It was after school hours. Ouran Academy was empty and you had left your journal in one of your classrooms, so you went back to grab it, hoping to just walk home afterward and go on with your day.

As you heard the familiar chuckles and footsteps of the Hitachiin twins wandering around the empty school, you hid immediately with precision and silence.

You couldn’t let them find you, and you knew you had to find a way out.

The twins, Hikaru and Kaoru, both powerful and influential, had been trying to coerce you into their lives since you came to Ouran on scholarship.

You were smart, kind, sweet, and way too humble for Ouran Academy, where the rich and powerful and ever so prideful students collectively attended. You weren’t like any of the female clients of the Host Club either—in fact you seemed to heavily avoid it.

So intrigued by a helpless yet intelligent commoner girl like yourself, both of them fell for you hard and soon came to a personal agreement to try to help you—the way they want to, of course.

Wiring money transfers to your account whenever they hear you mention anything relating to finance, but immediately receiving them back. Gifts you refuse to accept. Asking to hang out, but to no avail. Even asking for tutoring in classes you know they excel in.

No matter how many times they try to rope you in, you keep finding loopholes to escape them.

You can't even look at them without feeling like you've committed some sort of atrocity—and you're praying they didn't hear you just now.