Hey guys! Here's chapter 8 a day early. I'm in a really good mood today, so yeah! :D
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Girls started drifting in, and were quickly designating their favorites.
"Wow! This cake is absolutely delicious! Tamaki you should have some!" One of the girls exclaimed. He leaned in.
"Only if I can get a taste of it off your lips." He said softly, putting a hand on her face.
"OMG!!" She squealed, and fainted. Yuuki was out and serving the cake to the ladies.
"Oh thank you Yuuki-kun…" One of the girls said shyly.
"Anything for you, sweetheart." She said in a deep, actually boy like voice. The girl blushed furiously.
"Hey, why don't you sit down with us Yuuki-kun? I'm sure it would be fun!"
"Well I'd sure love to sit with you pretty ladies, but I've got duty calling! I'm making all these delicious cakes just for YOU. Let me know if there is anything specific you'd like!" Swiftly, 'he' returned to the kitchen to grab more food.
"Wow…he's so charming!" The girls said excitedly.
"Yeah…I wonder if we can designate him!"
"Of course you can. He's just helping us out today with the food. If it'll make you ladies happy I'll make him able to be designated." Kyouya said, a growing 'smile' on his face.
More girls sighed.
Yuuki sighed. Only a few more people to serve. She passed by a blonde girl, who cleared her throat.
"Excuse me. I do believe you forgot me." She said sharply. Yuuki swiveled around and smiled. She remembered serving her…so what was the problem?
"No mam, I couldn't have forgotten someone as pretty as you..I do believe I gave you a slice of cake a few minutes ago." She explained.
"If you call THAT food then that's gross." The girl said with disgust.
"I'm sorry mam, I'll try harder!"
"You are really pathetic, you know that? It's so obvious the host club has taken another dog under their wing." The girl snorted, smirking at Yuuki.
"I am not a dog. I may owe them money, but I would not consider myself an animal." She started to become very annoyed.
"Don't talk back to me you mutt. You obviously don't belong here, you little brat." The girl said in a snobby, uppish voice.
"I'd appreciate it if you'd not call me names. It's very rude you know, mam. Anyways, I won't bother you any more. I'm sorry if I caused you any distress." Yuuki decided to end it quickly. She didn't want to cause trouble. Suddenly, she felt something solid in front of her foot. Before she could do anything, the tray fell out of her hands and clattered, causing some of the glass to break.
She knew what was coming and braced herself with her hands. A sharp pain shot up one of them and she yelped out. When she sat up, it was completely silent, except for the girl's laughter.
"Clumsy oaf." The girl said between laughs.
Yuuki brought her hand up and saw it was dripping with blood. She swallowed, and turned it over. There was a large gash across her palm, but to her relief there was no glass. Quickly she stood, bowed to the crowd and mumbled an apology, and fled to the kitchen.
Immediately she turned the faucet on and put her hand under it. She bit her lip, willing herself not to scream or go back and smack the girl who had just tripped her.
The door opened again.
"Let us see~?" The twins chirped, on either side of her.
"Go away. I'm in pain." She growled. Haruhi popped into the kitchen and ran to her side as well. She shoved the twins out of the way, and examined Yuuki's hand.
"That's a pretty deep cut…" Haruhi muttered.
"Y-yeah…isn't it? And just look at all that…that…b-b-blood…." Suddenly, Yuuki sunk and fell to the ground. She had passed out.
When she woke up, she found herself staring at the ceiling of the music room. She was laying on a couch. Quickly, she sat up, but regretted it when she felt dizzy.
"Yuuki! You're awake!" She heard Honey say excitedly.
"I went to sleep?"
"You fainted." Mori replied simply.
"W-why..?"
"Blood." He was one that wouldn't waste words.
"Oh. Well I've always been a bit afraid of it, and there was so much." She explained quietly, suddenly feeling very self conscious.
"Well now that that ordeal is over with…would you like to tell us what happened?" Kyouya said, pushing his glasses up his nose.
"Well I-" She bit her tongue. Yuuki didn't know what would happen if she told on the girl, and decided that it would be safer….to.
Yuki POV
"This girl tripped me. She got all upset with me because she didn't like the piece of cake I gave her. I apologized, and said I would re-serve her. She called me a dog. And she told me I didn't belong here." I let out a bitter laugh. It was true. I belonged back in America with my parents.
But they were long gone.
