Lucki

"Liv. Focus." Benji snapped her fingers several times in Liv's face. "You need to help me pick a dress." She added, turning back toward the large mirror. Liv sighed. "I don't care. He hasn't even asked you to Prom Benji…" She groaned. Before Liv could finish however, Benji clapped her hands over her ears and began to shout. "LALALALALALA!"

I smacked her shoulder. "Shut up. Pick a dress." I ordered. Benji sighed and resumed back to her dress rack. Liv continued to text away.

"So….What are we gonna do?" Haruhi asked with several dresses draped over her arm. Liv looked over at her. "Normally, after you pick the dresses you try them on." The newfound blonde stated sarcastically. Haruhi sighed and flicked the back of Liv's head. "Not that!"

The brunette stumbled into the dressing room, tripping occasionally. Liv and I sat in plastic chairs outside of the dressing room waiting for Benji to pick at least one suitable dress. We had been at this dress shop for an hour and a half now. "What I meant was-" Haruhi's voice was distant inside of the plain white door. She grunted between her sentence.

"The talent show. What are we gonna do?" She stepped out in a long flamingo gown. Liv and I shook our heads in unison. "What about it?" Benji asked, not turning around. Haruhi scoffed. "It's supposed to be this big deal. We have serious competition guys." She looked at us worriedly. I rolled my eyes. "You have serious competition…I'm not doing it."

Liv glared at me. "Why? It'll be fun!" She elbowed me with a goofy grin now. "No, it will not be fun." I spat.

They all rolled their eyes. "Whatever. So what are you doing Liv?" Benji asked still not looking at us. Liv shrugged. "Eh…I'm partial to the classics. You know; Streisand and Starr. But I think something new and…'poppy' would be good too." She sighed.

Benji clicked her tongue. "I guess I'm gonna do something deep and moody, you know, in honor of all of this 'love'." The raven haired girl chuckled. We all laughed briefly.

"What about you Haruhi? You've got to have something planned." Liv looked up from her phone. The doe eyed brunette made a face of dismay. "I'm still caught between Prom, finals, and Tamaki and Kyouya-Sempai's graduation." Benji flinched slightly when Haruhi brought up Kyouya and Tamaki graduating.

I sighed. "How about… Sockboop?" I questioned looking around the room at them. "…What?" Liv giggled. I pursed my lips in frustration. "Sockboop, it's a silly word." I stated. Haruhi smiled, her eyebrows knitting together in confusion.

"You've never heard the silly word trick?" I looked at them three girls in shock. They looked at me like I was a successful jailbreak from the loony bin. "Okay, well back in my song writing days, my Dad used to…" I swallowed before continuing. "He used to tell me that when I think of a silly word, think of two things that rhyme with it and continue from there." I explained. Benji nodded with a smile. "So you're saying we should write our own talent show songs."

I nodded, but before I could answer Haruhi chimed, "Well obviously we had to. Every act must be original." She stated seriously. I nodded. "So Sockboop…" I paused to think. "Shock…and loop."

Benji chuckled. "Or smock and poop."

We all laughed. "Shush! We're in public!" Liv held a shushing finger to her lips. Our laughter continued.

"Hey…Let's call Aiko. Kaoru's gonna ask her to Prom so we should invite her to pick a dress." Haruhi suggested. Liv stared at Haruhi with a smirk. "You just want her here because you like her accent."

The brunette paused looking guilty. "….Yeah." She laughed with a nod. We all laughed loudly again. "Seriously though, how great is that British accent? It's adorable." Benji beamed. Haruhi did a final once over of her ridiculous flamingo gown. She huffed in frustration before walking into the dressing room again.

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Aiko

So…

I suppose at first I wasn't quite taken with Kaoru's Godlike smile, or his sunset eyes but in time….one becomes a total slave to teenage romance cliché's!

How Lucki chose Hikaru over Kaoru was beyond me. Kaoru was…Perfect.

He's the epitome of all things worldly. He's not pompous and airy like some of the other rich dodgy boys I'm so used to seeing

With a dramatic sigh, I pressed the volume of my stereo to a maximum. Loud noises help me organize my thoughts.

But what about the rest of his posy? They're all a bunch of regular half Japanese O-leveled teens. Like I could fit in with such a normal bunch of people. I'm far from normal.

I'm that girl that everything happens to. Whenever you have a nightmare of running really fast from a monster, that's me running from Skeeter the neighbors prat of a dog.

I've always got some kind of mess on my hands. And the mess is always so bloody ridiculous!

Honestly, who falls from an eight foot bookshelf onto a ripped bean bag with sewing needle sticking out? That was me last year!

