Author Note: So this chapter takes place over the course of a few weeks- few, meaning more than one or two weeks. About 2,000 words so yay :)
Good news- almost done unpacking. Bad news- I still have a teeny bit left to unpack in my room.

~CWA

Chapter 7- Collage Of Friendship:

Third Person:

Sophia still couldn't sleep as Mia rested with her head in Sophia's lap. Sophia had too much on her mind to join her twin in slumber. The Host Club sure is something, very interesting characters- Kyoya seemed the most mature, along with Takashi. Hunny was very boyish but can be mature if needed. Haruhi was the girl, but due to debt she stayed in the host club, similar to their situation. However, she as a person was very kind. Tamaki was…extreme- very childish, immature, but…Sophia guessed that he was smarter than he let on. The twins reminded her of Mia and herself before they matured- well, before Sophia had matured.

Not to mention the others. Nekozawa was unique to say the least. Sophia could tell that Mia did favor him and Nori to the Host Club. Nori Katsu obviously had a crush on them- or rather Mia as Sophia knew that it was her that started the crush, he just wasn't aware that there were two of them. She briefly wondered how long it would take for Mia, Nekozawa, and Nori to be in a weird love triangle. Ah, now that is interesting. But it was best if everything were to stay the way it was- with all them as friends. No not friends…business partners, associates- though it was harder and harder for her to think that way.

0000

Mia watched as Nekozawa stirred the potion. She leaned over his shoulder. Nekozawa faltered slightly at the contact of her behind him,
"Is it supposed to be pink," she asked.

Nekozawa almost screamed. Nori fumed and Mia turned to him. She noticed that his face was slightly red so she poked his cheek,
"Aw," she cued, "you're face turns an adorable shade of red."
Nori's anger vanished and was replaced by embarrassment- even if they were the only ones still in the Black Magic club room besides Nekozawa. Honestly though, Nori was just thankful that whatever spell was placed upon Mia had vanished. She was more cheery and upbeat- like the day he met her and the day he started to like her.

Nekozawa was thankful that the curse was lifted off of Mia as well. Honestly, he wouldn't admit it, but he had begun to miss her cheery attitude. She is not a shining sun or a star with hair so silver…She is but the shining moon standing against the dark night sky, alimenting the grounds with an eerie aura.

0000

Sophia could already feel the headache starting. She rubbed her temples.

"Hikaru, Kaoru," she said calmly, "Please stop fighting. There's no use fighting over something so…childish."
"Childish," they protested, "it's not childish."
Sophia felt her eye twitch,

"You two of been acting like small children," she snapped, "Kaoru, it wasn't nice to laugh, apologize. Hikaru, you shouldn't have been so mean to him because he laughed, apologize. Now."
"But-"
"-But nothing," she said calmly but still raising her voice slightly, "you two are brothers, twins. You shouldn't be fighting just because Haruhi could tell you apart, mostly because I can tell you apart as well," she pointed out, "and you are twins! Despite differences you should still love each, protect each other, and support each other! You do not fight just because someone could or could not tell you apart. Mostly of all, you do not bring something like that," she pointed to the cursed doll, "into some petty fight. Do you understand me?"

Kyoya pushed up his glasses as he wrote down in his notebook- she obviously has a thing for sibling love, dislikes when siblings, especially the twins, fight, seems to change personalities every other week…interesting. Kyoya smirked.

Takashi watched interested- it was interesting to see how she could be so calm, yet firm when needed. She was also so…protective. If she ever had a sibling, they should be thankful. It's obvious that she would do anything to protect loved ones- especially from the way she dislikes sibling rivalries.

The twins nodded dumbly and then smirked.

"Aw," they said in union, "You really do care about us…"

Sophia scowled,
"I refuse to acknowledge that. I just dislike it when siblings, especially twins, fight."

"We weren't really fighting," the twins shrugged,
"-we just got bored."

Sophia glared and they gulped. She only stopped glaring when Hunny came up,
"Mia-chan, what the twins did was wrong, but it's okay! We still have cake!"
She raised an eyebrow. Takashi handed the large slice of cake to her,

"Cake."

