Hey guys! Sorry it took so long for an update...I've gotten so many hours at work...more than I have in the four years I've worked there...but this is the longest chapter I've written so I hope you enjoy it. About two more chapters after this one then this is complete! haha anyway, I don't own ouran, just the plot and my characters. Please enjoy and review!
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Back in Japan~_~_~_~_~_~_~
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Kyoya's POV~_~_~_~_~_~_~
I didn't care that Morgan and Alyssa had decided to go home for two weeks, but what I did care about was the fact that they left me to deal with Tamaki.
"WHERE ARE MY DAUGHTERS!" He screamed in my face, as though I was twenty feet away.
"I already explained the situation to you Tamaki. The two decided to go home for two weeks." I explained yet again getting slightly annoyed this time, while pushing my glasses back up on my nose.
"But why wouldn't they tell us where they were going?" He yelled, his arms failing in the air.
"Alyssa told me…"Hikaru corrected, his hands in his blazer.
"And Morgan told me." Mori finished.
"So naturally Hikaru told me." Kaoru mentioned.
"Samsies goes for Mori who told me." Hunny explained from atop of Mori's shoulders.
"And I'm watching their dog…so in all honesty you were the only one who didn't know." Haruhi concluded. Tamaki stared blankly at her then was immediately in the corner, sulking.
"Come on boss, it's not a big deal." Hikaru attempted to get him out of his mood.
"Everyone knew but me." He squeaked out, crocodile tears running down his face.
"I mean it's not like we can do anything about it now, unless we somehow went there." Kaoru suggested absentmindedly. Tamaki's eyes began to gleam as the wheels in his head began to turn.
"What an excellent idea Kaoru." He exclaimed gleefully.
"I'm not sure if that's a good idea Tamaki." I said. "They more than likely want to spend time with their families and old friends. Let's think this through rationally."
I saw Hikaru take his phone out and walk out the third music room. I wasn't sure what he was doing. Possibly calling Alyssa to let her know what Tamaki had planned. I mean let's face it. We all follow Tamaki's lead. It was just how things worked. In all honesty, I'm not sure where this club would go without him. All of a sudden Hikaru came back into the room, absolutely livid.
"We're going to the United States!" He yelled, slamming his fist on the table.
"That's the spirit Hikaru…Now we're going to need a private jet." Tamaki began to ramble on and on about his plan. I wasn't sure what went on in the phone call that made Hikaru angry but I knew this trip was bound to be interesting….yes interesting indeed.
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Alyssa's POV~_~_~_~_~_~_~
We were currently sitting at our old lunch table. It wasn't fancy at all like Ouran, I mean it was public school. The tables were blue and oval shaped, while it had red benches that were connected to them. Our old school was small, because of our town being so little, so the cafetorium was basic sized, but compared to Ouran, it was a like an ant and Ouran was the human. I say cafetorium because our cafeteria was also were we'd show plays and musicals, hold performances and we had a stage located on the one side of the room.
Our school had the basic cliché groups all at their specific tables. Usually seated behind us were the snobby sophomores. They always feel like they owned the place and ran the school even though that job belonged to the seniors. The table to the left of us seated the sophomores that were our extended group of friends, since we couldn't fit at all one table. The table to the right held a bunch of junior guys with some seniors that either were into sports or into getting drunk. Besides those tables, I never really paid much attention to where everyone else sat in lunchroom.
At the moment, we were discussing how Jacob and Mark had gotten kick out of the school in South America. It wasn't all that surprising considering that they probably got themselves purposely kicked out. But what was surprising was that Caitlyn was dating Mark and Jacob was dating Lindsay. She was a very nice girl, fun to hang out with and a lot better than Jacob's last girlfriend who had Jacob on a leash. But Caitlyn dating Mark was totally unexpected. Caitlyn was one of those girls who were extremely intelligent but too smart for her own good. She has a holier than thou type of attitude. She was nice on occasion but lately, from what I've heard she's becoming real stuck up. Mark was a player. Don't get me wrong, he's like a little brother to us, but that's just the way he is. He claims he likes a girl, they start dating for a while, then something goes wrong, for example he becomes distance, then the girl breaks up with him. Sometimes he'll want to get back together then the next day he'll decided not to. It was just the way he was, but other than Mark's playboy attitude, Mark was one of the best people to be around and that was the truth.
