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Chapter Four
And just as I finished recounting what had happened to my sickly little brother, he said quietly with a faint smile, "Well, that's freakish."
I grinned. "Yep. And you are going to feel better tomorrow so I don't have to go alone again."
He pulled his thick blanket up even more than it already was and laid his head on his bed's pillows. "I can't guarantee anything, but I'll try. I'm looking forward to seeing those attractive, strapping young men."
I laughed and leaned against his headboard from my perch on the side of my twin's bed. "I wouldn't exactly call Honey-senpai strapping, but whatever."
"Eh, who cares?" Then Taiki yawned impressively, so I stood up.
"You tired?" I asked. Before he could respond, I continued, "Maybe you should get some sleep."
"That's a good idea, I guess," he said wearily, closing his eyes and rolling onto his side.
I patted his shoulder vaguely and whispered, "Sleep well," before exiting almost silently and closing the door behind me. I felt bad for my dear twin. Being sick was never fun.
I went downstairs to the private library to read, when I got there and, lo and behold, I saw my father. "Hello, Daddy," I said nicely enough, despite the fact that I didn't really feel like seeing him at the moment.
"My daughter Chiharu. Just the person I wanted to see. Come, sit with me," he said, gesturing to a nearby armchair.
"Okay," I said hesitantly, sitting down with a note of suspicion.
My father was a tall, intimidating man who enjoyed making people cower at him. I inherited my shrewd gray eyes (and bad eyesight, but I wore contacts) from him, and that was about it. Taiki and I mainly resembled our mother, although my brother inherited his blonde hair from our father.
My dad smiled suddenly, which made me narrow my eyes. What was going on? "So, daughter, how is school going?"
"Fine," I told him. "I like Ouran a lot."
"Have any friends?"
I considered it. "I suppose so." I guess you could call the Hitachiins my kind-of friends, even though I just started talking to them a day before.
"Good, good." Then his manner abruptly changed, as I had been expecting. "Enough with the small talk. You and I need to discuss the matter of your inheritance."
I shrugged. "If we must." His eye twitched at my nonchalant manner. I greatly enjoyed irritating adults, but especially my father. Don't ask me why, because I don't know.
"You know how the Kuroda fortune can only have one heir," he said conversationally.
"Yes, I am well aware of that." I was mildly bored at this conversation, so I picked at my long nails for something to do.
"And you, Chiharu, are my eldest child..."
I caught what he was getting at, so I said flatly, "I don't want to be the heir."
That took him aback, and his eyes slightly bugged. On a side note, I was glad that never happened to me. It was quite unattractive. "What did you say?"
"I have no desire to go into," my nose wrinkled, "hotel management." I knew it was more than that, but still. I had other aspirations besides getting married to some loser who only wanted my family's money and having a dozen kids. No thank you.
Predictably, he said angrily, "It is more than hotel management! It is-"
I interrupted him. "Can't you just let Taiki take control of it?"
He was doubtful, and knew he was thinking that my twin wasn't up for the job. Anger washed over me, but my father said, "I will consider it. For now, you are the official heir."
"I don't want to be!" I said in frustration. "Just let Taiki- I'm sure he'd love to!" For that point, I wasn't speculating. My twin had actually told me before that he dreamed of running the family business, that it was what he wanted to do with his life.
"I said I will consider it!" he hissed in a deadly whisper. I also inherited my getting-quiet-when-angry from my dad, I guess. "Now don't you have homework to do or something?"
I shook my hair out of my face, lying convincingly, "It's done already." Then I twisted my lips into a smirk, just to make Daddy even madder and to see what would consequently happen.
His gray eyes (so much like my own, sigh) narrowed and he pointed at the door, uttering one word. "Out."
So I got up, stretched, and left the room, not caring that I had possibly just written myself out of my dad's will. Nah, he'd never do that to his favorite daughter.
I refused to speak a word to either of my parents even as I exited the limo to go to school. Alone.
