Before I Loved You
Chapter Five
"Haruhiiiii! Come on you have to go. Going would be like, I don't know, your rite of passage to officially going to Ouran. They have these like every other month! How are you going to make friends if you don't go." whined Hikaru.
"Be quiet. I told you for the last time I'm not going to that stupid dance. Besides who would pay to get into our school AGAIN when the only difference is that it's night and people are in different clothes." I said as I concentrated on writing the rough draft of my English assignment that I was currently working on while the twins played some videogames.
Honestly, I still couldn't get used to their house. I mean, it wasn't exactly a bad thing going home with them every day after school. I got a free limo ride and some free food. Not to mention that their house was a little closer to my house and the grocery market. But seriously, their game room was about as big as my house. A HUGE flat screen TV was on a wall with a couple of beanbags and plush chairs. Behind them was their usually layout of food. I still had to have help finding my way to the bathroom. Also, I came here so frequently that the maids, butlers, cooks, and all of their other servants knew me by name. Strangely, I still hadn't seen their parents. I was curious to see how they acted but I didn't want to pry. That would be a question for later.
I couldn't believe that these people went to school dances. It was like school…well you know without the school work. Plus you had to pay…but then again I guess that it wouldn't matter to kids that are at the school, well, besides me that is. Everyone was so excited when it was announced too.
"Um, class, could you settle down. Ahem, yes, well it has been announced that this Saturday at 4:00 PM the middle school fall dance and festival will take place in the ballroom of Ouran Academy. Anyone that would like to come needs to pay in advance and sign up on this sheet. Thank you."
Yup, right after our class president announced this there were screams of, "But there isn't enough time! That's only three days away! How is my tailor supposed to make me a dress!" and "I wonder if the circus is going to come again."
Yeah. That's not exactly how my old school dances went.
"But Haruhiiii you don't understand you have to go!" Kaoru pleaded as he came and sat by the desk I was working on.
Finally tearing my eyes away from my homework assignment I raised an eyebrow in annoyance. "Oh really, and why is that?"
Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other nervously. "Ummm, because we sorta signed you up for the dance?" grinned Hikaru. "Yeah and um, we sorta designed and had our tailor make about fifty dresses for you to try on. With shoes and accessories." Kaoru followed up with.
You have got to be kidding me. Sighing I just put my head back on the table and closed my eyes. Soon, I felt a poke on my head. Followed by another…and then another. I was about to scream.
"You do realize that you're spending a TON of money on me right? And all I'm doing for you is spending time with you. That doesn't exactly seem like a fair exchange. Even if I do have to deal with you guys…which is actually pretty tiring." I said. "And then you go and spend probably thousands of dollars making me dresses and then you buy a ticket to the dance for me. How much money do you have? And don't your parent's even care that you're spending it?"
Both of the boys glanced at each other and shrugged their shoulders. "Not really. I mean when we spend the money it basically comes right back in. Our mom does design clothes. A LOT of it. The cash flows in nonstop practically. People all over the world buy her products." stated Kaoru.
Then, I saw a light go off above Hikaru's head. Smirking he looked over at Kaoru who nodded his head. This couldn't be good.
"Hey, Haruhi. If you don't go to the dance then you would have made us waste a LOT of money making all of these dresses for you. Not to mention the dance ticket. Also, they do have food there." smirked Hikaru.
Dang it. I knew it. They had me. Sighing I finally gave in. "Fine, fine, I'll go. You go ahead and pick a dress for me. I don't care." I said as I got back to working on my essay. It couldn't possibly be that bad. And if I didn't have to try on any dresses it would be that painful.
Happily the twins started to basically skip around the table that they had set up in the game room for me. "Hey, but wait. If we pick the dress we won't really know what it'll look like." reasoned Hikaru.
"Which is why," the twins stated in unison, "You have to come try them on!" They then commenced to each grab an arm and drag me to their "fitting room." Which I could have actually I don't know lived in for my whole life.
All around me were white marble walls that were behind about fifty dresses. They ranged in color from the pales white to a jet black. Also, there was practically every shade of color in between.
While I was still taking in the sight of this many high quality dresses I heard the twins whisper among themselves. "No, no black is too formal for this." "Yellow would look weird and so would orange…not to mention the brown one. Why is that even here?" "I think red isn't her style."
"Hey can you get rid of all of the black, yellow, orange, brown, and red dresses!" shouted Kaoru.
