Chapter 3: Members of The Host Club
The next day, Haruhi and Amelia were coached for hours. No customers were arriving that day just for this special training. Haruhi was getting the worst of it, but they were taking turns. Haruhi wasn't done with her training yet. Amelia sat in the corner by the window. She barely got any sleep the night before just hearing the speech of 100 customers and thinking how in the world she was going to pay off the eighty thousand dollar debt.
She tried to wear something different, but the clothes were still too loose including a sweater and her father's leather jacket. Amazing that they still couldn't figure out her gender. Her hair was a mess, starting to curl a bit after sleeping on it. She began to fall asleep, feet on the table, arms crossed about her chest and head back. She took her glasses off, putting them on the table, falling asleep without realizing it.
"Imai," Tamaki called out. "Your turn for training."
Nothing.
"Imai?" he questioned. Still nothing.
"Uh, Milord? I think he's out cold," Hikaru snickered.
"That or he is ignoring you," Kaoru joked noticing Amelia sitting in her chair, facing away from them, feet up and obviously asleep.
"Check it out would you? I still need to work on Haruhi's appearance. Maybe these glasses if we took them off," Tamaki insisted.
Haruhi started having a fit while Kyoya walked over to Amelia. He bent over the chair getting a good look at her. He notices her glasses on the table and examining her face. He smirked.
"Well isn't that interesting," he commented. Suddenly, the twins are on a mission cutting Haruhi's hair and before Kyoya could beckon anyone over, he was ordered to call up the tailor.
"I guess that'll have to wait," he muttered dialing his phone on the other line.
...
After about a half an hour of Haruhi's fussing, her hair was neatly clipped and styled. The twins shoved her into the back room to change while Kyoya brought her a new uniform. Tamaki and the others stayed in the changing room, waiting patiently. Kyoya watched Tamaki as he started fussing about the other host member.
"Where's Imai?" Tamaki questioned.
"He's in the other room asleep," Kyoya replied. "Hikaru, Kaoru, you two mind waking him up?"
"Awww but we wanted to eat some more ramen," Kaoru groaned.
"It'll be here when you get back," Kyoya smirked. "Now if you would, please grab Mr. Wolfe."
"Yeah, yeah we heard you the first time," the twins replied in unison. They got up heading back towards the main room. Amelia was still asleep by the window, her jacket pulled off, covering her like a blanket.
"Well would you look at that. Still hasn't budged," Hikaru commented, closing the door behind them. They started walking over to the chair.
"Must've been a rough night, don't you think?" Kaoru questioned quietly. They approached the chair, one twin on each side. "Should we wake him up?"
Hikaru smirked looking at Kaoru putting a finger to his lips before leaning down towards Amelia's ear.
"Hey Imai. Time to wake up," Hikaru sang quietly.
Amelia groaned.
"Not now Dad…" she whispered.
"Dad?" Kaoru snickered. Hikaru looked at him oddly.
"Well that was unexpected," Hikaru whispered.
"Hey Hikaru, come here a sec," Kaoru moving to stand in front of her. Hikaru walked over, standing next to Kaoru before growing his brows.
"What's up?" he whispered.
"Looks like those guys from the fight hit him pretty good," Kaoru pointed at the scar under her jaw, seeing the split in her lip. Hikaru scoffed.
"Yeah you're right," Hikaru agreed, kneeling down to her level. He reached out putting a hand under her jaw examining at the scratch. Amelia breathed slightly, moving a bit in her sleep forcing her jacket to fall. It showed her tank top under her sweater, bruises forming around her shoulders. Hikaru noticed looking over at Kaoru.
"Hey look at that," he mentioned as Kaoru stepped behind him leaning down to see.
"Ouch, that's a little harsh for a first day," Kaoru commented.
"It's only second day of school and he's already getting scars, pathetic," Hikaru scoffed looking at Kaoru in disbelief.
"I don't know about that," Kaoru disagreed.
Hikaru reached out his free hand towards the bruise, brushing aside the tank top strap under her sweater. The bruises are blue today.
