Alex Conners: 5'0, Virgo. Positive traits of Virgos: brave, sincere, dynamic, freedom loving, spontaneous, adventurous, takes initiatives, inspiring, and child-like enthusiasm. Negative traits of Virgos: rushing into things, ego, demanding everything immediately, and reacting. Theme song? Probably So in Love with Two, by Mikaila. I don't own any anime or their chacraters. I only won Alex and I deeply apologize for all the Black Butler refrences.
January 12- 3:45 P.M.
Tamaki went to go sulk in a corner after that. Renge quickly grew hearts around her as she approached Kyoya, a basket of her burnt cookies in hand.
"I'm sorry I burnt them a little," She apologized, pressing a hand up to her face, embarrassed, "but I did the best I could! It was my first time cooking anything, So I was a little scared...Oh, but I already know what you're going to say! "Anything you make is going to taste delicious, of course!" She squealed as she entered fantasy land.
"She wasn't kidding," Mitskuni began, nibbling on a cookie, "These cookies really are burnt!"
Mori approached, face still sour from eating a burnt cookie, and said with alarm, "Don't eat that Mitskuni, it's bad for you!"
"What is this-a rock?" Kaoru deadpanned, sticking his tongue as he tried to get rid of the nasty taste. Renge grew snakes in her air and red eyes, screaming as she chased after Mori, who picked up Mitskuni.
"WAAAAHHHH! SHE'S SCARING ME!" Mitskuni cried loudly as Mori ran. Alex and Haruhi sweatdropped as they left the kitchen, carrying their own batches of cookies.
"Mine went pretty well," Haruhi muttered to herself as she bit into her ginger cookie, "Granted I have made sweets in a while..."
"Mine are alright, I guess..." Alex mumbled, biting into one of her chocolate chip cookies, "I mean, they're not burnt or anything and they taste okay..." She blinked and looked up, walking over and asking Kyoya, "Remind me again why we're letting Renge rampage over the Host Club?"
Kyoya, who crossed his arms, spoke, "I already told you; She's the daughter of an important Ootori Group client-"
"I got that much." She raised the basket up to him, "Cookie? They're not burnt or anything." Kyoya blinked down at her, one of the only three wise people who chose not to eat Renge's cookies, and grabbed one, biting into it.
She looked up at him, anticipation growing, "W-Well, how is it? I never really actually baked anything before..."
"It's not terrible, I'll give you that." Alex pouted childishly, not liking that response.
"That tells me nothing!" She flinched when she saw his hand come towards her face, but relaxed when it rested on her head.
"Would it make you feel better if I said it had a good flavor?" Alex nodded,
"Yes, yes it would."
"Then there you go." Alex blinked when she felt someone grab her arm and pull her backwards, causing her to rest partly on a shoulder and partly on a chest. She turned her head to see Kaoru grinning at her,
"Uh-oh, Alex...Looks like you got some chocolate on your face." Alex's eyes went wide in alarm when Kaoru leaned in with a smirk and licked the corner of her mouth, ridding her face of the chocolate. Alex's face flushed bright red and she stood still, frozen. Kaoru licked his lips, smirking, "Not bad...Can I try one?" He reached down and plucked a cookie out of the basket, completely oblivious to the dark aura behind him.
"And suddenly the group of classmates are close than before..." Kyoya spoke, a dark purple aura surrounding him, but his outside facade remained indifferent. Kaoru and Hikaru high-fived each other.
"Wh-What-What the-What the hell was that for!?" Alex's voice squeaked loudly as she looked at Kaoru with wide eyes.
"Hikaru, if you wanted one you could've just grabbed one. And Kaoru, you could have just told Alex and she would've grabbed a napkin or something."
Haruhi barely had time to blink before Tamaki had grabbed her face with his hands and started to screech, "WRONG! YOUR REACTION IS ALL WRONG! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO STAY STRONG AND REJECT THEM AND CASUALLY BRUSH THEM TO THE SIDE; DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?"
"This is sexual harassment, Sempai." Haruhi deadpanned, stress lines forming on her face.
"I have been tainted by the vile creature of light!" Alex screeched, dropping to her knees as she used her uniform sleeve to try and wipe away all "Kaoru germs".
