"Why- why didn't you return any of my calls?" Hikaru screamed when I walked through the door.

"I was on a date," I answered nonchalantly. Luckily, I had dropped Anna off at home before returning to the Hitachiin mansion.

"So you couldn't answer me? Do you know how worried I was? I called everyone- everyone! Kyoya-senpai finally gave me a hint and told me that you were out with Anna at some amusement park. Are you crazy? Are you really going to do that?"

I shrugged and walked to the staircase.

Hikaru grabbed my shoulder and turned me around. "Don't just brush me off, Kaoru!"

I smiled at him. "Don't worry, Hikaru. You've got it all wrong."

Hikaru looked surprised. "What? Do you... like her?"

--

The next day at school was when I found out that Anna was a grade older than me. I had hoped she would be in my class, but that was impossible.

I spent the next few classes doodling until lunch. I raced ahead of Hikaru, and I felt a bad cloud covering him.

He could deal with it.

She was already sitting down, laughing with a few classmates. When she saw me, she beckoned for me to come over.

I leaned against the table. "Hey," I said coolly.

"Hi," she replied, not looking at me. I followed her eyes to Haruhi and Hikaru. Haruhi was looking down at her lunchbox, and Hikaru was steaming. She beckoned for them. Hikaru's expression turned from anger to surprise as he walked over with Haruhi behind him.

The girls squealed. "You have friends in the Host Club?"

Anna turned to her friends. "The, uh, what?"

"Host Club, silly. Oh, or do you not know about it?" one girl asked.

Anna shrugged and turned to Sophie who sat next to her. I was surprised; I hadn't even seen her.

"Do you know what a Host Club is?" Anna asked her.

Sophie nodded. "It's a club where men entertain ladies. In the same respect, there are Hostess Clubs." She went on and spoke to Anna in English, ending with an eye roll. Something she said must have been funny, because Anna laughed.*

Just then, Hikaru and Haruhi came up behind us.

"Yeah, what do you want?" Hikaru asked.

Anna turned to him with a little frown. "Why're your panties in a bunch, other twin?"

Hikaru balled his fists. His neck veins bulged out as he yelled, "my name is Hikaru!"

Anna smiled. "I'm Anna. It's nice to meet you."

Tamaki-senpai and Kyoya-senpai walked in at that moment, and the girls flooded around them. Anna scanned the cafeteria, and when neither Tamaki-senpai's father nor grandmother were present, she turned back to her table.

Hikaru and Haruhi sat down by me, and I slipped in, as well. We were quiet as the older girls talked.

"So," one of the girls began, "did Kyoya find you a guy yet?"

Anna hushed them. "Don't be too loud!" she whispered as she looked around the room to see who could have heard.

She didn't notice the president of the newspaper club sitting behind her. He turned a little, just enough to catch my eye. I narrowed my yellow eyes, and he jumped, returning to his food.

"Well?" Sophie asked.

"You're awfully interested," Anna retorted.

"Don't treat me like that. I know you well." Sophie turned her bright blue eyes to me, before putting them right back on Anna. No one noticed.

The lunch bell rang soon, and we returned to our classes.

"Anna-senpai seems really nice, huh, Kaoru?" Haruhi asked.

Senpai? It bothered me. I wondered if I had to call her that, too. "Yeah, she is."

"What do you think, Hikaru?"

Hikaru looked pained to answer."Hm," was all he said.

--

It was time to go home, and I waited for Anna.

Hikaru sighed. "I'm going to go without you if you're waiting for her."

"Hikaru, you have no reason to dislike her," I scolded gently.

"Other twin? Who does she think she is?"

"She doesn't even know your name," I explained. "Someone never introduced himself. Not that I'm going to say who," I added flatly. "Hikaru."

Hikaru was silent. I felt sure he was warming up to her, until she appeared.

"Hey, bitches," she said playfully as she walked up. "What the fuck's up?"

"That's so obnoxious!" Hikaru yelled.

"What is?" she asked.

"Your random and stupid use of obscenities!" he answered.

"Why?"

"Why?" He didn't answer, as if he were coming up with a reason. "Just because!" He turned to me. "I'm leaving. You can go home with your girlfriend, or wife, or whatever she is to you. Just don't let me see her." He walked down the hallway, and we were silent until he went through the door.

"I'm so sorry, A-" I didn't know what to call her, now. "Anna-senpai?"

She patted my head. "It's not a big deal. It doesn't bother me. At least I know what bothers him."

"I's not the swearing," I tried to explain.

"I know."

I sucked in air. "You know?"

"Yup."

"How do you know?"

"I can just tell. He just doesn't like me because I'm too close to you. He's scared."

We didn't speak, and I was the first to break the short silence. "How do you know that?"

She looked at the door Hikaru had walked through. "The things he says. the way he acts." She turned back to me. "I can just tell."

"What are you going to do?"

Fire burned in her eyes. "I'm going to make him like me, of course!"

I could taste a bad idea coming, but I had to laugh. "And how are you going to do that?"

She tapped her finger to her chin. "What is Hikaru good at? I mean, what does he like a lot?"

I had to think. Hikaru and I were good at a lot of things, but we grew bored of everything so quickly I couldn't think of something we were good at and liked at the same time. Usually we only like the challenge of new things. "He kind of likes basketball."

Anna-senpai jumped. "That's perfect!"

I smiled at her. "Why?"

She grinned. "You'll see, you'll see. Ok, this'll be great. Really great. This will work, I know it will. Oh, and by the way, please don't call me 'senpai' again, ok?"

I nodded. "Gladly."

*In case this confused anyone, it's implying that Sophie is making fun of the Japanese culture (as a Host Club is an Asian thing, not an American one, which is where the two are from so it is unusual to them) in English, so that Kaoru and the others can not understand her.