Okay. Here is chapter 4. We are SO sorry this took so long, there have just been a lot of things going on in both of our lives that we would rather not talk about.
Anyways we apologize for the quality of this chapter, it's sort of a filler. But we'll definitely make up for it in chapter 5, we've already got it all planned! ;)
Enjoy!
Chapter 4
It was a normal day at the host club. The hosts were wearing fancy kimonos, designed by Hikaru and Kaoru's mother. Olivia had watched them set up the extravagant scenery, again thinking that it was too much. She liked Tamaki a lot, she really did. But she didn't understand his obsession with this host club of his. She thought that it was a lot of time and effort put into the happiness of girls that Tamaki didn't even know very well. It was all very nice of him, but Olivia couldn't shake her feelings against this entire thing.
After the host club had shut down for the day, and they had changed back into their school uniforms. They were getting everything put away, and Kyoya was typing at his laptop again. Olivia sat across from him and Kyoya glanced up for a second, expecting a teasing comment or something from her. Instead, she pointed to the open door of the host club, where a slender girl was silently watching them from the hallway.
"Hey, Kyoya," she began, "Who is that?" He looked towards the door and just shrugged. He got up and walked towards the hosts.
"Looks like the host club has a brand new guest," The twins said together.
They proceeded to go over to the girl in the doorway. Each twin handed her a red rose, murmuring sweet nothings in unison, and the girl leaned away, almost in fear. Tamaki went over and scolded the twins for not being courteous enough to their new guest. He handed her a rose as well, and as he tried to put his finger under her chin, she violently pushed him away and screamed, "No! Don't touch me! You're phony!"
The brown-haired girl then started yelling a string of insults at Tamaki, until he dramatically fell to the floor in what the twins called, 'One Man Slow-Motion.'
Tamaki fell to the ground with a grunt and Kyoya looked at her thoughtfully, beginning to say, "I don't suppose... you are...?"
Suddenly, the new girl started running towards him with tears in her eyes, "It's you! Kyoya!" She lunged at him, stepping on Tamaki in the process, "Oh, how I've longed to meet you! My one and only prince charming!"
Olivia was watching all of this unfold, and as she watched the unknown girl wrap her arms lovingly around Kyoya, she felt her eye begin to twitch. She instantly despised this girl, and, to be honest, she didn't have a legitimate reason. The girl just didn't sit right with her.
Soon after the hosts had calmed her down, they had gotten some information out of the girl. Her name was Renge Houshakuji and she was going to be transferring into the same class as Haruhi and the twins.
"Ours is a story of love at first sight," Renge said sporadically. Olivia promptly rolled her eyes, What the actual fuck..., she thought to herself. Renge began wistfully explaining reasons why she had fallen in love with the dark haired boy. Things like admiring flowers and rescuing kittens, and the other people in the room did not believe her for one second.
"Could you have the wrong person?" Haruhi asked.
"No way, I could recognize my love anywhere!" Renge insisted. Now this girl was definitely giving Olivia a headache. What the hell is she on about, Olivia wondered, Four-Eyes is too much of a self-centered ass to do any of that stuff.
Renge went on and on about Kyoya's perfection and kindness and whatnot until she said, "He looks like the star of the popular dating sim, Uki-Doki Memorial!" Renge dramatically pointed at Kyoya, "You're my real life Ichigo Miyabi!"
The room fell silent, suddenly realizing what was going on. Tamaki and the twins started to panic, screaming something about 'otaku.'
"I get it now...," Kyoya mumbled, "You're in love with that character. You're projecting that love onto me and somehow deluded yourself into thinking we're engaged. I don't suppose this character wears glasses as well?"
"So she... made it up?" Tamaki asked, "You're not really her fiancée?"
"Well no, I don't remember asking for her hand in marriage... Besides, this is the first time I've ever met the woman," Kyoya said plainly.
Olivia rolled her eyes and put a finger to her temple, "You could've said something earlier, moron..."
"According to my research, I understand you're in charge of managing the club, is that true, Kyoya?" Renge rambled adoringly.
