Leaning against a wall dozing off into my own world reflecting on all that has happened to me today I let out a much needed groan, I just been having a crazy day but I’m glad I’m finally away from it all and don’t really mind the working part. *I wonder if everyday will be like this…I kinda feel bad for Haruhi she has to deal with that mess every day, poor girl. *

Then comes in another waiter that works here, Tatsuya. “Hoshi, your breaks over so go take care of tables 3, 5, and 8.” He tells me in a monotone voice.

“Sure thing, Senpai!” I say with a bit of a gloom in my voice and I think he noticed because he looked at me weirdly or maybe I let my voice slip again. I really I had a voice changer or something it’s hard trying to keep a deep voice so people believe I’m a guy. *Stupid FBI guys! Humph*. I accidentally let my face slip and it was very noticeable that I was pissed off and Tatsuya was still there and noticed me too. *Oops! *

“Hay, are you alright?” He asked me concerned but still in that monotone voice of his.

“Huh?!, Uh, yeah, just a ruff first day at my new school is all.” I say nervous laughing and rubbing the back of my head. “Now c-c’mon lets go back to work, back to work!” I say in an almost singing voice and grabbing him by the wrist and pulling him behind me back to the main dining room.

The rest of work went by very smoothly but for some reason Senpai kept giving me weird looks I wonder why maybe I was acting too friendly with the customers I do that occasionally but I don’t mean too it’s just a habit of mine…

~The Next Morning~

When I woke up it was still early morning and the sun wasn’t even out yet and not all that tiered either so I decided to go on an early morning run just for the heck of it. So I got changes out of my p.js’ which was just am oversized T-shirt and some soccer shorts and into some clothes to run in; some tight mid thigh length black shorts a black sports bra and a hooded sweater to go over top since I didn’t want to get sick from the cold morning air and let’s not forget my running shoes either. I tied my ling curly blonde hair up and grabbed my bag then headed downstairs. I go and make myself some eggs and toast for a quick something to eat. I’m the only one awake at the moment so when I’m done I write a note saying that I left early and head out the door. We live quite far away from the school but I don’t really mind I have plenty of time to get there and change into my school clothes before anyone gets there and if not I guess I can always ask the chairman for a place to change since I have all my clothes and stuff in my bag. Running through the neighborhood no one is out except for the birds’ ha-ha. As I go through town finally after runny for about and hour to get there, yeah that’s how far we are from the school, I pass by some shops that are opening up for the day and the workers smile and wave to me and I do the same. *People in Japan sure are friendly. That’s good to know I like that. It makes me wanna laugh! Ha-ah!* It was like that all the way to school it put me in a really good mood and I started humming from the joy I felt. It sure has been a really long time since I’ve done that it felt nice.

When I get on campus I still have about an hour before people start showing up for school, I don’t even know if the teachers are there yet, so I just run a couple laps around the track before heading to the locker room to shower and change. Since I’m supposed to be a guy I go to the guys locker room all sneaky like too just incase someone was at school and make sure to lock the doors so no one comes in on me. I quickly take a shower and get dressed but then notice that I was missing something. “Huh? Oh shoot where is it were?” I say to myself scrambling through my bag of stuff. “Aww, man I did for get it and auntie went through all the trouble of getting it for me too.” I complain to myself. Kari went out the other day and bought me a wig to wear so it would be easier for me to hide my long hair instead on just keeping it up in a bandana and hat. It was a good one too the exact shade of my hair a little different style though and very light. She just gave it to me last night when I returned from work, she’s so kind and I feel awful that I forgot it too. I let out a sigh. *Oh well I guess I’ll have to give it a try at wearing it tomorrow. So I just throw my hair up in my hat and bandana as usual and head out to the front of the school. I wonder if Haruhi is here yet*. I giggle and go running to the front to wait for her actually to see if anyone is here yet.

There are some kids showing up but not many so I just decide to wait for her there since it’s still quite early so it’s not surprise that no one is really hear mostly just people from sports clubs coming for morning practices or on their own to practice. I don’t really mind waiting though it doesn’t bug me all that much it’s something to do, right?

So just to pass the time I take out my sketch book and start to…well sketch of course! I usually draw people not real people I see though just ones I come up with. Since… well I think it’s kind of creepy drawing pictures of people when they don’t have your consent in doing so. Actually being truthful I just like drawing people because of their clothing, I like to design clothing it’s really fun and unlike most people who do I like giving faces to the ones wearing them in my sketches. I like drawing sceneries too but I’m just not all that good at them though I do try my best it’s mostly when it comes too nature where my struggle are but I ‘m pretty good at architectural stuff.

Now I think I should move on I’m sure you don’t want to hear any more about this boring stuff so I just summed it up for you but it’s something you should know about me though since this is my story I’m telling you after all.

