I love how I hardly get any reviews for this story -.- this is me being sarcastic here in case you didn't know. Seriously guys, I'd love a review even if it's anonymous. You guys are making me think I'm not a good writer...Well, review response time!Sahsaiwhv (aka SnOandZnT)- Lol xD love you LLC 333Animefreak Amii- I know right? XD and thanks x3 it means a lot. Chase is based off one of my bestest friends who actually is gay.So...here's chapter 14 of Save Me or Toss Me Aside!
Amaya's POV
"I'm so bored," I sigh to the empty bathroom. Glancing up at the counter top from my comfy spot on the tub, I gaze at the note Tamaki slipped me the other day.
'Someone like me' he'd written.
I laugh, "Oh Tamaki. What am I gonna do with you?" my words echo in the decent spaced bathroom. But I frown in spite of myself. Was Tamaki really serious about that? Did he really want to be in a relationship with me?
I blushed at the thought of Tamaki and me sitting together, cuddled under a kotatsu. Just the picture made me start squealing to myself. Get a hold of yourself, fangirl; I stopped myself, concentrating once again.
If Tamaki was really serious, then that meant he was over Haruhi. But nothing seems to have changed between the two, so that didn't really seem possible.
But if Tamaki wasn't serious, then...he was TOYING with me?! No, no, no, no, no...NO! I didn't need another Hiroki situation all over again. If Tamaki were to say something like that to me, I don't think I'd be able to handle it.
Tamaki isn't that kind of person though, I mused. I groaned aloud, putting my hands in my head. Getting out of the smooth tub, I raised my head with confidence. Looks like I'll have to handle the situation myself.
I needed to come up with a plan...something that would test if Tamaki was serious or not. But just in case clueless Tamaki doesn't get what I'm doing, then I would need a backup plan too. After praying for an idea to come up, I thought of both my regular plan and the backup.
As Kyouya would say, "Things are about to get interesting," I said aloud with a smirk.
Hoshimi's POV (the next day)
"Good morning!" I yelled once I had arrived at Amaya's house.
"Morning!" I heard my cousin call back from what sounded like the kitchen. I found my way there to find said cousin cooking up some pancakes.
"I see you're going for an American breakfast today," I commented. Normally she would've been having what she called the "Japan breakfast" of rice, miso soup, and toast. Like Tamaki ranted about commoners, Amaya ranted about Japan. Yes, that's my cousin, the Japanophile.
"Well, I was craving pancakes! Besides, they're chocolate chip! Who doesn't love chocolate?" she retorted with a grin.
"First of all, are you ok? Nothing's…off…right?" I slowed to eye Amaya.
"What? Eww! NO! I'm peachy! I'm the innocent one remember Hoshimi?" Amaya gagged. I laughed aloud, ahh that was my cousin.
"Second of all," I continued, "those who like vanilla better don't like chocolate."
"They don't know what they're missing out on." Amaya shook her head, dishing her food up.
"So remind me why I'm here earlier to pick you up than usual and why I'm also not going to have Kaoru drive us there today?" I raised an eyebrow to her as Amaya prayed for her food. Once she was done, she gave me a look and rolled her eyes.
"I told you! It's because I have a new plan and I wanted to hear what you think and I can't exactly do that when you and Kaoru are sucking face in MY face!" Amaya raised her own eyebrows at me. I scoffed at her.
"Excuse me for having a boyfriend!"
"You're excused," she giggled.
"Shut up," I playfully shoved my cousin's shoulder. "So? Tell me this master minded scheme of yours."
"You see…" she started whispering in my ear all the details and slowly I began to smile mischievously.
"This could actually work!" I grinned.
Amaya bowed, "Thank you, thank you!"
I chuckled, "Alright Happy-Go-Lucky, we gotta get to school soon or we're gonna be late and Chase is gonna murder you."
Amaya turned to look at the clock and gasped, "You're right!" she shoved the rest of her food in her mouth and headed for the door.