Alas, Taiki was still sick, and now vomiting, too. Yeesh. Our private nurse bet her apron that he had the flu. So I was the lone Kuroda twin again, at least for that day.
When I got into homeroom, the Hitachiins raised their eyes to glance at me the second I stepped through the door. I strolled over to where they were leaning against a few chairs, and decided to sit on top of a nearby desk. "'Sup," I said dully. "Mind if I sit here?"
"Go right ahead," said Hikaru. "We don't mind." I smiled a little bit, I'll admit it.
Kaoru's eyes darted to the door again, and then he asked me, "Is Taiki still sick?"
"Yeah," I sighed. "I feel bad for him. No one should get sick." Just then, a random girl from my class walked by. I didn't know her name, and I couldn't care less.
"Did you say that your twin is sick?" she sniffed. I nodded skeptically. "Okay, eww! Stay away from the rest of us who don't want to get sick too!"
She hurried away, so I yelled after her, "It's not me who's got the flu- it's my brother!" I took a deep breath to calm down, and said to the Hitachiin twins, "My brother gets sick and everyone acts like Ishould be quarantined." I thought about how, if Taiki were there, I would be sitting with him. And then at lunch, too, and all through our classes. Who was I supposed to sit with? Sitting alone wouldn't be that bad, but still, it was kind of depressing.
They seemed to know what I was thinking about, and so said, "You can hang out with us today, if you want. Besides, we want to get to know you better."
"Thanks," I admitted, flashing them my actual smile- no arrogance, no cruelty. Just friendly Chiharu. (What an oxymoron.)
Both boys also smiled quite nicely, and for whatever reason I suddenly felt like my stomach had jumped. Was I getting sick too?
Hikaru's brow furrowed. "You okay?" He must have seen my expression, which was probably quite funny for a second.
"Are you sure that your twin isn't the only sick Kuroda?" added Kaoru.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I said a tad too quickly. I looked down at the floor, letting my hair fall over my face. Long hair was such a nice thing to have when it comes to covering emotions.
Then, completely shocking me, one of them brushed my hair behind my left ear. When I glanced up to meet the eyes of the perpetrator, my cheeks flooding with color (that NEVER happened), I found myself looking up at Hikaru.
"Back up, there," I said semi-playfully, leaning back a few inches. "You'd better not be doing your fancy Host Club thing on me." I raised an eyebrow, and prayed for my cheeks to stop being red.
But then I saw Kaoru's reaction. He was full-on gaping at his twin- like, literally, mouth hanging open and everything- and giving him a face that said clearly, "What the hell?"
Hikaru seemed surprised at his own actions, too. I was almost gloating mentally at how he was blushing, just like I was. But still, he had the nerve to touch me. And that was a major no-no. I was kind of surprised that I didn't flinch, actually.
However... there was a part of me that half-wanted him to brush my hair to the side again, even if I didn't want to admit it to myself. I grinned cheekily and said, "I guess it's a good thing that Taiki isn't here, because he'd kill you, Hikaru."
Kaoru found his voice and rearranged his facial features, saying, "Excuse me, but I really need to use the bathroom right now, so I'll be back in a minute..." And before Hikaru or I could say anything, he was gone out the door. I doubted that he needed to "go", but then why would he leave?
"This is awkward," I said, stating the obvious after a brief silence.
Hikaru agreed with a vague, "Yeah," and said in a small-talk kind of way, "So... you grew up in Romania?"
"Yep. My mom was a model when she was younger there."
"Oh, really? My mom is a fashion designer."
"Neat." This conversation was going nowhere fast. Forced conversation was just that: forced. I needed a topic! Quickly! But what? "So, Hikaru... why did you and Kaoru decide to join the Host Club?" I was mentally relieved at my sudden burst of genius.
He was, too, and grinned. "Well, Tamaki nagged us nonstop for a month, so we eventually caved."
