Chapter 4
It was the day after Haruhi went to go visit her mother's grave. Classes were finished for the day, but there was still club activities left. Somehow, the day had gone by in a blur. Haruhi tried her best at rushing to the third music room where the host club convened.
All the ladies seemed to be waiting outside at this time as well, so Haruhi had to wiggle her way through in order to get ready. Once she was on the other side of the door, she sighed with relief. However, there was a small commotion going on in the club room.
"Mommy! Do you know where our beloved daughter is? What if something horrible happened and she ended up with those shady twins?" cried Tamaki. Apparently he had not seen her enter just at that moment either. Kyoya did, however, though he thought that it would be more fun to watch as a tormented Tamaki's mind theatre came to life.
Inside of Tamaki's Mind Theatre
The twins look like gangsters. Both of them hovered above Haruhi, who had been pushed down onto the ground. They looked menacing enough to do whatever they wanted to.
End Tamaki's Mind Theatre
"Daddy will not allow his baby girl to be around those shady twins any longer! In fact, I will forbid it!" Tamaki shouted with confidence.
"Hm. What will daddy-" said one twin as he stepped to the right of Tamaki.
"-do to stop the twins?" said the other twin as he went to the left of Tamaki.
"Daddy is going to be forbidding you two shady twins from keeping in close contact with Haruhi." Tamaki said.
Haruhi had just finished making the tea, entering the room when Tamaki was just finishing up his speech about how he was forbidding the twins to be around her. She rolled her eyes and then proceeded to set the tables with a few cakes and tea.
Although there was not much noise from when Haruhi set everything down, this finally got the twin's attention. This started a new round of harrassment. Though, instead of on Tamaki, the twins turned and pranced over to where Haruhi was.
"Ha~ru~hi! Where were you yesterday? All your guests, as well as the rest of us missed you!" Kaoru said.
"Sorry, but I had something very important to do yesterday with my father. No, I am not going to tell you what I did. Besides, I told all of you yesterday morning that I would not be there in the afternoon. Geez. Now, am I going to be allowed to finish setting up the club room or are we going to make our customers wait?" Haruhi explained.
This snapped everyone to attention. The twins let her go finish setting up the cakes and the tea cups. Shortly afterwards, everyone got into position to welcome their guests.
Haruhi was kept really busy the entire club time. There was the fact that she was always making rounds for tea, but there were times where she was hosting as well.
One of her regular customers asked, "Haruhi, if you do not mind me asking, why were you absent yesterday?"
"Yeah, I would like to know as well! You see, all of us miss our natural host when he is not here." Said another one of her clients.
"Awe, I am deeply moved that all of you would miss me when I am not here. However, to answer the question about where I was yesterday, it just was not the greatest day. Yesterday was the eleventh anniversary in which my mother went to heaven. My father and I decided to renew something that we always do on the anniversary -a few of our promises."
When I finished speaking, I must have only been half aware of my surroundings, so I give them my natural host smile. The clients sigh and look like they have hearts dancing in their eyes. Either reason could be from the story or from the smile, though I think that it was from the latter.
Thankfully, it was at that time that Kyoya-senpai told the ladies that hosting time was over. I did not know whether or not I should be relieved for the end of the day. I sigh as I start to work on cleaning up the dishes. Unlike usual, I am rushing a bit too much, but I am also being careful not to break any of the dishes. I do not need to add any more to my debt at this point.
Kyoya-senpai had asked if we were all free for a few minutes after I was done cleaning up. He told us that we needed to have a very quick club meeting.I started to wonder what this meeting would be about, but it was at that time that Kyoya-senpai started the meeting.
"As you all know, Christmas is in a month. Was there anything special you would like to do for our guests?" Kyoya asked, shifting his glasses so that the light bounced off of them.
Silence pursued for only a couple minutes before Honey-senpai bounced up and said, "What about a Christmas ball where the clients can dance with the hosts?"
"Ah. That would be a great present to our clients." Mori confirmed in his barely audible voice.
Slowly, each of the other three hosts confirmed that the idea was a great one. Haruhi and Kyoya were the only two still thinking about the idea. Haruhi was just thinking through the vantage points of having the ball, but in the end came to a conclusion. This would only leave Kyoya to ponder the idea further.
"A ball would be nice, thought, should we not also extend that invitation to the ball out to the parents as well? I am sure many of the clients have told their parents about us. So, it could become beneficial for the parents to come, no?" Haruhi asked after pondering for a moment.
"Yes! An invitation out to the parents is a great idea! No wonder you are my daughter!" exclaimed a very excited Tamaki. He started to run towards Haruhi, but he got stopped.
"Tamaki-senpai, we are still in a meeting. Please refrain from running." Haruhi told Tamaki coldly.
After a minute or two of thinking about the parental issue, he did not see any merits to it, though he thought that he would voice this concern anyways. "Although the idea of having the parents attend as well is a great idea, I do not see any merits in having them come. Unless, you can provide some insight as to why we should invite the parents, I do not think that they should come."
That had been Kyoya's counterattack. He did not see Haruhi's side of why the parents should come when there would be no merits for him. It was also at this time that Haruhi was thinking of the merits for Kyoya. Could it have been that he also missed the business side of things?
"The merits of the parents coming? Hm. Well you could always talk to them about new business opportunities that are not in effect right now for your company? Or even expand your knowledge base of other companies at the very least." Haruhi finally responded.
"Those are very valid reasons. I suppose that could work. Now, when would we like to have this ball? And, no, Tamaki, we are not having it this weekend." Kyoya told everyone.
When he was thinking of mentioning the date portion, he could only imagine that his friend would suggest something as silly as this weekend. Apparently he had guessed correctly since his friend was starting to pout. He had to put a stop to the crazy date antic set by Tamaki before it blossomed.
The twins, not having said much throughout the whole meeting suggested that they have it the first weekend in December. They claimed that it would give them enough time to design and make Haruhi a dress for the occasion. Haruhi protested saying that she still had to cover as a guy if she was going to stay in the club to pay off her debt. Though, as usual, the twins promised her fancy tuna if she co-operated.
Kyoya did not really see a problem with Haruhi dressing up as a girl for one night. He told her that if she dressed up in the outfit that the twins will be making for her, then he would cut her debt down by half. Between the fancy and the debt reduction, Haruhi eventually agreed.