I felt the weight shift next to me and when I looked over I saw Gavin who sat down in the empty seat next to me. Gavin…well how does one describe Gavin? I would have to say that Gavin is a person who really does his own thing. He's extremely animated, like a cartoon character. One minute he's hilarious then the next he's seriocomedic and he always makes ridiculous accusations such as running over orphans.
All of a sudden, I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it said Hikaru. I wanted to answer but I wasn't sure if I'd get in trouble or not for it. In the end I decided to answer it. But as soon as Gavin saw me take my phone out of my pocket, he grabbed it out of my hand, answering it.
"Hello Gavin here." He said into the phone.
"Gavin? What?" Hikaru asked, obviously confused.
"Gavin give it back!" I yelled catching some of the attention of the people around us.
"Sorry Alyssa can't come to the phone right now. Can I leave a message?" I was going to kill Gavin for this. All of a sudden, Mrs. Neel came up and took my phone away. She told me I could have it back at the end of the day. I was a little upset because I don't like not having my phone on me and also I'd have to wait until the end of the day to explain to Hikaru what was going on and figure out what he was trying to tell me.
We went back to talking about how everyone's lives have been here. The more they talked about it, then more I felt like an outsider and I bet Morgan was feeling the same way. The old gang had inside jokes that neither of us got and drama happened that we had no idea about. It made me realize we were strangers to this part of our lives. We no longer belonged here like we once had. It almost made me regret going to Japan, but then I remembered all the good times I've had with the host club and immediately the regret left my mind. You know what they say, when one door closes, another one opens.
~_~_~_~_~_~_~The Next Day (Tuesday)~_~_~_~_~_~_~
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Morgan's POV~_~_~_~_~_~_~
Mr. Romano called yesterday afternoon asking that Alyssa and I came in to discuss how our experience has been. I honestly could have told him everything he needed to know over the phone but if he wanted to meet us at the school, I guess it wouldn't be so bad. So I inquired when we should meet him and he said he was free at two-o-clock, so that was when he wanted us to come in. I glanced over at my clock and saw that it read 10:00. It seemed like a decent time to get up.
I decided to go and shower first then I straightened my hair. I got dressed in gray plaid tunic top. It had a lace up front that started from my neckline down to the top of my chest. Of course it was laced all the way up. Around my waist, it had belt loops for the gray rope belt which I had tied to my side. I put on a pair of skinny jeans and my paint splattered converse. I grabbed a muffin and sat on the couch watching television. I kept switching between supernatural and Vh1. Once it was twelve, I headed out the door to Alyssa's house. As soon as I pulled into her driveway, I texted her to let her know that I was here. She walked out of the house wearing a t-shirt that was blue and had a So So happy (the brand) bear on it along with a waffle in the shape of a heart with a bite out of it. Above the picture of the bear and waffle, it read 'Waffle-tastic'. Once she got in the car she asked,
"So you got a call from Mr. Romano too?" She asked getting in the front seat of the car.
"Yep. As if we weren't coming in today anyway." I told her while laughing. Alyssa's house was literally almost right by the school. Once you drove down her street, you turned right only to turn left about two seconds down the round. The school's driveway was absolutely long and the parking lot was small compared to it. It was around lunch time when for the high schoolers once we got parked. We saw a big group of people hanging around outside but that was normal during lunch time, but the big group was not for what we thought. Right by the sports entrance of the school was a white stretch limo that seemed to sparkle in the sunlight.
"Wow, I wonder what's going on." Alyssa stated, climbing out of the car.
"Beats me." I answered making sure my purse was hidden under my car seat.
"Remember when we used to have to do those fundraisers and if you got a certain amount of them sold you got to ride to McDonalds in a limo?" Alyssa inquired leaning up against the car waiting for me arms crossed.
"Yes I do and I never saw the point in them. Why?" By this time I was out of the car and we were walking across the black pavement of the parking lot. The closer we got, the more we noticed the crowd got bigger.
"Well I was thinking that maybe that was the reason but there's no way that it would draw that big of a crowd."
