Alex Conners: 5'0, Virgo. Positive traits of Virgos: brave, sincere, dynamic, freedom loving, spontaneous, adventurous, takes initiatives, inspiring, and child-like enthusiasm. Negative traits of Virgos: rushing into things, ego, demanding everything immediately, and reacting. Theme song? Probably So in Love with Two, by Mikaila.
"I only said what I thought..." Haruhi continued, surprised at Tamaki's response. "Um, Sempai?"
"Call me "King"." Tamaki said stubbornly, knees tucked to his chest. "I go by that here-otherwise, I don't know you."
"O-Okay, then..Kin-" She was cut off by Hikaru pushing Tamaki onto his side with his foot, carrying a tray full of cups to a table.
"Argh, your in the way, boss!" Kaoru accidentally stepped on him.
"Don't just slack off from work, boss!" Kyoya walked over to inform Tamaki, holding up his little black book,qqqq
"You have many customers waiting for you, Tamaki."
"Tamaki-Sempai..." Alex was unsure of what to do as she stared at the blonde beside her. "A-Are you alright?" This was awkward...But it was safe to say nobody called him "King" around here. Though, if you went by chess terms, Tamaki is the "King", Kyoya is the "Queen", Hikaru and Kaoru are the "Rooks" and Mori and Honey are the "Knights". Alex, and Haruhi even if she isn't a member yet, is a "Pawn".
Haruhi tried again, scratching the side of her head, "I'm sorry, Sempai," She apologized, unsure. "but your lesson did strike a small cord with me..." She really hoped that would work. Fortunately, it did as he stood up. Unfortunately, it made him turn around with a "Charming" smile and blooming white roses as he extended his hand out to her.
"Really? Then let me teach you more!" Haruhi sighed,
"I just wanted a quiet place to study..." Tamaki looked at her surprised,
"What, why? What about your home?"
"My father brings his lover during the day time-he has a night job." Haruhi explained. Tamaki gained a sad look on his face,
"Oh...You don't get along with your father, do you? And that's why he doesn't pay for your tuition."
"Oh, no, we get along just fine! Though I don't like it when he spends to much money. It's just that, well, I want to bother him as little as possible," She explained, a small smile forming on her face. "He brought me up for ten years by himself, after all. I thought I should do whatever I can..."
Alex blinked at the story and the way she said, unable to come up with a response. She didn't even know how to react-which is why she was grateful when Tamaki became his usual idiot self.
"...That kind of environment is pitiful isn't it?" Tamaki questioned, fingers to his chin in thought as he observed her.
"Huh? Not really-"
"And your diet is white carrot rice, as I expected?" He interrogated, drawing out a question mark from Haruhi who was very confused. Even Alex was and she was about to speak up, asking what he was talking about, when he cut her off by gripping Haruhi's shoulders and leaning in close, crying out with tears in his eyes, "Being so poor you have to act as a servant to rich people or the rich people are mean and overwork you and you have to cry yourself to sleep!?"
Haruhi cried out in shock and confusion, "What time era are you talking about!?"
Tamaki backed up, taking a tissue from a left-out Alex, and sobbed, apologizing, "I'm sorry...I've been watching Oshin lately and it's my favorite..." Alex raised an eyebrow at that. She never heard of it. "I didn't know you were the model of that girl..."
"I'm not," Haruhi responded, slightly annoyed. "The story is totally different." Tamaki snapped out of it, throwing the tissue away and raising an index finger, serious.
"Okay, Haruhi, it's time to learn!" His cerulean blue eyes focused on her, "It may be impossible with your looks, but I'll train you thoroughly! Let's see...you could probably get about...100 costumers!" He declared, causing Haruhi to turn to stone. Alex blinked at Haruhi, surprised, I didn't think that was physically possible...Huh, it really is a different dimension. She laughed to herself softly. Tamaki continued, "If you can get 100 people to request you, we'll forget about your debt and you'll be a star of the Oshin World!"
"No...NOOOOOOOOO!" Haruhi screamed, falling to the ground and screaming, clutching her head, "I'd rather do chores!"
Alex flinched, "That's cold..." She quickly moved over to a distressed, currently color-less Haruhi, patting her back awkwardly, "Dere, dere, Haruhi..." How on earth do people comfort each other? Ellena...wish you were here. You'd know what to do. "It'll all be over in a few years...Soon."
... Next Day...
Alex sat at the table Kyoya was at, feeling extremely left-out. Her arms were crossed on the table, chin resting on them as she unconsciously pouted. I'm always left-out...Then again, I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm already ruining the plot of the story as is and I highly doubt anyone is even going to care about me. They all end up falling for Haruhi anyway-well, except Honey-Sempai, he gets with that Black Magic club girl...Nobody probably even wants to talk to me anyway. They're only putting up with me because I'm a Hostess and I get the club more profit...They'll probably forget all about me once Tamaki figures out that Haruhi is a girl and make her a Host. They'll all ditch me...In all honesty, I'd ditch me too. Hehe...Okay, stop it. Stop-Stop thinking brain, you're down-grading yourself. Stop it, Alex.
Alex sighed, irritated with herself. She doesn't like to be left-out. Call her selfish or call her childish and immature-its how she is.
Kyoya paused in his typing and glanced up at the small girl, who sighed for at least the fifth time, eyes hidden behind his glasses. He debated whether or not how troublesome the income might be before asking, "Problems?"
She replied with the half-truth, "Bored", and resumed pouting. She resembled a small child that was forbidden from eating the cookies until she finished her vegetables.
"Is that so?" He frowned, that wasn't much of an answer. But it wasn't like he needed to get into her business or anything, so Kyoya resumed typing.
Alex glanced up at the dark-haired man who typed, and typed, and typed away to Wonderland. A grin spread across her face, Maybe even to Narnia. Oh, I think I lost the TARDIS there again...Really need to reopen that wardrobe. She snickered to herself,
"Find something amusing?" Kyoya inquired, causing the girl to freeze and look up at him with wide-eyes.
"Um, just a random thought, really. What'cha doin'?" She asked curiously.
"Typing in documents."
"Of?" She prodded, wanting to know. Kyoya looked at her through her glasses, raising an eyebrow.
"The Host Club, of course. What I want to know is," He changed the subject, resting his chin on his fist as he propped his elbow up on the table, "why I can't find out very much about you in the files?" Alex knew he wasn't talking about only the school files-no, he meant every file out there that included her. Like birth certificates, hospital files, that kind of thing. Alex felt a small half-smirk cross her face.
"Is that so?" She questioned, the half-smirk turning out into a full blown grin, "How strange...That's completely weird-I don't know what could be wrong. I mean, other than the fact that I don't exist, according to the doctors."
"Explain yourself." Alex grinned widely at that, the scar from her ear to the top of her chin making her seem slightly sadistic.
"I told you already, didn't I? I died."
"If you were dead, then you would not be talking to me right now." Alex sighed and pressed her palms to the sides of her face, dragging her hands over her face and groaning, before face-planting into the desk.
"It's complicated."
"Define "complicated"." Kyoya practically ordered. Alex turned her head so that her right cheek laid against the table and her eyes moved to look at Kyoya, "Just who are you? Where are you from?"
