Music, basically this woman who lives in a convent for nuns wants nothing more than to go out and live her life. Eventually she gets her wish granted and is sent to become basically a governess for the seven children of a widowed naval officer. It's based in Austria, and there's a few different set changes we'd have to do. There's the convent, of course, and then the main foyer of the children's home. There's the dining hall, Maria's - the governess's - bedroom, the dancing hall, the gazebo, the lake, the dirt road, the amphitheater, and the mountains. There's the town, the outside of the home, and the marketplace ... I think that's all the scenes," she listed off. "So there's a total of thirteen scene changes."
Hikaru's eyes widened and she watched as he began to laugh. "I don't think anyone's going to want to do that because of how much work that will take," he pointed out. She blinked and nodded before looking at her list once more.
"As for Grease, it's based in America. A teenage boy and girl fall in love over the summer at a beach but when school starts again, they think they'll never see each other again since she lived in Australia. It turns out that she transferred to his school - his name is Danny Zuko and hers is Sandy Olsen - and Sandy immediately makes some new friends. She tells them about Danny, who's this bad-boy at the school, and they end up seeing each other again. I won't tell you the rest because you'll have to read the script," she told him, flipping to the page with the Grease information. "There are a few scene changes. There's the beach, the drive-in, the bleachers, the outside lunch area, Frenchy's - one of Sandy's friends - house ... Um ..." she tapped her lips once more with her pen before looking at the paper. "The school parking lot, the field they have the pep rally in, the gymnasium for the dance, the diner they all go to ... And there's this one racing scene, but we'll have to cut that out, so never mind that ... And then the end scene where they have the end-of-school fair," she concluded. "That's all we need in it, but we can cut some more out. So we'd have about ten scene changes. For The Sound of Music we can cut some scenes out, too," she added.
Hikaru stared at her for a moment and she looked at him with a raised brow. "What?" she asked, looking behind her then back at him. "Do I have something on my face?" she lifted her hand to rub at first one cheek then the other before lowering it.
He chuckled and shook his head. "No, you don't have anything on your face. You're just ..." he trailed off before leaning in and resting his hand on her slightly pink cheek. "You're so beautiful," he said, almost in awe of this.
She turned a bright red and stared at him as he slowly began to descend upon her, pausing only when his nose tapped hers and his lips hovered over her own, as if he were asking for permission to proceed. She sat still, her eyes wide and staring into his, and as his lips came nearer ... and nearer ... his breath brushing across them ... she found her eyes slowly closing in anticipation.
"Hey Hikaru! Have you seen Haruhi? I think she was abducted or something! She's not answering her phone or ... or ... or anything! Daddy's getting so worried!"
Hikaru and Lillian jerked apart from each other and she quickly bowed her head over her clipboard, her heart hammering hard in her chest, almost threatening to burst from her ribcage. She heard Tamaki-senpei approaching them and Hikaru leaning back nonchalantly and once she was sure her face was back to normal color-wise, she looked up at him.
"Oh, it's just the idiot from yesterday," she said, her voice bored. Tamaki jerked back, his hand going over his heart, and he scuttled a few feet away. Kyoya, Mori and Honey were all with him, walking up after him and only Kyoya ignored the sulking Tamaki.
"Hello Ms. Fukui, what a pleasure it is to see you again. I'm looking forward to seeing you and your sister at our next Host Club event tomorrow after school, if you're coming, that is," Kyoya said as he moved over beside them. Honey, with one finger in his mouth and his other hand holding Usa-chan to his chest, skipped over after poking Tamaki a few times, and dropped down beside her, thrusting Usa-chan in her face. Mori sat beside Honey, and soon everyone but Kaoru, Haruhi and Lilac were forming a circle in the grass. Tamaki was excluded, of course, because he was still sulking over next to a tree.
Lillian smiled and accepted Usa-chan from Honey. "Thank you, Honey-senpei. I'll make sure to hold him with care until you want him back," she said, before turning her attention to Kyoya. "I'll only be coming back if Lilac wants to come back, Kyoya-senpei, but I'm sure she will, so we'll more than likely be there," she told him, before looking over at Tamaki. "Stop being an idiot, Tamaki-senpei, and come over here. Sulking in a corner isn't going to do you any good or get you anywhere, so there's not point in it," she chastised. He sat there for a few more seconds before reluctantly getting up and joining the circle. She turned to Mori and gave him a smile. "Hello Mori-senpei. We weren't able to introduce ourselves yesterday, but Hikaru-kun and Kaoru-kun has told Lilac and me quite a lot about each of you. It's really nice to meet you. I'm Lillian Fukui," she held out her hand for him once she finished speaking. He accepted it and shook it with a small smile.
"It's nice to meet you too, Fukui-chan," he said in his deep voice.
She smiled once more and turned to look at them all. "I won't mind if you all just call me Lillian. Lilac wouldn't either, I'm positive," she said. "Besides, we're good acquaintances now, I might even say friends, so we don't care about formalities."
Honey leaned up and smiled in her face. "Do you like Usa-chan? Usa-chan likes you," he said excitedly.
