"How did I end up here..." Riley found herself wondering as she pulled out yet another cake from the oven. "How many cakes could someone so small eat? Like fo' reals." She said to Ghost, who was lying by the counter. It had only been four days since she decided to work for the Haninozuka's, namely Honey, as a personal baker and she had baked more cakes in those four days than she had the whole four months she worked at the bakery. At first, she tried to make each one special and decorate them in creative ways though, as Honey ate more cakes than she could bake, she just slapped on some icing and served it out.

To add onto all the cakes Honey ate by himself, she also found herself making some for the hosts and their clients while she waited for her day to be over. Finally, with four cakes surrounding her, she had the time to sit down and brush a strand of her black hair that came loose from her high ponytail behind her ear. "Man... how can everyone eat so much sweet food? It's exhausting."

Ghost walked over to his master and laid his head in her lap, his tail swishing ever so slightly as he looked up at her. As Riley was scratching behind her dog's ear, Honey came skipping into the room with Mori following behind him. "Are those all the cakes left?"

Riley found it rather cute that Mori and Honey were always together and that Mori seemed to take care of Honey as he would a younger brother. "Yeah, that's all of them sweets. Wanna take them home?"

From his reaction, people would have thought that he was offered his dreams on a silver platter instead of just being offered four, poorly decorated cakes. "Oh yes yes yes!" His eyes seemed to widen as he looked at the icing covered pastries and seemed almost mesmerized by them.

"Alright then," she continued before starting to turn her back, "I'll get you some boxes to put them in." In the few minutes it took her to find the boxes, Honey managed to eat two of the cakes before she got back. "Jeez Mori," she jokingly scolded, "why'd you let Honey eat all the cakes before I got back? So irresponsible..." When he only stared at her, she smiled at him, "No? Nothing? Don't worry, someday you'll say something to me."

Almost as if he were mocking her, he simply went, "Hm."

It took her a moment to register what he did before she started laughing, "So much sass, Takashi. If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were starting to warm up to me. And it's only been four days too. Just wait 'til it's been four weeks... or even four months. You'd probably love me by then." She then laughed a bit more before helping Honey put her now two leftover cakes into the small boxes.

As the two were packing up, Honey looked almost sad as he said, "Now I only have two for dessert..." Riley saw him slowly look up at her and smile sweetly, "Maybe if you came over we could bake some more. Just for dessert."

She found herself raising her eyebrow ever so slightly as she asked, "We?"

He nodded enthusiastically, "Yeah! We could bake and you could meet Chika-chan and you could stay for dinner and then we could-"

"Honey, sweetie," she interrupted him, "don't worry, I'll go with you so then I can bake for you but then I have to go home. You have me baking all day and after I just wanna go home and sleep."

The small blonde got so happy that he jumped up and hugged the baker tightly while he giggled, "Yay we're gonna have more cake!"

Mori carried the two boxes as the trio made their way out of the small second kitchen in Ouran Academy and out into the hallway, where they were intercepted by the rest of the host club. Tamaki slid his way over to Riley and lifted her chin with his index finger so their noses were almost touching, "Hello my princess," he purred, "where are you and our two favourite hosts heading off to?"

Because of Tamaki's closeness, the poor baker lightly pushed him away and took a step back and said, "Tamaki? Boundaries. Remember, we talked about that? I have my bubble and I don't like people poppin' it."

Tamaki looked hurt as he started to say, "But my princess-"

To cut him off, she held up her finger and said, "No no no no no bubble popping. Okay?" Eventually, the defeated Tamaki nodded his head while the twins giggled quietly. "Alright," Riley said, "now Honey, Mori and I are going to go bake some more I guess."

"Bake more?" Haruhi asked in disbelief, "Honey-senpai already makes you bake all day and now he has you working after school? That hardly seems fair..." When Riley met Haruhi, it didn't take her long to realize that she was a she and was working at the host club as a male. "Or maybe she just doesn't specify..." Riley had thought after she saw the truth.

All in all though, the two seemed to get along fine. Riley shrugged her shoulders, "It's fine... I mean, the Haninozuka's are paying my way back into university for this so I may as well show my gratitude in the only way I can. Bake more cakes."

Because of the Haninozuka's, again mainly Honey's, need for the baker, they paid her way back into her second year of university and they would also pay for however many years of schooling she needed. As long as she worked for the small boy in her spare time. At first, Riley thought that it was hands down the best job offer she'd ever received and that it'd be a cake walk but, to her dismay, it seemed to be more work than she realized.

"So to get this straight," Kaoru started.

Of course, Hikaru continued with, "You've baked all day for Honey-senpai and now, after hours, you're going to bake even more?"

"How can you keep up?" The twins asked in unison.

Kyouya adjusted his glasses with his index finger and said, "Well, thinking back to how much you had to bake back when you worked at the bakery-"

As Kyouya continued to babble on as the host club listened on intently, Riley grabbed both Mori and Honey's arms and started to back away from the group. Haruhi was the only one out of the remaining five hosts to notice and waved as the trio made their escape.

Once outside, Riley twirled her key ring around her finger and looked at the two cousins, "Hey I have my car here and you guys probably wanna go in your stretch limo or whatever it is you travel in so I'll meet you guys at Honey's 'kay?"

Mori looked down at Honey who answered enthusiastically, "Why don't we go with you Rye-chan? I'd love to see your car!"

She hesitated slightly before shrugging her shoulders, "Okie then... I don't know how well you'd fit Mori I mean... I have a tiny car and you're... you have long legs."

It didn't take long for the three to make it to a tiny red 1995 Toyota Tercel that had a small Hello Kitty sticker in the back window. Honey hopped about, "Ooh is this your car? It's so tiny!"

Just as Riley predicted, Mori seemed a bit uncomfortable in the front seat of the car and pushed the seat back as far as he could. Honey sat in the back with Ghost and looked excited as the car had trouble starting. Feeling embarrassed, the baker looked down as the engine sputtered by refused to start. "Not again... it'll start, don't you guys worry. It always starts eventually."

Again, just as she predicted, the car finally came to life and pulled them out of the parking lot. As they were driving, Honey was talking on and on about how much fun the car ride was, Mori remained silently looking out the window, Ghost had his head stuck out the window and Riley was thinking about everything she needed. "Hey sweetie?" She said to Honey, "Do you mind if we stop by my place so I can drop Ghost off and feed him?"

As excited as could be, Honey hopped up from his seat and exclaimed, "Yeah I would love to see where you live!"

"Mitsukuni Haninozuka!" Riley yelled as Mori panickedly tried to turn in his seat, "Put your seat belt on!"