Chapter 8: The Twins Fighting
3:38pm…
Amelia ran to the music room. She burst through the door panting. Everyone looked up at her arrival, already entertaining their guests.
"Late today Imai?" Kyoya questioned.
"I tried to get here as fast as I could. Time seemed to slip my mind and I had a little trouble dropping things as I got here," Amelia replied catching her breath.
"Well I haven't seen the boss yet," Hikaru mentioned.
"So you should be good for the moment," Kaoru added.
"Oh Imai. Some of the girls canceled today due to catching a cold," Kyoya informed. "Looks like you'll have to make up your debt by serving and cleaning chores today."
Amelia nodded, throwing her bag onto the table. She might as well get started. She worked her way to the back, brewing up some instant coffee from the large stash in the cabinets. She served a few tea cups' worth, making her final round towards the back. As she fixed the last two cups for the twins, they were sitting alone, and by the looks of it extremely bored.
As she made her way to them, Tamaki burst through the door causing everyone in the room to turn to look at him.
"HIKARU! KAORU!" Tamaki's voice yelled throughout the entire room. Amelia jumped, making her spill the coffee on her hands.
"OW!" she yelled in pain. She dropped the tray onto the floor, the china cracked, some of it shattering completely. If it wasn't from Tamaki's yelling, it was the shattering of the expensive tea set that caused everyone to look over. Her hands were still burning as she ran to the sink. Why does this thing always happen to me? She ran her fingers through the cold water hopelessly.
"When I gave both of you the job to access the website I figured that you would take the matter seriously!" Tamaki yelled angrily. The twins gave him a dull expression, despite the fact that he was deeply infuriated with them. Amelia could overhear the conversation. This was just not her day.
"We take our job very seriously," Hikaru disagreed.
"In fact we worked so hard that we were up until dawn. We updated the Host Club's home page and compositing a photograph of Haruhi," Kaoru informed. Tamaki's voice raged at them as he shoved a laptop in their face, pointing out the school's website gallery for Haruhi.
"You look so good Haru-chan!" Honey exclaimed as the other girls started to surround the laptop at Haruhi's supposed half-naked boy physique. What was that?!
"THAT'S ABUSE TO TECHNOLOGY! AND WHEN HAVE YOU BEEN USING NAKED PICTURES OF HARUHI!" Tamaki screamed at the twins.
"We didn't boss," Hikaru disagreed.
"We have major photo-shopping talent," Kaoru added. They grinned at him evilly.
Haruhi was dumbstruck by the cleverly photo-shoppedproject. Amelia made her way back catching a glimpse of the so-called masterpiece. This is what they worked so hard on? Although it wasn't long until Tamaki's scolding turned into begging. His requests were to put Haruhi's face over women in very frilly dresses.
"Why don't you just put something like that on her milord?" Hikaru asked. Something clicked in Tamaki's mind that he escaped from their sight. Within a few moments, he was at the other side of the room, searching frantically.
"Hey you okay Imai?" Kaoru asked as he noticed her arms clutching a pile of fabric napkins, kneeling down, and soaking up the coffee spilled onto the floor.
"Milord was louder than he normally is. Must've made her jump," Hikaru observed.
"Here let me help," Haruhi offered as she went down to her knees, picking up the bigger china pieces off the floor and onto the tray.
"Kyoya's going to kill me," Amelia groaned, hissing at the sting on her hands. As she looked up, Kyoya appeared hearing the ear piercing crunch and shatter of the china. He arrived with a broom and dustpan in his grasp.
"Kyoya I-" she began. Silently, he rested the broom and dustpan along one of the nearby chairs.
"No use of explaining I saw what happened. Be a little more on your feet next time. We'll talk about the damage later," he interrupted from her protest then walked away. "Just clean up the rest of this mess."
"Ouch," the twins commented as she sighed, wiping up whatever was left of the coffee. She grabbed the broom from behind Hikaru's chair, sweeping up the shattered china pieces.
