Nicky's flaw was the juiciest one out of all of the Juliets. Tamiko chuckled holding up the DVD she had always wondered why Mr. Honda was fired last year. So this explained everything all too well.
Nicky was the next biggest threat after Keykie and Ashley and she was also the leader. So what better way to kill a snake then by cutting off its head after removing its tongue and fangs?
Kouki was handed the DVD by Tamiko and she put it in her laptop. After a few minutes of typing everyone in school could hear and see the video that was on the DVD.
Nicky was conversing with the rest of the Juliet's about their plan on how to put a stop to this when she froze hearing all too filmier music and voices.
Nicky's heart sped up listening to the audio from the video over the intercom and her eyes widened.
"N…No." She whispered frozen in her spot, Haru was just about to ask Nicky what was wrong when he heard Nicky's voice over the intercom.
"You wanted to see me Mr. Honda?" Nicky's voice said closing a door behind her
"Yes it's about your performance in my class. You see you're grade and low but I have an extra credit assignment that will give it a boost." Mr. Honda's voice said as Nicky fell to her knees shaking.
"MAKE IT STOP! M-MAKE IT STOP!" Nicky screamed wanting it to stop as the audio played on with sounds of Mr. Honda trying to… Seduce Nicky. Nicky felt only sheer terror much like she did at that moment of time. She tried to close her eyes to make it go away but she only flashed back to that moment and relived it all over again.
Hayate who was in the hallway froze as he listened to the audio and his eyes widened in terror for Nicky. He ran to the Juliet Club as fast as he could to check on Nicky not knowing it was only a recording of a past event.
"NICKY!" Hayate shouted bursting into the club room to see Nicky on the ground crying her eyes out, he ran up and hugged her tightly trying to get her to calm down.
Finally the Mr. Souho managed to stop the recording and the school wide broad cast. No one in Ouran knew what to say about Nicky. Sure at the end of the video Lizzy had come in and put a stop to it before anything happened but it seemed to be very traumatizing for Nicky.
In the host club room Tamaki looked well pissed. He was glad his father fired Mr. Honda and it was clear who had done all of this.
"Now that's going too far." Haruhi spoke up feeling bad for Nicky, she never had to deal with anything like that herself but still. Honey growled darkly getting angrier by the second.
Kyouya adjusted his glasses calmly "It seems that the Sweet Hearts are trying to get rid of the Juliet's fan base by exposing traumatic moments for them or things that have emotional scars with them." Kyouya observed, the twins seemed ready to fight anyone who said anything bad about Nicky.
Even Hikaru had perked up just so he could kick who's ever ass who did this.
In the Juliet Club room Hayate was stroking Nicky's hair as she sobbed loudly into his chest shaking with terror.
Lizzy rushed into the club room "Nicky!" She exclaimed only to see Nicky was already being comforted by Hayate.
"D-Don't let him get me." She stuttered into Hayate's chest terrified that Mr. Honda might come back for her again. "Shh. It's okay Nicky. It's alright I'm here and no one's going to hurt you." He whispered to Nicky rocking back and forth.
Everyone in that room could only stare at Hayate in slight shock because it was clear he'd never do that for any other girl except for maybe Ashley. But she's his cousin so that goes without saying.
"H-Hayate." Nicky murmured into Hayate's chest, while Hayate stared down at her clearly upset that she was upset.
"It isn't fair!" Haru suddenly shouted distraught, this attracted everyone in the room's attention "You guys help every guy in school every day and the Sweet Hearts are ruining your club!" Haru yelled feeling livid with his pervious captives.
Keykie was crying her eyes out as was Nicky and ever since he got here the girls had all been treating him so nicely. They let him in without any second thoughts and they were all going through this just because of stupid jealousy that the Sweet Hearts had for them.
Haru was about to go on with his rant but Keykie cut him off sniffling "I-It's fine H-Haru-kun. W-We ha-have to de-deal with this every day. Girls can be a lot more vicious than g-guys you kn-know." Keykie sniffled trying to look happy for Haru remembering all he had to go through; Keykie clearly forced a smile at the end of her statement with her joke about the nature of girls.
Haru looked around at Nicky, Lil, Lizzy, and Yuki as they all nodded showing that they agreed with Keykie's words.
Nicky took a shaky sigh trying to calm herself down remembering her duty as a Juliet. Then she stood up "D-Do n-not fret m-my pr-prince all is well." Nicky tried to cheer in her usual way but stumbled back only to have Hayate catch her. "You should sit down." Hayate stated looking down at Nicky who tried to grin at him but it looked more like a grimace.
Lizzy sighed and ran her fingers through her hair "Nicky's right Haru, don't worry about it. Eventually Ashley will take care of everything and it'll all go away." Lizzy spoke in her usual manner, Lil and Yuki nodded eagerly.
"Yup! Ashley-Outo always gets rid of anyone opposing the Juliets!" Yuki said with a cheerful grin but there was still a glimmer of concern for Nicky and Keykie.
Just that moment all of the teen's cellphones buzzed in their pockets telling them that they had all received emails.
Nicky sniffled a bit but she whipped out her cellphone and opened her email only to drop the phone after reading it.
