Chapter 4
A.N. Sorry it took me longer than I expected meant to have this out on the 6th or 7th, but things came up. Luckily enough I already had the first 1500 words typed. Also I'm going to thank reviewers in my A.N. now. So I wanted to thank Cookie Mafia Boss for your review, your review oddly enough made my day and I want to say I'm sorry for not updating sooner. And Thank uh.. X for your review.(:
Amelia once again woke up in a somewhat painful way. Apparently her aunt had fixed her alarm (plugged it back in). Amelia taking action quickly slammed the snooze button. She then struggled with her blankets and sleep to get out of bed. She ended up rolling of the bed with the blankets. Swearing slightly she managed to untangle herself from her covers. Sighing she then went and picked out her usual outfit. Khakis, white button up shirt, black sweater vest, and her tan cardigan. Once she had gathered her clothes she ran to the bathroom and took a quick shower.
Once out of the shower, and dressed, she went back to her room and gathered all her school stuff that she had carelessly left scattered on her floor. Shoving then into their correct folders, which she was very specific about, she then grabbed her camera off the charger, and ejected the now empty sd card from her computer and put back into her camcorder. Putting her camcorder in its case and then in her bag, Amelia suddenly smelt food. Zipping her bag closed and throwing the strap over her shoulder she tore down the hall and ran into the kitchen where she promptly pounced on her aunt.
"Good Morning Aunt Mae! Is that blueberry I smell?!" Amelia cheerfully exclaimed, immediately in a good mood. Her aunt giggled, while trying to escape her niece's bear hug.
"Yes, yes. I made Blueberry muffins, as well as scrambled eggs for breakfast, and I presume you'll be taking muffins with you to school. Am I correct?" Mae said once Amelia let go of her, Mae laughed once her niece began doing her happy dance.
"Yes, yes, yes! Blueberry muffins…." Amelia abruptly stops her happy dance. "Umm… Can we eat now I'm starving?" She asked her aunt, who nodded.
"Make us some tea while I get the food ready." Her aunt said in a comically commanding voice.
"Yes Mam!" Amelia said while giggling slightly, as she rushed to the teapot that already had semi- hot water in it, so it wouldn't take as long to heat to the desired temperature. She pulled out two tea cups down. She then added a green tea bag to her aunt's cup and bag of earl grey to hers then added the water, and waited three minutes. She then threw away the tea bags and joined her aunt, who was sitting at the table in the kitchen.
"Oh.." Amelia exclaimed as she set down the tea cups and then ran back to the cabinet to retrieve her two packets of splenda that made her cup of tea perfect. She then sat down with her aunt.
"Okay we're all good now." Amelia said cheerfully as she picked up one of the muffins on her plate.
"You do know I set your alarm an hour earlier than-"Mae abruptly stopped at seeing her niece practically inhale both the muffins she had given her.. "Geez, I guess your mother was right.." Mae mumbled.
"Huh?" Amelia asked looking up at her aunt from her now blueberry muffin less plate.
"Oh, nothing." Mea said slightly shocked.
"Hmm, Okay. So you set my alarm earlier, yeah… And I figured you did since it was plugged back in, and well since it went off. Can I have another muffin, please?" She asked enthusiastically.
"If you eat the eggs, while I get the muffin." Mae said while she went to grab another muffin for her niece.
"There muffin, please." Amelia said as her aunt sat back down, and handed her the muffin.
"Thank you, very much." Amelia said while grinning hugely.
"No problem sweetie. So tell me exactly why you're in such a good mood this morning? I've never seen you this cheerful in the morning." Her aunt, who was beginning to wonder if someone had replaced her niece, asked in a somewhat cautious tone.
"Oh, umm.. It's the blueberry muffins. They've always been able to put me in a good mood in the morning. Well blueberry muffins and orange juice, well and anything with a content of cinnamon sugar." Amelia sighed at the thought of an churro with too much cinnamon sugar.. Best thing ever in her opinion.
"Hmm… I'll have to keep that in mind." Mae mumbled again.
"Huh? Did you say something Aunt Mae?" Amelia asked worried she had missed something.
"Oh, sorry was talking to myself." Mae said. Glad her niece hadn't heard her. Amelia, who had already scarfed the muffin the minute she got it from her aunt, quickly gulped down her tea.
"Well if you don't mind I'm going to play a little bit on the Xbox. Since I'm up early, ya know." Amelia said.
"Oh, go right ahead. I know how much you love your video games." Mae said waving her hand dismissively.
