Chapter 15: Tutors

In which one pair clashes and the other blushes

Friends. The word wouldn't go away from Dawn's mind as she showered that night before supper. Hunny had been smiling so happily when he said it, as if it was the easiest thing in the world to become friends with a girl she had just met. Perhaps, it was for him. But it wasn't at all for her.

If there was anything she would say she remotely felt there was good about her sister…it was that she always had it easy getting along with others. People seemed to be naturally more drawn to the younger twin. Dawn frowned softly. Even the hosts seemed to talk more easily with her. The only exception seemed to be the twins, who didn't like her and Hunny, who liked everyone.

Dawn rinsed her hair. No. she wouldn't think about her sister. As far as she was concerned, she was little more than her roommate. She had no ties with Abby. Dawn stepped out of the shower, wrapping a towel around herself. Just as she left the steaming bathroom and was on her way to her room, she heard the doorbell ring.

"What the…" Dawn mumbled to herself before sighing. "Abby get the door."

"Get the door yourself." Abby called back. Dawn clenched her fists softly.

"I can't, just get it." with that she stalked into her room, doing her best to stay calm. Abby infuriated her to no end. Did she have to be so difficult all the time?

Abby clenched her fists as she turned the oven on low to simmer the sauce she was making for her pasta. Why the hell was Dawn so annoyingly arbitrary? Couldn't she just answer the door herself? It wasn't like it was that freaking hard to do. But no, Princess Dawn couldn't lift a damn finger for herself. Abby half walked, half stomped to the door and pulled it open without looking who was there. Upon seeing two red heads standing in her doorway, she proceeded to slam it shut.

Hikaru seethed. Did she really just shut the door in his face? He knew the commoner had some nerve, but this…oh his revenge would be sweet. Swallowing back indignation, he knocked on the door once again, albeit a little harder. "Abby open the door."

"No. Go away."

Before he could reply to her, Kaoru stepped in. "We're here for tutoring. If you don't let us in, we'll have to tell the teacher that you're being difficult and aren't taking lessons from your tutor. Besides, if we really wanted to, we could pick this lock in seconds."

"Go ahead." okay, so she was going to be hard about this. Hikaru rolled his eyes as Kaoru took a bobby pin out of his pocket. The locks here were simple. They had broken into Haruhi's apartment once. So they could do this easily. Kaoru heard Abby's footsteps walk away from the door. She obviously thought they were bluffing, oh well. Too bad for her. Within seconds, Kaoru had easily opened the door. Pocketing his makeshift key, they strode into the small place.

Hikaru looked around in distaste. Had it really been this small in here the last time they were here? Probably. He and Kaoru slipped their shoes off as they walked into the apartment. They glanced at each other.

"So," Kaoru began, "I'll go find Dawn and you can find Abby?"

"Yeah. You take her back to our place. I have a feeling it's going to be loud with the demon of a girl." Kaoru laughed softly but nodded. True, he didn't really want to leave the two alone, but he also knew if he was around his brother, he wouldn't get any work done. He just hoped that they apartment would be intact when they returned. Oh well, if worst comes to worst, they could more than afford to refurbish the place.

Kaoru walked down the hallway. There were four doors. Two he guessed led to a bathroom and closet. That meant the other two were their bedrooms. He could hear music coming from one of them, and was willing to be bet that it was Abby. So he went for the last door left. He didn't bother knocking, knowing he would be turned away. What he wasn't counting on was that Dawn was changing. All she had on was a bra and a pair of shorts. He was stupefied. He couldn't even move, or move his eyes he found to his embarrassment as they locked onto her chest.

Dawn had frozen on the spot as well. She was in the process of toweling her black hair dry. Their eyes slowly met, before dawn screamed and threw her towel at him.

"Get out!"

Kaoru wasted no time in exiting. He shut the door behind him fats, cheeks flushed and heart thumping. But why was that…? It wasn't like he hadn't ever seen a girl wearing that little before. He had seen most of the models at his mom's photo shoots changing before. And they were certainly more pleasing to the eye than Dawn was weren't they?

Next to him, Abby's door opened. She glanced at him then at the shut door then back at his blushed cheeks before starting to laugh.

"Oh god…you just walked in on her? That was smart of you twin 1." Kaoru couldn't help but roll his eyes as he straightened up. She had been calling him twin 1 all week. He knew it was meant to annoy Hikaru. The fact she always knew who was who, was something, but he found for once he didn't care as much. He managed a soft sneer at her, not really enjoying the laughter she was having at his expense.

"You're one to talk. Looks like your lock didn't do much to keep us out did it? And you need tutoring help too. I think you're the only one in class whose as bad as I am." she sobered up pretty fast and scowled at him. Before either of them could say anything else Hikaru walked up to them.

"Oi, toy, hurry up. Let's get this over with. I have to make you half smart at math unless want my mark to drop. I have stuff set up in the living room."

Abby bristled softly. She was so not in the mood for this. Instead of gracing the loud obnoxious twin with an answer she turned around and marched into her room and slammed the door shut. Instead of locking it, she set a chair in front of it.

Hikaru bristled. She. Did. Not. Just. Do. That. He smiled softly to himself. She would wish she hadn't soon enough.

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