Kim started before they all could. "I'm Raven Black, but please call me Kim." The twins and Blonde were caught off guard with what was happening, but they came around to it. The small blonde was up next I suppose seeing as how he skipped his way over towards us.
"I'm Mitsukuni Haninozuka! But you can call me Honey!" Small Blonde cheered. He waved his arms around and pointed to his tall companion. "And this is Takashi Morinozuka! You can call him Mori!"
Orange-twins stepped closer to us, smirking. "I'm Hikaru," said one in my ear.
"And I'm Kaoru!" said the other in Kim's ear, making her blush. I haven't seen a guy that could pull that off in forever. Thinking of it, it made me smile. But then again they did this to her earlier and I recalled her telling me at one time that she adores twins. Not just any type of twin, but hot twins that can actually make her heart moving.
"And we're," they said together, "the Hitachiin twins!"
Kim shyly shifted her eyes from me to the twins and I knew she was hoping on getting one or the other as hers.
Stepping lightly around me, "I'm Kyoya Ootori," Kyoya said coolly. But I already knew that without him having to tell me twice. But I guess it was proper manners to him to do so.
"I'm Haruhi Fujioka," introduced the brown-haired girl friendlily. "Nice to meet you...guy's leave the poor girl alone! At this rate she'll die of heat stroke!" Looking at Kim, she was fuming out the ears. If not for her hat hiding her ears she's probably be having them pet her and rubbing them tenderly. I couldn't believe she was this happy now after that whole squabble we went through earlier.
Kim mumbled..."thank you Haruhi...n/n" So far, I like Haruhi the best, and from what I can tell so did Kim. At least we won't be the only girls in this host club of theirs.
"And hello there, my lady," said a smooth voice. Blonde stepped from out of nowhere, holding up a big red rose. "I am Tamaki Suoh, the King of this club." He held his rose to me, expecting me to take it. I ignored him completely as did Kim, which caused Hikaru and Kaoru to go from snickering to laughing and rolling on the floor due to Tamaki hiding in the corner growing mushrooms for being rejected. Before any of us got friendly with one another, the hands of the clock struck 12 and indicated it was time for business.
Seeing the doors open, I began my waitressing experience and greeted them. But because I was in a tux and needed to act as a butler, I cleared my throat and held out my hand to one of the first few coming in. "Hello," I said with charm, smiling warmly. "Welcome to the host club, may I seat you?" The group of girls at first kinda stared at me with awe, but their surprise melted away as I kept on that happy little smile and guided them to a couple of the couches. I kept up my act and seated them to wherever they desired and spoke gently to them. The twins would gawk at me time to time but I was doing this to enhance my chances of paying my debt off. "Here, why don't you all have some tea?" I spoke to a group of girls in waiting, still as friendly as can be. As I poured them the tea, I kept the lovely conversation going. "I'm Kasumi, and it's a real pleasure to meet the regulars here at the host club. Please do not be so shy as to speak with me," They giggled and started talking to me about themselves and make-up and hair and outfits. But the most popular subject with EVERY SINGLE GIRL HERE was about boys. I had to take a couple deep breaths sometimes when they insisted on staying on the damn subject. It's not that I have any particular resentment for the male gender—it's just that, GIRLS! COME ON! CAN'T YOU TALK ABOUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN GUYS!?
Nope…obviously not… but other than that, I think I did an exceptional job here. The girls loved talking to me and I...developed a tolerance for their natural spoiled attitudes rather quickly, but poor Kim suffered when girls tried to start a conversation with her...she just couldn't get away half the time and I had to bail her out by leading the "Ojou-san" away to another table. Our act was flawless and working in our favor.
However, there was another problem. The actual members of this club are...ugh, I can't even think of a word to describe it. Hikaru and Kaoru are twincest…KIM Loves Twins, so she rather enjoys pouring tea over at their table. She would literally sneak to their table every chance she got now that she knows they do that sort of act. She loves twins, and now with their act of twincest it was only icing on the cake for her.
Honey is disgustingly childish for an 18 year old who is supposed to be our sempai here. I can't understand why he persist on loving all things cute and flowery, it just makes me cringe. Tamaki is being a gentlemanly douche; Kyoya is standing pleasantly on the side and calculating how much money they're making. Honestly, the only people I actually like are Haruhi and Takashi. They aren't intentionally trying to flirt with the girls. With Takashi he only smiles softly and speaks very little to no words at all and it suits him. With Haruhi she's just being her casual self it seems and every girl adores it.