"That's right, Kyo-chan is our director!" Honey said to Renge.
"You're the club's director? That's just perfect!" Renge squealed, "Oh, wow! I've always wanted to wear a sandwich board to advertise a business!"
"We don't advertise," The twins said exasperatedly, "We're just a host club."
"I've made up my mind, from now on I'm going to be the manager of this host club!" Renge declared. She ignored the protests of the hosts, and eventually it became clear that is was useless to deny her. She was going to be the new manager of the host club.
"Um, Kyoya?" Tamaki mumbled, appearing behind Kyoya, who was sitting cross-legged on a sofa.
Kyoya smiled lightly, "Miss Houshakuji is the only daughter of a valuable Ootori client, so all I ask is for you just to be nice to her," Kyoya said.
"Oh, so you only want to keep her around so she gets a good impression of your family's business?" Olivia said sarcastically, "Selfish prick..."
Kyoya turned his head to look back at Olivia, who was standing behind the couch. He was about to make a retort but Renge stood up from her spot across from Kyoya and smiled, "Well, I'm excited to work with you boys."
The next day, Renge arrived at the host club, bearing a batch of cookies. Although the notion was kind, they were slightly burnt. Haruhi munched on the cookies as she watched the rest of the hosts bicker like they usually did. Renge stood watching all of this, until she lashed out randomly again.
"Lukewarm!" Renge said coldly, putting a finger to her chin, and then began to shout, "Every single one of you!" Then, the brown-haired girl went into a speedy rant about their characters. She explained that each of their personalities were stale, and that if they continued to be like this, their customers would leave the host club altogether. As unlikely as this was, Tamaki was moved, per usual.
"She's making a point, you know! What if the ladies leave the host club because we continue to bore them? We cannot let that happen! It's time to make some changes to our characters!"
Renge clapped her hands together excitedly, "Excellent! Let's get started right away!"
Renge was standing on the edge of a movie set with her hands on her hips, staring at the hosts act out her script. After her episode about character development, she had decided to fly in a movie crew from Hollywood and make a movie about the hosts, now with their newly improved characterization. Olivia was sitting in a folding chair off to the side, her laptop in her lap. Kyoya was sitting in a chair next to Olivia, writing in his notebook. Renge didn't think that his character needed changing, so he wasn't taking part in the movie.
Olivia looked up from her laptop and turned to Kyoya, "This is all such a waste of time," she complained, "Why does Renge need to make a movie for a couple of boys she met not even 24 hours ago?"
"Just be nice to her, Livvy," Kyoya said tiredly. Olivia's eyes narrowed at the mention of her nickname again. She decided to ignore it, for now.
"Why is it so important that I'm nice to her? I don't like her; she's an annoying pest. Why should I be nice?" Olivia huffed, crossing her arms over her chest.
"As I said before, her family is a prominent Ootori client. It's important that she gets a good impression and says positive things about me and my family so her family doesn't leave our business," Kyoya explained.
Olivia was beginning to get interested, so she pried further, "Why do you care so much about your father's business?"
Kyoya sighed exasperatedly, "It's a long story," he said.
Olivia shrugged, closing her laptop and putting her elbows on one side of her chair, "I've got time."
Kyoya exhaled again, "I want to please my father and become his heir. He is very strict, and if I am the cause of him losing business, I'll never be the heir to the Ootori company."
Olivia looked up and gave him a small smile, the first shred of genuine kindness she had shown him since arriving, "I understand. My parents are strict on me, too. That's the only reason I'm here; they wanted me to get a better education so I can someday take over their business. We manufacture cars, and I've never been interested in cars. I want to do something that makes me happy, not something that makes my family happy," she said quietly.
Olivia glanced up to look at Kyoya, who was staring at her wondrously, his mouth slightly open. She felt herself blush but she couldn't look away. Kyoya opened his mouth to say something, but the twins walked off set and began to tease them.
"Livvy and Four-Eyes, sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" they sang. Kyoya and Olivia both turned red and scowled at the mischievous twins.
