dumbass finds love

CHAPTER 3: crossdresser confusion

Since you were done with your conversation with Honey (who was apparently your senior), you wandered towards Akemi. Hopefully you could get out of this supposed host club now.

When you got to her, she was so enamored with "Tama-chan" that she didn't notice your presence behind her. Just as you decided it would be the best option to light tap her shoulder, Romeo noticed you. He gave you a warm (practiced) smile. "Hello there, have you decided to join the conversation?"

As you froze, you tried to come up with an answer. "Or," He offered, "Did you want to see the club's newest member?" He gestured to the girl behind him, the one in the boys uniform for whatever reason. Maybe she was a crossdresser?

You awkwardly smiled at her as you figured out a way to politely get out of this situation, but to no avail as she also gave you an awkward smile. "Uh, I don't think she-" She started, trying to get you out. Thank God for this angel he sent down.

However, her effort was futile as the ultimate assumer grasped your shoulder and lightly pushed you towards her. "Go, go! I'll have to speak with you another time." He winked at you. All dramatics, he is.

You gave her another awkward smile. "Er, hi." She gave you a small smile like she was sorry.

"Hi, it's nice to meet you." She greeted. "I'm Haruhi."

"Haruhi... It's nice to meet you, too."

"I take it this is your first time here then?" Haruhi chuckled. You smiled, a bit more genuine and nodded.

"Yes, definitely."

More charming than you thought she'd be, she said, "Well, hopefully you can get more comfortable here. That's really what we aim here for you and all our other guests."

There was like a squeal behind you, and you saw a blond blur zip straight by you, holding Haruhi's hands together. You swore you saw sparkles surrounding him as he made doe eyes at her. "That was perfect, perfect, my little Haruhi!"

Noticing the abrupt change in Tamaki from being suave and calm and turning into an eager puppy when interacting with Haruhi, you muttered to yourself, "He's kind of obsessed with her, isn't he...?"

"Yeah, he sure is." With a small yelp, you jump back to see a pair of twins beside you, huffing. They were both fairly tall, softly colored orange hair, and brown eyes. Almost exactly identical minus the direction of their hair and bangs.

"He's always hogging her now." One said.

With a lack of words you went, "Oh."

All of a sudden, fast as lightening, it seemed as though they realized something, whipping their heads towards you that made you worry for their necks, their gaze on you was piercing, menacing. In your peripheral vision, you noticed two other boys staring you down. One was Takashi, from earlier with Honey, and a boy with glasses. They were all staring at you as if you had uncovered all their secrets, all the world's secrets even. "Um..."

"What did you say?" In a tone much deeper and darker, they said it unison as if this was a horror movie scene. Maybe it was. Maybe that's why the blond guy was... well, like that.

As they took a step closer to you, Haruhi and her harasser seemed to notice your attempted murder.

Before Haruhi could speak, the boy with glasses walked up to the scene, all smiles sharp as a knife, glasses gleaming. "Let's not do this now, as our guests are still here." Just as threatening as his practiced smile. "L/N Y/N, is it? Please stay for the duration of our club."

You felt the sweat drop as you were just threatened. At least, you were pretty sure you were. Were you about to be murdered? Blackmailed? You didn't even know what you had done wrong. Wait, how did he even know your name?

He guided you to a seat, a bit farther from everyone else, as you had noticed. You sat there for the rest of the club, as he had instructed you to, albeit you were very tense as you noticed the host club's eyes on you.

You had figured it was the end of the club when the girls got up and were ushered out, and you noticed Akemi waving bye at you, though she was just as confused as you were. You gave her a small wave back, even though she got me into this mess in the first place, you thought, finally keeping a thought to yourself.

When everyone went out the door, the boy with glasses walked up to you, the rest of the club following behind. Though the twins more furiously than anyone else. "Now then," you had to hold back a small 'eep' as you were about to face your untimely demise.

Other than Takashi, everyone else seemed mostly confused. Haruhi gave you an exasperated smile, as even she wasn't sure for what was about to come.

"You seem to have figured out who Haruhi truly is." I have?

"I have?"

He seemed to almost pause for a moment before continuing, "Yes, that Haruhi is actually a girl." The others who had seemed confused-- Haruhi, Honey, and Tama-what's-his-face-- eyes widened in surprise.

At that, you felt yourself slump down a bit more, almost relieved that you hadn't somehow crossed them, committing the ultimate faux pas. "Oh, yeah, that's it?" Everyone now seemed confused again. "Um, I mean it's pretty obvious, isn't it?" 

feeling the heavy weight of the stares going at you eventually made you snap a bit "gosh, was it really that hard? I mean you guys are acting like I figured out some secret code to some ruins with gold or something.." you stood up pushing one of the twins towards haruhi "I mean look" you started as you waved your arms up and down.

"the height difference is already enough of a sign" (besides Honey senpai being shorter..) "and her face is still feminine.." you say rolling her eyes. The members all just looked at each other blinking a few times.

you looked over making eye contact with haruhi as she gave you a small smile "I mean I'm actually sort of happy someone finally realized it" harhui said as she walked over to you "I always thought it was a bit weird that no one batted an eye to it" she continued shrugging 

"I mean, how long did it take them to figure it out.?" you asked crossing your arms looking over at them. Haruhi let out a low chuckle "definitely way longer than you thats for sure"

"Oh, really? I mean, I thought it was pretty obvious, minus the boy's uniform." As the boys were mostly stunned, mouths dropped slightly, glasses boy recovered quickly.

"Yes, I suppose that makes sense. My apologies for scaring you earlier." You smiled at him to show it was okay (even though you almost shit yourself). "I'm Ootori Kyoya. It's a pleasure to meet you." He smiled, obviously still keeping up appearances.

But before you could excuse yourself, he spoke in the same threatening tone from earlier. "L/N, I trust you will be keeping Haruhi's gender a secret? It would... cause some problems for us if it were to get out." Your smile dropped. Was this dude a mafia boss?

"Oh, yeah... Uh, no problem. Secret's safe with me." He nodded at you in appreciation, as did the other boys, though Haruhi herself seemed indifferent to it. "Well, I should head out then..."

Taking a final glance at the boys (Haruhi was a boy, for sure, for sure...), everyone seemed at peace except for the twins and Tamanova, who seemed to be in deep thought.

With a small wave and a relieved sigh, you finally left that godforsaken room.