Chapter 23
"I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. ~Robert Brault,"
It's only one week before it's really Halloween and Ouran Academy is really getting into the spirit of things. Quite literally in the Host Club. Back where Gin comes from, Halloween has never really been a huge thing or a thing at all. Some people throw a party and some put Jack-o-jack lanterns outside on their doorstep. But it's nothing more than that, so Halloween at Ouran was like Christmas to Gin.
Aside from that, there were some things which annoyed the heck out of the blonde trying to stay cheery about the whole event.
Catherine was growing so close to Kyoya that Gin started to feel sick whenever she was even near the red head, which was right at Kyoya's side, clinging to him and pressing her enormous boobs against him. But everything started to annoy the hell out of her: Kyoya's fake smile as he lays his hand around her back, Kyoya carrying her bag all the time, Kyoya pulling her chair back for her when she wants to sit down, Catherine kissing him on the cheek whenever she leaves or joins them… Gin felt like pulling the girl's head off or barfing over her pretty little shoes and her fugly yellow dress.
It made her so angry to see the ginger push away all the guests or pout whenever she wants something, that every day she was punching the punching bag so hard it once came loose.
There's also the thing that she can't talk to anyone about it but Haruhi, and Haruhi's always busy with school or hosting, just like Tamaki. Since Mori confessed his love, about their family's plans and asked her to marry her, she didn't feel comfortable around him or Honey, who probably knew about this all along too. No, not probably, it's for sure since Chika knew.
Why is it always she was the one kept in the dark about everything and everyone? Even when it's about herself. She was –correction: still is- angry at her grandparents for it, but they are gone all the time anyway, so being angry at someone on the other side of the world is like disliking the planet Mars.
And there's the twins of course… but one can figure out on one's own why talking to them is not an option either.
So she ended up talking to the maid, who asked her the same question as many people have asked her before.
'My lady, maybe I'm wrong but… do you love him?'.
Gin had cursed the maid out of her room, which she later apologized for, but still… WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK SHE LOVES KYOYA?!
She could count on twelve hands all the bad stuff about him, no twenty, maybe even fifty! And maybe she could count on one hand what she liked and will ever like about him. Stupid blind people, think they know everything while they don't even know a thing at all! They think they're so smart, they're not, they're wrong, so completely wrong, they should go back to school or study phycology or something. Stupid people.
But one morning, she curses herself for thinking about all that stuff, she almost didn't close an eye, which is pretty rare since she's normally quickly to fall asleep whatever is weighing on her mind. Now she'll have to get up and go to school for morning classes. Tonight Haruhi and the twins would have their special event, which Tamaki is going to ruin. But hey, why not? At her old house nobody ever did something for Halloween, this would be her first and she's kind of excited besides the headache.
Catherine has been talking less to her since the whole toilet and spider incident, also she's been acting so strange… but it's not like Gin cares either way, she never liked the girl very much in the first place.
Gin sighs, she hasn't closed an eye at all, well not until two hours ago. She was so worried and having killer migraines about all the hard thinking, that she couldn't sleep. She walked through the house all night, drank tea in the kitchen with a dry cracker, then she walked through the garden, sat under one of the trees, went back inside to have a hot cup of chocolate milk since it's getting chilly, she had been throwing a ball into the air and catching it while lying on the carpet of her floor. She had tried to even read a school book -about economics- but even that couldn't make her sleepy. So, she had taken a shower and had laid down in her bed naked, not caring for anything but sleep. When she finally closed her eyes and felt like falling asleep, the sun shone on her bed and threw all the intentions to sleep out of the window. At least… it felt that way, she had had exactly two hours and five minutes of sleeping time.
It was a lost cause to try and hide the black bags underneath her eyes, the shower hadn't worked at all and the exhaustion… why is it that on slumber-parties, she is always able to stay awake? Oh right… because of the donuts, cakes, whipped cream, chocolate and nightly pizza…
By the time she entered the classroom, she wasn't even the first one, the most tired one for sure though. Everyone seems to be in high spirits around Halloween. Most of her classmates had already arrived.
