Kura: So I had the song "One Short Day" from Wicked stuck in my head. That's where the title for the chapter came from. XD Anyway, this chapter is a birthday present for my good friend Death-Ninja00. Happy birthday, dude!

Hana: One short day in Ouran High School. One short day, to have a life time of fun! One short day, and we're warning the Host Club, now that we're in here, you'll know we've been here, before we are done! (Sorry, had to!) Anyway, HAPPY BDAY! And for the rest of you, ENJOY THE CHAPTER!

Kura: One short day in Ouran High School, one short day, for there's so much to do! Every way, that you work in the Host Club, there's something explosive, you'll want to see it, before the day's through.

Hana: You went backwards...

Kura: So? By the way, we're splitting the Lobelia-ness into two chapters, because this one is getting a bit long and because people are getting a bit impatient.

16. One Weird Day With Hikaru and Kaoru

"Liza, hit the brakes...Liza, hit the brakes...LIZA, HIT THE BRAKES!!!

Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech

Let's back up a bit, ne? It had started out as a normal morning in the Hayashi household. Alyx and Liza woke up and tripped down the stairs in their sleepy stupor. They dragged themselves to table and started to eat their breakfast. Suddenly, a random insight came to them.

"Hey! We're sixteen!" they said.

"Well-spotted," their dad chuckled, "What spurred such an amazing discovery?"

"Phil drove us home yesterday..."

"And...?"

"And we realized that we should be able to drive by now!"

"Ha ha, that was funny!"

"Awww, c'mon! Why the third degree?!"

"Alyx, do you remember the last time you were allowed to drive?"

"Uuuuuuuummmmm..."

Brakes squealed and horns blared as a wild-eyed brunette cranked the steering wheel to the left. The tires of the expensive, black, NEW limousine screeched in protest as it pulled a three-sixty in the middle of the busy interstate.

"NOPE!"

"You're not learning to drive in any more of our cars."

Alyx sighed and Liza argued that she should still be allowed to learn to drive. Her dad still said "no". After breakfast, they came up with an ingenious plan.

"Oooooooooh Phiiiiiilllllllll!!!"

"No."

"But we didn't even ask you yet!"

"Answer's still no."

Much thought and consideration was put into the solution to their problem, and they finally came to the conclusion that their father's squad car technically belonged to the Ootori family, so they wouldn't be using one of their family's cars. So the girls "borrowed" the car and took it out for a test drive. Alyx did pretty well. Liza...well...

Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech

Alyx and Liza panted, pale-faced, as they stared at the lush, green lawn in front of the Hitachiin estate. It now had some definite tire tracks running through it.

"Oi! What's going on out there?!" an irritated boy yelled out his window.

He was ignored.

"D-Did I hit that...whatever it was?" Liza stuttered.

Alyx shakily got out of the car and looked at the strange object in the yard. It was...a laptop?

"Hey! What was that for?! You hit my laptop!" Hikaru shouted at them again.

"It's fine, just a scratch on the paint!" Alyx yelled back, "Why were you spray-painting your laptop anyway?!"

"Just 'cause...wait...YOU SCRATCHED IT?!"

"Liza did," Alyx replied, not sparing her sister from the Hitachiins's wrath.

"You're gonna pay for that!" he called.

"Chill, I'll repaint it!"

"No! I have a better idea!"

"Uh-oh..."

Later that day...

"So wait...lemme get this straight..." Liza started, staring at two of Haruhi's usual designators.

"...We don't have to be here anymore?" Alyx finished the question, referring to their lack of classes that afternoon.

"I thought for sure Hikaru and Kaoru had told you," the short-haired one said, "After all, you've been talking quite a lot."

"Not about school," they grumbled.

"Hey, that reminds me," Haruhi said, "What'd you guys do to get them so riled up anyway?"

"That, my friend, is a long story," Alyx said, "that starts and ends with, it was all Liza's fault!"

"Wow, way to throw me under the bus, Sister-dearest," Liza glared at her sister.

"Go get some more, Haruhi," Hikaru and Kaoru grinned.

"More what?" Liza asked them.

"Why, instant coffee of course!" they chirped.

"Why do I have to get it?" Haruhi asked, slightly annoyed.

"Because you're the only commoner. None of us know where to get it," Hikaru answered.

"What, you mean at the Saigon Market?" Liza offered.

The twins froze and slowly turned to look at the brunette, "So you know where it is?"

"Uh..."

"You're on your own, sis," Alyx grinned and began to walk away.

"In that case, you can pay us back by going with Haruhi," Kaoru said with an "innocent" smile.

"After all," Hikaru added, "You do owe us."

"A-Alyx..." Liza whimpered.

"Oh yes, let's not forget the other perpetrator," the twins chorused evilly, "You are partly responsible too, you know."

"Um...no," Alyx replied.

