Nobody mentioned anything about the little episode last night, even though everyone saw it. Even her parents were wary and careful not to say anything about it. So they focused on the new subject at hand.
"Demitri, will you be a darling and bring over these brownies to the new neighbours?" Bonnie asked, "Just say a few word to welcome them to the neighbourhood and tell them they're welcome here anytime!" She beamed at her and bustled off to help one of the new small children get untangled from some yarn.
Demitri loked out the window and saw a U-Haul truck outside the blue house next door. "Hm." She thought, "I didn't know we were getting new neighbours." She got up, threw out her wrapper, picked up the brownies and headed outside.
"Hey!"
Demitri turned around to find Tamaki running up to her, dragging Kyouya with him, "What are you doing?"
"Just delivering these brownies. New meat in the neighbourhood." Demitri motioned toward the blue house.
"Ah, we must go meet them!" Tamaki said, jumping up and down a bit. Demitri sent a "WTF?" look towards him.
So as they tagged along, Demitri looked ahead and saw there was a girl sitting on the steps, she looked about eleven, and was engrossed in a book on her lap. She had dirty blonde hair, and from the looks of it, bright green eyes.
Demitri stepped up and introduced herself, "Hello, I'm Demitri, your next door neighbour." Holding on to the brownies on one arm, she stuck out her hand.
The girl didn't look up for a moment, but then looked up and shyly took her hand, "I'm Louise. Louise Manning." She put her book down by her lap, not bothering to get up.
"I'm Tamaki, pleased to meet you," He swooped down and kissed her hand. She blinked.
"And my name is Kyouya." He nodded at her.
"Uh..." She quickly glanced down at her book.
Demitri looked down too and tilted her head at the same time. Her eyes got wide.
Tamaki and Kyouya saw them looking, and they looked down too. Tamaki, started stuttering and Kyouya wrote something down in his notebook he brought with him.
The book cover had a picture of a blonde boy and a brown haired girl.
Ouran High School Host Club
"Hey guys!"
Louise titled her head to peek around Demitri, and her eyes got wide as she jumped up, "HIKARU AND KAORU!"
The twins sopped in mid-step and stumbled back about three feet, "Uh... yeah?" Hikaru said, scratching his head.
"HA!" Louise said, slapping her forehead, "Oh, my freaking god, this is good!" She started laughing.
"Um..."Demitri managed toget out. She quickly tried to "play it cool, "How do you know their names?"
"Smooth." Kaoru said, sliding beside her.
Demitri couldn't help it, she grinned like an idiot and punched his arm.
"Oh, yeah, right," Louise said, pointing to the twins, "It's funny you think I'm dense enough to believe that this," She motioned to the guys, "is not the host club after you introduced yourselves with the names of them, and they look exactly like them, and you guys looked so surprised when you saw the cover, and when Tamaki started stuttering like the nimrod he is ("Nimrod?"), and when Kyouya started writing in that notorious black note book he always has, and when, when," She shook her head, "this is..."
"Abnormal?"
"Weird?"
"Freaky?"
"Suspiscous?"
"INSANE!" She laughed and giggled, and the others just exchanged glances, then stopped, "Wait... Wheres-"
"There you guys are!"
They all turned like the way a certain pet beagle does whenever he hears a cheeto hit the floor.
Louise suddenly stiffened.
"Hello! Are you the new neighbours?" Hunny said, grinning from ear to ear. Mori nodded at her.
She suddenly beamed, and squealed, but shut up fairly quickly as if she didn't believed she just did that, and glomped Mori, "OHMIGOD IT'S MY MOST FAVORITE AWESOMEST WOMANIZER!" But she quickly regained herself and stepped back, shaking his hand. She cleared her throat, "Nice to meet you."
"That was unexpected..." Haruhi said quietly.
Demitri explained to them about how she now knows they are the host club, and not some random asian kids.
"Soo... Um... Now what?" Hikaru asked, looking around at everybody.
"Ahh- Oh yeah, my mother wanted me to give you these,"She handed her some brownies.
"Oh, these look good! Too bad I'm not allowed to have sugar," Louise said, looking down at it regretfully.