"Yea, probably not. It must be something else." After I said that an idea popped into my head which made me laugh unintentionally.
"What?" Alyssa questioned.
"Oh nothing, I just thought that it'd be crazy if it was the host club." As soon as I told her the idea that crossed my mind, I heard a very identifiable voice.
"MORGAN! ALYSSA!"
"I don't think that idea was as crazy as you thought." Alyssa told me as a side comment.
We saw the crowd begin to part and behold Tamaki emerged with the host club right behind him. Even though they were dressed in everyday normal clothes, they still held that regal air about them. Tamaki wore a black reaction nylon jacket with a plain red shirt underneath with a pair of jeans. The sleeves on the jacket were rolled up to his elbows. Slightly behind him on his right was Kyoya, go figure, sporting a blue and black plaid shirt also with the sleeves rolled up and the collar was unbuttoned at the top; a skinny black tie was loosened and he had his hands in the pockets of his skinny black pants. The twins managed to keep the same design yet hold onto a shred of individuality.
Kaoru's skinny jeans were red with white suspenders handing on the left side of his left leg and the right side of his right leg. His top was a red burn out t-shirt with a white button up vest that he left unbuttoned. Hikaru's outfit was similar but instead Hikaru wore white skinny jeans with red suspenders hanging down and a long sleeved white and red plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up. Hunny was perched upon Mori's shoulders and he was wearing cream colored khaki shorts with a pair of flip flops with a plain blue polo shirt. Mori's outfit was also semi-matching Hunny's outfit. He was wearing a polo also but this was brown and his khaki shorts were tan, brown, and white plaid. Haruhi, strangely, wasn't with them. Then again she did have to watch our dog, so she probably didn't come.
Alyssa and I both grabbed Tamaki by his arm and the rest of the host club followed, not to mention most of the student body was watching what was going on. Our school loved drama too much! I guess that what happens, coming from a small town. Luckily the wonderful bell rang out and the mob of students retreated into the school building.
"What're you guys doing here?" I yelled at Tamaki even though the question applied to everyone. When Tamaki saw the fury coming from my voice that I have never raised before in front of them he backed down and quickly said, "Kaoru suggested it!" then hid behind Kyoya.
"Really Tamaki…really….that doesn't seem like Kaoru." Alyssa stated. I had to agree with her until Hunny spoke up. He put his index finger to his chin thinking to himself before saying,
"Actually…come to think of it…it was Kaoru who suggested this trip."
Flashback
"I mean it's not like we can do anything about it now, unless we somehow went there." Kaoru suggested absentmindedly. Tamaki's eyes began to gleam as the wheels in his head began to turn.
"What an excellent idea Kaoru!" He exclaimed gleefully.
End Flashback
Once hearing this, Alyssa and I turned our glares to Kaoru.
"What! It was a thought that was spoken out loud. I didn't think anything of it." Kaoru put his hands up in surrender as he explained his reasoning.
"But it's Tamaki! Anything you say he is going to take whole heartedly….or at least most heartedly." Alyssa told him.
"Well Kyoya almost had him reconsidering the idea until Hikaru came in and exclaimed we're going to the U.S." Kaoru then proceeded to blame his brother. It seemed like the only ones who were truly innocent were Kyoya, Mori, and Hunny.
"I wouldn't have been so quick to jump on board if it wasn't for Alyssa!" Hikaru shouted at Kaoru while pointing at his girlfriend.
"How is this my fault?" Alyssa demanded. I was no longer angry for I could see that this argument between Alyssa and Hikaru was going to escalade.
"If you would have just answered your phone when I called then you would have known that I was trying to warn you we might be coming but instead some guy answers your phone. What's up with that?" He angrily asked.
"That guy was Gavin and he's a friend of mine who also likes to mess with me. He stole my phone then it was taken away by Mrs. Neel one of the teachers. I meant to call back but I just forgot! There's no need to overreact!" Alyssa shouted.
"I'm not overreacting!" He shouted back at her.
As soon as she said that there was knocking at the window. We all turned and saw a teacher banging on the window telling us to be quiet.
"Look we all need to calm down. Alyssa and I have a meeting at three today with our old principal. How about you guys find a hotel in the next town over to stay at, only because we don't have a hotel here and we'll meet up later." I suggested attempting to keep the peace. Alyssa and Hikaru needed a few hours away from each other that much was for sure.
