Kaoru POV.

"You like her don't you?"

I watched her walk down the hall with her back to me, with Hikaru's arm around her.

"I do. A lot." I said.

"Well, you're friends with her aren't you?"

"Yeah… I guess we are."

"So…" she sounded confused. "So why don't you just make a move?" it was like she didn't understand anything. I couldn't do that to her. I couldn't do that to my own brother either.

"I can't."

"Why not?" She persisted.

"Because he likes her, and she likes him, and they'd be happy together." I looked over at Adele. She had her arms crossed and an intense look of confusion on her face.

"So," she started hesitantly. "You're going to help your brother… get the girl you like… because… he likes her… too?" she said it really slowly, like she was still trying to figure it all out.

"Yes." I said coldly. Now I remembered why I don't like this girl.

"You put your brothers need before yours. But… why?"

"Because I love him, and I want him to be happy."

She looked up at me and I swear I couldn't find a drop of warmth in her eyes.

Adele POV.

He wants him to be happy…

Kaoru liked her… so did Hikaru. I guess twins really do have the same taste. But Kaoru won't make a move. And boys think girls make no sense.

Hikaru was sitting at his desk which was pulled up next to mine, rocking our baby in the crib we made of duct tape and pencils.

"Honey, I'm home." I said as I dropped my bag into the chair next to him.

"Hi." He said wearily, and kissed me on the forehead. I could practically hear the steam coming out of Audrey's ears. She really needs to learn to chill out.

"How's the baby?"

He looked up at me and smiled. "He's fine."

"Hikaru! Oh my gosh! Did you sleep at all!?" There were huge circles beneath his eyes and he could hardly seem to be able to keep his eyes open. He looked like a raccoon. His eyes shifted quickly to the ground.

"Did you hear what Milord wanted to do next weekend?"

"Don't. Change. The. Subject."

"I just can't get to sleep lately. Too much on my mind." Me and Audrey on his mind is what he meant. And good, that's the way it should be.

"Ok class turn to page four hundred and fun!" Everyone stared and no one moved. Mr. Seck sighed and whipped the smile off his face, "Fine, 401. Kill joys." We opened our books.

The bell rang and everyone fled to the halls. Normally I would have been off with Hikaru or Tamaki but I had business today.

"Audrey!" I shouted and gave her the "come hither" motion. The look she gave Kaoru was something along the lines of a deer in the headlights. She took a step towards me, then looked back at Kaoru, then took another step, then looked back a Kaoru again, but thankfully Kaoru pushed her forward when she tried to run back at him. God, did this girl have any backbone whatsoever?

"Yeah?" she muttered at the ground.

"You like Hikaru right?" I said quite clearly, anyone who was listening would have heard it fine but everyone was too busily wrapped up in their own little worlds.

"WHAT?! I-DON'T –I- TALKING- ABOUT- WHAT DID YOU- OUT OF YOUR MIND- I DON'T-- HAVE YOU NO SHAME- I DON'T EVEN - WHAT?!"She practically screamed. The people around us went kinda quiet. I grabbed her wrist and yanked her down the hall to the spare class room, opened the door and shoved her inside, rather violently I guess from the way people were staring.

I waved back and said, "Nothing to see here! Everything's fine! Audrey seems to be suffering from temporary madness but I've got everything under control! Nothing to worry about!" I smiled until the last of them stopped staring and then shut the door. I turned around to find Audrey standing on the emergence window sill trying to pinch the latched to open the window.

"Are you trying to escape?"

"No." she said a little too fast and the fact that her eyes flicked to the door didn't get past me either.

I smiled. "Good. Because I've got business to talk with you Audrey." She was still eyeing the door.

"What kind of business?"

"First of all thank you very much for making a scene back there. Now people are going to talk and, as much as I think temporary insanity would suit you, I don't think the club is going to buy it when the gossip gets around to them."

"What kind of business, Adele?"

"Hikaru." for the first time since we got in the room she looked at me. "My business is Hikaru."

Narrator POV

"What do you need me for? You already have him… for now."Audrey was shaking, if she wasn't leaning against the window she probably would have collapsed by now.

But Adele's eyes lit up like a Christmas tree with something more than excitement.

"But the thing is…" Adele swallowed and looked away. "I-I don't think he likes me, Audrey." She said it in less than a whisper.

"Who are you and what did you do with the Adele I hate?"

"Look, Audrey, I actually think he likes you." Adele was still looking at the ground, but Audrey had stopped shaking. What if this was a side of Adele she hadn't seen before. Could it be that that cold-hearted bitch who kissed Hikaru for no freaking reason actually cared what he wanted?

"Why… are you telling me this?" Audrey was beginning to relax, it didn't seem like there was going to be any manipulation like there usually was in a conversation with Adele.

"Because I like him." She smiled a little to herself, like she was remembering something funny.

"You like him enough to just want him to be happy?"

"Yeah… and since you don't seem to be capable of getting his attention on your own I'm going to help you." Adele seemed to get some of her old self back.

"That's ok I've already got-"

"Don't use Kaoru. It's too dangerous."

"But he's my best friend. What could be dangerous about it?" Adele was biting her lip trying not to explode on this girl.

"Ok, what kind of soda does Hikaru like?"

"What does that have to do with this?"

"Answer the question."

"Uhh pepsi?"

"And Kaoru?"

"Pepsi."

"What color does Hikaru like?"

"I think he said blue?"

"and Kaoru?"

"blue…"

"And what girl does Hikaru like?"

"Well, he likes me…"

"And what girl does Kaoru like?"

Audrey's mouth fell open.

"No…" she whispered in disbelief.

"Yeah."

"But he was going to help me get Hikaru…" she said in the same rushed/shocked whisper.