"Fifteen years ago an enigma gave a paradox a hug." Alex replied, slightly quoting Mozzy, but changing the line up a little. "To be honest, I don't even know who I am anymore. My life changed, drastically, just because I decided to risk my life and help out a old lady. And complicated? Well...Um, extremely. But I think I understand most of it." Alex trailed off slightly and lifted her head, sitting up straight and looking at Tamaki, who was instructing Haruhi on how to place a cup down. She watched as he scolded her and shook her head, Why? Why me? Alex sighed again, slinking back into her chair. It's not so much as being left-out as it is being from another dimension. Everything is so different, yet so familiar at the same time. Alex opened her eyes and gazed at her left hand-which looked as though it was drawn and colored by an anime-artist. She curled her fingers on her left hand and tried to make a fist-only to find her fingers unable to make one. She could get it halfway there, but not fully.
She lifted her hand up to her head and ran it through her hair. It felt the same-the small, thick strands of hair that connected to her head and ended a little below her shoulders. It grew out a bit, so it was now under her shoulderblades.
"I'm so sorry," Akari's apology rang in Alex's head like a broken record, "I am so sorry. I'm so sorry, please forgive me. I'm so sorry, please forgive me." Alex felt her eyes sting from tears and blinked a few times, forcing the tears away. I won't cry...Not here, not now. I have plenty of time to cry later.
"Everyone! We are going to try the peasants' Ramen!" Tamaki declared suddenly, causing Alex to snap out of her thoughts and nearly knock over a cup of tea.
"Whoa!" She cried out, quickly placing a hand down and stopping it from falling. "Phew..." She sighed in relief.
"Nothing about this is related to hosting!" Haruhi exclaimed in disbelief, as all the Hostess and Hosts lined up at table, ready to cook ramen.
"I call dibs on the chicken flavoring!" Alex cried out, raising a hand up and waving it back and forth furiously.
"Okay, Alex gets the chicken flavoring," Tamaki announced, causing Hikaru and Kaoru to whine.
"But, boss~! We were going to use that flavor-!"
"Ladies first, you two! Learn some manners!" They pouted. Alex laughed and cheered, pumping a fist in the air.
"Yosh! Daddy's awesome!" Tamaki beamed at that,
"Yes, yes "Daddy" is! Darling daughter is wonderful!" He tried to get back on track, "Now, everyone, try to make a different type of Ramen! Follow the teacher's instructions!"
...
"There's hot water for both three minutes and four minutes."
"What's the difference?"
"Do we have to throw away the water once?"
"Stupid, you don't throw water away, you pour it down the sink!"
"Mustard mayo stings my eyes~!"
Mori lifted his lid off of his fried noodles pot and was silent for a few moments... "My ingredients are stuck to the lid." He mumbled in disbelief and confusion. Haruhi gasped and looked up at Mori in surprise,
"Whoa...He spoke." Alex laughed at her amazement,
"Mori-Sempai isn't a mute, you know. He's just really quiet." She then let Haruhi proceed to explain what went wrong-her being the expert in cooking.
"If you put the ingredients in the bottom of the pot in the beginning, then that wouldn't happen." She showed him what to do and Tamaki cried out in astonishment,
"What an amazing technique! The Commoners' technique! No, the Commoners' theory!" He started spouting out random titles before turning to Haruhi and pulling her face close to his, tears just about falling out from his eyes, "You are wonderful! May I express my thanks with my body...? A thank you kiss for you!"
"Please don't." Haruhi deadpanned, pulling away slightly, "It's rather uncomfortable." White and red roses bloomed around them and Hikaru spoke,
"It doesn't fit the picture, does it Kaoru?" The observed the couple closely, Kaoru nodding in agreement.
"I agree with you Hikaru, the situation doesn't add up."
Alex blinked when she suddenly found herself between the Hitachiin brothers'. She blinked again, twice more, then screamed out of shock. "HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!?"
"You see," Hikaru began explaining with a smile. "females love two beautiful homosexuals together. It makes a nice plot to have two male characters who have trouble deciding to further the friendship or not-by the way, I'm Hikaru."
"I'm Kaoru, just so you know. In our case, us both being twins, not to mention brothers, happen to be our weapon. We have the beauty of symmetry." Alex immediately had an image of Hikaru and Kaoru meeting Death the Kid.
"The Symmetry!" Death the Kid cried out, pressing his hands against his cheeks as his golden eyes glowed with happiness and joy. "So...perfectly...the beauty is..."
Hikaru and Kaoru looked at each other confused and asked, "What's his problem?"
She smiled to herself softly, remembering that anime. She blinked when Hikaru and Kaoru suddenly caressed her face and cupped her cheeks, leaning in and whispering, loud enough for Haruhi to hear, "In addition, you will be loved by the two with such a deep bond at the same time!"
Alex felt her face burn and embarrassment bubble up quickly, uncomfortable with the new situation and unsure of how to react.
Kaoru continued, "Isn't that every girls' fantasy?"
Alex finally decided on leaning away, speaking, "Um...No. Sorry, buddy, but, back off." They looked at her and shrugged, Hikaru grinning,
"Aw, Kaoru, look how cute she is! So innocent."
"She's only into monogamous relationships!" Kaoru added, grinning from ear to ear.
Isn't that the opposite of Polygamy? Yeah... "Um, yeah, what's wrong with that?" She didn't even have time to blink before she was being suffocated in a sandwich-hug.
"It means we can't share you!" They whined.
"Let go of me!" Alex cried out, struggling, "Lemme go! Lemme go, lemme go, lemme go! Kyoya-Sempai, help me out here!" Wait...Oh, yeah, I know him better than anyone else here, really. I only really talk to him. Oh...Okay then.
"Why should I? What could I possibly benefit from that?"
"I-I dunno, the awesomeness of my friendship!?"
"Is that what you call it?"
"Our Alex!" The twins' growled before realizing they were staring down the Shadow King-who was at the table, still sitting. He merely turned his head to look at them and they released her.
"Kyoya-Sempai, my hero!" Alex cried out dramatically as she dropped to the floor. She huffed, "I would give you a hug, but you're too far away and I'm lazy."
"Anyway," Hikaru cleared his throat, shivers still going up and down his spine. "you, Commoner, don't even pass the first condition."
"We wasted out time explaining," Kaoru said, annoyed. Tamaki, who made his way over next to the twins', looked at Haruhi thoughtfully and said,
"And once again, the visual. Maybe if we took off the glasses," Tamaki mumbled to himself, walking over to Haruhi and grabbing the Grandfather glasses, pulling them odd. "then again, it might only make the eyes smaller. What's with these old-fashioned glasses anyway?"
"They were my Grandfather's," Haruhi explained, unable to see Tamaki's shocked-still expression. Alex felt a laugh bubble its way up her throat. "I lost my contacts on the first day of school-" She was cut off by Tamaki, who snapped his fingers and ordered,
"Hikaru, Kaoru!"
They ran over, stood up straight, and saluted, "Yes, sir!?" They had scissors, a robe, and basic hair-cutting essentials.
"Kyoya, call the school's designated tailor." He already had a phone up to his ear. Tamaki pointed at Mori,
"Mori-Sempai! If you have any extra disposable contact lenses, share them!"
"What about Lexi-Chan and me, Tama-Chan?" Honey asked Tamaki, brown eyes wide.
"Honey-Sempai, Alex," Tamaki pointed at the two and paused for a moment to think before saying, "Alex, you go eat some cake with Honey-Sempai."
"B-But...Fine." SHe grumbled, walking off to eat at a table with Mitskuni.
"It's just you, me, and Usa-Chan, Lexi-Chan." Mitskuni mumbled sadly, a distressed aura surrounding him. Alex had nothing to say as she closed her eyes and resembled a Luck Star character as she pouted. "Everyone else is too busy..."
It wasn't long before Haruhi's makeover was done and she was getting changed. "Sempai..."