"Did you really think we'd come here without making accommodations?" asked Kyoya, his smirk etched on his face.
"Well you never know." I stated, "Look, I guess you can go to my house for now, assuming that you don't want to go back to the hotel you apparently have already booked. Do you have a pen and paper so I can write down the address?" Kyoya lifted up a GPS in his hand.
"Right…the address is 555 Thomson Drive." I told him as he hastily typed it into his GPS.
"As soon as we're done with our meeting we'll be over there…" Alyssa started.
"So please…don't touch anything. Oh and don't mess with the cats…unless your gentle." I finished.
We left the host club standing there while we walked back into the school building. I looked at my phone for the time. It said it was 12:30. We had an hour and a half until Mr. Romano needed to see us, so to pass up the time, we decided to visit our old teachers, considering our friends were all in class right now. In the end we only visited two teachers, Mrs. Haswell, our old art teacher and Mr. Landis, our old math teacher. Before I knew it, it was time to go and visit Mr. Romano.
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Alyssa's POV~_~_~_~_~_~_~
Some nerve Hikaru had! The fact that Gavin answered my phone wasn't that big of a deal! Sure, I'll admit I'm at fault for not calling back, but seriously? I didn't dwell too much more on the argument that Hikaru and I had when we reached Mr. Romano's office. His office door was open, like most of the offices were at our school, but Mr. Romano was not in. I wondered if we should stick around and wait for him or leave. Before we even got a chance to make a decision, he walked in his office through the door on the other side.
"Oh, Morgan…Alyssa. Glad you two could make it. Please have a seat." Mr. Romano sat down in his chair and gestured to the two chairs in front of his desk. We walked in and took a seat. I glanced around the room and was sort of shocked by the amount of Steelers merchandise he had hanging about his room. He had Steelers magnets sticking to his white board, Steelers flags poking out of the wall, Steelers hand towels, and Steelers picture frames. To say this guy was a fan was an understatement.
"Now all I need is to ask the two of you some questions and I'll let you go." He said while grabbing a binder and opening it.
"Well what do you need to know?" I asked politely.
"Firstly, I'd like to know what classes you are taking. It'll give us a sense of what you two are learning." He looked at us patiently for us to discuss our classes.
"Umm…well, we're taking the basic classes like math, language, history…" I began but then trailed off trying to think of other things we might be taking. "Oh and elective classes like art and music."
Mr. Romano was quickly jotting down everything I had said, and then asked, "Have you two joined any extracurricular activities?"
I grew very nervous then. I was hoping we wouldn't have to bring up the host club or explain what it was.
"We…uh we joined one club." Morgan answered.
"Really? That's great what sort of club?" Mr. Romano asked writing some more. At first neither of us said anything and when we didn't, Mr. Romano looked up at us expectedly.
"Um…well it's a social club. In short, the men and girls of the school gather together and drink tea and eat sweets and basically socialize." I hoped the explanation I gave him would be enough. I don't think he'd approve of the real definition of the Host Club.
"That's good. It's nice to see that at least some of the students are enjoying themselves." He mentioned as he continued to write.
"What do you mean?" I questioned.
"Well, so far I've already had two of our students kicked out of the program and the other two students had a long list of complaints. Sometimes I wondered why the board even wanted to do this program." He said the last part more to himself than us.
"Anyway, I'll let you two go. Enjoy yourselves while you're at home."
"We will Mr. Romano. Have a nice day." I said, while we exited to which he replied, "Thanks, you too."
We walked out the glass front doors of the school building making our way out into the parking lot.
"So, what now?" I asked Morgan.
"Well…I don't know. The host club is at my house. I'm sure we can figure it out then." Morgan answered, unlocking her car door then unlocking mine. Once we got to her street, taking up a good portion of the cul-de-sac was the white limo. Morgan pulled into her gravel driveway hidden slightly by the wall of bushes that surrounded the front of her house. When we reached the garage, we saw the host club gathered in the backyard. The twins were seated on the concrete steps leading to the back door while Kyoya leaned up against the white walls of the house. Tamaki and Hunny ran around the yard while Mori just stood there watching them. All was going well until Hunny ran under the clothes line, being small enough to fit under them, while Tamaki literally got clotheslined. He fell backwards, landing hard on his butt with a puzzled look upon his face. He was probably wondering what just happened. Morgan and I busted up laughing but because we were still in the car, no one had heard us.