"Audrey I know you don't want to hear this but I think he might have been using that as an opportunity to get close to you. You know? Think about it…" Audrey was quiet for a little bit. She looked up sadly at Adele and nodded. Adele stood up from the desk she'd been casually leaning/sitting on and strode over to Audrey who now looked even paler in the light from the window.

"I guess that makes me your best friend now." She smiled and rubbed her back for a second, then got up and left.

The end of lunch bell rang and was met with the usual groan of every student as they headed back to class. Fortunately for Adele and Audrey's class Mr. Seck hadn't finished eating lunch yet so while he ate all the groups of parents we're supposed to meet and talk about their financial situation. Well Audrey, Hikaru, Adele, and Kaoru along with the rest of the class except Haruhi was solid so everyone pretty much just spent this time talking. Adele lay across her and Hikaru's desk and let him rest his head on her stomach while she twirled his hair with her eyes closed and a content grin on her face, as if she could do this forever and not get bored.

"Hikaru?"

He "mmmm"'d to show he was listening

"What do you think of Audrey?" he sat up and looked Adele in the eyes

"She's pretty weird and all but I like her. She's nice… I like her." Adele smiled stiffly.

She put her hand on his head and rested it back on her stomach. "I'm glad." She said while she stroked his hair. But the grin was gone.

Meanwhile on Audrey's side!

"Hey Kaoru you have a pencil sharpener?" he handed her one, and she was suddenly so fascinated by the pencil that it was the only thing in the world, it could even distract her from Kaoru who was trying to catch her eye.

"Look at them."" Kaoru said sounded disgusted. "They might as well be naked." **props for anyone who can tell me what show that's from!** Audrey looked over at Adele who mouthed 'play it cool'.

"No, no, its fine. Me and Adele talked. We worked everything out. Everything fine. Everything's good. It'll work out great." Kaoru gave her a funny look.

"Audrey, I know you think your ok." She glared up at him. "Which you are! Totally, your totally fine but it looks to me like your trying to kill that pencil… and it's, uh, got Adele's name on it." Sure enough when Audrey turned over the pencil, or the stub that was what was left of it, there was Adele's pretty name scratched into it. Audrey went back to watching Adele and Hikaru and savagely sharpening the pencil, which kept breaking. Kaoru was looking worried.

"Audrey…" he reached for the pencil but the second he touched her she screamed like shed been electrocuted, threw the pencil sharpener in the air, which exploded and rained down bits of pencil shavings over everything in the class room including Mr. Seck's open coffee mug and half eaten sandwich, and also jumped about a foot back at the same time, which would have worked if she was standing but as she was sitting down she kinda just pushed the chair back into a desk making the desk, the chair, and her all fall to the ground, which was covered in pencil shavings.

"Audrey," Kaoru chuckled reaching out his hand to help her up.

"I CAN DO IT MYSELF." And right that second Adele was by her side, helping her up and brushing bits of pencil and lead off her dress.

"Mr. Seck? Can we go to the bathroom?" Mr. Seck looked like he was too angry to speak as he stared at his coffee with a piece of lead in it bobbing like the Titanic but he managed to make some kind of guttural sound and nod. Adele grabbed Audrey's wrist and pulled her out of the classroom.

"I said play it cool. Not let's have a snow day but instead of snow let's make it pencil shavings." Adele still managed to look pretty wile angry and graceful with a pile of pencil shaving in her hair.

People stared at Audrey while she walked down the hall. She was hunched over and trying to hide her face. Adele stared at her.

"Are you seriously embarrassed about that?" She asked

"Yeah… now everyone thinks I'm a TOTAL SPAZZ!!" Audrey cried, cover her face at the same time.

"But you are a total spaz." (Audrey: -.-")

"Considerate of other people's feelings as always, Adele." Kaoru joined them smiling falsely.

"I like to think I just get right to the point. I don't beat around the bush." Kaoru grimaced at her.

"KAORU!" shouted Hikaru from the other end of the hall.

"HIKARU!" and the ocean of girls parted and they ran gloriously into each others arms and embraced. Tamaki ran off shouting about something beautiful love and a horde of the girls followed him.

"Audrey! I feel like I haven't seen you in forever!" he was smiling warmly but the warmth didn't quite reach his voice. Audrey muttered something nervously about girl talk and stuff. Adele glanced over at them, making sure it was awkward enough for a good distraction and yanked Hikaru away from the crowd.

"Adele? Isn't this a little close?" Hikaru asked, after all they were squished together so tightly you couldn't have fit a piece of paper between them.

"Well we can't let them see us, can we?" Adele whispered back.

"I… I guess not."

"Hikaru, did you know Audrey likes you?" she said with a hint of a smile. Hikaru was suddenly looking very very uncomfortable.

"Um, well, I guess I kinda… she wasn't- I don't mean she was- I'm just—"

"I know. She's not very good at hiding it. But I want to help you, and her." His Adam's apple bobbed.

POV Adele.

"Ok, I'll bite. What's this all about?" Kyoya questioned. He was standing next to me, towering over me of course, and staring down his nose at me.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I said confused. Kyoya cocked an eyebrow.

"Audrey and Hikaru suddenly getting along so well? Personally I don't think they mesh well at all."

"Well I think your wrong…. Alright well I have been giving Audrey lessons and they're a pain in the ass but it's worth it."

"I don't get it."

"Kyoya, they're happy. Look at them. They are happy. Who am I to deny someone happiness?" I faint smile played my lips as me and Kyoya watched Audrey and Hikaru walking in one of the school parks from the huge glass window that over looked them (a little creepy, yes, I know) "Especially someone I care about." Kyoya saw I was looking at Hikaru. He pinched the bridge of his nose and adjusted his glasses.

"This is going to become a huge mess."

"I know." I said. "I plan on it."