"What's the matter? Are you done changing?" Tamaki questioned from outside the changing room. Haruhi pushed aside the curtain to reveal a very, very, very cute boy-er, girl. Alex felt a slight twinge of jealousy and reached a hand up to trace the scar on her face that went from ear right ear down to the top of her chin. She could try to cover it up with makeup, but it would still leave a faint line. Not to mention the scars on her knees and shoulder...Why are there so many things wrong with me? She thought bitterly before shaking off the thoughts. "Your so pretty you could be a girl!"
"Our finest project..." Hikaru and Kaoru gushed, happy faces on their faces. And now "Circle You" is stuck in my head...this sucks. Hehe...
"Excuse me-is it really alright for me to keep this uniform?" Haruhi questioned, messing with the tie as she finished tying it.
"If we knew that was how you really looked," Hikaru began. Kaoru finished with a grin,
"We would've helped you out sooner!"
"Maybe you could get a few customers." Kyoya commented, pushing up his glasses with a slight smirk.
"You look so cute, Haru-Chan!" Mitskuni commented, smiling widely as he hugged Usa-Chan. Mori nodded,
"Yeah." Alex smiled at Haruhi and nodded her head,
"Y-Yeah, you look great." She closed her eyes and tilted her head, grinning from ear-to-ear. The Fake smile caught a few eyes and Alex shook her head, telling them it was nothing. The twins' frowned. She told Haruhi, "I think you'll meet your quota in no time!"
"That's exactly what I was thinking!" Tamaki spoke up, smiling as he held up his index finger and thumb.
"Sure you were." Alex told him, rolling her eyes.
"Anyway, now is the time to show your true worth! GO show people your thin-veneer of beauty!"
...
Alex avoided Haruhi for the most part after that, only to scold herself for her selfishness and rudeness afterwards. She sighed from her spot in the corner, She probably hates me now...Then again, I'd hate myself too. Oh, wait, I already do. Haha. She froze when she heard Haruhi telling the story about how her mother passed away ten years ago and how she does all the chores. Alex felt her heart clench slightly at that. How is mother? I hope she's doing okay...I hope she's happy... She didn't even realize she was crying until she felt something cold and wet drop onto her hands. She blinked, feeling something wet fall down her cheeks, and looked down to see the small droplets splash against her skin.
Her shoulders began to shake, her lips trembling and her eyes squinting before the tears started to fall more quickly, a choked sob building its way up her throat. No..No, no, no, no, no! Stop it-Stop it, "Stop it...Stop it already, stop it! I-I don't...I don't..." A sob escaped her mouth and she attempted to bury herself deeper into her corner. "Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop-" Alex hadn't cried this bad since the time she thought her best friend was going to commit suicide after her boyfriend broke up with her. Casey already cut herself, and even though Alex got her to stop, the doubt still pricked away at her mind and made her think the worst, despite her telling her crying self that Casey was strong and wouldn't do it. Thankfully though, when Alex went to school on Monday, she found Casey safe and alive, and she hated herself for thinking what she thought.
"Why-Why do I continue to do this to myself?" Alex asked her self quietly, the tears still streaming down her cheeks. Her eyes stung and her shoulders shook, a cold chill going down her back. Alex dug her nails into her left arm, angered at herself, at the world, at Akira, at Haruhi, at Kyoya, at everyone and everything. Most specifically, the people who conspired to send her here. Alex bit her lip and squeezed her eyes shut, glad that no one had noticed her.
Alex always had that small feature about her. Back in Elementary, in her dimension, the teachers would always skip over her when they passed out the homework, and when they had a student do it, they always forgot to give her one. They always skipped over her on the student roster, and when they assigned new seats, Alex was always last because they forgot all about her, or they just didn't notice her. She was invisible to the naked eye.
She quickly raised her right arm sleeve and wiped furiously at her eyes, trying to get the tears to stop as she swallowed the huge lump in her throat. "Calm down...Calm down..." She inhaled deeply and exhaled.
"Alex," A voice called. Alex lifted her head and through her bangs she could make out a blurry Kyoya and a girl with dark hair. After her glasses broke, she never got contacts, so she was stuck with slightly bad vision, but not terrible vision. She could see okay, its just that reading from far away was hard. "Akira wishes for you to come over."
"C-Coming."
She arrived and Akira's first comment was a rude, "What's wrong with your eyes? Have you been sulking over the fact that the Hosts aren't paying attention to you or did you just go blind?"
"No, I was just blinded by your beauty." Alex deadpanned, before breaking out into a grin and fighting back a laughed. Akira looked furious, her face reddening. "No, seriously, you are very pretty." Akira looked less enraged and more confused and uncertain.
"Right..."
"Welp, bye."
"Wait-!" Alex was cut off by a grip on her left arm, pulling it beyond the limit. Alex's eyes widened greatly as pain flared through out her arm and shoulder, leading down to her chest. "I need to ask you something!" Alex squeezed her eyes shut at the excruciating pain.
Let go, let go, let go, let go, let go, let go, let go- She still didn't let go and the tears stung Alex's eyes again.
"Meet me after after class, right when everyone is going to lunch, by the lockers. Some of my friends," Let go-o-o... Alex's thoughts were practically begging by this point. "want to meet you-Connors?" She questioned, confused at the tears that were streaking down the brunette's face.
"Alex?" Even Kyoya looked slightly concerned. Alex turned her head, and with pleading eyes-eyes of an abused puppy, begged,
"-please let go..." She turned her head again as she squeezed her eyes shut, biting her lip hard enough to draw blood. The pain was excruciating and it was taking everything in Alex's willpower not to scream. "Please-!" A small scream ripped out of Alex's throat and Akira released in surprise, Alex dropping to the ground on her knees and clutching at her left shoulder, tears streaming down her face as chocked sobs escaped her throat and made her shoulders tremble.
Akira's gray eyes were wide with shock and slight fear. What did she just do? What did she do? Akira backed up slowly and lifted up the hand that grabbed Alex's arm, looking at it with wide eyes. She looked back at Alex's crumbled form, which everyone was crowding around, and backed away, before running out of the third Music Room.
"Are you okay!?"
"What happened?"
"Alex, are you hurt? What happened!?" Voices swarmed around Alex and loaded into her mind-they pounded in her head like thunder, the smashing of a hammer-an angry Thor hitting Ironman's suit with his hammer.
"Why is she crying?"
"What did that girl do to her?"
"The poor thing!"
"Back away! Back away!"
"What happened here!?" Alex tried to stand, eyes still shut and pain still flaring through her body. Her mind felt numb, her legs like jello, She could barely process what was going on as she stumbled back and forth, swaying sideways as her side rammed straight into a table and causing even more pain to flare throughout her body.
"AKARI!" Alex barely registered that voice as she felt her head and body slam against something solid with intricate carvings-the door. She recognized the feeling and designs. The voices continued to swarm around her head and fuse together and Alex screamed,
"STOP IIIIIIT!" Everything went silent as Alex slammed the doors open with her body, using all of its mass and velocity. Her body collided into the ground in a crumpled heap as she sobbed loudly, her nails digging into her left arm through the uniform deeply. If you looked closely, you could see the red stains that started to form. "Just make it stop..." She cried, whimpering as the tears fell.
...
Alex awoke in the infirmary, the nurse gone, with bandages around her right arm and the blue blazer off. The white sleeves of the button-up shirt was rolled up to her shoulders, the blazer nowhere to be found.
Alex felt numb. She stared up at the ceiling of the infirmary for who knows how long before she finally could get her thoughts to process once again. Alex blinked and closed her eyes for a moments, before opening them and attempting to sit up. Her left arm refused to move and she had to use her right elbow to prop herself up, pressing her back against the bedframe. She looked around the room confused for a minute, not knowing where she was-before she remembered what happened.