We climbed out of the blue cobalt and walked over to the back door, unlocking it to welcome everyone inside. I took off my shoes in the little mud room area before making my way into the kitchen. The walls were decorated with grape vine borders giving it an Italian like look. I continued on through the kitchen stopping in the living room, plunked down onto the couch. The host club soon followed and for a moment I didn't see Morgan. She appeared on the other side of the living room, meaning that she must have walked through the mud room, walked down to her room then came into the living room. Hikaru had sat next to me and took my hand but I yanked it out of his, crossing my arms. He was being stupid about the phone call and until he apologized, he would get the silent treatment, even if it was childish. Although the silence was becoming almost unbearably awkward because of the way Hikaru and I were acting, so I tried to break it.
"So where have you guys made arrangements to stay?" I questioned trying to draw attention to something different. Kyoya was the one to answer me, while pushing up his glasses.
"Well there weren't many options that would befit our standards, but the Renaissance will do nicely."
If I had water in my mouth, I would have done a spit take.
"The Renaissance as in Cleveland? Why did you guys make hotel arrangements an hour away from us?" I exclaimed.
"Yea why not something closer?" Morgan asked.
"Why does it matter? We'll be spending most of our time with you guys anyway." Kaoru stated as if it was obvious.
"Negative ghost-rider. I have dinner with my family and my grandparents at their house tonight." I mentioned while Morgan followed with, "Samesies. My mom is taking me out for dinner."
"You know, for as long as we've known you two, you guys never talked much about your families." Hunny stated absentmindedly, playing with Usa-chan.
"Hunny is right! It's completely unacceptable. As the father of this host club, it is only natural I meet my daughter's families." Tamaki became very dramatic as he said this; his arm movements were bigger than usual but still graceful and powerful as he twirled in circles.
"Umm, no offense guys at all, but my family would eat you all alive." I hated to burst their bubble but what I said was true.
"How so?" asked Kaoru.
"Well…I don't know…I guess one thing would be that you guys are rich city folk and my family is a bunch of farmers. Then there's my grandpa's personality…and don't even get me started on my older brother." I could tell I was beginning to ramble so I left it at that.
"I'm sure we can handle anything they dish out. Please!" Tamaki was giving me his puppy dog face. I really wanted to say no, but with that face it was hard to. I looked over at Morgan for help, who just made a face and shrugged her shoulders.
"Even if we said yes where would we have dinner? I know with gas prices as they are there is no way my mom or Alyssa's family are going to drive all the way to Cleveland." Morgan spoke up at this point. I began to think to myself.
"Well, maybe I could ask my Granny if it was okay if your mom and you came along with the host club. I'll go out there and help her cook some more food. If we put the extension on the table like we do for Thanksgiving, there should be enough room. Let's see, my family of six, plus you and your mom, plus my grandparents, plus the six host club members…that makes 16 people. Wow…I think I'll just have to tell my Granny to make something that's easy and can be in abundance. I'm gonna go call her now." I got up and went into the kitchen to make the phone call. I quickly scrolled through my contacts to find my grandparents number, pushing send. I heard it ring a few times before hearing my Granny's voice on the other side.
"Jacksons."
"Hey Granny…its Alyssa…I need to ask you a question."
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Morgan's POV~_~_~_~_~_~_~
I honestly can say I was going to dread this evening if we were going to really have this dinner. I have a feeling Tamaki is going to have a hard time trying to control his tongue. This could all go downhill fast. The only thing that would make this evening entertaining is the reaction of Alyssa's older brother and dad to her dating someone. But if they're still not talking to each other, then the news may never come out.
I can't believe those two. At first I admit, Hikaru was being stupid about the phone call now they were both being stupid about this. They just need to talk this out, or I'm just going to have to get them to talk. Alyssa walked back into the room sooner than expected with a smile on her face.