She blushed slightly and eagerly accepted the cake- all past negative feelings were gone.

0000

Mia stuck out her tongue in distaste,
"Okay, I wear this maid uniform, but there is no way, no how that you can get me into that," she pointed to the cosplay.

The cosplay was a pirate costume- which wouldn't be too bad except Mia was playing the part of the shipwrecked princess while the others were actually pirates. As a result, the costume was going to be a very short faded white-tan skirt with shredded ends (shorter than the maid uniform) and a top of the same color that would barely fit over Mia's bra with one shoulder and very shredded ends. It put a stretch on Mia's comfort zone- and she wasn't even the modest twin.

The twins gave her a confused look,
"But you said you would wear it last week….when we were going over the cosplay for this week…"

Mia blinked in confusion,
"I did?"
"You did," Kyoya said pushing up his glasses, "in fact, you seemed rather happy about it."
Sophia is one sneaky twin, Mia thought sourly, this has to be the payback from when I set her up on a date with that guy at the coffee shop….and I cant say no, it'll be too suspicious.

When it was Mia's turn to work at the café, she had decided to play a rather 'funny' prank on her twin. When one of the male customers had asked her out at the café, she had told him that she would go on a date with him the following week and she didn't tell Sophia of the date. As a result, when Sophia was working at the café, she was confused when the guy had asked her if she was ready for their date. Feeling pity for him since he was the result of Mia's prank, Sophia couldn't refuse. In the end, it didn't work out of course. However, Sophia did vow to get Mia back…. And agreeing to the cosplay was the perfect way to do it too.

"Fine," she huffed, "I'll wear it."

00000

Mia growled dangerously. Nekozawa was silently fuming in anger. Nori was looking at her concerned.

"Mia-chan," he said softly- the name was still a bit foreign to him. Mia had insisted on him (as well as Nekozawa and the Host Club) to call her Mia-chan.

She didn't hear him.
"Don't touch me," she shouted at the twins, "I told you before! Don't you dare touch me! You can't touch me!"

She rudely brushed past everyone and stormed out.

"Perhaps, we should go check on her," Nori whispered to Nekozawa- but Nekozawa was a bit too angry at the twins.
"You will be cursed," he shouted, "how dare you touch the moon-light goddess without consent!"

Moon-light goddess?! Everyone looked at Nekozawa with confusion (everyone but Kyoya), shock (Haruhi), and interest (Kyoya). Thankfully, Nori didn't hear Nekozawa and neither did Mia- as Nori was chasing after Mia. Nekozawa was a bit too angry that the twins had touched Mia (they had wrapped their arms around her waists and wouldn't let go). In his anger, he didn't realize that he had called Mia a 'moon-light goddess,' a nickname that he called her because of her silver hair. Mia didn't mind the nickname- Nori on the other hand….

Takashi couldn't help a feeling to go after her- yet at the same time, another part of him told him that the girl running away wasn't his Mia. It wasn't the same Mia that was reserved, polite and beautiful. He didn't understand the feeling and as a result he stood there tense and slightly upset.

"Mia-chan," Nori whispered as he looked for her. He lost sight of her in the garden.

Eventually, the sound of faint crying could be heard. He followed it to find Mia on the ground with her head in her hands. She was shaking and Nori placed a hand on her shoulder. Frightened, Mia turned and smacked his hand away. He saw the fear in her tear-filled eyes. She was in shock and backed away slightly.

Nori's heart broke seeing her so frightened of him… Or was he even what she was scared of?
"Mia-chan," he said softly, "are you okay?"
Her eyes still showed distrust and he reached out his hand again, this time to try and help her up. She thought he was going to touch her and she panicked again,
"No! Don't touch me!"
It was at that moment that Nekozawa came running towards them- considering it was a pretty gloomy day and the sun was blocked out by the clouds, the sunlight wasn't an issue for him. Though the darkened skies with a hint of a storm just made the somber and sorrow aura around everyone worse.