"IF THAT COUNTS AS SEXUAL HARASSMENT THAT THEY'RE TWICE AS GUILTY! SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!"
"Dude, calm down!" Alex cried out, standing up and trying to separate Haruhi and Tamaki, "They're just being weirdos!"
"Hey, look whose talking, Alex!" Hikaru and Kaoru fired back, not liking the insult. Alex glared at them and shouted,
"Well, you are! Who one earth just goes up and licks someone's cheek!?"
"I was getting the chocolate off of your face," Kaoru said in his defense.
"Plus, I wanted to see Sempais' get jealous." Hikaru added, shrugging with his arms in the air. Alex raised an eyebrow at that, and shouted once she finally pulled Haruhi away from Tamaki,
"My Haruhi! Back off!" She held onto Haruhi tightly, who just acting like a poor ragdoll, and looked at Hikaru and Kaoru, demanding, "And what the hell do you mean by "Sempais'" Who other than Tamaki are you trying to make jealous?" I swear to god, if they say Kyoya, I'm gonna punch something.
"Kyoya-"
"For the last time, we're not together!"
"EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU, EXCEPT KYOYA, ALL YOUR CHARACTERS ARE LUKE WARM!" Renge screeched, pointing at them. The Host Club blinked, surprised. "Each one of you need to have some sort of "Dark" side, do you understand!? Girls' are attracted to handsome young men with a vulnerable side! Keep this up and it's only a matter of time before all the girls' get fed up and leave! And you, as the only girl here, need to have a mysterious side that attracts the men here! Every guy loves a girl with a little bit of mystery, but if you don't have that-no guy is going to look twice at you! Are you all trying to ruing my precious Kyoya's business!?"
"As your manager," Renge continued, "It's my job to change your character backgrounds! Let's start with you!" SHe pointed at Mitskuni, who screamed and cried, clinging onto Mori for dear life. "If you're as cute as you are inside and out, then you're no different than a baby! From now on, you are now the Baby-Faced Thug!" Mitskuni screamed, not liking his new role. "And Mori-Sempai? Your his child-hood friend; The Flunkie. The twins' will be basketball players enslaved in their own worlds! Alex, you're an orphan whose often bullied for her looks! You have a fear of being forgotten and hated by everyone, and wish that someone could be ending the pain that you feel! Haruhi, You're an honor-student whose constantly being bullied, Alex's one and only true friend! And as for you, Tamaki," She looked at the blonde with a hand on her hip, "You're the school's idol and admired by everyone for your looks, but you actually have an inferiority complex that you're hiding from the world! The Lonely Prince!"
Renge then turned to look at a "Smiling" Kyoya, pressing her hands against her face as she squealed, "Oh, and you Kyoya? Well, you're just perfect the way you are now! So I want you to stay as kind and affectionate as ever!" Alex almost laughed at that,
"Yeah...Kind...Affectionate...as ever-yeaaahhh...That's not him." She shook her head, slouching, "I just can't see it." He pressed a hand against his chest with a "Smile", saying,
"Thank you, I'm honored." Alex felt slightly annoyed at there interaction, but couldn't figure out why. I know for a fact that I don't like him...so why is something as small as this bothering me? Ever since Renge arrived, she's been at Kyoya's side practically 24/7. Alex...She's replacing me, huh? Makes sense, I guess...Not like anyone would even want me around, She sighed and shook her head, running a hand through her really thick and really messy brown hair.
Before Alex knew what she was doing, she walked over and gripped Kyoya's right sleeve, frowning as she looked up at him. He blinked down at her-if he was confused by his actions, he didn't show it. Hikaru and Kaoru quickly ran over and joined Alex in the "Get Kyoya to do something about Renge" club as they grabbed Kyoya's shoulders.
"C'mon, Kyoya-Sempai!"
"Do something!"
"Renge's insane!" Alex added. Kyoya blinked and questioned,
"Why? It seems the boss is up for it." With his only free hand, he pointed towards where Tamaki was, acting out his "Lonely Prince" role.
"What do you think, Renge?" Tamaki questioned, striking up lonely poses on the spot, "Do you think these poses...work for a lonely Prince?"
Renge squealed, "Oh, wow, you're pretty good at that, Tamaki! But you know, it would be even more effective if you were standing in the rain!"