"Of course." Said two twins. Jumping a little I watched as the two identical black haired twin girls started to push the dresses Hikaru and Kaoru didn't want to a corner of the room.
"Okay Haruhi. We have about twenty dresses left. When do you go home normally? About five or six? Well you're going to stay after till about eight. We'll even drive you home. Now leave a message for your dad at home telling him where you'll be." commanded Hikaru as he whipped out a cell phone and handed it to me. Looking for sympathy in either of the pairs of twins' eyes I quickly found none. There was not getting out of this.
Quickly I called my dad and let him know where I would be. I had told him enough about the twins so that he would let me stay at their house. When I told him that they had paid for me to go to school he had been overjoyed with happiness saying, "Ah, my dear darling Haruhi gets to go to the school of her dreams. Also, it's at the expense of some rich boys! Make sure they're nice okay!" My dad wasn't exactly over protective as you can tell.
"Let's get this over with." I said.
Smirking the twins both said, "Sure thing."
I was thrown from the twins to the dressing room where the maids "helped me" (more like shoved me) into different dresses. I would then be shoved outside where the twins would nod their approval and put the dress into a maybe pile or shake their head and have the dress tossed into a corner of rejects.
In about two hours I had gone through the twenty dresses and was left with five. I was sweating and I was about ready to collapse on a bed even though I hadn't been doing anything. Well, I had been doing something but that something was just being thrown back and forth across a huge room.
The twins had me try on all five of the dresses on again. I was left with a strapless dark green dress that fell to below my knees, a white dress with thick straps that fell to my ankles, a cerulean blue dress that had a strap around my neck and was a little above my knees, a pale purple dress that fell to my knees, and a pale pink dress with thin straps that had a bow in a darker pink near the bottom of my dress.
Each time that I tried them on the twins would examine the dress closely and then they would quickly mutter things towards each other. They would have me get into another dress and compare and mutter again. In other words I wasn't picking the dress, they were. Honestly though, I didn't really care. Do you want to know what I do care about, though? The English essay that was due tomorrow.
In about another hour I was down to two dresses. Thank goodness. Looking at my watch I saw that it was already seven. I normally had dinner ready by now. Also, I was usually almost done with any essays that I had to write for the next day.
As I stepped into the pink dress, which was handed to me by the maids (hey, I didn't want to get changed by maids. In fact I had insisted that I change myself, but then the maids had just grabbed me and flung me into the dressing room.)
As I stepped out the twins smiled. "That's the one!" Kaoru shouted. "Yup," agreed Hikaru, "Now put on these shoes." He said as he handed me a pale pink pair of sandals with high heels. Slipping them on I wobbled a little as I tried to get used to standing on them. Wait, how did everything fit me so perfectly? How could they do that? Ugh, honestly I didn't even really want to know how they got my measurements.
"I'm going home." I said after I had walked around for five minutes. "You guys already picked out my dress right? How much did this cost anyways? I'll have to pay you back. Besides what are you going to do with all of those dresses?"
"Um I don't think that you'll be able to pay us back. Really. It was fun designing them. " insisted Kaoru.
Glaring at him I said, "Seriously. Come on."
Wincing he said, "Um, $1,300"
My jaw dropped. "I think I'll have to pay you back later."
Smiling Hikaru said, "And besides the other dresses with be checked up on by our mom, tweaked, and then sold in stores. See, it really wasn't a waste!"
As I packed up my homework worn out from three hours of being a football I silently headed into the limo that Hikaru and Kaoru had waiting. After I got in the piled in after me.
"Hey, Haruhi, since we're dropping you off can we come in to see how commoner's live?"questioned the twin.
Without hesitation I said, "NO."
This continued all the way to my apartment complex where I bolted out of the car, unlocked my door, and slammed it shut in record time. As I waited for the twins to leave I could see them grumbling inside their limo as they headed home.
I saw that my dad wasn't home yet so I made a really quick meal of some miso soup with rice balls. Eating my share and covering Dad's share with a plate I made my way to my room and shut the door as I tried to finish my homework. Let me tell you that I stayed up until one. And no I wasn't happy the next day. At all.
It really didn't help that the next three days after school consisted of hair style ideas and ballroom music with the twins trying to help me waltz. It was…difficult for me to try to dance. Honestly, it really wasn't something that I was good at. In fact, Hikaru called me a dancing donkey. He got a shoe thrown at him for that.
