I DO NOT OWN OURAN CHARACTERS

Christmas Party Mess Part 1

It was early in the morning and Haruhi was enjoying a warm soothing cup of coffee, the host club's instant coffee. She had a free sample of Holiday-Cheer coffee creamer and she was hoping it would give her morning an extra something. The club has been running her mad with holiday festivities that she feels as if she lives here. She scoffed, she came here early to have some peace and quiet while she finished the long list they made for her.

'Ask Haruhi, she knows how to do everything.' The twins chorused earlier that week.

Was a little bit of help too much to ask? She remembered what happened yesterday when she asked them and that was a big mistake. They made more of a mess. Their costumes were thrown around the room and the Christmas tree was too big for the room and they tried to think of ways to make it fit and wanted to remodel the music room. Instead, she had to convince them to go out and buy a smaller tree.

After her outburst and putting on her "mom voice" the guys slowly trickled out one by one. Now she's stuck doing a hundred glitter snowflakes for this weekend's ball by herself.

She heard the door open and shut and she refused to look up to see who came to ruin her peaceful morning.

Footsteps came closer and pulled out a chair next to her. He didn't say anything and she didn't acknowledge him. She knew right away it wasn't honey because of his size and he didn't smell like bubblegum. He did smell like… Haruhi inhailed… like manly green soap. She crossed out the king because he smelled like vanilla and lavender. She paused when she reached out for a new snowflake, was she around the guys so much that she knows what her boys smell like? What if it was a stranger? Haruhi bit her tongue to stop herself from speaking and continued for the snowflake to put glue on it.

His hand reached out to grab a snowflake. His fingers were long and slim. That crossed off the twins. It was either mori-senpai or the shadow king. She watched the hand grab the glue. Someone was actually trying to help her. The fact that it was 6 o'clock in the morning crossed out kyoya. So it had to be Mori she concluded. She looked up to see she was right. A smile placed on her lips. "Coffee?" She offered in a friendly voice.

Mori just shook his head and reached for the gold glitter.

A half an hour later Haruhi heard the door open again. This time she heard light footsteps to her right he was in a white shirt and slacks. Too tall to be honey and too graceful to be one of the twins. She heard the tapping of his 1-inch heels dancing on the floor as he hung lights on the walls. Her chest warmed, Tamaki came early to hang lights by himself instead of hiring servants. Weird again that she would be happy about that. Mori had doubled her efforts in the snowflakes and they were almost done.

15 minutes later the door burst open. She heard someone drop a bunch of things off at a nearby counter and then Christmas music filled the air. Haruhi checked her watch. Class starts in an hour and half of the club was here early. What was going on? Haruhi quickly finished the rest of her holiday coffee. They finished the snowflakes and Mori was starting on the other decorations she had laid out on the table.

She went through her to-do list. The Christmas tree was next. She groaned. She looked at the mega tree that was discarded against the wall. How was she going to exchange it for a smaller tree? Should she cut it? She stood next to the big tree with the cutting saw she got from home. She decided to cut part of the bottom off. Once she trimmed off a bit on the bottom she attempted to lift it up by herself and was failing miserably. She gave it one final pull and it easily lifted. "We got this Haruhi." Said a voice.

Haruhi leaned around the tree to spot a pinch of red hair. "Yeah, let us do the heavy lifting… and glittering decorations." Said another voice from behind the huge tree. Haruhi took a few more steps to see the twins putting the tree in place. The power of two has its perks. She took a step back as Kaoru swatted her hand away from the tree. Oookay… things were really weird this morning. She tried all week to get these guys to cooperate and now they are finally helping. Was she dreaming?

She skimmed her list again. Stockings? She frowned as she looked around. Where would she find crazy blinged out stockings? She looked over to find the TV currently has a fireplace screen savor. She found the stockings already hung and a busy Kyoya tapping on his computer. She checked the clock; it was a half an hour before class starts.

She walked over to Kyoya and waited for him to stop typing but he started up the conversation first. "You look like your emotions are under control today. Did you get enough sleep, because I sure didn't. Tamaki was at my house all night wondering about why you blew up yesterday at the host club."

Haruhi crossed her arms. "You know exactly why I was upset. If you think I'm going to apologize for how I feel, you can forget it senpai. It shouldn't be only my responsibility to set up the room. Why couldn't they have helped me when I asked?"

Kyoya glanced in her direction. "We're boys, not servants, you can't demand anything they aren't use to doing by themselves. Give them a little wiggle room Haruhi. They're here today, aren't they?"