So it wasn't a surprise that when she sat sown behind her desk, three pair of eyes were watching her carefully. After she had hung her bag on the hook, she let her face fall straight onto the wood of the table, not caring if it hurts or not, but wanting to sleep. The moment she closes her eyes and forces her breathing to slow down…
'Gin… I know you don't like to be told about your appearance at all… but you don't look too well' Says Tamaki carefully, not wanting a hit in the head in return for the partly insult. Gin couldn't care less about appearance right now, she hadn't ever cared so little about it.
'Tell me something I don't know' She mutters tiredly and takes a deep breath 'I haven't closed an eye last night at all. I've been sleeping very bad lately and I think all the stress is finally getting to me, through lack of sleep. Screw my grandparents and their stupid plans for my future… screw the world…' she moans and pulls her Japanese History book over her head to block the light out.
'What's wrong then? Asks Kyoya slightly curious.
'Just… some family business. Nothing for you to know. It's kind of personal…' She makes herself more comfortable with her head on her arm 'Let's just say it's important enough to cause me sleepless nights of constant headaches and no hunger for sweets or anything at all'.
It's true, she even skipped breakfast which consisted out of chocolate pancakes and strawberries.
'If it's that important, why don't you tell us? Maybe you'll feel relieved'.
'Tamaki, leave the girl. If she doesn't want to talk, than she won't. Just let her deal with her own problems. It seems like she's strong and wise enough to handle it herself. Eventually the truth will come… right Gin? You can handle it on your own right?' asks Catherine with a sweet smile of innocence, so dumb and dense… one would wonder how she survived the cruel reality of the world up until now.
Gin lays her head on the side, looking at Catherine. The answer would be "No". She does want to tell someone about her stress and her problems, about her wanting to rip Catherine's head of every time she sees her stupid picture perfect face –She did to Tamaki, but he hasn't given her a real solution yet-.
But letting Catherine win now by admitting herself feeling so alone and helpless would be something she would gladly kill herself for before she even had the chance to. So, the deep sigh she gives is definitely a "Yes".
She doesn't replay though, just looks at the red head and then sees something, something wrong, something so incredibly wrong. And it makes Gin feel good, very good. She smirks to Catherine and her eyes come alive again, looking like pure devil's eyes. They look like hell is burning within them, and it makes Catherine and Tamaki shiver. Kyoya can only wonder what it is that made her suddenly have such high spirits.
Gin chuckles softly while she straightens her posture and leans back in her chair 'Funny thing, Catherine. You're like an open book to me now' Gin chuckles and ignores the stares she gets from the three 'And if you must know, you've got all the right reasons to feel that way. Because it's true' Gin smiles.
The look on Catherine's face… priceless.
XxX
Somewhere during the club activities that day –Wherefore she had to dress like a vampire too- she fell asleep in a big chair. Dressed in a tight black strapless dress with a high split on the right side and an aching strapless bra. High heels on and extra dark make-up, red painted lips, fake fangs… since she was already pale from lack of sleep she looked like she was actually death.
But she was woken up by Kyoya. Catherine nowhere in sight.
'May I… taste your blood?' he whispers in her ear, she shivers, not because she's afraid but because he's so close and can feel his breath in her bare neck. She chuckles softly before tensing up at the feeling of his nose against her neck 'Kyoya…' she whispers as the tip of his tongue licks her neck. She's glad it's so dark since she's very sure her face is beet red right now. With a little more force than normal she pushes him away to look him straight in the eyes 'You've got a girlfriend already. Please bother her with your… fangs and hunger for blood'. With the speed of Edward Cullen, she gets up and marches away to the kitchen, a little wobbly though since the lack of sleep combined with the lack of a filled stomach is getting to her right now.
XxX
The evening of the Halloween Fright Night of class 1A aka Haruhi and the twins' class.
The blonde had to give it to the president of the black magic club, he sure knew how to decorate the place and make it even scary to sit there and watch the fake spiders or the flickering of her own shadow against the wall. Even through Gin wasn't easily scared for things like this and she knew exactly where the fake fog came from… she couldn't feel any way else than slightly creeped out.
She's sitting on some kind of altar made by the black magic club, the room is made all dark with a few candles lit up. They did do a pretty good job, the stuff inside really looks like someone just burned everything or slammed it into tiny pieces. It looked like the torture room of hell.