Lillian smiled and held Usa-chan up to look at the bunnies' face. She pretended to study it for a moment before beaming down at Honey. "Of course I like Usa-chan, he's so cute!" she exclaimed, holding him out to Honey, who took him back with a bright smile.
She turned to face Tamaki. "Now, you really need to learn not to overreact. Haruhi's with my sister and Kaoru planning the Field Day festivities for our class, so I don't doubt that she turned off her phone. Actually, they should be on their way back any minute now. It's four-o clock after all," she said as she checked her phone.
Tamaki pouted and refused to respond, now just sulking in their circle.
"What's everyone doing?"
The entire circle looked up as Kaoru approached, his hands behind his head, with Lilac on his right and Haruhi on Lilac's right.
"We came to collect you and Haruhi. We were supposed to have a club meeting, remember?" Kyoya asked, looking at the two over his glasses. Kaoru shrugged as if it didn't matter, and Lilac immediately jumped to their defense.
"They were only helping with the Field Day activities, Kyoya-senpei. You should be nicer to people instead of immediately giving them that judgmental look," she said, her clenched hands going to her waist.
Kyoya raised a brow at her before nodding a little. "I'll take that into consideration," he said before turning back to his little black book.
Lillian looked at him with a raised brow, then to her sister, then back to Kyoya again, before shrugging and rising. She brushed off her skirts and smiled at the group. "Lilac and I should be going. We need to get home and finish unpac-" she cut off, flushed a light pink, and Lilac jumped in to rescue her. "Unpacking the equipment we ordered for the karaoke contest," she said with a smile.
Hikaru looked at her curiously as Kaoru dropped down beside him, mimicking his brother with the same look, both of them crossing their legs and resting their hands on their knees. Honey smiled and jumped up. "Okay, Lilac and Lily. We'll see you tomorrow, right? After school at the Host Club event?"
Lillian nodded and dropped down to his height, ruffling his hair and smiling. "Of course you will, I promise," she said, winking at him. He giggled and held Usa-chan closer to his body before dancing back over to Mori and tossing his arms around his neck, pressing against him from behind and staring at the girls.
Lillian turned to face Haruhi as Lilac said goodbye to them and gave the girl smile. "We should have a sleepover sometime, Haruhi-chan," she said, completely oblivious to the gaping onlookers of the Host Club. Haruhi looked shocked and Lillian raised a brow. "What? What did I say?"
A/N: Oooo poor Haruhi . . Whelp, none of that turned out with what you thought, now did it? :P It wasn't Kaoru! :O SHOCKING! ^^ Hope you liked it! Follow, favorite, review, do whatever! :)
On another note, I have terrible writer's block, so my loyal readers, I have a few questions to ask you! :D
1.) For the play, should they do Grease, The Sound of Music, or Hairspray? {Note: To answer this question, visit my page and vote in the Poll}
2.) For the karaoke contest, I want you to submit to me your own characters! We will have three winners, the first place winner will get the recording deal, the second place winner will get to meet their favorite band, and the third place winner will get free tickets to their favorite band's concert! (all of which are in the story of course o.o) I have a specific idea in mind for these characters you submit, so make sure you include the information for each category listed below!
3.) What should happen in the next chapter? :O
To answer these question, either PM me or review the story, and I'll read each and every one of yours posts!
Karaoke Contest Character Layout
General
Name (first, middle, last):
Nickname(s):
Age:
Gender:
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Birthday:
Life Story:
About Him/Her:
Personality:
Good Habit(s):
Bad Habit(s):
Like(s):
Dislike(s):
Hobbies:
Fear(s):
Singing Range {Alto, Soprano, Bass, Tenor}:
Strength(s):
Weakness(es):
Future
Dreams and Talents:
Ambition/Life-long Dream:
Best Class(es):
Worst Class(es):
Friends/Family
Parent(s):
Sibling(s):
Relative(s):
Pet(s):
Best Friend(s):
Friend(s):
Crush(es):
Rival(s):
Enemies:
Ouran High School Information
Do you go to Ouran Academy? If so, how did you become accepted? {Money, scholarship, etc.}:
If not, which school do you attend?:
Are you a part of any clubs? If so, which one?:
Do you have any knowledge of the Host Club?:
Class:
Favorite Subject:
Least Favorite Subject:
Status {wealthy, poor, etc.}:
Looks/Appearance
Body Type {Athletic, skinny, plump, etc.}:
Blood Type:
Height:
Weight:
Outfit(s):
Accessories:
Makeup:
Scent:
Hairstyle(s):
Scars, Tattoos, Jewelry and/or Piercings:
Appearance {if you don't have a picture erase this}:
Extra Information
Favorite Song:
Favorite Band:
Favorite Food(s):
Favorite Color(s):
Favorite Number(s):
Favorite Season(s):
Favorite Holiday(s):
Favorite Time of Day:
Favorite Host {if there is one}:
Character's Opinions of the Following
Host Club
Haruhi Fujioka:
Tamaki Suou:
Hikaru Hitachiin:
Kaoru Hitachiin:
Kyoya Ootori:
Haninozuka "Hunny" Mitsukuni:
Morinozuka "Mori" Takashi: