HEY!
So let me set the story for you all: This is one year before the real story starts. The real story starts where the manga ended off, though Haruhi and the Host club don't go to America. I know many were confused about the timeline. So Tamaki and Kyoya are in 3-A. Kelly, Haruhi and the Twins are in 2-A. Mackenzie and two others are going to be in 1-A. This is going to focus on Mackenzie and Hikaru, though I'll go towards Kelly and her host in different chapters.

Thank you to everyone who stuck through the months of not updating. Life got tough but now i'm out of school and ready to update. Other stories are going to come out soon, so watch out.

None of the characters besides Kelly and Mackenzie belong to me.

Logbook: June 20th –Last Week of 8th Grade-
Seattle Washington –Abelson's Private Middle School-
10:35 AM

Mackenzie pushed back her hair for the hundredth time that day. Her eyes only left the paper only for a moment. The clock was ticking by, slowly, as her eyes went back to the math problem.

My eyes are going to catch on fire.

Mackenzie quickly filled out the bubble, messily, as she moved onto the next problem. She knew that she should have studied harder but Jacob got sick last week and she needed to help her mom out. Her dad was already busy with his video game business, he didn't need to worry about his son. Not that it stopped him, he was calling and texting every moment he could.

Sighing, she quickly went through the rest of the test. Filling out random bubbles for those she knew she didn't know. She was done about ten minutes later. After quietly flipping the test shut, she looked up at the teacher. After a moment, Mackenzie's eyes moved around the room. Not many students were done, this was a long test in an hour long class, but some of those 'genus' people were done. Flipping through notecards and one was on her phone. Ms. Bards didn't pay any attention to them, they were the teacher's pet.

Not that I'm any different…

"Great another nerd is done…"

Mackenzie didn't look behind her, only looked at the teacher to see if she heard. This was not going to be fun if they get into trouble because Ms. Bards basically believed in getting everyone into trouble if one student was not following the rules.

"Please be quiet!"

Mackenzie smirked at the tone in Ms. Bards' voice. The girls behind Mackenzie were trying not to mouth off to the teacher but everyone knew that this was the last day of school. They couldn't risk stay after for detention.

Logbook: June 20th –Same Day-
Seattle Washington –Brook's Home-
1:15 PM

"Hello Mackenzie!"

As Mackenzie walked through the door she felt herself get hugged by her younger brother, Jacob. Anna was playing with her mom at the moment. Mackenzie wasn't Anna's favorite person, only because Mom gave her everything she wanted.

"Hey mom." Mackenzie said as she patted Jacob on the head.

"How was school?"

"Fine, we got out early because it was the last day."

"That sound nice."

Mackenzie walked into the living room, the floor was filled with toys and art supplies. Mackenzie would have been more surprised if she saw the floor spotless.

"Dad should be home for dinner today…" Mackenzie's mom told her as she sat down with Jacob to watch some TV.

"Sounds nice…" Mackenzie yawned, feeling the late study night coming back to bite her in the butt.

"You sound tired…"

"I am." Mackenzie eyed her mother, who kept giving her glances as Mackenzie went to sit on the couch. Jacob wouldn't let go of her at all, but Mackenzie was more focused on her mother's tone at the moment.

Mom's getting somewhere… please don't tell me that she's going to make me do something. I just got home from school!

"So you're not going to-"

"Mom I just got home, can I just hang around."

"Honey, I was going to ask if you want to do a small job for a friend of mine."

Mackenzie looked up at her mom and Anna colored something. It looked like a picture of a house and a tree, something to typical. Though Anna looked like she was going to become a great artist when she grew up, she kept drawing things like houses and trees. For a six year old, she was typical. Though maybe Mackenzie was being a little harsh on her sister.

"For who?"

"Jenny."

Mackenzie groaned loudly at the sound of that bitch's name. It wasn't usual that Mackenzie would call someone a bitch, but it makes sense for Jenny. She always tugged Mackenzie's mother around back in High School, all the bad things. Her mother wasn't very social on what exactly happened but Jenny was. Not that Mackenzie was paying attention. She wanted to keep a good sweet memory of her mother.

"What kind of job." Trying to be more mature, Mackenzie held onto Jacob to keep her calm.

"Modeling, the actual model did something and so she quit" Her mother looking at Anna's picture. "Or something."

Bet my stuff turtle that Jenny had something to do with it…

Logbook: June 28th -Week After School ended-
Seattle Washington –Small Studio-
2:54 PM

"Mackenzie's dressing room is down there, please wait for us to come and get you." Jenny said over her shoulder as she walked arm in arm with Mackenzie's mother back to the main building.