Amaya swallowed, "Let's go!"
"Coming! Coming!" I shut the door behind me. Sheesh, NOW she wants to go to school! I think to myself.
Later on (still Hoshimi's POV)
Amaya and I walked arm in arm into Class 2-1 to see everyone milling around and talking as usual. However Amaya, being the paranoid girl she chooses to be sometimes, peeked inside the door to make sure Tamaki wasn't pulling one of his surprise visits. Good for her, he wasn't.
"You gonna stand in the doorway all day?" Chase smirked, coming up from behind us.
Amaya jumped a bit, and then smacked the boy repeatedly. "You nearly scared the junk right out of me!" Chase giggled at this.
"Sorry! Sorry!"
"Sure," Amaya puffed her cheeks. Getting a look in his eyes, Chase poked her cheeks which made all the air dissipate and also cause Amaya to giggle for a bit.
"Seriously you guys, get inside." I teased, shoving them both in.
Even later on (still Hoshimi's POV)
Chase, Amaya and I were finally on our way to the Host Club. Currently we were talking about what animal would suit our personalities better. Back in America, my friend Zala never classified him as an animal but rather as a stick. Later on though, my other friend, Amami, grew to call him Doggy and the nickname stuck. "So which animal do you think would suit me better, Hoshimi: a bunny or a kitty? I say bunny because bunnies are cute but shy but Chase says I'm both for some weird reason."
Chase scoffed in a joking way, "I think that a bunny kitty hybrid would be adorable!"
"You're such a dork." I laugh.
"But you both love me for it!" Chase gives us his creepy smirk. Amaya and I burst into a giggle fest. We come upon the door of the Third Music Room.
But when we opened the grand double doors, we came upon a gathering of countries.
Amaya's POV
Oh no! Just what the Host Club needed to cosplay as on a day like today. They just HAD to be Hetalia characters!
"Welcome!" the members said in unison.
"And in 3...2...1..." I said before blocking my ears.
"Whaaa...?" Chase asked, but was immediately drowned out by my cousin's squealing and fangirling.
I unplugged my ears and shouted to the now half-deaf Chase, "That's why;" I rolled my eyes at my cousin who was now flitting around the room, "Hoshimi LOVES Hetalia."
"Heck yeah! Who wouldn't love Hetalia?! It's so funny! And full of-" Immediately, a powerful motor sounded and I laughed at the reaction on Chase's face.
Both Hoshimi and Renge squealed, "YAOI!"
Chase uncovered his mouth, "Yaoi?" Hoshimi and Renge gasped and nearly fell to the floor.
"It's Japanese for guy and guy pairings. Moron," I laughed.
"Hey!" Chase frowned teasingly. "I'm not a moron!" he defended.
"Says you!" I screech, "You're the one who in 8th grade said 6x6 was 12 and 6+6 was 36."
"One mistake and you're labeled for life!" Chase threw his hands up.
"Pretty much," I laughed. Chase laughed sarcastically but shoved me lightly. We exchanged a look then laughed again.
"Stop flirting you two," Hoshimi said, "Your boyfriend's gonna get mad."
My face tinted a light pink, "He's not my boyfriend," Hoshimi stuck her tongue out me and winked, "and we are not flirting. Chase and I are just like this around people we're close to. Anyone I get really close to, I can be my real self with..." I trailed off at that, trying to ward away the bad memories.
"Amaya..." Hoshimi touched my shoulder. I blinked a few times then smiled.
"I'm ok," I mumbled, still trying to keep him out of my head.
"Hey," Hoshimi paused, "where's Tamaki? He hasn't run up to you yet and we got here five minutes ago!"
Behind my cousin, Kyouya appeared and cleared his throat, signaling his presence. "He's currently preparing tea in the back with Haruhi."
"Oh," I mumbled once again. This time Hoshimi took one look at me and knew I wasn't ok. Chase saw the same thing. Both looked at me with sympathy just as the back door swung open.