I considered his relationship with his twin. They seemed extremely close. My curiosity nagged at me, so I finally put on my Confidence Pants and brought it up. "That's cool. You and Kaoru really seem like you get along well."
"Yeah, I guess you could say we have that 'twin bond' or whatever those psychotic psychologists call it." I laughed at that, and he went on. "We've always been together, so why stop now, you know?"
I understood exactly what he was saying, since I felt the same way about Taiki. "Definitely. Some of the idiots at my old school used to make fun of Taiki and me for being so close, but we never really cared or whatever. We were 'us', and everyone else was 'them'," I said, trying to describe it.
Hikaru nodded enthusiastically. "Exactly!" He paused for a second, smiling at me. "No one else seems to understand that."
The corners of my mouth twitched upwards. "Yeah, I know." And as I gazed into the amber eyes of Hikaru Hitachiin and he into my gray, I'm pretty sure we both realized just how similar we were. It was tangible and odd, since it went past just the whole "has a twin", "misunderstood by most people," etc. I saw mirrored in his eyes my selfishness, my longing to protect my twin, my philosophies that people are meant to be toyed with and rules are meant to be broken.
And it scared me.
I had always thought I was one-of-a-kind. Unique. Inimitable. But here was a boy my age I just met who was like me to a point I'd thought impossible. Not even Taiki, the other half of me basically, fully understood the workings of my mind. He thought he did, but he really underestimated me, just as I underestimated him on a daily basis.
But this... this was something I never could have imagined, someone so similar to myself that we could have shared a brain and not known the difference.
I was slightly afraid, yes, but the other part of me was intrigued. Maybe a little happy to find someone like that.
I couldn't break our eye contact, which probably meant that Hikaru couldn't either. Not even as Kaoru apparently walked through the door into our homeroom and sat down.
Right between us.
Breaking the momentary connection, although one remained on a much deeper level.
I turned off my confusion/bliss like a switch, and grinned at Kaoru as if nothing happened. "What took you so long?" I asked him, even though something inside me cursed him for interrupting my staring contest of sorts with Hikaru.
Kaoru shrugged, and returned the smile. "Oh, nothing much. Did anything happen while I was gone?"
"Nope," Hikaru said dully. "Just small talk about our moms, pretty much."
Kaoru blinked, obviously perplexed. "Really?" Had he wanted something to happen?
"Yep," I answered unenthusiastically. "Quite the conversationalist, Hikaru is." Kaoru glanced at the front of the classroom for a momeny so I smirked devilishly at Hikaru, just for a millisecond.
Hikaru rolled his eyes once Kaoru was looking again. "Touché. You should have heard Chiharu rambling about life in Romania, Kaoru."
Kaoru opened his mouth to speak, but was cut off by the bell, signaling our move to first period. "Whatever. Forget it," he sighed.
And on the way out, I couldn't resist the self-satisfied leer I sent at Hikaru. And of course, there was one waiting for me, too.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Glen Perkins pitched through pain in the seventh and scattered four hits over eight innings, guiding the Minnesota Twins to a 3-1 victory Sunday that completed a three-game sweep of the sputtering Los Angeles Angels.
Bobby Abreu's comebacker bounced off the side of Perkins' left leg, just above the knee, but third baseman Brendan Harris picked it up and threw him out to start the seventh. After the play, Perkins quickly doubled over with his hands on his knees and walked around gingerly before deciding to continue.
GAME REPORT: Twins 3, Angels 1
Joe Nathan notched his third save with a hitless ninth, sealing the defeat for Los Angeles and starter Shane Loux (0-1). The Angels right-hander gave up 10 hits and three runs in seven innings.
The Twins skimped on the run support again, but it was enough for Perkins' first win. The left-hander and lifelong Minnesotan, who still keeps a year-round home in the Minneapolis suburb of Lakeville, has pitched 24 innings in three starts and allowed only four runs, 16 hits and four walks. He became the first Twins starter to finish eight innings in three straight starts since Johan Santana in June 2005.