Gin turns to look into a broken mirror, she can see herself in it despite the missing pieces lying in front of the mirror on the ground. Somehow Tamaki and Nekozawa talked her into wearing a blood red dress, strapless with two splits going up her upper legs which made this dress even breezier than the black one from earlier that day. A little too breezy for her liking. But the decorations on the dress made it a little more Halloween-like than just the dress: High red heels and a silver chain around her middle and her wrists.
In her hand she holds a whip and in her hair is a pair of devil horns. In her eyes are red contacts with creepy slit irises. Her nails are painted black and there's some fake blood on the ground and on her neck, dress, hair and even a little on her cheek. As if she just whipped someone and made blood splash all over her.
With a sigh she takes the fake fangs and glues them into her mouth like Nekozawa told her to. When that finishing touch is gone she makes her hair a little more entangled and lays down on her back on the altar, the soft black carpet on it is so comfortable and the air inside the room is so comfortably warm, or even hot.
She closes her eyes and waits for her cue. When the doors open loudly she opens her eyes and smiles, white teeth shimmering in the fire while she looks at her pray.
'I've been waiting for you, here comes your punishment' She says with her most evil voice, she chuckles when the president of class 1A and Kaoru scream before running away again. She waits for the next candidates but none come and she starts walking towards the doors. Tired of waiting, she opens the them to peek around the corner and stare into the dark hallways.
'Hello? Anyone there?' she asks and raises an eyebrow, on the giant clock outside it's already past one, Tamaki said they would come for her at one. She'd better go searching for them instead, knowing Tamaki he forgot all about her.
After blowing out the candles and shutting off the fog machine, she starts making her way down the hallway.
When she comes by the main stairs in the main hall there's suddenly another pair of footsteps coming from behind her. It gives her the slight shivers, but knowing the host club they're all into trying to creep her out. Especially if the twins found out about it all…
'How cliché…' she says out loud with a roll of her eyes, turning around to the empty dark hallway 'Guys, if you're trying to scare me, than it's not happening, I'm not scared of something like a ghost or anything. So quit pushing it' She turns around again to continue walking but instead she stares into a face as white as a sheet, with empty black eyes, blood dripping down the corner of what used to be a mouth and a deformed nose with bleeding gape of a wound on the forehead coming from the hairline.
Before she can stop herself a scream of pure terror leaves her mouth, she's doing it before she can help herself. She tries to walk back but steps on her own dress with her heel and falls backwards onto the ground. From there she can see the whole thing, it's a girl with bare feet, her arms buckled in a strange way, her back slouched, hip sticking out. Gin's very sure she can see the bone sticking out of the elbow. Her black dress is filled with bloody spots and her teeth are partly smashed out. There's blue and green bruises all over her pale skin and blood dripping on the floor but never leaving anything behind on the ground.
Gin tries to talk but for some reason her heart stopped beating. She takes a deep breath and looks at the girls 'Oh my fucking god… you scared the CRAP out of me!' she has to grab a hold onto a statue to keep herself steady enough to not fall over. Her body still shaking.
The girl keeps looking at her with those empty eyes, there's no laughing, there's no: "Fooled ya" Or "Did you see her face?!". There's only silence.
'Alright…' Gin wipes the sweat from her neck 'You're starting to creep me out her. I admit it… not so cliché after all… not at all. But really… I-' before she can continue the girl steps limply over to her.
'I feel from the stairs… I-fell-from-the-STAIRS!' she outstands her hands to Gin, Gin takes another step back but the girl suddenly runs to her with a scream and then… she runs right through the blonde. Gin's eyes widen and another scream escapes her throat when she hits her head against a sharp point of the statue and blood drops down the side of her head. She falls aside on the ground and just stays there, she's trembling, she's frozen in fear while the foots keep standing in front of her, the blood dripping on the ground but not hitting it. It makes even a dropping sound.
Tears sting in her eyes from both pain and fear. She feels a cold breeze and then a hand on her ankle. She looks down quickly, it's a bloodied hand and it comes from the stairs, In fear she kicks whatever head it was coming after that hand and stand up. Then she runs straight into a door which swings open and gives a loud shout in pain, clenching her nose and head. Blood trickles down her nose and she's pretty sure it's deformed now.
