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The school bell echoed through the school, signaling the end of the school day, 'and my doom,' I thought gloomily as I gathered up my school supplies to dump in my locker.
"I suppose you have to head over to the club room now," Kiyomi said as we headed to our lockers.
"Yeah, as soon as I drop this stuff off I have to dash over there." Silence. We reached our lockers and I threw my stuff inside. Then I turned to Kiyomi and said, "you and Yuka are coming to the host club, right? I don't think I'll be able to work at the host club if you two aren't there; I'll be utterly miserable."
Kiyomi turned to look at me as she flashed a big smile before saying, "of course we're coming, silly. I'm heading off right now to go get Yuka. See you in a bit!"
"Okay," I said as I watched Kiyomi disappear around a corner.
'I better hurry up or I'll be late. Wouldn't that be an awful way to make a first impression?' I sped walked to music room three and paused before the mahogany doors. "Good-bye life," I mumbled before taking a deep breath and slowly pushing open the door.
'Still Paris, I see,' I thought as I looked around.
"There you are, Miss Yamada. Are you ready to start working?" I turned to face Kyoya who was walking to me.
"I thought I told you to call me Madoka, not Yamada. And yes, I'm ready to start working."
"Good," Kyoya said giving me one of his infamous smirks. "Hikaru, Kaoru, help Miss Madoka get ready."
"Yes, sir!" The twins said saluting Kyoya before dragging me into the back room. "Here, put this on," the twins said as they shoved me into a dressing room and threw a dress in after me.
I stooped down, picked up the dress, and held it out in front of me so I could look at it. "Do I really have to wear this?" I called through the curtains.
"Yes, and if you don't put it on we'll go in there and dress you," was the cold answer I received.
"I'll put it on," I replied hastily.
I changed into the dress and stood in front of the mirror. I was wearing a light pink and black maid outfit. The dress had a rectangular neck line with pink lace edging it. The sleeves were black, one inch long, ruffled, and only covered the top of the arm.
The corset was black with thin pink ribbons criss-crossing over it until it stopped a the waist where a large pink ribbon encircled the waist and was tied into a big bow in the back. The skirt of the dress was lightly ruffled and slightly puffy, it reached to my mid-thigh with an inch of pink lace sticking out from underneath it.
I then pulled on black thigh-high socks that were edged around the top with pink lace and had a small pink bows attached to the tops of the sides. Finally, I slipped on some one inch black heels and walked out of the dressing room.
The twins looked at me and grinned. In a flash, they got up from their seats and pushed me into a chair. "W-what are you doing?" I asked in confusion.
"We're going to fix your hair and put on your make-up, so sit still!" The twins said. I sat still as one twin messed with my hair and the other one applied my make-up.
"Are you almost done?" I asked vexed.
"One more thing," Kaoru said. (I had gotten the twins to tell me who was who)
As he said that, Kaoru grabbed a black choker necklace with a pink diamond heart on it and tied it around my neck while Hikaru tied a pink ribbon around the ponytail he had put my hair into.
"Done!" They exclaimed in sync.
"Wow," I breathed as I looked at my reflection in the mirror. "Thanks guys," I said.
The twins just smiled slyly before grabbing me and pushing me into the club room.
"Madoka, are you ready?..." Kyoya trailed off as he looked at me. I felt my cheeks turn red under his gaze; I was thoroughly embarrassed.
"Madoka chan! You look so cute!" Hunny said as he jumped off Mori and ran across the floor to hug me.
"Thanks," I mumbled as I gently pushed Hunny off of me.
"That outfit looks really cute on you," Haruhi said as he emerged from the back room wearing a black and white waiter outfit.
"Hey Boss," Hikaru started.
"Come see Madoka," Kaoru finished.
"I'm coming," Tamaki said as he entered the club room. When he saw me he stopped and stared, causing my pink cheeks to turn red. "Madoka... You look so CUTE!" Tamaki exclaimed as he engulfed me in a bear hug and swung me in circles around the room.
"Tamaki, put me down!" I yelled.
Instantly, Tamaki stopped swinging me and put me down. The world was still spinning around me and I stumbled backwards, tripped over my own feet, and fell against Kyoya who caught me.
"Sorry," I mumbled as I looked up at Kyoya knowing that my cheeks were going to stay bright red for a while.
As Kyoya helped me back onto my feet, Tamaki came over with tears in his eyes and said, "mommy, our daughter yelled at me."
"Wait! What!" I shouted, jumping away from Kyoya and Tamaki.
"Tamaki insists that all of the club members are a family," Hikaru said leaning on my right shoulder.
"Tamaki's the father, Kyoya's the mother," Kaoru said leaning on my left shoulder.
"The rest of us are the sons,"
"and you're the daughter."
"That makes you our sister," the twins whispered in my ear.
It took me a few seconds to process all this before a shiver ran down my spine and I said, "that is all sorts of wrong. If you follow that reasoning, then that means that I'm engaged to my mother!"
"That is messed up, you pervy king," the twins said tauntingly.
"Just ignore him," Kyoya said coming up from behind me and putting his hand on my shoulder. When I looked up at him to reply, he just smiled at me and said, "regardless of what Tamaki says, you are always going to be my cute little fiancee."
Then he turned away and said, "alright guys, it's time to open." Leaving me to blush and stare after him in bewilderment.
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'Only a half hour in and I'm already exhausted.' After the club opened, I was introduced to the guests as the host club's official hostess who would be in charge of seating guests, refilling the deserts, tracking reservations, and managing accounts.
