"He WHAAAT?!" Abberleigh cried. "NO WAY! I KNEW IT! I! TOTALLY! KNEW IT! I knew he liked you!"
"But he doesn't like me," Makoto huffed. "He loves me. And he kissed me too."
"Good for you! No, wait…GREAT for you! I can't believe it!" Abberleigh gushed.
Grace looked over. "What's going on? It's the middle of art class."
"Makoto got a first kiss," Abberleigh explained. "Kenchi kissed her!"
Grace sat still for a minute. Then she leapt to her feet, flung herself at Makoto, and squeezed her in a hug. "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? I LOVED YOU! AND YOU LEFT ME! WHY? WHY?!"
Makoto shoved her away. "You're creepy," she stated bluntly, moving away.
"I loved you..."
"Stop it..."
Abberleigh giggled. "I can't believe it. I'm so happy for you. I'm so glad-"
"Make way, make way! The great Iori-chan is ready for class!" Iori interrupted, entering the classroom. With her was a small boy with short, messy blond hair and large, brown eyes. Both he and Iori were carrying a small stuffed rabbit. The boy also had a plate with a piece of cake on it.
"Who is the little guy?" Abberleigh asked.
Grace smiled. "Oh, that's Iori's roommate. Isn't he adorable?" she squealed.
Abberleigh cocked her head. "What's his name? And how old is he?"
Grace giggled. "His name is Mitsukuni Haninozuka. But you can call him Honey," she explained. "He's 17 years old."
"THAT KID IS SEVENTEEN?" Abberleigh shouted, loud enough for everyone to hear. Iori cleared her throat impatiently.
"Everyone should be currently paying attention to me, thank you," she huffed. The boy Grace had called Honey grinned and trotted over to where Abberleigh was standing.
"Hi there! I'm Honey. Have we met?" he asked, his head tipping slightly.
Abberleigh shook her head. "N-no...I'm Abberleigh," she introduced. "Are you sure you're seventeen?"
Honey giggled and nodded. "Yep, I'm sure. Looks can be deceiving, Abbi-chan...oh, do you want to meet Usa-chan?"
He was holding the stuffed rabbit's paw and sticking it out to Abberleigh. Abberleigh smiled. "Is this Usa-chan?" she asked. Honey nodded expectantly. "Hi, Usa-chan. I'm Abberleigh." She took the rabbit's paw and shook it, as she would a human's hand.
Honey giggled again and turned to Grace, who instantly threw herself on her knees and staring hugging Honey and screaming random things, like "Ohmigosh, you're so stinkin' cute! But I thought you never went anywhere without Mori-senpai? Is he here too? Oh hey, you're rooming with Iori-chan! Cool!"
"Takashi isn't here," Honey said sadly, presumably answering one of Grace's questions. "We were losing so many members of the club to vacations and this school that Tama-chan made him stay behind. But after I met Ri-chan and Charles, I feel a little better!"
Grace nodded sadly. "Do you want me to attempt to pick you up and run around the room? Oh, and I'm Grace."
"Yes please, Grace-chan!" Honey cheered. Abberleigh shook her head, smiling, and turned away.
"OK...now, if I go like this...now you put your hand on my shoulder..."
"You mean like this?"
"Exactly! Now hold on...got it! Whoa, you're kinda heavy..."
What club was he talking about? And are there more members at the school? I wonder... Abberleigh thought.
Iori stomped her foot. "Um, hello! Iori-chan has entered the room. Shouldn't you all be praising me? Ugh...never mind," she pouted.
Makoto eyed her evenly. "Iori."
Iori smirked and lifted her chin, eyeing Makoto back defiantly. "Makoto." Without another word, she stalked over to an empty canvas, lifted a brush, dipped it in paint, and began to work on her art piece.
Makoto grunted and Abberleigh chuckled. "You two should really learn to get along," she commented.
"Oh, we get along," Iori said.
"We just aren't friends," Makoto added. "Not good friends, at least."
Abberleigh nodded and proceeded to simply watch Grace run around the room randomly with Honey on her back. She looked like she was going to fall over and die soon, but Abberleigh assumed she kept going so that Honey could enjoy his time at Miss Raven's without the one he'd mentioned earlier, Takashi.