Perkins allowed Kendry Morales' run-scoring groundout in the second, struck out four and walked one. From the third inning on this year, Perkins has been nothing short of dominant: 18 frames, seven hits, one run.
Jose Morales picked up his first career RBI with a two-out single to drive in Delmon Young in the second. He also doubled to start the fifth and scored on an infield single by Carlos Gomez.
Gomez went 3-for-3 without getting a ball beyond the diamond, and he hustled to break up a possible double play in the seventh to let Harris score on Denard Span's fielder's choice to shortstop.
Loux's start was a lift for the Angels, who used 11 pitchers in the first two games.
On their way to a lopsided victory on Friday, they let the Twins score seven times in the eighth in an 11-9 loss and now head home after a 1-5 road trip.
Notes: LHP Daniel Davidson made his major league debut for the Angels in the eighth. ... Span played RF, with Michael Cuddyer sitting for the first time.
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MORRISON, Colo. (AP) Allen Johnson's first Pro Stock couldn't have come at a better time for him or his father.
Roy Johnson, Allen's father and engine builder, had a heart attack during the Phoenix race earlier this season. The two were back together at Bandimere Speedway.
"It was just a fairy tale weekend," Allen Johnson said. "That one race was a setback for him and the team and everything. We just come back even stronger and it's all starting to come together."
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He made just his second final round of the year but did so with the No. 1 seed after qualifying first during his run Friday. He beat Ron Krisher, who couldn't get off the line, with a quarter-mile run of 7.132 seconds.
"It's just a storybook deal," Roy Johnson said. "If I had been writing a script, I would have wrote it just like it happened. Just don't worry about the heart attack."
Meanwhile, a father got the best of his son in the quarterfinals, when Warren Johnson — no relation to Allen Johnson — outran Kurt Johnson. It was the first time the father and son had faced each other this season.
Warren Johnson took on Allen Johnson in the semifinals. Allen Johnson outran the career Pro Stock victories leader to make the final round.
Matt Smith took home his second title in eight races for Pro Stock Motorcycles at Bandimere Speedway, outrunning Angelle Sampey with a 7.4-second pass.
Smith was the top seed in the division with his qualifying run Friday. He beat local favorite Michael Berry, from Littleton, and Eddie Krawiec, Chip Ellis and Sampey on his way to the title in front of a packed crowd Sunday.
The win kept him atop the points standings for the Countdown for the Championship that begins Labor Day weekend.
Top Fuel points leader Rod Fuller upped his record to 2-3 in final rounds this year with his win against teammate Whit Bazemore.
Fuller, who hasn't had a permanent sponsor all year, was driving the Caterpillar Hadman and knocked off Bazemore with a 4.683 run.
"It's so hard to try to enjoy this 'cause it's like winning these races and leading points, I still don't have a sponsor," Fuller said. "I can't wait until I have security, but it'll happen. When it comes, I've earned it and it's going make it a lot better."
Morrison native Melanie Troxel, the No. 1 seed in Top Fuel, was beaten in the first round for the sixth straight race. The last time she made it out of the round of 16 was in St. Louis when she took home the victory.
Jack Beckman picked up his second career win in Funny Car in his first full season in the category. He outran teammate and points leader Ron Capps. Beckman had one poor run all weekend. In his first qualifying try Friday, his car failed to get off the line, but he finished Sunday with a 4.932-second time.
It was the first time his new son, Jason Russell Beckman, saw his dad win at the track. Jason was born in March.
"It was the first win for my baby boy," Jack Beckman said. "I wouldn't say I felt really comfortable this weekend, but our guys always gave me a consistent car."
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In any case, as I have tried the product and discovered what that it is actually capable of, it is perfectly safe to say this is not your typical Chinese low-priced, low-end product.