Amelia stood up and took her plate and cup and placed them in the sink. Then she then quickly dashed into the tiny living room, where she just as fast turned on the tv and Xbox. She picked up her controller and signed into Xbox live. She was disappointed that none of her friends were online, not that there was that many anyway. She went through her games and then decided on playing Dragon Age Origins. Though she had already slayed the archdemon in three play throughs she had bought some DLC she had yet to play and was working on gaining all the achievements.
About a half an hour later she got off the Xbox. Since it was now time for her long trek to the bus stop she shared with Haruhi, well not long considering it was much shorter than the route she took her first day to Ouran.
Amelia went to the kitchen where she had left her bag, which she slung over her shoulder. Then went to where the container holding the blueberry muffins were on the counter. She then had a mental debate with weather to only take two or to take the whole container, which held eight muffins.
"Hey Aunt Mae, do you mind if I take the rest of them to school with me? I have a few friends I could give them to.." She called down the hall way to Mae who had been in her own room getting ready for work.
"Sure go ahead. I'll make more tomorrow anyway. But try not to eat them all yourself." Mae called back while poking her head out her bedroom door.
"Thank you! And I'll try not to, but if they refuse them then I make no promises. Love you! I'm off to school!" Amelia shouted behind her as she walked out the front door and onto balcony of their apartment building.
After a short time she stopped at the convenience store that she walked by every day and bought a few coffee drinks and some blueberry and strawberry pocky, which she was excited to find. After paying for her items she put them in her bag and ran to the bus stop.
When Amelia got to the bus stop she noticed Haruhi wasn't there yet, which was odd. She pulled out her phone and noticed that she was early.
"Crap should have taken longer at the convenience store." She muttered to herself.
A few minutes later she Haruhi joined Amelia at the bus stop.
"Wow, you're early. Did I miss something? Oh, and you left me alone yesterday." Haruhi said getting over her initial shock at Amelia being there before her. Amelia looked over at her friend and grinned.
"Oh, well my aunt made blueberry muffins for breakfast. And oddly they put me in a good mood and weirdly hyper… Or umm talkative." Amelia said cheerfully like she was actually a morning person.
"You left me alone with the host club yesterday." Haruhi said knowing that Amelia's excuse would be that she was tired, because she surely couldn't have been bored.
"Err… Well… You see I-" Amelia stuttered trying to come with excuse while absent mindedly she began to fiddle with strap to her bag, which she had a tendency to do when she was nervous about something.
"Let me guess. You were tired and were ready to go home and nap. Am I correct?" Haruhi asked the nervous Amelia.
"Yeah… Pretty much…" Amelia said as she hung her head in shame.
"I thought you wanted to help me pay off my debt to them." Haruhi said to Amelia who seemed to be still fiddle with her strap.
"I do, but I was still getting over my vast intake of caffeine the day before… Plus I won't do it again and umm I'll make it up to you somehow." Amelia said before raising her head and grinning at Haruhi deviously. "I'll bring you strawberries for lunch tomorrow. How's that sound?" Haruhi seemed to consider Amelia's offer a moment before answering.
"Fine, deal. I'll accept your apology." Haruhi finally said. Amelia smiled victoriously, before hugging Haruhi. Luckily enough for Haruhi their bus arrived, and Amelia had to let her out of her hug.
After their seeming long bus ride, well long to Amelia who usually sleeps through it. They made their 10 minute walk to Ouran. Though about halfway on their walk to Ouran Amelia couldn't help reaching into her bag and pulling out her camcorder.
"May I ask some questions concerning you current position within our lovely host club?" Amelia asked Haruhi trying to be as serious as possible. Haruhi looked her blankly watching as Amelia was sliding her thumb over the record button anxiously.
"Well, since you already got the whole incident with them on filmed, and if I don't you'll still get what you want. Might as well." Haruhi said flatly. Amelia seemed to change her mind as she quickly closed her camcorder and put back in its place in her bag.
"Thanks, but I've changed my mind I will get full interviews tomorrow." Amelia then pulled out two of the coffee drinks she had bought at the convenience store.
"Here I got you one. And I got myself three… I mean two." Amelia said holding out one of the coffee drinks.
"Thanks." Haruhi said taking the coffee drink.
They could see the main gate to Ouran, and as normally the multiple limos and a few other fancy looking expensive vehicles pulling up, dropping off the rich students of Ouran, basically everyone but Amelia and Haruhi. Amelia felt herself getting nervous for some odd reason as they approached their school. She sighed chalking it up to being actually awake today. So as a reassurance Amelia basically gulped the rest of her coffee, which was about half of it.