"So my Granny was okay with it. Dinner is at five and do not be late, not even fashionably late. My grandfather will flip his lid." She stressed out her last sentence. She grabbed her phone and quickly began typing away. I was curious as to what she was doing until she said, "Kyoya I just sent you the address via text." She sat back down on the couch then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
"My mom is gonna be home any minute, you guys gotta get outta here." I sprang up out of the recliner, shoving the guys out the door.
"But this will be the perfect time to meet my daughter's mom!" Tamaki exclaimed hanging onto the door frame, refusing to let go.
"Yea…you'll meet her later!" I said prying his fingers off one by one. Once I was finally able to get the door shut I looked at Alyssa who was lounging on the couch.
"Do you really think is this a good idea?" I crossed my arms over my chest waiting for her answer. With a shrug of her shoulders, she responded with, "We'll see."
~_~_~_~_~_~_~The Dinner~_~_~_~_~_~_~
The clock read 4:30 in my car as I was driving my mother and me to Alyssa's grandparents.
"Are you sure you're okay with this" I asked my mom turning onto the street marked Cook Road, passing the small crimson brick church that sat on the corner. Once we passed the church we were welcomed by the opened already harvested corn and soy bean fields.
"How many times do I have to say yes? Although I'm not exactly fond of social gatherings, after hearing everything you've said about your new friends, I'm very excited to meet them."
I nodded at her answer and continued on my way until I saw the house. It was a unique house to say the least. The house was in the shape of a dull blue barn; the one side of the house was covered in windows with lights shining brightly through it while the other side of the house had one door and one window. It was obvious which side of the house was actually the one in which people lived. In the middle of the two sides was the giant garage that was seemly bigger than the part where Alyssa's grandparents lived. It was a hard house to describe.
We pulled into the gravel driveway, noticing that Alyssa and her family were already here, the big gray van already parked. I wasn't sure where to park and when I went to park next to Alyssa's family's vehicle, my mom began to bark at me, telling me where I should park.
"Park over on the side passed the gasoline tanks."
"Why can't I park here?" I questioned to which she responded with "Because what if they need to leave, no just park over there." She pointed back to the spot she mentioned earlier.
"I'm sure if they leave, we won't be staying! So it shouldn't matter." I squeaked as I pulled the car to a stop until we figured this out.
"Just listen and go park over there." I groaned then made my way over to park. This is ridiculous. Once we were parked, we made our way inside the house. Upon entering the house, we were greeted with the various smells of food. Alyssa's Granny walked into the mud room where we currently were. She was short and slightly pudgy but walked with pride with her back straight and her head held high.
"Well Hey Morgan! And you must be her mom." She held out her hand for my mom to shake.
"Hi I'm Granny."
"I'm Barb."
"It's nice to see you. Well come on in." She said, walking into the kitchen. After taking our shoes off and followed after her. Grant, the youngest of Alyssa's siblings was sitting at the counter in one of the many stools. He sat there trying to organize his baseball and football cards, on occasion scratching his head of messy dark hair. Alyssa and her mom were setting the table, getting it ready for dinner tonight. Alyssa's dad was getting some chips that lied on the marble counter tops. Tony, the second youngest of Alyssa's siblings, Brennan, the oldest of all the siblings, and her grandpa sat in the open living room which was adjacent to the kitchen. When Alyssa spotted me, she walked over to me.
"It's 4:45, you don't think they'll be late do you?" She asked me, slightly nervous about this whole ordeal. I could not blame her cause I was just about as nervous, maybe even more.
"Yes, I think they will show up late." I said sarcastically hoping she would catch on, which she did because she gave me a look that said it wasn't funny. About five minutes later, a white limo pulled down the driveway.
"Woah! Who's driving the limo?" asked Grant, pointing out the window. Tony got from his place on the couch walking towards Grant.
"There's no limo out there." He said while glancing out the window. When he saw the white stretch limo coming up the drive, he rethought his last statement. Her two brothers looked at each other before running out side, to which Alyssa's grandpa yelled, "Hey! Stop running in my house!"
Alyssa smacked her hand against her forehead but headed towards the door as well to go greet the host club and I decided to join her. Once outside, we saw the limo park by the other barn that matched the house, but that one actually held farm equipment and her brother's cows. The host club was standing out of the vehicle already and Alyssa's brothers were climbing around on the inside.
