OHSHC doesn't belong to me, it would be Bisco Hatori's (amazing) work.
So uh... yeah. Enjoy the second chapter :)
Chapter 2
"Mori!" The host club is surprised. So this girl was the dropout poor girlfriend! And she was pretty! (This, for some reason, was a big shock for the host club).
Mori looks at his friends in surprise. "Uh... hi..." he says after a moment of awkwardness.
The girl looks back and forth between the host club and Mori. "Eh?" she says. "Don't tell me... this is the host club you told me about?!" she exclaims.
"So you're the dropout poor girlfriend?" the twins ask. The girl looks at them, then up at Mori.
"Dropout... poor... girlfriend?" she asks with a raised eyebrow.
Mori winces (which is totally unlike him), and replies with, "Don't pay attention to them. They just... jumped to conclusions. I'm sure."
"So you're not a dropout?" asks Hikaru, disappointed.
"And you're not poor?" asks Kaoru, equally disappointed. They thought it would've been much more interesting if she was.
The girl looks confused. "Dropout?" she asks. "I've never attention high school... ever. How can I be a dropout?" The host club looks surprised. "And I wouldn't say I'm poor," she continues. Looking around her, she sighs. "Then again... compared to you guys... I might be..."
Looking towards the host club, she frowns in concentration. Walking up to the twins, she points to each, saying, "Kaoru. Hikaru..." The twins nod. Moving on, she stops in front of Kyouya. "Kyouya..." He smiles politely. Turning to Tamaki, she sighs. "Tamaki." Tamaki smiles and bows.
"It's a pleasure to meet such a beautiful young lady," Tamaki comments.
The girl gives a small wince before moving onto Honey. She has a guilty expression on her face. "Honey... right?" she asks. He nods slowly. She squats down so that she's eye-level with him. "Listen, I'm sorry. I wanted him to stay with you guy," she says, looking up towards Mori, who smiles (a very small one... but still out of character for him) down at her.
"But he refused," she adds. Turning towards the rest of the host club, she gives a small smile. "So I'm sorry to everyone else too. I'm sure it's caused a lot of inconvenience for you guys.."
The host club look at each other. What a weird girl! Here she was, apologizing for something that would be expected of the guy to do! What girlfriend would want their boyfriend to be a host (even if it was just at school)?! And yet she not only had pressured Mori to stay, but she was even apologizing for the fact that he hadn't!
Kyouya clears his throat. "Well... yes. You did end up costing us several thousand dollar..." he comments, looking through several papers. Smiling a pleasant (yet devilish) smile, he (jokingly?) adds, "Maybe we should have you pay."
The girl stands up, laughing nervously. "I can't tell if you're joking or not..." Everyone laughs. The mood is light and... well, not as serious anymore. She looks around, a confused expression on her face. "Eh? Shouldn't there be another person?" she asks.
Mori scans the host club. "Where's... Haruhi?" he asks.
"Hey, you found him!" Everyone turns to see Haruhi, running over with a giant slab of giant tuna on her plate. She- of course- looks very happy. The girl, seeing Haruhi, looks extremely surprise. "Haruhi Fujioka?!" she exclaims, excited.
Haruhi jumps in surprise, upsetting the plate she was holding, spilling her giant tuna on the floor. "Oh no!" she cries. "That was the last piece!" Looking up towards the girl, she exclaims, "I was looking forwards to-" She stops abruptly a look of realization passing her face. "No way! Ayane? Ayane Nagase?!"
Ayane's face lights up. "You remember me!" she says joyfully. Then, looking at Mori, then back at Haruhi, she exclaims, "Don't tell me... the Haruhi from the host club is..." She pauses to point at Haruhi. "THIS Haruhi?!"
Mori nods. He's as surprised as anyone else that Ayane knows Haruhi (and... well, vice versa...). He also looks a little unhappy that they know each other. Or perhaps it's the fact that his friends now know his girlfriend's name...
"So your name's Ayane..." Tamaki says slowly.
Ayane turns back to the host club. With a sheepish grin, she bows. "Ayane Nagase. Nice to meet you. Although it's a bit late..." (Yes. One and a half chapters late... but that's ok!)
"Nice to meet you too?" replies the host club.
"And nice to see you again... in my case!" exclaims Haruhi.
Ayane grins over at Haruhi. Then, looking at the giant tuna on the ground, she winces. "Yeah... sorry about that... I'll treat you next time!" Ayane quickly promises. "Oh... wait," she says, pulling out a wallet from her bag. Looking through the wallet and finding only a 1000 yen bill, she sighs. "Maybe... after my next five-ish paychecks?" She winces at the thought.
"Don't worry about it," Haruhi replies, immediately understanding the troubles of being poor.
"I can pay for it," Mori immediately offers.
Ayane scoffs. "Don't be silly," she says, almost in a scolding tone. "You're only getting paid a bit more than I am. And you know that I don't like it when people use their parent's money to buy stuff!"
Haruhi looks surprised. "Mori-senpai is working at the restaurant?" The rest of the host club members look at each other. Mori? Working? Restaurant?!
