A/N: *groans loudly from a mountain of cushions and blankets* It's okay.. I'm alive... I'M SO SORRY *falls to the ground in hopelessness* I DON'T DESERVE TO BE CALLED AN AUTHOR! I'M A HORRIBLE PERSON! But seriously though, school's piling up, I had my toenail removed due to an infection that popped up overnight (I know, ewwww), and I'm fucking lazy, and I'm the Queen of Procrastination. But, I made myself do it, I finished this chapter. TAKE THAT WRITER'S BLOCK! But yeah, you guys deserve better than me, unfortunately, I am a lumpy potato. AND O TO THE M TO THE G, OVER 100 REVIEWS?! YOU GUYS ARE SO WONDERFUL! Special thanks go to fanfictionlover9191, Lovelygirl2712, supchild6414, ILovepenguins24, classywolf, FasterThenMyBullet, miss steal yo man, Fire3566, purplefireferret, ToshimiOkami, ArnimixJewealz, Ashlakia, , chocolvr69, I see you see, kittkattt, cloudsomniakitty, and wajagirlliz. You guys are awesome!

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And, a bit of language, but the story is Rated T so... *shrugs*

"Ah! You're laptop broke Kyo-chan~!" Honey-sempai exclaimed, uncurling his fingers from Takashi's sleeve, he was seriously worried about Rena-chan. He could tell he wasn't the only one too.

"Don't worry, the video was just so long it had to be split into pieces. Here." He clicked onto the second half of the video he had been sent.

~On the Video~

Lorena swung wide and smacked the man closest to her in the side of the head with the pipe. He was unconscious instantly. The video shook violently as Agent A sprang into action. Agent A started fighting the third man as Lorena faced the second one.

From the side of the video, they could see that the pipe was flung from Lorena's hand and the man grabbed her left wrist. Using her free hand, she shoved the heel of it up into the guy's nose, effectively breaking it. He released his hold on her wrist to grab his nose when she kicked him where the sun don't shine. This sent him falling to the ground.

Agent A dispatched the guy she was fighting in a similar way. When she looked back up, Lorena was standing in front of her. "Hey," Lorena breathed, back to normal, "thanks for helping me out there. There's no way I would've been able to take out all three of those guys without being hurt myself."

"Oh, you're welcome." Agent A replied tentatively.

"By the way, why have you been following me?" Lorena asked her straightforwardly.

"Following? I'm not sure what you mean." Agent A lied smoothly.

"Please don't play games with me. I'm still trying to recover what's left of my sanity and patience. Now tell me, are you working for someone?"

Agent A stood there, stuttering like an idiot. "U-um, I-I..."

Lorena cut her off, "You know what? I'll find out myself. As for you, kindly, fuck off." She gave her one more sickly-sweet smile, turned on her heel, and stormed off, stepping over an unconscious thug.

~End Video~

The Hosts stood there in shock. What just happened? Never, had they ever seen Lorena so bluntly rude to anyone, even when they had difficult customers.

Silently, Tamaki drifted off from the group standing around Kyoya's laptop. While the situation with Lorena was certainly worrying, there was nothing he could do for her. Those things had already happened, and surely she would be returning soon. Yes, he had to have faith in his second daughter. For now, he had to handle one problem at a time. He had an idea. An ingenious idea that would guarantee Haruhi would want to stay at Ouran, and more importantly, the Host Club.

"Alright men! Here's the plan to keep Haruhi in the Host Club!" He exclaimed, grabbing the attention of all of the Hosts present.

~Time Skip~

The next day, Haruhi ignored the twins in class. The only thing she had said to them that morning was, "Lorena called me and said she would most likely be here in time for the Host Club, and for you guys to plan accordingly." That was the only thing she had said to them.

If you couldn't tell already, the twins were upset that their "toy" wasn't cooperating, though they didn't let anyone know that but each other.

They were also upset that their Lorena-chan hadn't talked to them directly at all since she left. They would definitely need to talk to her about that. Though, they were happy she was coming back so soon, the Host Club wasn't the same without her.

~Time Skip~

The Hosts were in costume, ready to carry out Tamaki's plan. Haruhi would arrive with the Lobelia girls within the next twenty minutes.

Kyoya's laptop dinged, signaling another video had been received. The Hosts gathered around the screen to watch.

~On the Video~

Lorena was just arriving back home, muttering something incomprehensible to herself.

The video cut to the camera that was attached to her bag.

She stormed into her room, throwing her heels into her closet and getting out her phone. She dialed a number and stood tapping her bare foot impatiently. The person apparently didn't pick up judging by the frustrated groan she made.