As they entered the school, sadly enough the coffee seemed to have gone straight through her. Amelia suddenly turned to Haruhi stopping her.
"I really got to go pee… I'll meet you at class." She told Haruhi before dashing towards the nearest restroom, which she remembered from looking at a map of Ouran was in the opposite direction her classroom was.
A few minutes later, after using the restroom Amelia came out. Amelia began walking to her classroom, but couldn't resist checking her phone. So she pulled it out of her bag turned it on and checked it for messages. Which she had some from a few of her friends she had in America. She was replying back to one particularly annoying person, who also happened to be one of her best friends, when she ran into a tall person causing her to fall, and drop her phone. While the other person seemed to stumble forward a bit. Amelia quickly jumped up and went to look for her phone.
"Shit…" She muttered slightly panicked then sighed in relief when she picked her phone up and notice it hadn't cracked.
"Are you okay?" A deep male voice spoke causing Amelia to look up and see who she bumped into. She couldn't help but blush when she saw Mori. Suddenly she felt completely rude and slightly embarrassed.
"Uh... I'm fine. It was m-my fault so I'm sorry, and I'm sorry I thought the screen cracked on phone, and I don't have a warranty on it nor the money to buy a new one if something happens to it… Oh that wouldn't matter to you…. Damn muffins…" She rambled and mumbled the last two sentences. She stood there awkwardly for a couple minutes while Mori just seemed stared at her.
"Umm… Well see you at the club. I gots to get to class." Amelia said feeling slightly flustered, she then waved and ran towards her classroom. She stopped running when she got to the hallway where her classroom was. She quickly shut off her phone and slid it into her bag.
"Well then…" Amelia mumbled to herself beginning to feel a tad more comfortable as she walked into her classroom to take her usual seat next to Haruhi, who was immersed in a book.
"Great…" She muttered causing Haruhi to look up at her noticing her checks were slightly red.
"Oh you're here. What took you so long? And you okay?" Haruhi asked. Amelia looked at Haruhi beginning feel flustered again.
"I… Uh.. Ran into someone in the hallway on the w-way back. I was messaging a few friends back and wasn't paying attention… Umm… I literally ran into him. All I could do was worry about my damn phone." Amelia explained in a semi rant. Haruhi looked at like before shaking her and going back to her book.
"Why is that bothering me so much…" Amelia mumbled not expecting anyone to hear her, or wanting.
"What's bothering you so much?" two synchronized voices said from behind her. Jumping slightly in her seat Amelia whirled around.
"N-nothing!" She exclaimed as she found the Hikaru and Kaoru sitting in the seats behind them.
"Are you sure it's nothing?" The twin with hair parted to right.
"Sounds like you have a crush on someone." The twin with Hair parted on the left.
"I must really not have paid attention when I walked in…" Amelia mumbled under her breath, before quickly blushing as she realized the twin with the left hair part said.
"I do not have a crush on anyone! I don't like guys." She retorted.
"I didn't think you were going to be like that." The twin with left hair part said while smirking deviously. Amelia went wide eyed.
"I didn't mean I'm like that. I meant to s-say that… I just don't get the whole pint of dating a guy while at school. I like guys… Just…" Amelia said flustered and blushing like began to blush like crazy.
"Okay. So-" Left hair part was cut off as the bell rang. Amelia turned around to face the front of the classroom. Feeling slightly relived in a way. She chuckled lightly to herself.
"Saved by the bell… Eh?" She mumbled just loud enough for Haruhi to hear her.
Lunch was surprisingly twin free. Amelia half expected them to stay in the classroom and eat with them just to tease her on her 'crush' as the twin with left part called it.
"It's not a crush." Amelia found herself mumbling while she was eating her lunch Haruhi had made for her. Haruhi chuckled slightly as she watched Amelia shove the food in her mouth.
Apparently Amelia had been starving or she was too upset, as she noticed she had eaten her portion of food already. Sighing she reached into her bag and opened the container to her precious muffins. She pulled one out and closed it. She set it on her desk then took a long drink from her coffee, before quickly devouring the muffin. Haruhi stared at her astonished for a few seconds.
"What?" Amelia asked. Haruhi blinked a couple times before shaking her head and finishing eating.