These headphones have some sort of acoustic character and signature to them. Which is quite amazing for such a cheap set. And that comes from a man who used work as a sound engineer at a recording studio once, considering himself an audiophile...
I have A/B tested these with my Superlux HD660, considered the best Chinese alternative to the original Beyerdynamic DT-660 - benchmark for closed studio monitoring heapdhones.
I must say that these phones, while listening to them via a quality audio cable, are just a small, tiny bit duller-sounding than the Superlux HD660! Altogether, I find the sound of these headphones nicely balanced, not overly sharp or "plasticky" as is the case with most heapdhones made in China. Bass frequencies are well-pronounced, tight, and bold (there is the Mega Bass feature active with these phones so you will definitely get enough bass for each song), mids are not too boxy but still articulated, and highs are excellen - crisp, and bright, but not harsh!
I haven't got the chance to actually measure the frequency response of the headphones, but to my ears, they sound almost natural and not sound-coloring.
Which is really fascinating, given the price tag! And the fact that this headset is cheaper than the Sueprlux DT-660, yet it integrates Bluetooth, radio, and mic, which the DT-660 obviously do not have.
The sound of these phones is still very good even when connected via Bluetooth instead of cable.
Let me finish the review that what I got from MobileLand today is worth every cent I paid for it. In fact, I don't see why almost no audiophile is using and reviewing these phones.
They are definitely worth checking out. (Posted on 6/1/16)
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The music quality is really great, especially if you are listening to a well recorded song from a good source. I use Galaxy Note 4 for playback, it has quite good preamp built in, so the music that comes out of it is HiFi.
These headphones are true to sound, they do not color or distort the sound much as is the case with many Chinese headsets. If you plug in the 3.5mm jack, the sound quality is top class, but even on bluetooth, the audio I get from these is pretty ralistic.
MX777 also lets me play radio and mp3s from within the headphone itself, which is great! Basically, this way I am able to 1. Save the battery of my headphones, 2. Save battery of my phone, 3. Not have to pair the headset over bluetooth, or plug in the cable, in order to listen to good music.
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This first-of-its-kind report is a collaborative effort between Funders for LGBTQ Issues and Global Philanthropy Project. The report is a comprehensive research survey on the state of government, multilateral, and foundation funding for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) communities worldwide.
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Family Financial Socialization: Theory and Critical Review
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Financial literacy research of the past 40 years (1970–2010) has largely ignored the reasons for sociodemographic differences in financial outcomes. The primary purpose of this paper is to initiate a theoretical discussion regarding family financial socialization—what it is; why it is important; and how its tenets could help advance understanding of individual differences in financial literacy. To this end, we propose a conceptual model that integrates family socialization theory and recent trends in financial literacy research. The study concludes with an interdisciplinary critical review of 100 articles which provide illustrations, highlight gaps, and present opportunities for further research with many practical guidelines for advancing deeper understanding of financial literacy from a socialization perspective.


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Berkeley is a wonderful progressive place full of smart and flamboyant people. Here's some apps I've used to get around there.
Berkeley Local
This is a good app for students in Berkeley as well as residents and visitors of the town. It's got campus tours, info on Berkeley music venues, info on books and music shopping, and all sorts of other events that would appeal to the Berkeley mindset. It's a little frustrating in that it only works in landscape mode and you can't turn off the sound.
Berkeley in the Sixties Doc
This is a $6.99 documentary on Berkeley in the Sixties. I highly recommend it if you live, work, or study in Berkeley so that you can be in touch with the activist history of the city.
This free app has live video from a cam pointed at a squirrel's nest in Berkeley, CA. You can save images from it. It's awfully cute.
Virt U: The Virtual University
If you aren't going to Berkeley – this is the next best thing. Open lectures from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and more. There are hundreds of lectures to choose from and an online community.
This free app gives you the Berkeley News and the Daily Californian on your phone. Great for students.


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