"I wonder how big it is…"
By feeling his hand, Amelia's eyes shot awake immediately grabbing Hikaru's hand and by instinct gripping it.
Hikaru grunted in surprise looking at his hand, not even looking at her.
Amelia's eyes widened suddenly seeing the two of them and almost in mid panic.
"Whoa easy there buddy," Kaoru laughed nervously.
"Can you let go of my wrist now?" Hikaru breathed. Amelia panics realizing that she was hurting him, letting go immediately.
Hikaru got up rubbing his hand and wrist, standing next to Kaoru.
Amelia got up with them straightening out her sweater, running fingers through her hair.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to do that it was just a reflex," Amelia swallowed, looking at them apologetically as she tried to fix herself up from looking like she just got out of bed.
"Hey Hikaru," Kaoru nudged him to look at her. Hikaru annoyed looks at her and then stares at her. As she puts on her leather jacket she notices them staring at her. She looked between them uncomfortably
"What?" she asked.
The twins looked at each other before grin mischievously.
She reaches out to grab her glasses but Kaoru grabs them leaning on one side of her while Hikaru proceeded to do the same on the other side.
"Imai, did anyone ever tell you, you look better without the glasses?" Hikaru asked grinning. Amelia looks between them, blushing at the fact of how close they are.
"Yeah my contacts are at home buried in boxes in my bathroom somewhere," Amelia replied. "Why?"
"Come on you have the inspirational foreign bad boy look," Kaoru grinned.
"I'm a musician," Amelia corrected. "And I'm not a bad boy."
"Musician, bad boy, same look right?" Hikaru coaxed slyly.
"Why don't we help with that?" Kaoru insisted.
"Hikaru, Kaoru! I've been waiting for a half an hour now why haven't you-?" Tamaki froze, with Kyoya walking in behind him. Tamaki stared at Amelia. His eyes suddenly giving a look of inspiration.
"Boys! Get this man the hair treatment he needs! Mori contacts! Kyoya!" Tamaki ordered.
"Yes, I already know I'll get a spare uniform," Kyoya interrupted his commanding.
"I already have contacts just let me call Isao," Amelia insisted, grabbing her phone. This was going to be a nightmare.
The twins grinned at Amelia, putting her in the same chair combing and snipping loose ends, straightening it everything. Amelia called Isao who arrived promptly at the same time that Kyoya handed her a uniform.
She was lead to a room beside Haruhi's changing room. She tried to change as quickly as she could. She grabbed her contacts putting them in, trying not to hurt herself.
Haruhi came out first and everyone was gushing.
"Ima-chan! Are you ready yet?" Honey called. Amelia was getting nervous with the feeling of butterflies in her stomach.
As she pulled the curtain, she couldn't tell if their expressions were good or bad. Haruhi looked over at her too. Amelia ran a hand through her hair nervously, and laughed a bit.
"Is this okay?" she asked.
"Are you kidding? You two are stunning!" Tamaki shouted.
"Who knows with the two of them looking as good as they are maybe they could bring in some customers," Kyoya suggested. "Especially for the foreign transfer student. That should be somewhat of a customer boost."
Amelia crossed her arms about her chest. "And how exactly are we going to do that?"
"By showing off your hot new looks!" Tamaki insisted.
...
The next day…
"Imai, Haruhi, you both have customers waiting for you today," Kyoya announced. "Haruhi you're table is over there and Imai over there. Have fun boys and don't disappoint."
Amelia looked over at Haruhi who was shaking nervously, nodding over to her.
"Good luck," she commented winking at her. "You'll do great."
Haruhi nodded nervously.
"Yeah you too," Haruhi returned as they went to the tables filled with woman who were apparently dying to meet them.
Amelia looked over at the girls taking a breath and smiling. Just be cool. Be yourself…well sort of. Just don't say the I'm-a-girl part. Here it goes. She felt like the others were burning a hole behind her back. Fun, she is stalked by guys and has to entertain girls. Something she never would have thought would be a thing coming to Japan.
"Hello ladies. I'm glad you could make it," she greeted as she took a seat in the middle of the table. The girls smiled politely seeing her appearance and almost seemed to be on the edge of fawning over her.