"So on the other hand…not much going on here other than that exciting moment. So Haruhi could we visit your house?" Hikaru asked.
"No way. You guys are just going to make fun of me," Haruhi replied in a rather annoyed tone.
"Aww, pretty please?" the twins begged.
"I said no," Haruhi disapproved as she held the dustpan along the floor for Amelia.
"Well can we spread a rumor about you and some girl? We can dress up Imai and see how that goes," Kaoru insisted.
"You're kidding right?" Amelia questioned half amused.
"What do you take us for anyway?" Haruhi inquired.
"To us? Why that's obvious, you're our toys," the twins replied with very sly smirks carving their faces. Amelia rolled her eyes, taking the shattered glass in the dustpan throwing it out, trying to resist not slapping the boys. As she finished, she heard an unfamiliar voice at the door.
"For great toys come to our club," a man insisted with a rather deep, grim kind of tone. It was supposedly a boy named Umehito Nekozawa, the president of the Black Magic Club. "We feature an artifact market with a promotional voodoo doll giveaway in progress! And rituals we definitely have."
Amelia turned towards the door raising a brow. You don't see people dressed up like that unless it's Halloween where she came from. Wearing a cloak, jet-black hair covering his eyes and a strange out of the ordinary puppet that looked like a deformed cat.
"Um who are you exactly?" she questioned, looking at the boy rather oddly. It was like he was trying to be a whole new level of creepy with the dark cloak and the deeper voice.
"Who the heck is that?!" Haruhi asked.
"Nekozawa tends to avoid the bright light," Kyoya answered in a subtle tone as Nekozawa continued in his singing tone of his special collections that were on sale.
"Don't get involved with him, if you do you'll be cursed!" Tamaki whispered in a rather horrified tone. Haruhi jumped as he appeared, backing off. However, the twins were already up to more mischief as they started using flashlights underneath Nekozawa's hood.
There was a shriek in terror coming from both Tamaki and Nekozawa. The Black Magic president ran around room, terrified and shaking from the light surrounding his person. Before the knew it the door slammed on his way out.
"HIKARU! KAORU!" Tamaki yelled, obviously very annoyed with them. The twins just shrugged, sitting back at their table ignoring the president.
"It's still dull around here," Kaoru complained with a sigh.
"Haruhi's coming along nicely I'd say," Hikaru added. Tamaki ran off having a fit away from the group.
Amelia cleaned up the rest of their area before wiping off her hands. She sat herself down in a chair not too far from the twins, putting up her feet on the table.
"Hm?" the twins hummed as they noticed her presence.
"Then again," Hikaru started.
"Imai is coming around just as nicely," Kaoru continued.
"Let me guess as another toy?" Amelia scoffed. The twins grinned.
"With that body of yours I'd sure like to play," Hikaru mentioned eying her up and down. "Not like anyone else knows what you look like under that getup."
"I'm sure in her case that won't be boring," Kaoru grinned.
"Well you're not going to find out anytime soon. I don't know what makes you honestly think you're going to get that opportunity at the rate you're going," Amelia smirked. "I told you I'm hard to get to."
"It's only a matter of time before we find out," Hikaru teased. Amelia rolled her eyes, getting up putting one hand on Hikaru's shoulder and the other on Kaoru's shoulder.
"Look, just behave all right. You already got Tamaki and Haruhi mad at you for the whole Photoshop thing," she insisted. Kaoru and Hikaru swatted her hands out of the way, pulling her closer to them. It forced the gap between them to be very little.
"Oh but behaving is no fun," they teased.
"It's hard to behave with the way you're put together," Hikaru informed.
"I can think of a few ways to pass the time once club hours end," Kaoru commented. Amelia slowly backed off keeping her eyes on them. She tried her best not to be phased.
"Is this part of your game?" she asked, pulling back from their grip and crossing her arms about her chest. "Seeing what I'm into?"