I was tired the rest of the week. In fact, I had planned to sleep in on Saturday until about noon. Yes, I was tired. Yeah, that didn't work too well. Especially when at ten 'o clock you hear your doorbell ring and you hear the two voices of the red headed boys that had kept me up this week. I heard them talking with my dad when I heard my room open.
Quietly I beckoned him to come towards me and I whispered, "Tell them I'm sick!"
Smiling at me he walked towards the door and flipped on the light switch.
"Oh Hikaru, Kaoru! Haruhi is in her room waiting for you, okay?" he said in a sing song voice. He smiled and said that he would be back at about three to see the finished product before I left.
Betrayal. It burns.
Before I could even get up out of bed the twins stampeded into my room with a box of what I could only guess were beauty supplies and there was a bag with my dress and shoes in it. They also had two bags with what they were planning to wear.
Groaning I was pulled out of bed and pushed into the bathroom with a, "Rise and shine! Wash your body but not your hair. We'll do that! Hurry up too!"
I swear, one day I was just going to snap and then they were going to be gone. Gone as in DEAD.
Speedily, I washed myself and stepped outside of the bathroom in my pajamas only to be shoved back in and my head being forced under the faucet in the bathtub.
"Close your eyes." Kaoru demanded as Hikaru pulled a bottle of shampoo and conditioner and started to lather my hair. After that was done they pulled out their super fancy and expensive blow dryer and started to work on my hair.
After they dried it Hikaru said, "Wow, Haruhi, your hair looks so much better. You should keep this shampoo, your hair was sort of dry before." He said as he moved towards my dress. Shoving me bag at me he told me to go change. Did they really think they could command people? Well, I guess they could. I mean, one time I tried to tell him that I wasn't going to play their video game with them because I had homework to do. Then, my homework was snatched away from me and I was blackmailed into playing with them. I don't even know when they got their homework done. It seemed as if they were always doing something else. Something else being anything but homework.
I quickly changed into my dress seeing as there was no choice in the matter and then carried out my shoes to find Hikaru and Kaoru poking around my kitchen and whispering. "It was a good thing we researched on commoner housing. When I saw the bathroom faucet I almost couldn't figure out how it worked, but then I remember that it said to pull the handle!"
I was continually amazed at their…well for lack of better words, stupidity.
As I stepped out I was bombarded with questions about my "interesting commoner lifestyle" while I was pushed into a chair and they worked on my makeup. They said that they weren't doing much. They were just making my skin "glow." Yeah, well that glow made my face feel about ten pounds heavier.
After thirty minutes they put mirror in front of my face and I saw…well…my face. "Are you sure that you put any makeup on?" I asked as they started to set up a boom box.
"Yup. Oh, and by the way we decided to leave your hair down." Kaoru smiled. Thank gosh. "Yeah, we were going for the natural look. We can both tell you look different!" seconded Hikaru.
Rolling my eyes I was pulled up by the twins as they turned some waltzes on. I then practiced my dancing skills for an hour. That is I danced with the twins laughed if I made on small mistake. I was about to slap one of them.
After that they went to go put their own clothes on as my dad came home. "My Haruhi! You look so cute! I do like those boys. They have a good sense of fashion. Who wouldn't like someone that helped to make my Haruhi so cute!" he practically squealed as he started to take pictures of me.
The twins stepped out of the bathroom in their own outfits. Both were wearing brown plaid vests over a white shirt and black slacks. Then, they went up to my dad and they started to go on and on about how kind he was for letting them use the house and about how they would take good care of me.
Ah, that's how they did it. Sucking up to my dad. After making me twirl around and take more pictures my dad steered me, Hikaru, and Kaoru into the limo waiting outside.
I was reminded on dance steps and not to mess up any of their hard work. As we reached the school Kaoru stepped outside and held the door open for Hikaru and me. We walked up the familiar steps of the school (that were a lot harder to walk in now that I was in heels) and into the lobby. We walked towards the ballroom and then entered through the beautiful white doors. I had never been in here before and when I looked up I was amazed. The ballroom had white and gold tiles with marble pillars and walls. Also, there was a stairway that led up to a huge balcony. Oh, and not to mention about six giant gold chandeliers hanging from the 20 foot tall celing. Off to one side there was also a layout of food . I might actually like this.
"Haruhi! You're here! I hope those devils didn't do anything to you!" said a certain blonde somebody that wasn't even supposed to be here.
Great.
This was longer than my normal chapters. I hope you like it! I'll continue the dance in the next chapter because I thought I was getting a little long. Read and Review!