Alex loosened her grip on Kyoya, stress lines forming down the side of her face, "Oh, dear god...We're all screwed! I don't care if it's for profit, I'm not acting out that role!" She grumbled to herself, releasing her grip on Kyoya and walking away as she thought, It's almost as bad as being replaced.
She felt Kyoya's large hand clamp itself on her shoulder, forcing her to stop walking. She turned her head and looked up to see his smirk, a hand on his chin, "Why don't we wait and see how things turn out? I bet it'll be interesting. It always is."
While everyone else backed up, thinking he looked "Scary", Alex merely stayed where she was, sweatdropping.
"I would question your sanity, but in all honesty, I don't think you have any left to even question."
...
"Your pain is my pain," Renge narrated with a mircophone, "It doesn't matter if no one else understands. As long as we have each other we can go on living."
The scene switched to the courtyard, rain pouring down onto Tamaki whose clothes clung to him. His golden bangs fell into his eyes, envy rushing through his veins at the sight of Hikaru and Kaoru. He smiled bitterly, "I'm sorry...But I'm envious of you two. The way you support each other like that..."
"But, Suoh-Sempai-!" Hikaru exclaimed, unable to believe what he was hearing. Kaoru finished his brother's question,
"How can you be envious of us?" His tone was shocked, "You're the school's idol."
"An idol?" Tamaki questioned, bitterness clinging to his voice as he ran a hand through his bangs, "Right...I hate it when people idolize me for something so superficial such as appearance..." He removed his hand and let it hang at his side, loneliness forming inside. He reached his hands up and placed them on his chest, leaning his head back as he let his tears melt away in disguise of the rain, "I think it'll be much better, if I am left alone..."
"One lonely heart meets another-they pass each other."
Alex walked onto the scene, her dark brown hair turned black from the rain and clinging to her face. Bruises lined her arms, along with multiple bandages. She clung to her books desperately, fearful as though someone would try to take them away. She looked nervously behind her, feeling as though someone would attack her. She was so busy looking behind her, that she didn't notice it when she walked straight into Tamaki. She shouted in alarm as she tumbled backwards and landed on her butt, her books sprawling everywhere onto the soaked sidewalk.
She stuttered, flinching when she thought he was going to hit her, "I-I'm so sorry. I-I didn't mean too..." She quickly got up on her knees and started to grab her books hurriedly.
"Are you alright?" She flinched at the hand that made itself known, outstretching itself for her to take.
"I-I'm fine," Clearly not going to take his hand, Tamaki grabbed hers and pulled her to her feet, causing her to stumble and quickly regain her balance. He caught sight of the bruises and bandages and frowned. They were obviously not self-inflicted. "I-I gotta go, my-my friend is waiting for me." Tamaki watched as she ran away, only to see a girl with dark hair pulled up in a bun reach a foot out and trip her.
"An Ugly girl like you should just go rot in hell."
"They wound one another." A scene of Haruhi running in the rain, breathing heavily as she reached a tree, leaning against it and falling to her knees. "What are the hearts of these young people made of?"
"You can't run away forever," Mitskuni spoke, approaching Haruhi with a dark look in his eyes. A cruel grin formed on his once adorable face as he held his hands in his pockets. Haruhi looked up with wide eyes, losing hope. "I'm gonna show you what happens to anyone that crosses me."
"Haruhi-!" Alex cried out, running out from the woods and towards the defeated girl. "No! I won't let you hurt him!" She knelt down in front of Haruhi, fearful, but brave. "H-He's my best friend..."
"Didn't I tell you before to not get on my bad side?" Mitskuni asked her coldly, narrowing his eyes. He took a step forward, causing both victims to shrink back.
"Don't do it, Mitskuni." Mori warned, his deep voice somehow comforting in the cold rain. "You should have realized by now that by hurting others, you're only injuring yourself."
"I didn't ask you for advice," Mitskuni growled, bangs covering his face. A dark shadow grew across it. "Do you want me to punish you again?"
"Will it be the light of salvation that ultimately awaits them all? Or will it be something else?
Mitskuni looked up, honey brown eyes dark and cold. He smirked, "You know, it really pisses me off when people don't know their place."
There was a tense silence as everyone awaited the inevitable.
