"Kyoya is my name. Also, a lot of girls in this school seem to be infatuated with me." He says.

'So Ootori dudes name is Kyoya?' I think to myself as we turn the corner. Kyoya stops in front of a fancy door and I run into his side. He glares at me, and I stick my tongue out at him.

His only response is an eye roll as we walk inside what appears to be a classroom.

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Chapter Three: People Assume My Gender

As we walk into the classroom, everyone turns to look at us. Since we're about 10 minutes early to class, the teacher is not here yet, therefore leaving the students time to talk amongst themselves.

I turn back towards Kyoya, just in time to see him getting tackled by a yellow and blue mass at the speed of light.

"KYOYAAAAA!!!" The mass screams. I stand there in utter confusion and shock, watching the scene play out. The blonde mass detaches itself from Kyoya and hops up, Kyoya also gets to his feet. Now I can make out a blonde-haired male with purple eyes and wearing the school uniform.

"Why didn't you answer any of my texts or calls?! You're not setting a very good example as a mother!!!" The blonde shouts dramatically. My jaw drops.

'MOTHER?!?!' I think to myself. I could have sworn Kyoya was male, and I didn't see any mini-Kyoya'a running around his... urrrh... her mansion and Kyoya sure didn't look pregnant. Kyoya looks at me.

"Don't get the wrong idea. I am 100% male. This dumbass here though, has set up a mother-father relationship between us. But I am not gay and he isn't either." Kyoya says and then taps his chin. "I think." After Kyoya announces this, the blonde turns towards me.

"Who's this, Kyoya?" He asks.

"A family friend that is transferring here." Kyoya says, and the blonde approaches me. My face pales and I slowly back away. I might be an infamous criminal, but that doesn't mean I'm not afraid of insane blonde males that suggest other boys are their spouse and probably wear their socks inside out and underwear backwards.

"Woah! Coolio!!!" The blonde says. "I'm Tamaki! What's your name?" He smiles and holds out his hand. I cautiously shake it, then take out my notepad and pencil.

'Hi. My name's Loret' I'm cut off from finishing writing my name when Tamaki grabs my notepad excitedly and inspects it.

"Wow! Why do you write instead of speaking," He glances back down at the page. "Loret?" I growl under my breath and take my notepad back.

'Because I can't speak, dumbass.' I write. Tamaki starts crying and goes into a suddenly dark corner.

"WAAAHHH!!! KYOYA, HE'S JUST AS MEAN AS YOU ARE!!! But what he said was so sad!!! I DUNNO WHETHER TO BE SAD ABOUT HIM OR MYSELFFFF!!!" He cries while sprouting... mushrooms?! That must be a safety hazard.

Wait...

DID HE JUST CALL ME A GUY?!?!

I clench my fists and growl through my teeth. Suddenly I remember what I'm wearing. My short blonde wig and I didn't put on the fugly dress either... And that my shirt is baggy enough to cover up a certain department...

Realization hits me.

'I must look like a guy!!!' I think.

Kyoya is about to correct Tamaki but I put a finger to his lips to shush him. A sly smirk on my face, I write out:

'Let the people think that. This is interesting and I want to see how it plays out.' I tear out the paper and hand it to him. Kyoya reads it and nods in understanding.

I carefully approach the pouring Tamaki.

'Sorry for screaming at you. It's just a sensitive topic for me.' I write on a piece of paper and tear it out. I tap on Tamaki's shoulder, and then hand him the paper.

A few seconds later, Tamaki is slowly coming out of the corner, wiping tears out of his eyes. He sniffs, and is about to say something but then the teacher comes in. Everybody goes to sit in their seat, whereas I am left standing. The teacher, a woman that appears around her late 20's, approaches me.

"Ah, you must be the new student I've been told about. Come up to the front of the class for introductions, please. And don't worry, I've been notified about your condition." The teacher tells me. I nod my head and walk up to the whiteboard hanging from the wall. I notice the trim around the whiteboard is pure gold.

'Damn rich people and their taking everything for granted.' I think to myself. I pick up a marker, uncap it and start writing on the board.

'Hello, my name is Loret Ishi and I am male. I have a throat condition the prevents me from speaking, but I sill hope we can all get along.' When I finish, I put the cap on the marker and place it back where I picked it up. I turn around and bow to the class.

"Woah... he's hot..."

"Do you think he's single?"

"Poor guy, guess his good looks come for a price."

I hear whispers like this from girls all around the room and I smirk to myself. I stand straight up from bowing and turn towards the teacher, an expression of confusion on her face since she must have been informed of the truth.

I put a finger to my lips and make a soft shushing sound, and give her a wink. She understands and gives my a sly smile in return and a thumbs up.

"Loret, you can take a seat next to Nora. Nora, please raise your hand." The teacher says. A navy-blue haired girl with piercing sky-blue eyes raises her hand, and I make my way towards the empty seat next to her.

As I sit down, I can't help but thinking how awesome this teacher is already.