Falling backwards on her butt she groans and clenches her nose.
'Oh my Gin!' She hears Tamaki shout 'What happened to you?!'.
That's when she can't stop but get angry. Tears of anger, fear and most of all pain sliding down her cheeks. 'As if you don't know yet!' she screams at him with closed nose, trying to stand up but needing Tamaki's help in the end 'You guys scared the hell out of me yet you don't do anything when I hit my head and bleed!' she let him get her inside the room he came from, there is the rest of the Host Club and Nekozawa as represented of the Black magic Club. Catherine's dressed in a skimpy pink witches costume totally not fit for the occasion with the big bows, rhinestones and glitter.
'Gin! What happened to you?' asks Catherine concerned.
'I hit my head and Tamaki probably broke my nose' she answers moody while Tamaki puts her down on a chair and Kyoya walks over with a wet cloth.
'We heard you scream earlier… was there something that scared you or were you just scaring Tamaki out of his silly costume?' asks the dark haired male while cleaning her nose and checking it on being broken.
'AS IF YOU DON'T KNOW!' she answers and whimpers when her nose stings when Kyoya pinches it even a little 'That stupid hologram really scared the crap out of me, and that fake bloody arm… whatever the hell you used you caught me off guards and I ended up hitting my head while lying on the floor… man you guys are really mean. Trying to give the rookie a Halloween scare? That was low, even for you'.
'What hologram are you talking about? If you're talking about Belzenef… we already told you about that hologram' the blonde chuckles darkly.
'NO! I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT YOUR STUPID… ouch… Belzenef' she whimpers 'I'm talking about the hologram in the main hall with that stupid deformed ghost-girl and fake arm grabbing your ankle'.
'Hmm…' Tamaki thinks aloud 'I don't remember ever making that part of our scare-the-hell-out-of-Hikaru-and-Kaoru-plan'.
Nekozawa shakes his head 'No, we didn't plan anything for the main hall'.
'B-but… You guys HAVE to be behind it…' Gin whimpers when Kyoya starts cleaning the head wound.
'Your nose is luckily not broken, it's pretty bruised though'.
'But Gin…' Catherine looks at her concerned 'We didn't set anything up in the main hall'.
'Then how do you explain me screaming my lungs and the adrenaline pumping through my veins right now? I don't care about your stupid excuses and lies. I almost had a heart attack! Not to mention I could've fallen aside instead of backwards and right off the stairs! I could've died or something!'.
'Calm down' Kyoya orders 'How about we take a look at the surveillance cameras and see what scared you so much you're actually crying?' Kyoya looks her in the eyes and the frowns in anger.
'I'm not crying!'. He catches one of the tears rolling down her cheek and holds it up for proof.
'Come on, you wounds have stopped bleeding. Let's take a look alright?'.
XxX
It's surprising how Kyoya has every key to every room in the building for some unknown reason. Gin sits in the chair and feels like a fool for them acting around her and feeling still so incredibly dumb and frightened.
Tamaki plays back to the moment where she came into view. They watch how she walks, then turns around and then turn around again to freeze and scream loudly, falling on her butt, staring, standing up while holding onto the statue, saying something, then screaming and taking a step back as if something walked into her, falling backwards, hitting her head during that fall, lying on the ground motionless, then kicking against something by the stairs and running away.
Then the tape stops when the video makes a strange noise of nails against a chalkboard and a raspy voice "Join me". The screens all suddenly go blue and the video player makes a high pitched sound.
Gin stands up and turns to walk away when she looks into the mirror and sees the girl from before staring at her. She can't bring anything out, just takes a step backwards and dives onto the ground when the mirror breaks into a million little pieces and the high pitched sound keeps coming from the video. A face of the girl flickers in the video and tears run down Gin's cheeks. Wondering if this is what they call an evil ghost.
At the moment Gin is sure she's going to faint everything stops and Catherine starts laughing. Everyone, including a creeped out Nekozawa stares at her.
'You should've seen your faces! That was so funny!' she laughs and the door opens, revealing a woman and a man, both dressed in black and smirking. Everyone just keeps staring at her, Gin suddenly feeling so incredibly angry she can't hold it in. She jumps to Catherine and pushes her against the wall, trembling like an old woman.