She tossed her phone onto her bed and went into the bathroom. A minute later, she came back out dressed in sweatpants and a large t-shirt. She grabbed her laptop and sat at the foot of the bed. As the laptop was turning on, she let out a sigh and slumped her shoulders, her head hung down. To the Hosts, she looked...tired. Exhausted even. Not just physically though, if it was even possible, she looked emotionally tired, some would say it was her soul that was tired.

Before they could think any further on this, she picked her head up and looked at her laptop, the ding giving away that it had turned on completely. She got a sad look in her eyes, almost longing, and she touched the screen of her laptop. The Hosts couldn't see what it was that made her have this reaction.

Kyoya then forwarded through the video, she spent many hours on her laptop, occasionally changing positions. She got up a handful of times, though the Hosts couldn't see whatever it was that she was doing.

Suddenly the scene changed and Kyoya played it regular speed. Lorena was now in her front yard with most of her pets. The ones with her were Creature, her gray pit bull from earlier, Balthazar, a normal black and white husky, Moose, a large dark brown German shepherd, and Kanda, her red panda. She was just letting them run around on their own while she sat on a step on her phone.

She was still typing away when a car pulled up in the driveway. The car parked and turned off, and out from the driver's seat came Michael. As soon as she saw him walking up to her she stood up and crossed her arms over her chest, a frown on her face.

She began tapping her foot impatiently as he started, "Now now, I know you're mad, but we had a perfectly good reason to have left you at the party."

"Oh, I'm sure you do. But do you have a good enough reason to warrant me being attacked by rapists?" Michael stood there with his mouth hanging open, indecipherable noises coming out as he tried to process what she had just told him. "That's what I thought, who's in the car?" She walked over to the car, pointedly ignoring Michael's frozen form. She waved to someone in the front seat, presumably Nate. She looked into the back seat and took a step back in shock, confusion flickering across her face.

Nate stepped out from the passenger seat and walked around the car to Lorena. "Hey beautiful," he slung an arm around her shoulders, "Surprise!" He opened the car door and held his hand out. Tentatively, a small child took his hand and climbed out of the car, and then another one.

The first child couldn't have been older than five, she had curly blonde hair and blue eyes, she was clutching tightly a stuffed tiger to her chest. The second child was no older than eight, he had short brown hair and blue eyes as well.

"Lorena, this is Emma Graves and Adam Graves, newest additions to our little family!" He looked at her as if awaiting some sort of big reaction, but he only got a bittersweet smile and kind eyes. He seemed pleased with this reaction and continued, "We'd like you to be their godmother." She whipped her head around to face him, eyes widened with disbelief and shock. "I'm dead serious, will you?"

Her face broke out into the biggest and happiest smile as she vigorously nodded her head. She hugged him with all her might before kneeling down in front of the two children.

In the background Nate snapped Michael out of his stupor and the two filled each other in.

"Hey guys," Lorena said softly to the children in front of her. "My name is Lorena, I'm gonna be your godmother. Do you know what that means?" They shook their heads, still wary of this new person. "Well, that means I'm gonna be like a big sister. Do you know what a big sister's job is?" Again they shook their heads. "My job is to spoil you two rotten and to make sure you're always happy and healthy. Does that sound fair to you?" They nodded their heads with more energy now, seeming to trust her a little more. "I know you guys don't know me that well right now, but I hope we can become close. But for now, how about pancakes?" Excited at the prospect of food, the two smiled at her, "Alright! You guys go ahead inside and I'll be right there. Do you know how to make pancakes?" They shook their heads again, "What? Every kid should know how to make pancakes! That settles it, I'm gonna teach you both how to make pancakes. Now go on, I'll be right behind you."

The heartwarming scene ended as the two children ran eagerly into the large house. Lorena stood up again and faced the two men she called family. She gave them a famous Sam Winchester bitch-face, placing her hands on her hips in a mother's I'm-disappointed-in-you-pose. Michael approached her and dropped to his knees once he was in front of her. He hugged her around the waist and buried his face in her stomach. "We're so~ sorry Little Cub! We had no choice! If we were going to adopt Emma we had to sign the papers right away, and we couldn't separate her and her brother so we adopted them both! Please forgive us!"

She tilted her head up in mock thought, she hummed. "Only if you let me spoil your kids rotten and video chat them at least once a week."

Michael stood up suddenly, picking Lorena up and throwing her over his shoulder, "Deal!" he shouted happily. She squealed, hitting his back in protest.

"Michael Graves! You put me down right now! This was not part of our deal! Nate! Tell your boyfriend to put me down! Right now damn you!" Nate just laughed at her predicament and shook his head. Creature, Balthazar, and Moose excitedly running around Michael while looking up at their "mother". The three also went into the house.