Leave me alone why don't you…

Mackenzie sighed deeply as she turned around and went to the door that Jenny pointed to. This wasn't going to be any fun if I have to wait in here the whole time. She figured that there must be a chair or a couch to take a nap on, might as well.

But of course what Mackenzie didn't know was that two familiar, to us, boys took up the dressing room she was going to walk into. This wasn't going to be a boring time for her at all. In actuality she was going to have her whole life flipped upside down. Nothing is going to be boring again. (MUHAHAHA)

Mackenzie opened the door, not at all gently, and quickly walked inside. She didn't see the two boys until she closed the door. Both of them were sitting on the couch that the door blocked. Mackenzie jumped back in surprise, not to sure how to respond to this. Well, she did think that this could be some kind of prank that Jenny thought of. She is too old to be doing this…

"Hello…" She looked at the boys, noting that they were twins.

Hot twins. Both had red hair, Japanese and had a mischievous look in their eyes. With all the stories she read, the horror ones come to mind at the moment, this meant that Mackenzie was in for a wild ride.

"So you're the replacement?" One of the twins got up, he was wearing a blue jacket. She needed to keep in mind what they were wearing so she could tell them apart.

"Pretty much…"

They looked her up and down. The blue jacket twin had a disapproving look on his face at her attempt of fashion. In general, the sweatshirt she was wearing was very comfortable and the skinny jeans felt nice. His brother, green tank top and light grey jacket, gave her the same look.

"So who are you?"

"I'm Hikaru." The blue jacket twin pointed to himself. "This is Kaoru, my brother."

"The dress that's featured in the magazine today is our mom's design."

I stared at both of them. So they were here on behalf of their mother… that's a new one. Was this even real or was this a dream. She's back at home and believing she was going to be a model? She was resting on her bed, book still laying on her chest. Mentally shaking her head, she went back to the twins at hand.

"You two are sons of a fashion designer?"

They both nodded at Mackenzie as the grey jacket twin, Kaoru, got up from his seat and walked over to Mackenzie. He was taller than her by at least half a foot.

"Why are you here then?" She asked, having to tilt her head up to look at him.

"Bored."

"What he said." Blue jacket,Hikaru, narrowed his eyes at Mackenzie, getting up and walking over to where his brother stood. "Have you ever waxed your eyebrows?"

She reached up and covered her eyebrows. Giving the twins a suspicious glare, she took little steps back. This was giving her a very bad feeling. One she knew wasn't because of the horror stories she read about twins. Well maybe it's a bigger part but that wasn't the topic at hand.

"Never."

"That's about to change." Hikaru came over and rested his arm on Mackenzie's shoulder, holding her in place.

Logbook: Same Day
Makeup/Hair room
3:36PM

"OUCH!"

Once Mackenzie got over the pain she reached to the nearest twin, which was Hikaru because he was wearing the blue jacket, and pinched him.

"Ow, just because you're in pain doesn't mean I have to be!" Hikaru whined as he pulled his arm away.

"Poor baby." I joked, it was easy to get comfortable around these two. They were all joke and games, not that Mackenzie was able to trust them completely.

"Wow she has a sense of humor." Hikaru rolled his eyes. "Someone call the press."

"How about-"Another rip and Mackenzie felt the pain of her eyebrow being waxed.

All three of them were sitting in the makeup room, or at least Mackenzie thought it was. The girl who was doing her eyebrows was trying hard not to laugh or blush, because of the twins, as she waxed my eyebrows. Not that Mackenzie blamed her.

"Thanks for doing this."

"Of course, plus we would have to do it anyways." She whipped a cloth against her eyebrows. "You two need to get her dress."

"Alright." They both said before walking out.

We waited in silence as the twins came back with the dress. It was very beautiful. Mackenzie didn't know much about dresses but she could tell it was one of a kind. The dress had a forest print with blue and pinks with some purples.

"I can't wear that." Mackenzie looked at the dress in awe, this wasn't going to go well if she accidently ripped it or something.

"You have to…" Hikaru said slowly, trying to figure why I didn't want to wear it.

Before Mackenzie would be able to answer, a new voice came in. This was also another character to change Mackenzie's life. Another addition to the Twin's annoyance.

"Hikaru, Kaoru?" A voice came out behind the twins.

The twins both noticeable stiffened in shock and because of who it was. Because of their height and where they stood, Mackenzie couldn't see who the person was clearly. But she could defiantly tell it was a girl.