"That settles it!" Kaoru exclaimed.

"You'll go make sure the coffee gets back safe and sound!" Hikaru smirked at Alyx.

"Shouldn't it be, 'protect Liza and Haruhi, so they're not attacked by creepers'?" the girl retorted.

"That's right, wasn't there a pervert lurking around the commoner area of town?" one of the fangirls asked.

Haruhi blinked a few times, "There's no pervert..."

"Alyx, come with us, please," Liza suddenly felt a chill run down her spine with the mentioning of pervert.

"Aw, come on, you're going to make Liza and Haruhi go out and possibly get attacked by a deranged lunatic?"

"WHAT?!" Tamaki didn't miss a second as he ran over to the girls at once (he was eavesdropping from the hallway), "Did you guys say deranged lunatic? YOU'RE SENDING OUT MY DAUGHTERS TO GET ATTACKED BY A DERANGED LUNATIC?"

Haruhi pulled the girls out before any more chaos could occur in the classroom. "There's no deranged, loony pervert in town." The twins looked at each other and shrugged, Tamaki would get back at the boys plenty for sending his three precious "daughters" out.

Said girls just walked out of the school, completely ignoring the boy that was trying (and failing) to defend them. They exited the giant school with bored and annoyed expressions. Haruhi was irritated because they were sending her to go get their stupid coffee again, and Liza was mad because the Hitachiin twins were holding the stupid scratch over her head and wouldn't just drop it. Alyx, having no real reason to be annoyed (she was going to leave the school anyway), just looked incredibly bored. There was nothing particularly exciting about going to the market, but it was something to do.

After a few minutes, Alyx finally got sick of the brooding and decided to try and lighten the mood, "Hey, did you guys notice that if you repainted Ouran Academy green, it would look a lot like the Emerald City?"

"It looks nothing like it," Haruhi and Liza replied dryly.

"Well, obviously it doesn't now! It is pink, but imagine it green!"

"It looks nothing like it," they stated again.

"You guys have no imagination whatsoever!" Alyx sniffed.

The teen was undeterred by the lack of response she was getting, and was still every determined to at least get a chuckle from the other two. Sticking to the Wicked theme, she began to sing, "One weird day with Hikaru and Kaoru! One weird day filled with nothing to do! We're so bored! We can't wait to annoy you!"

At that point, the Hayashi twins couldn't stop themselves from laughing hysterically. Haruhi let out a chuckle, though she'd never seen the play. Alyx's new lyrics were enough. Alyx was grinning at her victory, but now had no other way to amuse herself for the rest of the trip. They'd only just made it to the train station too! The twins boarded excitedly, followed by an unenthusiastic Haruhi. Once the three had taken their seats, Alyx and Liza commenced the Get-Haruhi-to-Buy-Us-Pocky plan. It went like this.

"Haruhi! Will you pleeeeeaaaase, pretty please get us some pocky?"

"No, we're only getting coffee."

"But pocky is the root of all happiness!"

"Buy it yourself."

"But we have no money!"

"You're joking!"

"Mom won't let us take our credit cards to school. She thinks we'll go spend all our money on pointless things."

"I can see why..."

"Hey!"

"..."

"So will you?"

"Fine."

"YAY!"

The twins glomped Haruhi as soon as the train stopped moving and thanked her a million times before running ahead to get all the pocky they could grab. As they were walking back towards the station, Alyx noticed a rather suspicious-looking person following them. She couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman, since the stalker kept darting behind something every time she attempted to look. The girl started getting extremely edgy and began to walk faster, silently urging the others to do so as well.

"Hey, Alyx, what's the rush?" Liza asked.

"Yeah, we're really in no hurry," Haruhi added.

"Haruhi, are you sure there's not a creeper in town?" Alyx asked, glancing backward again.

"Yeah, why?" she replied.

Suddenly, Liza shrieked as a hand landed on her shoulder.

Kura: Aaaaaaand I'm ending it there. Why? Because I felt like being evil and putting a cliffie. I think this chapter is shorter than the others, but oh well. It's about back to what the normal length should be. And there's gonna be a sister chapter to it, so it's kinda like the half-chapters, but less suckish for us. Anyway, hope ya liked it, and we'll try to update soon!

Hana: Don't think we died if we don't though....we may be on the bridge to it but we are not anywhere near death. We have jobs, school, and other "important" things to attend to and it's hard enough as it is...(sorry). We WILL try to update soon, and we WILL get you out of this cliffie, just don't think we died if you don't get the update for like a month....

Kura: For the mean time, let's quote the eternal words of J. Micheal Tatem (Kyouya)..."I hate your face."

Hana: We're outta money...

Kura and Hana: WE'LL SEE YOU THEN!

(Please note that Kura and Hana do not hate your face (though they are a bit low on money), and that they just really like that blooper along with many others.)