A/N: This story picks up from the end of Chapter 56. Usui and Misaki are in the Ferris wheel, finally out of Cedric's watchful eye and Misaki thinks it's now or never; Will she be able to make her feelings known to Usui completely? Is Usui hiding something from her as well?

I'd written this story in between chapters 56 and 57. It's still in the forums of Mangafox.


Disclaimer: Kaichou wa Maid Sama is the fabulous creation of Hiro Fujiwara and I own no part of it.

~ Usui's Christmas Gift~

Usui looks up and says with a smile, "What's wrong, Ayuzawa?" To which Misaki, looking down and blushing replies," Usui...I have something to tell you..." Usui looks on with that little smile on his face. Misaki, blushing even harder says " I know that you...y-you've said this before, b-but I think that I must , although you know it al-already and I..." She takes a deep breath to steady herself and finally looks up, into those bright emerald eyes fixed on her, and says slowly, "Takumi, I like you..."

Usui's eyes widen for a moment with surprise on hearing her call him by his first name and her completely unexpected confession, but then the lids lower and a smile spreads across his face, soft and gentle..."Ayuzawa...I..." But Misaki, already embarrassed, blurts out, "E-ehh, I-I have a gift for y-you too, a Christmas gift, h-here!" She fumbles in her bag for a moment and takes out a package and with her arms outstretched, head lowered, hands it to him. "Merry Christmas and please accept this!"

Usui, thinking to himself, "Isn't that just like Ayuzawa, being able to be so cute when she's so stressed... trying so hard to be honest like that about her feelings..." Aloud, he murmurs, almost to himself, "This is a day of surprises indeed." He takes the package from Misaki's outstretched hands, opens it and takes out...a soft woolen muffler in grass green. His hands lightly skim over the soft fabric and come across two initials, woven into it-"U.T." He feels a sudden warmth in his chest and finally looks up to see Misaki eyeying him anxiously.

He smiles reassuringly and says "So...you made this yourself? You never told me you could sew. Really, prez, you've hurt me by not telling me you could sew. And I thought I knew you so well! The tough president of Seika High who can sew... well well!"

Misaki, annoyed, replies, "Shut up you idiot! The reason I never told you before is because I didn't know how to sew! I asked Aoi chan to teach me only a few weeks back and that too so I could make something for y-!" She stops abruptly but it's already too late. Usui's looking at her with that teasing look in his eyes. "Dammit!" She thinks to herself, "I fell right in his trap! That idiotic outerspace alien! Making me say things that I don't want to be known to him, teasing me again like that and not even telling me if he'll accept it or not..."

Suddenly, she feels weary, the exhausting day catching up with her but with one last spurt of anger, she says, "I'll take it back then, since you don't like it and-" She makes to snatch the muffler out of his hands but naturally, Usui easily moves out of her way and says very seriously, "Give it back? I don't think so Ayuzawa...even if I might lose my life, I won't lose this muffler ever...because it's made by you."

Misaki freezes. The teasing light's gone from his face and has been replaced by a look from which she couldn't turn away. She's held, arrested by his gleaming green eyes...she had wanted to say something..."What was it?" She forces her mind to move but it would not. Then, Usui blinks and smiles and the spell is broken. "I think you want to say something else." She comes back to her senses and gapes. "You read my mind again! You really are an outerspace human!" As she seethes with her arms folded across her chest, looking outside the window of the compartment, she hears Usui saying to her, "As a thank you gift for your muffler, I have something for you too..."


A/N: That's it for this chapter. Please R&R, I appreciate all critique.