An I do not, nor ever will own Oran High School. Another friend is typing it because Maddy got grounded now too.

Becca's POV

Waiting for Maddy to come back from the piano shindig was killing me. My patients was waning and I wanted very, very much to call her and tell her to come home. Too bad she took my cell phone and gave it to Kyoya and said not to give it back until she was there with me. Tch. It's a shame. I don't even have a home phone to call my friends with.

I knocked on the door at Haruhi's house and Mr. Fujioka answered. "Hello Mr. Fujioka. Is Haruhi home?"

"No, I'm sorry. If you want I can have her come over when she gets back." He responded. Of course she was gone. Just when I was bored out of my mind.

I decided to take a walk. There was a nice little park area down the road. By the time I got there it started to poor so I had to go back to the house. Bleh, I hate being stuck in the house. Even in the general vicinity of the house.

After an hour I was bored to cleaning. We keep up with the little things that were brought out each day but it was still kinda messy. I started on the living room area. When I finished that, I moved onto the kitchen. Personally I think it's a kitchenette, but the thing said it was a kitchen. When I finished that I moved to the bathroom. It took me 30 minutes to finish that one room.

There was a knock on the door as I finished up the bathroom. "Uh, come on in, the doors unlocked!" I shouted as I stowed the mop and sponge I had been using in the cupboard.

"The chain is on Becca, so no, I can't come in." Haruhi's voice sounded through the hallway. Whoops, I forgot I put it on. The chains are pretty easy to deal with though, and Maddy would be able to get in even with it on.

"Sorry Haruhi, I didn't realize that I'd put the chain on before I started cleaning. You must be drenched! It's pouring outside!" I blabbed as I went to open the door. When I got there and opened the door I saw it wasn't just Haruhi that was there. Tamaki was there as well, which confused me. I could swear Maddy said he was going to that thing wherever she was. Perhaps she was lying so I wouldn't know that he was going on a date or something with Haruhi. Though why, I didn't understand, I was perfectly fine with it.

"Hey Becca! My dad said that you came over and asked if I was around, so he sent me over here when I got home. And no, I'm not drenched. I was in a car, in buildings, and then under the overhang on the building."

"I see that now. Come on in you guys. I don't have any snacks or anything, but you're welcome to stay as long as you like."

"So what did you need earlier?" Haruhi inquired. Why does this question always come up? I came over because I could! But she probably wants a real answer so…I don't know.

"I just wanted someone to talk to. Maddy's at her piano thing with the twins and took my cell phone, gave it to Kyoya and told him not to give it back to me until we were both there, so I can't call her to come home, and I can't call my friends in the States either because we don't have a home phone and I need someone to talk to to keep my sanity alive." I explained breathlessly.

"Ch. That's a great reason! I think…" Tamaki said. I doubt he listened to half of what I said; so I doubted it.

"Okay. Your house is very clean by the way."

"Thank you? I'm not sure how that relates to what we were talking about before, but okay."

"It doesn't, it was just something I noticed. Anyway, I think that if you don't mind, I'll hang around until Maddy comes back. Your sanity is worth more to us alive than if it is dead. You deal with people better then too." She chuckled.

"If your sanity dies, we should have a funeral for it." Tamaki stupidly said. If it was someone else I would consider it. But it wasn't, so I wasn't going to.

"No Tamaki. I am not going to have a funeral for my sanity. (A/N this chapter was written because my sanity was gone. I have 24 days left of my grounding and I've already done 11 days! My sanity left a while ago.) That's a little weird."

We sat and chatted for about twenty minutes before Maddy got home. She was frustrated about something, but I couldn't tell what about. "Uh, guys, you should probably leave. Maddy is very visibly upset. Uh, I'm sorry guys."

She made the "I'm watching you" motion. She was soaked through and had begun to shiver. I whipped them out quickly and turned to face her. "I'll get you some tea and dry clothes and…and…and…"

"He was my ride home and he left to be with Haruhi! I'm freezing and sopping wet AND HE LEFT!" she screamed in frustration. Oh dear. She's pissed and probably going to get sick. Monday's going to suck. There was no way she was going to get ill enough to stay home from school, but when she's sick she's really, really grumpy. Joy.

For the first time since coming here to Japan, I wanted to come home. Not home to this house, but home to my family. I missed my old friends, my family to take care of us, everything, even the insane chores. I knew I wouldn't be able to cry until Maddy was asleep. She needed me to be strong. We needed each other.

"Becca, can I have some soup? Like chicken noodle or something?" She called from the bathroom. She was a little late calling it because I'd already began making her some chicken noodle. "Yeah, no problem. How did the piano thing go? "I called back. I was honestly interested, but it was also to distract her. I was quietly making an ice cream Sunday, but I couldn't be that quiet. If she was talking I doubt that she'll notice.

"It went great! We have enough money to pay rent, pay our other bills, get food, and have some left over this month! We should go buy some new clothes or manga or music or something!"

"No. We're going to save it and be sure to continue to save. We need the money to stay here. I don't want to live on the streets if we can't pay our rent."

"Alright. That makes sense. Next month can we go shopping? Please?"

"No, we aren't going shopping unless I'm certain that we can afford it. Maybe the month after that. I'm going to submit my writings to competition to see if I can win anything. If there's another chance for you to do that piano thing please do."

"Alright, I probably won't get the chance again. Their mother didn't seem to like me much. Just two weeks until my birthday! I'm so excited!" she said as she shuffled into the kitchen. Her eyes lit up as she saw the ice cream. We tend not to have a lot of sweetened stuff in the house, so a big dish of ice cream with chocolate syrup and maraschino cherries is a big deal. "Becca! You shouldn't have. This is so nice! When did you get the ice cream? And the chocolate syrup and cherries?" She squealed.

"I bought them last weekend when I went shopping. Is your homework done?"

"Yes, why did you change topics so quickly? Not to be weird or anything. It isn't wrong that you changed topics so quickly; it's just that you usually only do that when you're hiding something. What are you hiding?

Damn. She was so perceptive! I couldn't ever seem to hide anything from her. Now I am going to have to make something up. "The checkout guy was flirting with me." I said matter of factly. Too bad it was a lie. What really happened was that I ran into Mori a few blocks away, chatted with him for about 20 minutes, hugged him, blushed and ran the rest of the way to the store. From there I managed to drop the tub of ice cream, crackers, and soup cans. I ended up in the longest line because I was out of it and didn't pay attention and by the time I got to the front of the line the cashier was grumpy.

"You're lying. You blushed. She what actually happened?"

"That's all that happened!"

"Liar, liar pants on fire! Tell the truth!"

"I am!"

"No you aren't!"

"Fine. I talked to Mori Senpai outside of the club okay?"

"Really? Go Becca! Be brave!"

"Ugh. This is exactly why I didn't want to tell you. Don't make a big deal out of it okay?"

AN: Okay, that's the end of this chapter. Tell me how it is please! This one actually was written because I probably did lose my sanity in the past few days. Oh well.

Me: Wheeeee! Life's a breeze!

My other for sanity 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

Me: Go AWAY I want to be left ALONE!

Other personality AKA my sanity: alright, but I'm not coming back. You'll miss me!

Me a day later: COME BACK I MISS BEING SAIN!