Chapter 2

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As Carter was walking back home with Ella sniffling in her arms and both of their bookbags slung over a shoulder, a limo pulled up next to them and stopped. “Who’s that, Carebear?” Ella asks and Carter turns to see Mori and Hani smiling at them. “That is Hani and Mori… Senpai’s,” Carter says and Ella nods, “Are they good?”
“I think so, Carter states and the boys walk up to them, “Come back to school with us so you can finish your cake,” Hani whines and Mori takes another step towards the sisters. “Hand me your bags, you’ll hurt your back,” The tough training the boys had gotten at young ages allows them to hear the abuse in a back story within seconds and it didn’t help that the two had taken a liking to the girl.
“It’s fi-” Carter starts to argue, but one pouty look from Hani and Ella, Ellas because of the mention of cake, Carter gives in and nods, sighing in relief when Mori carefully moves behind her and gently slides the bags off. Once in the Limo, the were right back out of it, “The speed limits are so much higher here than in North Carolina,” She mutters as they all climb out of the limo. 
“Woooow, big car!” Ella squeals while Carter climbs out of the car. “It’s called a limousine,” Carter states and Ella stares in awe as her sister carries her away. “Ella, what did you have a reaction to at school today?” Carter asks and the kid thinks for a moment before her eyes light up, “We layed down for nap time,”
Carter instantly nods, “Tomorrow I’ll send you with your own set of bedding, okay? Don’t let me forge-” Carter begins, but the music room doors bang open, the loud, sudden noise, startling Carter so bad, she screeches in fright and falls backwards, but Mori easily caught her and set her back on her feet.
“Thank you, Mori,” Carter mumbles, frightfully stepping into the room, “Pretty man!” Ella squeals, jumping from her sisters arms and running up to Tamaki, who gaps at the red bumps all over the four year olds arms, legs, and face. “Ella, do you need mint cream?” Carter asks, hoping to know before she gets too distracted by Tamaki, who Carter knows will be new best friends… But the twins are definitely going to use the child to prank Tamaki. 
“Not itchy anymore, sissy. Thank you,” Ella says before going to play with Tamaki again. “Mint cream?” The twins ask while Mori and Hani drag her back to the cake table. “Yeah, we kept discovering new allergies and couldn’t really afford medicine, so I worked with my herb garden until I came up with the right formula of herbs, water, and yogurt to make a cream that took away redness, itching, and swelling,”
“Wow, why yogurt?” Kouru ask and Carter shrugs, “I thought it might work because it makes so much good bacteria in the body, it might do the same on the outside. And it does as long as there are no flavours or sweeteners,”
It was obvious that Carter enjoyed the conversation topic as her shoulders relaxed and her face lit up, “Sissy really likes plants, she brings them back from the dead sometimes,” Ella exclaims, jumping into her sisters lap and staring at the untouched cake, looking between everyone before finally settling on Mori. “Go ahead,” The gentle giant states and Ella grins, “Thank you!” She squeals, grabbing a spoon and digging in, but when she comes up to the strawberry, her smile widdens.
“Carebear, your favourite!” Ella exclaims and pushes the fruit into her sisters mouth. “You monkey,” Carter chuckles, “sneakily” moving her hands to the kids sides and rapidly tickling, resulting in loud giggles. “I was talking, you know,”
Ellas laughter brightens the room and makes the rest laugh as well before Carter stops and presses a kiss to her forehead. “Did she say you bring plants back from the dead?” Carter turns to face Tamaki’s fearful expression and giggles.
“Stores don’t take care of the plants when they come in and when they start looking dead, the price drops to the same as a pack of seeds. So I buy and resuscitate, creating Zombie plants,” Carter states and everyone shows an impressed expression. “Carter, you haven’t had lunch, yet,” Haruhi hums, pulling out her own lunch and handing a set of chopsticks to Carter.
“I took it upon myself to order lunch for us all, actually,” Kyoya states and pulls out a cart of food from absolutely thin air. “Mainly produce boards and a salad bar, but I do see it being up to your standards, miss Mills,”. Haruhi and Carter exchange glances of suspicion before Carter stares directly at the genius and conniving male. 
The lack of… chaos in the room has calmed Carter enough to not be jumpy around the males and seeing their demeanors with her sister and Haruhi has made her feel at ease, especially with the gentle, but protective statures Mori and Hani have put up. “I feel as if I may be black mailed, should I accept this offer,” 
Kyoya pushes up his glasses with a smirk and a chuckle, “You are a perceptive one, I’ll admit that. I’d like you to hang around the host club… All members. Your foreign ethnicity and shy demeanor threatens other girls and makes them jealous. Therefore, they will pay more for shorter appointments with the Hosts. If you do so, not only will you be assisting Haruhi with her debt, but you will be in a position to ask the club and myself for favours,”
Carters brows raise in surprise for a moment before she sighs, “Write up a contract and then Haruhi and I will look over it,” She states, knowing it will help Haruhi. “Of course, and this will mean you have to attend meetings as well as activities we do as a club,”
Carter shrugs and nods, “The first thing is that Ella would have to come here after school as well, whether it be that I go get her, or a driver picks her up and brings her here,”  The said child perks up from Carter's lap where she had started dozing off to sleep, “Me?”