"Don't tell me it's-"

"You're best friend-"

"Not how I would put it Kelly…"

The girl, Kelly, went around the twins to face them fully but found someone else more interesting. Glanced at the dress and then to Mackenzie then back to the dress.

"Oh you're the new model." Kelly said with a smile, her heels clicked as she walked towards Mackenzie.

"Who was going to get dressed so get out."

"Shouldn't you two get out, I got it from here." Kelly looked behind her shoulder at the twins.

The twins gave Kelly a look, not a murderous one though, as they handed the dress to Kelly before walking away. Mackenzie had to hold back in keeping them here. She knew that she had to change, she wasn't doing that in front of them, but this girl was someone she just met.

"Sorry about them, they have a huge attitude problem." Kelly turned back to Mackenzie, handing her the dress.

"They were sort of nice." Mackenzie was the kind of person to just go with the flow. "Are they really sons of a famous fashion designer?"

"Unfortunately, but I didn't think they would come all the way over here to-"

"I heard that it was their creation, not their mom's" the girl who did Mackenzie's make up spoke up.

"Now it makes sense." Kelly smiled. "Those two might have wanted to make sure their dress gets good photos."

"Hmm." Mackenzie looked down at the dress. After the 30 minutes of time spent with the twins, she could only get so much out of their personality but they didn't seem like the type to create something this beautiful.

Plus why is she wearing it. If this was some huge fashion designer's son's dress then why isn't someone as famous wearing it? Maybe Jenny thought it was another thing that can pull her into the modeling world. Mackenzie remembers her mom was the one who always wanted her to be girly. Mackenzie also knew that if Anna was old enough, she would be doing this. Not Mackenzie.

"Mackenzie should get dressed, we still have to do her hair and makeup."

Logbook: Same Day
Same Place
4:24 PM

Mackenzie wasn't surprise about how she was able to walk in heels. She was surprised about how the dress fit her well.

Actually she was but she was more surprised about how amazing she looked. With her hair done, big waves, her makeup giving her a sort of dark look, she looked amazing. Mackenzie had self-image issues, most teens do, but she knew when she looked good. It was just how things went for her. Looking at herself now, she wasn't skinny and you could see the small pudge when she wore tight shirts. Her thighs touched, no thigh gap. But that wasn't something she was going to worry about. At least right now.

"Hun, if you actually ate less then-"

"Unless my doctor tells me." I gave Jenny a look. "Sorry you can't eat whatever you want, hun."

Over by the set,Kelly and the Twins laughed. They were watching Mackenzie tell of Jenny as Kelly explained why she was here in the first place.

"Well I heard that you two were in Seattle for this shoot and I was in Cali for a shoot." Kelly flipped her hair. "So I just thought to show up."

"That isn't a reason Kelly…" Kaoru sighed.

"You're sister-in-law is going to blame this on us again." Hikaru rolled his eyes, watching Mackenzie walk over to them.

"Jenny needs to grow up." Kaoru looked over at Mackenzie while stopped next to Kelly, holding onto her as she relaxed her feet.

"Not that you two can actually talk about that." Kelly laughed as the twins crossed their arms.

"You can leave whenever you want."

"Nice as always, I'm staying to make sure Mackenzie over there doesn't go home crying because of you." Kelly grabbed onto Mackenzie and hugged the air out of the model for a day.

"She's wearing our dress, we won't do anything."

"I highly doubt that…"

"PLACES!" The photographer yelled as Kelly let go of her new friend, pushing her over to the set.

"Who is that?" Hikaru spoke up, not in a good mood for no reason.

The three of them watched as a guy about their age walk over to Mackenzie. Extremely good looking boy, who was making one Mackenzie blush. Kelly giggled at Mackenzie's shyness. The twins had their charm but this guy looked a little more pleasant than the twins. Something that had always made Kelly laughed since she knows them pretty well. They were just emotional brats who had way too much time on their hands.

"Jealous that your dress has a hot guy next to it?" Kelly raised her eyebrows. "Or love at first sight."

"Why would I care?"

"Alright quiz time." Kelly stood in front of the twins. "What's her name?"

"Mackenzie, now move." Hikaru said pushing the girl away.

"Meanie." Kelly smiled, she knew Hikaru was falling for someone else, though to who? Looking over to Kaoru she widen her smile.

"Love at first sight!"

"Not really, you know him." Kaoru smiled. "He gets jealous at anything he thinks is his."

"Maybe he thinks the girl is his, not just the dress?"