"Right..." Her throat and mouth felt dry. She swallowed, and turned her head, finding a small cup of water resting on a small nightstand. She quickly reached over with her working arm and wrapped her fingers around the cup, bringing it to her mouth, and gulping it down quickly. "Ah! That feels so much better..." She mumbled to herself, placing the cup back down. "I feel as though I'm forgetting something...What time is it?" She looked around the room, only to realize that she wasn't in the infirmary, and that she was back in the Hitachiin brothers' mansion.
The walls were a regal purple, the floor brown and wooden-polished. Along the walls were a few paintings and by the window on the far end of the left-side of the room, was a small Avengers clock. Alex squinted her eyes and made out the time-her eyes widened. "Ten Twenty-five!? I'M LATE FOR SCHOOL!"
Of course, by that declaration-a maid worked her way into the room, bowing and greeting, "Good morning, Lady Alexandria." Alex looked at the young woman alarmed,
"H-How do you know my full name and please don't call me Lady. I'm not a lady."
"As you wish, Miss Alexandria."
"Alex is fine and I need to get to school-!" Alex rolled off the bed and landed on the ground with a grunt, standing up and shaking her head, heading towards the bathroom at a fast pace.
"Please leave that to me, Miss Alex," The maid told her, gray eyes glittering in slight amusement. "I have been entrusted to be your personal maid by the Young Masters."
"This is...awkward-whoa!" Alex had no choice but to comply when she was forced into the bathtub, stark naked.
...
"Sorry I'm late!" Alex blurted, rushing into the classroom and disrupting said class. Her arm hung at her side, wrapped in bandages. The sleeves were rolled up to her elbow, for all to see. "I don't know what happened-no one woke me up, I'm so sorry!" She bowed, nervous.
"It's fine, the Hitachiin brothers' told me of your condition." The female teacher replied, pushing up her glasses. "Just go and take your seat."
"Y-Yeah, yes!" She hurried in her attempt to sit down and tripped, nearly face-planting if she didn't catch herself in time.
"And open your textbook to page 243."
"Working on it!" Alex sat down, grabbed her math book and flipped furiously through the pages, before turning back some and hitting the page. "Got it!"
"You don't need to declare it to the class," The teacher told her with an annoyed look on her face. Alex flinched,
"Sorry!"
...
"Alex-!" Akira called after class had ended, everyone all heading to lunch. Alex paused in her walking with Hikaru and Kaoru and looked back hesitantly, before turning her head back to the twins' who looked at her impatiently.
"Um, I-I'll catch up, you go ahead." They looked at her with raised eyebrows, obviously disbelieving. "What? Since when did I lie to you?" She asked incredulously, placing a hand on her hip as she raised an eyebrow. They blinked and shrugged,
"Fine, but your ordering your own food."
"Yeah, yeah!" Alex waved them off, laughing slightly, before she walked over to Akira and three of her friends-She recognized one. Ayanokoji. "Okay, so what's up?"
"Well," One of the girls-she had brown hair and eyes, light skin- began. "we wanted to talk to you out in the hallway."
"O-Okay?" Alex responded in confusion, walking out of the classroom-looking behind her every now and then as they trailed behind her. Are they up to something? And what's with Akira? She looks...guilty or upset about something. Huh, weird. They stopped by a row a lockers, which was located next to the Janitor's closet. Alex's suspicious rose, but she played dumb as she turned to look at them. "So, what did you want to talk about?"
Alex blinked when she saw only three girls and made to turn her head around, "Where's the one-!" Alex didn't have time to blink before her head was roughly banged against the lockers-creating only darkness. Alex's body went limp and the girl who knocked her out grunted as her weight fell on her.
"She shouldn't have left her guard down," Ayanokoji commented, smirking. "Perhaps this will make her leave Ouran-for good."
Akira hesitated-after the incident yesterday with Alex's arm, Akira didn't feel right. "M-Maybe we shouldn't do this," She spoke up hesitantly, "I mean, we're bullying-"
"Akira Takano, what are you talking about?" Ayanokoji demanded, turning her fierce brown gaze to her. "This isn't bullying, we are merely "persuading" this Commoner."
"Yeah, Akira." The girl with brown hair and eyes added, nodding. "It's perfectly fine. We're not doing any harm."
"We're merely providing a reason for this filth to leave the Academy." The girl who knocked out Alex said, opening one of the lockers and pulling out some rope and a pink bandanna. She pushed Alex against the lockers and quickly tied her arms to her body and bound her wrists together. She then took the pink bandanna and tied it around her head, gagging her. She stood up, propping Alex up against the lockers, and smirked, moving her hands together as though wiping away dirt. "I may be in Class B, but I am the daughter of a famous military General. I do know how to shut people up." She snickered. "Now, hurry up and open the closet, Noi-Chan."
Noi did so and the military girl shoved the unconscious girl into the closet, next to a mop and bucket. Akira swallowed nervously and looked at the poor girl-She didn't deserve this. Akira felt sweat bead down her face as Ayanokoji commented with a small smirk,
"How fitting. Commoner filth belongs with Commoner trash." She chuckled and closed the closet, locking it. "Now, let's head to lunch before anyone at the table notices anything."
The main three bullies left, Akira dragging behind them uncertainly. Was this really the right thing? That girl doesn't deserve this-but, Kyoya... Akira was filled with conflicting emotions.
...In the lunch room, at the Hitachiin twins' table...
"Kyoya!" Tamaki whined, once again not getting his way, "Why not!? I think we should do a Tropical Paradise for tomorrow!"
"And I say that we do not have the funds." Kyoya replied with an irritated sigh, writing something down in his book. "Perhaps in a month or so, we can. With Alex's absence, we have been losing customers and profit." With that, Tamaki frowned and shut up, trying to think up of another argument.
Hikaru and Kaoru placed their trays down-Kaoru sitting next to Kyoya and Hikaru sitting next to Tamaki. Kyoya barely cast them a glance, writing something down-only to pause and blinked, looking up at the twins'. Something was wrong.
"That idiot..." Hikaru muttered, frowning deeply, as he stirred his chocolate pudding with his spoon-playing with it. He stopped playing and grabbed a spoonful, taking a bite irritably.
"Does she actually trust those girls'?" Kaoru mumbled, looking up in thought.
Kyoya spoke up, "Did Alex come to school today?"
"Yeah," Hikaru replied, not looking at him. "Even though when we left her at the house without waking her or setting her clock-you kinda figured she'd get the message to stay home."
"Who knows how she thinks?" Kaoru questioned his brother with a raised eyebrow, "We've known her for weeks and she still manages to confuse us."
"She annoying one moment," Hikaru listed off. "and then completely childish, and then acting like a cute, embarrassed girl the next! And then she acts like she's about to cry and acts tough! It's freaking annoying!" He snapped, his grip on his drink tightening. "And then she goes and walks off with those girls even though she can tell that they're trouble! Just who does she think she is!?"
"Calm down, Hikaru." Kaoru told his brother, frowning. What was up with his brother?
"Alex should've been here by now!" Hikaru fired back, looking at his brother with slight worry. "She said she'd catch up and she hasn't yet!"
"Maybe my darling daughter is doing some girly things with her girl friends!" Tamaki suggested brightly, going into dreamland.
Alex and nameless girls one, two, and three giggled as they talked about boys, make up, and clothes. One of the girls' gave Alex a magazine about girly stuff and they laughed about girly stuff.