"You could say that. Then again there's nothing exciting to do around here anymore," the twins replied. She laughed in disbelief. They looked at her with grins on their faces. "So what do you say Imai? You want to play?"
Before the twins could continue that train of thought, Kyoya approached with Tamaki. The king was still shaken up from the whole ordeal with Nekozawa.
"You idiots! I strip you from your appointments for the next 2 days! You can't talk or anything!"
"That's a little extreme," the twins protested.
"Since you two have no ladies to entertain I suggest as a replacement of your time, some cleaning chores and helping the others with their guests," Kyoya ordered. He looked over noticing Amelia between them. "These two bothering you Imai?"
"Far from it," Amelia replied. "Just fell over is all."
The twins smirked in amusement as she went back to her duties.
"All right. Well I suggest that you three continue on with your chores for the rest of the afternoon. It would be wise not to cause Tamaki any more trouble," Kyoya ordered as he walked off with Tamaki who was still fuming.
…
The twins were banished from entertaining or even speaking to anyone for two whole days at the club. Amelia entertained customers rather than chores (since you know they were covering for her due as their punishment). The twins couldn't even try passing notes or do minor tricks without Tamaki freaking out.
Amelia finished up with her clients for the day. As the club was closing up, she threw on her jacket, slipping her bag over her shoulder and out the door of the music room.
As she made her way to the courtyard, the twins were sitting along the wall near the parking area. The limo hadn't arrived yet to pick her up. They turn hearing the heels of her boots clack against the stone.
"We were wondering when you were going to show up," Hikaru greeted. Amelia furrowed her brows at them in confusion.
"You were waiting for me?" she asked, walking over and standing in front of them as they sat on the cobble stone wall.
"We wanted to ask you a favor," they continued in unison.
"Depends on the favor," she replied.
"We want you to talk to milord about getting us out of our punishment," Hikaru informed.
"What makes you think I can convince him?" Amelia questioned, laughing a little under her breath somewhat amused.
Hikaru stood facing her while Kaoru appeared behind her, resting his arms on her shoulder.
"We noticed a few months ago he was acting strangely around you before the Christmas party," Hikaru explained. "Out in the courtyard."
"He was definitely looking rather off guard wouldn't you say, Hikaru?" Kaoru added.
"We don't know how you did that to milord but..." Hikaru continued.
"...We would love you to do it again. Whatever magic that is," Kaoru grinned.
"Which is what we need you to do to get him off our case," the twins concluded. "What do you say?"
"No thanks, I'm not going to get into trouble by being your puppet. You two can just sit it out for another day," Amelia rejected.
"Aww pretty please?" they ask in a singing tone. She rolled her eyes. "We'll make it worth your while."
"And how exactly do you plan on that?" she asked, crossing her arms about her chest.
"Oh we have our ways," the twins replied, grinning. Amelia looked between the two of them. She was beginning to understand what was happening.
"By playing right? As your so called toy," she corrected in a rather irritated tone. She backed off from them.
"What else?" the twins asked, standing next to each other. "We told you it wouldn't be boring."
Amelia eyed them. Did they understand what kind of person she actually was? Or were they just playing with her due to their own boredom?
"I'm not a toy. And even I were to permit such a thing I'm not going to do it by being your puppet," she smirked as the limo arrives. She walked towards the car but the twins continued to follow her. "I make it difficult."
"I highly doubt it. No girl has been difficult. If anything they make it too easy," Hikaru said lowly in confidence.
"That's why we're good at our jobs," Kaoru agreed. Amelia threw her bag in the back of the limo shutting the door.
"Well I'm not like those gushing girls who fall for your act, darling," Amelia reminded bluntly. "Now if you excuse me I have some work to do at home."
"But-"
"No deal. I'm not your toy to play with," she finalized, hopping into the limo and speeding off back home. The twins stood alone as they heard the screeching of the car as it drove off.
