So this is something nice and dumb after a crappy day at work, enjoy :D

Once Mori thought that Kyoya was mad at him the secrets began pouring out, all I had to do was wait for one that I could use. By the night of the Talent Show Mori was practically spiralling into depression because he thought Kyoya was angry with him. His mood didn't improve when he asked Honey about his candy cane.

"What do you mean you got one too?" I heard him ask Honey as I was trying to fit into the ridiculously tight costume Kyoya's mother had made. I'm pretty sure someone was going to notice the minimal amount of boob I had tonight.

"It's just a candy cane." Honey replied. Thankfully he hadn't been able to recognise that it was my handwriting on the card but, then again, I hadn't expected him to. "Maybe yours got lost." he offered.

"Is Kyoya mad at me?" he asked. "Has he said anything to you?"

"Nothing unusual." Honey replied and I could have shoved my face into the wall. That just wasn't smart even for Honey, although it did work in my favour.

"What's 'usual'?" Mori asked.

"Just that you talk a lot." Honey shrugged.

"Whose fault is that!" Mori huffed before leaving Honey and coming over to me. He sighed heavily.

"Are you okay, Mori-Sempai?" I asked.

"Why would Kyoya send you two candy canes and not me?" he asked.

"Maybe he just forgot." I shrugged. "He has been a little off colour recently. Is there something bothering him?"

"Well his parents aren't sleeping in the same bed anymore if that's what you mean." Mori said before slapping his hand over his mouth. "Please don't tell him I told you that."

"Won't say a word." I replied.

"I mean, no offence, why would he send you a candy cane?" he asked. "He doesn't even like you that much."

"I think you're focusing on this a little too much Mori-Sempai." I said even though I knew he wasn't listening.

"I think he feels weird around me because I'm the only person who knows about his nose job." he said before slapping his hand over his mouth again. "Pretend you didn't hear that." I mimed zipping my lips shut as Kyoya entered the dressing room, followed by Tamaki, also in costume.

"You all ready?" Kyoya asked before turning and leaving again. The rest of us followed him to the wings of the stage. I peeked out and saw Renge surrounded by a gang of scantily clad boys jumping around and rapping. Now this was going to be entertaining.

"All you sucka MCs ain't got nothing on me

From my grade to my lines you can't touch Renge

I'm the Asian persuasion, so truly amazing

I drop the bomb rhymes on every occasion

It ain't no trick, I am this slick

All the second year boys want me on their… I'm just kidding

I'm a debater so nerd is inferred but forget what you heard

I'm like James Bond the third; shaken not stirred

I'm not a whore, I'm just silent when I sneak in your door

And make love to your man on the bathroom floor

I don't play it like Shaggy – you'll know it was me

'Cause the next time you see him he'll be like 'urgh Renge!'"

"Thank you Miss Houshakuji," Miss Duval shouted, cutting off the music and the microphone. "that's quite enough." Renge grinned and gave the crowd a 'peace' sign.

"Happy Holidays everybody." she said before leaving the stage.

"Well," Miss Duval said. "that was certainly something. Now for the next act we have 'Santa's Little Helpers' doing 'Jingle Bell Rock'." Oh god that's us! My heart felt like it was going a million miles a minute as I followed the rest of 'The Hosts' onto the stage. My nerves instantly disappeared as I passed Hiakru and Kaoru in the wings. The both of them gave me a thumbs up after Kyoya had passed and I nearly burst out laughing as I heard Kaoru muttering to Hikaru.

"Does it bother you that they still use our original choreography?"

"Shut up." Hikaru muttered back so it clearly did.

I stood staring out at the audience with Mori fidgeting behind me, Kyoya in the middle and Tamaki and Honey on the other side. The butterflies were starting up in my stomach again and I felt like I was going to throw up. All I needed to do was hold it together for the length of the song. To be honest I seemed to be holding it together better than Mori.

"Will you stop fidgeting!" Kyoya hissed.

"I'm sorry." Mori whispered back. "This costume is getting too tight."

"And you're getting on my last nerve. Now stop it!" Kyoya snapped back. Mori didn't have time to argue as the music started and we began to dance. I had managed to get the routine engrained into my memory pretty quickly but I made sure that I kept an eye on Kyoya in my peripheral vision.

Everything seemed to be going pretty well – the girls in the crowd seemed to be enjoying the show, I couldn't quite see the reactions of everybody. I'm so glad my Dad was working late tonight and not able to make it. I don't think he would have been hugely bothered but at the same time I didn't want to have to explain all of this to him. Like I said, the crowd seemed to be enjoying it and it wasn't totally not fun for me either. Everything was going pretty well… until a slightly too enthusiastic kick from Mori knocked the CD player off the edge of the stage where it smashed into some poor unfortunate in the front row's face.

The entire room seemed to slow down. Kyoya was glaring at Mori with such ferocity I thought that he was going to burst into flames. The audience was stunned into silence, teachers were crowding the guy with a potentially broken nose and I needed to think up something to do to get us out of this situation. I racked my brains but I wasn't coming up with anything useful until it suddenly hit me. Something Hikaru had said: 'everyone in the English speaking world knows that song' and I had managed to learn it all in three days. Before I could stop myself I opened my mouth and started to sing.

"What a bright time, it's the right time

To rock the night away…"

The rest of 'The Hosts' were looking at me like I was insane and from the wings I caught Hikaru mouthing 'what are you doing' in my direction. I'll admit I'm not the world's best singer (I can barely even be classed as good) but someone needed to do something. I caught Tamaki's eye.

"Come on." I hissed at him hoping I could get something started. He seemed to take the hint and began to sing with me. As we sang a couple of people in the audience began to sing along with us.

"Jingle Bell time, is a swell time

To go riding in a one-horse sleigh…"

Pretty soon I had managed to get the whole auditorium singing along with us as we finished off the routine.

Once we were backstage and it was over I heaved a great sigh of relief – I never want to do anything like that ever again as long as I live. Honey seemed to be bouncing off the walls and Tamaki gave me a congratulatory pat on the shoulder when Kyoya wasn't looking.

"That's the best it ever went." Honey cried laughing happily. "Hurray for Haru-chan!"

"Yes that was very quick thinking on your part Haruhi." Kyoya said.

"No problem." I nodded.

"It's just a shame it was needed at all." he added casting a snide glare in Mori's direction, who just seemed to shrink underneath it. Well that could have gone worse…