Mitskuni's face grew red as tears streamed down his face, crying out and lunging forward, tackling both Haruhi and Alex in a hug. The rain eventually stopped when Mitskuni cried out, "I'M SO SORRY, LEXI-CHAN, HARU-CHAN, I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMOOOOORE!"
"CUUUUUT," Renge started to scream, hair turning into snakes again. "CUT, CUT, CUT!" She was pissed. She glared at Mitskuni, throwing a tantrum, "What's wrong with you!? You gotta stick to the script!"
"I can't!" Mitskuni argued, refusing to remove his arms from the girls'. Renge pointed at the camera man, ordering,
"Cameraman, stop filming!"
"Yes, ma'am!" He turned the camera off. "I want the rain to make things seem tragic!" Alex, while Renge started to scream and yell at Mitskuni and the camera crew, snuck off towards Hikaru and Kaoru, who were lunging in chairs and talking to Kyoya.
"How'd we go from changing our characters to shooting a movie about them?" Hikaru asked confused. Haruhi walked away too, a towel around her neck,
"And why is there an entire film crew here to shoot it?" Kyoya looked up with a smirk,
"Apparently she flew them in from Hollywood. Don't you recognize the director?" Alex deadpanned as she looked at the old guy,
"Uh, no. Never heard, nor seen him before." Kyoya explained,
"He director the vampire movie "Millennial Snow." He said, as if that would help. Alex shook her head,
"Nope, never seen it."
"It was the number one box-office hit across America last year." Alex blinked and looked at them in confusion,
"Still never heard of it."
"And another thing," Hikaru began, irritated, "How come this stupid script portrays Kaoru as the pitcher?"
"Yeah, what's with that?" Kaoru wondered, watching as his brother smacked the script angrily.
Haruhi blinked, "What does that mean?"
"If you don't like it Hikaru, then change the position of your bangs and act like Kaoru. Then you can be the Uke and Kaoru can be the Seme." Haruhi blinked at her in confusion,
"Alex, what're you talking about?"
Hikaru, Kaoru, and Kyoya all stared at Alex for a moment before the twins spoke, shaking their heads, "If you don't know, Haruhi, then never mind." She blinked, still confused.
Tamaki called for Haruhi and she walked over, leaving Alex alone with the three guys.
"Alex, have you grabbed one of the towels?" Kaoru questioned, frowning when he noticed she was still sopping wet. Question marks appeared above her head as she questioned,
"Towels...?" Kaoru sighed and shook his head, sweatdropping. He then stood and Alex blinked in confusion, "What're you-"
"Here, I'm done drying myself anyway." She took his towel in confusion, but nodded.
"Um, okay. Th-Thanks, I think..." She stared at the towel in confusion for a brief moment, before attempting to dry her hair. Her arms grew tired quickly and she merely wrapped the towel around her neck-her dark hair curling slightly. She froze when she remembered something. Renge angers one of crew members and they throw her...into Haruhi and into equipment, right? Her eyes widened and she whirled her head around alarmed.
"Haruhi~!" Renge called. Alex seemed to freeze at that.
"Alex, is something the matter?" Kyoya questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"You're acting strange." The Twins' commented. She looked at them for a brief moment, hesitating.
"I-I'm fine...Just...remembered something is all." They opened their mouths as if to ask what she remembered, but Alex was already walking away quickly. Need to hurry, need to hurry, need to hurry-My being here could've changed something. I don't know how it'll turn out anymore! Everything seems to be a mix of the manga and the anime and the year isn't even 2008-the year when the anime was made. It's still 2014! Haruhi, Renge, don't do anything stupid and wait for me. Alex grew closer to the scene.
"Just come over here and wait for your queue~!" Renge directed from just around the corner. Alex's steps grew more hurried. She paused once she was in full view. Haruhi tried to stop the fight,
"Renge, come on, cut it out..."
The man Renge grabbed grew angered and Alex seemed to freeze as he shouted, "Hey! You think you can push me around!? Don't act so big-headed just 'cause you're from Class A!" He roughly grabbed Renge's arm and threw her roughly towards a whole bunch of construction equipment.
"Look out!" Alex and Haruhi shouted at the same, Haruhi moving behind Renge and being thrown with her, and Alex who ran in the way of the construction equipment. There were multiple screams and during the crash, Alex somehow managed to push Haruhi and Renge away from the equipment and shouted when she was knocked to the ground by said equipment.