"We'll sort this out immediately." Tamaki said in a very serious, and straight tone. "Something similar happened to Haruhi awhile ago…turns out the girl was just jealous." I was surprised, it seemed that most of the time Tamaki was a bit of an idiot. This was at least what Haruhi had said before.
"Okay, time to go home. The 'dog' needs sleep." I said, standing swiftly.
I grabbed my bag and headed outside.
"Hey! Wait for us?" The twins whined.
"Why? You've got your own car. I'll see you at…your house. Dinner'll be ready at 7." I said as I put an earplug in my ear. Quickly I flicked through my iPod and found something suitable for driving home. Bubbly, by Colbie Calliat. Nice and relaxing.
I almost wanted to just close my eyes and go to sleep right then and there. Quietly I sighed to myself several times over the course of the drive. When I got back to the twins' house, it was empty…and very quiet. I ran up to my room and slung my bag down. Then, I wandered back towards the kitchen. Deciding that it was time for Mexican food, I went and dug out ground beef, spices, and taco shells. As I began to put the ground beef in the pan to fry it, I thought about what the girl had said. My grip on the pan tightened.
You don't belong here. Well, that was true. I belonged back in America. With my family and friends…but it was too late for that. I brushed away those thoughts because I didn't want to start sobbing again. I had had enough sleepless nights…and I wasn't about to have another one. You little brat. Now that one pissed me off. I growled inwardly. "Stupid little…whore…" I whispered, gripping the wooden spoon.
"What was that?" I heard one of the twins call from my side. I froze, biting my tongue in the process.
"What's a whore?" Kaoru asked, tilting his head to the side. Hikaru copied him.
"Uh…" I thought quickly. "It's another name for the handle of a pan! It burned me just before you came in!" I said with a relieved, fake laugh.
"Oh really…" Hikaru folded his arms. He had heard that word before. It was an American word. It was used to degrade someone, usually a woman.
"I don't think it is."
"What do you mean?" She asked, turning around.
"I've heard that word before. It's supposed to be pretty bad. Who're you talking about?"
"Who do you think?"
"Well how should I know?" He asked, a little irritated. Quickly it turned into an argument.
"ARGH! You are SO annoying! You realize that?!" Hikaru growled.
"If you haven't realized, so are you! You're the one whose always playing tricks and being a jerk! You lead that whole entire show!" Yuki replied.
"NEH! Drama queen!"
"Jerk!"
"Creep!"
"Prick!"
"Brat!"
"I have had ENOUGH of you!" Yuki screamed, while throwing down the wooden spoon in the process. Kaoru had shrunken into a corner, and was watching the scene with wide eyes.
She started to storm out of the room, only to have Kaoru stand in her way. "Maybe we should talk about this…" He pleaded.
"Shut the hell up Kaoru." She snapped.
"Don't you DARE talk to him like that!" Hikaru hissed.
"I'll talk to him however I damn want to." With that, Yuki stormed out of the kitchen.
"I can't believe her! She's so obnoxious. She's just like Haruhi." Hikaru snapped.
"HIKARU. When are you going to get it into your thick skull that she ISN'T Haruhi?!" Kaoru yelled.
"How can you say that?! She's EXACTLY like her." Hikaru replied.
"So THAT'S what this is all about! You think I'm like Haruhi…but I'm NOT!" Yuki suddenly reappeared.
"This isn't any of your business!" Hikaru snarled.
"Yes it is!! It has everything to do with me! You're comparing me to someone else. I'm my own person, and trust me, I wouldn't cut my hair that short, or be so much of a tomboy if I was in her place! " She snapped. "STOP BEING SO CLOSED MINDED!"
Hikaru's face turned an angry red and he quickly ran out of the room. Yuki let out a shaky, angry sigh. She saw that Kaoru was trying to keep the food from burning and she quickly moved him out of the way, grabbing the spoon out of his hand.
"I'm sorry I talked to you that way. He made me really mad." She said calmly.
"It's okay…but he's going to be pretty upset with you." Kaoru said quietly, watching her cook.
"I don't care. It was worth putting him in his place." She muttered.
"Put him in his place? Hah, I'd like to see that. Hikaru is very stubborn, I don't think that'll happen…" He chuckled.
"Well I'm stubborn too. I'll kick his butt if he needs it that much." Yuki replied, her muscles relaxing from their tense positions of before.
"Hmm." Kaoru replied. Suddenly, the silence was interrupted by a cell phone ringing.
