A/N: Hey guys! This is my first fanfic, so please leave a review, even if it's something like, "I read it. It's okay." Constructive criticism welcomed. Please no flames.

I have a Polyvore account that will have the outfits that my OC, Lorena, on it. The username is dragonheart4568. I will also have the end of the link that you copy and paste after the normal polyvore dot com so that you guys know that there is an outfit on there for that chapter. I hope that makes sense...oh well.

After arriving in Japan just a few short days ago, this was to be the first day that Lorena Darrow was going to attend Ouran Academy. Yes, that is the name of the infamous school for the rich and prestigious school for the "elite". The reason she was able to attend such a fancy school was all thanks to her father who lived back in America.

Her father is the President of a big car company. He claimed he wanted "the best for his beloved daughter".

Yeah, that and he was probably forced to send her to this school by his wife, her stepmother. She hated every particle of her being. So, to keep her out of her way, she sent her to Japan, not like she was complaining, though. She preferred living on her own, it was easier. Quieter.

Anyways, she had discovered the day before that Ouran had a uniform. When she went to pick it up, her glare nearly burned it into ashes right then and there.

The female uniform they had tried to give her was a horrid yellow dress with poofy sleeves and little black shoes.

She inquired if there was an alternative to this, and was told that she could wear the male uniform-albeit getting strange looks as well. She was also informed that it was "required" to wear the female uniform.

Bullshit.

After blatantly telling them that no way in hell was she going to wear that ugly thing, they finally consented to giving her the male's uniform.

When she saw the males uniform, it looked much better than the dress.

The male's uniform consisted of dark blue dress pants, a matching blue blazer with the Ouran symbol on the left breast pocket, a black tie, and a white, button-up, collared shirt.

She accepted the five pairs of male's uniforms with a small smile and a thanks.

But now, she was on her way to go to class.

As expected, she got many incredulous stares, whispers behind my back, and a few brave souls even tried to approach her. It all cane with being the new kid at school.

She would just politely excuse herself from any conversation, saying that she didn't want to be late to class.

Lorena didn't consider herself anything special to look at. She thought she was pretty average in fact. Shoulder-length, straight blonde hair, blue eyes, average height, and average weight.

After wandering aimlessly for a good eight minutes, she finally made it to her classroom. Walking in, she saw that everyone was in the classroom and ready to go. The teacher decided to go ahead with the introduction.

"Class, this is our transfer student, Lorena Darrow. Lorena-chan transferred here from America. Are there any questions for Lorena?"

There were the usual questions asked, like "Where are you from?" "What are some of your hobbies?" One male student jokingly asked "Are you single?" Which she responded with a short "Yes."

In fact, for most of the questions she kept it to one word answers or made them as short as possible.

She found a special amusement by annoying two identical, red-headed twins by continuously avoiding eye contact with either of them, despite their continuing questions.

Then came the question she had been expecting the whole day, "Why are you wearing the boy's uniform and not the girl's uniform?"

She simply smiled at the girl who had asked, reassuring her that the question was completely alright and she didn't have to fear that she had been offended in some way. "I just prefer to wear this uniform." She refrained from saying how she also thought the dresses were extremely hideous and the person who designed them should be fired, then set on fire.

Thankfully, the questions ended after that and Lorena was told where she was going to be sitting.

Just her luck, she was going to sit next to one of the twins in the back, who had turned their attention from her at some point through the game of 20 questions and were now pestering another girl with short brown hair, big brown eyes, and whom was also wearing the male's uniform.

As soon as she sat down, the twin who sat closest to her turned and said, "Hi there! My name is Kaoru Hitachiin, and my brother here is Hikaru Hitachiin. Nice to meet you!" Hearing their introduction, Hikaru popped up next to Kaoru and they set their arms around each other.

She saw now that Hikaru parts his hair to his left and Kaoru parts his hair to his right. They were nearly perfectly identical, except for the underlying tones in their voices.

She couldn't bring herself to look them in their eyes, so she politely looked at their foreheads instead, smiling.

"So Lorena.." Hikaru started.

"Do you want to come to the Host Club after school with us?" Kaoru finished.

She tilted her head, confused. "What's a 'Host Club'?" The twins just looked at her incredulously. She had also attracted the attention of some people sitting nearby as they also turned to stare at her like she just stabbed a cat in the face. The girl whom the twins were pestering earlier laughed at them.

She leaned over her desk and looked around the twins to the girl, still confused. She just smiled and extended her hand. "I'm Haruhi Fujioka, pleased to make your acquaintance Lorena. I'm sorry, I just found it funny you stunned these two into silence."

"It's nice to meet you too."

"Wow! That's the most we've heard from you all day! I was beginning to think you couldn't speak Japanese very well!" Hikaru exclaimed, drawing her attention back to them.

Her patience and initial interest were beginning to wear away with talking to these loud people.

She nodded in acknowledgement and looked towards the front and pretended to pay attention to the lecture the teacher was giving. Seeming to take the hint, Hikaru went back to his seat and back to pestering Haruhi. While it was obvious to her that Haruhi was biologically a female, everyone referred to her as a male. In that case, Lorena would too.

Kaoru attempted a few more times to engage her in conversation, but she wasn't participating all that much.

Finally lunch rolled around and Lorena grabbed her lunch bag. "Hey Lorena, come eat lunch with us! We can introduce you to the other Host Club members!" Hikaru and Kaoru offered.

She shrugged, why not?

"Oh, that's right, you still don't know what a Host Club is, do you?" Haruhi asked politely with a small apologetic grin. Lorena shook her head.

On the way to the lunch hall, she explained that it was basically a bunch of rich guys with too much time on their hands who entertained young, also rich, ladies who also had too much time on their hands. She also said that she was in the Host Club as well.

It kind of sounded silly, but Haruhi had been nothing but kind so far, so it couldn't be that bad.

I hope they won't try to make me do anything weird. But then again, if this club was anything like the rest of this school, I'll be fresh out of luck. It wasn't until later had she discovered how right she was.