'YOU SICK B-' before Gin can continue Mori grabs her around the waist and pulls her into him, her face against his chest to keep her muffled. Kyoya just smirks at them.
'And? How did you find out own trick? It was Catherine's idea and her people who took care of all the special effects and sounds'.
Gin pushes Mori away by simply pinching him hard in the arm and her hand meets his face with a loud smack, glasses falling onto the ground. 'You're a damned jerk' she hisses before turning to the door and walking past the two people through the hallway and down the stairs, she feels so angry, frightened and relieved a sob escapes her lips and her whole body is wobbly.
Somewhere along the way she angrily kicks out the heels and throws down the devil horns and the whip. It's right then that she promises to herself that she won't talk to Catherine or Kyoya for the rest of the week at least, maybe even a month. She already knows that she won't accept their apologies, though she already also knows that'll me Catherine who will try to make up, Kyoya will only stay stubborn and say nothing until she comes to him. Which she won't.
Little did she know that the moment she hit the guy was the moment he couldn't snap out of it for quite some time. Only having Tamaki to tell him "She was right you know, I've never seen her so scared that she was willing to admit she was insane, and you laughed into her face about it. You should feel pretty bad about your actions".
She didn't know that those words had moved something inside the black haired guy. Enough to really make him feel… regret.
XxX
The next morning, Gin enters the classroom and ignores both Catherine and Kyoya completely, she switched seats with someone else for today so she's sitting in the front of the classroom far away from them. Her nose is bruised and her face is paler than normal because of the lack of sleep. When the bell goes for lunch she's not there at their usual table, when class starts again she enters last and leaves first.
It drove them all insane to have Gin act so cold. Somehow she managed to avoid them even in the hallways and during PE when she doesn't have to join because her family doctor said she should take it easy with the head wound.
When the Host Club begins, Gin was just about to go home when two pairs of hands grabbed her arms and literally dragged her to Music Room Three.
'Hikaru, Kaoru, let go of me or I'll kill you!' she shouts, earphones in her ears and playing some Within Temptation and Nickelback occasionally.
'No, you're coming with us' says Hikaru.
'Yeah, we haven't forgiven you for yesterday yet' Kaoru adds.
'Well I haven't forgiven that dumb red headed wench or her jerk of an ass hole boyfriend so leave me alone!'.
'Hikaru, it sounds like Catherine and Kyoya have pissed her off. I wonder why that is' Kaoru says out loud. Gin growling like a tigress in between them.
'I bet it has something to do with that nose of hers' teases Hikaru.
Gin frowns 'No! That's the blonde idiot's fault! He opened a door right into my face! Let go of me now or I'll call the police for kidnapping!'.
'Well it's not really kidnapping if you're not screaming and if you know where we're going' the twins chorus.
'I AM screaming! Screaming and ordering to get you to let go of me!' she moves her arms and legs in such a way they're forced to let go of her but they just smirk. A hand is placed in Gin's collar and pulls her up, her feet dangling while Gin shrieks and tries to keep her shirt down in a way that no one can see anything they shouldn't see.
'Mori! Set me down this instant! Let me down NOW!' she trashes but they just continue walking without a word, even Honey is silent. The twins open the doors of the third music room and Mori throws Gin inside, she lands on her butt quit painful and looks up with a glare which says "Don't come near me, I am very pissed off".
'WHAT THE HELL?! You can't just first drag me here and then lift me here to throw me inside this damned club room! There must be a law against that kind of treatment!' she stands up and dusts herself off before catching her school bag which Hikaru throws at her.
Their faces are all pretty emotionless, Gin raises an eyebrow at them and then moves towards the door, which they block with the four of them 'Move. Out. Of. The. Way' she pulls her bag over her shoulder and clenches her fists.
'No' Hikaru says.
'Not a chance' agrees Kaoru.
'Ah' Mori more grunts than says.
'You have to stay Gin-Chan, ok?' Honey tilts his head but Gin doesn't falter for things like that.
Tamaki comes walking over with a tray filled with cake, tea and other sweets. Gin glares at him 'You can't just win me over by showing me cake and tea, you can't force me to be here and stay here' she tries to push herself through the space Hikaru and Mori make but Mori just grabs the back of her shirt and throws her down again.
