Ouran Host Club Hostess (DISCONTINUED)

Hiding in the Library

Kyoko is avoiding us.

This was not the first time this thought had occurred to the twins that day. Their doll had been going out of her way to stay as far away from them as possible all through the day. She'd taken a seat next to Haruhi during registration, instead of her usual place between them. She had made excuses during lunch period for being unable to sit with them and, when she couldn't avoid them, she pretended to be engrossed in a book or her phone.

Needless to say, this was getting on their nerves. "Have we done anything to upset her recently?" Kaoru asked thoughtfully in the hallway. Hikaru shrugged, not as far as he could remember. Nothing they'd done recently had been out of the ordinary.

They decided to ask Haruhi about Kyoko's behaviour during the long break, and she'd shrugged. "Whatever is happening, it's not because she dislikes you guys," she replied calmly. "She likes you both a lot." While this sentiment soothed them a bit, it did little to stem their worry. Was something wrong with Kyoko and she just didn't want to make everyone worry?

Hikaru frowned and stared at Haruhi. "Where is she now?" He asked.

"She told me she was going to the library," she replied with an easy shrug. "But she said she wanted to be left-!" They'd already turned and taken off before she was done speaking. "...alone...ugh..."

In the library, Kyoko was having what one might call, a tiny little crisis, which was why she'd tucked herself away in one of the less frequented corners of the library. After the Halloween event, it had taken her an embarrassingly long period of time for her brain to pick up on one fact, and that was holy shit, Hikaru kissed me.

It had all been downhill from there. She'd kissed Hikaru. She'd kissed Hikaru. Or, you know, he'd kissed her, but semantics aren't important! What was important was that their lips had made contact for more than ten seconds and she'd enjoyed it.

Which had her raising all sorts of questions, one of which was what would it be like to kiss Kaoru? And that had her flushing bright red behind the book she was pretending to read.

She liked them, of course she did. Hell, she could admit (in her own mind, at the very least) that she was probably in love with them, and therein lay the problem: could she have both of them? Did they both even like her?

Hikaru clearly did, he'd shown that, but what about Kaoru? Kyoko mentally slapped herself, she didn't want to treat them like a set piece, like buy one, get one free. She just...she wanted...

By that time she'd buried her face in her hands with her eyes closed as she contemplated her dilemma to the point where she wasn't sure whether or not she wanted to cry, and that was how the twins found her. For a moment, they did think she was crying, but they couldn't hear anything that would show that. However, she seemed deep in thought, and didn't notice them take seats on either side of her until Hikaru cleared his throat.

Kyoko yelped and sat up immediately. "H-how did you guys find me?!"

"Haruhi told us you were here," they replied in sync. "Mostly...you've been avoiding us, haven't you?" When she started in surprise, they frowned and leaned closer to her. Kyoko looked away, suddenly nervous. Was it that obvious?

Of course it was! It was obvious the second you said you didn't want to join them for lunch! You love having lunch with them!

"Did we do something to upset you?" Hikaru asked.

"Did we say something you didn't like?" Kaoru quizzed.

Her eyes widened and she shook her head. "No, nothing like that!" She denied. "I just had something on my mind that I needed to think about, but it's okay now," she forced her smile to look realistic, and luckily she didn't have to try too hard; them being around already made her feel better. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you both worry..."