"My daughter's becoming a lady!" Tamaki gushed, "Hear that Kyoya!?" He asked, leaning over towards the boy who pushed up his glasses, eyes hidden behind the spectacles.
Kyoya watched as four girls' entered the lunchroom, unnoticed by all except him. The first three, Ayanokoji, Noi, and Miharu, seemed to be triumphant about something and smirked, chuckling and laughing to themselves. The last girl, Akira, seemed to be nervous and guilty about something. Kyoya frowned and waited for Alex to walk in-and after seeing the girls' all sit down, he was convinced something happened. He sighed and pushed up his glasses again, Really, that girl is more trouble than she's worth. Her naivety is what's going to be her downfall.
But Kyoya was wrong. Alex wasn't naive. She knew something was up and still, "Treat the people the way you want to be treated" went with them despite the fact that her gut told her not too. He sighed and pushed the chair out from the table, standing.
"Kyoya-Sempai?" Hikaru and Kaoru questioned in confusion, Tamaki looking up in surprise,
"Uh-Kyoya? What's wrong?"
"I'm going to use the restroom." He told them, lying easily. His glasses hid his eyes, which held his true intent.
...
Alex's head hurt-a lot. She groaned as she entered consciousness, opening her eyes to find herself in total darkness. She found herself lying against cold stone and resisted the urge to sneeze-it was dusty. She-She couldn't move her arms. What the hell? What happened-Oh, yeah...That girl smashed my head against the lockers. She grunted as she tried to sit up, rocking back and forth a few times, before lunging upwards with all her strength and swaying for a moment. She managed to upright herself and looked around, blinking a few times to get her eyes adjusted to the darkness.
Alex struggled with the ropes for a few moments, panicking slightly when she couldn't get them to let go. Her wrists hurt from the tightly tied rope and her fingers hurt from twisting in multiple directions in an attempt to untie the rope at her wrists. She let out an irritated (Muffled) scream and, though she stumbled a bit and swayed, stood. Everything except her legs were tied up. Big mistake, Alex thought and stumbled around a bit before she found the door. With another loud, muffled scream, she thrust her body against the door and immediately remembered the Musical episode of Psyche where Shawn and Gus were trying to break open the door to that one girl's house. Okay, not the time Alex! Break open door and find someone to untie you! Yeah, good plan...but what if I can't get the door open and nobody finds me? I think there might be spiders...and beetles. And cockroaches-okay! Enough! Alex already had the tears sting her eyes as she slammed herself against the door again-using her right shoulder and arm-only to curse colorfully. (still muffled)
Alex tried again, pain flaring throughout her body, only to end up throwing herself back on the cold ground and land on something. She screamed into her gag again as she rolled off of it, twisting her wrist painfully in an attempt to get rid of the rope bonds.
"Wammff..." Alex spoke in realization, pausing as a tear streamed down her face. "Iff thewa wifeoh womfin?" Thinking back to all the movies she watched and the stories and fanfics she read, she went through the scenes that had situations similar to hers-and believe it or not, those scenes were really common.
She groped around the room trying to find a sharp object, and the closest thing that she found to a sharp object was something that felt similar to a wrench. Then again, she didn't try the box-like thing, not that she could really. She about gave up when she felt something cut her finger. She let out a small gasp and lurched forward, only to realize- Sharp, pointy-thingy, yes! She scooted backwards, carefully, and put the rope around her wrists against the sharp, pointy object and started to sway and waver back and forth, trying to cut it.
...
Kyoya was just at the door of the lunchroom when a voice called out to him,
"Wait! I-I need to tell you something!" Kyoya felt his eyebrow twitch slightly in irritation-He was not in the mood to hear some girl's love confession, nor was it a good time. Kyoya ignored them, pressing a hand against the door, pushing it forward, when a hand grabbed his sleeve. "It's about Alex!" The girl blurted and Kyoya tensed. He turned his head to look at the girl, whose gray eyes were filled with guilt and regret, "I know where she is and what happened to her!"
...
Alex cheered slightly once her wrists were free- albeit they had red rings around them now, but, uh-oh, well. Now she just had the rope preventing her from using her arms to deal with. Alex struggled a bit-only to have them fall off completely. She blinked, Huh...Well, that was...easy. Oh! It was because the rope tied around my wrists were apart of the rope against my arms and screw this I can take the gag off. Alex shook her head and pulled the gag off. She inhaled and exhaled, stretching slight with a yawn, "I feel sooo much better now!"
She then proceeded to pound against the door and shout. In what felt like forever and receiving no reply, was actually two minutes. Alex slunk to the ground on her knees and leaned against the door, shoulders shaking by this point. She pounded her fist weakly against the door one more time, tears streaming down her face-"Somebody...please...open?" Her shoulders shook slightly as she held back a sob. "Damn it all..." She cursed violently, letting out a huge rainbow. This never happened back in-back home... I want out...Somebody-Somebody please, open the door... "Open the do-or already! Argh!" She let out a strangled cry as she slapped the door, only to retreat her hand in pain.
The small girl curled up in a ball physically exhausted, mentally tired, her soul tortured.
She died. She was ripped away from everything she loved and cared and knew about-her home, her family, her loved ones, everything and anything that was familiar and she knew. Thrust into a new world she knows everything and yet nothing about, hardly able to use her left arm, forced to live with "strangers" and told that she was someone else? Having hers and someone else's memories, someone else living in her place while she lived in someone else's... And now this...
This-This was supposed to be a comedy...Now I sound like Louis. Alex felt a small, bitter grin form its way onto her face, "All the wh-whining Louis! Whine, wh-whine, whine! That's all you ever do!" She chuckled to herself, Hikaru, Kaoru, hell, even Kyoya would be good at this point...Someone just please find me...Liam...
It felt like ages, the tears staining her cheeks, her throat sore and dry, most of her hope was gone, until she hear the pit-pattering of footsteps and the unlocking of a door.
Alex felt the door she was leaning against move and she jumped, startled and alarmed as she moved backwards. The door opened and light filtered into the closet, burning Alex's teary eyes. She groaned and cried out in protest, despite the fact that she was actually relieved that someone had found her.
Her eyes adjusted and Alex removed her hand, finding a pair of black shoes and black pants in her vision. She blinked and swallowed the lump in her throat, lifting her gaze up to see a guilty Akira standing next to a shocked, and slightly surprised Kyoya.
"K-Kyoya...?" She accidentally left off the honorific- originally American and in disbelief and shock, "I'm-I'm not...h-hallucinating, right? Y-You're..." The tears gathered up in her eyes before she could blink and where already streaming down her cheeks as she stood, before charging towards the dark-haired man and wrapping her arms around his waist tightly, burying her face into his uniform shirt. Alex was scared. She was not someone who could handle all the stress-Alex was only fifteen and way too many things have been happening to her.
Kyoya's eyes widened just a fraction, unsure of how to react. Comforting people was Tamaki's forte, not his. Kyoya was silent for a moment, his glasses hiding his eyes and facial expression blank, before awkwardly patting her on the head. Kyoya briefly wondered again why he was wasting his time with this, before remembering. He held back a sigh and muttered, feeling like a complete idiot, "There, there..."
Sometimes, in moments like these, Kyoya really envied Tamaki.
Alex, suddenly remembering who exactly it was that she was hugging and soaking his uniform with her tears retracted, eyes wide and face a bright red, embarrassed and feeling incredibly foolish, "I'm sorry! I-I-I'm so sorry!" She clamped her hands over her mouth, brown eyes wide. Kyoya looked down at her, slightly surprised at the change of attitude. One minute she was crying and holding on to him for dear life, and now she was apologizing as though she had done something unforgivable, "I-I didn't mean-It was-Oh, my god, I'm so sorry! Please don't kill me!" She flinched and the sleeves of the uniform pushed upwards slightly, Kyoya's eyes catching sight of the red rings around her wrists.