"Oh... That.. Must Suck..." Demitri said, not knowing what to say.
"Yup, it does. It sucks ASS." She sighed before putting it on a table on her porch. She looked back at them before blurting out, "How did it happen?"
"Oh, you mean this?" Demitri said, motioning towards the host club, "Well, it contained an old woman..."
"A magical mirror..." Tamaki said.
"And a spell..." Hunny said.
"And some underestimating-"
"Stop," She said, holding up her hand, "I've heard enough."She shook her head, "Thats just crazy."
"Tell me about it." Demitri said.
"Hm... Oh, come on in." She smiled and beckoned for them to follow her.
When they entered, they saw that the house was pretty messy, with boxes everywhere. It was a farely a small house, about a third the size of Demitri's house, big enough for about four people. They passed the kitchen and Louise asked if they wanted anything. They all declined politely. They passed the living room to see a small boy sitting on the couch, watching a music video on TV. The little boy switched the channel, but seemed to sense the presence of the rest, for he turned around blinked, before turning back and watching the TV again. He continued flipping through channels.
"Thats Tommy. He's six." Louise motioned toward the couch, "He likes microwave burritos and playstation."
"Well, I can see the resemblance." Tamaki said, smiling, and waving at Tommy. The boy saw him, glared, and went back to the TV.
Tamaki froze.
"Eeeeeyah..." Louise said, "He doesn't like teenagers..."
"Why?" Hikaru said, his eyebrows raised.
"Well, lets just say our cousins had a little pantsing fetish when he was younger. Now, he tends to kick people on the shin if they touch him. Even me."
"He kicks them in the shin?"
"Sometimes higher."
The bell rang to signify the end of the day. The jocks headed towards the gym and fields. The preps headed towards the sudent council meeting room and the happy helpers club. The nerds headed for the chess club and the mathletes meeting room. The goths went out back to smoke weed and other horrible stuff that could damage you later in life. And the ones who perferred not to have a stereotype just went home.
Mori stepped out tof the school, and started walking towards the tree where they usually met up after the bell. Hunny skipped around a few yards ahead of him.
The day was cool, not unusual for a spring day, and the clouds overhead suspected rain. He sat down underneath the tree and pulled out a book, occasionally peeking over the cover to watch his cousin talk to a few freshmen.
"You know that if you read to much, your brain will melt?" He looked up to see Angelica leaning against a tree, smiling and looking at him.
"Ah."
He turned to continue reading, but was deprived from that privlege when the book was swiftly taken from his hands. He looked up, annoyed.
"A Lesson Before Dying? It sounds depressing." She tossed her hair over her shoulder and tosssed the book on his lap, "I don't have time to read books. Too busy." she looked back at him, expecting his devoted attention, but saw he had continued to read.
"Um... Hello?" She waved her hand in front of his face. He looked up. "I was talking?"
"Hn." He grunted.
"That was Mori speak for "I really don't care, so would you please just just get the hell away from me?'"
The girl looked up at the blunt voice. She narrowed her eyes at the young girl, "Uh, what are you?"
The girl smilied brightly, "Louise Manning, dog walker and bad-ass air guitarist. Pleased to meet you." She held out her hand.
She stared at her, her mouth open. "And why are you here?"
Louise looked at Mori and tilted her her head, "You know that guy right there?" she nodded at him.
"Uh, no shit, I was talking to him."
"Well, see, he is my fiance." She winked at him, and looked at Angelica, "Our parents have set up this arranged marrige when I was born, and seeing how Mori always hung around my crib, they thought 'Hey! Why don't we set them up?'-"
Mori closed his eyes and massaged his temples as she rambled on. Why? was the only thing on his mind at that moment. He stood and picked her up by the waist, and walked off. She was still talking.
"-And now that we have finally met, we will spend the rest of our lives together, all happy and sunshine-" She cut off suddenly, her babbling coming to a stop.
He looked back to see Angelica rushing to a group of girls, who were waiting expectedly. He blinked.
"I'm guessing you won't have her as a problem anymore." He felt Louise shrug.
Nice job. He thought with a small smile.