"H-Haruhi-!" Renge then noticed Alex, eyes widening, "Alex! Alex! Are you okay!?" Renge tried to push the equipment off of her, but only got the lighter stuff off. "Haruhi, ALex is-!"
"Damn it," Haruhi cursed, while Alex groaned, fading back into consciousness. "Alex, what the hell were you doing?"
"I'm fine..." She mumbled, despite the fact that tears were pricking her eyes. "I-I'm fine...Beat them up for me...will you?" She tried to move, but found herself stuck. "O-Oh, isn't lovely?'
"Renge, next time, don't judge people!" Alex's voice suddenly grew sharp as she glared at Renge, "It's because of you stereotyping and being so god damned obsessed with that game that we're in this-this-that we're in this...Damn it." It hurt. It hurt a lot. Her head felt like someone was pounding mercilessly on it and her back... Her shoulders shook, but she bit her lip as she refused to cry.
"I-I don't understand what you're trying to say..." Renge was too worried about Alex and Haruhi too do much else. Haruhi was trying to stop the tears that were forming in her eyes, muttering on how it hurt, while Alex was trapped underneath some heavy equipment.
"Haruhi, what happened!?" Tamaki demanded, appearing on the scene. One look at the scene and he snapped. The man who pushed Renge suddenly found himself with a bloody nose and was pushed up against the wall, Tamaki gripping his uniform collar tightly as he glared down at the man, blue eyes furious. "Which one of you bastards started this?"
The man stuttered, "I-I-We..we didn't-!"
"Would you like to be expelled together?" Tamaki questioned, blue eyes furious.
"Wait a minute, Suoh, it's not what you think!" The second guy said and glanced behind him fearfully at Mori. "Th-That chick started it-"
"Teacher, this way!" Hikaru called from around the corner Tamaki appeared. Kaoru added
"There're scary Class D people!" Tamaki released the man and he and his friend ran for it, while Tamaki headed towards Haruhi. Mori and Mitskuni however, headed over to lift the equipment off of Alex, who's head was bleeding slightly.
"Lexi-Chan, are you alright?" She nodded numbly, sitting up with all her strength.
"Y-Yeah, I-I'm fine..." She accepted Mori's hand and let him pull her up, allowing her to stand on her own two feet. "Wh-What about H-Haruhi and-and Renge?" SHe looked to see Tamaki's scene with the short haired brunette.
Tamaki had his hands resting over Haruhi's cheeks, looking into her eyes as he tried to get answers, "Haruhi...Are you in any pain?"
She continued to rub at her eyes, "It...hurts..." Tears continued to stream down her cheeks, "My contact lenses moved..."
"Contact...?"
"Ah! Now it came out..." Haruhi frowned. Tamaki stared at her for a moment before laughing,
"I see how it is! So, you're a full-fledged Host now!" Haruhi stared at him for a moment before smiling.
"I-I wanna go home..." Alex muttered as she limped over to the Hitachiin brother's. They looked down at her for a moment as she asked, "How much longer do we have to wait here? Can't we just go home already?" Alex...didn't really know when she started to think of the Hitachiin estate as "Home", she just called it that. They sighed at her, but grinned anyway,
"Yeah."
"Sure thing, Alex."
"Please tell me you got that camerman!" They snapped out of it at Renge's voice. They turned their heads to see her pointing at the crew, who nodded,
"Yes, boss!"
"Other than Haruhi's contact falling out, that was an ideal final scene!" Renge exclaimed, her grip tightening on the script. "All it needs now is a moving narration from my sweet Kyoya-!" She was cut off by a rock being smashed into the camera lens. Everyone looked to see the noise and saw Kyoya holding a rock up to the lens.
Alex could only describe him with one word and that would be "Angry". The cameraman shrieked, "What'd you do to my camera!?"
"K-Kyoya?" Renge was confused, "Is something wrong?"
"I'm terribly sorry," Kyoya began, not sounding sorry at all. "but I can not allow there to be any record of a club member engaging in violence. I think you caused enough trouble around here, Renge. Please, stop being such a pest."
