Alice (Arisu) Yoshida's Story

Miranda Abe

This is it! Oh my god!

Miranda Abe was in the back of small black limo, waiting until her stop came. She was fascinated that she got to be picked up by limousine. She's never been in one before, so this makes it so awesome to her. She smiled brightly at her friends who were in the vehicle with her. She was glad that the driver picked up her friends too. She couldn't do anything without her best buds. He fingers were tapping on the seat as her legs were jittery. "Ugh! I can't keep it in any longer!" She breathed in and out. "Thank you so much again guys!" She really couldn't do anything without them. They were the ones who entered her name into the contest. So that made them responsible for her win. "I really, really owe you guys one! Really!" She ran her fingers through his pigtails to keep her calm and steady, which wasn't working very well.

She glanced over to her best friend, who seemed to be trying to fix his watch. "Hey, Tsuna." She smiled big again. "Thanks for coming up with the idea of putting my name into that contest." She patted him on the head before turning her attention back to her hair. She just couldn't wait to meet H.O.T.T. She listened to their music before and seen their videos on YouTube. They are so hot gorgeous. She just couldn't wait to actually talk to them, hug them!

Then the window separating them and the driver opened. "We're here,"he said before the window rolled back up. Miranda immediately rolled down the window and looked outside. "Oh my god! It's so beautiful!" The mansion was huge! The green lawns were sparkling with dew and everything was so pretty. She couldn't believe she was going to be living here for a year.

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

Arisu jumped out of the limo happily, "I've always wanted to ride in one of those!" she said stretching herself out and looking at the rather big mansion "Oh your so lucky Miranda!" She smiled at her only female friend and hugged her lightly "Thanks for letting me visit I'm so excited to meet them." She held her hand knit doll in her arms, it was one she had made for fun since she wasn't really in 'love' with anyone. Alice poked the dolls cheeks and gave a rather childish smile, her top two favorite bands were going to be here and she got to meet them herself.

Arisu played with her pigtail and adjusted her redish pink leather football jacket and then her shorts. She playfully turned to her friends and held her arms out latching one hand tightly on her doll "Do I look fine?" Alice waited paticntly for a reply hoping that she would look perfect when she met her favorite bands. She had always been self concious ever since she was a over weight, Alice knew Miranda when she was chubby and the whole diet thing was a big step in her life. In a few moments she latched onto Miranda's shoulder like a child would do to their mother and whispered in her ear "You are the luckiest girl in the whole world!

Yuki Hazama

He'd been pacing in the livingroom all day waiting for his cell alarm to go off signaling that the winner of their contest was almost there. When it finally did he jumped in suprise before hurriedly turing it off. He just couldn't believe that this was really happening, the fact that so many people entered their contest to spend a whole year with them meant that they'd really made it and that all of his hard work was worth it. He'd proved his parents wrong and for that he just couldn't contain his excitement. At the same time though he was nervous, wondering what this new person would be like.

Unable to stand the wait any longer he moved to peak out of one of the windows in the foyer and stared waiting for the limo to arrive. When it finally pulled up he shouted for evereryone inside to hear, "Hey guys come quick, she's finally here!"

Not wanting to waste another second he opened the door and ran out to greet her. However when he saw four people step out he stopped short for a minute confused because he thought that there was only suppose to be one person. The confusion didn't last long as he thought that meeting more of their fans would be for the better anyway and continued his run. When he was close enough he enveloped all of them in one big hug as he grinned widely at them. "Welcome all of you! It's so great to finally meet you, I'm Yuki Hazama and I hope we have a great year getting to know each other!" he exclaimed excitedly once he let them go.

Yuki Hazama

When Choi came out and introduced himself Yuki immediatly calmed down some. He didn't know why but whenever the older man was around him he always did that, except for when they were getting ready to perform sure he was hyped up but there was also a mellowness to him that allowed him to control himself. As he saw his nervous behavior he smiled up encouragingly at him before turning to the driver. "Hey when you bring the luggage inside, don't forget to grab your tip, I left one for you on one of the dressers," he grinned at him as the driver nodded as he got the luggage out of the trunk and made his way inside.

