Gender bend
I was annoyed, I was annoyed with Karou for saying he'd be fine, I was annoyed with Hikaru for leaving, I was annoyed with their parents for even suggesting it. and I was annoyed with their bloody egos.
"Karou he's been gone for half an hour he won't be back for another two days."
"sorry, just we don't spend a lot of time apart."
"whatever, hey don't you have family coming down today?"
"yeo and it's gonna be boring as hell wit out Hikaru"
"mmm, hey are these your cousins" I said pointing to a picture of two girls in frilly dresses and wigs; they had the same eyes as the twins though.
Karou slid himself of the sofa and stood behind her "that's me and Hikaru mum used to dress us up like this when we were younger"
"IDEA THEY KNOW HIKARU IS OUT OF TOWN so let's dress you up as a girl, well trick the host club the girls and it will keep your mind of things sound fun"
"crazy but mmmm, alight. It would be boring otherwise"
I grabbed Karou and ran upstairs.
About three hours later me and his mum looked back at our handy work.
"must dash guys have to get reaaadddyy" as soon as she left I wolf whistled.
"damn Karou I didn't know you had it in you, hell you look better than me."
"…lexi be honest are you gay, is this some sort of deep down fetish" Karou said giggling
I frowned and looked at him, "Karou I'm not straight"
"WOW what but your dating my brother"
"Karou I'm a pansexual, gender doesn't matter to me, I'm labels."
"oh…"I looked up at him "does Hika know"
"yea, he's cool with it, why are you"
"shocked, but fine with it."
"shocked? How so"
"lexi, you're the whitest person ever," I laughed at that.
"mmmm so, you ready "I asked reaching for the lip-gloss "'cues if we can pull this off, I will hold so much respect for you" I wiped the small smudge away from the boys lips.
"mmm, hey why are you smiling like that?" a puzzled tone coming into his sweet voice
"I used to do this with my brother, well not to this degree but when I was little I used to love playing dress up and only stopped when I got into secondary school, Edward use to let me dress him up in tutu's and dresses, and once I caught him with my makeup. His was cute back then, after that he started to dress up like cowboys and superhero's and wed make up these dumb games were we would be link and pit from video games or Pokémon trainers. It was fun"
"what happened to them?" I looked up and he was honestly engrossed in my story
"…he grew up, stooped doing these things, granted we still did things together, we all ways laughed, are parents got divorced and shit, but all in all we still maintained a good relationship, I never did this stuff with Harrison or chelcie, they were too old when I met them, but maybe I'll do it with eliza if I see her agine..- HEY STOP CRYING YOULL RUIN YOUR MAKEUP-I can't believe I just said that to a guy."
"says the pansexual" he commented.
I threw a pillow at him.
I pulled him to his feet "let's go, you wanna see how you look? Or just go in without knowing"
"nope I wanna see…..what" he looked at me as I stared at him…her….whatever
"you just said and I quote 'wanna' "
We walked to a room with better lighting and a mirror arm in arm "well I guess you're just rubbing of on me" we laughed
"mmm maybe we can make an otaku out of you yet"
"DREAM ON"
We laughed. I opened the door to let him in "lady's first" he hit me lightly in the arm, but this made me laugh harder "now a young lady should not participate in such violent activity's"
He looked at me "I'm a guy underneath"
"well then you shouldn't hit a girl" I laughed at him harder
"well let's see what you've done to me…..WOW" he looked in the mirror and I had to admit he looked like a girl.
His ginger hair had been covered buy a dark red wig and had been layered down to his elbows, his topaz eyes with green contact lenses in them. "you do have nice legs though it's a shame to cover them up." I laughed at him
"FINE PUT ME IN A SHORT DRESS DOES IT REALL MATTER AT THIS STAGE" he shouted out of embarrassment more than anger.
I did as he commanded giving him a pale orange dress and a "bra" too were with something else to give an illusion of hips "you have a better figure than me" I laughed at him
"it's not that hard tiny-tit"
I smirked "your twin likes it " I stuck my toing out and laughed at the face he pulled I started putting the make up one, changing his skin tone a bit and darkening his lashes, adding more lip gloss and smiled. "you really do look like a girl"
He kind of made a snorting noise "thanks" he sat on the chair as I grabbed the hair brush and ran it through his 'hair'.