"TONY! GRANT! GET OUT OF THAT LIMO!" She screamed at them and for once they actually listened. Grant got out first, running towards the house but didn't quite make it before Tony jumped out and push him to the ground. Once the two were back in the house, we walked over to the host club.
"Okay…these are the things that you cannot, I beg of you, cannot say or do while here. The twincest, brotherly love thing…don't even think about it. It will not go over well with our families. Tamaki, absolutely no talk of the host club. Other than that I think it'll all be okay." Alyssa said it quickly before taking a deep breath. "Okay, let's do this."
The host club and I followed Alyssa back into house, preparing for a dinner that was going to be interesting indeed.
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Alyssa's POV~_~_~_~_~_~_~
I was completely nervous and stressed out. I was worried about the jokes my grandpa was going to make, or the cracks that my brothers would say. Not to mention I still haven't talked to Hikaru. Once we got inside I had the host club take off their shoes and prepared them to meet our families. Once we all walked in. With a big smile Granny was the first to greet the club.
"Hi! I'm Alyssa's Granny, Jane Jackson." She wiping her hands on the towel hanging on the stove, gathering everyone's attention and they waited for me to say the names of everyone.
"Everyone this is Tamaki, Kyoya, Hikaru, Kaoru, Hunny, and Mori." I pointed to each of them as I said their names, feeling less nervous than before. My Dad made his way over to all of the members to shake their hands.
"I'm Bryan, Alyssa's dad." I prayed that each of them gave him a firm and strong handshake because if not I'll have to hear about it later. I guided them over to Morgie and I's mothers who were chatting away.
"This is my mom Stacey, and Morgan's mom Barb." They held out their hands to shake but instead of shaking them, the entire host club kissed the back of their hands. At first I thought it was going to ruin everything, but then my mom said, "What a pleasant bunch of gentlemen." As soon as she said that Granny yelled, "Alright time to eat!"
Granny had set all the food on the cutter table sitting in the middle of the kitchen. There were cheesy potatoes and slumgolian. Once everyone sat down at the table, we began to eat our food. My grandpa was the first to talk.
"So, do you mind telling us about yourself?" He questioned the host club.
"All of us are… heirs to family companies in Japan." Answered Kyoya, which I had expected. But he paused before saying heirs, making me wonder if Kyoya had an older brother who would actually take the company. My grandpa put down his fork and said, "Really?...like what?"
"Well, the Ootori family is mainly dealing with hospitals and health. Tamaki's father is the headmaster at Ouran Academy. The Hitachiin twins family deal mostly with fashion. The Haninozuka's and the Morinozuka's are known for their martial arts." Kyoya's business voice was hard not to listen to. My grandpa nodded before turning his attention to me.
"So Alyssa, have any boys rubbing up against you?"
Instantly my face went beet red. I was insanely embarrassed. I knew my grandfather was going to say something like this.
"NO!...No Grandpa, no guys…just no!" I said quickly, putting my hands to my face, rubbing my eyes.
"Any boyfriends got you pregnant yet?" He asked.
"She knows not to have any boyfriends." Brennan said while cracking his knuckles. I looked over at the host club. Kaoru, Hikaru, and Tamaki actually looked intimidated. Then again who wouldn't be? My brother was 260 pounds and six foot three.
"Actually I do have a boyfriend. But he overreacted to a little phone call and now we're not talking." I said looking at Hikaru, not caring if anyone noticed.
"Well, did you ever think that maybe if he called you and another guy answered your phone, he had a right to be angry?" He exclaimed, stabbing at his food in anger.
"No, he should be able to trust his girlfriend and simply just talk to me about it!" I was beginning to raise my voice.
"How can he trust you! Another guy answered your phone! That obviously meant something else was going on!" Hikaru yelled at me and I felt my heart beginning to break. He doesn't trust me.
"Well, if he doesn't trust me, then maybe I should just tell him we're over!" I got up from my chair because I could feel myself about to cry. "Please excuse me."
I left the dinner table and walked into the mud room. I threw on my converse and walked outside. I made my way towards the pond so I could go sit on this giant rectangle shaped rock. Once my butt hit the cold stone and I was away from everyone, I allowed myself to cry.