She looks down and feels tears of anger and desperation sting in her eyes. She forces herself not to cry and turns around as if walking to her usual place. But instead of doing that she turns around again and runs towards Hikaru and Kaoru with her fists ready to hit them. She's able to catch them off guard and force through them but Honey is quicker and causes her to fall on her knees.
'whimpering with the pain in her hands and knees she turns to them and stands up 'I HATE YOU!' this catches them really off guard, all frozen in place, Tamaki looks like his consciousness is falling into a dark hole. The twins their eyes are wide, Honey is on the edge of crying and Mori just stares at her.
'If I say I don't wanna be here, then I don't wanna! YOU CAN'T FORCE ME! I hate you for trying to force me into something I don't. You can't solve everything! You screwed up and try to make up with me? Well then don't treat me like Haruhi! I'm not her! I won't just go with you and give you a cold glare at most. I'm not… I'm not…' she feels tears sting and turns around to leave them.
There stands Haruhi, eyes wide open and looking quite shocked. 'Gin… are you… alright?' she asks carefully'.
'No I'm not!' she answers loudly and then takes off, running away, heels sounding on the ground until she reaches the stairs to the roof and runs up. She throws the door of the roof closed behind her and sits down on her usual place when she comes here. She quickly wipes the tears away 'Don't cry damn it. Don't cry over something that stupid… don't cry… you're turning into a real crybaby' she throws her books on the roof in anger and then just let all her frustration out in a loud scream/shout.
Then she puts her head on her arms and knees and concentrates on breathing and nothing else.
'I'm sorry I scared you' someone suddenly says.
She doesn't have to look up to know it's Kyoya 'Well you're not forgiven'.
'I didn't expect you to' he sits down beside her 'I just wanted you to know'.
'You're so stupid…' she says 'Last two months have been like hell for me. I've never felt so useless and cliché in my life. My life has been chaos and there's no one I can talk to because even they don't know the answer. I fainted, my grandparents are never home, I'm lonely, I'm bitten by poisonous spiders because someone locked me up in the toilet, I've been scared to death while wearing an overly breezy dress, someone threw a door into my face, I've cried more than ever… I feel so disgusted with myself for making such useless scenes all the time. I get angry, I get sad, I get frustrated all the time because of everything that's been going on. People mock me, my grades are failing… I feel like I'm the center of one of those stupid drama-series. And on top of all that I've been proposed to for the merit of the Suwashi company and I have no idea what to do because no one who wants to listen understands…'.
'I guess Mori-senpai asked you to marry you, huh?' he asks.
She nods softly 'I don't know what to do Kyoya'.
'Maybe you should be less hard on yourself. Humans tend to be emotional when a lot happens, when a lot of things stress them out. You're not scared of much, but everyone would've been freaked out by the prank we laid. To be honest, it wasn't intended for you but for Tamaki…'.
'Well that worked out well for you' she mutters.
'No, it didn't' Kyoya shrugs 'But why do you hesitate to marry Mori-senpai? It is in your family's best interest after all'.
'I know that' she takes a deep breath and looks up at the sky 'It's just that… with all this stress of the Host Club and my emotions… I can't find the answer to his question. Will I be happy married to Mori? I'm only sixteen and I have to make a choice which will decide my entire future. Will I be able to do what I intended to do with my future if I marry him? I know he loves me, he told me it himself. Will the Haninozuka and Morinozuka welcome me as a true Morinozuka? Will I ever be allowed to return to my home in the Netherlands or will I stay here forever? There's no real answer for that… I know people come to love each other the more time they spend together, but for some reason I don't know if I can do it. And if I refuse to marry him than what will my grandparents say? I don't want to lose my family Kyoya, I don't want to lose the last true DNA related family I have… I want my family to be proud of me and I'm afraid I'll disappoint them but at the same time… the doubt of marriage is so suffocating'.
'I know, but I know that in the end Catherine will become my wife one day'.
'Maybe, but you're in no hurry right now and if you don't marry her and get kicked out of the family I'm sure you'll built a new company and it'll be twice as big as Ootori Inc.'.
'Well you have a lot of faith in me'.