…
The next day, the twins were sulking in the corner. Apparently Amelia's refusal made them very unhappy. They still couldn't entertain for another whole day. To some extent Amelia felt a little guilty for not helping them out. But how could she when they were just treating her like a toy rather than their friend? She couldn't help but feel a little hurt. They glared at her every time that she passed by. She tried to ignore their glaring. Haruhi passed them as they sat around with brooms resting on their arms.
"Aren't you guys going to clean up?" she asked.
"We want to come over your house," the twins replied.
"Again no," Haruhi rejected bluntly before going back to her table. The girls were giggling at Haruhi's reaction to the twin's antics. Amelia followed Haruhi, setting up tea for her and her guests.
"So Haruhi, how can you tell them apart? Is there some other way besides the way they part their hair?" one of the girls questioned in curiosity. Amelia placed new cups of tea in front of the girls.
"Well let's see. I suppose Hikaru's words and actions make him seem more mischievous," Haruhi replied. Amelia raised her brows noticing that she didn't mean it as a malicious thing. It sounded blunt and matter of fact. Amelia's head turned to the twins when she heard Kaoru's voice laughing in the corner. Hikaru's face turned red infuriated while Kaoru continued to giggle next to him.
"Hey I don't just try to hide it," Hikaru spat. "The worst one who takes on all the mischief is you Kaoru."
Kaoru's laughing halted in an instant. He putting his arms across his chest looking away from his brother rather annoyed. Amelia watched them in curiosity and concern. Uh oh. Something isn't right.
"You're the one full of selfish actions Hikaru," Kaoru retaliated. "You're the one who wanted to use Imai in the first place to get us out of this mess."
"If you don't like going along with it then why don't you just leave 'em?" Hikaru questioned, his tone growing more irritable by the minute.
"I'd hate to leave you alone twisting in the wind," Kaoru stated flatly. "Besides, even though you called Haruhi a toy, you're sure fond of someone like her. You certainly like touching her. If anything you treat Imai more like your precious plaything rather than a person."
Tamaki, who was passing by the devious brothers, was now astonished by Kaoru's words.
"WHAT?!" he exclaimed. Hikaru was no different in the reaction.
"Huh?! Don't say such imbecilic things Kaoru! You're the one who thought we could get something out of Imai in the first place! You thought it would be easy!" Hikaru demanded.
"You're the one who wants to play games with her," Kaoru spat.
"There are things better left unsaid!" Tamaki shrieked in disapproval.
"I'm not attracted by that raccoon, Haruhi!" Hikaru spat. This was only the beginning. "And if I wanted to play with anyone I can find much more better looking people than Imai who are a little more easier to manipulate."
Amelia couldn't believe what she was hearing. Easier to manipulate? Are they just lying about being my friend? The shock was reaching to the ends of her fingertips. Kyoya glanced at Amelia, noticing her eyes close tightly as she clenched her hands into fists.
The entire Host Club stared at this chaos for what seemed like ages. Everyone was appalled except for those who couldn't see the twins who were absorbing every insult and word as if it was sweet ear candy. Insult after insult, finally it happened.
"WE'RE FINISHED!" the twins yelled in unison. Amelia couldn't believe the silence that came after. It was as if you could cut the tension with a thick knife. They stormed out, slamming the door behind them. Some of the girls on the sidelines were tearing up, crying from the ordeal. She felt herself shake by the amount of hurtful things they said to each other and about her.
"Our apologies ladies but the we must end things early this afternoon. However, we shall have everything up and running for tomorrow," Kyoya announced. The girls left the room. Amelia couldn't help but stare at the door.
Kyoya put a hand on her shoulder snapping her out of it.
"Imai? You mind helping clean up?" he questioned lightly. She glanced at him, and nodded slightly. She was still shaking feeling the words repeat in her head. You're the one who treats her like a plaything rather than an actual person…
Amelia cleaned up, as the others began to leave. Haruhi left early after the twins disappeared. The rest were helping clean up before gathering their things. Honey hugged her on the way out.