His face hardened, eyes narrowing slightly. Alex couldn't even blink before Kyoya was gripping her hands tightly and pushing up the sleeves of her uniform.
"K-Kyoya!?" She asked in surprise, eyes wide with surprise and confusion, then quickly added, "Er-Sempai."
The only word she could describe him with right now was "angry" even though it didn't really show on his face... Other than the slight from and the narrow eyes, not to mention the menacing aura-you couldn't really tell. He stared at the rope burns intently for a few moments before releasing her, ordering, "What happened?"
"Huh?" Alex blinked. What happened when? Or was it where? "Uh, English please?" He stared at her oddly for a second before saying,
"What happened to your wrists."
"Oh!" She declared and smacked herself in the forehead with her right hand in a very "Eleventh regeneration" fashion. "Oh! Der, right, of course! Um, I twisted my wrist trying to get the rope off and I ended up cutting myself on the sharp, pointy thingy. See?" She held up her bleeding finger to him, showing him her small cut. "Hurt a bit, but it's just kinda numb now...thought I was gonna be stuck in there forever!" She laughed slightly, trying to lighten the mood. She frowned, realizing that he didn't find it funny, and continued, "Um, ah, anyway..." She dragged it on slightly, "Uh-thanks, for, you know, getting me out..."
Kyoya's menacing aura was still present, but it seemed to lessen just a smidge. He sighed irritably, "Whatever, let's just get back to the cafeteria."
"Oh, um right!" Alex said dumbly, not knowing what else to do. She started to follow after Kyoya, but was stopped by Akira, who cut in front of her with a guilty look on her face.
"L-Look, I'm sorry, okay? I-I don't know why, but I-"
"It's fine." Alex cut in, smiling at the girl. Akira looked up in surprise and confusion,
"What? Seriously, just like that?"
"Um, yeah, it's fine. I'm not dead or mortally wounded, right?"
"N-No..."
"Then, there you go!" Alex gave her a peace sign, grinning widely, "Peace out, yo!" She giggled to herself before gasping and running to catch up with Kyoya, "H-Hey, wait up!"
...
"Alex! You're okay!" Alex let out a loud shout when she was tackled in a hug by Hikaru and Kaoru, who had tears streaming comically down their faces. "We were so worried when you didn't come back!"
"I-I love you guys too!" Alex gasped, running out of air. "H-Hey! Let go!"
"Never!"
"I'm not ever going too let you out of my sight," Hikaru began defiantly as he rubbed his face against hers, Kaoru doing the same.
"ever again for as long as I live!"
"Hey, Kyoya," Tamaki began curiously as he watched his best friend sit down. "What happened to Alex in the first place? You seem...angered at something."
Kyoya's glasses hid his eyes as he replied, "Nothing insignificant, you can be sure of. I'll fill you in on the details later, just finish your parfait."
"Kyoya-" Tamaki cut himself off when he saw that his friend clearly wasn't in the mood to talk anymore. "Nevermind then...Hey, you shady twins, release my daughter!"
"Help me, Daddy!" Alex "begged" crying out for help. "Mommy, Daddy, big brothers are being so mean to me~!"
Kyoya's aura seemed to darken as he gave her and the twins' a shit-eating smile, eyes hidden behind glasses, "Release her." The twins released the girl, tears streaming out of their eyes comically from fear.
"What the hell is wrong with him today?" The twins asked Tamaki, huddling close to him, frightened deeply. Alex questioned, a tick mark forming on her face,
"Can I just eat my lunch in peace? We have like, ten minute left and I'm starving!"
...
Music Room #3- 3:25 P.M.
"Let's play the "Which one is Hikaru Game!" The brothers ran their hands through their hair-causing it to spike up, and grinned identically after running around in circles.
"What a lame game," Haruhi deadpanned, while Alex blinked.
"It at least gives you something to do...right?"
A girl spoke up, uncertain, "I don't know, you two look exactly alike." Alex spoke, rolling her eyes sarcastically,
"No, not at all. They don't have the same faces or anything. I mean, they're totally not identical in looks." But their personalities on the other hand... Alex sighed,
"I'll get some more tea..." Alex mumbled incoherently, picking up the tea tray. She stood up straight, stepping over the guests' feet as she tried to worm her way out from between the guests' and Haruhi, only to shout as she ended up tripping over Kurakano's feet. They both gasped and Alex let out a shout as she and the tea tray fell to their impeding doom-at least, they would have fallen to their impending doom if someone hadn't caught Alex by the collar of her shirt. She gasped at the choking feeling, but quickly backed up and regained her balance. "Th-That was close..." She breathed heavily, eyes wide. She looked at the person who caught her. It was either Hikaru or Kaoru, but this twin had the "Kind" eyes so... "Thanks...Kaoru? Right, you're Kaoru?"
His eyes widened slightly in response and said nothing, slowly releasing the girl.
"I'll take that as a..."Maybe." Haruhi nodded,
"Yes, that's Kaoru. Hikaru is the one standing next to Miharu."
"I-It's fine," Kaoru stuttered, slightly surprised at being told apart correctly. "No problem." He backed up to where he was standing next to his brother.
"You got it wrong~!" Hikaru told her, grinning. Haruhi smirked,
"No, Alex and I are right. You two may act and look alike, but you both are actually very different." Alex grinned, place the tea tray down, and ran over to Haruhi, laughing and wrapping her arms around her neck,
"Haruhi's right! Hikaru's rather rude and not good with people, but he can be rather nice. He's a Tsundere, if I have to label him." Alex said, the last part thoughtfully. "And Kaoru, well-her's more calm 'n stuff and really nice-He has the same eyeshape as Edward Elric-kind of. They both have "Kind" eyes, if you get what I mean-oh! And Kaoru's cheek bones are more defined that Hikaru's, while Hikaru's are more sharp than Kaoru's. He also has a small bump in the nose-which is almost impossible to see unless you're looking at him when he has his head turned to the left. He also has a stubborn chin and...Well, that's all I could see, so far." Alex pays attention to detail-being an artist and writer herself, and observes people even when she's talking to them.
"Wow!" A girl exclaimed, while the others gasped. "You really know all that?"
"I observe people, as creepy as it sounds." Alex laughed and Haruhi muttered for Alex to get off. "I-I write and draw a lot, so, uh-yeah." She released Haruhi and scratched her left arm nervously. "It-It's a habit. Maybe a bad one? I-I don't really know..." And it kind of helps that since she's from another dimension she knows their personalities from a TV show and a manga book? But, there's always more than what meets the eyes when you actually end up meeting said nonexistant people. Not everything is shown in a few stories. "Anyway..." She blinked at the looks the girls' were giving her and Haruhi. "What-What did I do?"
"You both are wonderful!" Miharu gushed, eyes wide with stars. Kurakano smiled brightly at them,
"You both must be looking at them with the eyes in your hearts!"
"Sure?" Alex blinked when Haruhi made to grab a cup of tea-pausing when she found it empty. Haruhi's finger had a band-aid on it, "What happened to your finger?" She asked, rather bluntly. Haruhi looked up at her in surprise, the other girls' gasping and asking what happened worriedly.
"Huh, oh, I was using a knife and cut myself on accident." Alex frowned-she could tell that was a lie. She used the same excuse once-difference was, she said she was doing the dishes and cut herself. Truth is, a girl got mad at her once and attacked her with her nails. She wasn't very friendly.