After a wile a shadow of a person hovering over me appears and I hear. “What ya doen?” With a giggle. I right away knew who it was.

“Don’t steal my lines Ruru!” I say looking up at Haruhi. She just laughs and then I show her my sketch pad.

“That’s really good. I didn’t know you could draw.”

“Yeah well I’ve been practicing since middle school so now I can.” I say putting away my stuff. “C’mon lets go to class now.”

“Okay.” She says in reply. “Were you here waiting just for me?” I nod and say ‘Of course’ in reply then we head off to class.

When we reached the class room not many students were there yet since it still was a bit early so we just went by our seats and chatted for a while until Hikaru and Kaoru snuck up behind me to try to scare me it kind of worked not that they could tell though on the outside I didn’t faze but on the inside my heart jumped. “Aw, you’re no fun Hoshi.” They said in union, I just giggled and smiled at them. “By the way” Hikaru stared. “Why is your hair yet?” Kaoru finished.

“That’s because I just took a shower not too long ago.”

“You really should dry your hair all the way. You don’t want to get sick do you?” Kaoru told me.

“No, but I always let my hair dry on it’s own it looks better that way, besides I didn’t bring a hair dryer with me.” I stated simply.

They all just stared at me blankly and I was confused. *What’d I say?* “You took a shower at school?” Haruhi asked me a bit worried about my answer.

“Yeah, why?”

“It’s just…uh” She wouldn’t finish but I knew what she was thinking.

I laughed and smiles a little “Don’t worry. Besides it was kind of a one time thing anyway. I couldn’t really sleep this morning so I decided to go running and just decided I would run to school and shower and change here is all. It’s not like I do that all the time. It’s no big deal so don’t worry about me.” I said giving a reassuring smile but she didn’t seem too convinced but I don’t blame her I might do it again sometime. They just kept staring at me with a ‘ I cant believe you did that’ look on their faces especially the twins I guess it’s just not something that people around here do. Well I normally wouldn’t either but I was in the mood so I did so is their anything wrong with that?

Anyway moving on the first half of our classes seemed to go by way too slowly I really just wanted to get out of there especially history the most annoying subject in the entire world no matter what country you’re in. I don’t have any problem with it I pass it just fine it’s just annoying how the teachers go on and on about the same thing just rewording it that’s just peeves me. But soon enough lunch time came and I was good and ready for it! “YUSH! Lunch, lunch, lunch. It’s finally lunch. he-he” I say/sing and start giggling again.

“You really love lunch time don’t you Hoshi?” Hikaru says leaning against my desk. “Yeah, you’re always really quite during class time it’s like your not even there but once break or lunch comes your really energetic and bubbly.” Kaoru adds in.

“Hmm, I get that a lot. Well I just don’t really like talking during class time theirs really no point since it is the time for the teacher and his/her teaching us what right do we have to take that away from them. Unless of course the class involves us to be talking or working in groups but I mostly prefer to work on my own I get more work done that way and I just think it’s more efficient. Anyways the point being it’s not really a time for us to be talking anyways, at one of my old schools we would get yelled at and even given detention for it but that stuff didn’t really help the ones that always miss behaved but yeah. So then at beaks I just get to let go and be myself and have fun but I’m still not all that talkative then either I just prefer observing people but I do like being conversations too and…” I just kept going on mostly mumbling things to myself really not paying attention to the others I probably looked like some sort of psychopath to them.

“Attention everyone!” I hear a girl voice say from the front of the class stopping me from my babbling.

“Huh, what’s going on? Who are they?” I ask them. There was a boy with glasses and brown hair with a girl who also had long brown hair that reached the bottom of her shoulder blades and two kind of pointy buns on the top sides of her head.

I hear a few giggles from the girls by me. *I didn’t notice them. Were they there the entire time? Now I really feel like a retard*. I actually started to blush a little. “It’s okay that you don’t know you are new here after all” It was the girl that sits next to me in class I never did get her name. “They’re our class representative and vice-representative, Kazukiyo Soga and Momoka Kurakano.”

I hear Momoka giggle. *She heard me huh*? “It fine Hoshi-kun we understand you’re brand new to our school so it’s not surprising you don’t know much.” *Somehow that which was supposed to make me feel better made me feel worse*. “We have an up coming Cultural Festival and we have to decide on what our class will be doing.”

“Oh, that sounds fun. I’ve never been to one so it should be great.” I say energetically. I really was excited though I completely forgot that these Japanese schools do these things all the time back home we didn’t have a single one. Our schools are lame. The closest thing to that for me was the Halloween carnival in Grade School.

I hear the entire class, well excluding Haruhi, go ‘HUH’ on me and a whole bunch of people gathered around me. “You’ve never been to one, how can that be all schools have them no matter how poor they are?” Typical thing for the twins to say.