I hadn't thought that this work would be so hard but between Hunny inhaling the treats and Tamaki's, Hikaru's, and Kaoru's antics, I was kept buys all afternoon.
"Madoka chan! We need more sweets!" Hunny called from across the room.
'But that's your fifth piece of cake!' I sighed before grabbing a tray full of sweets from the back, bring it over to Hunny.
"Madoka, sit down. You've been so busy that we've barely been able to talk," Yuka whined. (she and Kiyomi had requested Mori and Hunny)
"Please stay, Madoka. It's no fun without you," Kiyomi pleaded.
"Make room," I said as I plopped down between my two friends. "I've been working for an hour straight, I think I've earned a break."
"Yay!" Yuka exclaimed, throwing her arms around my neck.
"Here, Madoka chan, have some cake!" Hunny said setting a piece of chocolate cake in front of me.
"Thanks," I said gladly accepting the cake.
"Madoka, that dress looks so pretty on you," Kiyomi said before stealing a glance at Mori.
"Yeah, you look so cute in that dress and your make-up is amazing!" Yuka gushed.
"Thanks," I said feeling a little happy. "The twins designed the outfit and did my make-up."
"You're so lucky," Yuka sighed enviously.
"Hey, aren't you supposed to be working?" I looked up to see the twins looking disapprovingly down at me.
"I'm taking a break," I answered hotly. "Besides, yesterday I promised Hunny that I'd eat cake with him and that's what I'm doing. I'm merely fulfilling a promise. You wouldn't want me to upset Hunny now, would you?"
The twins looked like they wanted to reply when they were interrupted, "Miss Yamada, we need more refreshments."
"Coming, Kyoya," I called as I hopped up from my seat and headed to the back to fill up the tray with treats. Then I swished out of the kichen and set down the tray in front of Kyoya and his customers.
"Thank you, Miss Yamada," Kyoya said.
"No problem," I answered smiling. I started to leave to go re-join my friends when Kyoya's cell phone started ringing.
"It's my father, I'm afraid I need to take this," Kyoya said.
"We understand," one of Kyoya's costumers replied.
"Miss Yamada, please stay with my customers while I'm gone."
"Uh, okay, Kyoya." Kyoya gave us one last nod before disappearing into the back room.
As I sat down, I looked at Kyoya's three customers; one had black hair, one had dusty blond hair, and the other had brown hair.
They looked at me for a second then the black haired girl said, "Kyoya's your fiancee but he still calls you by your last name? How sad."
"Actually, it makes sense because our parents do business together and ever since we were little he has called me by my last name. It can be hard to break old habits," I replied calmly.
"But if he really liked you wouldn't he make a greater effort to remember your first name?" The black haired girl pressed.
I sighed internally before saying, "he does try. Earlier today he called me by my first name."
Silence followed this statement, then, out of the blue, the brown haired girl vehemently said, "would you give it up already?!"
"Huh?" I said confused.
"Break off your engagement to Kyoya!"
"But it's an arranged marriage."
"I don't care! Scum like you who didn't even come to the host club until your engagement doesn't deserve someone like Kyoya!"
I was to stunned to answer, and as I stared at the brown haired girl, the dusty blond haired girl said in a sweet voice, "Yamada, just refuse to marry him. People who steal other girls' crushes without even liking the guy are heartless jerks."
"Besides, Kyoya doesn't even like you," added the black haired girl.
I opened my mouth to reply when I heard Kyoya's voice say, "I'm back. You may go now, Miss Yamada... What's wrong?" he asked me.
"N-nothing," I answered hastily before grabbing the empty tray off the twins' table, heading into the back to refill it.
I let out a sigh as the last customer left and slumped into a chair. The twins slunk up behind me and they each put a hand under my chin, tilting it up so that I was looking up at them.
"Hey, Kaoru. Want to take her home?"
"Yes, Hikaru. We don't have any maids as cute as she is at home."
"What do you think?" They asked me in sync.
"I don't care," I murmured.
"Leave her alone," Kyoya said pushing the twins away and helping me up from the chair. "Now tell me what's wrong," Kyoya said looking sternly down at me.
"It's nothing," I said, adverting my gaze from his. "But some of your customers were insulting me because they're jealous that I'm engaged to you."
"Don't mind them," Kyoya said as he started walking away. "It's only an arranged marriage, nothing special."
Kyoya's words pierced my already wounded heart; tearing it in two. "Not special, huh?" I mumbled.
"Uh... Madoka," Hikaru started.
"Are you okay?" Kaoru finished.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I said, giving the twins a smile before disappearing into the back room.
As I picked up my bag and started to head out of the changing room, the twins stood in front of the door and said, "are you really okay?"
I looked down at the ground and I felt my legs start shaking. "N-no," I choked out before I sunk to the ground and started crying.
The twins didn't know what to do so they just waited patiently for me to stop crying. "Feel better?" Hikaru asked when I finally stopped crying.
I nodded before mumbling, "it's just that Kyoya can be so... so... so cold."
"Is there anything we can do to help?" Kaoru asked.
"I don't think so but thanks anyways," I said giving the twins a weak smile. "I've got to go. I'll bring the dress back tomorrow. Bye," I said as I hurriedly left the room, leaving the twins to stare after me.
So, what do you think? Please review so I know what you're thinking. (I'm still not a mind reader and I still wish I was) Anyways, I hope you liked this chapter even if you don't bother telling me, that's all that really matters.
Next Time: A Mistake.
See you at chapter twelve!
-Karolyn Grace