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Lolita

The halls of Ouran were bustling in the early morning before classes started. Lolita was completely numb to this however. She sat at her desk, her ears plugged by headphones and her eyes distracted by the words in the book in front of her. She sighed as she flipped the page; the familiar story was starting to get boring honestly. She soon got distracted as she caught her name in the pause between songs. Reaching over, she paused her music and pulled out her headphones. Turning her eyes, she spotted Haruhi standing next to her desk. Haruhi was smiling a nice smile, one that just seemed to say he had no other reason to be there. But why was Haruhi talking to her?

"Good morning Lolita-san."

Lolita smiled in return.

"Good morning."

There was a pause, it was weird.

"I hope you didn't take what Hikaru said too seriously. I know I'm not used to being called a bookworm yet."

"It's alright; I actually wasn't offended by that too much. It was the "weird" comment I didn't like. It reminded me of my old school."

"Really?"

Lolita sighed and nodded.

"Yeah, the girls at my old school weren't the nicest. Believe it or not, I was constantly bullied and really didn't have any friends. But of course having to walk in Cassandra's shadow didn't help any."

Haruhi gave Lolita a blank look.

"Oh, sorry, Cassandra is my half sister. She's the "it" actress on the London stage now."

Before Haruhi could respond -if he was going to- Lolita had a feeling that Haruhi wasn't really listening at all, a pair of shadows with devious smirks appeared behind him.

"Morning Haruhi."

The chorused voices of the twins was really grating on Lolita's nerves. Granted, she'd heard worse but still, how can anyone be so synchronized outside of a script. She shook her head in irritation.

"What do you two want?"

"Haruhi, we just came over to say good morning."

That was Kaoru.

"It's good you're talking to other people who study."

That one was Hikaru.

"You guys should learn to be a bit nicer; you offended me and Lolita-san yesterday."

Lolita nodded in response to Haruhi's statement.

"You know we didn't really mean it Haruhi."

Kaoru again.

"We were just having a bit of fun."

Hikaru.

"Not that it's any of my business, and not that I think either of you would anyway, Haruhi apologized for you."

There was a moment of silence. Silence was also irritating, Lolita deduced.

"Haruhi didn't need to do that, we would have apologized eventually."

Kaoru.

"Whenever we got around to it anyway."

Hikaru.

Lolita's eyebrow twitched, they were annoying. Time to end this, Lolita decided, wanting her sanity back.

"There's no reason for you to apologize Kaoru, you didn't offend me. Hikaru on the other hand, did."

Lolita stared at them hard, forcing her point.

The twins seemed to glance at one another, while Haruhi seemed lost in his own world again.

"Lolita-san…"

"Did you just tell us apart?"

Lolita kept her eyes on Kaoru, keeping Hikaru out of her field of sight before answering.

"I'm sorry Kaoru, but I couldn't hear you over that gust of wind that just came through. You were saying something?"

A pause.

"Yeah… Hikaru asked if you just told us apart."

"Really? I didn't hear him say anything. But to answer the question, yes I did."

Lolita gave a light smile.

"How? Only Haruhi can do that!"

Lolita blinked.

"I think someone left a window open, it's so windy in here."

Lolita smirked as a look of epiphany came across Kaoru's face, and Haruhi seemed to finally return to their conversation with a look of tamed curiosity. Perhaps Hikaru finally got it too or maybe not. He seemed to be the less intelligent of the two.

She was ignoring him.

"So, how'd you do it?"

Lolita thought a moment.

"You're voices are different, enough so to tell you two apart. Kaoru, your voice is softer, and a higher pitch while Hikaru's is probably a tone deeper."

Lolita then turned back to her book, which had lain ignored up until now. She placed her book mark in it and replaced it with her text books. The teacher was standing at the front, and the bell was in the process of ringing. She smiled when she saw that the threesome had left for their seats out of the corner of her eye. She smirked when she noticed one set of steps that were a bit louder than the others. Revenge was sweet.

That… That… Oh he couldn't even think of a word to describe her, even bitch seemed too nice at the moment. She ignored him… blew him off! Sure he was mad; no one had really done it before. Hikaru didn't like new things, especially when it had to do with people who could tell him and Kaoru apart. Now, Haruhi was a different matter. She never did this, so she was ok for now. She was amusing, but this… this… he'll settle on wench at the moment. This wench wasn't. She was flaunting she could tell them apart, using it against him. He wasn't sure why… but she was. Hikaru took his seat and pulled out the materials needed for this class, but he didn't pay an ounce of attention. He was mad… He glanced at his twin, to find him not paying attention too. Hikaru figured he was upset about this too, that would explain how, like himself, Kaoru was staring at that wench. Hikaru wanted to burn a hole through her. He decided one thing for sure though, Tono may like her, but he and his brother did not.

Hikaru pushed angry thoughts away when he heard the teacher listing off names, why would he do that?

"We're starting a new unit, and for this one, I want a project on the subject, due in three weeks. You'll be partnered up, and I will designate the partners. Listen for your name and the name of your assigned partner."

Oh, a project, great. History wasn't a hard class, but it wasn't his best. Hikaru hoped he got one of the geniuses of the class as his partner, which would mean no work for him. Either one of them or Kaoru. It was usually Kaoru, most teachers were afraid to split them apart.

"Hikaru Hiitaichin will be partnered with Haruhi Fujioka."

At least it was Haruhi. He felt bad for Kaoru; they didn't really know anyone else in class.

"And finally, Kaoru Hiitaichin will be partnered with Lolita Niyama."

Hikaru's eyes grew wide, that was just sick. Kaoru got paired with his new enemy, what was the teacher thinking! Hikaru was too caught up in his thoughts to notice everyone had paired off, and Haruhi had pulled her desk to match up to his.

"Hikaru… if you're not going to work, you could at least look like you were."

Hikaru blinked before looking to Haruhi.

"This is bad Haruhi."

"What do you mean by that?"

Crap, Haruhi sounded offended.

"Kaoru is paired with that weirdo… I should probably ask the teacher to reassign partners so Kaoru doesn't have to work with her."

Haruhi just looked at him, blank stare.

"I don't see how that's a bad thing."

Of course Haruhi wouldn't understand, she doesn't get how he and Kaoru work.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Haruhi glanced over to the pair sitting a few rows in front of them.

"They seem to actually be working, unlike us. Class is almost over and we haven't gotten anything done. If you're gonna have me do the entire thing, just say so."

Hikaru didn't really respond, he was too busy being confused. Kaoru was working with that girl, actually working. His eyebrows scrunched together when Kaoru let out a laugh. He was going to get to the bottom of this.

A/N: Hey guys! I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Sorry this chapter took a bit longer than the second, but it took more time to plan. Plus, trying to get inside Hikaru's head is a bit difficult. XD Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed it. And remember, reviews are fuel for authors! Please review more!