... Three days later, Music Room #3- 3:12...
Alex blinked and looked up, looking around the room and realizing someone wasn't there...
"Alex-Chan, what's wrong?" Akiko questioned worriedly, seeing her friend's alarmed look. Akira blinked and frowned, legs crossed.
"Did you forget something?" Alex looked at them in surprise and gave them a small, nervous smile as she lied easily,
"Uh-Yeah, actually...Um, is it okay if I-"
"It's fine," Akiko cut her off. Alex smiled widely and stood, exclaiming gratefully,
"Thank you! Thank you, thank you-I'll be right back, promise!" Alex quickly made her way to the doors, only to be cut off by Kyoya, who spoke with an accusatory tone,
"Just where do you think you're going?" Alex looked back at him and said quickly,
"I forgot something and I need to go get it-I'll be right back! Kay?"
"Don't-" Alex didn't hear him as she closed the doors behind her, "do anything rash..." Kyoya sighed and closed his book, "That moron..."
One of his guests' looked at him in confusion and question, "Kyoya-Sempai, is something wrong?" He gave them a shit-eating grin quickly.
"No, not at all, just thinking about how very few of our magazines have been bought lately..."
"I'll buy one!"
"I'll buy one too!"
"I'll three!" He smiled,
"How very generous of you all..." He calmly told him, "That will be 1000 yen each-Oh, dear...I seem to have forgotten my accounting book, will it be alright with you ladies if I left to retrieve it?" The girls' quickly gained hearts in their eyes as they nodded,
"Yes, yes! It's perfectly fine, Kyoya!"
"Absolutely, Kyoya-Sempai! If you must!" He gave them another shit-eating grin and said as he stood, bowing apologetically,
"Thank you, sweet ladies, you truly have very kind hearts." They squealed loudly and watched him as he left through the door.
Alex arrived just in time to see Ayanokoji approach Haruhi. Alex froze for a brief second before hiding behind the corner, closing her eyes and listening intently,
"Why, aren't you that Commoner?" She questioned, faking surprise. "Thanks to Tamaki-Sama, you look a lot nicer now-You actually look like one of our students. But, you forget; He is a Blueblood and you are a Commoner. You must love it when he starts to dote on you like that-but it's completely useless. Why don't you fix the faults in your upbringing first and then try? But, then again, its always going to be useless..." Alex opened her eyes once she heard the footsteps heading her way and watched as Ayanokoji turned the corner she was hiding at.
And here's the doubtful, uncertain feeling of if I should approach her or not...Well, I already got into trouble before, so why not do it again? Alex sighed, Haruhi, you're lucky I'm loyal, "Hey, what's up!?" Alex asked Ayanokoji excitedly, giving her a peace sign and a grin. Ayanokoji froze in her steps at turned her head to look at Alex with wide eyes.
"You-" She cut herself off and forced herself to relax, giving Alex a fake smile and saying, "Hello...You must be that other Commoner, Alex..." Clearly she was acting like she didn't help knock out Alex and locker in a closet at all.
"Oh, shove off with the act already- first you have what's-her-face knock me out and lock me in a closet, and now you're being cruel to Haruhi? How much of a jerk are you?" Alex paused a few times in her ranting, not good with confrontations or lectures. She didn't know how this would turn out. Ayanokoji's eyes narrowed and turned cold, the brown almost looking black. "Seriously, what's your problem?"
"Problem?" She asked, raising an eyebrow. "I do not have a problem; if anyone has a problem, its you. You hang around a group of beautiful men, despite being such an ugly girl." Alex knew she wasn't very pretty, but it still hurt when other people pointed it out. Alex remained pokerface, acting like it didn't affect her. Alex rolled her eyes,
"Your point? I may not be pretty, but at least I don't go locking people in janitor closets and sticking pin needles in peoples uniforms! Nor do I go and place a blade in Haruhi's textbook, and neither do I go and throw her bag and books and her wallet into the school pond!" Alex pointed out the window, angered, at the soaking items in the pond that Haruhi and Tamaki were rummaging through. "I don't go and act like a jealous bitch just because some guy decides to spend time with someone else! You could at least be a bit understanding, I mean seriously woman-!" Ayanokoji cut her off, glaring,
"I don't need a lecture from a filthy commoner!" Alex felt her eyes widen and she grinned madly, her eyes showing just how angry she was.
"Oh-Oh! You think so!?" Alex stormed up to Ayanokoji, lifting up her index finger and pointing at her, "You think that just because I'm commoner that you-that you're higher than me!? That you're better than me!? Whether you're rich or poor, has nothing to do with status! Status is what is means when you're a bad person, a good person-Oh wait, never mind. There's no such thing as a good or bad person! It's only with the decisions you make that make your status!" Alex smiled at her, narrowing her eyes as her bangs fell into her face, just below her eyes-"You wanna know what I think your status is?"
Ayanokoji looked down at the finger Alex was pointing in her face, a snarl forming on her lips, "It does not matter what you think; I'm still better than you in every way. I'm smart, beautiful, rich, everything that an ugly, filthy, useless Commoner like you are not. My status will always be higher than yours."
Alex blinked at that and hesitated for a moment, before smiling and poking Ayanokoji in the forehead, giggling, "Aw, you're so cute! Look at the wittle Pwincess Ayanokoji!" She spoke in a baby-voice, clearly mocking the girl. "So bwave and tawented, stwong and beau'iful! She must be everything!" All the while Alex was making gestures with her hands. She raised her right hand over her mouth, gasping, "Oh! My bad..." She gave her a sour look, "You're not. Looks aren't everything. You may be a pretty face, but you're burned to a crisp on the inside. Nothing pretty about you. A blackened heart." Ayanokoji was fuming now and Alex was surprised she hadn't tried to strike her yet. Alex was pretty much insulting her to the highest level. She quickly listed off, "Greed, Lust, Envy, Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, and..." Wasn't there another. "Sloth!" She cried out, clapping her hands together and snapping her fingers, "There we go! That's the one!" She whirled around and pointed at Ayanokoji, grinning widely, "You my dear, have Envy-You're green as Ivy! And possibly Greed...I know I have that-" She laughed before going serious again, "You are a pretty face, but on the inside, you rotted and turned green...Like a rose. It's beautiful for a while...but then it starts to wilt-!"
Pain flared in Alex cheek and felt something warm dribble onto her chin. Alex lifted a hand up to her cheek, scratch marks from nails visible on her left cheek. Blood trickled down her face and onto her chin, dripping onto her hand. The pain numbed down a bit and tingled. Alex made a smile grow on her face and looked at Ayanokoji, who raised her hand to claw her again,
"That tickled." Alex's response to all pain-if it was minor. A few bleeding scratches? How minor could that get? That drove Ayanokoji to the edge and Alex flinched when her hand flew towards her face again. I deserve that one-But then again, she hurt Haruhi.
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that if you're going to mercilessly bully two of our precious host members, I'm going to have to ask you to not enter the Host Club ever again." Alex's eyes shot open with shock and surprise at the new voice.
"Kyoya!?" He had a brilliant shit-eating smile on, and she knew that the brighter the smile, the worse he became. He was like Sebastian from Black Butler, the brighter the smile, the more torment the character was going to face. Ironically, they had the same voice actor... Hehe. "What are you doing here?"
"I came for my accounting book," He replied, lifting up a small black book that was tucked against his side.
"I-I-" Ayanokoji stumbled over her words, face paling tremendously at being caught, "It's not what it looks like, I swear!" She blurted, "Alex came at me and was insulting me and-It was self-defense!"