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"So the last step in the equation would to be dividing -8 by -5, leaving you with 1.6." As the teacher finishes saying this, the bell rings and everyone starts gathering their stuff.

"No homework tonight, class! Go home and have fun!" She says. As I am about to walk out the door, I turn and instead walk towards the teacher. She looks up from her desk.

"What is it, Loretta?" She asks.

'I never learnt your name.' I write and show her. She nods her head.

"Yep. I must have forgotten to tell you. My name is Attakai Kokoro. But since I'm a teacher I just go by Ms. Kokoro." She says. I nod.

'Ms. Or Mrs.?' I write. She laughs.

"M-s." She spells out. "I'm the singlest pringle out there." I laugh at that along with her. "But, Loretta, don't get any ideas about hooking me up with someone!" She exclaims with a smile.

'No promises!' I write and give her a seemingly innocent shrug. We both laugh.

"Now, you need to get to your next class before you're late. See you tomorrow." Ms. Kokoro says. We wave to each other and I head out the door, finding Kyoya and Tamaki waiting for me.

'Were you waiting for me the whole time?' I write and show them. Tamaki nods his head.

"Yep! I wouldn't let Kyoya here just leave you to find our second class alone! Think of us as your royal escorts~!" Tamaki sings, sweeping his arms out dramatically. I roll my eyes and start walking.

"Hey! Where are you going?!" I hear Tamaki shout sadly from beside me.

'To the next class.' I write, ripping out the paper and throwing it over my shoulder at the two.

"But you don't even know where that is!" I hear Tamaki complain a few seconds later. I hear footsteps behind me and suddenly Tamaki appears at my side. I roll my eyes as he starts pretending to be a royal escort.

About 30 seconds later, I write on my notepad, telling Tamaki to stop because he's embarrassing me. Tamaki pouts, but obeys nonetheless. We walk down the hall in silence.

I look over my shoulder to see if Kyoya was following us, and sure enough, he wasn't there. I'm about to turn and tell Tamaki but I trip over something.

"Waaaahhhh!!! My cake!" A childish voice says and I look to my right on the floor, noticing a dropped piece of chocolate cake.

I look up, seeing a small boy with blonde hair and big brown eyes that are drowned with tears. The small boy sniffs and as soon as he does tears start cascading down his face.

My eyes widen and I crawl over to where he's standing and give him a hug, making sure to pat his head. After a while he stops crying, and I wipe away his leftover tears with my (clean) hands. I give him a smile, and he gives a small smile back.

'I'm sorry for making you drop your cake.' I write on my notepad and show him.

"It's ok. Usa-Chan and I forgive you! But, why didn't you just speak that instead?" He questions. I look down, just noticing a stuffed bunny that must be Usa-Chan.

'I can't speak.' I write. He reads what I wrote and starts tearing up.

"That's so sad! Do you wanna hold Usa-Chan to feel better? Usa-Chan makes everyone feel better!" He exclaims. I smile and give the stuffed bunny a small hug.

"Do you feel better now?" He asks. I nod my head and a huge grin breaks out on his face and he starts hopping around.

"Yay!!! He feels better! He feels better!" He sings out. I chuckle quietly.

'So, what're you doing here?' I write and show him. He giggles a bit.

"I go to school here, silly!" He says. My eyes widen in confusion. He catches on quickly.

"Ooohhhhh, you don't know I guess! I may not look like it, but I'm actually 17!" He giggles. My mouth drops.

'This cute little boy iS 17 YEARS OLD?!?!' I think. He laughs at my expression.

"Don't look so surprised! Anyways, my name is Mitsukuni Haninozuka but please just call me Honey!!!"

'My name is Loret Ishi. Nice to meet you!' I write and show him. He gives me a closed-eye smile.

"Anyways, I'll see you around Loret~Kun!" He says, and waves at me. He then scoops up his dropped cake and places it in the nearest trash can before running over to a tall guy with black hair and an expressionless face. He softly tugs on his pants.

"Mitsukuni." The tall guy says before picking up Honey~Senpai and placing him on his shoulders.

"Also, this is Takashi!" Honey~Senpai exclaims as he carries him to their next class on his shoulders.

Tamaki walks up to me after the two disappear into the crowd.

"The tall one is Takashi Morinozuka, but everyone just calls him Mori except for Honey." He says. I nod, and we continue walking towards our second-period class.

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Hey there! I just got back from a 9 hour car ride not even 10 minutes ago and I just figured I would upload this ASAP. I feel 666% dead right now. I'm not joking when I say that I wrote this entire chapter in the car between 1 hour naps.

Anywho, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I know I said Akai would meet the host club this chapter, but I didn't really want to rush things. My goal for this book is to make it at least 20 chapters and I've planned the main events of the entire book already so yep. The next major event should be in the next chapter, which if you haven't guessed it's Akai officially meeting or possibly becoming part of the host club. And the major event after that should be... I dunno... two to four chapters after this?

So yep, that's it. And let's celebrate me finally getting a chapter back up to 2000+ words. Woot woot!

⎈Ecopia⎈

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