Renge was silent for a moment as Kyoya's words registered in her brain, "A pest...?" The tears were streaming down her cheeks before she could stop them, "But you're supposed to be kind and pat me on the head! You're supposed to be affectionate, Kyoya! Why are you acting so differently now!?" She demanded, crying. "Tell me why!"
"Because that's not the real Kyoya." Tamaki told her, smiling gently.
Hikaru shrugged, "It's okay, really. It was actually kind of fun."
Mitskuni, from atop Mori's shoulders, exclaimed with a smile, "Right!"
Kaoru nodded, "There're various reasons to fall in love." Alex grinned widely,
"But the best reason is when you fall in love with the person after getting to know them!"
Renge dropped to her knees, sobbing, and Haruhi knelt down in front of her.
"Does it really matter?" She asked her. "Who cares if Kyoya is a little different than you expected him to be? Take a good look at the person inside and get to know them little by little. It's a lot more fun that way, don't you think?" She gave Renge a closed-eye smile.
Renge's eyes grew half-lidded as she apologized, "I'm...sorry for causing so much trouble..."
The Host Club merely grinned at her. When Renge looked up, she could almost see what Haruhi was talking about.
...Seven days later...
Music Room #3-January 19- 3:04 P.M.
"I bought the video of that film you made!"
"So did I!"
"I did too!"
Men and girls' alike started to talk. The Host Club members, minus Kyoya and Alex, blinked in confusion.
Tamaki tried to mask the surprise in his voice, "You did?"
"That scene in the rain was just phenomenal!"
"I love the lonely Prince!"
"The loving relationship between Hikaru and Kaoru was just so sweet!"
"I want to see Honey-Sempai's dark side again!"
"Oh, but when Alex-Chan went and protected Haruhi!?"
"Haruhi-Kun in pain is just so...Oh!"
"Do you think Mori-Sempai's role is a masochist?"
"Yes!"
Tamaki lifted his hand up just a smidge, speaking up in warning voice, "Kyoya...Alex..."
"It was Kyoya's idea!" Alex blurted, grinning like a mad man. "He just let me edit the videos! Turns out I'm actually quite good at it."
"I may have broken the lens, but the footage we already shot wasn't damaged." Kyoya explained with a smirk, writing something down in his book. "But, naturally, we did cut out that one violent scene. The sales have done well so far." He turned his head and pushed up his glasses, a smirk clear on his face, "That Hollywood film crew did a fantastic job. But then, I guess that's to be expected."
Alex resisted the urge to squeal, "I always wanted to be an actress-Well, I'm still leaning more towards being an author though. But you get my point," She shrugged, grinning.
Hikaru and Kaoru sweatdropped, stress lines forming on the sides of their faces, "So this is what you meant by interesting?"
"It's best to have as much money as we can in the club's budget."
Alex looked at Haruhi and saw the look on her face. She grinned, "Since the very beginning, Haruhi, since the very beginning." She looked down at Alex startled,
"What; You're a mind reader now too!?"
"Nope, I'm just ninja."
"Good day, everyone." A familiar voice greeted, causing the Host Club to turn their heads.
"Renge?" Tamaki questioned in confusion. "But I though you had gone back to France already."
"I can't believe I didn't recognize it sooner-the chivalrousness to risk your life to protect me!" Renge started, clasping her hands in front of her. "I could feel the love when you lectured me about judging people!" Everyone blinked when she reached out and grasped Haruhi's hands, "When you said that it's better to get to know people little by little, you were talking about me!"
"Er, yeah..."
Renge suddenly started to drag Haruhi off, sending Tamaki and Alex into fuming rages. "C'mon Haruhi, let's go to my house and play some games! I think it's time you get to know me better!"
"Hey, Kyoya-Sempai." Hikaru called, getting his attention as he wrote something down.
"Are you okay with that?" Kaoru questioned, furrowing his eyebrows.
"I'M NEVER GOING TO HELP YOU AGAIN!" Alex screeched, irritated to no end.
"Why wouldn't I be? After all, everything Renge said was true."
Tamaki snapped at him, "No it isn't!"
"But I though you were the one who Haruhi to have female friends?" Kyoya smiled at Tamaki, sending him into another rage,
"Well yeah, another female companion-NOT A GIRLFRIEND!"
"She took my Haruhi~!" Alex whined, falling to her knees.