"Ooo, he's so gorgeous. That accent is so addicting," one of the girls grinned. Okay they're blunt and to the point, Amelia thought nervously.
"We heard the transfer student was in the Host Club and we had to come straight away!" another girl squealed.
"I'm flattered really," Amelia responded.
"So do you like it here in Japan? I would never think you would join the Host Club," the third girl grinned.
"Well you know, it's an interesting experience," Amelia tried to smile. This was getting nerve wracking. She glanced over noticing Haruhi doing much better than her. This is going to be a long day. There has to be a niche that I'm not aware of, Amelia thought desperately.
"Oh my what happened to your face? Are you all right?" one of the girls asked looking at her worriedly.
"Oh it was nothing I just…had a bit of a mix up yesterday with some guy," Amelia mentioned. One of the girls grinned.
"Oh that's right! You were the one who threw a punch at one of the D students after he was picking on you! I knew it was you!" another girl yelled in surprised.
What is this a fangirl club? Amelia smirked in amusement.
You're the inspirational bad boy, Kaoru's voice repeated in her head. Maybe she could use it to her advantage. She noticed the twins watching her, no customers at the moment along with Tamaki who was trying to see their progress even though he had costumers right next to him. Haruhi was just getting off of her shift, having a few of the same girls request her again. Maybe we can put on a show. This is when she really gets to let her hair down.
She put her feet up on the table suddenly smirking at her customers. She began to laugh lowly. The girls watch her, enticed by her behavior as she crossed her arms about her chest, leaning back casually. The twins looked up rather curiously wondering what in the world she was about to do.
"It was nothing," she said lowly, eying one of them. "It's not my first fight probably won't be my last. I'm a strong, I can handle it."
The girls screeched in excitement.
"Can you tell us more later about your encounters?" one of them asked excitedly.
"Of course," Amelia said lowly with enthusiasm leaning over to one of the girls grinning slyly. "And maybe I can tell you the other reason why my name is Wolfe."
The girl blushed hard as the other girls screamed. Amelia looked up at the sound of the bell for the next clients.
She leaned back in her chair putting her hands behind her head.
"Sorry ladies, times up. But keep your curiosity fresh, eh?" Amelia grinned winking at them. The girls scurried away quickly and Kyoya marks them in his book.
"Well, well. That was very interesting Mr. Wolfe," Kyoya smirked at her. "And more customers coming in tomorrow. Keep up the good work. That routine of yours might be what the girls are looking for. Seeing as Haruhi is doing well to be our little Natural."
…
"Haruhi, Imai come here for a minute," Tamaki called out.
"Excuse me ladies," Amelia said as she stood, running a hand through her hair again as she walked. The girls seemed to shriek again. Amelia laughed a bit under her breath while she and Haruhi took place side by side of each other.
"You called?" Amelia asked, putting a hand on her hip.
"Yeah what's up?" Haruhi questioned.
"I would like you to meet my regular guest Princess Ayanokoji," Tamaki introduced.
"Pleased to meet you," Haruhi replied with a natural smile.
"Honored as well," Amelia added the smiling and nodding politely. She didn't like this girl when she thought they were just "pets" to these boys. Suddenly, they saw Tamaki's eyes widen and they were both being extremely squeezed by the prince while being twirled around without warning.
"Aw! You two are so cute! That fashion was super good, AMAZINGLY GOOD! YOU TWO ARE SOOO CUTE!" he exclaimed.
"Mori-senpai! Help me!" Haruhi called out. Suddenly, Mori ran from his table grabbing Haruhi instantly away from Tamaki (light-bulb). Tamaki still held onto Amelia swinging her around until she finally turned around to face him, pushing her off of him. Mori set Haruhi down and as he turned around to while Amelia was falling towards the floor.
He instantly caught her before impact under his hands on her waist below her chest. Something about her didn't seem right to him either. She was too curvy to be a boy, plus there was something there above her waist that guys don't normally have (another light-bulb). He helped her back to her feet and stared at Tamaki as he started begging them for another hug.
"Come on let Daddy give you a hug!"
