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Chapter 10: Egyptians and Confessions
The whole week was a blur to my eyes. After the whole incident with Renge and me now being a Hostess, I really wanted to take a break. On my first day as being the Maternal Type, I had three customers per half and hour. Since the Host Club was around three hours long, I had in total eighteen customers.
It was rather interesting talking to my fellow classmates and those younger then me. Most of the things that they would ask me about were mainly centralized on friend problems. Me being me, I actually was able to give advice on their problems. Not only did they ask for advice, they wanted to get to know me as well. Apparently on the first day of class, some were nervous to approach me, but now some of the girls felt confident enough to talk to me.
I was glad that it was Friday and Host Club time. I was running towards the third music room since I was late. I had to talk to Fuka about Sunday, since she asked me something that is now drilled in my head. Sunday was going to be the rehearsal dinner with okaa-san, which meant I was going to be bored as hell. Too bad I couldn't take the Host Club with me, but I am glad that they all said yes to coming to okaa-san's wedding which was next weekend.
Once arriving in front of the door, I opened it and said, "Sorry for coming late. I had to talk with Fuka and-" I was now speechless. Inside, everything looked different. Instead of seeing the music room, I saw Egypt. About half of the floor in the room was covered in sand; there were palm trees, Egyptian Idols, small pyramids and the Egyptian Sphinx, in a smaller size, and a small Nile River, were in the room.
"Wow!" I said amazed. I walked further inside and was amazed. This had to be the most incredible thing I have ever seen.
"Setsuna-senpai," Two voices said at the same time. I turned towards my right and I saw Hikaru and Kaoru in Egyptian clothes. Both of them had on white colored tunics that reached their knees. On their ankles were gold bracelets, as well as on their wrists, and earrings. Wrapped around their necks was a leopard printed robe and they didn't wear any sandals. On their faces was black eyeliner rimmed around their eyes.
"So, I'm guessing that today's theme is Egypt. Correct?" I asked them as I removed my shoes. There was no way in hell I was going to get sand inside of my Chucks.
"Right!" They simultaneously said.
Everyone was dressed to the part. From some of my knowledge about Egyptian history, Hikaru and Kaoru were priests.
Obviously, Tamaki was the Pharaoh. He had on a tunic and a slightly see-through linen shirt; his clothing had beads and pleats as well. On top of his head was a Headdress that most Pharaohs would wear. He had on various amounts of golden jewelry around his neck, on his arms, wrists and ankles. He actually wore sandals and he also had eyeliner around his eyes.
Kyoya was obviously a scribe. How was I able to detect this? He had papyrus paper with him, writing what ever he would normally write. He wore a white tunic that reached his knees and he had sandals as well. Golden armbands were on his upper arm as well as earrings; and behind his glasses, he wore eyeliner as well.
Looking back and forth between Haruhi and Tamaki, I instantly took in that Haruhi was the peasant or servant. All she was wearing was a knee-length tunic and a white linen shirt and sandals. Haruhi had some golden jewelry as earrings and bracelets. She also had eyeliner on her face.
Hunny looked really adorable in his Egyptian costume. He, like all the other guys, had a white tunic that reached to his knees with sandals. He was shirtless and had a golden armband on each of his arms. Eyeliner was placed around his eyes. On his right hand, he held Usa-chan who also wore a headdress like Tamaki. On his left, he had a spear; thus indicating that he was a guard.
And last but not least was Mori. He had on a tunic that reached his knees and sandals that adorned his feet. He was topless and just like Hunny, he had golden armbands. Not only did he have armbands, he also had on golden earrings. He also had eyeliner on and was holding a spear.
'Hottness,' I thought in my head. I just hoped that I had no drool coming down from my mouth. Apparently I was in my own little world the entire time because the Host Club was talking to me. But I did managed to zone back in as soon as the next person spoke.
"But the important thing is," Kaoru began.
"You need to get you into your costume," Hikaru finished with a smirk.
"Huh?" I stated. Immediately, my arms we grabbed and I was being pulled into the dressing room. I was pushed inside and I fell. It also didn't help that the package with my costume was thrown right at my face.
