Sunlight
crept in from the slightly open curtains of the room onto the pillow of
a sleeping girl. The person herself unconsciously turned her head
slightly to the opposite side of the pillow she was laying on to avoid
the streams of light that came in.
Her sound sleep abruptly came to an end when her cellphone rang; the sound echoing loudly in the room.
A slender hand reached out; patting the surface of the wooden table,
trying to find the boisterous object that woke her up. With her head
still buried in her white pillow, Akane brought the tiny silver phone
to her left ear.
"Moshi Mos..."
She mumbled into the phone only to fall back to sleep. On the other end of the phone, Yuudai listened carefully to his friend's response.
"Moshi Mos? What the hell? Akane! A-KA-NE! Wake up already!"
Moaning,
Akane unintentionally pressed the 'Off' button instead and fell back to
sleep when nothing was said over the dead phone.
About 5 seconds later, the same sound rang out again; this time closer
to her ears causing Akane to wake up suddenly. Grabbing the phone, she
threw it toward the wooden door of her room. As it traveled through the
air, Albert opened the door and turned about 3 centimeters away from
the oncoming object. Within seconds, Akane sat upright in her bed only
to watch her cellphone almost hit her bulter in the face.
Albert, on the hand, was used to his mistress morning routine and was aware of the oncoming cellphone that could have nearly injure him.
"Ah! Gomen nasai Albert!"
Akane instantly said, apologizing to the elder man that stood in
uniform at the doorway. At the same time, she tried to get out of bed,
her foot got caught in the white thick bed sheet, causing her to fall
flat on her face with a loud thump.
Downstairs, all the staff had woken up and heard the loud thump
that came from the 2nd floor bedroom. Sweatdropping, they already knew
what had happen and that Akane was wide awake.
"I-ITAI!"
Sighing quietly to himself, Albert made his way to the young mistress he had taken care of for 4 years. Aware that this was also part of her morning routine, he made his way toward her with a first aid kit in hand and a new cell phone in the other. He silently thank kami-sama that this only happened about once a month.
"Ojou-sama, please be more careful next time. Oh yes, it is already 7:30 a.m. You'll be late to class if you don't hurry and change-"
Before he could even finish his sentence, Akane pushed him out her room and quickly got ready for school with the fresh bandage on her nose. Quietly, Albert made his way back down the stairs to get other preparations ready. The white strands of hair stood up on the back of his neck when he heard another thump that came from Akane's room. He mentally prayed for kami-sama to help Akane get through the morning.
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"Fell again this morning?"
Yuudai mumbled in between food to his friend. Akane sat there, her chopsticks in her mouth as she glared back at him.
"I just asked you so don't give me that glare."
Pouting, she turned her face away from him, knowing too well he was making fun of her for her morning clumsiness.
"Geez, girls are so touchy."
He mumbled to himself quietly, but like the last time he did, Akane
heard it and soon, punch was delivered to his right arm, causing Yuudai
to drop his chopsticks.
"ITAI! WHY'D YOU DO THAT?!"
She merely stuck her tongue out at the the boy and went back to eating.
Not paying attention to his long list of complaints that came afterward.
When things had settled down between the two friends, Akane grabbed her bookbag off the floor and sat it on her lap. After a few seconds of digging into her bookbag, Akane pulled out two vanilla coloured envelops.
"What's that?"
Yuudai asked, backing away from his friend, afraid he might get injured again.
"Munioka-san gave me a copy of it from yesterday shooting. Remember?"
"Oh yea...why was I there again?"
"You said you needed a ride home and she called me and said she needed help, so I dragged you along."
"Oh yea.."
He said while a huge sweat drop formed in the back of his head after Akane explained it to him.
Yesterday the phone call to Akane was from Munioka Kira, the so
called "famous" photographer. She worked for the Asahinas and was the
head photographer in charge of taking pictures for the clothing line.
She was the reason why Akane had dragged him with her out of the host
club and into that crummy shooting place.
"That reminds me, what did she do with the photos?"
Yuudai said as he pulled out a new pair of chopsticks from his
tray. He had gotten two pairs of chopsticks just in case Akane was
going to hit him again or injure him in any form.
Opening
one of the envelop, Akane suddenly burst out laughing after seeing what
was on the piece of paper inside. Curious, Yuudai took it from his
hysterical friend.
His eyes opened with shock as he saw his picture of the photo shoot yesterday.
But if that was a picture of him, the the other had to be Akane's right?
Reaching out silently to get the picture on the other side of the
table, Yuudai almost took it when Akane snatch it from his grasp.
Sitting back in his oringal seat, Yuudai watched as Akane sat down in her seat. Raising the photo to his face, Akane began laughing again.
"Y-Yuu-kun! They changed your hair colour to blue!"
Was all she said before she was overcome with uncontrollable laughter.
