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Chapter Ten
"Momo."
"What Yui?" She asked as she painted her toenails.
"Do you think we're bad friends?" Yui asked as she braided her hair, yanking clothes of hangers.
"No." Momo answered slowly, "Why?"
"Well, there's just all that gossip about Mikan, and I know we talk to, but we are supposed to be her friend." Yui continued
"I don't know. It's a compliment to be talked about." Momo pointed out, "We've had plenty rumors about us."
"Yeah, but we didn't like it." Yui answered as Momo sighed.
"This hurts my head. I guess it's different because she's poor." Momo went on, "So she's not used to it."
"Oh." Yui nodded, "That makes sense. We should take her out, teach her, you know how to fit in a little more."
"Starting with that ridiculous skirt." Momo laughed, "She looks so funny every time-"
"Momo!" Yui scolded, "I like her skirt. You might hurt her feelings if you insult her clothing. Did you forget how expensive the uniform is?"
Momo blushed, "My head hurts from all this thinking. Maybe we should just be her friends. Even friends gossip about each other."
"True." Yui nodded, "Where's Rai?"
"Didn't she have that party over in France?" Momo asked
"Oh yes." Yui agreed, "Speaking of which did you hear, about who was invited."
"No do tell." Momo smiled as she clicked open her phone, "I'll just text Mikan and ask how she's doing."
"Good idea. So anyway she actually had the nerve. Can you believe it." Yui sighed as she dumped another sweater onto the bed. It was the monthly trading of outfits, since she wouldn't be able to shop again until the summer.
"How are you?" MIkan read the message aloud, texting back, "I'm fine."
"That's a lie." a pair of voices called from her doorway.
"Shut up." She hissed, tossing a shoe from her bed at the twins who ducked laughing running down the hall. That was the problem with this house; it was so small they were always around.
The horses had been moved to a nearby boarding farm, so they could be watched over 24/7. The stupid python had managed to get loose from it's cage, so they wouldn't be able to move back in until after the weekend or longer. She was lucky it hadn't eaten Cho, who sat yipping beside her on the bed.
"I know babe." She rubbed her ears, ignoring the homework behind on the desk. She do it in a minute, she had to calm down Kyoya enough to do it.
"What's wrong?" She read it again. It was the fifth time he had asked her through texts.
'Nothing really. I just am feeling pressure from dance with my busted leg, and rehearsals." She typed back. She didn't have to wait long though to receive an answer.
"No. I know it's because of all the gossip the girls are saying. I'm not deaf. Why didn't you say something?"
She blinked, grunting typing back, "Really what was I going to say?"
She read it aloud again, "You should know you can say anything that is bothering you. It part of the host club rules about no bullying."
"Really. Then what can you do?" She asked the phone, typing it in. He answered a minute later.
'Leave that to me. Your at training."
She waited a minute before typing back, "Alright. Nothing dramatic. Perhaps it would be better for me to fade into the back round. I think people are talking because of everything that happened yesterday."
He didn't answer to that at first, then.
"Perhaps." She laughed as she read it before answering, "Way to- be straight forward. How long until-I gets to come back."
"After this weekend." She read smiling.
"Cool beans." She smiled smacking her lips, "Doing homework."
"Bye.' Came the answer as she clicked her phone shut only to have it ring a moment later.
"Hello?" She asked
"Hi, it's Haruhi."
"Hey. What's up?" Mikan asked, as she moved her notebooks onto her bed.
"I need to give you an address to my house." She explained
"Ah. Let me write it down." Mikan answered scribbling it down into her homework journal, "Thanks. Ah what time do you want me to pick you up?"
"How about noonish?" Haruhi answered," I should be up and done with chores."
"Oh same here." Mikan answered, "My brothers are going to be out of town this weekend so I have their share."
"More fun to you." Haruhi answered, "So, I guess I'll see you tomorrow."
"Yeah." She nodded, "You okay?"
"Yeah. Lot of homework to do."
"Same here. Guess I'll talk to you later." Mikan finished as she clicked the phone shut, "He is so cute."
But there was no time for boys right now, even adorable boys.
"He's probably gay." She commented to herself, "Or at least the way Tamaki seems to hang on him."
"Mikan you're talking to yourself again." Kagame called from the room across the hall, "Try and keep those crazy thoughts of yours in your head."
"Sorry.' She answered as she opened her textbook, sighing as she began the night's problems. Why the hell did this school require so much math? She sucked at math. Sucked at more then Biology and Spanish combined.
"Kagame do you understand this problem?" She yelled to her sister.
"All I learned in school fell out to the pavement the day I finished high school. So no." Kagame answered as she turned the music louder on her stereo carrying it over to Mikan's room, picking up her phone and scanning through her phone.
"What's all this Hru? going on? Wow the shadow king texted you?"