'Must kill idiot who threw me this!' I thought in my head. I opened the package and looked at my costume.
It had to be the most beautiful dress that I have ever seen in my life. I pulled it out and held it in front of me. The dress was made out of white linen and had a golden hem at the top of the dress. It was strapless and had various colored beads along the top. Around the waist, a gold strip of silk was sewed on and adorned with a Lapis lazuli right at the center. I slipped out of my clothes quickly and placed the dress. It fit me like a glove.
"Setsuna-senpai, we're coming in now. We have to do your makeup and your hair," Both Hikaru and Kaoru said together.
"Alright."
They both came in and stopped when they saw me. Immediately, they shook their heads, as if they did not believe what they saw, and placed the seat in front of me while telling me to sit down. I obeyed and sat down. Instantly, they took out makeup and began their job. I sat down patiently and although I didn't like makeup much, it felt nice being pampered. The first thing they did was put a reddish looking eye shadow over the lid of my eyes. I opened my eyes for a second before I was hit in the head.
"Hey!" I whined. It kinda hurt.
"Don't open your eyes until we tell you," Both my current makeup artists said.
"Okay, okay," I said as I closed my eyes again.
I really wasn't sure what they were doing. All I know is that they did something with my eyes, cheeks, and lips. Then they placed something on top of my head. A wig most likely since not many Egyptian women had short hair.
"Okay we're done. You can open your eyes Setsuna-senpai."
I opened my eyes and got up from the chair. I searched for the mirror and I finally found it. Walking up to it, I froze. There was no way that person in front of me was me. I was plain compared to the beautiful figure in front of me. Red lips, slightly pink cheeks, eyeliner and red shadowed lids. The wig was long and it had bangs. Not only that, but a headband was wrapped around my head and where it sat on my forehead, a Lapis lazuli stone was there.
"Now the last finishing touches," Kaoru gently said as he walked behind me. He grabbed my right arm and slid on a golden armband; then he placed on two golden bracelets on my left wrist. Hikaru was working on putting the sandals on my feet. The last finishing touch was a necklace. The chain was gold and so was the ankh. There was a jewel in the middle the same color as the one on my waist.
"This can't be me?" I thought aloud as I touched the mirror.
"It is," Kaoru said.
"You're just more enhanced thanks to makeup. Maybe you should wear it more often," Hikaru said.
"I get to lazy to put it on. And I don't know how," I said with a sweat drop on my head. They both also had sweat drops.
"Hikaru! Kaoru! Is my daughter ready yet?" Tamaki screamed from outside the door.
"Yes, Pharaoh!" They both shouted together.
"So what am I supposed to be?" I asked as I twirled to see the dress float.
"You're the princess of Egypt."
I smiled and said, "Hmm, okay. Let's go boys."
They both smiled and nodded their heads. We walked towards the door and Hikaru was nice enough to open it for me to walk in. I thanked him and walked towards the group. Hikaru and Kaoru walked in a much faster pace to get ahead of me. I finally realized why.
"Pharaoh, what do you think?" They asked together. Immediately, all heads turned towards my direction. Sure I was used to being looked at when I had to do dance recitals and stuff, but I wasn't used to this type of attention. I mean come on; I only had one boyfriend, ever, in my life.
As they all looked at me, a golden background appeared behind me.
'Where the hell did that come from?' I asked myself.
"Suna-chan, you look beautiful!" Haruhi said as she smiled at me.
"Oh, my beloved daughter! You outshine the Gods any day!" Tamaki said as he ran towards me and hugged me. I was attacked by the evil glomping man. His hugs are a death trap.
"Tamaki!" I shouted as I tried to release myself from his deadly grip.
"Mori-senpai, will you please help Setsuna-senpai?" Kyoya asked as he went back to writing on his scroll. I looked towards Mori as he nodded as he handed Hunny his spear and began to walk towards my direction.