"Hey Choi where have you been hiding out? I haven't seen you all day?" he questioned with a slight pout. He was really disappointed that he couldn't find him earlier, Choi was the only person that he knew that could calm him down without doing anything and he'd needed that earlier, plus he was just so cool to hang around and time might have gone by quicker instead of the agonizing slowness of earlier.

Then he remembered his earlier suprise and turned to question the arrivals about it while keeping an ear out for Choi's response, he had an odd knack for being able to keep up with what seemed like a million conversations at once, but that might have something to do with his boundless energy, either way no one had ever bothered to put much thought into it before. "So why are there so many of you? I thought that only expecting one person was coming, not that I'm not excited that all of you came, but I just really want to know which one of you actually won the contest and if all of you are going to be staying with us?" he questioned curiously as he tilted his head in confusion.

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

Alice's inner nerd was about to be revealed as she saw the band members of H.O.T.T came out of the mansion. Yuki did most of the talking, he introduced himself and she practically passed out. "I-I'm Arisu, well my English name is Alice." Arisu pushed her big nerdy glasses up and clutched her doll close to her chest her Japanese accent came out "So polite, not that i mean i thought you weren't or anything-" she hit herself on the head "Orokana. (Japanese for stupid)" she muttered to herself in Japanese. She shifted in her shoes and pushed Miranda forward "Shes the winner, were just her friends." Alice felt guilty and embarrassed, 'did I just call them rude?' she wondered to herself.

How emabrrassing, she looked around to notice that the girl band had not arrived yet that would take the heat off of her if they arrived soon. Alice cushioned the knit toy in her arms, 'I must look like a loser, or what if they think I'm fat!' she looked down at her rather petite body 'Oof I wish I hadn't eaten that steak earlier I look like a horse, and I'm in shorts even worse!' She poked her stomach and tried to cover it up using the doll to block the sight of her stomach. When Choi offered that they should go in she waited for everyone else to respond, but stepped out a little.

Miranda Abe

Miranda giggled at Alice's reaction and comment. It was all pretty awesome. "And I am, thanks to you guys! You the best people in this world!" She continued to giggle as she started filing out of the limousine. She immediately saw and heard one of the members of H.O.T.T. come out. She blushed furiously when more started coming out. She perked up at the question and was about to answer before Alice and Mio interrupted. Catching sight of Mio leaning his head against Aura's shoulder, she squealed. "Oh my god, you are too cute!" Hearing herself say this, she covered her mouth and blushed again. Hold it together sister! You are going to be living with these people for a year! "Oh! My name's Miranda Abe! I'm the winner of the contest and it's a honor for me to be living with you for now on." She bowed very politely before smiling again. "I brought my friends because they are the one's behind my name being in the contest and they deserve meeting you guys as much as I do, so yeah..." She felt herself rambling on until she spotted the driver taking her stuff out. "Oh, you don't have to do that! I can do it myself!" She stopped the male and picked up stuff (flinging a book-bag over her shoulder and holding each suitcase in one hand). "Onto the mansion anyone?"she asked before seeing the new limo pulling into the driveway. Once she saw Chou Tanaka get out of the limo, she dropped her bags and squealed. "Oh my god, Chou! You're my favorite!" She ran over to her and hugged her on instinct. She hoped she didn't mind the clingy hug, she didn't mean to do it so suddenly. She just did it automatically. And who could blame her? She was the winner here.

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

Arisu watched as Miranda embraced Chou with a hug, her favorite bands were standing right in front of her oh how she envied Miranda. But as her friend she was proud to let someone she knows be with such famous people. Alice watched as everyone introduced herself, she felt embarrassed and smiled at Miranda "Should we all head in now?" She asked her friends and began to walk into the house following Eun and Chou from ~ath.

Arisu entered the mansion "Oh its so big! I've never been in such a big house before." she lived above her parents noodle and sushi shop with her parents. To walk into such a big home felt like a new experience. She sat on the other sofa across from Chou, she felt her cheeks turn a little pink everyone would be in this house. Arisu placed the knit toy on her lap and looked around the room shuffling in her shoes a little feeling a little awkward.

Yuki Hazama

"I'm not that loud, Mio," Yuki protested then turned back to their guests, "I'm so happy to meet all of you and I really hope you enjoy your stay Miranda." Then Choi speaks up and he immediatly nodds in agreement. "Of course, of course, I was just about to suggest the same thing," he stated even though every band member there probably knew that it hadn't even crossed his mind.

