((Author's note: Okay guys. This will be the last chapter I post up here until I get some feedback on this story. I want to know if you guys like it or not before I continue it))
"Dad?" Marikai said, pinching herself and making sure she wasn't dreaming.
"Yes, Marikai. It's me. How have you been, princess?" Her father spoke in a kind voice.
"Dad, how'd you get my number?" Marikai demanded. She was not in the mood to speak to him.
"It doesn't matter where I got your number. I'm just glad it was still in service."
"What do you really want, Dad?"
"Why do I have to want anything? Can't a guy call his daughter and speak to her?" From the sound of his voice, he was hurt by Marikai's comment.
"No! A guy who leaves his family in the middle of the night with no warning doesn't get the right to talk to the daughter he left behind. I have to go now, Dad. Bye!" Marikai ended the phone call, anger rising and tears streaming down her face.
Why did he even call? Marikai thought to herself, leaning on a wall to steady herself and keep her from collapsing like she so desired to do.
"Here." Marikai looked up when she saw Tamaki standing before her, holding out a tissue.
"Tamaki, what're you doing out here?" She asked, taking the tissue from him and wiping her eyes.
"I saw you run out of the room and followed you. Then I saw you answer your phone and heard your conversation with your father."
"I can't believe after all these years he just calls out of the blue and just wants to talk! I can't just forgive him like that and start talking to him again. He left us!" Marikai was hysterical by now and on the verge of breaking down so Tamaki pulled her into a hug which caused her to just burst out sobbing.
Tamaki whispered soothing things to her, trying to calm her.
"I just don't understand. How can someone leave their family like that?" Marikai whispered.
"Only a coward would leave his family."
Marikai just buried her head in his chest, not wanting to leave his warm embrace. They stood like that for several moments, with Marikai crying when Tamaki cleared his throat and spoke.
"Marikai? May I talk to you about something?"
She looked up to him. "What is it Tamaki-senpai? Is something wrong?"
"No. Nothings wrong. Here let's sit down." He led them over to a bench.
"Oh. Then what is it?"
"Well, earlier I started to tell you something. . ." Tamaki looked down at his feet, fiddling with his thumbs and blushing.
"Oh, right. I wondered what is it you were going to say."
"Well, what I was going to say is that I-"
"There you two are! We've been looking for you." Tamaki was once again cut as the twins walked down the hall.
"Hey, guys. We were just talking. What's up?"
"There's a commotion occurring on the balcony in the ball room." They said in unison.
"Commotion?" Marikai and Tamaki asked simultaneously.
"A group of girls is cornering Arianna and threatening to push her off the balcony." Kaoru said.
"They said she wasn't good enough for Kyouya and that she should just go back to England." Hikaru added.
"What? That's really rude of them! We better get in there and stop it before it gets out of hand." Marikai was already up and running towards the ball room, Tamaki at her heels.
As soon as the twins reentered the Ball Room, Marikai pulled Tamaki aside.
"What is it that you were going to say before?" She asked him.
"Oh. It's nothing. I was just going to say if you need someone to talk to, I'm always here for you." He lied.
"Oh. Well, thank you, senpai. I really appreciate that." Marikai responded, smiling.
"No problem."
Stupid! You should have told her what you originally were going to. Tamaki scolded himself.
Arianna POV
I held onto the railing of the balcony, watching the group of girls who had cornered me cautiously.
"Just leave already. Go back to jolly ol' England." The leader of the girls, a black haired female with black eyes told me, trying to use a fake British accent. "You belong there with the rest of your kind.
"I have as much right to be here as you all do." I told them bravely.
"Ha! You have the right to shut your mouth. Every time you open it, you just cause more trouble." The leader scoffed.
"And you don't think by cornering me and threatening me is causing trouble?" I responded smartly.
"Shut up!" One of the other girls slapped me hard on the face, causing me to flinch back.
"Maybe you really should push her, Irene. Teach her a lesson." Another girl urged.
"That does sound like a good idea. You know what? I'll do it!" The leader declared and without a warning, she pushed me over the balcony.
I clenched my eyes closed and braced myself for the pain that was surely to come, but it never came for just as I was about to collide with the hard marble floor, I felt someone catch me in their arms.
Slowly, I opened my eyes and looked up at my rescuer.
"Kyouya?"
"Violence is prohibited on school grounds." He said, looking up at the group of girls staring down at us.
"There wasn't any violence involved! She tripped off the balcony." The leader, Irene, declared, rushing down the stairs and towards us on the bottom level.
"Irene Juri, daughter of the president of Juri Cosmetic Company. Do you think your mother would be pleased by your act tonight?" Kyouya asked in a cold tone, making Irene freeze up and look worried.
"Please don't tell my mother, Kyouya-senpai! I didn't mean to push her. Really! I just wanted to scare her a little. I didn't really want to hurt her!" Irene was shouting hysterically, panicking. "She isn't good enough for you, senpai. She's a foreigner! A filthy breed from another place!"
"With all due respect, Miss. Juri, but I believe I'm the one who decides which people are good for me and which ones that are not." Kyouya said in an even colder tone. Then, turning his back on Irene and starting to walk away he added, "And just because one is from another place does not make them filthy. Those who think this way are the ones who are filthy."
With that, Kyouya walked away from Irene, holding me in his arms still.
"Arianna! Are you okay? We saw what happened!" Marikai asked worriedly, her and Tamaki rushing over to us when Kyouya sat me down on a chair.
I smiled at her worry. It seems the moment we had earlier in the bathroom seemed to change her entire attitude towards me. While she acted like she didn't want anything to do with me before, she now appeared genuinely concerned for my well-being.
"Yes. I'm fine. Kyouya caught me before I hit the floor." I told her and then to Kyouya I said, "Thank you for catching me. . ."