By now, I was being twirled around and I was thankful that I was used to this thanks to rollercoaster's. The twirling finally stopped as I was lifted away from Tamaki and into someone else's arms. I was then placed on the ground, yet there was a hand around my waist and my hand was on the person's bare chest to steady myself.
"Are you alright?" Mori asked me.
I smiled and blushed while saying, "I'm fine now."
He smiled at me and bent down towards my ear and said, "You look beautiful."
Butterflies erupted in my stomach. The only people who was to tell me that was my family and a small amount of friends. But never has a guy said this to me. Not even my ex-boyfriend. I smiled at him and since his face was still close to me, I kissed his cheek and said, "Thank you."
As I looked at him, I could clearly see the blush on his shocked face. I giggled before removing the lipstick on his face and then walk towards Hunny. Me not knowing, two pairs of similar eyes watched the whole ordeal.
I kneeled down slightly to be face to face with Hunny. "Don't you look handsome, my little guard," I told Hunny as I rubbed his head.
"Suna-chan, you look really, really pretty! Usa-chan agrees with me too!" Hunny said as his pink background flowers floated around him.
"Thank you," I smiled at my peer. I stood up and looked towards Tamaki and said, "When do we open?"
Tamaki being Tamaki, he was with Haruhi trying to do who knows what. So instead, Kyoya answered my question. "In two minutes. To your positions everyone," He commanded.
Everyone gathered around the throne that Tamaki would be sitting on. I waited for everyone to get in their places so that I may figure out where I was supposed to go. Tamaki sat on his throne; Hikaru and Kaoru were on his left side; Kyoya stood next to them; Haruhi was on Tamaki's right with Hunny and Mori next to her. Seeing their places now, I decided to sit in front of Tamaki. I got to my place and sat down but I instead of sitting with my legs crossed, I brought them out so that both of them would be on my left side as my right arm supported my weight.
As soon as I was in my place, the door opened revealing 10 girls in the duck, I mean, yellow colored dress.
"Welcome," Me and my fellow Hosts said together.
Once that whole ordeal was over, I walked towards my designation spot. My spot was a large blanket that had a palm tree right next to it. I sat down and sighed. Egypt was one of the places that I would love to visit when I'm older and the fact that we did an Egyptian theme, I was in bliss.
Not too long, I had my first set of customers. It was two girls. One of them had brown hair that reached her elbows and she had light brown eyes. The other one had brown hair as well that was up in a ponytail and had green eyes.
"Oh, Konata, Yue, nice to see you both today," I smiled at my two costumers who were in their second year.
"It's nice to see you too, Setsuna-senpai," Yue, the one with brown eyes, said with a smile.
"Hi," Konata said cheerfully.
"Senpai, you look beautiful in your costume. Are you the princess?" Yue asked me as she sat down. Konata followed along.
"Yes. Tamaki was kind enough to give me the position. But enough of me, how are you both doing today?"
"Everything is alright, except for that dumb math exam I had today," Konata huffed as she crossed her arms.
"It was an alright exam, Kona-chan." Yue tried to sooth her friend.
"Tell me about your exam?" I asked as I looked at the two girls.
"Well, it was about probabilities and such and I had a bit of trouble with some of it. I spent a large amount of time studying the night before that I felt my eyes were going to fall out," Konata told me.
"Yeah, I've had those moments myself. But if you feel confident that you did well, then that's all you need. I believe that you are going to do fine. You just gotta have some faith in yourself," I told her.
"You think so? Alright, I'll have faith in myself." Konata said with a prideful voice.
"That's the spirit!"
At that same time, Haruhi passed by with drinks. "Suna-chan, would you and these lovely ladies like a drink?" She, I mean, he asked. I swear I still don't know how these girls are so blunt at figuring her out.
"Thanks, Haru-kun." When it was Host Club hours, I would say –kun instead of –chan. The two girls in front of me nodded as an answer for yes. Haruhi then passed each of us a fruity drink. Me being curious, I took a sip. It was pineapple and cherry juice. Although I'm not that fond with pineapple, I'd drink it because I can also taste cherry, which is my favorite.