"Shut up, you two!" Olivia barked. She opened her laptop again and got on her favorite blogging site. She was trying to distract herself from what had happened with Kyoya a few moments before. She wasn't sure what had happened between the two of them. She didn't know what to think.
Every few minutes, Olivia would spare a glance at Kyoya, who looked as if he were doing the same thing. The way he was writing in his notebook was frantic, occasionally stopping to respond to Hikaru and Kaoru's complaints about Renge's script.
Suddenly, there was a scream from the set, and everyone began to rush to the scene, including Olivia. She turned the corner to see that Haruhi was crumpled on the ground with Renge kneeling in front of her, as if they had both been shoved into the wall. Two sketchy looking students were standing over them, panicked looks on their faces. Renge got up hurriedly and began to ask Haruhi if she was okay. Tamaki rounded the corner a few moments after everyone else, and his eyes fell to Haruhi. He saw the tears in her eyes and immediately took action.
He swiftly grabbed one of the guys and shoved him against the wall and angrily said, "So which one of you jerks started this?"
"Wait Suoh, it's not what you think." The other guy pleaded with Tamaki, "That girl started it; she was giving us a hard time!"
"He's telling the truth, senpai," Haruhi stood up, covering her face, "It wasn't their fault. They were provoked." Tamaki let go of the man and rushed over to Haruhi as the two men scurried away.
Tamaki touched Haruhi's face, "Haruhi, are you in any pain?"
"Yeah, it's my contact." Haruhi pulled her finger from her face, showing her contact to everyone.
Tamaki's jaw dropped in complete shock, "Your contact?" He stuttered and made the girl look up at him.
"Yeah, I guess it must have slipped out." She gave an innocent smile. Tamaki stared at her for a while and just started laughing. He mumbled something to Haruhi before they both started laughing.
"You... you... Please tell me you got that, Camera Man!" Renge burst out, the camera man gave her a thumbs up, "Other than Haruhi's contact falling out, that was an ideal final scene! Now all it needs is a moving narration by my sweet Kyoya."
All of a sudden there was a huge crash. Renge looked toward the sound only to see Kyoya holding a rock to the camera's lense.
"What is something wrong?" Renge looked at Kyoya with a befuddled look on her face.
"I'm terribly sorry, but I cannot allow there to be any record of a club member engaging in violence," Kyoya looked up at Renge standing in the middle of the alleyway, "I think you've caused enough trouble around here, Renge. Please stop being such a pest." Olivia held in laughter as Renge looked devastated.
"A pest?" Renge mumbled before bursting out into tears, "But you're supposed to pat me on the head and tell me not to worry. You're supposed to be kind and affectionate, Kyoya! Why are you acting so differently now? Tell me why!" Renge, now sobbing, looked at the ground shaking.
"Because that's not the real Kyoya." Tamaki said matter-of-factly. Renge fell to the ground, crying even harder now.
"Does it really matter?" Renge looked up Haruhi, who was now leaning over to talk to her, "Who cares if Kyoya is a little different than you expected him to be? Take a good look at the person inside and get to know them little by little. It's a lot more fun that way!" Renge looked at the ground.
"I told you she was gonna end up causing trouble," Olivia said with a smirk. Kyoya looked down at her, "I'm glad you finally stuck it to her." Kyoya smiled at her.
"Someone needed to tell her when she had gotten too far." Kyoya glanced toward Haruhi and Renge sitting in the alley way, pushing up his glasses.
Olivia looked up at him for a minute and then mumbled, "Took you long enough."
Olivia's Blog- Day 4
Today was... interesting, to say the least. A girl (who could very well be clinically insane) named Renge showed up today and threw herself onto Four-Eyes, calling him "her sweet prince." I wanted to gag. We discovered she was obsessed with him, even without ever meeting him in person before in her life, because he looked exactly like a dating sim character that she was infatuated with.
Since she's rich and insane, she decided to make a movie of the hosts. It was very dramatically cliched, and after some sketchy students shoved Haruhi and Renge into a wall, Kyoya finally lost it. He called her a pest and made her cry. It was great.
Hopefully she doesn't bother us any longer.
Wish me luck.
-Olivia Fadley