My eyes followed in a split second. Tamaki and Haruhi both had their eyes closed and had bright smiles on their faces. By Tamaki's boy language, I could read that they were both into each other by the way they were slightly touching and leaning toward the other. Tamaki finally opened his eyes and finally noticed our presences.
"Amaya, my princess! So sorry to have kept you waiting!" Tamaki glimmered, but stopped when he noticed my half smile. "Is something wrong my dear?"
I shook my head and waved my hands, "No! I'm fine."
"If you say so," Tamaki lingered, "So how do you like the cosplay for this afternoon?"
My brain started to process things again and I took note of Tamaki's attire. Thanks to extensions, Tamaki's blonde hair was even longer. His normally violet eyes were now a deep blue. His costume consisted of a blue jacket, red pants, and boots that went mid-calf.
"So you must be France," I smiled at him.
"Correct!" he beamed. "How wonderful it is to cosplay as my home country!"
"That's right," I mumbled, "You're from France."
"Shouldn't you have known that already? You ARE in love with him!" Hoshimi pointed out from Kaoru's lap.
"Shush you," I stuck my tongue out at her; turning a bit red. Hoshimi returned the tongue.
I let my eyes wander over to Haruhi. She was wearing a white jacket looking like it'd be suited for the military and white pants to match. Simple black shoes were covering her feet while her normally brown hair was a bit longer and black. Haruhi's brown eyes were now a bit lighter and they seemed to be more empty than usual. She had to be Japan.
Next my eyes flickered over to the twin's table. Hikaru sported a white button down shirt and hideous, sickly green tie covered by a brown leather jacket with fur trim around the collar. He also wore brown pants and boots that went just above his heels. For today, Hikaru's eyes were now blue and his hair was an almost dirty blonde. Glasses that I'm sure were not prescription rested on his nose and black gloves covered his hands. Definitely America.
Kaoru on the other hand, looked almost exactly like Hikaru were it not for the shorter blonde wig with one hair trailing off, long light brown coat, green pants, and mid-calf length boots. Even in cosplay, the twins just had to dress similarly. Looks like Kaoru had cosplayed as Canada.
From across the room, I saw Kyouya in his own outfit. Dressed in a green suit, wore a messy blonde wig, had green eyes (without glasses for today), and his eyebrows were thicker than before. I almost laughed; Kyouya was England of all countries.
I heard giggling from Hunny-senpai's table so I decided to give into temptation and let my eyes wander over there. Hunny was wearing a black button down shirt and blue tie with blue pants that were the same blue as the jacket that almost covered his shirt. For today, Hunny's hair was red with one hair in the back curling. His eyes though were a lighter brown. Hunny must be North Italy, I thought.
Close to Hunny-senpai was Mori-senpai. Mori's normally messy black hair was now slicked back and blonde. His dark eyes were a bright blue which highlighted the green military style outfit he was wearing. Ahh, I see; Mori was Germany today.
"That's funny," I commented to myself. Tamaki tilted his head at me.
"What is my dear?"
"You would've had every main character in Hetalia: Axis Powers if you'd had two more members to be Russia and China." I started to laugh.
"That is kind of funny," Tamaki started to laugh as well and pretty soon, the both of us were in hysterics, laughing for no reason whatsoever.
"Are you guys ok?" Haruhi asked, approaching the both of us carefully.
"Y-Y-Yeah, we're f-fine." I said in between giggles.
"Ahhh, well that was interesting," Tamaki said, trying to breathe normally again.
"I know," I breathed, trying to recover.
"You're so weird!" Chase called from where he had cornered Hikaru.
"Thank you!" I yelled back with a huge grin on my face.
Tamaki's face seemed to light up a bit, "That's good."
"What is?" I looked at the blonde.
"You seem to be much happier than you were a few minutes ago," Tamaki blinked at me as though it were obvious.
I just stared at him. Even though I had lied, said I was ok, and he seemed to believe me, Tamaki had seen through my façade. God, are you watching me? Did you tell him that I really wasn't fine?