An hour and a half had passed and I had no more customers. So I did what any normal person would do, take a nap. I lied down on the blanket and used my arms as a pillow. I closed my eyes, waiting for sleep to take over. But sadly, my sleep was interrupted.
"Setsuna-senpai," The two 'priests' said in unison.
I opened one eye and said, "Yes?"
"Come join us! We need you for an act."
I sighed and just nodded my head. I had nothing better to do so I stood up and walked in between them. As soon as we neared, I saw their customers. The first one had short brown hair and blue grayish eyes. The next one had long brown hair that had a bow on both sides of her hair and grey eyes. The last one had black grey looking hair and brown eyes.
"Hello ladies," I greeted. "How are you three doing this fine day?"
"Hello Setsuna-senpai. We're fine. How are you?" The one with long brown hair said to me.
"I am well thank you," I smiled at them, but suddenly, two pairs of hand were holding my shoulders.
"Princess, we have some news for you that the Gods had delivered to your humble priests," Hikaru said as he grabbed my chin to face him.
"Pray tell my loyal priests," I played along.
This time Kaoru grabbed my chin and made me face him. As his hand held my face, Hikaru's hands slid down to grab my waist, "We have been told that your true love is not that far from you."
I was slightly confused, "What do you mean my priests?"
"What we mean is that the man your heart is beating for is not too far from here. He may even perhaps be in this room," They both said together. Kaoru's hand guided my face towards the certain Host that I had feelings for. Mori was sitting with Hunny and three others girls. I believe that he must have felt someone looking at him for he looked up towards my direction.
I blushed and looked down. After the twins said this, I now knew that they found out my secret which I tried to hide. Not even Haruhi, my best friend, knew my crush. "My priests, you should know by now that we are from different worlds." I said with a quiet tone. This was true. I am a 'commoner' and he is part of a rich, high class society.
Apparently, this was attracting the customers for they had all come to gather around us. And I mean all of them. Some of them had tears in their eyes as they heard my story. I just kept going, showing my true feelings as my character.
"I may like this man, but we all know that he can do much better than me. It doesn't help that we are from different worlds and although I do see him all the time, I feel like I'll never be able to have a chance with him."
All over the room, I heard various cries saying things like "That's so sad" or "Poor Princess". Mostly all of the customers held out a handkerchief and wiped the tears that were threatening to fall from their eyes. Not only that but Tamaki and Hunny looked like they were going to cry. The remainder of the Host Club just seemed really intrigued by what I had said.
'Great, this is making me depressed now,' I sighed. Suddenly, Tamaki A.K.A. the Pharaoh came towards me and pulled me into a hug. I swear, one of these days he is going to end up breaking my back.
"Oh precious daughter of mine! I, the Pharaoh, promise to allow you to be with your true love," He cried out as he kept on bringing me closer and closer to his chest.
"Pharaoh, I suggest you let her go now. You're choking her," Haruhi said as he watched the scene unravel.
Finally, Tamaki took notice of me losing oxygen and released me. I took deep breaths as soon as I was free. Tamaki was now being told off by Haruhi and I wanted to laugh, but the fact that I had not enough air to do so, made it hard.
"Guards, will you please take the Princess to get some water? Thank you," Kyoya the Scribe asked the two 'Guards'.
"Yes sir!" Hunny saluted. He then looked towards me and said, "Suna-hime, can you hold Usa-chan for me while you are being carried?"
"Sure but, what do you mean by 'carried' Hunny?" Boy was my questioned just answered. Mori lifted me up and carried me bridal style towards the kitchen that we actually had in the club room. Hunny bounced along next to us and I had nothing to do, so I just played with Usa-chan.
We arrived at the little kitchen and I was placed down. I began to look for a cup. I wasn't successful and I turned around to ask Mori or Hunny where the cups where. Instead, there was a water bottle in front of my face. I grabbed the water bottle and looked at who gave it to me.
"Thank you, Hunny," I said with a smile. He nodded his head in the cutest way to say your welcome. Immediately, I twisted the cap, took it off and began to chug it down. After a few seconds, I was more than halfway.
