Ryuku Ride: Waiiiyyttt... We're both Marie's? AWESOMENESS! A shout out too all the Marie's in the world!

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Disclaimer: I do not own anything except for Alex, Avery, Lacey and Rose. And their impending doom.

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LOL. I'm just kidding. There's no doom here.

Avery: Funny.

Alex: Yeah, hardy har har.

Lacey and Rosalie: *shakes heads sadly*

Nyah! Now for chapter... 9!


Chapter 9: Last Time I checked, Summer Was In June


As soon as the two sisters heard the loud blaring music they froze and slowly turned around to face the singing brown lump of fabric on the floor that was Rosalie's bag.

(Time is Running Out by Muse)

Bury it
I won't let you bury it
I won't let you smother it
I won't let you murder it

Our time is running out
Our time is running out
You can't push it underground
You can't stop it screaming out

I wanted freedom
Bound and restricted
I tried to give you up
But I'm addicted

Slowly the two girls walked towards the singing bag and pulled out a vibrating phone. Slowly Rosalie placed the phone between her head and her sisters and gently pressed the green button.

"WHERE HAVE YOU TWO BEEN! I'VE BEEN WORRIED SICK WHEN YOU DIDN'T CALL ME WHEN YOU GOT THERE! HOW COULD YOU BE SO IRRESPONSIBLE? OHH! I MISS YOU ALREADY! WHY DID I AGREE TO LET YOU GO TO JAPAN BY YOURSELVES!" Cackled a loud female in english over the phone. Wincing Rosalie held the phone an arms length away as her two friends laughed quietly at the scene. Everyone in the room had gone quiet and were inconspicuously eavesdropping on the loud, one way conversation.

"I NEVER THOUGHT YOU WOULD DO THAT! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I'VE BEEN MISSING YOU?" Finally there was a pause in the yelling and the Rosalie brought the phone back to her head.

"Mom, Mom, we're sorry, it's just been a little busy ever since we got here. We were going to call you at the end of the day." Rosalie said apologetically. She then covered her hand over the mouth piece and whispered "Total lie..." To her sister and they both snickered as Rosalie took her hand away.

"Mom, what are you doing up at-" Lacey looked at the clock. "Five in the morning anyways?"

"I was worried!" The sister's mom whined over the phone and they two girls groaned.

"Hi Mrs. Dwyer!" Said Alex with a smile as she walked over to the conversation.

"Yeah, nice to hear from you Mrs. Dwyer!" Said Avery with a fond smile.

"Alex? Avery? Oh hi dears! I didn't know you were there!" The voice gushed.

"Sorry we didn't call yesterday Mrs. Dwyer but we've been swamped with getting the house ready and moving all our stuff, you know?" Avery said as she leaned forward a little bit, speaking into the mouth piece.

"Yeah, moving is such a hassle Mrs. Dwyer, you have no idea!"

"Oh, well, in that case, I forgive you!" The Dwyer mother exclaimed happily.

"Ohhkay mom..." The sisters looked at each other. Then to everyone who was staring at them. They sweatdropped.

"We need to go..." Lacey said, anxiously.

"Work..." Rosalie added.

"Fine. But if you do not call me later I will go to Japan myself and kick your butts!" And with that Rosalie quickly pressed the red button to end the call, sighing in relief.

"Thank god that's over..." The sisters mumbled. Avery smiled slyly at that.

"Ay..." They smacked their foreheads. The sisters looked up and around the room again, noticing people were still staring. As they looked to each person in the room, people finally began to return to what they'd been doing before. When chatter had finally filled the room again Avery let out a snicker, while Alex simply turned her head to the window and shook her head, quietly tuning her guitar.

"Um... Alex?" The girls turned their heads to a small voice. The voice belonged to a girl who Alex remembered was called Kazumi. The girl was a shy one, and kept to herself, not being over excited and hyper like the other customers. Alex had liked her at once.

"Yes Kazumi-san?" Alex asked the shy girl with a kind smile.

"I was just wondering if you were going to play for us today Alex-sempai," The girl asked shyly and blushed. Alex looked over to Avery who shook her head sadly and pointed to her watch.

"I'm sorry Kazumi-san but I don't think we have enough time left to play for you..." Alex frowned sadly. "I don't think we're going to be playing for the rest of the week either. It's going to take a while for us get used to our new schedules and country."

"Oh... I- I understand." The girl blushed a deep red and Alex walked over to her and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"Sorry Kazumi-san. We really appreciate the question though, it's nice to know that someone wants to hear us play." With that the shy girl gave a small smile -without blushing- and walked back to the table with Mori and Honey. Before Alex could sit on the stage once more and pluck at her guitar the foreigners heard the sound of customers being ushered out of the room.