"Don't listen to them Ima-chan. They were just trying to grind at each other," Honey comforted. Mori nodded in agreement. She tried to smile but something was still knotting her stomach. She nodded simply at Honey, putting on her jacket looking at Kyoya.
"How much do I owe you for the tea set?" she asked reminding him of the previous day. Kyoya looked at his book.
"Well I'd say about $1,200. They were English antiques so they cost a bit more," he replied flatly. Amelia nodded in understanding.
"Just…put it on my tab," she sighed. Kyoya wrote something down nodding at her.
"Well goodnight everyone see you tomorrow," he announced, leaving the room quietly. Honey and Mori followed close behind.
Amelia threw on her shoulder bag as she walked up to the window. She could see the twins entering into the limo, shoving each other and obviously not speaking.
Her jaw tightened at the sight of them. Tamaki came up, standing next to her.
"Rough day, huh?" he asked scoffing under his breath. Amelia glanced over at him before staring at the twins' limo driving away. Tamaki looked at her, putting his hands in his pockets.
"So they tried to get you to work with them to get out of trouble," Tamaki stated. "That's interesting. They don't normally rely on others to help them out."
"All they wanted was a puppet," Amelia growled, annoyed at the thought. "They weren't looking for a friend."
"You'd be surprised. The twins may not seem mature at times, but it was only recently they had any other friends other than themselves," Tamaki mentioned.
"Maybe that's why they're annoyed that I'm not easy," Amelia swallowed.
"Amelia…" Tamaki commented, putting a hand on her shoulder. Amelia looked at him.
"Being easy and breaking to someone else's whim isn't what makes a friend," he explained. "It's the one's that are difficult, gives us challenges and loves us even for our mistakes is the real friend."
Amelia looked at him for a moment as he smiled.
"You're not a puppet and you won't be," he added. "Makes you…interesting that way to say the least."
Amelia smiled slightly. He smiled back patting her shoulder and heading out the door.
…
That evening, Amelia couldn't sleep well. She hasn't for the past few days. Even on her birthday a few days ago she felt like it was empty. Now with the chaos with the twins, she didn't know what to think. But…why does it bother her that they're fighting? Why does it matter what they think of her? What they said hurt. It was forcing her not to sleep. But at the same time, the emptiness she felt when she realized that her father wasn't going to come around for her sixteenth birthday, was the same she was feeling now. The same feeling you get when you're afraid that you've lost someone in a way that's out of your control…
Class 1-A…the next morning…
Amelia went to school trying not to feel the nerves gather in her stomach. As she reached her classroom, she looked around noticing that the twins still haven't arrived. She sighed in relief, not wanting to really talk to them. She sat herself down in the desk behind Haruhi.
"Morning Haruhi," Amelia greeted. Haruhi turned slightly facing Amelia with her arm up on the top of the chair.
"Morning," Haruhi replied simply with a smile.
"I wanted to talk to you about our homework," Amelia began.
"Sure what do you need?" Haruhi questioned. It wasn't until girls from their class looked over at the door that Amelia noticed anything odd. She followed their line of sight, noticing Hikaru was now sporting a very vibrant flamingo pink hairstyle.
"Morning," he chimed as he made his way to them.
"Hikaru, how wild. But…why pink?" Haruhi questioned in uncertainty. Amelia raised her brows stunned at his odd choice of color and appearance change.
"Isn't it cute? I'm going to be pink from now on," Hikaru grinned with excitement. He sat himself down in a desk at Haruhi's left.
"Anyway Haruhi did you understand anything in our Physics lecture?" Amelia began but Kaoru came into the room.
"Physics? I could always help you out with physics Imai. That's my specialty," Hikaru butted in.
"Could've fooled me. I thought your specialty was drama," Amelia spat glaring at him. Hikaru raised his brows at her stunned, putting up his hands in defense.
"Whoa! What got you so worked up?" he questioned laughing.