"Karou what's it like having a twin?"
"mmm well its different for everyone I guess, but me and Hika, were pretty much linked, although it's nice to be told apart, I can't help but miss when we were together like we really one person" his voice was hushed
I stopped brushing the fake locks of red hair "m'sorry" I mumbled
He turned to look at me "why?"
"I'm keeping you two apart"
He put his arm around me "lexi as it is Hikaru spends most of his time with me, and you're out with your friends a lot, your never really keep us apart, HELL you spend more time with me than him." I laughed and leaned into his shoulder "….. and hey you finally get to play dress up with a brother" I looked up and frowned at him, making him roll his eyes and laughed "me you imbecile, I see you as my sister so you can see me as your brother, deal"
I laughed "HELLZ NO I HAVE TWO HELL RAZERS ALL READY AS WELL AS TO SISTERS I DON'T NEED ANY MORE" I scoffed and smiled "so you're okay with this"
"lexi I LOVE my brother bot he is SO FRIGGIN TWISTED." I blinked "I mean come on I love him I do but, he's possessive jealous and he REALLY needs to grow up, hell I'm surprised you've put up with him this long"
I laughed "OUT YOUR NOT THE ONLY GIRL THAT HAS TO GET READY FOR THIS THING"
We laughed as I kicked him out, grabbed the dress that Hikaru had left for me, ocean blue above the knee with thick straps with a black belt and a black lace of flowers layering it. he'd attached a note 'good luck. And look after Karou; I'll call you both every day. Also remember boss is a perv so over up you r legs PS text me if you want me to bring you anything back, moneys no limit (yea I know I'm a spoiled rich boy, you love me)'
I laughed before slipping in it applying back eye liner and back ballet shoes took my hair out of the pony tail, letting the awkward curl trail down my shoulders and back, left my legs bear just to get a reaction out of Hikaru when he gets back and sees the pictures.
Stepping out my bedroom, I bumped in to the twins mum. I bowed out of respect.
But she pulled be in to hug. "Awwww look at my little model, I am so glad that –I can have someone to dress up, you know I used to do this for the boys, but they grew out of it."
"it sucks when boys get 'to old' for dress up hu?" I smiled and she shot me a confused look
"how would you know-?"
I cut her off "- little brother", I gave her a smile. She linked her arm with mine
"soooo what are we calling my son sorry daughter her"
"ummmmmm maybe we should ask him emm her?" we laughed
"how's robin sound?" we looked back at Karou. Who stood leaning agents' the door way
"well robin, you should stand like a dude" I said
"well Alexandra-"
I cut him off "DON'T CALL ME THAT"
There mum cut us off "down stairs" she ushered us down and we instantly stared telling people how the twins were out of town and robin was a 'commoner' who had come to stay
Then the host club came and we both froze
"ready" he whispered
"yep" I answered back, we walked over, and not even Kyoya recognised him
"hey guys, sorry Karou had to leave at the last minute."
"that's fine," Tamika took a step forward "and who may I ask is this lovely lady"
I tried kept a straight face as Tamaki slipped his hand under his chin. "robin" I pulled him from his grip "my robin, I met her when first arrived here"
"it's nice to meet you" I smiled not only had he tricked the relatives with that voice but also the host club brought it. once the conversation between him/her and the host club I got up to speak to some of his family, as I got up we exchanged a secret low high five under the table.
No one knew a thing.
Toward the end of the evening as twisted and hilarious as it was, boys could not leave 'robin' alone and as a result I couldn't find 'her 'anywhere.
Sighing and not really knowing anyone other than the host, who were all busy making small talk with family clients and friends, I walked out on to the balcony.
I remember when me and Renge did this at my first host club dance, I honestly wish she or any of the girls were here, well Haruhi was but is being held hostage by Tamaki.
I felt the soul of the small ballet pumps clack agents' the cold tiles. "damn rich people can afford bloody baloneys; damn I'm talking like a British Haruhi"
"Hardly" I jumped and looked up "one you couldn't be Haruhi if you tried and two, you lives in a hotel your use to baloneys, hell you have a balcony."
"it's not quite the same, Karou-chan"
"… you said chan" he looked at me
"I still can't get over what a good girl you make" I changed the topic and we linked arms and headed to the railings.