MIkan sighed, reaching for her phone and hiding it under her pillow, "He take's care of his investments. And the others from my friends, Momo, Rai, and Yui."
"None of the other guys thought to text you?" Kagame pushed
"Trust me, I'm sick of people asking me how I am, because I'm fine." Mikan sighed, "It's just that these girls, at the school talk about me like I am a puppy. Like I do have dieses and shit."
"Damn. The rich get bored easily don't they? I wonder what drugs there on or maybe it's that whole cosplay thing. It's really big here in Japan you know." Kagame answered laying on the bed as her stereo blasted loud music on the floor.
"I know, but I didn't think that cosplay was every day, stuff.' Mikan answered, "It's mostly for Magna's."
"Ah. Well maybe the host club is like their live action magna." Kagame offered picking at her nails.
"Maybe." Mikan nodded, "Anyways, no, I had slight melt down today. You know you get sick of the whispers, but I didn't want to hurt anybody, and I felt like I was going to cry, so I ran off. And this girl threw a "treat" at me, like crust from her bun."
"Damn, how cheap of her. Next time you should demand for at least half the lunch." Kagame snorted as Mikan laughed.
"I know right. So I sat by this fountain to cry, and I hear them calling for me, so I dunk my head in the fountain and go around with a wet head."
"Why did you dunk your head?" Kagame asked truly surprised.
"I didn't want them to get all upset about me crying. I cry to much in front of them." She explained, "I told them I was hunting, no I 'm sorry, looking for fishes."
"So you're just being hormonal?" Kagame prompted after a minute.
"I guess." Mikan yawned, "Just general stress with homework and dance and getting this leg in shape."
"Ah, general Mikan stuff. See you need to get smarter girl friends. I think you forget how to be a girl with all these guys." Kagame told her, as she yanked out a piece of jerky from her pocket, "Oh jerky. Wondering where that went off to."
"Yeah. But there great guys for the most part." Mikan answered," Sometimes I have to wonder if I'm just a toy for them."
"You probably are in some ways." Kagame answered as she tore off a chunk of the jerky, "But that doesn't mean your not still friends. I had a guy who always loved to just hug me and play with me, but he told me half his life story if I asked for it. Seems to me they care a lot, they're just a little shallow."
"Who the girls or the guys?" Mikan asked confused
"Both." Kagame answered, "Except maybe for Kyoya and this, Haruhi you were lusting over. "
"I was not lusting." Mikan answered affronted, "I just think he's sweet. He was the only one who helped me when I got tea on my arms. They're all gorgeous. Except maybe Honey, he's just adorable."
"Honey? Who name's there kid Honey?" Kagame laughed," Let's see, Tamaki, Kyoya, Haruhi, Honey, -"
"The twins, and Mori." Mikan finished, "He's scary."
"Whose scary?" another voice asked from her doorway.
"Hey Ayumi, are you going to be here long enough to talk with your sisters." Kagame asked as Ayumi huffed plopping on the other side of Mikan.
"Of course. Are you talking about Mori, who always hanging with that guy who looks like he could be in first grade?" Ayumi asked as she stole of some Kagame's jerky, "Good Jerky."
"I know." Kagame smiled as she swallowed another large piece.
"Yeah. You heard of him?" Mikan asked
"Duh." Ayumi answered, "Everybody who anybody has at least heard of the host club. Nobody's interested of course, but we hear plenty of stories of what happens with the drama."
"Don't believe half of it." Mikan snorted, "They'll have you thinking your sister is a jewel thief."
"Wow. Really?" Ayumi asked
"Yep. So back to Mori, he's really scary, because he just pop's out of no where." MIkan explained.
"He does that." Ayumi agreed
"How tall is he?" Kagame asked
"Really tall. Like 6"4 or something crazy." Mikan answered, "Alright up and out. I have homework to do before I go to class. Kagame are you driving again?"
"Sure." She answered, " I have a few things to pick up from my favorite art store."
"Get me glue. I have a project due in a week." Ayumi ordered as she rolled off Mikan's bed, "Man I can't wait to get back to our house."
"This place ain't so bad." Kagame called after her as she grabbed the stereo, "You think we're living in poverty because of a two story house."
"Eh. Bigger than what lived in before Mom was rich. I'm not used to be near you guys again." Mikan smiled as laid her head down on the bed.
"I know. So weird." Kagame laughed, "Mikan, just one more time, are you sure your all right?"
"Yes. Yes. Yes." She cried covering her eyes, "I'm just hormonal and stressed. Let me get my homework done woman."
"All right." Kagame shrugged as she shut the door taking her blasting music away, as Mikan's phone rang once more.
"Hello?"
"Mikan are you sure your okay?"
"Tamaki?' She asked sitting up surprised, "Hi, yeah, why?"