Nekozawa wasn't even thinking as he ran towards Mia- the sight before him just angered him. It looked as though Nori was making her worse instead of comforting her- that was not alright in Nekozawa's mind. Mia was the only girl who he had seen that took an interest in the occult but retained her shining personality- just as the eerie moon, she shines in the dark sky without getting lost in the darkness, but at the same time it creates harmony…a moon-light goddess, a daughter of Tsukuyomi*.

When Nekozawa reached Mia, she looked at him with caution, but not near as much fright as she did with Nori. Ah, it appears as though she was having a panic attack….but what happened for her to be so cautious about simple contact…Nekozawa honestly didn't want to think about it. The only thing he did know was that someone had hurt his precious moon-goddess, while he wasn't able to hurt whoever had hurt her first- he did, however, get the twins and was angry at Nori.

"You were supposed to comfort her," Nekozawa hissed, his eyes glaring at Nori.
"She…she just backed away and was screaming," Nori stammered- he wouldn't admit it, but his president could be rather scary when angered… as if being the president of Black Magic Club wasn't scary enough.

Nekozawa cautiously approached Mia- it was obvious that she was calming down. Mia was calming down after the flashbacks of Ringmaster were gone, but she was still a bit shaken. It was just the twins, she kept repeating to herself in her mind, they weren't going to hurt me…..They had still touched her though- they had wrapped their arms around her and wouldn't let go. They had their face nuzzled into the crape her neck (to get on Tamaki's nerves). Just like Ringmaster…her eyes started to water again and she looked back up at Nekozawa.

Nekozawa looked at Mia with so much concern that Mia almost though she was looking into her sister's blue eyes instead of his.

"Sophia," Mia whispered, and her body shook again.

Nekozawa and Nori shared a confused expression before Nekozawa's attention went straight back to Mia.

"Mia-chan," he said, his voice smooth, "Who's Sophia?"
Mia's eyes widened. The fear of being touched was replaced with fear of them finding out that she had a twin (a twin that switched places with her every other week), or worse, disappointing her sister.

Mia jumped up,
"No one," she laughed painfully, "It's nothing."
"Mia-chan," Nekozawa said a bit more sternly.

"I'm fine," she said.
She smiled brightly and managed to convince Nori, but Nekozawa could still see the pain in her eyes. Mia was quick to dash away from them, silently cursing that she was seen in her weakness moments, only Sophia has seen Mia cry. Though Mia has only seen her twin cry once before- her twin was strong. Why can't I be as strong as Sophia…

0000

Sophia was a bit taken back when Mia relayed the story of what had happened. Mia whimpered,
"I'm sorry I almost blew it. I didn't…I didn't wanna disappoint you, sissy."

Sophia's heart broke in two. She surprised Mia by giving her a large hug,
"It's okay," she whispered, "you're okay…"
"I just- it's hard," Mia cried into her sister's arms, "it's hard to get everything out of my head. I don't even remember everything, so why is it so hard? Why can't I let it go? Why can't I convince myself that he'll never hurt us again?"
Because he could still find us, Sophia thought but she bit her tongue. Sophia rubbed down Mia's hair as she comforted her twin,
"It's okay…I promise he won't hurt you again," she swore, "Never again…"
"I love you sissy," Mia whispered.
"I love you too Mimi."

When Mia's eyes were shut as she slept, Sophia's eyes started to water. She hated that Mia had to go through so much. She only wanted the best for her twin...Sometimes, Sophia thought, I pretend that I am very strong, strong enough for both of us- just so Mia doesn't have to deal with the stress and the worry. I wish I was strong as she thinks I am sometimes.

Sophia wouldn't admit it, but she was glad that they had the host club, Nekozawa and Nori (well, Nekozawa and Nori were more for Mia). Having, dare she say it, friends again was something nice. Though I would never admit that they are friends out loud…

"Sissy," Mia yawned cutely, "aren't you going to go to sleep too?"

"Of course, Mia," Sophia said motherly, "you go back to sleep, okay?"
"M'kay…"

Mia drifted off to sleep again and Sophia smiled faintly.