"hey earlier you asked what it was like to have a twin right?" I crooked my head to look at him.
"so?"
"why?"
I sighed "when my mum was about a month to three months pregnant with me she went for a cheek up, when trying to get the baby's hart beat they couldn't here one, however mum was still giving off high pregnancy hormones. They ran a load of test and dad had thought he had lost me, mum went into shock; remember this was when she was nice. 4 weeks later they came back, and found my hart beet, I was in a position where there MIGHT have been a twin with me but lost her or him, but technology wasn't exactly developed enough, they didn't know, and it was just too early to tell, nana thinks I did, the rest don't. and I don't know, I might of."
His only reply was "oh"
I put my arm round him pulling him into a sort of one armed hug. "Karou, it no biggy, I probably didn't, and any way, I don't think I'd want a twin, at least not if twins are as messed up as you two, or fight like matt and Dan"
He looked up at me with quizzical big topaz eyes "matt and Dan?"
"old friends from a while back, don't worry."
"mmm'k"
"you said mmm'k that's one of my words Haha" I grinned up at him
""yer will you called me –chan that's not only a Japanese word but it mean family or a close friend so mmmmmmm" he stuck his tongue at me
"and you just stuck your tong out, that's my thing mmmmmmm" I repeated his actions, my ears pricked up at the familiar sound of music. "The last dance right?" he nodded. "well robin would you do me the honour of allowing me the pleasure of this dance, and if you say no ill tell the boss were you are."
"….. wow your acting like the shadow king."
"frig you and let's dance"
HIKARU POV
I sighed and stretched my legs. Not the best day in the world. Me and dad were meant to go away on a business trip, but the plain was cancelled, I had tried to get a hold of Karou and lexi all day but no answer.
I looked up at dad "how much longer" I whined
He raised an eyebrow at me "these commoners are rubbing off on you"
I smiled "lexi says that."
"were here anyway, you could have just looked out the window."
"kay,thaks,bye" and with that I leaped out the window
I faintly herd dad say "…at least we missed the reunion "
I ran through the front door and passing the last of the relatives who were now leaving into the ball room. I spotted the host club first. I had forgotten they had been coming too.
As I got closer I looked at them probably, and frowns there was someone behind Tamaki, he was 'flirting ' (molesting) them.
She had long red hair and a cute dress on but the curves seemed rather fake (I know this from padding on dress and underwear that gives you shapes- don't judge me)
I froze. I saw 'her' face.
"TAMIKIE GET THE HELL OF MY BABY BROTHER"
…now I'm not sure WHAT happened next just Tamaki needed a lot of ice packs buy the time I was done, and I only stopped when mum came in and yelled at me.
I looked at lexi. "could you explain"
Her face got angry, and she pointed at me "well you're the one who ruined it"
"hu?"
"they all thought Karou was a girl, buy the way guys you really are dumb, and yes guys you did just spend the whole night flirting with Karou"
My brother and girlfriend put their arms around each other's necks. "I have to say" Karou started "it has been a fun night"
I sighed "okay 1 why are you dressed up as a girl. 2 did you to miss me 3 lexi you HAVE to say yes and kiss me 4 who was in on it 5 did you fool EVERY ONE and finally can I hit boss one more time"
Lexi smiled "1 bored. 2 HELL NO. 3 Haha I didn't and EWW GROSS. 4 me Karou and your mum. 5 yep. And 6 yes but only ONCE"
..Hikaru hit him twice.
KAROU POV
That night after the host club had gone and I was reading on my desk I looked across to the bed, lexi was leaning on Hika, all make up off and hair down brushed into puffy waves up and agents' his chest. Hika had his arm just around her and was smiling, although listing to music from his I pod, and headphone in each ear, both seemed to be falling asleep.
I grinned, they really were stupid. I looked into the mirror smiling at my BOY reflection before turning off the light and slipping under the covers taking the head phones out the ears and pushing them down and under the covers. Lexi pushed me into tem middle, normally we take her from her room and keep her in with us but tonight, she just collapsed onto my chest.
"we might as well be dating if you're gonna act like this" I mumbled
Hikaru growled "my toy MINE"
"IM NOT A TOY" she buried her face in my chest further and Hika berried his in my shoulder.
I smiled "good night baka's"
Thad already gone to sleep.