"I'm sorry my princesses, but the Host Club is now closed," Tamaki said grandly as he held on the hand of a girl. He turned to the blushing female and kneeled, looking up at her, causing other girls to faint on the spot.

"I shall anxiously await your visit while you are gone, my princess." Tamaki kissed the hand of the buzzing female and she fainted on the spot, causing Avery to give a loud snort and push her glasses up her nose again. Lacey looked at her watch and a shiver ran all the way from her feet to the tip of her head. Quickly she grabbed the wrists of her sister and Alex.

"Come on!" She urged pushing them out the door. "I don't want to be yelled at by mom again."

Avery sighed as her friend disappeared through the huge pink doors (again, why pink?) of the Host Club. She walked over to Tamaki and gave him a small hug, before turning around and waving to everyone else and locking eyes with Kyouya. Then she was gone.


The next day before History, Class 2A

Avery and Kyouya were sitting next to each other in class again. Except... Class hadn't started yet. While Kyouya was busy typing away at his laptop and writing in his notebook, Avery busy day-dreaming while staring at the blank white board.

At the moment she was busy imagining two stick figures gruesomely mauling each other. Quite like what happened on the more gory Simpsons episodes. After Avery's lion stick figure had eaten its human gladiator, she turned her head towards the window, looking at the swarm of yellow dresses waddling around in the courtyard. Quickly Avery turned her head to the board when a thought occurred to her. Trying her best, -and failing- not to giggle, Avery covered her mouth and tried, -and failed once again- to think about something else.

Noticing Avery shudder beside him, Kyouya turned his head and watched in concern as Avery's shuddering became more violent, until she finally let loose a small giggle. His eyes widened in amazement as Avery continued to giggle quietly beside him. This, he had never expected from the girl that seemed so serious and invulnerable. Now she actually seemed... Childish, as before she seemed more like a woman than anything.

After watching his friend giggle for two minutes straight, Kyouya became annoyed that he had no idea what she was giggling about.

"What one earth are you giggling about?" He asked while she continued to giggled.

"N-n-nothing..." Avery sputtered from behind her hands.

"It surely can't be nothing if it's gotten you giggling for two minutes straight."

"F-fine," Avery gasped a little bit, "I just imagined that those hideous dresses outside were waddling lemons with stick arms and stick legs."

*Insert waddling lemons with stick arms and legs*

After finally explaining her thoughts to her confused friend, Avery exploded with laughter once again and continued to laugh for another two minutes. Kyouya simply shook head and wrote something in his black note book before returning to his computer with the tiniest hint of a smile on his face. Finally Avery tried to pull a straight face and breath normally in an attempt to stop laughing.

After her laughing spell had finally passed Avery gave a content sigh and took out her class books, knowing that at any moment the bell would ring and the waddling lemons would invade the room.


Avery POV.

After German, Class 2A, end of the day

I stood with my head down as I leaned against the wall of the empty hallway. I had crossed my arms, and one foot was placed against the wall behind me. It was probably going to leave a footprint but I didn't really care.

I'm getting bored... I thought as I waited for the others to come. I looked up when I heard voices and footsteps coming from down the hall.

"I see her! Hurry up!" The footsteps sped up, and soon we were making our way towards the disaster that was the Host Club room.

Without hesitating I opened the club doors, ready for my eyes to be assaulted my many different shades of pink, pink, and... Tamaki. The school idiot.

When I walked into the room though my eyes weren't assaulted by pink, pink and more pink. Instead, where I thought the room was supposed to be was a tropical paradise, with live birds and stuff. It freaked me out.

"What the hell?" I heard Alex exclaim.

"Woahh..." The sisters just gaped at the scene in front of them.

"Oh finally our beautiful princesses have arrived!" Tamakie yelled out as he tried to run at me. I held out my hand stopping him from getting any closer, and suddenly he'd found some sort of corner in the room, drawing circles on the floor with his finger.

"My daughter doesn't like me..." He mumbled like the idiot he is.

I shook my head in amusement and pushed my glasses farther up my nose again.

"Baka," I said with a smile. I turned to the host club and realized that they were all wearing costumes I recognized were from... Bali?

"What's with the Bali theme?" I asked one of the twins as he passed me, (probably to go talk to the sisters about something)

All he did was shrug and say that it was the 'Kyouya's' idea. I didn't ask anymore questions. I looked around to find Haruhi, who I knew was the only sane person I could talk too without being laughed at, bugged by, annoyed by, and bored by.

I was a little downcast when I saw she wasn't in the room, but that was put out of my mind as soon as I heard Tamaki say something I really didn't want to hear.

"You will have to change into your costumes!" He said with that idiotic grin on his face. I really just wanted to smack it off his face. He opened two curtains to reveal four costumes, each on mannequins, and each with one of our names on a card at the bottom.

