DISCE, OHSHC.

⁺ ♡ owe us the truth

An hour before classes started, there was a crisp knock at your door.

"Apologies for disturbing you, but there are two young men waiting downstairs for you. They said that they're friends of yours from Ouran Academy?"

You grimaced at yourself in the bathroom mirror. You had been half-hoping that Hikaru was only kidding about dropping by your house this morning but you should have known better. If they had still been waiting outside, you might have been able to slip out of your window and escape without them noticing. But if they were already inside there wasn't much you could do except meet them. You had a feeling the twins knew exactly what they were doing, because your mother would have greeted them by now and you couldn't run away without it being awkward for everyone.

Through a garble of toothpaste, you managed to call out, "Tell them I'll be right there, Shimada-san. Thanks."

You rinsed your mouth then checked over your reflection. You found yourself straightening out your shirt and wondering if you should try to find your school blazer to look less sloppy.

Wait, you thought with a scowl. Why do I care about that? Who cares about that stupid blazer?

You grabbed your book bag and hurried downstairs. You followed the sound of chatter to the kitchen, where the twins were leaning over the kitchen island as your mother poured them glasses of juice.

"They were a fantastic volleyball player," your mother was saying. "Everyone adored them as the team captain."

"What position did they play?" one of the twins asked.

"One of the offense positions. They worked very well with their setter. Their games were always very intense. They don't like to give up easily. We used to have a few pictures in the hall from when . . ." your mother trailed off when she saw you. "Oh, good morning, sweetheart! Did you sleep well?"

You raised an eyebrow. "I slept fine." The twins grinned cheerfully at you, as though they always stopped by your house before school. You only just restrained yourself from throwing them an obscene gesture.

"These two boys were nice enough to drop by to pick you up for school," your mother said, smiling. "You never told me about them. Although I do remember being at the art gathering the other night."

"I just thought it was a little soon to be thinking of them as friends," you said, and the twins side-eyed you.

"So how do you all know each other?" Your mother slid a glass of juice toward you.

"Mom, we should be getting to school."

"We met during one of our club activities," the twin you decided was Hikaru said.

"Oh, which club?"

You tried to jump in before Hikaru could scandalize your mother by revealing the Host Club. "It's nothing big. Just the—"

"Academic Debate Club, of course."

You snapped your mouth shut. Unless Kaoru had become a club president overnight, there was no such club at Ouran. Or there was, but they didn't have "Academic" hanging in front of their name.

"That sounds great," your mother said, looking between you and Kaoru. "What do you do there?"

Hikaru seemed to pick up whatever wavelength his brother was on. "It's just an informal get-together, really. A bunch of like-minded students trying to figure out solutions for the word at large."

"We are planning on meeting with a few Tokyo representatives at the end of term to try and give them some of our ideas," Kaoru continued.

Hikaru nodded sagely. "We think it's extremely important to become involved in the community, however we can."