“Well, I’ve always been too busy to actually attend. With my job and taking care of family stuff. Since my parents both worked when I was little me and my older brother had to take care of my little brother and sister though it was mostly me since I know a bit more about cooking and I’m smarter too so I always helped with their homework as well. Now it’s not like that though since I live with another family and it’s pretty big so we all work together and they even paid for my uniform. However I still have a job but it’s not full time yet but I hope I can get to being full time.” *Okay I mixed the truth and lie together how can you even do that? Is their even a name for something like that? Man I can’t believe I pulled that off. *

Everyone around me was all teary eyed now even the teacher. *Wow, didn’t expect that! *“You’ve must have had a really hard life.” One of the girls in my class says. *Are you kidding that was partly a lie and not even close to half of all the crap I’ve been through and that’s before these past couple of years. These rich people sure don’t know real live if it punched them in the face! Sheesh.*

Suddenly Tamaki appears out of nowhere. “You brave, brave soul!”

“S-s-senpai, what are you doing here?!” I say surprised. *Where the heck did he come from! Dude he’s like a freaken bunny rabbit popen’ up everywhere!*

“No reason just felt like stopping by to have lunch with you guys.”

“O~kay, is that even allowed?” every one just ignored that remark of mine.

“Alright, since this is Hoshis’ first Cultural Fastival ever we got to make the best one ever!” Tamaki-senpai yells to the roof. Me and Haruhi are just sitting there with a blank stare well mine more surprised than a blank, as every one else yells out a ‘Yeah’ in agreement. “Alright I say we do a…” He stops from a tap on his shoulder.

“Mi Lord, you know you have no say in it.” Kaoru says. “You’re not in our class.” All the color drained from him and a cold wind blew by him then he went into his depressing corner as always.

I go over by him, since I fell sorry for him he’s always doing that, I put my hand on his shoulder which startled I’m at first but saw that is was me and I gave him a gentle smile which mad him feel better and back to normal again. “You know Kaoru’s right, you get to discuss one for your class and we ours so it really doesn’t involve you.” I say trying not to be so harsh like the twins usually are. “So, you should go by the others and I’ll see you in math class.” I finish kind of energetically.

“Oh, you’re right. Well, I’ll see you in class then! Bye, bye Haruhi!” He says with a goofy look on his face and waving walking out the door.

I let out a little sigh of relief and turn around and see Haruhi, Hikaru, and Kaoru right in my face with an amazed look on their faces. *Huh, what’s with them? What’d I do?*

“O~, how’d you do that?” Ask the twins. I’m only able to get out an ‘uh’ still confused.

“Yeah you just smiled and he was better already.” Haruhi tells me.

“Mmm, not only that you were so nice about it.” Kaoru says. “You’re too nice Hoshi. You don’t have to do that kind of stuff you know.” Hikaru tells me.

“Heh, I get that a lot but I don’t really care that’s just the way I am, I’ve always been the type of person who just likes cheering people up. I can’t help it, it just kinda comes natural to me.” I explain to them with a small smile. They all just kind of look at each other I guess they don’t now how to respond to that. “Anyway,” I stand up all the way strait and getting my compositor together with a little bounce. “Let’s get back on topic!” I give them a smile also I noticed that everyone was eavesdropping instead of discussing the Cultural Festival.

“Yes, thank you. Any proposals on what to do this year?” Our class rep asks.

“Eh, why ask we’ll just end up doing what we do every year.” Hikaru says.

“And what’s that?” I ask interested and wrapping my arms around Haruhis’ shoulders.
“A gift shop.” Hikaru and Kaoru say together copying how Haruhi and I are like. “We’ve done it every year so why change now?” Kaoru says.

“Well that’s boring.” Haruhi and I say in union. “Why not try something different.” I ask them and everyone else is just listening in on us again.

“What do you have in mind?” They say tilting their heads.

I blink a couple of times before answering. “Well… I don’t know how bouts a candy shop? That might be fun.”

“That sounds like it’ll be fun.” Haruhi finally says. “With all kinds of sweets right not just candies that’s what you were thinking, right?” I nod vigorously in response.

“Not just well know ones either, it’ll have some from many cultural backgrounds and it might be fun to be in costumes from some of those as well.”  I add.

“Hmm, that doesn’t sound too bad.” The twins say putting their pointer finger on their chins in a thinker’s kind of way.

“I like it!” Says our vice-rep all chipper. Others in the classroom start to chatter in agreement. I was quite surprised actually, I even let go of Haruhi. I know nothing about this stuff it just sort of popped up in my head and so I went along with it. It made me happy that they liked it though for real and I got excited out doing this thing too, I really was.