"That hit the spot," I was ready to take another gulp when I stopped. Why? My stomach had grumbled and it was pretty loud.
"Suna-hime, are you hungy?" Hunny asked me.
I gave off a small awkward laugh and said, "Kinda."
"I'll bring you some cakie then!" He said as he ran off back into the main room. I sighed and closed my eyes.
"Are you tired?"
I opened my eyes and saw Mori looking at me. "Yeah, I am just a bit and a little stressed. I didn't get enough sleep last night since I was studying," I told him.
"What are you stressed about?" He asked.
"Wedding stuff," was all that I said. He understood completely and nodded. I turned around again to place the water bottle down and as soon as I did, I began to rub my right shoulder with my left hand. I could feel that I was really stressed by how hard my shoulder felt. Another pair of hands was on my shoulders, rubbing away the stress that I had.
"You are really stressed," Mori told me as he rubbed my shoulders. I sighed and relaxed under his touch. It felt good, like if all my troubles were fading away by the way he moved his hands. I leaned back against him and enjoyed every second of him. I closed my eyes and took in everything about him. From the way he felt to how he smelled made my heart beat faster.
I felt like I was going to drift to sleep when I felt him stop rubbing my shoulders. I assumed that he had finished so I began to move from him. But I couldn't. As soon as he stopped, he slid his hands down my shoulders, my arms, onto my waist, and then my hips. And there, he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me closer to him as possible.
"Setsuna..." He whispered into my ear.
"Yes, Mori?" I whispered back.
"I-" I know he was about to say something, but sadly, we were interrupted by Hunny. Without delay, we broke away from each other.
"Suna-hime, I brought you chocolate cake! This is your favorite, ne?" Hunny asked me as lifted his arms upwards to give me the cake.
"It is my favorite. Thank you Hunny," I smiled at him and took the cake away from his hands. I lifted the fork up and began to eat the cake. Man I was really hungry because the cake was devoured quickly.
I smiled as I placed the plate right next to the now empty water bottle. "Man that hit the spot," I said as I wiped my face to remove any chocolate.
"Setsuna-hime!" I heard from outside the door. Hunny, Mori, and I looked towards the door as Kaoru appeared. "We need you right now," He said as he approached me.
"What for?' I asked.
"Just c'mon." He grabbed my hand and began to drag me from the kitchen. Behind us, Mori and Hunny followed along.
Once we got back to the main room, I noticed that everyone had made a circle and in the middle it was empty, except for Tamaki. I was taken inside the circle and left there with Tamaki.
'Oh this can't end well,' I thought to myself.
Tamaki then began to speak, "Ladies and Host Club members, I am pleased to announce that it is time for the main event. As tradition, when there are feasts and ceremonies, there is always music and dancing."
'Oh hells no!' I really wanted to get out of here. There is no way in hell I am dancing or singing or whatnot!
"With this said, I would like to present to you Setsuna-hime, Princess of Egypt, who is going to dance for us."
Applause was heard everywhere. I heard many whispers around the customers saying that they didn't know that I danced or that I even danced, me being a 'tomboy' and all. But one comment that I heard made me want to prove that I could dance. I wasn't sure where it came from, but I heard someone say that I probably couldn't even move my body properly. Oh how she is going to be proven wrong!
I turned towards Tamaki and bowed saying, "Of course, my Pharaoh. May you please prepare the music?"
With that said, he actually had musicians prepare the music. The music had started and I breathed in. 'Focus Setsuna. You are back in the old dance studio, dancing on your own. There is no one here, but us and the music.' I prepped myself. Once I calmed down, I began to dance.
My body began to flow with the tune of the song that was being played. I ignored everyone that was in the room and only focused on myself, the beat, and the melody of the music that was floating in the air. I began to do chainé turns and small leaps and kicks. I moved my hips to the beat and my arms flowed around as if they were underwater.
The music was slowing down, showing that it was about to end. I followed it until the song ended. I began to breathe a bit heavy and I bowed to the customers as they applauded and cheered.