Just as he was about to lead the way inside ~ath pulled up and he went silent his grin wilting a bit, allowing them to greet one another, for some reason or another he felt that if he was too hyper around them that one of them would snap at him. Once the initial greetings were done and they were finally making their way inside he grabbed Sai and Miranda's hand in each of his and led them back to the mansion hurriedly all the while talking a mile a minute about nothing in particular.

When they entered the mansion and heard Alice's exclimation at how huge it was his grin came back in full force. "Glad you like it, Arisu, hey I have an idea, why don't all of you guys stay for the night! We have more than enough extra stuff in order to accomidate all of you," Yuki suggested excitedly.

Yuki Hazama

"You should have let the driver do his job, but oh well, I'll take your stuff to your room while you explore the kitchen and Choi can show you around," he suggests as he poked his head in the kitchen at hearing her yell and grabbed her bags and was gone before she could protest. On his way to Miranda's room he stopped by the living room and hooked one of his arms through Arisu's arm, "If you would please come with me, I'll give you the grand tour." Without bothering to listen to any protests he took her with him and showed her the way to the room. When they arrived in front of a closed door he set down one of the bags and it was then that he heard G.M. yelling but he ignored it as usual. "This is where your friend will be staying for the year," Yuki announced as he opened the door dramatically and watched her eagerly awaiting her reaction.

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

Arisu felt a tug on her arm as Miranda had come and gone, before she knew it a member of H.O.T.T had already been dragging her down the hall. Yuki had said something about showing her the tour she felt happy, but somewhat confused "Oh, uh that's not necessary I'll only be here a day. No wait I don't even know if I'll be here a day-" When she had been forced into the room her friend would be staying in she panicked, she had never been in a room with only one boy. "I-It's bigger then my home." She stuttered a little her comfort had no meaning to him, Arisu looked around the room "Watashi wa nani o subekideshou ka?(What should I do?)" She mumbled to herself in Japanese. The debate had begun in her mind, 'should I stay? or should I go?'

"I live with my parents above our shop, its rather small." Alice squirmed a little and edged slowly toward the door "W-We should head back..." She tried not to sound rude, but really she was scared out of her wits. She gently glided to the door reaching for the door knob to leave the rather big room.

Yuki Hazama

Pleased with her reaction he walked in and set the bags on the bed. "That's so cool! I wish I could say that I lived on top of a shop before becoming famous," he said, truly envious of her. "Anyway this tour is for whenever you want to come back over to stay the night or just hang out," he explained as he turned around to face her and caught her backing away from him. It was a first for him, usually girls were thrilled to be with him and practicallly glued themselves to him. Yuki had no idea how to deal with such a reaction and his only thought was that he must have done something wrong. "I'm sorry, what did I do wrong? I promise not to do it again Arisu," he apologized as his smile faded as guilt took over.

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

Alice pushed her rather geeky glasses 'Oh I'm such a dork!' She tried to figure out what to say to him "Its rather small, I use to bunk with my sister, but she went back to japan so I get the room to myself now... I finally get to use the desk and have more space, but its so old that one footstep echos around the house." She felt a little embarrassed, but twirled her hair as stress reliever. "And the shop is really loud, but I get use to the late hours. Oh and the roof, you get to look up and see the sky, I created a garden on the roof. I grow organic foods, since I'm on a diet and its healthier." Arisu wanted to slap her head 'You dummy! you mentioned your diet.' She squirmed a little "Y-You should stop by, I'm sure my family wouldn't mind making some free food for you and your band. I can write down everything you need to know later."

Arisu panicked raising her arms upward her toy bounced with them "Oh it's not anything bad I just-" She breathed in, Alice would feel the embarrassment fill her head "-It's just me, I'm sorry I-I'm panicking for no reason." She felt her cheeks flush from the awkwardness, was she supposed to say 'sorry I've never been in a relationship, or sorry I have never been alone with a boy.' No that would be too embarrassing, 'he probably has been with lots of sexy or hot girls, I'm just not as good looking or part of his interest. My body... if he found out about my body and what it use to be I think I'd die! What if he was judgeing me right now! Do I look like some kind of pig? Oof! He probably thinks I'm fat or ugly...' Alice gave a worried look "Please don't take it the wrong way."

