Karson27: What a bum. You've taken too long to post the next chapter.

Me: I'm sorry. It's been crazy with all of our testing and stuff.

Karson27: But you wastes all of spring break, doing nothing and now you're going to have to dash through a few chapters before we finish school for the year!

Me: I'M TRYING AS HARD AS I CAN! XP

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Hosting was easy. I was getting used to smiling and nodding and listening to the guys. It was even beginning to get a little mundane, except for when Tamaki came up with another crazy theme day. Since my stitches, nothing cool had happened.

Until one day, which is usually how it worked. I was sitting at my table, talking away with Honey while Takeshi listened like he always did. One minute, I was minding my own business, the next, I was being tackled to the floor by some unknown flying object.

"Tailyr!" came a few cries as I tried to catch my breath. I opened my eyes to see a half Asian girl grinning at me.

"Lily?" Karsyn, Marx, and I gasped at the same time.

She laughed and stood up, still grinning triumphantly. She wore the Ouran uniform. Lily was our friend back in the states. She was in choir with Karsyn and had been friends with us since we were little though she was the same age as the twins an Haruhi. I didn't know what she was doing here.

"What are you doing here?" I asked as Takeshi helped me to my feet. "And why did you just tackle me?"

"That part was an accident," she said. "I got a scholarship here so I moved in with my grandparents."

"Why?" Karsyn asked.

"Because you guys started coming here so I figured I could too," she explained.

"LILY!" the twins cried, tackling her over, much like she had me. She'd been pretty good friends with the twins. A fact that I'd completely forgotten about. "We missed you!"

She laughed, allowing herself to be hugged. "I missed you guys too."

Lily chatted happily with us for a while, explaining everything that had happened since we left and how she came to be at Ouran.

"Yeah, they had a few new recruits for G/T but it's really not the same since half the council left," she said, sipping on her tea. "I found Ouran on the internet because I got curious. Then I realized I fit the criteria for a scholarship student. I studied and took the test. When I got accepted my grandparents said I could move in with them. Of course, my mom is more than happy. She always wanted me to go to school in Japan."

Lily's mom was born in Japan. Nohoko was very traditional and expected a lot from Lily's grades, not that Lily ever let her down. Lily was probably smarter than I was.

"This is awesome!" Kaoru said happily.

"We should celebrate!"

"Not another ball," Marx, Karsyn, and I said in flat unison. We weren't fans of the host clubs over dramatic, fancy balls. I didn't like them at all.

"Aw," the twins whined.

"How about a dinner?" Kyoya suggested. "We can have it right here in the club room. Among friends."

That sounded way better than a big dress uppity ball. For once, I agreed with Kyoya.

-Karsyn-

I was glad that Lily was attending Ouran now but hearing her talk about home and how everything was going made me wish I was there. I wasn't aware that I was so homesick. I wondered if Marx and Tailyr was having the same problem. I figured that Tailyr was fine, she didn't even get all misty eyed when she heard about home.

The worst part was Kyoya didn't even seem concerned. I mean, I was a big girl but when we were back in the states, he always seemed to know when I was even the slightest bit depressed. He was a lot different now that he was home.

I wasn't sure what was going on with him. He was too concerned with work at the host club or waving his money around. I didn't know this side of Kyoya and I didn't think that I liked it either. Actually, I knew that I didn't like it but I didn't know what I could do about it.

The day of the dinner finally came and my friends and I prepared to leave the house. I was glad that we didn't have to wear some uppity costume or something. I was so sick of that and I could tell that my friends were happy about it too.

I wore a pair of dark blue, boot cut jeans with a nice purple plaid button up shirt with a white tank top underneath. I wore simple black and white low top sneakers. Marx, ever the redneck, wore a pair of light colored jeans with a red Bass Pro Shop tee shirt, brown cowboy boots, and a shiny silver belt buckle. He wore a baseball cap as well. Tailyr wore ripped jeans and her Skillet shirt, which I knew was her favorite. She also wore her black and red vans, the pride of her life.

We climbed into the limo and went off to Ouran. There was a luxurious spread out full of all kinds of food. I saw the hunger working up in Tailyr and Marx's eyes. I wondered if I should have the ambulance standing by if one of them managed to eat their way into a diabetic coma.

There wasn't anyone but the host club present, which was a relief. I partially believed that Kyoya was going to sell overpriced tickets to the host club guests.

He didn't though. It was a very nice dinner. For that I was grateful.

"Stop it Hikaru!" Lily whined as Hikaru crushed her in a bone snapping hug. Kaoru joined instantly as well. They liked Lily for whatever reason. She was just as much of a fascination to them as Haruhi. "Quit it you two! I can't breathe!"

Somehow, she managed to free herself, all the while Tailyr pointed and laughed hysterically. Lily turned on the twins, going mom so fast.

"That's not okay! You don't crush people like that!" she scolded the red heads. "You could hurt someone!"

"Aw, C'mon, Lily!" Hikaru said. "You're tougher than that."

She puffed her cheeks out at the idiotic twin. "I'll show you tough Hikaru Hitachiin!"

Tailyr and Marx were just in hysterics. They were on the floor laughing so hard that no sound was actually coming out. They were just shaking, red faces, and doubled into balls that rocked back and forth. Marx was beating on the ground and Tailyr was clapping a little. Though the situation wasn't really that funny, they were just happy that Lily wasn't yelling at them for once.

"Okay time for serious moment," Tailyr said looking me dead in the eye.

"You serious?" I snorted as we sat down.

"Yeah I know, shocking isn't it?" She rolled her eyes at me. "Anyways, Takeshi wants me to meet his parents in a couple of weeks at his little brother's weekend tournament. I need some advice!"

"Um. Good luck?" It sounded like a question. I didn't know what to say about it.

"Oh c'mon," Tailyr whined, her head thumping on the wooden table. "Don't you have any advice from when you met Kyoya's dad?"

I bit my lip a little. "Well, about that..."

Tailyr's head lifted from the table, her blue eyes shocked. "You haven't met him yet?" she asked, slowly.

"Nope."

"What about his brothers or sister?"

"Them either."

"Huh," Marx said thoughtfully, sitting beside his sister.

"What Marx?" I sighed, my head hanging a little.

"Nothing." What a liar.

"Tell me," I insisted.

"Okay when I wouldn't take a girl to meet my parents it was either because I was embarrassed by her or that I knew the relationship wouldn't last," he explained slowly.

"Don't listen to him." Tailyr said pushing him out of his chair, giving her brother a death glare. "I'm sure you'll meet his family soon, he's probably just looking for the right time."

"Yeah. I'll probably meet them soon," I reluctantly agreed.

I hope.

Please don't murder me because I'm a bum!