"Well, I can understand how a commoner like yourself would not be used to such pressure-"
"Tamaki, today I was just a little stressed and hormonal." Mikan answered cutting him off, "Girls can be like that. Just needed some air."
"Oh." He answered
"Yeah. See you this weekend, all right, and probably tomorrow in the hall or at lunch." She answered
"Yeah. Of course! Good bye, such a good puppy." He said with a baby voice, as she clicked the phone shut, once again, before it began to rang once more.
"Hello?" She asked exasperated
"HI MIKAN!"
It was the twins. What was everybody calling her today?
"I'm fine. I'm stressed and hormonal." She answered
'Oh that's nice." Hikaru started
"But we just wanted to know what time we should come over." Karou finished
"Oh right. Uh noon." She answered quickly,"Hey do you guys know to do the square of triangles."
"Nope.' they answered," Try Honey or Mori. They should now."
"Are you sure they won't be calling me next?" She asked as she attempted another problem.
"Maybe." They answered
'Did Kyoya put you guys up to this?" Mikan asked
"What if we just wanted to prove we could take care of our puppy the best?" They answered "DIBS ON TRAINING YOU FIRST!"
"Oh. Is that it." She answered, rolling her eyes, "Be good boys. I'll see you tomorrow." She clicked the phone shut, scrolling through the list for Honey.
"Hi honey." she greeted as he suddenly screamed back into the phone.
"MIKAN_CHAN CALLED ME!"
"Honey not in my ear." She cried clutching her ear, "Ow. Listen do you remember how to find the area of triangles."
"No, but Takashi does." He answered
"Is he there?" She asked, not knowing if the two lived together.
"No, but if you called him, I'm sure he would love to help you." Honey answered, 'No wait, he doesn't like talking on the phone. Why don't you meet us tomorrow morning? We come extra early for kendo meetings, we can meet at the main entrance."
"Sure." Mikan answered
"Are you okay?' Honey asked
"Yes, Just a little stressed."
"Aww." He cried, "Is it because of math?"
"That's part of it." She answered, "That would be great if he could help. Does he mind?"
"Takashi?" Honey asked, "No of course not. He's really good at triangles."
"Cool beans." Mikan answered," I have to go Honey. I see you tomorrow."
"Bye Mikan chan." He answered
"Oh wait, my house noon." She told him before the line went dead.
"All right. I get help the mute giant do my math homework. Oh boy." She sighed yawning, shoving the notebook to the ground and starting on the next segment.
Cho was curled up beside her. He was so small and tiny it was pathetic.
"Do you think Kyoya-" She started, before Kagame yelled at her again.
"MIKAN! Keep the thoughts in the head."
"Sorry." She answered before she began her next segment of homework.
Kyoya glanced at the messages on his phone as it began to ring once more.
"Hello Tamaki."
"You said she was torn up in a heap of emotional wreck! She was fine!" Tamaki accused
Kyoya rolled his eyes, "I never said that. I said she seemed a little upset today and as the host club king that you should try and comfort her."
"She didn't need it." Tamaki started
"That's wonderful." Kyoya answered in a deadpan tone, "I needed her to feel that you cared-"
"But we do care. We all care.' Tamaki protested, "She's our puppy! We can't have her feeling neglected. Maybe I should have the limo pick her up personally from now on."
"It may seem like your giving her special treatment. Her job is to be cute and likable, nothing more. That would upset your fans, and we can't have that." Kyoya explained as he wrote something in his pad.
"Your right, but what do we do? I don't want her to be upset-"
"Tamaki did you even listen to her explanation? Girls tend to be a little off the charts with their emotions when they feel stressed." Kyoya started
"But, the princesses are never-"
"That's because they've been taught to keep it private. It wouldn't be proper for them to sob all the time in public. It may tarnish their families reputation." Kyoya explained, "And they don't have a reason to cry when they come to the host club. They come to be entertained."
"Oh." Tamaki answered, "That makes sense. Raising a puppy is hard work."
'Em-hmm."Kyoya nodded, 'that's is why I am having the trainer come. The competition is still on of course."
"It is?" Tamaki asked surprised
"Oh yes. Just because the puppy may had a bad day doesn't mean I'm going to cancel it. We of course have to be able to afford costumes, until I manage to find something else suitable to sell to the costumers."
"WAHOO! The competition is still on."
"You should have known this." Kyoya commented, "I sent out the flyer to your house."
"I must go see the mail, good bye."
Kyoya clicked the phone shut, sighing. He liked Tamaki, but he was idiot in the biggest way sometimes.
"We call first." He read off the text from the twins.
"Fine." He said as he typed back his answer.
He was going to have to compile a list, set down the rules. He shoved over his homework, now that he had finished the bulk of it, opening his laptop.
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