Twitching, he grabbed the other photo that just sat on the table. Akane
immediately stopped laughing and watched in horror as he opened the
envelop and pulled out the picture. Just as she did before, Yuudai
began laughing. Falling to the floor when he saw the picture.
"A-Akane! You look so--"
The laughter continued on as Akane reached over and grabbed her photo. Flipping it over, Akane saw that there was something written on the back of the photo.
"Arigato for the help yesterday. These are the copies of the pictures I'll be using for the next showcase of the clothing line. Arigato again.
xoxoxo Munioka-san"
"NANI?!"
Both friends yelled out after coming to a realization that the photos were going to be public.
"That Munioka-san..."
They both said in low deep tones. Their eyes being covered by the shadows that came from nowhere.
A few moments passed and silence came over the two friends. They were in lunch class and it was only 5th period. Akane stared off into space as Yuudai continued on with his eating, neither Akane or Yuudai noticed the host club making their way over to the same table they sat at.
"Akane-chan!"
At the moment Akane heard someone called out her name, a pair of arms had wrapped themselves around her waist.
"Anou...who are you..?"
She said, tilting her head to one side while a bold question mark popped into the air from her head.
The light brown haired boy only let go in response and sulk while his cousin tried to calm him down.
"Akane-chan! You don't remember us?"
She watched a blonde haired boy exclaimed as he put his right hand
over to his forehead in an overdramatic pose. Roses popped out of
nowhere around him as various girls in the lunch room screamed as they
saw the scene before them.
Yuudai, Haruhi, and Akane all stood there, sweat drops forming on the
back of their heads as the blondie stood in the same pose.
"Ah! I remember now!"
Akane exclaimed, recalling what had happened the day before.
"I never really introduced myself, did I?
Well, I'm Asahina Akane, and this is my friend, Maaka Yuudai"
She replied with a small smile while Yuudai and the others stood in the
background, sweat dropping even more since they all knew.
The blondie on the other hand instantly ran over to her; giving her a
bear hug while spinning her around and around in his arms, shouting
"Kawaii Akane!"
"I think you should let her go Tamaki-senpai..."
Haruhi said quietly while pointing to Akane with her index finger.
Tamaki looked down to see Akane passed out in his arms with swirly
eyes.
"Milord, you killed her"
The twins said in unison. At that, Tamaki immediately found a dark
corner and sat in it, his back facing the everyone as he sulk. Yuudai
and Haruhi only sweat dropped more.
Akane, one the other hand, had already gotten up and was now facing everyone.
"Ah, I guess you didn't kill her Milord"
In a instant after hearing what the twins had said together, Tamaki
rushed over to Akane and hugged her again. This time apologizing as he
did. Akane on the other hand tried to squirm away from the complete
stranger that was hugging her.
"Who are you people?!"
She shouted to them as Tamaki finaly let her go. While she stood
there facing them, she felt two pairs of arms wrapped around her waist;
turning her to face whoever they were.
Much to her surprise, it was the twins. An evil smirk grew on both their faces.
"To find out
One of them began while the other one continued the sentence for his brother.
"Come to the Host Club afterschool"
The smirk grew even wider as they got closer to her, it wasn't
until their faces were merely an inch or so from her face that Tamaki
grabbed them both by the collar and began dragging them back to
wherever they came from.
Yuudai and Akane stood there, question marks kept floating over their heads as they tried to figure out what exactly just had happened.
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"Why are we here again?"
Yuudai said lazily to his childhood friend who stood next to him.
They were now facing the same wooden door just like yesterday, but this
time, there were two reasons why they were there today. One, Akane lost
one of her text book and she needed to find it and two, because she
wanted to find out who those boys were.
"Is it really necessarily for me to even be here? I mean isn't this just for your benefit? What's it got to do with me anyways?"
"You could go if you want. I mean you could just leave me here BY MYSELF. You know, leaving your childhood friend who's been there for you through thick and thin--"
"Ok ok, I get it. Geez, talk about guilt trips."
Akane only smiled back at her friend. He wouldn't have left her
there, but it wasn't like he could anyways. Yuudai needed another ride
home and she was his ticket.
"Welcome"
Rose petals flew at them again like the last time ad the bright light
blinded them again. Making their way in, Akane stood before them, the
same group of boys who had approach her and Yuudai that afternoon.
"Ah. She actually came"
The twins said together while each on wrapped an arm around her.
"Welcome princess! this is the Host Club!"
"I got that from last time. I only came here to find out who Haruhi was hanging out with."
"Ara! So concern with Haruhi! What a beatiful relationship you have!"
"Iie...don't make it sound like we're lesbians..."
Akane said to the blondie while a huge sweat drop formed behind her head while Yuudai only stared at the twins.
"My dear I would never! It's just so wonderful you care for my daughter!"
"To have another to Haruhi's friend come to this high school!"
Not noticing she wasn't paying attention to what he was saying, Tamaki
continued on when finally she snapped her fingers; indicating to him
that she understood what he was saying. Or so he thought.