"Ah Haruhi! Imai! Good morning!" Kaoru announced. Amelia backed off as Kaoru took a seat on the other side of Haruhi. She rolled her eyes, closing her books. She closed of her posture by crossing her arms about her chest and putting her feet up onto the desk.
"I slept like a log last night, alone and had this hideous nightmare about my hair being dyed purple! How lame is that?!" Kaoru laughed.
Amelia saw Hikaru's hand grab Kaoru's chair pulling it out from under him, leaving his brother to land on the floor. Unfortunately for him, Kaoru retaliated by knocking him off his chair as well.
Amelia rolled her eyes at their behavior. The twins sat down glaring at each other with Haruhi caught in the middle. Then the bell rang for the first class.
Hikaru looked back at Amelia, grinning.
"Hey Imai, want to walk to class with me? Maybe I can help you with that problem you had," Hikaru offered.
"No thanks," Amelia replied bluntly, shoving her books into her bag.
"She doesn't want to go with you Hikaru," Kaoru smirked. "Maybe because she figured your hideous nature out?"
"Fine. Then Haruhi is coming with me. Right Haruhi?" Hikaru growled, dragging Haruhi to him. Kaoru grabbed her other arm, pulling her away from him.
"She's coming with me," Kaoru protested. Amelia rolled her eyes before walking down the hall to their next class.
This is when it all started to go chaotic. Obviously they didn't care of what they said to her. And it was even more obvious that they didn't forgive each other that easily either.
...
That afternoon…
Amelia couldn't help but be a little astonished by the way the twins fought with each other. Problem is, the way they fought made it difficult for anyone around them to not get hit by their tactics. They would throw things at each other, spitballs, and continued to force Haruhi to go with either one of them like she was a rag doll. Amelia was getting rather annoyed by their behavior. She was happy that it was almost over.
She stuffed her books into her locker. She turned jumping at the sight of the Kaoru leaning on the door of her locker. She dropped her books in surprise.
"Oops sorry," Kaoru laughed, leaning down. "Here let me help."
"No I got it," Amelia growled. "I don't want your help anyway."
Kaoru furrowed his brows at her as she shoved her notebooks and a textbook in her bag.
"Is something wrong?" Kaoru asked confused.
"Oh I figured I was easy to figure out," Amelia growled.
"Look I'm sorry if things got out of hand the other day. I was hoping that you'd have lunch-" Kaoru explained. Amelia shook her head.
"I'll pass. Go find someone else to be your puppet," Amelia growled, getting up, slamming her locker making a loud clang. She didn't have time to get caught up in their mess.
…
Amelia avoided the twins as much as she could. As she went to Music Room #3 after class, she noticed everyone was gathered as usual. However, there no customers to be seen. The members were worn out and she could feel the frustration in the air.
"What happened to you guys?" Amelia asked.
"Hikaru and Kaoru had a food fight in the cafeteria. We were responsible for cleaning it up," Haruhi groaned tiredly.
"Why is it that when the twins are fighting we get knocked around?" Tamaki asked tiredly, resting his head on the table, covered by his arms.
"If they keep this up, we're going to have to suspend our brotherly love offering. I'll have to talk to them later on penalties for their behavior," Kyoya said flatly. "It'll definitely alter the club's profits."
"Hikaru and Kaoru never fought before," Honey cried.
"They never fought before?" Haruhi questioned. Amelia looked at Honey in disbelief.
"How can two brothers not fight? I mean isn't it in a sibling's nature? Even if it's to let off steam?" Amelia questioned in disbelief.
"Maybe it's good for them that they're fighting. Maybe it'll allow them to broaden their horizons a bit!" Tamaki mentioned, trying to sound encouraging. However, as soon as he stepped out of his place, he set off a trap where spears came out of no where missing him by a hair.
"YOU JERKS!" he screeched as the twins popped out of their hiding places.
"Rats!" they growled. Tamaki started running after the twins in rage, forcing them out into the schoolyard. Amelia rolled her eyes running after them. She's had it with this mess.