Ayane nods, latching herself onto Mori's arm. "Yeah. He started helping out... been um... drawing in a lot of... customers," she says- the 2nd half through gritted teeth. Ah. Girls. Who were only interested in seeing Mori...
Ayane checks her watch. "Ooh... Takashi, I need to go soon," she comments. Looking at the host club, she smiles. "It was nice meeting you guys." Turning to Haruhi, she quickly adds, "And, well... seeing you again."
She turns to look at Mori. "I'm sure you want to stay and talk to your friends, right? I can take a taxi and get home, so don't worry," she says.
"No, I can-"
Ayane frowns at him, and Mori shuts his mouth. "Takashi... we're hanging out tomorrow night anyways," she says. Then, with a small smile, she adds, "So hang out with your friends tonight."
The twins grin at the words "hanging out". "A date?" they question.
Ayane (probably unaware of what happens when the twins get bored) grins. "Yeah, tomorrow night, we're going to the amusement park down by-"
"Ayane, the time," Mori quickly interjects (as he is well aware of the twins habits).
Surprised, Ayane stops talking and smiles. "Oh. Right," she says, and smiles sheepishly. "Well... see you all later," she says, and with a final wave, leaves.
Everyone waits until Ayane is out of earshot before they bombard Mori with questions.
"Where'd you meet her?" "Why isn't she in school?" "What restaurant?" "Why are you working?" "Where're you going for your date?"
Mori, however, shifts his gaze to Haruhi. "How do you know her?" he asks quietly.
"We've just been to their restaurant a few times and she was our server," Haruhi replies.
"So you're not friends?"
Haruhi seems surprised by the question. "N-no... I guess we're not... more like... acquaintances... I guess?"
Mori visually relaxes. "Oh... ok." This reaction, of course, only fuels the host club's interest in Ayane. Mori hangs out with his friends for the rest of the night, and... with the promise that Mori would quit avoiding Honey, all questions about Ayane were dropped.
Because now, the twins had another person to interrogate. And that was, well... Haruhi of course!
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It's the next night. The host club stand outside a small restaurant.
"Why did you want to know where Ayane's parent's restaurant was?" Haruhi asks the twins. When they grin at her, she groans. "Please don't tell me we're going to spy on their date."
The twins nod with a devilish grin. Tamaki and Honey both smack them in the head. "You two! That's very rude!" Tamaki exclaims.
"Yeah!" shouts Honey. "I don't want to ruin Takashi and Ayane-chan's date!"
Rubbing his head, Hikaru frowns. "But I'm interested. To see what kind of boyfriend Mori would be." Well, yes... it would be interesting. Would the stoic Mori they knew be all romantic?
"And what if they kiss?" Kaoru adds. Yes... that was a bit hard to imagine...
The twins grin at each other as they see the rest of the host club get into the idea. "Who knows," they continue. "Maybe he'll be like Tamaki..." Waaaaay too hard to imagine... "Maybe he'll be extremely protective and glare at other guys that get too close..." Mm... a bit more believable... but Mori showing emotions?
"Bye Mom! Bye Dad!"
The host club look at each other, panicked, and dive towards a bush nearby.
"Goodbye Mr. And Mrs. Nagase," they hear Mori say.
"Good job working tonight, Takashi-kun," they hear a woman reply. "Have a good night, you two."
"Ok!" was Ayane's enthusiastic reply.
Someone clears their throat. "Don't forget to be back by-" a man says...
Before being interrupted by an impatient Ayane. "I know dad! We'll get back on time!" she exclaims, then pulls Mori's arm, waving back at her parents while walking. "Bye!"
The host club wait for Ayane's parents to close the door before they run after Mori and Ayane. Darn! They weren't holding hands... nothing!
The rest of the date was... like that too. They acted more like friends than a couple. No holding hands, no hugs, no kisses... and Mori kept a respectable distance from Ayane. And Mori acted normal: a stoic expression (although his expression was a bit softer and occasionally he had a small smile).
"I'm bored," Hikaru comments (after Ayane won herself a prize from some random booth). The rest of the host club basically thinks the same thing (although, of course, Haruhi was a bit more polite, rather than to say straight out that she was bored... after all, she was spying on someone else's date...).
After watching for a few more minutes for any changes (and after they decided that there were going to be no changes), the host club sighed and decided to go home. The conclusion they came to? Well... Mori was kind of a lousy boyfriend.
Oh. Just for the record? They did kiss. Once. On the cheek, as a good night thing. Too bad the host club didn't stay for that.
---------------------Later That Night--------------------------
Kyouya sat in his room, skimming through some papers on his desk. It was a few minutes later when he paused, seeing a piece of paper that differed from the others.
"How did this get in here?" he murmured to himself, pulling out a piece of paper from the stack he'd been looking through. "This is from the hospital... how did it get mixed in with the host club stuff?"
He sighed, and cleared some room on his desk to place it for now, making a mental note that he had to give it back to his dad the next day. But a name caught his attention. Kyouya dropped the other papers and grabbed for the paper from the hospital.
Frowning, he muttered, "Why would she be on this list?"
And then, everything started to make sense.