Chapter Two: Takashi Morinozuka:
"Since no one in this class can function on anything other than the Host Club today," the teacher complained, glaring in the direction of me and Mitsukini, "we are going to the computer lab so that you will at least have to attempt to be quiet."
Nothing changed when we walked into the library. No one even looked at a book, let alone touched one, and their voices were still pretty loud, but the librarian let it pass as long as they didn't yell. Mitsukini and I decided to sit at a table near some bookshelves in the middle of the library, after a short time some of the regulars sat at our table and chatted with Mitsukini as I looked at a history book I found. As the girls continued to chatter I heard a hair scrape against the carpet next to us, when I looked up I saw Kasanoda-san sitting down and looking terrified beyond belief. He nervously tapped his foot and constantly looked around looking for someone.
"I wonder what Kas-kun is doing here," Mitsukini questioned out loud.
I only hummed in agreement but quickly lost interest as did my cousin, only until I heard a quick intake in breath. I looked up to see Kasanoda-san starring past me and started wringing his hands. I looked behind me to see people fervently walking around talking, but the only on that seemed to stand out was a girl with brown hair that was being tied up in a ponytail. She had bright blue eyes that kept darting around the room, but stopped when they landed on Kasanoda. No one seemed to notice this girls appearance even when people bumped into her, it was like she was air to them.
When she sat down across from Kasanoda, she clasped her fingers and set her chin on them. Her head tilted to the side as she spoke to the intimidating boy. They spoke low so none of us could hear them, not that the girls were paying attention, but my cousin and I were. Kasanoda quickly spoke after her and seemed to rambling, and he was sweating quite profusely.
"We should go say hi to Kas-kun," Mitsukini stated out of seemingly nowhere.
He apologized to the ladies and dragged me to the next table.
"-and that is ALL I know, I swear," Kasanoda whimpered.
"Hi Kas-kun!" Mitsukini yelled and tackled the boy into a hug. The librarian closest to us shushed us but quickly went back to putting books away. The brunette with Kasanoda tensed up when she realized she was now by others. She slipped Kasanoda a letter and promptly stood up and grabbed her backpack. Before she could get anywhere the girl was stopped by a blonde ball of energy.
"Hi! My name is Mitsukini Haninozuka and this is my cousin-"
"I apologize senpai but I really must be going. I do have classes."
She walked quickly away leaving a stunned Mitsukini, which was surprising on it's own, and a nervous looking Kasanoda.
"Do you know her Kas-kun?" Mitsukini asked
"Kinda, we just met today, but I know of her."
"You should invite her to-" Mitsukini started but was cut off.
"No! Do not go near her! Stay away Haninozuka-senpai, she is beyond dangerous. You may be strong but this girl is legendary," he said and stormed off.
Later when the host club was supposed to start, the club members sat on sofas and communicated about their next day with the girls. As time went on we all started to get restless and kept checking the clock. Kyoya continued to talk as if nothing was annoying him immensely. Finally he shut his book sudenly, catching Haruhi's full attention along with the others.
"Is something the matter Haruhi?"
"Oh, um my father wanted cupcakes from this new bakery that just opened up. She runs out of everything around seven, if not before. I hear she is really nice too, if you can't pay for even a cupcake, especially if you are a child, she will just it to you for free. I haven't seen her, but people say she is as beautiful as the things she bakes," Haruhi said as she daydreamed about the bakery.
"I suppose you can leave early, though just know that excuse won't work every time," Kyoya chided.
"Oh Mommy, I want to go with Haruhi to the commoners bakery!"
When we arrived at the bakery, we couldn't get in for almost an hour, to which the twins protested every minute of it until they were two people from the counter, and only one other person was behind them, a woman with her daughter. I tried giving them my position in front of the group but the woman refused politely. As we got closer I could start making out pieces of the woman as she bounced around the back. She was small and looked like she could be broken by the smallest thing. She started to look more and more familiar the closer we were getting. Finally as we walked up to the counter, I came face to face with the girl who was talking to Kasanoda-san.
"Hi how can I help you today" She asked cheerfully.
She had brown curly hair that was tied up but had a few stray hair fell on her face. As she looked at all of us I could tell that she didn't remember Mitsukini and I from the library. She smiled at all of us, her blue eyes shinning as she did so.
"Do you have any cupcakes left," Haruhi asked hopefully.
"I don't I just sold out of everything."
"Oh, okay," Haruhi said sadly
"If you want to wait a bit I can make some. What do you need?"
"I only need one strawberry cupcake and a vanilla cupcake."
"Is this being directly billed to the host club or just to you Haruhi?"
"Oh, to me. How do you know us?"
"I go to Ouran. I'm in class with Ootori-San and Souh-San," she said and nodded to the boys who only looked confused.
"Oh nice to meet you..."
"Starling, Malayne. Just call me Malayne though, I've been here for years but I'm just not of putting san or anything at the end of names. I will if necessary though."
"Alright...Malayne," Haruhi said smiling.
The girl, Malayne disappeared in the back so we'll all took a take by a window and talked for a while.
"Malayne-chan was in the library today. She was talking to Kas-kun. He looked pretty scared, and told us never to go by her again," Mitsukini stated out of the blue.
Everyone got quiet and looked at the solemn third year. No one had a chance to say anything before Malayne came back with a smile on her face. She place plates in front of all of us. She gave Kyoya a turkey sandwich with Provalone cheese, a fried egg, bacon and some kind of sauce. Tamaki had a blue cupcake but I'm not sure what kind it was, though by the look of it, it was delicious. Haruhi had what looked like fancy tuna, Mitsukini had a three tiered cake that was red velvet, vanilla, and finally strawberry at the top, the twins has orange cupcakes, and she sat down a plate of ramen in front of me.
"Sorry Morinozuka-Senpai, I didn't know what you wanted," she smiled sheepishly.
She returned to the back without a word. None of us said a word after that, but ate happily. Soon she came out with two small boxes, which was probably Haruhi's cupcakes. She thanked us for coming in and set down a check in front of Haruhi, which we all questioned but she had turned away before anyone became vocal about it. When Haruhi opened the check, the only thing on it was was two cupcakes. Haruhi gaped when she saw the price, quickly got up and walked up to the counter where the girl was counting her tips.
"This can't be right. Plus you only charged for the cupcakes and not everything else," Haruhi gasped out
"The price is right. That way everyone can have a cupcake, even if you don't have money I can cover it by the tips people leave. Normally people leave larger tips because they think it is more expensive and it must have gotten out that I use the tips for when people can't pay for something, that and personal things. About the food, it was just nice to cook, I don't get to often and you were waiting a while so I thought I would treat you. I like to treat my customers nice." She said smiling.
Before Haruhi could say anything a man stumbled in and fell to the floor. Malayne calmly walked over to the boy and sat on her heels as she looked him over. They quietly talked as he kept shooting glances our way.
"If you will excuse me, I have something to attend to," Malayne said calmly yet there was an ominous undertone to it.
We all walked out of the bakery, and as soon as the last foot hit the concrete, the door slammed shut, locked and the blinds shut the view off from the bakery. No sounds were heard except the clacking of heels on linoleum floor.