So we spent the rest of our lunch time discussing our plan to get it done since were having the festival next week we needed a plan for how to get things done. But I heard something I really didn’t like they were going to special order everything! What’s the fun in that it’s much more fun to bake it yourself than to buy them? *I should say something.* “Umm, guys?”

“What is it?” The twins say.

“It’s just…wouldn’t it be more fun to bake the sweets instead of just buy them.” I ask kind of embarrassed.

“Ah, I forgot you’re just a commoner so you don’t know.” Says Hikaru. C-commoner? *Stupid rich people!*

“Don’t forget this school is for the high class and rich. So our events are different than normal schools we have to treat it like a business.” Kaoru explains to me. “So in order to prove to our parents that we’re capable of taking over their businesses.

“Oh, well that just takes the fun out of everything.” I say upset and kind of angrily.


“But baking them ourselves does sound more fun!” A girl with short long hair says while some others start to agree with her. *Why is it there are always girls listening in on me? Hmm, THEY CANT BE CRUSHING ON ME CAN THEY?!* I scream out in my head and started wobbling back and forth where I was at.

“Are you okay?” Haruhi asks me

I answer with a weird laugh and still wobbling. “Well of course why wouldn’t I be?!” I pound on my chest trying to be manly. “Oww that hurt” I rubbed my chest back to normal now. Owie I hit my boob. Everyone keeps staring at me. *Man I drag around too much attention gotta work on dat.* The bell rings and everyone goes back to their seats for the next class and I yawn. *Man am I tired may be I shouldn’t of taken that run this morning. I think I’ll take a nap in class I can get the others to fill me in later*. So I do but I make sure to put my book up in front of my face so the teacher can’t see me and I’m in the back of class anyways and its English class it’s as easy as pie for me!

~About ten minutes later~

BAM! I hear right next to my ear. I jump out of my seat screaming and fall on the floor. I hit my butt pretty hard so I was rubbing it and everyone was laughing at me even Haruhi. “You scream like a girl!” I twins say pounding their hands down on their desks cracking up and tears pouring out of their eyes.

“Sh-sh-SHUT UP!” I yell at them face redder than a tomato and turn it away so they wouldn’t see but did and started laughing even harder. Then I notice what was the cause of the loud ‘bam’ the teacher slammed his pointer stick on my desk. I nervously laughed “Buena tarde del Professor.” The class laughs at me some more. *Dude I really do draw too much attention to myself.*

“This is English class not Spanish, Mr. Kobu!” He yells at me.

“I know that Sensei. I was just showing off.” I tell him a cocky and caused people to laugh some more. I was still on the floor by the way and my teacher was really pissed off now. *I should of kept my mouth shut.*

He snaps his stick in half and then he snaps. He points his broken stick at the blackboard and now has fire in his eye and his hair turned to fire and horns with a fork tong yells “GO AND TRANSLATE THAT INTO ENGLISH!” I screamed in side my head.* AHH DEAMON! *

“Y-y-y-y-y-yes sir!” I frantically get up and run to the front of class with people laughing at me more but mostly just the twins though most have gotten tired of laughing at me. Haruhi stopped after the first one and now is sitting there slumping in her seat really annoyed. I finished quite quickly it is my native tong after all! The teacher was…well still standing by my desk quite steamed and the rest of the class was well they were all either zoning out or looking at the teacher. I cautiously go and walk up behind him “Umm, Sensei?”

“WHAT?!” *DEAMON! *I backed up some from him since I was quite frightened.

“I’m finished.” I say with tears in my eyes.

“Huh, really?” He suddenly gets his composure back. *Now he’s a fish out of watter  like Tamaki. “Let’s check your work shall we?” He looks over what I wrote and what’s in the book. If he can’t tell its right without a book then he needs to study it more! Especially this easy junk.* “Ah, it’s perfect!” He says in astonishment and the class claps for me. “Nice work!” he says in English with a thumb up. FISH!

“Uh huh… can I go back to sleep now?” I asked him in English and with monotone.  

“NO!” *AHH HE’S A DEMON AGAIN! See a fish, a fish!* I rush back to my seat and stare off into space for the rest of class time.

It was after school now and Tamaki asked me if I would go to the Host club again today since that was the real reason he come to our class at lunch today and I had to tell Tamaki that I couldn’t go to the Host Club with him because I had to pick up the kids with the boys and he got really sad. So I promised to go as soon as the Cultural Festival was over I’d go since I knew I’d be busy with that and it cheered him up. I started my walk to meet up with Hiroko and Ryuo thinking *Maybe I am too nice I do hear that all the time so it’s probably true. Well I just can’t stand seeing people sad so maybe that’s the problem*. I let out a little giggle. “Oh well, ha-ah”.

(Untill next time)