"I got it."
His eyes sparkling with happiness that Akane had understood what he
was saying and that she was so accepting. Flinging himself to her, he
was about to give her a bear hug when she said:
"You're delusional"
At the word, Tamaki's hug came to a halt when he fell straight to the floor in the middle of his 'flinging bear hug'. Quickly, he found a dark corner and began to sulk again, like so many times before.
"No wonder Haruhi and Akane's friends. She's doing the same thing Haruhi did the first time she met Milord."
The twins laughed at the sadden milord as he kept on sulking. Yuudai only stared at the scene before him. He was used to Akane's airheaded comments to people at times, and yet this time, he didn't felt like stopping her.
Akane
stared at the blondie who sat in the dark corner until he turned his
head over his shoulders to look over at he with a pair of puppy eyes.
She could feel the sweat drop behind her head grow bigger.
"Haruhi..these are the people you ahng out with?"
"Not exactly..."
She replied back to her old friend. Her brown eyes staring back at the raven haired girl.
Haruhi thought to herself. The girl in front of her seem to be like a chameleon, changing her looks every so often. Haruhi wasn't sure if Akane had done it intentionally, but it sure was strange how she could do it.
"Oh right! I forgot to introduce you to everyone."
Haruhi said after snapping out of her gaze of her friend.
"The one with glasses if Kyouya-senpai. The twins are Hikaru and Kaoru. The one with the bunny is Honey-senpai and the one next to him is Mori-senpai. And the one in the corner is Tamaki-senpai."
"Oh"
Yuudai and Akane said together as Tamaki recovered himself after
Haruhi had said his name. Gripping her in a bear hug, Tamaki kept
saying over and over "Haruhi". Haruhi kept saying to him to let go but
he didn't seem to hear it.
"Maybe we should leave.."
Yuudai whispered to his friend's ear and he tugged her. She merely looked over to him and shook her head.
Yuudai knew that look. It meant she was interested in these people and
that she wanted to stay longer. He could only oblige due to the fact
that she was his ticket home.
"Sou ka. Nice to meet you."
"Akane-chan! Will you come visit us tomorrow too?"
She looked down to see the same light brown haired boy. Wasn't he Honey-senpai? She stared at him in disbelief, how could he be older than her? He wasn't even taller than her!
"Gomen, but I heard the Host Club is a profitable club. I'm afraid I don't have the money for it."
She said to him, at that, tears began to form in his eyes as he quietly mumbled something she couldn't exactly hear.
"Are you sure about that?"
She glanced over to the person who had said it and it turned out to
be Kyouya. She only remembered him as the person who had found out
about her yesterday.
"Asahina Akane, your family is the 5th ranking family in Japan."
"That's true but I don't spend money that comes from my family for things such as this. Beside I've already spend my yearly allowance. I'm broke."
She said calmly back at her senpai. For a second, he seem to be surprise at her remark, but it was true nonetheless. She was completely and bluntly truthful.
"Wah, how did you spend that much already? I thought you got like $100,000 for a month, what happened to that?"
She looked over to Yuudai. A questionable look took over her face. She couldn't understand why Yuudai had forgotten already. But he just shrugged in return.
"In any cases, I better get home before--"
"Akane-chan!"
She looked down at Honey who was just hanging onto her. The twins
suddenly had an idea on how to make Akane come back. A evil smile
spread across their faces.
"Gomen nasai Honey-senpai...demo.."
As
she backed away from the needy senpai, Akane didn't watch where she was
going and didn't noticed that Hikaru and Kaoru had placed one of the
many vases that was around the room right in her trail.
Backing away more, Akane suddenly felt something hit her back as she
bumped into it, causing the blue-green vase to fall down to the floor
and shatter into a million pieces before she could catch it.
A shocked look came over her face while everyone else stared at the broken vase on the ground.
Haruhi stared at her friend who fell to the floor and immediately
began trying to put together the vase together, but to no avail did
that happen.
"Gomen nasai!"
"Ah. She broke it."
The twin chimed in unison, still acting like they didn't cause it. But
on the inside, they were smirking at the scene before them. Yuudai
sighed in return at his friend who looked over at him with a 'help me'
stare.
He shrugged to her and pulled out his pocket indicating that he
was broke too and that there was no way he was going to help her.
"It seems like we have a new dog."
Kyouya uttered bluntly while writing in his clipboard. Tamaki only
stopped hugging Haruhi while Honey ran over to Akane and began hugging
her all over again, cheering for her stay as the host club dog.
"Just like what happened to Haruhi"
The twins said again in unison. Haruhi only stared back at them with a 'I know what you did' look when she said
"Isn't it you're fault for putting in there for her to break it?"
"We don't know what you're saying Haruhi!"
They said while shrugging at her comment. All the while Akane stood
there with Yuudai wondering how on earth something like this came out
of a mere meeting.