"OOOHHH!" The sisters squealed as they ran to the two similar costumes. I groaned internally. Leave it too the sisters to actually like the costumes when I actually didn't want too.

Lacey's and Rosalie's costumes were probably the nicest and I envied them. Their costumes were exactly similar in design, it was just that the color was completely different. The tops were some sort of wraps, but with with a one shoulder design. The skirt-like bottom they had reached just below the knees and the outfit had beautiful pieces of jewelry on the neck.

Alex's costume was the most conservative (No surprise there, really). It consisted of a white tube top, and some sort of white lace cover up that had 3/4 sleeves. Her skirt, or sarong* was a beautiful green and gold color. It was also quite long and would probably reach her ankles.

My costume consisted of a tube top, and a blue knee length sarong*. There were a few pieces of jewelry around the neck and wrists, and there was a . The costume was actually fine, but today... I really wasn't up to wearing a skirt that those twins would be perving at.

"Uhh..." Alex stepped away from her outfit a little bit. She wasn't really one for skirts. In fact, she just hates them. Flat out, hates them. Grinning evilly, the sisters appeared behind her and pushed her forward.

"Aw Alex,"

"It's just a costume..." Lacey and Rosalie said darkly, grinning like maniacs.

"But... But..." She protested.

"You're changing and that's that!" They dragged her to the changing room and pushed her in grinning triumphantly.

"No." I said firmly when they turned to me.

"What?" Their brows furrowed in confusion. I never had a problem with skirts or dresses.

"No." I repeated again. "I'm not changing." It was true. I just didn't want to change out of my comfy clothes. Suddenly I was looking into Tamaki's puppy dog eyes. I tried looking away, but every time I just kept looking back.

Pinching my thigh through my shorts pocket I closed my eyes and said; "No." once again.

"Really?" I turned my head to Kyouya who was busy writing in that black notebook of his.

"Hmm?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Are you sure you don't want to put that on?" Kyouya asked me without turning to me.

"Why?"

"You will need to put that on."

"Why?" I asked again getting annoyed.

"You wouldn't want me to raise you debt would you?" ... I felt my soul leave my body at the back of my head.

"Oh thats low..." I growled and he just shrugged.

"Do what you want," He said and gave a smile that sent chills up my back.

I gave him an animalistic hiss clenched my fists.

As I walked by him, I hissed through my teeth, "I hate you... Why don't you go die in a hole?" And as he chuckled at me, I felt like chucking him out the window.

*Insert bad pun*

Ass...

Suddenly I saw Alex dart back out of the changing room. Un-changed.

"I can't do it..." She said to me with pleading eyes, begging me to save her. Not a chance, if I had to wear the costume then she would too.

"Don't look at me Al. Sorry. If I'm wearing it, you will too." I gave her a sad shake of my head when Lacey and Rosalie snuck behind her and grabbed Alex by the arms.

"Target-"

"Captured." They grinned evilly and I just let my shoulders sag, following them into the changing room to help them get Alex into her costume. I backed away slowly putting my hands up between them and myself.

After ten minutes of constant struggling, Rosalie sat Alex down in the chair, her black leather jacket slung over her forearm.

"LOOK!" She yelled in Alex's face, "IF YOU DON'T QUIT SCREAMING AND KEEP REFUSING TO PUT THIS ON, I'LL PUSH YOU OUT OF THIS CHANGING ROOM HALF NAKED!" With that she finally shut up, knowing Rosalie was dead serious.

After we'd finally finished getting Alex into her costume it'd taken another ten minutes. By the time we'd gotten out, the host club had already started, and Haruhi had finally arrived.

Not wanting to go to Tamaki and his swooning fans, I spotted Haruhi and Kyouya standing in front of a bar, which I decided to stand behind.

"Somehow, the customers seem a little more excitable than usual," I heard Haruhi comment to Kyouya, who was busy writing in is notebook again.

"The right amount of exposure gives the right response." Kyouya answered.

"So, I heard all this tropical stuff was your idea Kyouya?" I asked leaning over the counter and placing my head in my hands.

"I had no say in it." Said Kyouya, still not looking at me. "The course of our activities are completely determined by our host clubs, 'King', which would be Tamaki. Although, I wonder if the Bali photo book I discreetly put on his desk had some effect..." As I Haruhi and I both sweatdropped, Kyouya preceded to push his glasses up his nose and continue writing in that book of his. Shadow... King... I thought dumbly as looked away from his face. I preceded to watch Honey-sempai climb his cousin, and my friend like totem poles and place those flower necklaces around their necks. Perching on Alex's shoulder he exclaimed happily, "Now me, Takashi, and Alex-chan match!" causing the females at his table scream, "KAWWAIII!" or "EEEKKK!". Something along those lines.

