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"WHAT?! You've never tried it?!" the twins gaped.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you that it's the preferred drink of the Host Club?" Hikaru asked.

That week was the start of the cultural expositions and all the afternoon classes had been cancelled so I was saved from a boring biology class. It was still only a few weeks after the beach and more action was coming towards the Ouran High School Host Club!

"And you two are our assistant managers so you should drink it too!" Kaoru added.

"W-well..." I explained, rather embarrassed, "The only coffee I really drink are Frappuccinos."

"Um well…isn't that when the coffee beans have already been ground for you?" Kimi asked, trying to recall the commoner's drink.

The twins only made a buzzing noise that you would hear on a game show if you got a question wrong and startling poor Kimi-chan to death!

"That's just ground coffee," Hikaru explained, "Instant coffee is something completely different. I'm not even sure it's real coffee!"

"So it's just like regular coffee but not as robust…but yet it's strangely satisfying," Kaoru added and the two seemed to enter an instant coffee trance, "Come to think of it, we just ran out of some..."

The two waltzed off to bug Haruhi so she could buy some more and I was left alone with my best friend. Ever since I told her about the beach I began to zone out more and more than usual. Except these weren't the usual day dreams that I had of fictional characters, magic, and adventure. These were different; very different.

"Senky-chan!" Kimi whispered, poking my arm, "Are you planning your next chapter over there?"

"Oh, Hika-chan…" I say in a dreamy voice, then snapping back into the real world," GAH! Uh, oh yeah!"

"Senky-chan," she said bluntly seeing straight through my bluff, "You're thinking about him again aren't you. You know fantasizing about a guy will only drain your creative juices! You've only written two chapters this month and they were shorter than usual!"

"I know…I'm sorry," I sighed, blowing at my bangs, "I'll try to write one by the end of the week for you."

"Yay!" she exclaimed, glomping me, "I can't wait to see how their mission turns out!"

I only smirked, thinking of the plans I had for my characters. I'm so evil to my characters.

That day, the Hosts were cosplaying as medieval nights while Kimi and I sat around in a corner, pretty bored. I was slumped over the table and I almost didn't notice some unexpected visitors to arrive. Tamaki did his whole shtick and I had to contain my laughter as the girls told them off. The uniforms they were that of a different school's and Kyoya explained that they were from the Lobelia girls Academy. That's when the door opened and Haruhi was practically danced in by another woman. The girls from the academy seemed very offensive towards the opposite gender and at the beginning of the year I would've agreed with them. But now, I had been shown the epicness of having a crush. In fact, these girls showed their 'maidenly' pride by putting on a gaudy show with silly costumes on under their uniforms. They announced themselves as The Zuka Club.

The twins and I found it rather funny. We burst out laughing uncontrollably at the girl's silly costumes!

"Oh man, what a stupid name: the Zuka Club!" Hikaru laughed, "My stomach hurts!"

"That's priceless! They had those weird get-ups on under their uniforms!" Kaoru laughed along with his raspy voice.

"What a bunch of idiots!" I laughed with tears in my eyes and pointed at them.

"You shouldn't underestimate The Zuka Club!" a voice echoed from underground.

A large platform slowly spiraled from the floor of the music room with Renge on top of it. She went on yet another monologue so I'll sum it up for you: The Zuka Club are apparently a club of strong madens who see women as the superior race and have had quite a long history and were apparently extremely good at theater. They also could see through Haruhi's masculine disguise. Monologues must've been big that day because these girls began to start on one of their own about the 'beauty of a maiden' or something like that.

By then we had all gotten over it and I went back to my girlish day dreams.

"And to think their dragging this young maiden down with them," the leader of them said, turning to Haruhi.

"Leave her alone!" I snapped at her, breaking out of my day dreams and running to my friend's defense.

The Lobelia leader looked at me closely then it seemed like she had connected something in her brain.

"Senka Miyazaki…" she muttered, studying me.

"You know my name?" I asked.

She let a small gap of silence follow then began to create the next few minutes the absolute worst in my life.

"Of course I know you. My family runs the main police force of the town and your father's company used to provide fire arms for our units." She explained, "I didn't think I'd see Mr. Miyazaki's nicotine-snuffing daughter at such an elite school."

"W-wait…what?" I breathed, horrified.

She then started walking towards me rather menacingly and I began to back up as she towered over me.

"Your father broke off connections with my family's business five years ago, making them go through some hard times. I can't believe the rumors were true." She continued on with ice in her voice, "Mr. Miyazaki really does have a neglected daughter that he uses to atone for his sins. I also can't believe that you got into such a sophisticated school."

I backed into the wall and she looked me dead in the eyes. I didn't even know this chick but she was scaring the life out of me. How did she know all this? She was worse than Kyoya!

"Last I heard you were smoking, shooting machine guns, and locking yourself in your room. How did such a disgusting maiden end up here."

Tears began to form in my eyes and I started shaking, remembering what I call my 'dark days'. As you have probably already picked up from the story, my father neglects me and my mother doesn't live with us. That's because my mother is roaming the streets of New York looking for a guy to sleep with. Yep, my dad used to be a little crazy and he got careless one night. My mother didn't believe in abortion so she had me, named me a rather ghetto name, and shipped me to my father. All my father sees me as is a reminder of his own 'dark days' and he only keeps me to atone for those days but he still doesn't pay attention to me.

