First Morning, First Day

Lare woke up the sounds of birds chirping and it seemed like a great morning until… 'BANG BANG BANG!' "Wake up Lare its time for school! Wake up before I kick this door down!" The Warden screamed.

Bolting up from my toasty warm bed, she ran to the door. When she opened it, she was greeted by a fist crashing into her face. She flew backwards and fell to her already bruised knees, and her eyes started to water. She got up quickly and gingerly held a hand to her cheek.

"Ugh! I told you to wake up!" The Warden yelled in my face. "I'm sorry! Please forgive me!" Lare yelled obediently. Not used to this kind of behavior from her, The Warden took a step back, flabbergasted. Normally Lare would yell back defiantly but she didn't want any more bruises or scratches than the already had on her first day of school.

"W-whatever, just get ready brat!" The Warden finally yelled while walking out of Lare's room. Fully picking herself up Lare tried her best to cover up the newly forming black eye with her amazingly large stash of concealer.

When she finally decided that it didn't look as bad as it felt, she looked for the uniform that she received the day before. "Were is it?! I could have sworn I put it right…there…" She paused what she was doing and look out her window. Her face fell when she saw that her uniform had been pinned up on a fence post outside of her bedroom window with paint and mud all over it.

"Oh no…" She moaned. How could I have forgotten to lock the door! She scolded herself in her mind. She figured that Whitney had done this, no, she knew Whitney had done this. It was likely that the three girls were jealous but why her ONLY uniform? "I guess I'll just have to wear this…" she muttered to herself gesturing to her pile of clothes.

She put on her baggy tan sweat shirt, blue jeans, red converse, and for good measure, she picked up her black rimmed prescription glasses. Her eyesight was not very good so she only really used her contacts, but today she didn't want to be noticed that much.

So, putting on her glasses Lare ran down the stairs, ignoring the snickers coming from the three girls that she passed. She ran outside and hopped into the limo that was waiting for her and it sped off. When she finally decided that she was far from the orphanage she let out a sigh of relief. Lare had never really left the orphanage before so she cherished every car ride she took, including this one.

A window opened up in front of her revealing her only friend, Lana Liko, the limo driver. "Good morning Lae! How are you?!" Lana smiled brightly. The last car ride Lare took she had become friends with the ever-present smiling limo driver and they called each other by their preferred nicknames.

Lare smiled and said "I as great as I'll ever be Lanako!" dragging out the 'o'. They liked to do this because it represented something that was silly in their sad boring lives. They both laughed and Lana asked "So… Ouran huh? I heard it looks like a pink play house." She glanced back at Lare and smiled. "Don't I know it. It looks like an over sized doll house!" Lare said playfully.

They both laughed and lapsed into companionable silence for the rest of the drive to the prestigious pink school. About a block from the school Lare suddenly told Lana to stop and she said "Hehe… I will just walk the rest of the way OK Lanako?" and before Lana could answer she jumped out of the car and started walking at a brisk pace towards the school.

She didn't want to attract attention towards herself by showing up in a limo, but she needn't have even bothered. When she arrived she was shocked by how many limo's she saw dropping off all sorts of different students. Once she was finished gawking she sweat dropped and plowed forward.

She hurried to go inside but was stopped by a body colliding into her from behind. All of her stuff came tumbling out of her hands as she crashed to the ground. When she regained her jumbled senses she turned to give the prestigious ass hat that knocked into her a piece of her mind but was surprised when she saw someone that was dressed similarly to her.

"Oh my goodness I am so sorry!" The person said trying to keep both of their stuff from being stepped on. Gathering her stuff Lare helped the other student gather their stuff and helped them up. The strange thing was that Lare couldn't decide if his person was a boy or a girl.

"No, I apologize I wasn't watching were I was going!" Lare immediately said. They both smiled sheepishly before the other student said "My name is Haruhi Fujioka." And sticking out his/her hand.

"Oh…My name is Lare Chec, nice to meet you Fujioka-san." Lare said shaking Haruhi's hand. "Oh you can call me Haruhi, also why aren't you wearing the uniform Chec-san?" he/she said gesturing to Lare's clothes. "You can call me Lare and um… Well you could say that my uniform go somewhat… disfigured also I could ask the same for you." Lare said.

'Wait a minute… Haruhi Fujioka… where have I heard that name...? OH!' "Hey Haruhi, are you by any chance an honor student?" Lare asked cautiously. Haruhi looked at Lare and nodded slightly "Y-yes but how did you know that?" Lare smiled and said "Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one!"

Haruhi looked taken aback and then smiled "You're an honor student too?" Lare nodded and the two girls kept walking to their class. "Hey Haruhi, are you a girl?" Lare asked. Haruhi nodded and said "Yes I am and if I'm correct you are as well?"

Lare laughed quietly and said "Yep! But if you'd be so kind as to not tell anyone? It's kind of a secret I'm keeping… for now, mostly because I don't want to wear those big, poofy cream puff dresses." They both giggled and nodded as if speaking a silent language. They internally nodded and promised not to tell anyone about the others gender.

When they walked into their classroom they were introduced by the teacher to the class and were placed one in front of the other. Haruhi was placed in the middle of two ginger haired guys who looked like they could be twins. 'Cute, but not my type I'm afraid, they look too mischievous for me... Hahaha! who am I kidding, I'm the queen of suspicious activities!' She thought smirking evilly. While they were walking to their seats Lare was tripped and as she stumbled the rest of the way to her seat the rest of the class snickered.

She looked back and saw a smirking snobbish brat and when the girl waved innocently, Lare smirked and waved back, initiating a silent challenge. The girl immediately frowned and turned around in her seat harrumphing in exasperation as she did so.

Lare looked towards Haruhi and smiled. She had made a friend, a real friend, for once! She only hoped that it would last, if only for a while.

Maybe… Hopefully…