"Oh…" Amelia murmured. 'Probably the basically inhaling of the muffin, Aunt Mae gave me the same look. Hmm…' Amelia thought. Reflecting on her morning so far then she couldn't help but blush slightly at the thought of running into Mori. 'No, you don't like him. You're just embarrassed that you ran into him, besides you'd know if you had feelings for someone.' She mentally told herself shaking her head slightly. She then proceeded to down the rest of her coffee.
"Well I'm going to go throw this away or recycle it. Whatever I find first, need me to throw anything away for you?" Amelia asked Haruhi who shook her head in response.
"Okay!" Amelia exclaimed. Then she proceeded to skip to the trash can by the teacher's desk. Haruhi couldn't help, but laugh at Amelia as Amelia skipped back almost tripping when she sat back down at her desk.
"Eep… Did you see that I almost fell right there…" Amelia said while pointing at the floor. Haruhi nodded.
"Well then I think I'll work on some of that home work now then." Amelia stated dully.
Amelia and Haruhi were currently at the host club. Haruhi was taking lessons from Tamaki, while Amelia stood on the sidelines getting any out bursts on recorded with her camera, switching to different hosts every once in a while out of boredom. Surprisingly enough Kyoya had yet to tell her to do something differently, or do anything for that matter. 'I am beginning to wonder if I am going to be able to do anything to help with Haruhi's debt.' Amelia thought. Amelia nearly jumped out of her skin when the twins appeared on both sides of her, though she did whirl around to face them.
"So when are you going to tell us who you have a crush on?" They said in completely synchronized.
"I already told I don't have a crush on any one. Why can't you two leave it be?" Amelia said feeling slightly startled, for a reason unknown to her.
"Ah, come on just tell us." Twin with left hair part said.
'Sheesh I really need to learn their names and traits…' Amelia thought as she began think about how annoying it was only being able to tell the difference by hair parts.
"If she doesn't feel like telling you who she likes she doesn't have to Hikaru." Kyoya said suddenly appearing behind the twins making both of them jump slightly.
'Yes! Left hair part is Hikaru, which means right hair part is Kaoru.' Amelia found herself mentally cheering.
"We'll figure it out sooner or later." They both said before going back to their table. Amelia looked up at her "savior" who was now adjusting his glasses.
"Well I suppose I should thank you. Believe it or not I think you scared them away, and they've been nagging me all day about this stupid crush that I don't have, so I thank you once again." Amelia said while cheerfully smiling.
"There has to be a reason they're so sure you have a crush on someone." Kyoya stated.
"Ah, that yeah well I ran into someone this morning wasn't paying attention to where I was going. And I was more worried about my phone than the person I ran into, and now or well then I felt completely horrible and embarrassed for not apologizing first. That's all." Amelia explained hoping Kyoya at least wouldn't believe she had a crush on the person.
"Hmm… I don't see why that would react in you having a crush on this person." Kyoya said before writing something down in that black notebook of his. Amelia couldn't help but take a slight step away from him. Luckily enough Haruhi got her attention or more like her camcorders attention as she began to record Tamaki going to his corner of woe. Suddenly out of seemingly nowhere Honey pounced on Haruhi.
"Haru- chan! Do you want to eat cake together?" He asked with that little boyish cuteness… Amelia found she had to keep reminding herself that her was a senior and older than. Honey stood in front of Haruhi waiting anxiously for a reply, with his pink bunny.
"Well… I don't really like sweets." Haruhi told him. He looked down for a second before looking back up and holding out his pink bunny towards her.
"Would you like to hold Usa-chan?" He asked her sweetly.
"Well I'm not a big fan of rabbits, either." She said. He suddenly went into a pouting look.
"You don't like Usa-chan?" He said pouting slightly as Haruhi looked from him to the stuffed rabbit.
"Eh… Well not that I look at it he is kinda cute." Haruhi said.
"Right?!" Honey said as he seemed to realize something. Amelia couldn't help but feel herself smirk slightly. He had just realized Haruhi was a girl.
For some odd reason Amelia found herself looking for Mori, once her eyes found him she saw he was at his table the one her shared with honey. She shook her head, and closed her camera. She walked to the sofa her bag currently resided on and plopped down next to it sighing. Out of boredom she dug her phone out of her bag and turned it on. While she waited for it to turn on she noticed Haruhi leave most likely to get supplies for the club.