When I was little, I didn't know how to deal with being left alone all the time with hardly any friends but things got really bad in middle school. I could usually cope with the loneliness but new teen hormones were kicking in and making my life that much harder. Soon was locking myself up in my room and letting my grades drop; not to mention I had to deal with middle school bullies. In seventh grade, when I could bear it no longer, I resorted to cigarettes but if it weren't for Kimi, I might still be smoking. She convinced me to quit by the end of eighth grade and I decided to start fresh when high school rolled around. I never expected to have someone bring my past back up, let alone in front of the people who didn't know (except Kyoya of course).

Once the lady had sized me up, she left me, crumpling into a ball and trying to hold back tears. I overheard a little of what she was talking about: something like Haruhi enrolling in their school but I could really care less.

"Senky-chan?" came a voice from on the other side of the door.

"I can't relive it…I can't relive it," I kept muttering to myself like an insane person.

I had locked myself in the changing room of the abandoned music room and refused to come out. Curled up in a ball and rocking back in forth in a corner was where I huddled.

"C'mon, Senka," I heard Kaoru's voice say, "I'm sure she was just exaggerating!"

"Shhh!" I heard Kimi hiss, "She wasn't!"

"Are you serious?!" I heard Hikaru's voice ask. Great now my crush knew about me past!

"Yes but I think Senka would like to tell you herself," Kimi explained, "Do you have a master key to this room, leaving her alone isn't a wise idea."

I heard the jingling of keys and a lock clicking open.

"Senky-chan, you ok?" Kimi asked gently as she slowly opened the door.

I was still curled up in a corner, burying my face in the stupid uniform I was forced to wear when I managed to speak up a little, "Go away…"

"Senka," Kimi said seriously as she tried to sit me up, "You need to get up, wallowing in sorrow is only going to make it worse."

I tried to lay back down on the floor but she held me up and was determined to get me on my feet again.

"Was what she said true?" Kaoru asked.

I only looked up at him with a tear stained face and muttered a 'yes' through sniffles.

"Do you want to tell them about it? They already know about it so you might as well," Kimi told me.

"Why bother. She already told you how it went, a neglecting father leads to depression and depression leads to drugs," I sniffled, "But she didn't mention that I quit smoking last year before it became a problem."

"See," Kimi said to the twins, "She's a lot better than she used to be in middle school."

The twins seemed to still be in shell shock that I used to be such a person and I was waiting to be silently judged.

"We don't really care how bad your past used to be," I heard Kaoru's sympathetic voice say.

"Yeah, we've all got our share of twisted lives," Hikaru added, "Some a little twisted than more though."

I heard Kaoru elbow him in the side and assumed he was eluding to me.

"Where's the rest of the Host Club?" I whimpered from my despair.

"They're discussing Haruhi's situation. They think she might transfer away." Hikaru explained with a nervous tone in his voice.

"Yeah right…" I mumbled. I had gotten to know Haruhi pretty well and I knew she wouldn't leave without repaying the debts she owed. She wasn't that kind of a backstabber and she had even turned down Kimi and I's offers to help her pay the Host Club back.

Kimi just hugged me and held me, trying to console me. I was glad I had such a good friend as her, without her I still might be locking myself away. Then, just when I was starting to feel a little better, things got even worse. I guess my shoes had gotten loose when I was sobbing and Kimi discovered my hidden 'stash'. She jabbed her hand into my left shoe and yanked out a pack of Japan Tobacco cigarettes.

"What are these?!" she asked rather demandingly.

I looked up at the twins and gulped. Oh why did they have to see this?

"My…emergency stash…"I mumbled.

"You told me you quit!" Kimi yelled at me as if I were her daughter, "How long have you been smoking behind my back, Senky-chan!?"

"I only smoked two or three times since I quit," I said, trying to be as quiet as I could but I'm pretty sure the twins could still hear me, "I just keep them in case life gets stressful…"

"And were you planning on having a little smoke when you got home?!" Kimi interrupted.

"Maybe…" I muttered.

"Give me the rest," she demanded.

"I don't have…"

"Give me the rest,"

"Fine…"

I pulled out a lighter from my other shoe and she snatched it away from me.

"We're going to the sauna this weekend to sweat off all that nicotine, do you understand!?" she asked but I didn't get a chance to respond.

"Uh…Hikaru, Kaoru, we need you in here for planning how we're going to save Haruhi," Tamaki said, awkwardly poking his head in and trying to be tactful because of the scene I had just caused.

The two left and I felt like I wanted to kill my best friend.

"What have you done?!" I hissed at her, "You made me look like a druggy in front of my crush AND his brother. Do you think they'll ever like me now?"

"They said they didn't care and that it's in the past!" Kimi shot back at me.

"Yes but YOU had to expose my secret right in front of them!"

"Well maybe you shouldn't haven't been hoarding those cigarettes!"

"Back off! You'll never know what I've been through!"

Kimi seemed to step away from the fight a little. She was never one for arguments or holding grudges and in the few times we've ever fought, she's always made an effort to make up.

"I'm sorry, Senka…really I am…that was a stupid move," she said, her voice beginning to crack.

I just hugged her because that cute voice of hers was something I could never turn down.

"I guess I'm sorry too," I admitted, "Smoking behind your back was stupid move as well…we're still friends right?"

"To the end! And we won't let cigarettes or boys break us up!" she chirped sweetly and we shook on it.

Senka: So there you have it...my sucky past...

Kimi: It's ok, Ouran gave you a fresh start!

Senka:...Yeah...by the way, the first time the author wrote this story, I pointed a gun at Tamaki's head!

Tamaki: WHAAAT!?

Senka: But she's obviously made the story better since then. Anyways, in the next chapter: Relief and Ridiculousness

Hikaru: The next chapter is going to be a lazy one...so don't get your hopes up.

Kimi: You are so immature! Show some tact!