…
A later in the week…
The Club had been packed that day. Haruhi had some mishap in the pond that she and Amelia couldn't entirely figure out. But then the oddest thing happened when Amelia saw Ayanokoji walk in.
"Princess Ayanokoji wishes to see you, Haruhi," Kyoya greeted at the door.
"Uh, okay," Haruhi replied with uncertainty waking over to her own table.
"No appointments at the moment Imai, could you bring Ayanokoji and Haruhi some tea?" Kyoya suggested casually.
"Fine," Amelia accepted, walking over to where some left over trays were. She watched Haruhi cautiously trying to keep an eye out for her. This girl wasn't any good for the two of them. She grunted as she poured some tea, taking the tray over to them.
"More tea Ayanokoji?" she asked.
"That's Princess Ayanokoji to you sir and yes I would please if you must," she corrected rather snobbishly pointing at her cup. Amelia was shaking so bad as she picked up the teapot, pouring some tea into the cup rather reluctantly.
"You two both realize that Tamaki is a blue blood and not a commoner. The only reason he's paying attention to you is because he's trying to make you gentlemen. Don't think he cares about you all because he's doting on you two."
"Now I understand you're jealous of us," Haruhi commented. Ayanokoji put her cup down and Amelia could instantly see the tension in her arm.
Suddenly, Ayanokoji reached out to smack Haruhi but blocked it grabbing her wrist rather quickly. But as Haruhi stood, Ayanokoji tossed the table at her, causing everything to fall: the table, the tea, the flowers, everything! Ayanokoji screamed.
"AH! IMAI JUST ATTACKED ME AND HARUHI WAS HELPING! TEACH THIS COMMONER AND THIS FILTHY HOUND A LESSON!" the girl yelled.
Suddenly, water doused the three of them. Great a school uniform ruined. Amelia looked at the twins as thy casually brushed off getting one of the regulars all wet.
"WHY YOU!" the girl screamed but Kyoya threw down pictures on another table showing her throwing Haruhi's bag in the pond.
"You slandering a member's reputation is not allowed here. You are banned from the Host Club dear," Tamaki said suavely. The girl ran out crying in a fit. Amelia smirked closing the door behind her.
"Figures," Amelia grinned, allowing the other customers out so it's empty.
…
"Both of your quotas are now 1,000 customers!" Tamaki suddenly shouted later in the day. Amelia rolled her eyes in disbelief. Not this again. Haruhi was in panic mode until Tamaki picked up her loose wallet on the floor. The first thing he noticed was her school ID.
"Haruhi…you're a girl?" he questioned.
"I never said otherwise," Haruhi responded, and Tamaki started freaking out.
That was a long afternoon. Everyone apparently knew other than Tamaki and he was the only one freaking out about Haruhi's sudden gender swap. Amelia laughed, still a bit soaked from the former situation. Then there was a knock on the door. No one else seemed to pay attention so she went up opening the door. Isao stood behind it with a gym bag filled with clothes.
"Isao? I thought you'd be home," Amelia greeted with a smile. He peeked over her shoulder, smirking at the boys.
"A boy named Kyoya used your phone while you were working here. Told me you got a little wet," Isao replied. Amelia glanced back seeing Kyoya look back at her. Isao smiled slightly in amusement. He handed her the gym bag.
"Although I must say I haven't seen any of the girls wearing that uniform…" he whispered. Amelia rolled her eyes laughing.
"I'll tell you more about it later," she replied feeling now rather amused by the overall situation.
"Yes well, Miss Pinto's clothes that she mailed in for you came by today. So I figured nice change of pace," Isao smiled winking at her. Amelia hugged him grateful.
"Thanks Isao, I'll see you at home," she said and he nodded, closing the door behind him, going back out.
The others turned at the sound of the door shutting.
"Who was that Imai?" Haruhi asked. Amelia pulled the gym bag over her shoulder, motioning to the changing room.
"I'm soaked. Got some new clothes from Isao, I'm going to change okay?" Amelia explained as she went out to the changing room.
