Take Your Medicine

Chapter 4

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As the day finally ended and Tomaru and I were on the way to pick up Kaku from school, I told Tomaru my suspicions about what had happened at Ouran.

"You really think a little weasel like that would go to another school to recruit bullies, just to get at you?"

I shrugged. "Like you said, he's a psychopath. I don't know why he's targeting me, though."

Tomaru sighed, then smirked. "Just means I'll have to hang around a lot more."

"Tch, like you don't already."

Tomaru grinned as we met Kaku at the gate.

"Tomaru, you can't let father see you with us! Not after this morning." Kaku pressed the tips of his fingers together as we walked.

Tomaru smiled and put his hand on Kaku's shoulder. "Relax. I'm not going to let anything happen."

Kaku looked up at him, skeptical.

It didn't take us long to get home, since we only went to school a block away.

When we walked through the entrance, we saw that our fathers truck wasn't there. He wasn't home yet.

Kaku breathed out. "I'll go down to the bar and see if he's there." He handed me his bag and went to walk away.

"Wait. You're going to let him go by himself?"

I nodded at Tomaru. "Yea. The guys there know him, and he won't get hit on. Last time I went, I got into trouble for letting the men there look at me." I scoffed and walked to the stairs. "Like it was my fault that the men there are perverts."

"Are you going to the park later?"

I shrugged and kept walking.

I went up the stairs and unlocked the front door. I would start on my homework before Kaku got home and we had to cook dinner.

I threw his backpack onto his bed, then went to my room.

The one thing my mother left me was her brains. She was smart; really smart. I was nowhere near as smart as she was, but I was smart enough for it to count.

I pulled out my Maths homework and realized it wasn't as much as I'd originally thought, so I was able to finish it quickly and start on dinner before Kaku even got home.

I looked in the fridge and the cupboards, sighing. "Vegetables and rice again."

I spoke out loud, hearing Kaku come in. "Aw, he's not gonna be happy without beef or pork."

I searched the cupboards and drawers for spare money Katori would have stashed somewhere.

"Shit. I think he's hidden it."

"Because of the last time we took it for food?" Kaku had tears in his eyes, probably remembering how mad our father got, even though the money was used to buy meat for him.

I nodded. "Dammit." I muttered and took out my phone.

"You're not calling Tomaru, are you?"

I shook my head and sent the text message. "No. Haruhi. If he catches me with Tomaru after this morning, I'm dead meat." I grabbed my jacket and went to the front door. "He's less likely to hurt me if I'm with Haruhi."

Kaku just nodded and went to start on the food as I went out to meet Haruhi at the park.

It took ten minutes to walk to the park and spot Haruhi. I groaned as I spotted who was with her.