Yuki Hazama

"Not only is your life cool, but you are also really cute," he tilts his head to the side curiously. "Why do you need to be on a diet? I mean eating healthier is all well and good but a diet just sounds so... bleh," Yuki stated as he screwed up his face at the thought of having to force some awful thing that had the nerve to call itself food down his throat. "Diet is such a terrible word in my opinon, and eating healthy sound just as bad," as he unsrewed his face to allow a thoughtful look to take over an idea hit him, "I know you should call it a life style choice or maybe say eating well. It sounds so much better..." As he said this he realized that he'd just picked at her wording, proably makng himself out as some jerk and he began to blush. "Sorry to nit-pick on your wording like that, it's just that that sort of thing is important to my art and it sometimes overflows into my daily life," he apologized.

"Anyway, I don't need free food, I make so much money I don't know what to do with it all so I donate at least half of it, but thanks for the offer," Yuki thanked her. "Oh..." he said in reply to her explanation of her nervous behavior and he gave her a soft smile, "Well if I do anything to make you nervous be sure tell me or I probably won't catch on. My obliviousness is actually the reason that my last girlfriend dumped me about three weeks ago. You might not believe this but I've only been in three relationships since I started dating." As he revealed this to her he scratched the back of his head nervously as he walked out the room.

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

Alice blushed when Yuki said she was cute, she had never been called cute. But as he went into detail about how she didn't need to be on a diet she felt even more self conscious, she covered her stomach with her doll and arms, wrapping her arms around her waist slowly. 'I'm not going to tell him about my past it would ruin everything!' she thought to herself "I easily gain weight and it's a pain to lose all of the extra fat." she stared down at her feet, shuffling them around gently.

Arisu looked up when he said he would be donating money, she automatically shook her head "No I can't let you do that, my family would refuse to take any money from celebrities." She said to him, it was ture her family didn't like to accept money from people who were family or friends. "Err you wanna continue with the tour?" She asked awkwardly, Alice tried not to bring up any TV shows or she would be on a giant rant about her favorites and disliked ones.

Yuki Hazama

"But what's wrong with having a fuller figure? That just means that there's more of you to appreciate," he shrugged as though it were common sense as he took her hand and started showing her around. "Well you've already seen the foyer and livingroom, and you'll see the diningroom and kitchen when we go to eat so I'll save those for last. And Miranda's bathroom is connected right with her room, so the only place left to see is on this floor is the library. Then we can go downstairs and I'll point out everyone's rooms. After that if we have time we'll go up to the second floor then we'll check out the backyard. How does that sound Arisu?" Yuki asked with a pleased grin as he was already leading her towards the library. "So what do you like to do for fun?" he asked just to get a conversation going.

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

a fuller appetite?

Arisu already hated it when people judged her when she was fat, but now it felt worse since someone famous was telling her to appreciate herself more. Now she felt even more conscious that her personality was making her hate herself even more, oh how confusing! when Yuki took her hand he began to take her to the library.

When they had arrived at the library, which was rather beautiful and amazing to Alice, Yuki asked her what she liked to do for fun. "I often read Manga and I also cook at my parents shop. err I play piano and guitar as a hobby, but just a little composing nothing big. it was like my dream to be a singer when I was a kid. I knit and couchette, I also am a counselor or leader, whatever you call it, at a summer camp for children ages six to twelve, but usually I take the six year old kids because the other leaders don't like to get messy." Arisu often brought her guitar and played music for camp fires and sang with them, it was her special thing to do. "Sometimes I paint, but I find that I paint when I show really dark or really happy emotions. Oh and I like to movies it entertains me for a while." Alice climbed the stairs and searched around the second floor for a good book "My dad tells me that when I got angry as a kid he had to get me paint and paper so I could let my emotions flow into art instead of taking it out on my dolls, I guess its like a stress reliever. Do you have a stress reliever?" She looked down at Yuki and asked him the rather simple question.

Yuki Hazama

Yuki was content with listening to this girl talk, taking mental notes on everything she said, he was serious when he said that he thought that she was cute and when he found out that she came from a very humble background he thought that at the very least he might be able to make a genuine friendship with her. "My music," he replies absently to her question as a far away look comes to his eyes, "For as long as I can remember music has been the only thing that's always been there for me, even when things seemed their most depressing it was there to light my way and help me sort things out. I don't know about the others, but I for one keep a personal journal where I write lyrics and music that isn't published and hasn't even been shown to anyone."