He smiled at her, "Then what do you call this?" He held up pictures that had proof of Ayanokoji's bullying. "I had Hikaru and Kaoru take them for me-they are ever so helpful."
"What?" A new voice interrupted. Everyone's head turned to look at Tamaki and Haruhi, who was holding up a soaked bag. "Kyoya, you knew about this?"
He smiled, glasses flashing, "Of course. Alex's guest, Akira, is ever so informant. She even told me about who locked Alex in that closet-Ayanokoji was involved in that little incident."
Tamaki sighed and Alex was still having trouble processing what was happening, "I guess you're right...That leaves only one thing to do..." He walked up to Ayanokoji-Kyoya had released her wrist- and gripped her chin gently.
"It-It wasn't it appears, I swear Tamaki-Sama! Alex and that commoner, Haruhi, attacked me! They were bullying me and insulting me and-and I was trying to teach them not too bully others and-"
"You are a beautiful girl, Ayanokoji," Tamaki told her seriously, frowning as he tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, "But I do know one thing, and that Haruhi and Alex are not those kind of people."
Alex felt slightly flattered at that, but felt like something was seriously wrong with this situation... I feel like I screwed up something big time...This happened in the Club room, not a hallway...Ayanokoji either splashed tea at Haruhi and made a break for it, or Hikaru and Kaoru dumped tea on them after She grabbed Haruhi's tie and pulled her over the table, to make it look like she jumped her...Oh, SHIT! Haruhi isn't wet! Tamaki won't find out she's a girl-Damn it, damn it, damn it!
"Looks aren't everything, and I'm afraid that I'm going to have to ban you from the Host Club."
Ayanokoji's eyes widened. "Wh-What, Tamaki...You...IDIOT!" She pushed him away from her, making a break for it down the hallway.
Tamaki sighed, "Well, now that this is over..." He turned around to point at Haruhi dramatically, declaring, "Your quota is now one thousand!"
Haruhi froze and turned to stone, "Wh-What?" He smiled at her,
"Well, it is your fault after all. Now, come on, back to the club we go!" He grabbed Haruhi's wrist and started to drag her back.
Great, now I have to do something to get Haruhi's clothes wet...Water or tea? Hm...I don't want to waste tea...It's so sad. Uncle Iroh! Hahahahaha...Ugh.
"Yup, I'm screwed. I just ruined this entirely plot." Kyoya raised an eyebrow at her,
"And why do you say that?"
"Because I did." Alex shook her head and flinched, pain flaring through her cheek and she barely had time to blink before she was suddenly gripped by the shoulders by a panicked Tamaki, who was shaking her back and forth with tears in his eyes,
"ALEX! KYOYA-CALL AN AMBULANCE, ALEX IS DYING! SHE'S BLEEDING-THERE ARE BLOOD ALL OVER HER CLOTHES! AAHHHHHHHH!!" Kyoya shut him up with a punch to the back of the head,
"Don't be a moron, Moron. She's fine, just needs first-aid. She isn't dying." Alex screamed when Tamaki started to drag her back to the club room-only to pause when he saw a wallet on the ground. He lifted it up and froze, eyes wide when he saw who it belonged too. Alex blinked and moved in front of him, looking at his upside-down. It had a girl with long, dark brown hair and bangs, big, wide chocolate eyes. AKOIJUF IHURAH. The thing that told the gender was circled under "Female".
Alex let out a breathe she didn't know she was holding, "Oh thank god..."
"Haruhi's..." He ran into the club room, charging towards Haruhi and demanding, "Haruhi...Are you a girl?"
She barely blinked at him as she replied easily, "Biologically, yeah..." He froze, nearly dropping the wallet, "Oh! There it is...I must've dropped on our way back..." She took it from him and placed it in her pocket, "Thanks, Sempai, don't know what I would've done for food money this week without it...Ah, by the way, that picture was taken when I was in ninth grade, by the way." She looked up, realizing how shocked he looked, "Oh, I'm sorry-Did I surprise you?"
Hikaru, Kaoru, Mori, Honey, Kyoya, and Alex all walked up. "I knew it before I even saw her!" Alex spoke up with a grin.
"He's finally noticed..." Hikaru commented, "He really is an idiot."
"But he probably knew by instinct; No one would do such much for a guy," Kaoru told his brother, nodding his head.
"..." Mori was silent, but he, too, figured it out along the way. Honey grinned,
"I knew from the beginning!" Alex raised an index finger,
"Only after she commented on how cute Usa-Chan was." Honey giggled at that.
"It's a pretty interesting development," Kyoya admitted, grinning. "Ah, about that scratch..." Everyone blinked and turned to look at Alex, who he was addressing. Alex looked up at him and pressed a hand to her cheek, wiping the blood away.
"It's fine, its gonna stop bleeding soon anyway."
"Don't be so careless!" Hikaru and Kaoru growled at her, frowning deeply, "You already have one scar, you don't need four more!"
Alex shrugged, "I already have a rope burn on my wrist, two scars on my left knee, another from a rock on my right knee, a scar on my left lower leg from a berry bush, three scars on my left from when October scratched me on Halloween just from when I tried to open my door that she was lying in front of her-I didn't need fake blood then!" She laughed at her joke. She hadn't even put the fake blood on yet when it happened. Nobody was amused, in fact, they seemed even more worried, "Oh, and there's this scar," She traced the one on her chin, "and my useless arm that I can barely move, I also have this weird shaped scar on my hip...Oh! And there's that one on my shoulder from that bullet and the surgery-thing and..." She paused in thought, "Oh! There's also one right here on my hand from a band stand hat I got in Elementary during a Christmas Program," She showed it to them. It was on her left hand and in between her index finger and thumb, "And there's one in a similar place that traces my thumb that I got from Majin when she was playing with my hand, and one from October on my arm that you can't really see since its faded when I was running the bathroom."
"You lead," Hikaru began, frowning deeply. Kaoru continued, raising an eyebrow,
"A very carefree life..."
"What happened to your knees, Lexi-Chan?" Alex shrugged,
"Bike crash. The chain popped as I was going down the hill and I nearly crashed into the rich neighbors yard. Hit a ditch, flipped, and according to my cousin, did a weird dance move thing as I tried to avoid the handle bars. Don't know 'bout you, but I didn't want one protruding through my stomach." She laughed. "Anyway, back to Haruhi, who probably feels ignored." Haruhi blinked and shrugged, not really caring if anyone was paying her attention or not.
"You guys can continue if you want, I don't really care...But if you guys' thought I was a guy, then there' no helping it. It's fine with me; My consciousness of being a girl or boy is probably lower than most peoples; It's probably my dad's influence. And I'm not really interested in appearances either...It's on the inside that counts, right? Oh, and Sempai," She turned to Tamaki with a cute smile, "You were pretty cool back then, earlier."
His face turned tomato red, placing a hand over his mouth.
Kyoya smirked and Alex quote along with him, grinning like a madman, "Now, I may be wrong, but I think we're witnessing the beginnings of love."
Kyoya gave her a strange look and she grinned, hugging herself as she squealed, "I always wanted to say that!"
"You're a moron..." Kyoya sighed. He could already feel his brain cells start to slip away-but, nonetheless, he hit Alex's head gently with a fist. She grinned at him,
"I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. And what was that for?" He pulled his fist away and said, not looking at her, but at the commotion Haruhi and Tamaki were making.
"You're more trouble than you're worth."
"Aw, thank you, you're so kind!" She replied with a sarcastic smile on her face. "Anyway, next chapter, Christmas Party!" Everyone gave her odd looks at that.
"How about,"
"We go home,"
"and fix that look of yours, first?"
"No!"