The little mouse and the silent bull

Joining

This school was a maze. I had walked passed the same painting at least ten times before I just took a different path entirely. I looked down at the map I was given and ended up running into someone. I fell on my butt and the other person dropped something. I sat up and saw that it was a man with glasses and his laptop had fallen to the ground as well as his drink ended up on his shirt and face. I quickly got up and carefully picked up his laptop. There was a large crack across the screen. "I'm so sorry." I said quietly, afraid that he was going to yell at me. "Do you have enough money to pay for it to be repaired?" He asked. "P-probably not." He grabbed my arm and pulled me along to an abandoned music room. He pushed the doors opened and I got hit in the face by a flying cake. I just stood there. Someone pulled it off and two people pulled me into the room. I heard the door close. "See? This is why you have to be careful." I felt someone lick my cheek. "Honey-senpai! Don't lick him!" I mentally sighed and went to wipe my face with my sleeve when someone else wiped my face for me. "I'm sorry for them." I blinked my eyes open and saw a girl in front of me with a rag and a tray full of cake scraps. Someone was whining about the waste of cake, three people were arguing, and one person was typing away on a computer. The girl helped me clean my face and the guy who I ran into called me over. He didn't know my name so he just called me "guy who broke my laptop screen" or something like that. I went over and he took the broken one. He pointed at the screen and I blinked a bit. I took my glasses out of my bag and put them on. I cleaned the lenses and looked through them again. "I can't see very well." He took my glasses and cleaned them himself. He looked through them. "Where on earth did you get these glasses? The lenses are incredibly scratched up and ruined." I shrugged. "They used to be my father's and we can't afford to get new ones so I've just always worn them despite the damage." He looked at me. "Are these seeing glasses or reading glasses?"

I shrugged and he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Well, in order to pay me back for breaking my laptop screen you'll have to pay me," He said a really big number and my breath hitched. "Seriously?" He nodded. "Mommy, don't be so hard on him. He can barely afford new glasses." A tall blonde guy said. He pulled me against him and wiped at my face. "Why do your eyes look so foggy?" I blinked. "Oh, I'm wearing contacts. They're colored contacts that protect my eyes from bright lights but they're kind of old so I need new ones." The girl came over and handed me a large sweater like the one I had on. The blonde went to talk with the other guys in the room. "Here. I'll wash yours for you. You can borrow it until tomorrow." I shook my head and took a sweater out of my bag. I took my bag off and looked at them. They were all talking secretly. I took my sweater off and put my spare one on. "Hey guy who broke Kyoya's laptop!" I took out my spare glasses and put them on before looking over. "Oh wow, this room is really fancy." I mumbled. "One, what's your name? Two, what's with the granny glasses?" The twins asked. "Just call me Pan and they were my grandmother's. I can see out of them so I wear them." The girl came over. "I'm Haruhi by the way. The twins are Hikaru and Kaoru, the tall blonde is Tamaki-senpai, the short blonde is Honey-senpai, the really tall guy is Mori-senpai, and you should somewhat know Kyoya." I nodded. "Just call me Pan, it's easier to remember." She nodded. They were clearly talking about me. "They do this a lot." I nodded. "So, what kind of room is this?" I asked. "It's an abandoned music room that Tamaki-senpai and Kyoya-senpai used to have the host club in." I nodded. "Wait what?" She giggled. "It's a SFW version of the kind that you're thinking of. There's flirting and flirty touching but nothing serious." I nodded. "I was really confused on that." She nodded and we both giggled a bit.

The twins were suddenly at my sides and had their elbows on my shoulders. "So, Pan tell us how you got in to Ouran if you can't even afford to get new glasses." They said. "I'm one of the close-transfer students." They nodded. "So, you only got into Ouran by chance?" I shrugged. "I guess." Someone randomly growled and slammed their hands down. "How are we supposed to know the square root of 529?!" I looked over and saw that it was Honey-senpai. "It's 23." Everyone paused and looked at me. "You knew that?" I nodded. "I have all of the perfect squares memorized. At least, up to thirty, I do." I pushed my glasses up my nose and the twins sat me in front of Kyoya. "Can I see your schedule?" I went to get up to get my bag but one of the twins brought it over. I took it out and handed it to him. He unfolded it and read it. "This is your actual schedule?" I nodded. "Why are you in high school? You're taking all college course classes." He said. "It's cheaper to take them through high school than to go to college. Plus I'm technically supposed to be a second year so," I shrugged. "What do you mean supposed to?" Honey-senpai asked. "Well, due to this being the last set of classes I'll need, I'll graduate from both high school and college at the end of the year." He nodded and handed me my schedule back. "Well, since you can't afford to pay me back by yourself, I suppose I could help you." I raised an eyebrow. "You'll have to have at least 250 requests in order to pay me back." I tilted my head. "Requests?" He nodded. "You'll be joining the host club."