“Yes, you! You’ll just take your second nap on a couch during club,” Carter laughs before the school bell goes off. “But, I’ll be missing my last few classes of the day because you are not allowed to attend with me, so let’s work on your languages for todays lesson,” Carter says as the males and Haruhi stand to leave, “Well, Takashi and I don’t have afternoon classes, we just relax or go to the dojo, so we can say with you! Right Takashi?” Hani says and Mori nods while uttering his catchphrase, “Yeah,”
“Sure, but she is still getting her Korean lesson, today,” Carter says and Kyoya laughs again, “I may have to put in the contract that you’ll be our official translator. Though my file says you only know English, Japanese, and ASL,” Kyoya hums and Ella pouts, “I know those, too. And Spanish!”
“And we’re working your French, Korean, and Russian,” Carter adds, standing from her seat and placing the kid back on it. “But I want a music lesson today!” Ella complains while everyone except the two sisters and the two third years leave the room for class. “Well, this is a music room, I’m sure we can find an instrument somewhere,” Hani says and Mori nods, stalking off and pulling a rope to reveal a grand piano.
“Wow, that’s a lot larger than a keyboard,” Carter gaps while Ella squeals and rushes forward, sitting on the bench and patting the seat next to her until Carter joins her on it. “I’m not sure I know what to do with this many keys… Give me a second to find the notes,” With that, the elder female starts playing a note scale, flinching when something didn’t sound quite right, but she was able to figure it out and fix her mistake every time.
“Wow! Did you take lessons?” Honey asks and Carter shakes her head, “No, I can’t read music or anything. I have something called perfect pitch? I can hear notes and know which ones sound right… I don’t really understand it, but that’s what the lady said when I performed,” One of Carters jobs was performing live music at a local restaurant, but she just played music on the piano that she had heard on the radio and hoped people tipped her enough for the next day.
“Then how do you teach someone how to play?” Honey continues, sitting on the other side of Carter while Mori steps closer, leaning over their heads to observe in stoic fascination. “Well, I remember a song that played yesterday, now that I know what sounds this piano makes, I can copy the song and Ella will copy me. Eventually, she’ll memorise the sounds a piano makes and be able to transfer a song from the radio to it,”
“Nice,” Mori states from above, making Carter look up at him, “Haruhi said you two are related and I’m still trying to figure out who got mutated,” She mutters, a small blush taking over her cheeks when the tall male smiles and gives a little huff of a laugh. 
“That’s funny!” Honey laughs, bouncing his bunny around to the tune as Carter plays it piece by piece, while Ella repeats it, though not as fast or at the correct rhythm, but still surprising for two people that don’t know how to read music. After a little while, the bell rings for final period and the rest of the club bursts in.
“Suit up, everyone!” Tamaki exclaims and everyone rushes to go behind changing screens… or at least, Haruhi and Kyoya do. The twins and Tamaki just start stripping their tops off as maids appear and start assisting them with adjoining their kimonos. 
“A little warning?” Carter exclaims frustratedly while covering Ellas eyes. Honey hadn’t moved from her side yet, so Mori was still right behind her. “Oh, are you shy?” Tamaki says as seductively as possible, moving to grab her chin, but she flinches back while Honey slaps his hand away. “No touchy, bad Tama-chan,”
“Wow, those two seem possessive,” The twins say with a shrug right before they unbuckle their pants, resulting in a squeak of surprise from Carter as Mori’s large hand gently covers her wide eyes.
“Let’s go,” Mori grumbles while Honey pulls on Carters hand to guide her off the bench and to the mini study room. “Mori senpai, Honey senpai, how about you take Carter and Ella home? They’ve already had a rough day and I haven’t coordinated anything for Carter to do today,” Kyoya says, walking out while tying his robes.
“Sounds good to me,” Carter says, putting up a thumb of approval, despite not knowing where anyone is. “Good. Then we will see you tomorrow morning,” Kyoya states and Carter freezes, “But it’s Saturday? I have to loo-” She starts, but groans when she is interrupted.
“Now, now, tomorrow you’ll be looking over our contract and of course, attending your first club activity,” With that, Mori and Honey lead the females out of the room and uncover their eyes once the doors shut. “I’ve officially been trapped, huh?” Carter questions and pouts at the two nods of confirmation.

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