Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club or Yumeiro Patissiere or any of the characters associated with the two animes.

Chapter Two: The Text Message

Arina ran into her room, gave a hurried 'Hi' to her room-mate, Kana, and got to her landline. She punched in the numbers and waited for Haruhi to pick up the phone. It didn't take long for her to pick up.

"Hello?" Haruhi answered in a slightly deeper voice than normal. "Haruhi speaking."

Arina smiled. "Are you at host club?" she asked.

"Oh hi Arina" Haruhi said. "Yeah, I'm at host club. It's almost over though and I'm not hosting today. So how are you? By your texts you seem happy."

"I'm good" Arina replied. "How about you? After all you are trying to hide the fact that you're a girl. Are you getting over stressed?"

"I'm good as well" Haruhi said. "Having to pretend to be a boy isn't actually very hard you know. Girls believe what they want to. You know that. So if the girls think I'm a boy and want to think I'm a boy, they'll think I'm a boy. Oh guess what? I'm trying to get another scholarship. Mine runs out next year so I have another chance to try for it. That's probably the scariest thing right now. That and the fact that Kyoya has been skipping host club…" She trailed off.

"Oh yeah. You told me about that. What's happening? Do you guys know?" she asked.

"Well he seemed a bit dark after you left and he wasn't really into anything. Even adding to my debt. Recently he just stopped coming. Apparently he still comes to school but straight after school goes home. That's what Tamaki says anyway and we have no-one else's word to go by" Haruhi said.

A buzzing on the table gave Arina a shock. "Did you just text me?" she asked Haruhi.

"No", Haruhi answered. "Why would I do that? I would just tell you now if I had something to say. Why do you ask?"

Arina flicked open her phone and checked the text. She inhaled sharply. "It's from Kyoya."

"You got a text from Kyoya? He's still alive then. Is he okay?" Haruhi asked.

Arina just stared at the text Kyoya had sent.

"Hey. Hey! Arina? Are you still there? Hello? What did he say? Anything I should be worried about?" Haruhi called down the phone.

"No, no, it's fine", Arina replied distractedly. "Only problem is I have to go. Is that okay? I'll talk with you later."

"Fine", Haruhi said sighing. Go deal with whatever and I'll talk to you later. Bye."

"Thanks Haruhi. You're a gem. You hang up. Bye" Arina said, gratefully.

After Haruhi had hung up she looked at her phone again. She shuddered as she read the text.

'We're coming to visit you, lovely. Hope you didn't miss me.'

Arina reluctantly replied. 'Go away creep. I told you no. I'm not going to go out with you.'

A message came back after a couple of minutes. 'You know you wanted to say yes. I'll give you another chance when I see you…'

Arina deleted the message and closed her phone. The she opened the separating curtain between Kana's side of the room and her side of the room. The quiet girl was sitting there reading a book but she looked up and smiled at Arina when the curtain was opened. Arina walked over to kana's side of the room.

"Tomorrow's Sunday. Do you want to go to the market with me? You can invite your friends. Actually please do. It would be nice to get to know people my age not just the second years. It's a bit lonely being the youngest in the class. No-one likes me in that year and it's getting quite tiring trying to make friends with them when they are so cold to me every time I try. So would you like to? Please!" Arina asked.

Kana smiled shyly and nodded. Arina smiled brightly and went to do study on her side of the room.

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