Hikaru walked back over to them after he was done talking to the photographer about what kind of pictures he was taking. Hikaru didn't looked pleased at all.

"He's too dumb for that." Kaoru sighed. "Maybe…

Kelly smirked, turned her attention back towards Mackenzie who was being hugged from behind by the guy. Oh Boy did the girl look uncomfortable. Kelly was about to do something but then again, maybe Hikaru could?

"Hikaru change with the guy." Kelly said quickly.

"Why should I have to?" Hikaru glared at the girl

They both knew what she was talking about, I'm pretty sure everyone knew that Mackenzie wasn't comfortable. Hikaru sighed as he thought about how Kelly would do everything to convince him to change places.

"Alright fine, just let me get changed."

Kaoru smirked as Hikaru walked over to grab some pants and a jacket. Walking behind a wall, Hikaru proceeded to change. Kaoru and Kelly watched out for other people, Kelly fought back to give a glance since she wanted to know just how fit he was.

"Alright done." Hikaru huffed as he walked over to the set.

Kelly watched the hansom devil, wow that actually fits him perfectly, talk to the photographer for a minute before calling the boy off the set. She didn't miss the glare the boy gave towards Hikaru. Kelly watched Hikaru block Mackenzie, mostly just her face, from everyone's sight.

"You two will do anything." Kelly smirked, giving Kaoru a knot in his stomach. Not for romantic reasons.

"It is our first design, we want it to go well."

Kelly glanced back up at Kaoru, she knew about him being nicer than his brother but this was different. He was actually being truthful. Well, he hasn't really been like this before, maybe they are changing.

"Haruhi is good for you two."

"How-"

"I know your other friends also, that one guy in glasses told me."

"Kyoya?"

"Yeah, I was wondering how you two were."

"You could have-"

"You two wouldn't have answered, but for some reason I think you two will now."

Kaoru didn't say anything as we just watched Hikaru and Mackenzie take photo's together. Kaoru felt a bit bad for her. She didn't know the other guy but that didn't mean she wasn't nervous with someone she knew for thirty minutes. Kelly would have been better, but she has the chest size too big for a binder. Haruhi would be able to but she has a concave chest.

"Oh no, Hikaru has that look in his eyes." Kelly whispered.

"What look?" Kaoru came out of his thoughts, looking over at his brother.

"That teasing look, this isn't going to end well…"

Kelly's words were held truth, some truth that is. It won't end well today at least. Moving on to the two who were taking pictures together. After Hikaru explained that she was to stiff, they began again.

Mackenzie held her breath as Hikaru, again, pinched her side. Hikaru's stare didn't falter but Mackenzie's body kept shaking from the pain. The photographer was giving her looks, wondering what the hell she was doing. She smiled and held the pose for as long as she could.

"Hikaru, I'm going to hurt you." She whispered.

"Oh hun don't be so mean."

"Don't mock Jenny like that, I'm going to throw up."

Hikaru laughed softly into her ear as he shifted his weight to his other leg, keeping his hands on her waist. Mackenzie was about a couple seconds away from ripping off the hands if they squeezed her one more time. Mostly because of the knot in her stomach which was all.

"Alright now we need to get a kiss on the cheek and we can be done."

Mackenzie wasn't worried about the kiss on the cheek. Maybe a little bit. She was more worried about what Hikaru might do. From the teasing he just did, she was a little worried about what he would do.

"Don't do anything strange."

"Like what?" Hikaru faced towards the photographer as Mackenzie got into place to place her lips on his cheek.

"Actually kiss me on the lips."

"You are one of those-"

"Rather not have my first kiss experience stolen by you."

"I'm an amazing kisser."

"Not the point Hikaru." I glared at him.

"How old are you?"

"15."

"Seriously, just a year younger than me."

"Going to be in 9th grade at the beginning of September.

"Japan school's start in April." Hikaru didn't know if he was getting the months right in English. "So you might be in my grade…"

"Which is 6th grade?"

Hikaru turned towards her, thankfully she wasn't that close to him yet. He held back any yelling he would have done and thankfully went for the mature route.

"1st year of high school, which would be…"

"10th grade, not that impressive in American culture."

"How did you know?" Hikaru gave Mackenzie a look.

"I'm taking Japanese, they teach us about other things besides the language."

"Hm…"

"So you live in Japan?"

"Duh."

"Did you just mock annoying girls?"

"Pretty much."

"Alright you two, I'm ready."

Hikaru smirked as they both got into place. Mackenzie was a little impressed that he lived in Japan. Not that it made Hikaru any more appealing than just his looks. She was attracted to him and his brother.

