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crazysally - women's problems is the ultimate exuse for everything…and you know it!

Tbonechick2011 - I'm not sure what's wrong with Alex either…must be coming down with the flu…

emogirllikes-ANIME – I'm really just experimenting with different writing styles on the site, though according to my best mate I always sound British, no matter what I do. I always have trouble with foreign names too

And of course my BETA reader – my_forgotten_rose – for being awesome as always!

It had been about a week since our encounter with the creepy, perverted, yet somehow desirable Ouran High School Host Club, yet time had gone by so quickly for me and Alex, I had barely noticed.

Every day, no matter how much we tried to avoid it, we talked about the Host Club in some shape or form, about Haruhi's apparent inheritance of the habit of cross-dressing to the creepy things that the Kyoya guy must had been writing in his big black notebook of doom, somehow they always came up.

Another day had passed, making it officially a week since we had seen any sign of the club, making it Friday. School had ended about an hour ago, but neither Alex nor I wanted to go home, so we just ended up automatically walking down the long road to our favorite café in town.

"Did you see the questions on that math homework?" Alex exclaimed emphatically, lifting her arms high up in air, she almost dropped her school bags "I mean, that was at least a full page! That's not fair of teachers to do that, you know!"

I snorted "It's called maths. And how do you expect to lift your maths grades up if you don't push yourself!"

"Only the British call it maths, you limey" She retorted, "Not to mention like hell you can talk about bad grades, have you seen you geography stuff lately!"

I blushed with embarrassment, "Who needs to know the names of all the American States anyway?"

Alex stopped walking and raised an eyebrow, putting one hand of her hip, and pointing to herself with the other. It was one of her 'silent remarks', and I hated them.

"Fine! Fine you win!" I gave up, raising my arms in the air with frustration "Still, how do you expect to go to a better school with maths grades like that?"

"Lobelia will accept me somehow" she replied, looking up at the sky, a glimmer of sad hope in her eyes.

You see, I know this sounds incredibly cheesy, but Alex secretly doesn't really want all that much to do with football- sorry, soccer in the future. She's competitive and all that, but what she really wants to do is be a dancer.
I've seen her stuff, she's pretty damn good if you ask me, but to get into a school like Lobelia, she has at least got to get her grades up.

Lobelia is the only school I know around this area that is famed for its theatrical performances, especially the song and dance routines. So you see, it's vital that she gets in if she wants a future in performing arts. I'm trying my best to tutor her secretly, without any other classmates knowing, but I fear she won't progress with my help.
I mean, I got an 'F' in the last geography test, and I have a feeling I would have gotten lower if there was a lower grade to get, my score was 29%.

My mind drifted back to that stupid Host Club again, but this time it was actually topical. Haruhi was a scholarship student, right? That's what Alex had told me anyway, so that would mean that she knew how the whole system worked, right?

"Hey Alex" I asked, stopping in my tracks as I tried to process this thought.

"Yeah?" She said, walking slightly beyond me and turning round.

"You really want to be accepted, don't you?" I asked, looking at her directly in the eyes with determination, analyzing her reaction.

Without a moment of hesitation, in just as a determined voice, she replied "Yeah, I do. I would go to hell and back for it".

I smiled "Good, then you won't mid working for it!"

Alex snapped out of her determined phase, and immediately went back to her normal ways "W-wait! I didn't say I would work for it! I just said I would go to hell and back! There's a difference!"

"For you" I replied "Working is hell!"
"Your point Kate?" She said, shifting feet irritably.

"Why don't we ask that chick Haruhi to tutor you? She's smart, right?" I suggested, beginning to walk again.

"I guess…" She said, also beginning to walk alongside me "But…Ranka…".

"What are you waiting for?" I said, suddenly jumping in front of her and pushing her back down the path to Haruhi's house "Let's get our arses moving!"

COOL TRANSITION

"S-sorry for troubling you" Alex stuttered, bowing deeply as she sat at Ranka and Haruhi's feet, in a position that I never thought I would see Alex in.

She looked like she was begging for forgiveness.

"Oh, it's no trouble at all, right Haruhi?" Said Ranka, waving his hand in front of his face, as many Japanese people tend to do when they say something is nothing "I mean, I'm completely fine with my darling Haruhi spending some more time with girls for once, she needs to bring out her more adorable side!" She exclaimed.

In a way, the over the top-ness of Ranka sort of reminded me of that blonde dude Tamaki, which slightly disturbed me. Maybe asking for Alex's tutoring really was not the greatest of my ideas.

"Are you ok with it Haruhi?" Alex asked, looking up at the cute brunette with my own puppy dog eyes, you know, those ones your best friend always has up their sleeve whenever they want you to do something? She's good at them.

I swear Haruhi wasn't even fazed by them, but still continued to make the decision on her own "I guess tutoring somebody would be fun for a while…but I'm not really sure why you would want me to-"

"Thank you so much!" Alex and I both exclaimed "You won't regret this!"
We both leapt on the floor and began bowing at Haruhi's feet, much to her dismay as she began yelling at us to stop it.

In the back of my mind, I had the feeling that she already had begun to regret her decision. But, she was stuck with us.

I hope you liked it and I brightened your day!

I'm going on a school trip for a while, so I won't be able to update till AT LEAST Wednesdays, so I need motivation!

*sniff* I have to wake up at 3:30 in the morning tomorrow! PITY ME!