However, when I'm with Kaoru, I feel somewhat normal.

But I know I'm not normal because….Well…I always stalk the time away. As creepy and dim as that may sound, I know what some stroppy sweaty lads do to meet the girl they love, and this doesn't even compete! At least I'm getting results here.

It's not as if I go out of my way to follow where he goes… I just love to see his gorgey hunk smile between each class…

I groaned plopping onto my queen sized bed. "I'm a bloody stalker."

Just as I finished this thought, my cell phone began to buzz like mad. "Hello?" I answered clicking the volume of my stereo.

"Hello?"

I heard a wave of incessant giggles before a long shush. "Aiko?" It sounded like Benji's voice…

"Yeah, Benji?" I questioned still completely confused by this whole sitch. "Yeah! We're all at the dress shop in town, stop by?" She sounded hopeful. I groaned inwardly. "Gee Benj…Sounds like a riot." I shortened her name to 'Benj' for a friendlier effect.

I heard a long sigh from the other end. "We're searching for Prom dresses. You should come down here!" I heard Liv shout. I wrinkled my nose. "Why would I go shopping for Prom? And You Benji…I thought Kyouya didn't ask you." I stated. Benji grumbled something before replying in a rather shirty matter, "Everyone's a critic." At that, I laughed.

"Well…It really won't be long before he does and…Kaoru's obviously going to ask you. Lucki has a dress, you need to pick one."

I stopped in my tracks by the end of 'Kaoru's obviously going to ask you'. My bottom lip became victim of my shy chew. "Do you really think he'll ask?" I asked in a dream of a daze.

Benji chuckled. "Of course. He's totally into you."

At that I flew on air. I felt completely zonked! It was the sensation that was teen romance. It was everything those sappy romance novels said it was and more!

But he hasn't told me this yet…

I stopped in my goofy daze of heart-throb-osity.

"I'll see you guys there. We need to do serious debrief." I firmly declared. "Obviously. You Brits have your 'fine old blokes' and cute accents and what-not, but when it comes to schmoozing the boy, we have that advantage." Benji replied. "Well you teach me and I teach you and all that." I answered carelessly eyeing my reflection in the mirror.

"Great! Meet you here." And the line went silent.

My exceptional legs carried me out of my bedroom, down the stairs, out of the mansion, and beyond the front gate.

It's a nice day, so why not walk there? I have time.

I walked silently and thoughtfully down the cracking streets of the town of Tokyo. Kaoru was the only thought on my beehive of a mind though!

A dreamy sigh escaped my lips as I continued on my voyage to the dress shop. When I looked ahead, sensing that I was almost there, my mind totally shut off. There he was…In front of the dress shop I was supposed to meet the ladies at…

"Kaoru?" I questioned. The redhead turned around with positively brilliant smile. "Hey Aiko!" His voice fused into the air like a swift wind. "What could you possibly be doing here?" I smiled as subtly as I could without completely making an arse of myself. "Well, I called your phone but no one was answering!" He shouted in my face with obviously false anger.

"You called my…"

I searched my pant pockets hastily to find no trace of my mobile phone.

"Blimey…" I grunted under my breath. Kaoru chuckled sweetly. "It's fine; I called Benji and she told me you'd be here…" He paused nervously…Could that mean…?

"Hey listen…I was wondering something…" He began.

My cheeks felt warm. The floaty feeling was back. "Yes…?"

Kaoru smiled crookedly. "Will you go to Prom with me?"

I bubbling laughter swelled from my throat to my schnozzle. "I'd love to." I replied with a graceful smile.

And he hugged me.

My nose flooded with his Godlike scent, and I leaned onto his Godlike chest. "I can't wait." I laughed into his shirt.

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Aw

Kaoru and Aiko are so sweet! And I'm really building momentum for Benji and Kyouya huh? I'm trying to make theirs…memorable.

And I'd love to apologize for my lack of creativity and updates. You guys know I love you and, I LOVE your patients.

Also, this whole Beta thing…It's really ticking me off. It's part of the reason I don't update and I really should fill you guys in so…here we go…

I got three beta's for this story by mistake and two won't leave me alone!

So I've been trying to sort through it, and now they're fighting me!

So, I think I'll just stay beta-less for now. You guys don't mind a few typos right? It'll only last until I've found the right one.

Oh! And the words that didn't appear to make sense, yeah…I researched (for once) and I got some British slang words so that's where 'Shirty…Prat…Gorgey…And Stroppy! And some others of which I can't remember…

So I love you guys. Thanks for the reading of the chapter.

Review, tell me what you think, request stuff…and yeah…

Okay time to wrap up this bit of nonsense.

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