Mackenzie shook away the thoughts and focus on kissing Hikaru on the cheek.

"Don't be nervous, hun."

Oh that is it, Mackenzie was finished with him. She didn't know why she was so annoyed at him but she was. Mackenzie reached out to pinch Hikaru a little bit on his side, only a little. She thought he could handle it.

But he didn't.

Hikaru jumped a little and turned his head. Miscalculations in the fact Mackenzie was reaching up to kiss him on the cheek but ended up actually kissing him. It wasn't a very good kiss, she kissed his lips only a little but it was enough for Mackenzie. She jumped back in surprise, along with Hikaru, at the close contact.

"Sorry." Mackenzie's eyes were wide and a blush was started to rise.

"It was your fault in the first place."

"Don't have to be rude about it." Mackenzie placed her hands on her hips and glared at him.

Hikaru didn't say anything as he smirked again. Both of them knew it wasn't a big deal but it was embarrassing.

"Hm… how about you two actually kiss."

They both stared at one another as the words left the photographer's mouth. Hikaru could swear he heard Kaoru laughing. His eyes left Mackenzie's and looked over to the photographer. He looked completely serious.

"Um..."

But he looked back down at Mackenzie. She was standing there, blushing and nervous. It was actually pretty cut-. He needed to get a grip before he did something he would regret.

"Maybe not…"

Mackenzie's eyes shot up and she gave out a sigh, she sounded relieved to Hikaru. But that's when things turned sour.

"I can't believe that he just said that." Kelly laughed into her palm, trying to keep quiet.

"Me either."

Kelly watched as Mackenzie said something to Hikaru quickly. She was quite cute about things, being all nervous. Hikaru wasn't going to bite- maybe. Who knows with that boy…

"I high doubt that Hikaru would do anything though." Kelly almost started laughing again from just thinking about what Hikaru would do. "Right…"

But just as Kelly said something, Mackenzie turned around to get off the set. It was only a matter of time before she was red all over. Kelly watched as Hikaru reached out to grab Mackenzie but spun her around too fast. Plus she was wearing heels.

So she ended up falling backwards, tugging a surprised Hikaru along with her. Sadly this meant Hikaru fell on top of this girl.

Plus with this boy involved, Kelly thought, another accidental kiss was involved.

"And now would you look at that, Hikaru is kissing Mackenzie on the ground."

Kaoru wasn't listening anymore, running off to help his brother out. Leaving Kelly to stand and watch the scene unfold. A beautiful scene that she knew was going to be the start to their romance, if it was the last thing she even knew.

Logbook: Same Day
Same Place
4:45 PM

After getting Mackenzie out of her dress and her makeup off, she sat there. Reliving the past hour. The past hour of meeting 3 new people, kissing one of them 2 times. Thus she was starting to develop a dumb crush on the boy. Mackenzie knew she needed to get back to reality fast. The twins had already left, saying they had other things to do. Though Hikaru wasn't talking to her what so ever. Not that she minded, it was a bit awkward, she just thought Hikaru was a bit more mature than that.

"That was a roller coaster."

"Pretty much."

Kelly stared at her new friend, as Mackenzie stared into space. Kissing someone would do that to a girl. Well, if you're worried about that kind of thing. Everyone is different. Kelly would have been throwing up, but maybe that's because she knew the twins since they were little. But onto another topic.

"So… I got an offer for you."

Mackenzie looked over at Kelly, wondering what the girl was up to. To be honest, she reminded Mackenzie of the twins, only a little. Kelly was a lot nicer than those two. Well at least one of them.

"How about you become a model with me?"

"Huh?"

After everything that happened today, this wasn't the most surprising thing today. Not after the kiss, but this was a surprise.

"What do you mean?"

"Well I'm interested in you, in a best friend way." Kelly said putting her hands up. "I mean you're super attractive and I do swing both ways but, you appeal to me more in a friend way."

"You do realize that sounds weird…"

"But come on, it'll be fun!" Kelly winked. "Plus I know I can teach you the ropes."

"How about I think about it…"

"Sure but be sure to tell me later on." Kelly said, reaching for a piece of paper out of somewhere along with a pen.

"Here you go." Kelly said after writing something down. "Don't forget me."

Kelly handed Mackenzie the paper before running out of the room. The paper had her name and a phone number along with another name. Eliza Pierce, must be her relative.

Wow, it's in a different POV. Plus both appearances changed. I'll go over a couple next chapter. Thank you for reading! Please comment!