There's A Ghost In The Host Club

18.Tiger Kisses

Continues on from chapter 16
"Come on, I have a story I want to tell you but not here." She looks at my hand before slowly taking it.
"Where are we going?" She asks as I lead her out the school. "To my house" I reply.

(Sapphire's POV)

I stare out the window as we drive away from Ouran, wondering if I'm making a huge mistake trusting a stranger who could be involved with them. This could all be one big sick twisted plan to get me out in the middle of no where so they can do what ever they wanted to make me miserable. Before I can scare myself any further I'm distracted by Ghost's voice. "When I was very little, since my earliest memories around 1 years old to 5 years old, I had a loving mother and twin brother. We lived in a small house that wasn't much bigger than a shack but we had a roof over our heads, that's all that mattered, we didn't need much just each other. We didn't have a father but we had him" Sapphire was surprised with how much hatred and venom was laced in her voice when she said him, it was the same tone she uses for them. "He wasn't nice but he was barely around so everything was fine, until that night. We just got done celebrating Christmas in the woods like we did every year, that was the last night I saw my mother smile, last night I felt her love for a long time. Soon I started to lose my brother once he got friends at school, that's also when he started taking a interest in me. With my brother barely ever being home wanting to stay away from him and our now drunk of a mother and my mother barely ever being home or sober I was the only entertainment left to play with." She took a deep breath seeming to hold back tears and trying to hide how painful that part of her life was for her. I whole heartedly knew this wasn't a joke now because no one, no one, can fake that amount of pain and hurt. Her eyes hold the pain of someone who's suffered. "I watched my mother drink her self away and once she lost her job when I was 6 I watched her spiral even more down hill, I soon found myself cleaning and cooking for our land lord every week day during recess and lunch break in order to keep us from being homeless. I of course had to lie to the land lord and make him believe my mom was doing it but in reality she was in no state to do anything, luckily I've always been mentally older for my age so I could handle it all. Anyways any excuse to get away from that hell they called school I'd take" she muttered. I looked at her silently asking why and thankfully she understood. "It's not that I hated school, I love school, it's just the people I didn't like. Everyone hated me, students, teachers, staff, even the janitor!" She cried out in disbelief. "I don't know why but they did, I was always bullied by everyone and teachers would even laugh. I always got accused or blamed for things that I didn't do, even accused of cheating for doing good on my work." She cried out, I could see how painful it is for her to remember all her painful school memory's but I felt better now knowing someone shares my pain with being bullied and hated for no reason. I'm thankful for her telling me all this but I let her continue knowing that she had to get this off her chest now that she's started to open up about it.
"When I was 10 I lost both my mom and brother, and he was arrested and put in jail for drunk driving and some other charges. I was hated by my moms family, being blamed for her death and put in an orphanage. Things were just like at school at the orphanage but I had a new determination within me. I worked hard to prove people wrong and eventually created a successful business and was able to move out of the orphanage." She smiled at me with a fire and prideful look in her eyes before stopping the car. I looked out my window only to gasp at the beautiful Victorian house surrounded by beautiful trees and lots of grassy land. "It's beautiful" I whisper in awe. "Sapphire" I turned to look at her wide eyed. "Your the 2nd person to know most of the truth of my past, and the 2nd person to know part of my big secret. You wanna know why?" I'm too speechless to answer so I just nod instead. "I trust you, and I see a lot of myself in you, I see a girl just wanting someone to give her a chance, someone to love her and be her friend. Sapphire, will you allow me the privilege of being your friend? To create a friendship stronger than steel that I'll value with my life for the rest of my days?" She asked leaving me in shock. I can't help but to cry, this stranger who wanted me to join her club just spilled her entire life, that she's only told one other person, to me. Entrusted me with her biggest secret ever and asked to be my friend. To create a friendship she'd VALUE WITH HER LIFE and she's only known me for 15 minutes. I've never met someone quite like this strange and caring girl before. To others they would think she was insane and on something for just spilling all this to someone she just met and only knew for 5 minutes. They'd say no and get as far away from her as humanly possible but what they'd fail to see behind all of this is her heart. She did all of this to show me that I can trust her, that this isn't a joke, that she truly wants to be my friend. She just showed me that she has a truly amazing and kind heart and soul that's been through hell and back but is still willing to help others even though no one ever helped her. That this is the reason behind her club, behind her purpose in life. She wants to give others the help that no one else gave her, to save others from the pain that she went through. This is the reason for my answer, cuz I see what others wouldn't, someone who truly cares for life and others. "I would love to be your friend Ghost" I smile as her eyes light up. "YAY!!!!" She squeaked before hugging me. "Come on let's put our bags inside and grab a snack and then go thrift shopping!" She yelled out as she quickly jumped out her truck and started running to her house. I couldn't help but laugh as I quickly followed her.