"Rumor has it that you knocked up a ten year old and now you are being forced to marry her by her parents."
Mori choked on his, water and looked at Hikaru, who was grinning profoundedly.
"Where?" He asked.
"Oh, it's all over the schools gossip site." Hikaru shrugged, "I just found it. The rumor also is that Kyoua is in love with his english teacher, Tamaki is actually a woman, and Haruhi does cocaine. And did you know that I'm actually from Germany and Koaru is my clone?" He rolled his eyes.
"I can assure you that I am not in love with my english teacher. I'm not really all that interested in men."
They both turned to the speaker. Hikaru laughed, "I know, but from the comments and such, a majority of the school believes it." He shook his head, "Pathetic."
They heard the door slam.
Haruhi walked in with her hair mussed up, her sweater half off, and a scribble on her face witten in blue marker. She was panting.
"What happened?" Hikaru rushed over to her. She shook her head and crossed her arms to make an 'X'.
"Take my advice, and never take the late bus home." She tried to wipe the marker off her face, but only suceeded on smearing it onto her lips. She grimanced, "Especailly when every spring sports team is on."
She shivered and walked upstairs.
Demitri walked downstairs and into the living room. She stopped.
"How did you get in here?!" She said, gaping at Louise.
*Louise shrugged and stared at the TV set "You really don't have any good channels. Seriously, " She looked up at Demitri, "Cable?"
Demitri looked at her, "I'm sorry we don't have television to suit your needs your highness." At that moment Demitri decided not to be annoyed at her sudden appearances anymore and sat down beside her, "There's never anything good on at this time anyways, all the satire comes on after ten." She took the remote from her.
Louise made a face. "What's satire?"
Demitri scrunched her nose, "Oh yeah, I forgot, you're twelve."
Louise opened her mouth to protest but was interrupted by a huge crash in the next room.
"TAMAKI DID IT!" Two voices rang out simultaneously. There was a sudden scurry of footsteps and the slam of the door, and Louise grew a huge smile on her face.
Demitri almost swore under her breath, but stopped when she remembered there was a minor in the room. She glanced at the small girl, the ends of her hair a faded pink, the Seaworld baseball cap on her head worn, and a Hetalia shirt on, she looked like a faint reminder of Demitri when she was 13. Louise was smiling and her neck was stretched to look into the other room. She giggled and sat back again, her eyes looking at the screen but her mind elsewhere for a minute before speaking.
"You know I always thought of that moment."
Demitri turned to look fully at her, her brow furrowing, "what moment?"
"When you guys showed up at my doorstep. I always wanted to meet them." Louise smiled and looked at Demitri, "I always tried to convince myself it was impossible, but somewhere, deep, deep down in my heart, I knew it could happen. You're the most luckiest girl in the world."
Staring at the adolescent girl sitting on her couch on a cool spring day, Demitri felt her heart clench, a soft squeeze that reminded her of a hug. Louise looked away and ran off to see what her favourite people were up to, but Demitri stared after her, realizing what she had done.
She got up and walked into the next room, trying to shake the feeling of satisfaction and content from her mind, and started to focus on how she was going to explain to her mom how her favourite kitchen lamp fell into the toilet.
*A/N PLEASE READ: Hey so I havent updated this in like, haha, two or three years (frickin rite u go zurla) (should I even call myself zurla anymore like my fanfiction days are long done) (my name is montana btw) all my old readers are probably gone (does this fandom even still exist) and I started this when I first started writing, so everything is honestly really awfully written up until I started writing like, the last 12 or so paragraphs. Note the * where I started writing this story again after two years, and how different the styles are (improvement WOO) and how I suddenly tried to add depth to two characters lmao.
If you are a new reader, hello welcome I will try to make everything work out and complete in a decent amount of time between chapters and try to keep the wackyness (? Did people even like that stuff) (don't even get me started on the con chapter im cringing in shame) and improvement throughout the rest of the story, thank u.
If you are an old reader hoW THE FUCK ARE YOU STILL FOLLOWING THIS I SWEAR TO THE LORD
Anyways, thanks. See you next time homies.