Lucky felt the atmosphere between her four friends change as they walked into the ballroom that was empty besides the other four hosts. She could almost feel Haruhi's distain for the two second years return. As Lucky watched both Tamaki and Kyoya put back on their host club personas, she couldn't help but be disappointed.
Ignoring her sadness over the sudden shift, she dawned a bright smile and launched herself at the twins. She gave them a tight hug and thanked them once more for the outfit. She twirled around at the twins request.
"You look great!"
"Yeah, this color really suits you."
"Would you mind modeling for us?"
Lucky was floored at the compliments the twins gave her, and even more so at the question about modeling, "Please, I don't think I could ever model. Doesn't that require heels?" She joked off the question before continuing, "But seriously, Hikaru, Kaoru, thank you so much. I genuinely feel like a Princess in this outfit."
In unison the twins responded, "You look like a princess, Beauty."
For a moment Lucky was taken aback before she figured she might as well take the new nickname in stride, "Well thank you for making me a beauty my princes." She told them. She then gave each of the boys a kiss on the cheek, suddenly thankful that they had given her a lipstick that doesn't transfer.
The blonde then walked up a set of stairs so she could take her place beside Mori and Honey while they waited for their guests.
"You look so pretty."
"Mhm"
Lucky sent the two boys she had quite grown fond of a warm smile, "Thank you, you two look great as well."
The girl barely noticed the hall fill up as she chatted quietly with the older boys. However, when she heard Kyoya start to make a speech she quieted down. As he finished, Lucky couldn't help but wonder: can a kiss on the cheek be passionate?
The blonde was pulled from her thoughts as Haruhi made a comment about not having been to parties.
The dirty-blonde walked over, "Don't sweat it Haru. I hadn't been to what these guys call a party until Tamaki brought me when he taught me how to dance. Personally, sleepovers and small birthday hangouts are the only parties I need in my life."
She watched as the shorter girl nodded in agreement. Kyoya however decided to make a 'generous' offer, "Since you're already here you might as well eat something, we have quite a spread."
The boys, thoroughly used to Lucky's snarky comments, ignored her when she said, "As if I wasn't going to eat stuff anyway."
"Like with fancy tuna?" Is the question that everyone chose to respond to. Kyoya broke his pen, Tamaki took a flying leap off the balcony to stand beside the group, and all of the boys, save for Mori and Kyoya, went to hug Haruhi.
At Tamaki's request Kyoya ordered in some deluxe sushi. Lucky couldn't help but chuckle as she pulled the brunette out of the twins grasp. "You know Haruhi, I know you don't like being treated differently because you aren't wealthy, but the way you said that was adorable."
"Shut up. You aren't rich either, have you ever tried fancy tuna?"
Lucky placed a finger on her chin as she pondered if she'd ever tried rich people tuna, "I don't think so, the boys and I tend to frequent restaurants that are in my price range."
The group quickly parted ways and started dancing with guests. The guests were mostly girls, but for the enjoyment of the female guests the hosts had allowed a select group of male students to attend the party. Lucky was asked to dance by many guests, guys and girls alike. Lucky was dancing with a first year blonde girl when she saw Haruhi get swept away by the host club. The second year met Kyoya's eyes through the crowd and quickly excused herself to help the group.
Walking into the changing room she gave the pile of makeup the twins brought an amused look, "Is all of that really necessary, actually, scratch that, this whole plan feels a little extra."
"What plan?" Lucky heard the girl who might as well be her new little sister call through the curtains.
"The plan that involves you admitting your undying love for Toru Suzushima to see how he feels about Kanako." Lucky explained. The blonde didn't know all the details, but she payed a little bit of attention during the meeting.
"Stupid rich people," The younger girl muttered while walking out of the fitting room. Lucky tried to look the brunette over, but before she could Haruhi was pulled into a chair for hair and makeup. "Why can't you confess to him Lucky?"
"Like Tamaki and Kyoya would allow that?" The twins responded on Lucky's behalf.
The blonde girl rolled her eyes, "I'm a big girl and allowed to do whatever I want. But seriously, it would feel wrong for me to admit my love for a guy that I'm not interested in. I don't really like this plan as is anyway. Plus I think Tamaki really wants to see you in a dress." She wiggled her eyebrows.
"Shut up Lucky!"
