She stood outside the doors of the third music room wringing her hands and staring at the door. She had been there for a good amount of time now, afraid to go in. But enough was enough and with all her courage, she knocked on the door firmly.

The door opened instantly and she was greeted with a cloud of roses that seemed to materialize out of nowhere. As she picked a petal out of her hair, her hand was seized by a handsome blonde haired boy.

"Dear princess, welcome to the Ouran Host Club, I am Tamaki Suoh it is my greatest pleasure to meet you." He kissed her hand, and she blushed deeply, not used to the attention of a boy, and a rather beautiful boy at that.

Her new-found beauty had just came recently and had missed her awkward middle school years. She remembered in horror, the glasses, the bad haircut, the lack of chest, a bit of the baby fat, it was an awful time for her. And she blamed her ugliness for the break up of the only boyfriend she ever had in her life.

Starting high school, she vowed she would be beautiful. She transformed entirely without her glasses, without the bad haircut, without her awkwardness and baby fat. And not only did she become beautiful, very immensely so. She received attention wherever she went, and jaws dropped when she walked past.

But even so, she was not used to such attention from men because the only attention she received her whole life up until now was from the one boy in her life that liked her during the awkward years.

But even he had broken her heart, and unable to forgive him, she would now have her revenenge.

Her mission reinstated itself in her mind and she pushed forward.

"Thank you for your warm welcome, but my visit has to be short, I would like to briefly talk to Kaoru Hitachiin." Tamaki nodded and navigated the room until you came to a tea table with guests and hosts having tea.

The auburn haired twins had their backs turned to her, but she could tell the one on the right would be Kaoru.

Not because she could particularly tell which twin was which, but she just knew from their habits and growing up with them that she could distinguish the twins apart.

They suddenly stood up and put on their caps and after switching a bunch of times, they asked the ladies

"Which one is Hikaru?" in unison.

The poor girl looked confused and almost scared to get it wrong, so she intervened to help out.

"The one on the right is Kaoru." she said.

The twins turned around knowing that she was right and clapped "Someone got it right!" They said happily, together.

When Hikaru turned to see her, he didn't recognize her and congratulated her as if she were just anyone, then he sat down and engaged in conversation with the ladies.

But Kaoru knew and recognized her instantly even though he saw how much she had changed. "Akane." he smiled fondly saying the name of his childhood friend.

"I haven't seen you in a while." he said.

"Then it seems like I did a good job of avoiding you this whole time." she thought

"I've been very busy." she lied.

He nodded in understanding "And I know you are too, but do you think you have a minute to talk?" he looked over and seeing his brother handling everything, he nodded and led her outside to the hallway.

He leaned on the wall next to the window in the shadow while she stood in the light "I heard her modeling campaign was going well, you made Vogue last week."

"Its funny, who would have thought that ugly awkward girl from middle school would ever become a model." she said, there was a pause and she found him staring at her

"Your eyes have changed, you never had blue eyes." he said. "Colored contacts, they look better this way." she said, but he made no comment

"I came to give you these designs my mom made for the fashion show." She took out a folder and handed it to him.

He looked through the designs for the dual fashion show your moms were collaborating on. Your mom and his mom were best friends so you and him grew up together with the same love of fashion. This was the first show they were working together on, and you were very excited for them.

"This is strange, I don't see the designs for what you're going to wear." he said "Auntie said she would design my gown for the show."

Auntie, that's what she called his mom and thats what he called her mom.

"You can help your mom out, if you don't mind. You know what I like." She said.

He put the folder under his arm "I'll see what I can do."

"I can't wait to see them." She smiled and turned around to leave

"Akane."

"Yes?"

"Its nice to see you again. I've missed you." he went back into the music room and she placed her hand over her heart to steady herself.

He was still the only person who could make her heart race so much with a mere look, and a few words.

The day for the fashion show by the moms was scheduled to be happening really soon. Akane helped her mother with as much as she can from modeling some of the clothes herself to actually doing some tailoring.

Right now though, she was just coloring in some sketches when the doorbell rang. She was so concentrated on her work she didn't even hear the doorbell ring or hear the door of the work room open as a sneaking little devil crept up behind her.

Kaoru rested his chin on her shoulder and pointed to the white shawl that she hadn't colored in yet "You should leave that white, it makes the dress pop out more that way."

Akane spun around surprised and came face to face with Kaoru, she screamed and backed up into the workbench and knocked the table over! Piles of paper, cloth, and pencils flew everywhere and in the frenzy, she tripped on her own foot and fell flat on her butt.

Kaoru laughed and laughed, pretty soon he was crying and rolling on the floor at her little flub.

She pouted angrily and punched him on the shoulder "Its not that funny, stop laughing at me."

But he couldn't quit laughing. She climbed ontop of him and pinched his cheeks and his laughter turned in cries of pain

"Is this funny! Is this funny now? Why aren't you laughing anymore? Laugh!" she said as she continued to torture him.

She was getting a kick out of making him cry when he grabbed her sides and began tickling her!

She fell over and begged him to stop but he kept tickling her and she rolled on the ground laughing and he did as well, she rolled on top her stomach and his arms suddenly came around her like an embrace.

He stopped and she froze. Quickly he removed his arms from around her and she moved away from him.

"Sorry about that." he apologized.

She blushed and re-angled her reading glasses on her face.

"Don't worry about it, I got a little carried away too."

"Do you want me to help you pick things up?" he asked

"That'll be great." And they picked up papers in silence.

Kaoru handed Akane the stack of papers he picked up and their hands touched, she felt a bit of electric shock, and if he did too he didn't show it.

The moment between them was about to get much more awkward if the mothers hadn't shown up.

"Kaoru, Akane, what are you two doing on the floor! Come on children, we have business to do, chop chop." The moms ushered Akane and Kaoru into the living room and talks of the show began for real.

Kaoru revealed some of his designs that he had helped his mother do and they were really really good. Kaoru had a real talent with colors and textures and everything he designed was very grand and beautiful. Akane's mom was especially impressed by everything he had sketched and decided to use all of his designs in the show. He was beaming with confidence and finally he showed them the designs that he had intended for Akane.

Taking one look she noticed they were casual and rather ordinary and not at all like the grand and beautiful designs he had made otherwise.

"Did you draw these?" she asked

"Yes, do you not like them?"

"Its not that, I was just wondering, why your designs for me look so different then the ones." Akane asked

"Is it because you don't think I can pull off the other dresses?" Before Kaoru could respond, his mother interjected

"Akane is right Kaoru, you should have put a little bit more effort into these designs! She can't wear something so ordinary that you can find off the street. Don't you worry Akane, I have something I personally designed for you."

"Thank you auntie Hitachiin, whatever it is, I know I'll love it." Mrs. Hitachiin, flattered beyond belief threw her arms around Akane

"Oh, how I wish you would be my daughter, you gorgeous little thing!"

Kaoru silently packed away his designs and trying to hide the fact that he was slightly offended that Akane didn't want to wear designs that he worked so hard to make just for her. But still the show would go on.