"This has got to stop!" she growled, running out of the room. They followed in close proximity not knowing what to expect.
She spotted the twins with Tamaki, now yelling at each other. What was it going to take for them to stop fighting and hurting everyone else who's involved? She ran up next to Tamaki. She wasn't going to take their abuse any longer. Or allow anyone else to take it from them.
"You know Kaoru we may be alike in so many ways but I HATE being mistaken for you?! Truth is I HATE YOU KAORU!" Hikaru screamed. Kaoru's face was hurt and infuriated.
"You think I'm any different?!" Kaoru growled, pulling out something from his jacket pocket. The other members appeared behind them, watching this craziness unfold.
"I have Nekozawa's voodoo dolls! Whatever it suffers you suffer. All I had to do was write your name on it's back!" Kaoru announced. Amelia looked between even more infuriated. They being idiots! She looked at Haruhi.
Haruhi looked back at her with the same look in her eye. They were the ones who had to stop this charade.
"Hey put it away Kaoru!" Haruhi demanded. But he didn't listen. Kaoru began to lift up the doll and the girls dove after them.
Before the twins could respond, Haruhi punched them on the top of their heads hard.
"OW!" they yelled from the pain, tearing up from the sudden blow. Amelia walked up standing next to Haruhi fuming.
"This is a sibling squabble not a fight to the death!" Haruhi yelled. "You're both wrong and acting like idiots proves it! Now make up right now or I'm never inviting you to my house EVER!"
The twins looked at Haruhi stunned by her sudden assertiveness. But something didn't seem right. When they rose, a smirk crossed their lips, pulling things out of their pockets.
"So...you will invite us if we make up?" the twins asked with intrigue. Amelia grew pale, seeing the voodoo doll have the name "loser" and a script in Hikaru's hand. They were both grinning proudly in such a dark way that it gave Amelia chills.
And even worse, it was like a switch that turned off. Suddenly the brother's were all over each other crying.
"I'm so sorry Kaoru. Even though it was in the script I said such harsh things, it was painful!" Hikaru cried.
"That's nothing Hikaru, I was more concerned about hurting you," Kaoru cried as much as he did and then they grinned.
"Let's never fight again!" they exclaimed as they hugged. Haruhi fell to the ground, completely floored by the ordeal. Amelia felt her hands turn into fists.
"It was all a fake? You weren't really fighting each other?" Honey asked eyes tearing up.
"Sure! We were bored!" they exclaimed laughing. Amelia stood there stunned, closing her eyes tightly, almost shaking.
The rest of the members looked at the twins with their own uncertainty, feeling tricked and deceived. The twins went over leaning Amelia's her shoulders.
"No hard feelings, eh Imai?" Hikaru asked.
"It was all just a little fun. None of it was real," Kaoru insisted.
"I know, why don't we play a game? Let's hope she fails, eh Kaoru?" Hikaru teased lifting up her chin. Amelia eyes opened glaring at him, a hand batting away his wrist hard, and the other slapped him hard across his face.
"OW!" he yelped backing away from her, putting a hand on his now red, stinging cheek. Amelia turned herself around as Kaoru stood there stunned. She smacked him just as hard across the face, leaving his cheek beat red. He also yelped at the sudden pain. Everyone turned at the noise, watching the two twins whining from their stinging faces.
"Stay away from me!" Amelia growled fiercely. The host members looked up in surprise by her sudden outburst. The sound of her tone was as frightening as the glare she was giving them.
"What's your problem?! We said it was a fluke!" Hikaru growled back, rubbing his cheek.
"It wasn't to me. Everything you said. I'm just a puppet, a precious plaything, a toy," Amelia growled. "You just want me for your own damn amusement. Well you know what I had it with people treating me like a doormat. I don't want you to speak to me! Not now, not ever!"
"Amelia," Kaoru whined.
"Drop dead," Amelia growled with tears in her eyes. The members stood there wide-eyed as she ran off back to the school. She never felt so used. Especially to people she thought she could trust…