I chuckled to myself then returned to the real world. I needed to put my plan into action now before I lost this chance. "Hey, Tamaki? Do you want to play a commoner's game?"
"What kind of commoner's game?" Tamaki's eyes sparked with sudden interest.
I pulled out the main source of the game from my purse. I showed the box to him and pulled him to his hosting couch.
"This," I smirked, "is called Pocky." I displayed the chocolate covered biscuit sticks so they were in full view of the Host Club and its guests.
I heard a collective gasp from most of the room. Yeah, they knew what was coming. I heard Hoshimi whisper to Kaoru, "Uh oh, looks like Amaya's getting serious!"
Good, all was going according to plan.
"And how do we play this game with Pocky?" Tamaki asked.
"Hold your horses, big guy. Let me explain this first!" I pouted. Tamaki lifted his hands in surrender but smiled at me all the more.
"This is called the Pocky game," I continued, also smiling, "You play with two people." I gestured to the both of us. I could feel all eyes on Tamaki, the Pocky, and me.
"One person bites on one end and the other person bites on the other. The objective of the game is to get to meet the other person in the middle. But if you bite off the rest or you back away, then you lose. Care to play?" I challenged.
All eyes were on me and although I wanted to hide because of it, I had to face Tamaki one way or another. I really wanted to know how Haruhi would react. It isn't that I want to fight with her all the time rather that I just love to mess with her.
"What if I were to win?" Tamaki asked. I smiled; of course he wants to think prizes, Tamaki's like me, he's practically a kid.
"If you win, you can ask me anything you want. Whether it be a personal question or ask me to do you a favor or do something for you and I won't get mad no matter what the request. But," I left off.
"But?" Tamaki urged me on.
"But if I win, then during the whole day of Ouran's fall dance, you will be my date. Ok? We haven't had a date in a while!" I continued, giggling at the end.
Tamaki raised his confident eyes to meet mine.
"Alright, I got it. I will play the commoner's game with you Amaya." The Host Club King challenged me with his eyes.
Hoshimi's POV
Things were heating up now! I can't believe my cousin! I'm so proud of her! To think she's come this far since she got here. Amaya's gotten so bold and has grown in a lot of ways. So I can't help but smile and cheer her on as she convinces Tamaki to play the Pocky game with her.
"That girl…" I mumble. Kaoru looks up from where I'm hugging him. Right now I'm standing behind Kaoru with my arms wrapped around his neck.
"Is everything ok Hoshimi?" he asks, playing with my fingers. I nod silently.
"She's growing up, my adorable cousin."
"You're acting more like a doting mother." Kaoru snickers. I don't say anything in response, but I think Kaoru got the point when I started to slowly tighten my grip around his throat.
He started to laugh and cough once I released him. "Sorry."
"It's ok," Kaoru coughed one last time before ruffling my hair. It got kinda quiet after that. Everyone was too busy watching Amaya and Tamaki.
But from where I stood I could see Haruhi was desperately trying not to show how angry she really was. That poker face of hers was glued on with superglue, duct taped down, and locked into place. But with Amaya's every wave of that Pocky stick in front of Tamaki's face, the honor student got more and more annoyed. I swear Haruhi looked like she was about to explode.
Finally, Haruhi snapped as soon as Amaya placed a Pocky in her mouth and eyed Tamaki seductively. She stomped right over to the two, took Tamaki's arm, and dragged him right out of the Host Club. The room became more silent, if that was even possible.
"Well that was interesting," the Shadow King smirked.
"Shut up, you calculating jerk," Amaya snapped at Kyouya.
"Amaya," I started, "are you ok? Especially with whatever might be going on over with them?" I saw Chase nod in agreement with me.
"You have to get between the two of them! It's your job as Haruhi's rival." Chase commented while stroking the tied up Hikaru's hair.
Amaya turned her eyes to the floor, her eyebrows scrunched. A few seconds later, Amaya took off at full speed.
