Here's the next chapter! Hope you humans are enjoying my fanfic so far! Reviews are welcome!
The next two weeks soared by quickly. Kimi and I continued going to the Host Club, to the twins' surprise. They assumed that once I was free of their deal that I would never step foot in the club again but I shocked them by coming back. Although, I'm not sure if Kimi's plan was working because, although I did know the twins a little better than most of the girls, the siblings just continued on with their brotherly love act while I dozed off to my utopia of fiction. In fact, Kimi told me that when the twins would flirt with me occasionally as they did to all their guests, I was still completely engulfed by day dreams of magical creatures and epic battles. I guess I never noticed the two complementing me or even caressing my cheeks. However, there was one thing that I had gained from it. Sometimes after the club closed, I'd hang back for a few extra minutes and chat with the twins.
It gave me some time to learn that maybe my crush wasn't so tiny anymore…but it wasn't giant either. Physical exams swooped by and I tried my best to ignore the eye candy that the Host Club provided by shamelessly stripping in front of their usual guests. Then one day, when the Host Club cosplayed in kimonos and had everything decked out in Japanese décor, a new guest joined the club. But she wasn't an ordinary one. As usual, I was sitting with the twins, dozing off into thoughts of how I would introduce a new antagonist into my story, when I noticed the hosts' attention was focused on something other than their current guests.
There was some girl standing in the hall, just barely peeking into the club room. She looked pretty shy and the twins decided to toy with her a little. They came on strong as usual, holding out roses as the poor thing backed away. Then as if it couldn't look anymore grim for her, Tamaki stepped in and came onto her with his ridiculous prince act. Just as he was getting close, she slapped him square in the face.
"Don't touch me, you're phony!" she screamed as Tamaki was then attacked by a deluge of insults from the once shy girl.
The whole time he was getting hit, I laughed so freaking hard while Kimi tried to keep me quiet. I had to agree with this girl, Tamaki was a phony and I had wanted to do that to him as well. Looks like she already took care of that for me. Then, as if things weren't weird enough…
"It's you!" she wailed as she proceeded to hug Kyoya, "My one and only prince charming!"
"…what!?" Kimi and I yelped.
"I didn't know Kyoya had a girlfriend," Kimi whispered to me.
"I don't know if he does, he looks as clueless as we do," I whispered back.
After glomping the Host Club's vice president, her eyes fell upon me and she let out another wail.
"Senka?!" the girl squealed as she ran up to me, "Is that you?!"
"Who? What? Do you know this girl, Senky-chan?" Kimi asked, very confused by the situation.
"Wait…" I said, looking the girl over.
She didn't seem familiar to me. I didn't think I knew anyone with shoulder-length, light brown hair that had a bow tucked in it. However, her chocolate eyes seemed familiar. The sparks that danced around in them did remind me of a hyperactive, French girl…was she…?
"RENGE?!" I yelled in delight and she nodded in return.
"It's me, Senka! Oh I've missed you so much!" she said happily as she pulled me into a hug.
"Um…who is this?" Kimi asked, a little nervous that I had some secret friend behind her back. The Host Club looked equally as curious as the stood with her. Even Mori's stoic face was painted with confusion.
"Do you remember that foreign exchange student program that our middle school did in the seventh grade?" I asked Kimi, trying to jog her memory, "You went off to France and in return they sent us a French student for a year. Well that French student was Renge! You never met her but I told you about her, don't you remember?"
Kimi thought hard then gave out an 'Oh!' as if she had remembered.
"She looks totally different from what you described to me," Kimi said.
"Well, I almost didn't recognize her myself," I said in awe as I looked my long lost friend over, "Her hair used to be twice as long and she used to have freckles all over her face!"
"Oh you don't have to talk about that!" Renge said, blushing from embarrassment, "Although you haven't changed a bit Senka! You still have those bangs, huh?"
"Yep!" I chirped, "And you still have those energetic eyes!"
Renge and I talked the rest of the time until the guests left. I was actually about to leave myself when Renge grabbed Kimi and I and yanked us back in.
"Where do you think you're going?" Renge asked playfully, "I want you to be with me when I meet my fiancé!"
"You're fiancé?" Hikaru wondered aloud.
"Kyoya?" Kaoru wondered with him.
"Of course! My name is Renge Houshakuji and I'm transferring into Ouran Academy's first year Class A tomorrow," Renge explained to the hosts.
"Hey, Senky-chan?" Kimi leaned over and whispered to me, "You know this girl. Is she really engaged to Kyoya Ootori?"
"Well Renge has been known to play video games a lot and project her feelings from them into other people," I sighed, remembering all the Portal and Persona games I played with her in middle school, "And when she went back to France, she was starting to get obsessed with this one guy in a dating sims game. If I remember correctly, that character looked a lot like Kyoya."
"So she's a nerd?" Kimi asked bluntly.
"Hey I'm a nerd too!" I hissed back at her.
"Ours is a story of love at first sight!" Renge began to monologue. She talked about Kyoya reaching out to kittens, looking at flowers, his personality, but all these descriptions were everything but Kyoya! The entire time, Kimi was trying really hard not to laugh at her because she knew that it would offend me and my weird anime crushes.
"He looks like the star of the popular dating sim: Uki-Doki Memorial!" Renge announced gleefully.
"Yep, that's Renge for you," I sighed while Kimi was bursting at the seams with laughter.
As Kyoya thought over the situation, Renge ran around Kimi and I with hearts floating all around her.
"Isn't this so great! I've finally met my true prince charming!" she sang while I just played along and Kimi rolled her eyes, trying not to guffaw in her face. Then Renge took a seat next to her 'love' and began discussing his role in the club.
Finally she declared with fiery determination in her voice, "I've made up my mind! From now on, I'm gonna be the manager of this Host Club!"
"Does she ever listen?" giggled Kimi.
"Nope, Renge's a one of a kind!" I sighed then decided to put the club out of their misery, "Um Renge, did you want to come over to my house tonight and we can play the new Persona 4? I just got it."
More stars lit up in the girl's eyes and she jumped up and down with excitement. When we were on our way out, she left one last piece of information for the club.
"I'll be back tomorrow to start planning the future of the Host Club!" she sang, "And I'll even bring Senka and her friend along as well. Senka's great with character development too!"
I had finally found my ticket to spending more time with the Host Club: Renge.
Sorry if the chapter was a little slow! Next time...: Evolution and Envy!