"Thank you, Setsuna-hime for that marvelous performance," Tamaki said as he placed his hand on my shoulder.
"Thank you, my Pharaoh, for allowing me to perform for these wonderful ladies," I said with a smile. "My Pharaoh, may I be excused? I need something to quench my thirst."
"Oh, by all means please do so. Haruhi," He clapped his hands to 'summon' Haruhi. Haruhi then appeared and said,
"Yes?"
"May you lead Setsuna-hime to get a drink?"
Haruhi nodded and said, "Of course. This way, Setsuna-hime."
I followed behind Haruhi towards the kitchen once again. We went inside and I closed the door behind us. Haruhi was kind enough to get me a water bottle and she handed it to me.
"Suna-chan?" Haruhi suddenly said as I drank some of the water.
"Yeah, Haruhi?" I said after swallowing the water.
"Do you have feelings for Mori-senpai?" As soon as she said that, I choked on the small amount of water that I was drinking again. I coughed a bit and just looked at her.
"I mean, after the whole story you said when you were with Hikaru and Kaoru made it seem that you have feelings for Mori-senpai," She explained to me.
"Haruhi...I-I...I do like him," I finally admitted to her. I looked down at the ground and explained to her, "I started liking him the moment I first met him and as the days rolled by, I began to like him even more. I like everything about him; his quietness, his caring nature, his kindness, everything." I began to break down then and there.
"Even though I like him, I feel that I can't do anything about it since he is rich and I am poor. There are other girls that are way prettier than I am. I-I, I don't know what to do!" I cried as my knees suddenly collapsed. I began to cry.
The last time I was in a relationship, I turned out to be a rebound. It was my first one and now that I like another guy, I am freaking out. I hate crying about boys, but I am scared. I really like Mori so much that I am scared of my own feelings.
Haruhi ran towards me and began to try to comfort me. She hugged me and I cried on her shoulder. The door suddenly opened and there was Hunny. Once he saw me, he ran towards me and hugged me instantly. I hugged him back.
"Suna-chan," Hunny began. I pulled away from him to look at him. "I heard everything you said."
'Oh no.'
"I know that somewhere, Takashi has certain feelings towards you. I am glad that it's you who likes him a lot because I know that you both would be perfect together. Just know that I will help you anyway possible!" Hunny told me.
"Me, too!" Haruhi said.
I sobbed and pulled him and Haruhi back into a hug. "Thank you, Hunny. Thank you, Haruhi." After a few minutes of hugging each other, we pulled away.
"I probably look like crap right now. I think I should go home early." I gave off a small laugh as I pulled away.
"Suna-chan, you always look pretty. But if you want to go home, I can call a limo to take you home personally. And Haru-chan can go with you!" Hunny smiled sweetly at me.
"Thanks a lot, Hunny. I would appreciate that."
Hunny stood up and grabbed Usa-chan and walked towards the door. "Okay, I'll go tell them that you don't feel well and that you're going home, 'kay?"
"That sounds fine, Hunny-senpai," Haruhi said as we both stood up.
Hunny smiled and left the room. Haruhi then looked at me and said, "Let's go get out of these costumes." I nodded my head and we left the room. I was really glad that there was a door that led to the dressing rooms because I didn't want anyone to see that I actually cried.
We both changed out of our clothing and into our uniforms. After I was dressed and removed all the makeup off of me, I placed the dress and jewelry carefully where all my costumes were at. Haruhi did the same once she was done. I grabbed my backpack and once I had a hold of it, Hunny walked in the dressing room and said,
"The limo is outside. Have a good weekend and remember that if you need me, just call me, 'kay."
I walked over to Hunny once again and hugged him, "Thank you again Hunny. Have a good weekend too."
He said goodbye to Haruhi just like he had done so for me. We walked out of the dressing room and quickly walked towards the door. Everyone was busy with their customers that they didn't notice that we were leaving. But as I looked towards Mori, I saw that his eyes met mine. I quickly looked away and walked out the door.
You know, sometimes I hate being a girl.