'I do… but I'm not talented like you, I'm not incredibly smart or good at sports. I'm not raised a rich kid, I'm raised a commoner, though I have to admit I adjust well. I'm not incredibly beautiful. But marriage… it's something I planned for the future, for when I've left college years behind me, now the term is knocking on my door and being pretty persistent. There's nothing really about me than my money'.
He turns to look at her. Her blonde hair moving slightly in the breeze and the sad light blue eyes set on the horizon. In his eyes she could never have looked more lonely than right now.
'You shouldn't doubt yourself so much. You have many good qualities, you're good at cooking and baking'.
'Cooks' she only replies.
'You have a fine taste in music and art'.
'Just like every other rich girl'.
'Not true, Catherine appears to have a disgusting taste in music, literature and art'.
Gin chuckles softly behind her hand.
'You're strong in both body and spirit. You're easy to adjust to the situation and you're not too bad about fashion sense, though you shouldn't wear that pair of dirty old sneakers anymore'.
'What's wrong with my sneakers? They may be old and dirty, but they're still comfortable'.
Kyoya just rolls his eyes 'You are average in schooling, but think about it in this way, this is Ouran Academy, normally no one transferring schools like this is able to keep up with classes so good, you're learning Japanese even though you still suck at it you try in the least'.
'Well thanks for the compliment, I guess…' she mutters with a frown.
'You always act strong and tough, always trying to keep people from hugging you or making any physical contact, but in reality you're just dying for a hug but are too proud, insecure and embarrassing to admit it' he smirks when she blushes and hides her face behind her arms.
'You're able to do five things at the same time, chatting, doing homework, eating, talking with someone on the phone, reading an article and watch TV, I shouldn't continue. You come always true to your friends and keep promises as long as the one you promised to keeps your trust. You've got a very refined taste and the best thing of all… you're sexy and cute even though you're trying not to be'.
Gin's face turns a beet red color and she looks away 'I'm NOT cute and I'm by NO means sexy'.
'But you are Gin. I'm not entirely talking about your curves, I'm more talking about your manner in just being you. It was sexy when you attacked Hikaru for blowing up your skirt with a fanning machine, and you're cute when you smile'.
'You two timer' she hits him playfully against the shoulder with her fists and he chuckles softly. She's still red in the face, but to Kyoya that seemed even cuter.
'But I'm nothing comparing to you. You're cool and nice at the same time, you act like a cold jerk but you have to admit it, you have a soft spot for me' she smirks mischievously and then looks back at the view in front of them 'You're good at everything, sports, academics, art, music, I bet you're good at cooking too at your first try. You're good with animals though not good with kids, but I'm not either so that's alright I guess. You're incredibly good looking, have an incredible amount of money, you're good at dancing and manners… you're like the whole package'.
'I'm not good at complimenting people'.
'And I'm not good at accepting compliments' Gin retorts 'I guess it's because I have trust issues, I can never tell if someone's lying or speaking the truth and as much as I want to believe in the truth something in my head always says it's just an excuse. Like a friend telling a friend with lost yellow teeth that he has a nice smile'.
'Everyone has those doubts at times. That's nothing to be ashamed or uncomfortable about. It's called human-nature'.
'Well then we're both one hell of a human'.
'Yes, we are'.
They sit in silence for a while when Gin suddenly scratches her throat 'I still haven't forgiven you for that prank'.
'I figured as much'.
TBC
A/N: Sorry for the late update this week-end! I had to write the whole chapter yesterday and almost finished, but I didn't so I had to finish it today. I apologize for grammar errors and whatever, but like I told you at the beginning of the story: I don't care!
HA! Take that you Grammar Error Seeking Morons!
Anyway, school is getting pretty busy, Physics is being a pain in the A* and life is a B*h. So… that's a small peek into my present life.
Oh, had I already told you about the changes I've made in the planned plot-line and how many chapters is going to come? If so: than this is a double note. If not: I planned this story to have twenty eight chapters, well there're going to be around 40 now plus an OVA and sequel of unknown amount of chapters. So be ready!
Please review, I always get very happy when you do! XD
Ps.: Will you guys please tell me if Gin is getting too Mary-Sue-ish or the plot line is getting too cliché? I hate it if that happens so please give me a sign if this is the case!