Glancing the girl over, Lucky admitted the young brunette looked pretty good. "I know this outfit was last minute, but I have thoughts," taking the twins eyebrow raise as acknowledgement she continued, "a tea length dress would be my choice for you Haru. It's more form fitting, but it flares out at the waist accentuating your curves. Plus I think a halter neckline would look crazy good on you. If you ever decided to get into wearing dresses that is…" The blonde trailed off, feeling like she talked too much. Two red heads, however, looked at her with respect.
"Agreed beauty. We would have given her a tea length dress, but-"
"The boss decided that we only needed half a days notice to get her a dress."
At that moment, the door opened and in walked Tamaki, "Here you all are, what are you doing? The guest are-" Tamaki's breath caught in his throat when Haruhi stood up to face him. Everyone in the room could see that Tamaki was stunned by the sight of the brunette girl with long hair and in a dress.
"So what do you think?" The twins asked, trying to break Tamaki out of his day dream.
"My face feels heavy and it's hard to walk in these shoes." The brunette grumbled out while walking to the door.
Lucky chuckled, "There's a reason why I always opt for flats, that and I once broke a set of expensive plates when Tamaki forced me into 5-inch stilettos." The blonde smiled at the younger girl, "knock 'em dead Haru"
As the brunette walked out of the room the twin gingers called out, "Good luck!"
And a certain blond boy whimpered out, "She's so pretty."
When the blonde girl heard her raven haired best friend try to stifle a chuckle, she turned to him and leveled a glare of suspicion his way, "What did you do?"
"Oh nothing, I just would love to see Haruhi's reaction to the love letter she sent Toru." The boy responded with a playful glint in his eye.
The girl face palmed, "It's bad, right?"
"Well the twins wrote it, I was just the editor."
She couldn't help the chuckle that escaped her lips, "I knew you liked her."
"She isn't as terrible as I initially thought." The raven haired boy sent a barely noticeable smile the blonde's way.
"Which is your way of saying you respect my choice of friends, and that you are open to getting to know her," She side eyed the boy, "and that you love me." She taunted.
"That's an interesting notion, in its own way." He responded, getting a light punch to the arm. "She was, adequate today while getting ready at your house."
The two were now holding hands and gazing at each other with fond smiles on their lips, the two were so caught up in each other they hadn't realized that the rest of the Host Club had left. Kyoya broke their gaze and looked at the door leading to the main dance hall, "We should still have time for a dance you know, if you want to…" the boy trailed off.
"That depends," she sent him a warm smile, "do I get to stand on your feet?"
The two were getting ready to go to the main room when Kanako and Toru ran past them, "Or we don't have time." Kyoya muttered out. Lucky grabbed the boy by the wrist and they sprinted out to the patio where they were going to shine a spotlight on the couple.
The two walked up behind the rest of the Host Club and didn't say anything when the twins sent them a devious look. Lucky simply listened to Tamaki's speech and decided that she would probably pass out or fall on her face if she had to dance with someone while at least 100 people stared at her.
"May this awkward couple be forever blessed!" Was what Tamaki said that made Lucky want to strangle the boy. Then, the twins announced that Haruhi would be standing in for Tamaki to give Kanako a kiss on the cheek; Lucky's 'the boys are planning something' alarm went off, but she decided that as long as it wasn't anything too crazy she'd let it slide. Especially since Kyoya was willing to chop off 1/3 of Haruhi's debt to see whatever was going on through.
"You don't think this is Haruhi's first kiss, do you?" Honey wondered aloud.
"I think technically a kiss-" on the cheek doesn't count as a first kiss was what Lucky was going to say before Tamaki practically threw himself off of the patio like Haruhi was going to be murdered.
Then Lucky watched everything fall into place as Tamaki slipped on a banana peel, the twins definitely put on the steps, and pushed Haruhi into a kiss on the lots with Kanako. The blonde couldn't help but laugh at the expressions of everyone involved. She decided that if crazy plans and 'evil twins' are going to become her new normal at school, she'll be pretty happy with the rest of the year.
Lucky, Haruhi, Tamaki, and Kyoya, all rode in the same limo home. Haruhi was dropped off first and then the three remaining teenagers got dropped off at Lucky's for their first group sleepover in a long time. Kyoya and Lucky had to listen to Tamaki have a crisis over Haruhi's kiss and eventually Lucky got tired of his talking. She crawled in between her two boys and curled up in a ball, resting her head on Tamaki's chest and wrapping Kyoya's arms around her. Tamaki instinctively started running his hands through her hair and stopped talking, the three were asleep in less than 10 minutes.