Before I Loved You

Chapter Three

Hikaru's POV

(A quick reminder…remember that the twins and Haruhi are in middle school!)

Slouching back in my seat I picked at the white threads of my uniform trying to ignore all of the annoying kids around me. Looking over Kaoru's shoulder I watched as he finished his science homework. "When is Haruhi going to be here." I grumbled over the shoulder of my brother. Class was boring without people to play with. All of the other kids were…well, I don't know. I just know that I had distaste for them. Plus, it's not like any of them were actually mean to us. Ugh. Where was she? We had slipped her file onto the counselor's desk the day after we had met her; we sort of took a look at her file and plumped up her resume. But not anything bad…just like how she had once saved a baby from getting run over. Very unlikely, but what would the counselor know? All the school needed was money, and once Haruhi got chosen for the scholarship they would probably never look at her file again. If she didn't get in with that resume, well, we would have made sure she got in some other way. A promise is a promise after all. When we had informed her the Friday they had announced the honor student when she was at our house all she did was smile that rare smile and eat some more of our food. Talk about unemotional…oh but then again she didn't scream at us for the rest of the night.

Bored, I looked up as she entered the room. Oh my God. What was she wearing? As the teacher introduced her to our class in homeroom before the day started all I could do was stare at her hideous clothes. If her hair wasn't that long and feminine she could have passed as a boy. Walking forward she sat in the desk next to me as she greeted us. "Hey Kaoru, Hikaru."

Turning away from his homework Kaoru gave a smile and went to wrap his arm around her shoulder. "We told you that we could get you in, didn't we?" smirked Kaoru. I would be doing the same thing except that she looked so different. I know that I probably sound really shallow but when all you see Haruhi in is skirts from a school uniform this was a drastic change. She had the same face and long brown hair, but the clothes. They weren't even matching! A maroon sweater with really baggy pants. Ew. She could have at least worn her old school's uniform.

"Hikaru?" Haruhi asked as she knelt down from her standing position so that she was looking eye to eye with me.

Shaking myself out of my daydreams I smirked too. "Hey, Haruhi. We told you that you could trust us, right? Also, what are you wearing?" I questioned. Dang, I really need to think before I speak. Now, I probably sound like some shallow rich boy…but I sort of was wasn't I? But that didn't matter right now. What mattered was giving Haruhi a makeover this afternoon. Glancing over Haruhi's head at Kaoru I could tell that he was thinking the same thing. Good. The plan was set for this afternoon. Plan make Haruhi all girly and pretty again. Heh. Like she could get out of this one. We practically got her into this school . Still smirking Haruhi sat down beside me as the morning classes started.

The rest of the day went by pretty smoothly. Well, I mean, if you count people just whispering about Haruhi behind her back instead of like going up to her and asking her why she was here. But then again, I was used to it. Apparently Haruhi wasn't. When Kaoru and I were heading off to lunch I noticed that Haruhi was staying in the classroom.

"Hey, Haruhi! You need to go to lunch now. Did you not have bells in your old school or something?" I asked.

As she looked at me I could clearly trace the annoyance that was blatantly portrayed on her face. "I don't need to go to lunch. I made my own this morning. You can go on without me. I have to read back over the notes that we took this morning in English." she said as she unwrapped her lunch.

Oh my gosh. It was one of those commoner lunch things that Tamaki was always talking about. Then I heard a loud bang and a crash right behind me. Speak of the devil.

Running over to Haruhi, he grabbed her shoulders and started shaking her. What the heck? "Are you okay Haruhi!" screamed Tamaki. If you want to transfer to another class I'll help you transfer. Just say the word and it'll be done." he ended with a serious face on.

"Um, no I'm fine with this class Tamaki-senpai. Thanks though." she said as calmly as she could as the rest of the high schoolers walked in.

Striding up to us Tamaki pointed to me a said, "Hello Kaoru. How has your day been?"

