"Welcome to the Host Club. What type do you fancy? The wild type? The loli-shota type? The little devil type? The cool type? Or the prince type?" the bespectacled man asked cooly.
"How 'bout all of the above- ow! Xander!" two voices came in unison from the back of the group of girls.
"You shouldn't be speaking that way!" came the male's reply.
"Megan?" Megan looked away from Mr. Cool and her cerulean eyes met with surprised, beautiful, familiar purple ones. He had risen from his chair, where he had previously been shamelessly charming "guests," and was now staring at the group at the door. He was looking at one girl in particular- a certain blue-eyed girl with light brown hair.
"Hello, Tamaki."
"Megan!" he yelled, running around the couches to her. She squealed as he picked her up and laughed as he spun in circles with her.
"Tamaki, put me down!" she giggled. He obeyed, but didn't relinquish his hold on her. She smiled and kissed him twice on each cheek.
"Megan, what are you doing here?" he exclaimed, after returning the faire la bise.
"Why, I'm talking to you, of course."
"That's not what I meant, and you know it."
"Yes, I know."
"...Well?"
"What?"
"Tell me!"
"Tell you what?"
"Why you're here!"
"Oh, that. I'll get to that, but first, I think some introductions are in order."
"Oh, right. Well, you've met Kyoya Ootori."
Kyoya nodded politely as Tamaki introduced him, then returned to scribbling in his notebook.
"He's the cool type. And the little one eating cake is Mitsukuni Haninozuka, better known as Hunny-sempai- the loli-shota type- and next to him is Takashi
Morinozuka, but we call him Mori-sempai. He's the wild type."
Hunny waved enthusiastically, and Mori just nodded.
"The twins are Hikaru and Kaoru Hitachiin. Together they're the little devil type-"
"I'm Hikaru, that's Kaoru."
"And over here is-"
"Haruhi!" Everyone looked up as a boy with green eyes and floppy dirty blonde hair rushed forward from the back of the group, jumped over a couch, yanked Haruhi up, spun "him" around, and planted a kiss on each cheek.
"Hi, Xander," Haruhi smiled, returning the gesture.
"H-Haruhi-kun... A-are... Are you..." one of the stunned customers stuttered, struggling to form the question.
"Sorry?" the host asked, confused.
"They think you're gay, Haruhi," two feminine voices said, as two aqua-eyed girls popped up. One had an arm around Xander, the other around Haruhi, and both had emo-style, "razor-cut" brunette hair reaching just past their shoulders.
"O-oh! What? No! I-"
"Xander has been in southern France for the past three years," Tamaki explained.
"That's right," Megan confirmed. "The girls and I were in Paris, while Xander was in Toulouse. That's why Xander gave Haruhi two bises- cheek kisses- while Tamaki and I exchanged four; faire la bise is slightly different depending on the region of France you're in."
"Ohh, so they're not gay, Xander is just French!"
"Well, kind of—we're actually American, but we spent a lot of time traveling as children, and France was our most frequented destination- we spent all summer, every summer there from the time I was four up until I was 14."
"Why did you spend so much time there?" another girl asked.
"Why, because we met Tamaki, of course! We stopped going after he came here. The first summer we came here- that's when we met Haruhi- but we were unable to continue, so I- we haven't seen Tamaki since. Xander went to an all-boys boarding school in Toulouse, while the rest of us went to an all-girls school in Paris. On weekends we would travel around France together, and on breaks we flew home to California."
"Tama-chan, are you going to introduce your friends?" Hunny asked.
"Yes, of course, Hunny-sempai. I was just waiting for Megan to finish saving Haruhi's reputation."
"I don't care about my reputation," Haruhi muttered. Tamaki ignored the comment.
"Now, then, everyone. This is Megan Adele Kharis Chivalier. She's been my best friend since we were four!"
Megan smiled happily and linked her arm with Tamaki's.
"And these are her sisters, Arora Dawn Callidora Chivalier—"
The brunette smiled politely.
"—and Kirin Kisa Akeldama."
The emerald-eyed blonde- the only true blonde- flipped her long hair behind
her and waved, smiling sweetly.
"They're triplets. Then there's their older sisters, Amber Kora Rosaline—"
The smaller brunette waved cheerfully, curls bouncing- she was the only one who had left her hair in curls.
"—and her twin Thorne Akantha Liliann.
The taller dirty blonde smiled shyly, tucking a strand of shoulder-length hair behind her ear.
"And these troublemakers are Kairi Jaimi Nerine, Kaelan Jaici Natasa and their
brother, Xander Jaesen Dario. They're triplets as well," he added as the girls held up peace signs in turn, and Xander waved casually.
"Now can I have my bises?" Amber asked, grinning up at Tamaki, who laughed and proceeded to cheerfully exchange bises with his childhood friends.
He ruffled Kirin's hair as they exchanged the final bise.
"It's been awhile since I've fait la bised," he said. He had exchanged bises with Xander as well, but only two, since for once Xander was the "native" Frenchman- and their bises had been "air kisses."
"Well, now your guests can see your French side, and fall even harder for you!" Megan winked.
"And here I thought they loved me because I'm beautiful, only to find out it's simply because I'm French!" he pouted.
How would that be any better?" she laughed.
"Because this means I was wrong!" he wailed, then gasped dramatically.
"Megan- does that mean I'm not beautiful?!"
"Of course you are, Tamaki."
"Promise?"
"Of course, Tamaki."
He didn't even realize she was being patronizing.
"Yay!" he cheered, hugging her ecstatically.
"You're such a drama queen," Megan teased. He stuck his tongue out at her.
"Hey, you never told me why you're here!" Tamaki reminded her.
"Oh, right! We're here to spend time with you, of course!"
"Shouldn't you be in school?" he asked curiously. "Or are you on break?"
"We're not going back to France for awhile." she smiled as if she was hiding something- which, of course, Tamaki missed entirely.
"Are you going to do some traveling?"
"No, we're staying here," her smile grew ever-so-slightly.
"How long are you here for?"
"Awhile," she was fighting the urge to break out in a grin and laugh.
"How long is awhile?" he asked exasperatedly. "A week? Two weeks? A month?"
"Try a year or more, Tamaki!" she let a small giggle loose.
"W-what?" he stared at her, dumbfounded and confused.
"Oh, Tamaki, you're so cute!" she laughed. "We're going to school here now! With you!"
"W-what?! R-really?!" he grabbed her hands, bouncing up and down excitedly.
She laughed again; he was so childish! If she didn't love him so much it might be annoying, but to her it was endearing.
"Yes, Tamaki. I called your father a couple of months ago, and we flew out as soon as he called and said that everything was set up- we had some trouble getting all of our transcripts sent over, because they were having trouble translating it into Japanese. We eventually told them to just send it in French; luckily your dad is fluent! He called a few days ago and said our classes were all in order, and we arrived this morning!" she grinned happily.
"That's amazing! I can't believe you're really here!" he sobbed dramatically.
"Megan, we should go," Arora interjected. "We're cutting into their guests' time."
Megan's smile instantly turned into a frown. "But we just got here..."
Arora looked at her sister's disappointed face, thought for a moment, then rolled her eyes and turned to Kyoya. "Megan will take Tamaki. Xander would probably enjoy hanging out with Haruhi, Amber and Thorne will take Hunny and Mori, respectively, and Kairi and Kaelan will take the devil twins. Kirin... I suppose Kirin will take Tamaki as well. And I... Well, I suppose I'll take you. You seem... Reasonably normal."
"Very well," Kyoya smiled, leading her to where his other two guests were sitting, as the others dispersed.
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