~Video Cuts to Inside a Car Following Someone on a Motorcycle~

The person on the motorcycle pulled into a cemetery, parking the motorcycle next to a large oak. Pulling off the black helmet revealed blonde hair that could only be Lorena's. Lo-and-behold, when she turned around it was in fact Lorena. She left the helmet with the bike and took a paper bag out from under the seat of the motorcycle and continued on into the cemetery. Agent B followed after a minute, he was the only one that could go seeing as Agent A's cover had been blown.

When he reached the top of the hill, they could see that Lorena had found her destination and was now on her knees in front of the gravestone. Agent B stealthily made his way over to a random gravestone a couple rows behind her, though not too far away so they could still eavesdrop.

For a second the Hosts wondered whether or not this was right, but their curiosity won out in the end. They rationalized it by thinking that they were just making sure their friend was okay.

"Hey Jenna." Lorena started, longing and grief filling her voice. "Sorry no flowers this time, I had something come up on short notice, but I'll make it up to you. Um, you probably want to know what's been happening since last time..." She paused, taking in a deep breath. "As you know, I moved to Japan. I'm attending a place called Ouran Academy. I met some...interesting people there. First is Haruhi, she's really nice and accepting, I like to think of her as a close friend. Next are..identical twins if you can believe it. Hikaru and Kaoru. Most people can't tell them apart, but Haruhi and I can. Hikaru is a troublemaker, little trickster will try and pull somethin' on ya if you don't keep on your toes. Kaoru's also a troublemaker, though he's generally nicer about it than Hikaru. Next is Tamaki, the idiot king. He's a chipper little Frenchie that likes to make drama out of nothing." Queue Tamaki going to his corner of woe. "But..." He perked his head up, "he tries to make everyone happy, really tries, and that's admirable... But don't let him hear you say that," she laughed, "he'll never let you live it down. Next is Kyoya, the Shadow King, he manages the club. Uh, they're all in this Host Club thing, I had no idea what it was and ended up looking a fool. Anyways, he can be a real slave driver, but he won't make you do anything you're uncomfortable with, which is good. And last but not least, Honey and Takashi. Honey is the cutest little seventeen year old you'll ever meet with a sweet tooth even bigger than mine, believe it or not. And Takashi, the silent giant. He's Honey's cousin, also seventeen, and has a serious protective side. Trust me, you do not want to get on his bad side, he will mess you up. I've seen him slice a wooden dummy in half in the blink of an eye. I don't know how he can keep a straight face half the time with all the shenanigans the Host Club gets into."

She sighed. "They're a bunch of weirdos... Though by far the weirdest thing they've done is let me join them. Without even a real reason, they let me into their little family, if you could call it that. And I've done nothing to deserve their kindness. I don't talk most of the time, I'm moody as all hell half the time, I'm not especially smart or funny, I don't have any special talent they could need or even want.. I'm just not...necessary."

She paused her rant for a minute, seemingly content with the silence. She sighed again, "I have to leave soon. I've got to go back to Japan." She took a shuddering breath, on the verge of tears her voice cracked, "It's still so hard, going on without you. It wasn't supposed to be like this. I don't know how much longer I can go on without you." A broken sob escaped her lips before she could swallow it back down, she wiped away the tears on her face. "There's a hole inside of me that I fear is going to eat me up and I won't feel or think anything. I don't wanna go back to that." Her voice was pleading, she rested her forehead on the gravestone.

She spent the next minute just calming her breathing and the Hosts used that minute to process everything.

"I gotta get going soon or I'm gonna be late. Oh, yeah, almost forgot your birthday cake." From the paper bag, Lorena pulled out a clear plastic food container. She opened it and unceremoniously dumped the slice of cake onto the ground in front of the gravestone. She stood up, clearing her throat as if she hadn't just been pouring her heart out to a stone. "Well, till next time, Jenna." And then she walked away without so much as a glance back.

Once she was out of sight, Agent B stood up and went closer to the gravestone. Engraved on the marble gravestone was, "Jenna Darrow, Beloved Daughter, Taken much too soon."

~End Video~

A few seconds of silence filled the room as the Hosts digested this information. The silence was interrupted by none other than the Shadow King himself, "That was certainly interesting. According to the time that that was filmed, Lorena-chan should be here within the hour. But for now, Haruhi and the ladies from Lobelia will be here any minute. Let's not disappoint them."

As soon as they turned the lights down and had Renege ready to lift them again and got into position when the doors creaked open to reveal Haruhi and the Lobelia ladies.

~Time Skip~

Lorena had landed in Japan around ten minutes ago and had just arrived at Ouran. If she hurried, she would be just on time for the Host Club. She was also definitely sure that it was Kyoya that had hired people to follow her in America. And she was livid. How dare he invade her privacy like that. He had no right. Once club was over, she was gonna let hell break loose, no holding back. And while she didn't want to believe it, she also had the feeling that he had told everyone else in the Host Club about what he'd learned of her adventures in America.