Grace finally stopped. "I'm tired now, Honey, but we can do that again some other time!" She knelt down slowly and Honey hopped off her back.
"OK," Honey agreed. "Thanks, Grace-chan! I'm gonna go paint a picture of cake now!"
"I'll go paint a flower, then."
All at once, the doors flew open again and Abberleigh jumped slightly, startled at the sudden noise. She turned and examined who had entered—they were two boys, twins—and they were smirking slightly. One twin was leaning lazily on the other's shoulder.
"Sorry we're late," they said at once.
The teacher, Ms. Durant, turned to them and frowned. "Class started almost half an hour ago," she pointed out.
One of the twins shrugged. "We overslept," he said, as if that was all the information Ms. Durant should need.
Ms. Durant frowned. "That's no excuse, boys," she said.
Abberleigh tapped her foot impatiently. Why do I feel like I recognize them? This is annoying...why can't I remember?
Frowning, the boy who'd been leaning on his brother straightened. He sighed and turned to his brother. Suddenly, he was cupping his brother's chin in his hand and angling his face towards his own. Abberleigh blinked in surprise. Their faces seemed incredibly close.
"Kaoru, I told you to get up earlier. Now we wound up late," he pouted. His brother frowned.
"I'm sorry, Hikaru...but you could have just gone without me..." he reminded him.
The other twin smiled warmly. "I could never leave you behind."
"Hikaru..."
"Kaoru..."
Ms. Durant seemed almost in tears. "You know, j-just forget it...! You can waltz in whenever you like, boys!" she insisted, her mood instantly changed. "S-so beautiful...forbidden love..."
Grace burst out laughing. The twin who'd been called Hikaru released his brother's face. Both of them had an almost evil looking smirk across their face. Grace ran up and embraced them both in a giant hug.
"That was a great act, guys!" she snorted. "Welcome to class."
"What act?" the twins said simultaneously in fake innocence. One of them snickered.
Abberleigh walked over to greet them. "Hi, I'm Abberleigh Johnson," she introduced. Grace turned to her. So did the twins.
"Nice to meet you," they said, smiling flirtatiously. Grace's hold on them, plastering their arms to their sides, prevented them from doing anything flirty, but Abberleigh could tell that was the only thing keeping them. The thought made her laugh, as she slowly realized who they were—and she also realized that she knew Honey as well.
"You two are from Ouran Academy," she told herself, though she was speaking towards Grace and the twins. "You're in this anime I watch. Honey, too. And Grace has also seen it."
The twins nodded. "Yeah, that's us," one of them said.
Abberleigh nodded back and examined them again.
Their hair was a mix between a pale pink and a pastel orange. Abberleigh decided to go with the pastel orange, since it was a more masculine color. They both had the same gold eyes. They're adorable, Abberleigh decided. One twin parted his bangs on the right, and the other on the left. Other then that, the two were identical.
"So, um...I kinda know your names...but I forgot. And which one is which?" Abberleigh asked.
Still trapped in Grace's hug, the twin with the right-side bangs struggled to free his arm enough to shake her hand. "I'm Hikaru Hitachiin," he announced. Unsuccessful at freeing his arm, he sighed and stopped trying. Grace squeezed them harder.
"And I'm—ooww—Kaoru Hitachiin. It's nice to meet you," the twin with the left-side bangs said. Abberleigh noticed another difference—Hikaru's voice was lower then his brother's, and Kaoru's voice was more pitchy. Abberleigh grinned.
"I'll try to remember," she laughed. "Now, Grace, you're hurting them. Let go."
"NEVER!" Grace wailed. "MAKOTO LEFT ME, SO NOW THESE ARE MY TWINS! MINE!"
Abberleigh groaned. She spent the rest of class trying to pry Grace off of the twins. She refused to let go even when they all had to move to the next class, PE, which proved difficult for everyone. But Abberleigh couldn't help but feel happy. She promised herself that no matter what, she would try her best to be the one who could tell the twins apart the easiest, now that's she'd finally remembered who they were.
(Author's Note: You know how in the dscription, I forgot to mention Ouran High School Host Club? Yeah, they're here two. Just the twins and Honey though. They don't do much, but you know...they're the twins and Honey.)