"That's my girl!" I beamed, accidentally choking Kaoru again.
Amaya's POV
Stupid Haruhi, meddling in my plans. I was being more flirtatious than usual and the crossdresser decides to take off with my guy!
Well, not yet anyway. But I knew Tamaki liked me so that was enough for now. I had finally gotten sight of Haruhi and Tamaki when I decided to hide behind a pole.
"Haruhi, what was that all about?" Tamaki panted, trying to catch his breath.
The angry look on Haruhi's face started to subside, "It doesn't matter does it?"
"Yes it does." Tamaki insisted.
A sigh escaped Haruhi's lips, "Fine, Amaya made me mad. I don't normally get this emotional but she just irritates me."
"How? She wasn't doing anything wrong."
"So you think but in my eyes that was just...infuriating!"
I rolled my eyes. Way to be descriptive, honor student.
Tamaki seemed to agree with me, "Haruhi, you're not making that much sense."
"She got this close to you and you tell me you didn't mind," Haruhi suddenly closed in on Tamaki. His face went very red and I nearly screamed.
"See?! You didn't turn red when Amaya did it. You don't really like her, do you?"
"Haruhi! For one thing, that was because I'm used to her flirting. She SHOWS me she likes me. But you don't so you have no right; and for another thing, how rude of you. I never expected my daughter to be like this!" Tamaki gasped, a bit shocked. I couldn't blame him. I was surprised too...that I hadn't walked over and punched her or started crying.
"Tamaki-sempai, I have something to tell you. To be honest, I overheard you when you and Amaya were talking at your house a while back. I know you like me."
Tamaki's eyes went wide as well as mine. She heard all that?! His red face appeared again. "Y-Y-Y-You did?!"
Haruhi nodded and took a breath as if she were about to say something. I started to panic.
"And as for me, I..." Haruhi looked up at Tamaki with her cheeks slightly flushed.
"Hey you guys! I've been looking everywhere for you!" The two jumped apart once hearing me. "Wow, both of your faces are sooooo red!" They simultaneously clapped at their cheeks. "We better get you guys out of here, the club's almost over. I don't mind if either of you are late but Kyouya will." They both paled a little. "See you then!" I put on a smile and turned on my heel. Just as I was 3 feet away from the staircase, the pair ran past me in a hurry. I stopped when they were around the corner and collapsed to my hands and knees.
"It's not fair..." I began to shake. No, no, I started coaching myself. Following my own instructions, I rose and calmly walked back to the 3rd music room. Hoshimi stood in the empty room, waiting for me.
"Well?"
"Where'd everyone go?"
"Tamaki's cleaning in the back as punishment from the glasses character. Haruhi was in and out of here in a few seconds. Everyone else already left."
"And you waited for me rather than go with Kaoru?"
"Duh! Cousins over boyfriends any day. Now take off the fake smile and come give me a hug."
I kept looking at Hoshimi, fake smile still on. Though as it fell, tears overflowed in my eyes and suddenly I launched myself into my cousin's awaiting arms.
I made incomprehensible noises as I sobbed. "That's it," Hoshimi soothed me, "let it out."
"She knows! That stupid crossdresser knows!" I growled in between my still flowing tears. "She was about to confess too! Why does she have to be so...urghhh."
Hoshimi didn't say anything, but she petted my head until my breathing had become normal again. Finally she spoke up, "You wanted this. You told him it would be ok for him to love both of you."
"It just hurts." I mumbled.
"I know." my cousin frowned at me, "C'mon, let's go back to your house. You need ice cream!"
I laughed a bit and walked out of the school arm in arm with Hoshimi.
Mysterious person's POV
I watched from around the corner and frowned to myself. Was she really hurt that much? I had to get to the bottom of this.
Cliffhanger again! So, here's what you should do now. Obviously, you review but tell me who you think the mysterious person is. If you get it right, I'll have you make an appearance in the chapter. Sound good? Good! Now off you go! Review!