She reached the doors of Music Room #3 and heard hysterias laughter on the other side of them. It sounded like Haruhi, but what could've gotten her to laugh so hard? Had she finally cracked? Lorena cracked the door open and cautiously pushed it open.

What was on the other side was not what she was expecting at all. She first saw Haruhi rolling on the ground laughing, then three unfamiliar girls in a different uniform, and then-

Lorena stood there in shock, a second was all it took to snap out of it. She tried her hardest not to laugh or smile, her lips twitched and she bit her lip hard, but nothing worked. She put a hand over her mouth, trying to hide the smile blooming on her face, but it was all in vain. Next thing she knew, she was rolling on the ground, laughing so hard her sides were splitting and tears were running down her face, she was gasping for breath and her facial muscles hurt, but she just couldn't stop laughing. In front of her, the Hosts-all excepting Takashi-were dressed as girls, with dresses and wigs and make-up. It was all too much to handle. She definitely wasn't expecting that when she walked through the doors.

Now, all the attention was on Lorena. Her entrance was unnoticed until she broke down laughing. They had never seen her laugh so much, or look so genuinely happy, not even when she was reunited with Michael just days ago.

After a straight minute and a half of rolling around laughing at them, Lorena finally calmed down enough to stand up and address them properly. Through her residual giggles, she managed to get out, "What is going on? Is this what you guys really do when I'm not here?" She couldn't help but tease them, it was just too damn funny.

Before anyone could answer the question, Honey ran up to Lorena and asked excitedly, "Rena-chan, do I look pretty? You can call me onee-chan! Say it! Say it!" This sent her in another fit of giggles. She slipped her phone out of her pocket and started taking pictures of them all. After all she thought it's not true unless there's a picture, right?

While the Hosts posed for the few pictures she took, she was forced to put away her phone when one of the unknown ladies approached her angrily. "Who're you?! Do you also attend this joke of a club?!" Lorena scrutinized the girl. She was tall, brunette, thin, and held a graceful demeanor.

Lorena cleared her throat, her previous anger writhing beneath her skin, wanting desperately to lash out at this rude stranger. "My name's Lorena Darrow, and yes, I am a member of the Host Club. Who're you? More importantly, who're you to say that this club is a joke?"

Whatever shock the girl felt, she got over it quickly. "We are the Zuka Club! From the prestigious school, Lobelia Academy! I am Benio Amakusa, leader of the Zuka Club."

"Ohhh," Lorena sighed, "Lobelia Academy, all girls school right? My dad tried to make me go there, but I didn't agree with a lot of things. For example, that women are superior to men, I think that everyone's equal, no matter where they come from, what religion they practice, those types of things."

"Yeah, what kind of super-feminist ideal is that?" Hikaru asked, pausing from chasing Haruhi around the room.

"That, Hikaru, is not feminism. Feminism is about equality for everyone. They practice misandry, which is something I'm not personally okay with." Hikaru nodded in understanding, then went back to chasing Haruhi around.

Benio was red in the face, obviously about to blow a gasket at the girl who not only dressed more like a guy than a girl, but also confessed at completely disagreeing with all of her opinions. She was interrupted, however, by Tamaki pouncing on Lorena and crushing her in a big hug. He was spouting off some nonsense about how he "missed his darling daughter" and "never was she allowed to leave them ever again."

"Put me down or I'll pinch you!" Lorena threatened, only to be ignored, continuing to be spun around in dizzying circles. "Someone help!" She called out. She was then saved by none other than Takashi, as he began walking back to where he was before, she snickered, "What? No dress Takashi?" She giggled, "Could you not find one in your size?" She began full-on laughing again as he shot her a glare saying, 'I'll drop you'. He loosened his grip on her, letting her drop a few inches suddenly and she squealed. "Okay I'm sorry!" When he got back to standing over next to Kyoya, she turned her head and glared daggers at him. He met her gaze coolly. "I have words for you. Later."

"I look forward to it." He retorted with an ounce of smugness.

Lorena managed to get herself down safely and watched the show as Haruhi shot down the Lobelia girls, snorting when they left and slipped on banana peels. It was a shame she didn't have popcorn to go with it.

Apparently, Host Club activities had been canceled for the day, one less thing to worry about. However, her mood only worsened, for she knew that this allowed her "discussion" with Kyoya to come earlier, and what should end up to be a pretty messy fight. She was in no way looking forward to it, nor wanted it to happen, but she couldn't just let him get away with this. It was a serious invasion of privacy, and he was sticking his nose in something he shouldn't have been. No, no way was he going to get off the hook about this. It was almost unforgiveable.

And Lord knows, she didn't forgive easily.

A/N: Holy shit this was long. But it's also a sort of apology for my horrible-ness. Not much else to say here... Well, everyone have a Happy Halloween and be safe!