Miyuki breaks the silence, "Guys, you've met Jake before. He was at the competition today."
Gesturing Jake to sit down, Miyuki joins Emily on the floor to start comparing their purchases, leaving Jake to fend for himself with these people he's never met before.
"Ne ne Jake-chan," starts Hunny "How do you know Miyuki-chan?"
"Well, I used to live next door to Miyuki when she lived in the States." replies Jake.
Jake relocates to sit with Scott and David at another sofa, since he wasn't comfortable with the Host Club members.
"So," starts Jake, "What are those guys' deal?" Gesturing to the area where the Host Club members are settled in. Hunny hugging his bunny and Mori watching over him like a bodyguard. Tamaki messing with Haruhi, hugging her (although Jake didn't know that, so it looked like it was guy on guy action). Kyouya working on a laptop and the twins doing some freaky mirroring of each other.
"Well," starts Scott, shrugging. "I don't really have a clue."
"Emily, do you know anything about these guys?" asks Jake.
"I don't know." replies Emily. "Miyuki?"
"Oh. They run a host club at school." answered Miyuki.
The guys are still left clueless.
"..They run a club, where they kind of rent themselves to the female students to hang out with." finishes Miyuki.
"That honestly doesn't sound too innocent." says Jake. "I mean, what kind of guy rents themselves out to a girl? And you're saying the school allows this?" a shocked Jake asks.
"I guess so." answers Miyuki, reviewing more of her purchases of the day.
Jake sits back, apalled. "What kind of school allows this kind of behavior?" He asks himself and to Scott and David.
David laughs. "Chill out man, you're just mad that they don't have this at the schools you're at." He takes a look at the Host Club.
Jake scoffs. "Right. I'm mad at that." (Clearly he was being sarcastic.)
He walks up to the Host Club and they all stop what they're doing to look at him for his sudden visit.
"So I heard you guys were a Host Club." Starts Jake.
"Ah, so you've heard of us." answers Tamaki. "Are you interested in joining?" he questions.
"Uh - No." replies Jake. "What is it that you do, in this Host Club?"
"Well," says Tamaki, "We entertain our female classmates when they're free."
"Uh-huh." nods Jake. "But I'm wondering what you actually do."
Kyouya senses Jakes unapproving tone. "What we do, Jake," he pauses enough to stare off Jake, "We sit with our classmates and we talk about whatever they want, we comfort them if they need comforting, we play games if that's what they want, but mostly we just hang out like we're friends." He continues. "You sound like you disapprove, but it's no different than hanging out with your friends and meeting new people." He walks up to Jake. "If I were you," he leans towards Jake's ear and whispers, "I wouldn't judge us when you don't know anything."
Kyouya walks out the door, leaving a stunned Jake.
*Back to Emily and Miyuki*
Emily is busy scolding Miyuki. "Why do you buy so many black colored clothes?" She points to the pile. "It's like a blackhole in the floor now!"
Miyuki defends herself. "It looks good on me!" she argues. "And it's not like they're all the same style! They're all different, just black."
Emily lowers her head in defeat.