CH.2

"You may sit behind Haninozuka-san, Yukimura-San" the teacher instructed as he turned back to the board continuing with the lesson. She quickly spotted the only empty seat in the back row near the window. 'Heh, like in the animes' she giggled inwardly.

With a small smile, she walked to her seat and got her notebook out to take notes on the lesson. Her neat handwriting filled the pages till the teacher called for a ten-minute break. It was only then when she looked around the classroom. She noticed the students around her. How they talked quietly among themselves but the way they kept stealing glances at her she knew what the conversation was about. She bit her lip and reviewed her notes.

"Hello, my name is Honey!" She looked up to see a blond boy with chestnut eyes; recalling his last name she responded: "Hello Haninozuka-San, as you might have already heard my name is Yukimura, Kimiko." The blond giggled "Can I call you Kimi-Chan." "Of course you can," She said smiling softly. Haninozuka-san reminded her of her of Kouichi. 'Oh gosh I hope he's doing okay, I'm sure he'll make tons of friends.'

"KIMI-CHAN" Her train of thought was broken. "A-Ah, yes Haninozuka-San?" "This is my friend Takashi~!" Honey had then pointed to a boy sitting beside him and it surprised Kimiko that she hadn't noticed him earlier. A taller boy with black hair and tan skin nodded towards her. "It's a pleasure to meet you" she replied. "Hn" he replied. 'I'll take that as a hello' she thought.

"Do ya wanna eat lunch with us Kimi-Chan?" Hunny bounced. Feeling happy to make friends she nodded. The teacher came right in stealing her attention. 'Right I have to focus!' Kimiko reminded herself. As she busied herself with taking notes and listening to the lesson, she didn't notice the few girls glaring at her.

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"So how are you liking Ouran Kimi-Chan?!" Hunny asked as he was finishing his first piece of cake. It was lunch and the three were eating in one of the gardens that offered shade from the sun's glare. The grass was unusually soft. "Oh I love it, the curriculum is just...amazing!" It was true. Learning from an actual human being felt very refreshing from learning from a computer. Hunny and Mori gave her a confused look. "What do you mean Kimi-chan?" Hunny questioned. "A-Ah well I mean the classes are so amazing, I'm still can't believe I'm taking an actual French course!" Her eyes sparkled as she praised the classes the school had to offer. Hunny laughed "Kimi-chan's very silly huh Takashi. Mori nodded agreeing with his cousin.

Hunny's eyes suddenly lit up in realization "Wait Kimi-Chan are you a commoner?" "Mitsukuni, don't be rude," Mori said, he didn't like the term as he found it to be a bit offensive to other people. The girl tilted her head a bit

"A-Are you best friends?" Kimiko asked her classmates. "Cousins" Mori answered. "O-oh it's nice to have family a school, isn't it," she said. They both responded I'll come look in their owns way of agreement. "You have family here too?" Hunny questioned. She smiled even brighter than before "Y-Yes he is in Kindergarten!" " Woah are you sib-" *Beijing* "Oh, I-It's time for us to head back."

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"Kimi-Chan, you should visit me and Takashi at our club, you can eat cake with us. Pleassss!" Hunny begged. As the days went by they had learned that Kimiko was in this sort of shell. She would shy away from everyone, even them! Hunny really wanted to be friends with her, he sorta grew attached to her in the short time they had spent with her. Sorta the way Haruhi had. "I'm sorry Hunny, but I'm really busy after school," Kimiko said with a small frown.

The other girls in the classroom grew a bit jealous with the lolita paying more attention to her. "Don't worry Hunny? We'll be there!" Various responses like this came from the girls that attended the host club.

"Mitsukuni" Mori tried to stop his cousin from speaking further as he was causing a bit of a stir in the class.

"Pleaaaase, you'll like it I promise Kimi-chan!"

"I really would like to attend but unfortunately I do have things to do after school, please understand Hunny." Kimiko felt bad for rejecting the offer but she had barely been able to make it on time to pick up Kouichi. He would become anxious and would be upset if she was late.

By now the girls were shouting, trying to comfort the blond. The boys in the class we're looking at the drama with amusement and Hunny was still trying to convince her.

"20 MINUTES!" The yell of the teacher brought the class to turn to the fuming teacher.

"20 MINUTES EVERYONE WILL BE HELD BACK! I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS BEHAVIOR IN MY CLASS ANY LONGER!" The teacher sat down as the dismissal period rang. No one got out of their seat knowing they had to follow through the punishment.

'Oh no,' Kimiko thought as worry filled her mind.

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"Chiyo, Kirimi where are you going?" Kouichi asked his two other tablemates. His mom still hadn't come to pick him up and he didn't want to be left alone with the teacher. This was the first time she was actually late. She would usually come as soon as almost as the other kids were picked up by their drivers or nannies but his two tablemates were the only ones left now.

"I'm going to find my stupid nee-san, she's at a dumb club." the girl Chiyo mumbled. She had chestnut locks that were pulled into a ponytail and her blue eyes were fixed in a glare.

"I have to see my nii-chan, he promised to escort me to my limo, like a princess~!" Kirimi sang. Her blond hair was pulled into two pigtails.

"I-I don't want to be alone, she isn't here yet." tears started to form in his eyes. "What do I do?" The girls shared a look.

"Hey dummy, stop crying will you," Chiyo said as she wiped his tears with a tissue she grabbed from the teacher desk. "It's okay, maybe she's just late from class, your nee-chan will be here soon!" Kirimi comforted.