She went behind the curtains, putting her gym bag on the stool. She rummaged it excitedly seeing her knee high boots, her tighter black pants, a gray tank top and a tight wine colored sweater to go over it. These clothes didn't hide the fact that she was a girl at all. It was clearly meant to hug all her curves.
Apparently, Isao thought it would be great to put jewelry in the mix of it too. Well might as well go out in a bang.
She changed quickly putting in earrings and clasping her necklace around her neck, grabbing her father's leather jacket, stuffing it into the bag with her uniform. She grabbing her own brown leather jacket out of the bag (again obviously more fitting). She finished off messing with her hair before going out of the changing room.
The others were still amused by Tamaki's astonishment sitting at one of the tables that hasn't been put away yet. She walked in closing the door of the back room behind her. Kyoya looked up from his computer, smirking in amusement.
"Looks like the clothes fit well, eh Imai?" Kyoya commented, it seemed to get everyone's attention.
"Yes thank God for my mother sent them out," Amelia replied suddenly seeing everyones' head shoot up. Honey and Mori just smiled (knowing from their own encounters). Tamaki's ranting suddenly stopped, her appearance causing his jaw to drop. Haruhi looked over his shoulder, smiling and then giggling at Tamaki's reaction.
The twins turn around facing the line of sight with Tamaki, revealing they were just as surprised.
Amelia could feel them eyeing her. They froze at the table before they caught a glimpse of at Tamaki's expression trying not to laugh.
"Something wrong?" she asked.
"B-bboth of you are," he began, but his voice became a weird mix and no longer sounded like words. The twins looked at each other before smirk mischievously.
"Yes Tamaki, this is actually Amelia Wolfe, daughter of Howard Wolfe from the American music company here in Japan," Kyoya introduced. Amelia curtsied playfully.
"Wow you seem to be slow on the uptake huh, senpai? Although you're being really cool about it," Haruhi said lightly. That takes him off. He blushes so bad that he now is dead silent, covering his mouth unable to say anything.
"Aww Haruhi, I think you made Daddy's tongue fall out of his head," Amelia joked, smirking playfully. That made him turn even redder.
"Amelia sounds so much better than Imai," Honey commented.
"Yeah," Mori agreed.
"Well, I'm going to head home, all the excitement is making me hungry for some more cake," Honey mentioned getting up with Mori and following him. "See you tomorrow Amelia."
"Yeah I'm heading home too. It's been a long day," Haruhi agreed grabbing her bag leaving Tamaki in a weird blank state. Kyoya got up securing his laptop and book into his bag before bowing his head to Amelia.
"Miss Wolfe," he greeted for the first time seeing her as a female. She winked at him as he dragged Tamaki along behind him. "Come on King let's go, I'm sure you'll feel better from shock once you get home."
Amelia watched them leave but as she turned, she noticed Hikaru in front of her and Kaoru sneaking behind her.
"Well, well, who thought this day could get any more interesting?" Hikaru smirked, putting a hand on her shoulder. Kaoru put an arm around both shoulders, lifting her chin with his free hand.
"I was starting to wonder if Imai was too pretty to be a guy," Kaoru added.
"Well this'll be much more fun, wouldn't you think, Kaoru?" Hikaru questioned, grinning with excitement.
"Now we have two girls to play with. Easy as pie," they said in unison. Amelia smirked. Well this was interesting.
"I don't think it'll be as easy as you think," she said lightly, brushing them off. However, they blocked her, moving back in front of her.
"Oh really?" Kaoru questioned.
"Kitty has claws?" Hikaru asked, smirking. "I'm sure we can get around that."
Amelia laughed in amusement, pushing them aside.
"You're not finding out anything this quickly," she walked passed them towards the door. "Now if you excuse me."
The twins continued to follow her out to the limo.
"Oh we'll find out all right," Hikaru grinned with a sense of pride. Amelia threw her bag in the back seat. "We always find the loopholes in people."
"How do you think we get so many customers?" Kaoru questioned.
"We find what makes them tick," they said in unison.
She looks at them and smirks.
"Well try all you want. But I'm a hard cookie to crack," Amelia encouraged waving and winking at them before closing the door to the limo.
The twins watch as she drives off.
"Oh we'll find a way."