Never one to be in a solemn state for long he immediatly perked up and looked up at where Arisu was at the top of the staircase. "Though I'm sure none of my stuff would compare to yours, maybe I could listen to you play sometime," he suggested happily at the thought, then realizing that he was being pushy he immediatly ammended himself, "Of course if you don't want to I won't push you to. And if you don't mind, I'd like to join you for that camp thing you were talking about, it sounds fun and I've never been to camp before so it'll be a new experience for me."

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

Arisu smiled gently picking up books and putting them down, Yuki said he liked music, then again he is a famous musician what do you expect? she thought to herself and then leaned over the side of the handle bars "My music isn't the best usually just my feelings about my birth parents, which is usually anger or deppression." Alice realized that Yuki didn't even know that she was really adopted "You must be a little confused-" She rubbed the back of her head gently and almost resembled a child "When I was four my older sister and I were given up for adoption, but my adoption parents found us and they were also Japanese, but they lived here in America." Arisu felt her heart beat faster, she wanted to cry a little "My sister is looking for them in Japan right now... I always felt angry at them for giving me up, my whole childhood I thought I had done something wrong and it was my punishment to live with another family." She looked away from Yuki wipping her nose and eyes that were now covered in tears she sniffled gently "I-I'm sorry we just met and I'm giving my life story up."

Alice remembered that day fresh in her memory, her cries and screams echoed through her mind. She remembered how she kicked and scratched them telling them to leave her alone, she had been dragged away right from her mother's arms. Alice always thought of the moment that they were driving away and her mother didn't fight to keep her, she watched them pry her from her mother's arms.

When Arisu pushed herself mumbling the words "Kurai· beibī (Cry baby)" to herself, but so gently that Yuki would not hear her. The tears had finally dried on her cheeks and she looked down at Yuki "R-Right camp, you can join if you want I mean you get paid and everything to take care of kids, but that's it." She still felt tears try to push through and bleed from her eyes, but she resisted. Alice felt the urge to paint or do something that would set her free.

Yuki Hazama

At hearing her cry, Yuki felt his heart break for her like it did whenever he saw someone so sad, and hearing her talk about her parents he felt like he understood how she felt in a way. He quietly climbed the stairs to were she was and gently wrapped his arm around her in a comforting hug. "Don't worry about it, maybe you just need to let it out on someone and don't call yourself a cry baby, you have every right to cry about this. Feeling like you were abandoned is the worst thing in the world, I know because my own parents degrade me every chance they get. I know that it isn't the same thing but I think that the hurt is close enough. At least by the sounds of it, your adoptive parents are supportive of you and are fo you as their own," he revealed as he rested his forhead on her shoulder to hide his sad expression.

This was something that only those in H.O.T.T. knew about and he'd only told them after they got fed up with him being all mopey every time he either got off the phone with his parents or came back from visiting them and forced the reason out of him. After they found out though they just let him be for the most part but he always went to either Choi or Yama for comfort and support from then on. He didn't know why he was telling her this but he figured that it was a fair trade in information. A small smile then crept to his face when he heard that she'd allow him to go to camp with her. "That would be really nice, but I don't need to be paid it can be a volunteer thing and if you don't want to share you're music that's fine, I won't force you," Yuki reiterated, his happiness for being able to go to camp with her only slightly dampened at not being able to hear her music.

Arisu "Alice" Yoshida

Arisu felt arms wrap around her gently, she blushed and pushed away quickly. She felt uncomfortable now, no boy had hugged her that wasn't her father. "E-Excuse me..." She said then avoided Yuki to get to the staircase, quickly she walked faster to the exit of the library. Alice finally turned several corners to the back of the house, she greeted the fresh air and ran to the side of the mansion. Arisu stopped and leaned against the home slowly sinking to the grass that lay on the ground, she wrapped her arms around her legs and removed her glasses.

Alice wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her jacket and breathed in heavily. "I think I'm alone now." She whispered to herself, 'that was awkward.' she thought to herself, 'I don't want anything like that to happen so quickly.' Alice brushed the ground with her figures and looked up at the sky.