And there is one other thing that is driving me up the wall here since I began work. There's this one girl sitting on the side and sipping her tea that keeps...LOOKING at me. Her name is Hana Inouye. Her eyes follow me around as I welcome guests, prepare the tea, pour the tea, talk with the girls, talk very little with some of the hosts, and even when I'm just leaning against a wall. I can't tell if she's a stalker or hates me? Well, I found out how nice she was real quick.
It was about 30 minutes before the girls had to be shooed away for another day when I boiled the last bit of tea for those still around and finishing up. The teapots were scattered all over the room, so I was forced to temporarily use a regular teapot to hold the water. And GODS above that water was HOT. I swear it was still boiling in the kettle as I placed it on a little cart. I walked away to find more tea bags and snacks to finish off.
As I came back with another box of Earl Grey, I heard a LOUD laugh. Snapping my head up, I saw the stalker girl (Inouye) laughing at some odd joke that Tamaki told her. She covered her grinning mouth, but couldn't stop giggling. She also took a couple steps back which unfortunately caused her to trip on the laces of her dress and made her fall back very abruptly into the cart with the boiling teapot on it.
"Hey!" I shouted, sprinting as fast as I could to stop the teapot from pouring all over her. The girl didn't even realize that she was about to be dumped with boiling hot water! There was no time to be subtle and polite. I tackled her to the ground and felt the kettle fall onto my back with the water all over me. The pain was indescribable to how much I wanted to scream and tear my clothes right off my back. I could hear Kim gasp and run over to me wanting to help when I looked to Inouye and tried reassuring her everything was alright now.
"Miss," I say, keeping the pain out of my voice. "Are you alright? We're very sorry if this has caused you any harm." The girl was sitting on the ground just staring at me. The entire host club had their eyes on the situation. Some girls and boys were covering their mouths in horror.
"Miss," I asked again when the girl didn't respond. "Are you okay?"
"A-Am I okay?" she finally said, still staring at me in shock. "Are you okay?! That must've really hurt!" She stood up and was flustered to the scene. Kim helped me to my feet while gingerly placing her hand on my wet scalding back. I touched her hand and gave a tight squeeze letting her know that we needed to finish this up first before treating my wound.
"Allow me to refresh your tea and snacks my dears; this matter is nothing to be frantic over." I said calmly. The girls around were still worried over my back and making sure I was alright. I continued working to my capability, but every movement I made only made me feel the skin being torn and irritated with each move I made.
After the club cleared out and everyone was done with their hosting, Kim immediately ran over to me with my uniform and begged me to change quickly out of the wet clothes. I didn't argue with her as I left to go and change, and all the guys were still cleaning up their section as I left.
"Are you ok Kasumi," Kim asked.
"Not really…that water was actually over the boiling point and there was no way of avoiding it while getting that girl."
I heard her sigh and click her tongue. "You're always one to jump into danger like that without thinking! Now we have to convince them that you don't need emergency—" I heard her gasp as soon as I took off my shirt. "Oh god…" she whispered.
"Is it bad," I asked.
"Kasumi it's completely swollen and starting to boil," she spoke sadly. "I should have just grabbed you and taken you straight to the infirmary." She says.
"Let's just get some ice gel on it when we get home and treat it then. I'm not going to allow the guys here to know I'm in this bad a shape from that incident." Quickly pulling my shirt over and slipping into my blazer, Kim followed suit and dressed back to her uniform and we stepped out to find everyone waiting.
"Are you alright," asked Tamaki. Followed by the twins and Honey, they all grouped around me and eyeing my face to see if I would show them my pain.
"I'm fine," I grumbled. "A little water isn't going to kill me," I say.
"That may be so, but that water was being used for tea and had to be boiling hot." Haruhi chimed her way into this and looked at me seriously. "Are you sure you don't need to go to the infirmary?" She asked.
"I'm fine you guys, seriously. But after today I want to go home now and get this suit cleaned before coming back tomorrow. I know that debt won't be paid off so easily in only one day." Looking to Kyoya, he said nothing while I took hold of Kim's hand and urged her to begin walking. "See you all tomorrow I guess…" I waved.
As we walked out the ornate doors to Music Room 3, I leaned onto Kim the rest of the way home as the pain was getting the best of me and it took her several hours to tend to my scorched back and getting me to fall asleep. I don't know what I would do without her, but she has more problems than me that I really shouldn't complain about at all.