"I-I don-don't think Ashley's going to be able to stop this one." Nicky whispered quietly, Hayate confused picked up Nicky's cellphone and his eyes widened considerably.
"Oh no." He said then looked around for Ashley to see what her reaction was but she was gone.
"Wow! Ashley's sister looks so pretty~!" Lil sang not getting the seriousness of the picture and not reading the print down below it. Yuki stared at the picture of Ashley and her sister and sighed now getting everything.
It all made sense now, how tired Ashley always was. The reason why she was so short and cold with everyone and didn't like to be touched. Yuki had seen that look on a person's face before that was on Kristy's. It was the look of death and Yuki could tell that Kristy was dying.
"Wow you guys just got that message! I got mine five minutes ago! What kind of plan are you on?" Lizzy exclaimed joking around trying to relieve the tension in the room.
Keykie who pulled out her mobile phone curious as to why everyone was so shocked and kept saying things about Ashley's sister opened her email.
Then Keykie's image of Ashley's prefect life shattered in front of her. Keykie could only stare dumbly at the picture and at how sad but happy Ashley was lying next to her sister in a hammock. Keykie felt guilty for thinking that Ashley had the prefect life and how she felt jealous of her.
She didn't know what to think, all she saw in that picture is what reminded her of her in the last few years that her dad was alive. Keykie had known that he was going to die but she still enjoyed being around her father. Keykie felt horrible and couldn't help but wonder why Ashley hadn't mentioned this before. She thought they were friends. Apparently Ashley didn't trust her enough with that information.
Keykie sighed she didn't blame her. After all these years Keykie had been secretly envying her and she was sure that Ashley had caught on to her during them.
"Hey Nicky why didn't Ashley say anything about her sister?" Lizzy couldn't help but ask remembering that Ashley and Nicky were close so Nicky was bound to know something.
Nicky shook slightly knowing where Ashley was but sighed shakily "Her sister is dying. She didn't say anything because she wants to protect her sister and she hates to be pitied. The only reason I know is because I met Ashley at a time where it seemed that Kristy was getting better. But it's only gotten worse in the past few years." Nicky said hugging herself feeling like she was betraying Ashley even though now the secret was out.
Lil, Yuki, Lizzy, Keykie, and Haru were all quiet at that moment feeling bad for everything they had thought about the ice queen.
"So, Ashley only keeps to herself because she doesn't want her sister to be hurt by someone trying to use her." Yuki spoke up and Nicky nodded slowly confirming her statement. "Now Ashley isn't coming back to Ouran because of this." She stated shocking everyone in the room.
"W-What? B-But why wouldn't Ashley-san come back?" Haru questioned shocked that the ice queen who never back down from anything would just leave like that. Nicky turned to him and glared at him sharply.
"Haven't you been listening to anything I said!" Nicky snapped surprising Haru, Nicky was about to march up to the boy and yell at him but Hayate stopped her. "Nicky calm down it's not like you won't see Ashley again." He stated resting his hand on her shoulder smiling at her calmly. Nicky turned to him and slapped him "HOW CAN YOU BE SO CALM!" Nicky screamed at him with tears in her eyes. Hayate just stood there as Nicky hit him on the chest "Ashley's leaving Ouran because of those damn bitches!" Nicky screamed cursing surprising everyone even more.
Nicky hardly cursed because she said it was unladylike but now it seemed that Nicky was too upset to care.
Finally when Nicky started to calm down she grabbed Hayate and started to cry all over again. "My best friend is leaving me." She sobbed loudly in Hayate's chest.
"Ashley's leaving?" Hikaru questioned from the doorway to the host club, the hosts decided to march over and check on Nicky and with all the members there they only stood there shocked at what they heard.
"Why is she leaving?" Karou questioned also and Nicky sobbed louder "Check your emails." Hayate stated and everyone in the host club but Mori checked them.
Mori just stood there shocked at what he heard. He wondered why Ashley would leave over a picture of her sister and herself. Mori didn't like the sound of Ashley leaving because that would mean he wouldn't have an excuse to see her anymore.
School was the only excuse he had along the connection of their clubs. But other than that there wasn't any other excuse for Mori to talk to Ashley or even just to be around the dark and mysterious girl.
Just then Max and the two other twins burst through the door.
"Nicky! Ashley! Are you two okay?" Max exclaimed looking around for the two girls but only saw his sister and Max sighed softly "She already went home." He said slightly relieved that nothing else bad had happened to the other girl and then turned to his sister "Nicky are you okay? I came over as fast as I could. Oh man when Gabe hears about this he is going to be pissed." Max said cringing at the thought of the fury of the other and younger Unison when he caught wind of someone bothering his sisters while he was gone.
"Why isn't he here now?" Kyouya couldn't help but question and the young Unison's best friend turned to him and smiled "Ashley arranged for Gabe to go to their grandmother's the day that Tasia-san left to keep an eye on Tasia-san." He said proud of the supposed nobility that Gabe had. Little did Max know that Gabe fought his sister every step of the way to the airport.
"Hey, where's Rin-sempai?" Max asked suddenly looking around for Rin.