"Oh, that must be Hannah." She fished into her pocket and slid her phone open. "Hey Hannah! You're on speaker phone!"
"Hellooo darling!" She cooed.
Kaoru snorted. "Who's there?" Hannah asked.
"One of the twins. It's Kaoru. Kaoru say something~" Yuki said, shoving him towards the phone a bit.
"Uh…hi?" He asked, a hint of shyness in his voice.
"Hey Hannah, talk to Kaoru for a couple of minutes, I've gotta finish cooking." She called to her friend.
"Wait what?!" Kaoru asked with a frantic voice.
"Chill out, she won't bite." Yuki laughed.
"Uh….Hi Yuki's friend…" He said sheepishly.
There was a laugh on the other end of the line. "So you're one of the twins who's torturing my friend…."
"Torturing?! We're not…I mean…" Kaoru stammered.
"I'm just kidding! How's she holding up?"
"Fine…wait…" He scooted further away from Yuki, and whispered into the phone. "You mean about her parents?"
"Yeah." The girl's voice softened a little.
"She's…." He hesitated, looking at the vivacious girl cooking. "I think she's doing fine." A light smile was on his face.
"That's good. I'm really glad." The girl sighed softly.
"I can't believe she's taking it so well…I thought it would be a lot harder on her."
"It is hard on her. A couple of nights ago, she called me at midnight or something. She was sobbing, saying she couldn't stand it anymore….I think it's really effecting her." Her friend said quietly.
"She….she never…"He was surprised, he had never thought…
"I want you to listen to me, Kaoru Hitachiin, you better take care of her. She needs to be surrounded with friends right now, and I can't be there for her. So I'm telling you, you need to get all your friends together and have yourselves a party. Just have a little fun, let her relax a little. Maybe she'll open up to you." Hannah said, and he could tell there was a smile on her face.
"Hikaru and I will take care of her. I promise, Hannah. You're right, she does need friends." Kaoru said, looking once more at the girl. He couldn't imagine her losing sleep at night from crying. But…are me and Hikaru fit to be her friends? Or will we just hurt her even more by pretending she's our toy? He asked himself thoughtfully. I'll have to talk to Hikaru about it.
"Hey Kaoru, lemme talk to Hannah, I'm done cooking." Yuuki snatched the phone away. "Hey Hannah! Sorry about that, I just needed to finish dinner."
"Oh it's okay. What's on the menu?"
"Tacoes!" She said cheerfully.
"Yummy…Kaoru you are soo lucky. Remi is such a good cook!"
"Remi?" Kaoru asked.
"Oh it's…it's my real name." Remi laughed softly. "I just posed as Yuuki to fit in with the culture better."
"I see. Well I better go find Hikaru before he has a cow." He said with a grin.
Hikaru sighed angrily. Stupid Yuuki! He growled in his head. I am not close minded… He paced around his room, about ready to throw something at her. Suddenly he heard a knock on his door.
"Hikaru? It's me. Dinner's ready." He heard Kaoru say.
"There's no way I'm going back in there." He snapped.
"Hikaru stop being so immature!" He heard his brother reply through the door. "Now's not the time to fight!"
"Since when have you been on her side?" Hikaru retorted.
"I'm not…on her side…it's just that I-" Kaoru was surprised when his brother opened the door.
"Talk to me when you see things my way. Other than that, leave me alone!" Hikaru spat. Then he slammed the door in his twins face.
Kaoru was awestruck. He couldn't believe that Hikaru was mad….at him? He shook his head. He'll get over it soon. I'm sure of it.
Kaoru had dinner with Remi in silence. She didn't ask him about his sullen mood, but gave him a plate of food.
"It's for Hikaru." She said quietly.
"Thank you." He replied. He quickly went down the hallway and to their bedroom door. Very gently, he rapped on the door. "Hikaru…dinner. Come on, let me in…" He jiggled the knob. It was locked.
"I told you to leave me alone, Kaoru!" He heard a muffled protest from inside. A sudden pang went through his chest. It was realization.
"H-Hikaru? Are you…are you mad at me?" He asked, dreading the answer.
"What do YOU think?" He heard his brother's reply. "Of course I am." Instantly Kaoru felt his dinner ram into the side of his stomach.
Wow that was a long one…Poor Kaoru!!! :(
Hannah: KYAHHH!! MUST. COMFORT!
Me: Don't forget, you're in America right now… =_=;
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