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Morgan's POV~_~_~_~_~_~_~
As soon as Alyssa left the dinner table, I got up as well.
"Hikaru, I need to talk to you." I demanded walking towards the mud room. Once I was sure Hikaru was following, I walked out into the garage, where I knew this could be a concealed conversation. As soon as we were out there, I punched him hard in the arm.
"Ow!"
"What the hell is your problem! You couldn't have just talked about this with her?" I screamed at him. I honestly wanted him to hurt. How could he tell Alyssa he didn't trust her? The nerve of him.
"I didn't mean what I said! I just said it!" He yelled back at me.
"It doesn't matter! You know I doubt you are ever going to get her back after saying that!" That seemed to hit him hard. I don't think I had ever seen him so sad. Even though I was absolutely livid with him, I softened a bit.
"Look, I know what you said you didn't mean, but you need to apologize, for everything." I left him standing there, pondering about what I said while I went walking out to the pond where Alyssa was.
Once I got there, Alyssa was wiping her tears away.
"Can you believe he doesn't trust me…he doesn't trust me!" She exclaimed before pausing then continuing.
"I watch him flirt with countless girls every day! Sure it's for the club, but it doesn't matter! I trusted him! He worked so hard to get my attention and when he has it, he doubts me!" She stopped again, than started right back up. "No…forget him…I'm done." Once I was positive she was done ranting, I sat down next to her.
"Although I completely agree that Hikaru is deucebag." When I said deucebag she gave me a weird look.
"…you mean douchebag?" She questioned.
"I meant what I said." I declared, and she actually cracked a smile. "Look you both need to talk to each other about this. You both had a mutual reaction and it needs to be solved." I glanced over and saw Hikaru walking over to us. "Good Luck." I said as an afterthought and began to walk back to the house. I grabbed Hikaru by the arm to stop him. "Do not make this any worse. You better not hurt her." With that, I went back into the house.
~_~_~_~_~_~_~Alyssa's POV~_~_~_~_~_~_~
I watched Morgan walk away as Hikaru walked towards me, his head hung low and his hands in his pockets. This whole situation made me think of a scene in the Fox and the Hound. When Todd, a fox who had been a house pet his whole life, is released into the wild where he meets the vixen Vixey, he tries to impress her by catching a fish. But that backfires as he fails completely because he's never fished before. Vixey laughs at his antics but he calls her a stupid headed female. Of course Vixey gets angry and then Big Mama the very wise owl fixes everything. I thought our situation was similar. Hikaru said something that pissed me off and Morgan is trying to fix it. Hikaru sat down next to me and at first said nothing.
"I'm sorry." He whispered. I snorted at what he said.
"You know whenever I had apologized for something at my grandparent's house, my grandpa would always say that I really wasn't sorry…because if I was then I would have never done it in the first place." I stated hoping he caught the hint.
"What I said wasn't true…I do trust you!" He exclaimed taking my hand in his, to which I pulled away standing up.
"Do you?...Do you really?..." I scoffed and walked over to one of the trees leaning up against it.
"I continuously watch you flirt with girls at the host club. Every single day I hear girls squealing in high pitched voices. 'Oh it's brotherly love!' or something horrible like that. Do I get mad?...No! Because I trusted you! I knew you wouldn't ever mess around with any of them." I turned back towards him then continued. He was tense. I said I trusted him as in past tense. I wonder if he caught it.
"But when I go to answer my phone and one of my friends answers the phone instead, you start accusing me! You didn't trust me at all! And then you didn't even believe me when I told you what happened!" He flinched but got from the stone sauntering over to me.
"I know! And it was a stupid accusation. And I do trust you! I was blinded by my anger and jealousy." I shook my head at him.
"Really cause I have a hard time believing that. I no longer have trust in you." I crossed my arms in front of my chest and Hikaru rested his hands on my upper arms. "I know…please just tell me how I can make it better. How can I get you to forgive me?" He was desperate and I could tell, which was going to make this even harder.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but you're going to have to regain my trust in you…And to do that I think…" I took a breath because I could feel my throat tightening up. "I think we need to take a break."
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