I turned my head again to see the twins doing their twincest (again, EW.) thing again, while Rose and Lacey sat next to each other whispering and snickering, paying no attention to the goys except for when they were needed to get more drinks or food. I was just happy standing behind the bar making drinks and bugging Kyouya about his work for the host club.

I had just finished making another few drinks when I decided to look into that black clipboard Kyouya was always writing in. I moved from behind the counter and behind him, where I stood on my toes, only barely able to place my head on his shoulder. Ughh. Host club stuff... I thought to myself. As I looked over his work I pointed out something.

"If you're decorating a ballroom try going to that other shop for decorations. I bet they're less expensive, and they should have just as much stuff." I pointed to something in his book as I reached around his neck. "And try to get your flowers from this store I know, my mother got her wedding flowers shipped from there. I think they're a little cheaper than what you've got there. And they're beautiful." I felt Kyouya nod next to me and change the notes he had. I nodded and smiled.

"Good." I said and patted him on his free shoulder. I took my head off his shoulder when I realized something though. "We're having a dance party? Like with the waltzing, and poofy dresses and a big ballroom and stuff?"

"Pretty much." Kyouya said, not turning to me.

"We aren't going to be dancing are we?" I asked glumly, knowing the answer.

"No. You will be playing with the rest of the orchestra."

"Lame."

"Excuse me," I watched as Haruhi was approached by girl with short hair. "I think it's time to change your companion." I continued to watch, interested by the two female's interactions. I couldn't help it. It was really interesting when you knew the guy was actually a girl.

After hosting hours had ended, we were standing in our usual room once more. How the room was transformed from beautiful tropical paradise to the ugly and hurtful on the eyes pink disaster that was the host club room in fifteen minutes is beyond me.

I had my head on Kyouya's shoulder again, watching his screen as the guys and girls talked about this girl and her 'host-changing illness'.

"Oh, so it's because I took his customer," Said Haruhi with an annoyed expression. I looked up in interest when Tamaki ran over and yelled so loud that it caused Honey-sempai to begin wailing.

"NO! It's not like that! I cannot endure this any longer! Haruhi! Behave like a proper woman!" He exclaimed, pointing at Haruhi.

"Why should she?" Asked Lacey who was staring Tamaki

"She's in a host club. You got her in this." Rosalie finished for Lacey.

Tamaki just ignored them and continued on and on, even go far enough as to pull out a huge photo of Haruhi when she'd actually looked like a female. This got her seriously pissed though, but I guess I would have been too had that happened to me.

"What the hell?" She yelled at him. "You shouldn't be blowing up people's pictures without permission! If you do that again, I'll kick your ass!" At this Tamaki began to sob and said,

"Mommy! Haruhi's using dirty language!"

"Who's mommy?" I asked Kyouya, the all knowing Shadow King.

"By position, I guess its me." He replied and the girls and burst out laughing.

"MOMMY?" I think I laughed so hard I had tears coming out. While the girls and I had been laughing though, Haruhi had been forced into going to the dance. And mastering the elegant waltz in a week. Or else she'd be a caddie again. Ew.

"Psh." I heard Rosalie scoff as Tamaki handed out Haruhi's sentence. "Easy stuff. For me anyways."

"Rosalie!" Alex reprimanded Rosalie, just like she hates to be. "Be nice."

Rosalie sighed. "Fine." She said moodily and shut up, but not before she muttered in a condescending tone, "Nanny." Nanny. The one word that Alex hates to be called most of all.

"Excuse me, what did you say?" Alex inched her way towards Rosalie menacingly.

"Nothing... Nanny." Rosalie gave an evil smile as her sister began to move away from her.

"You'd better shut up now, or you won't have an ass to sit on sister." Alex pointed her finger right in Rosalie's face.

"Of course. Nanny." And again, with that Alex took off after Rosalie who simply ran out the door. Most likely to run home. I sighed and simply followed Lacey out the door, giving the host club members an exasperated look as I left for home too.


*A sarong is a large tube or length of fabric that is usually wrapped around the waist and worn as a kilt by men, and as a skirt by women. Googling it usually helps too. :)


Sorry about the boring ending, but the next chapter will be all about...

THE DANCE! YAY!

I'm also sorry about posting late, because I've got rehearsal for our school play until 5 o'clock EVERY SINGLE DAY!

But I like it, so it's kind of okay.

Now, I must get to bed for school.

Alex: I get to go to bed at 11:30

Shut up.

Lacey: 11:30.

Shut up.

Rosalie: 11:30

Shut. Up.

Avery: 1 in the morning.

AGGGHHH! SHUT IT WILL YOU! I NEED SLEEP!

Alex: Then sl-

*snores loudly*

Alex: Oh...

Lacey: Review!