"What just happened!" Cried Hunny. "What did I do to make her leave Takashi?" Giant tears fell from the tiny teen's eyes and landed in large drops on the front of his uniform.

Mori stooped down and picked the boy up in his arms like one would pick up a baby.

All eyes were trained on Kasanoda who felt like melting into the floor. "I don't think I have a right to talk about it with all of these people here and in all honesty I don't know everything that brought Linda from Colombia." He wanted to die. "I can say that before she came it was not a happy time for the family."

"Hunny-senpai, don't cry." A random guest called out. "It's not your fault." Others chimed in with the same sentiment.

"They are right senpai." Kasanoda said evenly. "Whatever is going on with her has nothing to do with you."

/GG/

Later that night as Haninozuka sat in his kitchen with Usa-chan and a huge, multi-layered cake, he sighed. Even though the girl was scary, when her eyes were on him they had lost their edge and became sad. It was hard to remain happy when the very sight of you made someone sad. He couldn't even eat his whole cake, and that's saying a lot.

/GG/

Linda didn't even bother going to school for a week. She stayed in her room and listened to Tetsuya try to persuade her to come out for meals. The girl didn't leave her room for those either. The only reason she even showed up at school the following week was her mother had called and frantically begged her not to dishonor her husband's family, to which Linda told her mother to fuck off. She still got her butt out of bed and went to school.

There were no more crowds of people around her. Either the novelty of being a foreigner had worn off or people were worried about her behavior at the host club the prior week. She didn't really care. The lessons droned on and she sat in her chair listening to the teachers speak way too fast for her to catch more than 50% of what they were rambling about.

After classes she found herself back at the kitchens. She found out they were usually used in the mornings for classes and then again on Mondays after school for a cooking club. As it was Thursday there wouldn't be anyone bothering her. She pulled out the ingredients to make strawberry clafoutis, one of her favorites from back home.

It didn't take long to have the room smelling of pure heaven.

/GG/

Haninozuka Mitsukuni was walking the hallway, without Takashi, and halted at the kitchen door. He could smell strawberries! The vertically challenged senior jumped into the room and stopped short for a fraction of a second before bounding toward Kasanoda's cousin with his trademark smile.

"Hi Linda-kun! What are you making?"

Linda looked at the little ball of energy and willed herself not to cry. "I'm making strawberry clafouris; my mom and I used to make this when I was younger."

"Oh." His eyes were big. "I like strawberries. Can I have some?"

Linda wanted to smirk but she couldn't if she wanted to keep her composure. "Sure."

The silence that followed was uncomfortable so Hunny tried to make it a little more pleasant.

"Do you like your class?" He asked in a chipper voice.

"It's a class." She answered quietly.

That wasn't working.

"You know, Kasanoda-kun never did tell us your full name. Do you have a Spanish surname?" The youthful young man stated.

"My name is Linda Natalia Isobel Santiago Garcia-Kasanoda." She looked into the oven by turning on the light. Hunny came and stood next to her.

"They look yummy!" He said with a smile. "You have a lot of names."

At that comment she almost chuckled. "That's common where I am from. My grandmother's names were Linda and Natalia. My mother's name is Isobel and my biological father's name was Santiago. Garcia is my mother's last name and Kasanoda is my step-father's last name." She turned off the light and realized she was kneeling next to the older boy. It was kind of strange to know this person was older than she was.

"Do you remember my name?" He asked playfully.

"Haninozuka Mitsukuni." She replied as she stood up and started to clean the kitchen. It surprised her when Hunny started to help.

"That's right, you can call me Hunny. Everyone else does."

"What's wrong with Mitsukuni?"

The boy frowned. "Nothing I guess. What do you want to be called?"

"Good question." She answered with a faraway look in her eyes. "I guess you can call me Linda, that's what Ritsu calls me."

"How come you don't use proper titles?" Hunny asked. He did know that other cultures didn't have the Japanese honorific system, but she was in Japan so he thought she should follow the Japanese custom.

A breath caught in her throat. She knew the answer and that was because by acclimating to the new way of life made the move more permanent. If she ignored it then maybe she wasn't really there. Linda didn't want to say anything and she was saved by the bell.

"Look, they're done." She said with a fake smile on her face. She watched as Hunny jumped up and down and completely missed his curiosity.

She put one dessert on a plate and handed it to Mitsukuni who took a bite and immediately began to cry. "It's hot!" He wailed.

She grabbed the carton of cream and dumped some of it into a measuring cup and held it to his lips. He drank the thick liquid and stopped crying.

"All better?" She asked with genuine concern.

"Hai!"

Linda came around the counter and cut Hunny's cake into smaller pieces so it would cool down faster then went back to cleaning. This made the teen boy smile. She wasn't as scary as she let on.

"You should come to host club with me today Linda-kun. It would be fun." He realized he was late and knew that Takashi, in addition to multiple others, was probably worried sick about him.

"I can't afford to come to your host club. Unlike most of you I don't come from a rich family." The girl finished cleaning and put the rest of her cakes on a plate. She took one herself and started to pick at it.

"But Linda-kun, I am inviting you. You can be my guest today."

Hunny reached out a hand like a child would and Linda had a hard time saying no to a child.