Wow was he really that dumb? Ignoring him I walked back towards Haruhi. "Hey, I'll trade you my lunch if I can have yours for today." I said.

Glancing up at me she said, "Sure." as she looked back towards her books. Dang, will this girl never stop studying? Soon, Haruhi had a small crowd of boys crowded around her, along with me. Surprisingly, she wasn't that annoyed with us. I would have assumed that she would have gotten sort of mad that we were all bothering her while she was trying to study, but I don't think that she would look so happy when Kaoru and I were done making her not look like…that. We spent the rest of lunch trying to get a taste of Hauhi's bento that she reluctantly gave to us after about ten minutes of trying to keep it. She was a good cook. Although I didn't say it out loud I'm sure that she could tell when all of us, minus Kyoya and Mori, tried to get the last piece of her food. When Tamaki grabbed it and ran out to the hallway what could all of us do but follow.

Haruhi rolled her eyes as I left her with a grin and started to chase after Tamaki. I saw a couple of girls go into our classroom that were in high school uniforms. What would they want in there? Weird. Glancing at my brother and the others making a mad dash after Tamaki…except for Kyoya and Mori (do they ever act crazy?) I slowly walked back into our classroom. I had a funny feeling about those girls. Peeking my head in the door I saw Haruhi standing up from her desk with a calm look on her face. Then, I saw the three girls go into the room and take out a couple of pairs of scissors. They then continued to shout insults about Haruhi to her face. Then, they took their scissors and cut up all of Haruhi's notes that she had worked so hard on. Okay, that was it. Stalking into the room I grabbed a trashcan that was filled with trash and moved towards the three girls.

Then, I dumped it on them. I heard screams of outrage as Haruhi looked at me with an open mouth. Hey, look at that, another expression on her face besides a bored one…but that didn't matter right now. What mattered were those freaks that were bullying Haruhi. Really, they had a problem.

As they whirled around to possibly stab the person that had dumped the trash on them they were all about to scream on me when they realized who I was. I'm sure that you could guess that these shallow girls were big fashion fans, and what do you know, my mom is a HUGE fashion designer. My mom's name was probably stamped on the tags of all of their clothes.

The scowls and ugly faces turned into smiles and…ugly faces. "Hikaru!" a red haired on squealed, "What are you doing here? We were just trying to um, greet the new student!" she said as she flashed a smile towards Haruhi. Wasn't this supposed to be an elite school? How stupid could you get?

"Right," I said as I moved towards Haruhi. "And what were you doing to my girlfriend?" I asked.

Hugging her I smiled at her as I raised an eyebrow at the girls. Nervously, they dropped the scissors and started to walk quickly out of the room. Ha. I win.

Waiting for a grateful thanks from Haruhi all I got was a, "Did you just tell them that I was your girlfriend?"

Dang. I did didn't I? But that was just to get them to stop bothering her. Oh, well. If that rumor spread maybe they would leave her alone.

Grinning I just was about to tell her the truth when Tamaki walked in. Gasping, he ran over to me and pushed me off of Haruhi. "What are you doing to her?" he shouted.

Smirking, I said, "It's because she's my girlfriend now." I said to Tamaki as the rest of his friends and Kaoru walked in. Only Kaoru could tell that I was kidding. Smiling, he gave me a thumbs up.

Rolling her eyes Haruhi said, "I don't really care about what I'm known as at this school. I just came here to learn." she said as she picked up her notes. Ah, that's right, notes. She was going to kill me. "I need your notes." Haruhi said to me as I let go of her and slightly backed away. I handed mine to her as she quickly grabbed another spiral and started to copy notes.

"Ah!" Tamaki exclaimed, " What happened to Haruhi's notes!" Quickly, Tamaki turned his head towards me and pointed at me. "It was you wasn't it!" Wow. How did he get into this school?

Shaking my head I just walked over to Haruhi and started to play with her hair. Tamaki then once again pushed me out of the way. Ugh. This was going to be a long day.