At lunch, the Serpente sisters walked to close together their shoulders touched. Their movements were like fluid, moving with perfect flowing graze yet somehow looking like they could easily spill and be ruined.

Like they might be afraid.

"Twin?" as they pushed open the cafeteria doors Vipera whispered to her sister with a slightly panicked voice.

"We can sit together. Just us, okay? None of them." Pitone assured, smiling at her sister with white teeth.

Vipera nodded and they went to one of the smaller, empty tabled. Many of the tables where long and mahogany, but this one was made of oak and only suited five, as opposed to ten or more like the others.

Pitone was never much of an eater, but Vipera loved all kinds of food. She reached into her purse and brought out a lollipop, the old fashioned kind that was just about the size of your whole head and was swirled with different colors.

"I have no idea how you keep your teeth so white with all of those sweets." Pitone huffed, observing her sisters starch white teeth, just like hers.

Vipera licked the side of the lollipop and then stuck out her tongue at Pitone. "Oh, hush. Candy is good for you- especially lollipops."

Pitone sighed. "I prefer salads, personally."

"Because you want to be skinny."

Pitone raised a brow. "Does that mean you want to be fat?"

Vipera rolled her eyes, and it was silent for a moment before they both growled at the same time.

"Someone is looking at us."

Both girls looked to the north of the cafeteria to see no-one looking in their direction. They scowled. "Who do you think it was?" Pitone asked in a slightly high voice.

Vipera shrugged, and nervously gnawed on her lollipop.

So, seeing no-one, you can imagine just how freaked out they were to hear someone's voice behind them.

"Uhm… I couldn't help but notice you were alone…" the sisters looked up to see the feminine looking boy smiling at them from behind a tray.

"Not alone. We have each other." They muttered at the same time, immediately defensive.

"Sorry." The boy smiled sweetly at them. "I just came over to see if you wanted to sit with me and my friends, over there." He pointed to a big table with way too many seats. On a golden engraved sign at the end of the table it said:

OURAN HIGHSCHOOL HOST CLUB

The twin's eyelids dropped into half-moons, and Pitone looked at Vipera for her opinion.

"I… I really am not sure." Vipera admitted, biting her lip.

"MY name is Haruhi Fujioka, by the way. It just doesn't seem right that you two are sitting alone on your first day." Haruhi smiled again.

Pitone stood, shocking Vipera. "That is very kind- Sure, we will." She was not smiling, but it was something.

Vipera stood within seconds, following her sister.

Haruhi led them to the table, which appeared to be pretty empty except for two full food trays with no owners. The twins exchanged a glance- who could be sitting there? As Haruhi sat, they slowly mimicked the boy.

"So then-"Haruhi smiled at them. "You two are the new students… I couldn't help but feel like I should apologize for the other day."

"Oh." The sisters smiled nervously. "Look, really… We understand you and your friends are… Uhm…" the two girls hesitated for a moment, before gently adding "Curious."

Haruhi jumped in her seat. "You think that- And the- SO that's why the brothers- OH!" she began to laugh very hard. "Nonononono. You see, we have a host club and-"

"A host club? In Tokyo?"

"Yes, those aren't just from the UK, you know." Haruhi smiled sweetly at them.

"Oh…" they muttered.

"But why the costumes?" Pitone asked, frowning deeply.

"Uhm… you should ask Suou about that… he gets his ideas from Kyoya…" she scratched her head. "But whatever."

The sisters couldn't help but smile- this boy didn't seem very… boyish.

Vipera flipped her hair and then licked the lollipop in her hand. "So then," she began while licking her candy. "Why did you invite us over other than that?"

Haruhi jumped. "W-What makes you think I have another reason?"

Pitone chuckled, watching her sister pig out on sugary food. "Well, we can just tell. What's your other reason?"

Haruhi frowned at them- they reminded her of the brothers when they knew too much. "Oh… it's just the Hitachiin twins looked kind of… devastated. They aren't used to being un-liked…"

"Ohh…" Vipera sighed. "We see. I guess it's just another silly person who doesn't get it."

Pitone nodded in agreement, and Haruhi frowned. At the same time, Vipera and Pitone heaved a sigh.

"Well, tell them we understand." The girls began to stand to go back to their empty table.

Haruhi frowned, confused. "Wait... You aren't staying?"

The twins looked over their shoulders, both girls frowning. "We… don't really need anyone else to share with us. We're fine on our own." Then they both curtsied and walked off.

"What happened?" two boy's voices came from behind Haruhi, and she sighed.

"They understand that we have a host club…"

The brothers frowned. "What else?" sitting down they returned to their trays with Jell-O. "You look confused."

Haruhi shook her head. "It's just that they said they don't need anyone else… it bothered me, that's all." She smiled apologetically.

The Hitachiin brother's smiles twisted into scowls suddenly, and Haruhi too frowned deeper at this.

"What's wrong, you two?"

"It's just…" Kaoru scratched his chin.

Hikaru blinked, sitting down and digging his fork a little violently into his food. "…We acted like that before the host club…"

Kaoru sat too, also digging at his food, just not so violently. "It was 'Us' and 'The other people'." He noted, exchanging a glance with Hikaru.

"So then, in other words…" Haruhi sighed, the light from the windows dancing in her brown eyes. "They're blocking out everyone?"

The Hitachiin brothers nodded silently, disheveled looks on their faces.

"Exactly."