Kyouya just nodded his head in response.
"So, what will be the young lady's punishment for pushing Arianna?" Marikai asked and for just a second, I swore I saw a flash of anger in her eyes.
"Well, I will notify her mother and then notify the head of the school. He'll decide her punishment from there. . ." Kyouya answered, pulling out a small electronic tablet and typing something out on the touch screen.
"Why did the girl push you, Arianna?" Marikai asked curiously, sitting down in the chair beside mine.
"She said I wasn't good enough for Kyouya and to teach me a lesson, she pushed me." I said, rubbing the back of my neck.
"I ought to give that girl a piece of my mind! You can't just go around pushing people off balconies like that!" Marikai stood up and began to rant, acting very similar to how I had observed Tamaki act.
He's starting to rub off on her. I found myself thinking, smiling.
Marikai POV
"A MountOlympus theme?" I asked, a little cautious on agreeing with it.
"Yes! It would be awesome! We all could dress up as gods and goddesses." Kaoru smiled happily.
"We would both be Poseidon. Milord would be Zeus. Hunny would be Eros, a.k.a. "Cupid." Mori would be Hercules. Kyouya would be Hades. Arianna would be Persephone if she agrees to it. Haruhi would be Hera. . ." Hikaru explained.
"And you, Marikai. . ." Kaoru added.
"Would be. . ."
"Aphrodite!" The twins declared in unison, wide grins on their faces.
"As in the goddess of beauty and love?" I wasn't so sure about dressing up for this.
"Yep. We already have your costume for it!" Hikaru replied in a cheerful tone.
I know I've said it before, but SHOOT ME!
I stood next to Haruhi in the Music Room, wearing the strapless tan dress the twins gave me. The dress ended a little above my knee and had a pretty deep neck line where a large amount of my skin was exposed.
"I feel all exposed in this!" I declared, tugging on the end of the dress and then making sure the golden sandals I wore were clipped on tightly.
"I think the outfit looks good on you, Mari-chan." Haruhi was wearing a long-sleeved white toga. Realizing it at the last minute, the twins made her wear it so that her identity as a girl wouldn't be discovered.
"Thanks Haru-chan. You look good too. Even though you're still disguised as a boy the twins managed to make your toga look girlish." I responded, noticing the flowers embroidered around the collar of Haruhi's toga.
"Mari-chan! Haru-chan! Don't I look cute in my Cupid costume?" Hunny skipped over to us, wearing a white toga and brown sandals. On his back he wore a pair of golden wings and in his hand he held a bow and arrow.
"You look adorable, Hunny-senpai!" I replied cheerfully. I then looked behind him where Mori stood, wearing his Hercules costume, looking very attractive.
"Arianna, would you please stop messing with your dress. You look fine." Kyouya said, walking into the room with Arianna at his heels. Kyouya wore a long black toga and held his black notebook. Arianna wore a white dress that slit up both sides and had a low neckline, showing off her cleavage area. In her hair she wore white feathers and on her arms she wore white gloves ending at a point on top of her hand and wrapping around the middle finger on both her hands.
"Wow. You guys look great as Hades and Persephone." I told them as they walked over to us.
"Thanks, Marikai. I love your outfit. You look just like Aphrodite." Arianna complimented me, smiling.
"Really? I didn't think I did." I stated, walking over to a full length mirror randomly placed nearby.
Arianna's right. I do look like the goddess of beauty. I thought to myself, looking at my reflection.
"You look. . ." A familiar voice began.
"Beautiful. . ." Another familiar voice chimed in.
"Just like Aphrodite. . ." They breathed on my neck, making me spin around and face them.
"Kaoru, Hikaru! I told you about sneaking up on me!" I shouted to them, pushing them away, nearly snagging their blue toga's with the golden bracelets I wore on each arm.
They just laughed, grinning that devilish smile of theirs.
"My fellow gods and goddesses! Your king has arrived." The doors burst open and Tamaki came strolling in, wearing a long white toga, tan sandals, and a satchel worn on his side that had several lightning bolts sticking out of it. On his head he wore a golden leaflet crown and on his right arm he wore a golden armband.
"Wow, Tamaki-senpai. You look great!" Arianna said, walking over to him.
Even though, I was okay with Arianna now, seeing her smile widely and compliment Tamaki like that just made me jealous and want to smack her.
What's going on with me? I never get jealous of other girls!
"Thank you, Arianna. You look great too. That dress looks really pretty!" Tamaki complimented her, smiling her classic charming grin.
"Thank you, Tamaki-senpai! The twins picked it out." She giggled and she and Tamaki started talking about their costumes.
I rolled my eyes and walked to the back of the room, finding a random door. Letting my curiosity get the best of me, I turned the door handle and entered the room the door belonged to.
Tamaki POV
Arianna and I were talking about Hikaru and Kaoru's fashion designer mother when a realization hit me. Since I entered the club room, I hadn't seen Marikai once.
"Where's Marikai?" I asked.
"She was in here earlier. I haven't a clue where she went though." Arianna replied, moving a strand of her blonde hair out of her face.
"We saw her go towards the back of the room." The twins said, hearing my question.
"Oh. I wanted to see her as Aphrodite. . ." I pouted, crossing my arms in front of my chest.
"You should go look for her." Arianna suggested. "Maybe she went into that room over there?"
I looked to where she pointed to an open door at the back of the room.
Where'd that come from? I thought, walking towards the door.
"Marikai? Are you in here?" I entered the room, looking around for her. I spotted her at the front of the room, sitting at one of the desks in the room, with her head down. I touched a hand to her shoulder. "Marikai?"
She jumped at the sound of my voice, catching her foot on mine as she stood up and causing us both to trip, landing in a very awkward position.
"Tamaki-senpai, did you- Oh my!"