"Nee-chan? I don't have a sister." Kouichi said wiping his tears. "Then who's the dumb girl that picks you up?"

"She's not dumb!" Kouichi protested "And she's my mom."

"EHHHH?!" Both girls exclaimed. "No way, she's like what, 16?" Chiyo asked.

"N-No she's 17, and she is my mom!"

"...Okay. Do you know what class she's in?" Kirimi asked.

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'10 minutes, just 10 more minutes" Kimiko thought. She had tried to get up to ask the teacher if she could call the classroom Kouichi was in but the moment she raised her hand the teacher had snapped at her. "WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE THAT 40 MINUTES MISS. YUKIMURA?"

'Please just stay calm Kouichi, I'll be there soon…'

Hunny saw the worry on the girl's face and felt bad. It was sort of his fault they were staying behind. He wondered why she always left class in a rush, it's not like she's in a club he thought with a pout. 'Oh no her relative! She did say she had family here.!' Now it made sense she had to pick them up, right? 'Well, I'll just tell her she can bring them along!'

Even though the host club wasn't the ideal space for kids, his table seemed the mildest compared to the others. They would just eat cake and get to talk!

Hunny was now smiling as he silently ripped a piece of paper from his notebooks and scribbled a message inviting her to the host club and that her relative was welcomed as well.

With that Hunny had thrown the paper behind him to have it try to land in front of Kimiko. The girl flinched in surprise as it hit her lightly in the face. She cautiously opened the note and quickly read it in fear of having the teacher see their interaction.

She read the note and with a weary smile, she was about to try to write back.

That was until the door was gently opened; revealing three kindergartners. You could tell from their clothes as two of the girls were wearing the pink and white uniform and the other was a boy was in a sky blue and white uniform.

"M-mom" the little boy cried running towards the girl. Panic had hit her and so quickly she had gotten up and picked him up in her arms as she walked towards the teacher. Her classmates began to whisper as they had just seen the unusual scene.

The teacher unfortunately still in a bitter mood had refused to believe what he was hearing. "This is very unprofessional Miss Yukimura I don't appreciate being lied to."

Kimiko responded calmly as she whispered, "If you just call the office sir I'm sure they'll tell you everything, if it's alright I think I will take him home."

"Get back to your seat Miss Yukimura and the child can wait outside for the remaining six minutes!" He then roughly pried off Kouichi from his mother's arm and pushed him towards the door. "NO. I WANT MOMMY, I WANT MY MOMMY!" Kouichi began to scream and his arms reached out to Kimiko. The tantrum he was throwing made the students gasps as the assumptions were affirmed by his cries.

That was when the whispers began

'Dude I didn't think she'd be that easy.'

'Omg, she's such a slu-'

'Why is she even in this school?'

'What a whore, we have to keep her away from the host club.'

'Can you believe Ouran actually accepted her?'

'Do you think the dad is involved?'

'I bet she was with an older man.'

Kimiko cringed as she was able to hear their harsh judgments. She abruptly stood in front of the teacher and carried Kouichi. Kimiko then told him to put his hands over his ears. She didn't want him to hear what the students were saying. He quickly did as he was told as he didn't want to leave his mother's arms. Placing a hand on his back to balance him she continued "I apologize for the intrusion, but I think it would be best if I left"

The teacher solemnly nodded as he told the class to be quiet once more.

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The next morning she had gotten up an hour earlier. She had gotten everything ready on time and she had set the food and made their lunches. She fixed her uniform and stared at the mirror. Feeling a bit nauseous the thought of calling in sick felt like the best thing to do. But she knew that would look bad. Both with the school and the teen was about to start pacing around until she remembered that they would be late if she didn't hurry up.

"Kouichi get up honey." Once again when the word pancakes were mentioned the five-year-old zoomed out of bed. Today they made it to the bus on time. Kouichi was introduced to Haruhi and while weary of him, he wasn't scared of him anymore. She dropped him off and he greeted his two friends.

She smiled at that. Kouichi was making friends! This lifted a small weight from her shoulders. Her smile turned more tired as she walked to her class. The girl knew she had a lot of work to do this week. Since they had entered the school year late she needed to check out clubs for both of them.

As well as needing to find a job around the neighborhood or the school. She was glad she was granted permission even if it was a pain to go through the process of even giving her the option to work. She also needed to either find a babysitter or an after school program for Kouichi while she went to work. 'Gah, making a schedule is going to suck.' She already wanted to begin procrastinating on it.

Not long, she found herself walking in the classroom. There was still about ten minutes left so she was fortunately on time. Sitting down she heard the conversation among her classmate's increase. And although they seemed to be talking about her no one dared to look in her direction. While it didn't seem like they were shunning her (which she has experienced in the past) it didn't look like anyone was about to talk to her anytime soon.

She signed and before she unconsciously started to try to seek out the things they were saying she plugged her earbuds in her phone and decided to just listen to her music and review her notes till the teacher arrived. 'One Ok Rock is so beautiful! They give me so much life. My day is now better thanks to these four angels~!' She allowed herself to fangirl silently as she added things to her notes.

It wasn't until someone had ripped one of her earbuds of her that she noticed someone standing right by her desk. Confused she looked up to meet with someone's gaze.

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Woah, so it's been awhile since I've been on here ^^;;;

I hope to update soon but, knowing me it'll take a while. I'll try not to take a freakin year, I promise. It was sort of abandoned but, I decided I would continue since i really didn't want to give up on the story. So please forgive me for the delay and thanks for reading 3