'Why didn't they ask me? I've got nothing better to do, I could have at least went with her.' She found herself sighing again. Amelia also felt herself eyeing the container of muffins. 'Hmm… There's nothing else to do and I do have a coffee left.' After a few seconds she pulled out the container and began to eat the muffins…
After she had finished her last muffin and her coffee drink, Haruhi was back carrying a grocery bag. Amelia got up off the sofa grabbed her camcorder and trotted over to Haruhi.
"Thank you for buying our things, little piggy. Did you find everything okay?" Tamaki asked Haruhi.
"Pig?" Amelia heard Haruhi mumble, but apparently Tamaki didn't hear her as he went through the bag.
"Huh? What is this?" Tamaki ask sounding curious.
"Coffee." Haruhi stated.
"Is this already ground? I've never seen this brand before." Tamaki said looking at it intently.
"It's an instant one." Haruhi said. Amelia luckily enough had her camera and was recording this, while trying earnestly not laugh.
"Instant?" Tamaki asked. Suddenly out of nowhere all the host club members suddenly appeared next Tamaki all looking at the instant coffee.
"Oh! Isn't this the one peasants made? That if you pour hot water it's ready to drink?!" Tamaki suddenly exclaimed, while the other members seemed to be in awe.
"I see… This is the rumored peasants'…" Kyoya said and trailed off or was interrupted.
"So it's true that poor people don't even have time to grind their own beans." One of the twins said.
"Such lovely wisdom from peasants." Said the other one.
"I want to try it once.." Honey exclaimed, though he was seemingly unheard.
"I'll go buy the right one!" Haruhi exclaimed. "I'm sorry it wasn't the expensive coffee beans you usually use." Haruhi grumbled. Amelia could barely contain her laughter; she couldn't help but let out strangled snickering sounds in attempts not to laugh.
"No it's alright I'll drink it!" Tamaki exclaimed with a determined look. The other members went on about how brave he was, or how much cheaper the coffee was.
"Shitty rich kids…" Haruhi grumbled aggravated.
"Totally agree." Amelia said as she walked backwards so as to still be able to capture the weird antics of the host club. She then darted towards back towards the host club so she could still pick up their voices, as they were now at a table with several cups.
"Haruhi come over here and make us commoner's coffee!" Tamaki shout at Haruhi.
"Everyone's waiting for you." Tamaki said gesturing to the rest of the host club members and Haruhi's traitorous friend Amelia who was filming everything, while trying not to die from laughter. Haruhi quickly made the instant coffee.
"Please don't blame me if it doesn't suit your taste." Haruhi said, as they all gathered around her staring at the coffee with awe. Tamaki suddenly began flirting with one of the customers and then made her blush. Amelia tuned everyone out as she lost focus on the situation. She shut her camera and went back to "her sofa" and laid down on it, she temporarily claimed it seeing as that's where her bag was. She closed her eyes.
Apparently she had passed out, for she woke up to the host club members (all excluding Kyoya) leaning over her, and Haruhi telling them to back away or Amelia would freak out and start swearing.
Amelia sat up abruptly trying to figure out where she was momentarily confused as her vision came into focus; she recognized the familiar music room. She looked at all Haruhi.
"Why the… Why are they all surrounding me?" Amelia said feeling slightly anxious and extremely tired.
"You seem to have a fever you should probably go home now." Kyoya said, from where he was sitting with his laptop.
"Yes you should go home and get lots of rest, Lia-chan" Honey said.
"Umm… Okay I'm going.." Amelia said grabbing her bag and slung it onto her shoulder. "Before this gets any weirder." She grumbled as she walked out the door ready her trip home, she waved behind.
"Hey wait up." Haruhi said as she ran to catch up with Amelia.
Amelia sighed as she unlocked the door to her aunt's apartment; she walked in and locked the door behind her. Quickly taking off her shoes she walked to her room. She put her back on her small desk, and then went and laid down on her bed.
"Sheesh that was a long day no wonder I passes out earlier." She said aloud. Before falling asleep not even bothering to change, knowing her aunt would wake her up for dinner when she got home form work.
A.N. Part 2: Again I feel a need to apologize for not updating sooner, but on the upside this is the longest chapter as of yet. Funny thing every time I read or write something I have this annoying English (British) accent in my head not that I have a problem with people who talk that, but apparently I've been watching too much British Television, one of my new show obsessions is Downton Abbey.(: Anyway Please, please review. You know I love it you review maybe I'll update sooner(Which means I'll fight procrastination and laziness for you if you review and I'm serious I've got issues with them ). So P.M. or Review! Please Thank you!(: