A lot had changed over the summer and Jandra was kind of sad she missed out. She'd had fun spending time with her dad, but she wished she had been around for things like the infamous zoo field trip. There were so many instances where someone would say "You had to be there" and she felt left out. But now that she was back, she and Jasmine spent a lot of time together.

They made sure to go to the Host Club every time the doors were open, to help support the club while they searched for new members from the underclassmen. Out of habit, the girls picked the twins every time, but they weren't really interested in being flirted with. Well, Jasmine wasn't. Jandra couldn't help but notice that something had changed in Hikaru since she'd left. He almost looked older, in a way. Every time he looked at her, her stomach did a back flip. At first, she thought she was getting sick, but then she started to recognize it as attraction and she started to blush whenever he talked to her.

The girls were walking together on their way home when Jandra spoke up.

"Jasmine, have you noticed anything different about Hikaru?" she asked, trying to sound nonchalant.

"Yeah," Jasmine said. "He's struggling a little right now."

"With what?" Jandra asked, getting worried.

"I'm sorry, but it's not my place to tell you," Jasmine said as she turned into her driveway. "Only Hikaru can decide to entrust you with that. I'll see you tomorrow."

"See you," Jandra said and walked the rest of the way home.

What did she mean by that? What was Hikaru struggling with that he could tell Jasmine, but not her? She felt a pang of jealousy towards Jasmine, then immediately felt guilty for thinking that of her friend. It wasn't her fault that she had spent more time with Hikaru these past few months.

Come to think of it, something had changed about Jasmine as well. It wasn't very noticeable, but whenever she drifted off into space like she always did, she looked a little sad. But then she would come back to reality and smile, making Jandra forget all about it.

The thing was that both Hikaru and Jasmine had changed, and it was something that only they knew about. Had something happened between them? Or was it all in Jandra's head?

"Kaoru might know."

Kaoru was getting kind of impatient. Lately, he hadn't seen as much of Jasmine as he had during the summer because of schoolwork, and he did not like it. He messaged her and texted her, but it wasn't the same. He almost wanted to just move all of his stuff over to her place so they could hang out after school. That was all the time they had during the school year.

And nowadays, spending time with Jasmine meant spending time with Jandra. It truly creeped him out that they weren't really twins because they seemed like they were all of the time, even when they weren't trying. But Kaoru felt like he'd lost any real closeness with Jasmine because they were never alone like they had been all summer.

He was beginning to remind himself of Hikaru, who had little patience when his feelings were involved. He'd thought they were doing so well, and he was just waiting for the opportune moment to make his move. But no time felt right, especially with other people around.

Kaoru was not looking forward to his English presentation. He was paired with Tamaki-senpai. (They were in the same class because Kaoru was in advanced English.) He wanted to just do it on his own, but they weren't allowed. The teacher said something about "group participation" points or something like that. Knowing Tamaki, Kaoru would probably wind up doing most of the work anyways, simply because most of what Tamaki did wouldn't even be relevant to the topic.

They were supposed to be talking about ways that English is used today in popular culture, and it had to be at least three minutes long. Kaoru sighed as he was led to Tamaki's room by an elderly maid. At least Tamaki had crazy and interesting ideas to work with.

"Oh, Kaoru," Tamaki said when he opened his door. "Come on in. I've got a few ideas ready that I want to throw your way."

"Okay," Kaoru said and dropped his bag next to the extremely large bed. There was hardly anything else in this room except that bed. It was bigger than a king sized.

"Wait, we're going through here," Tamaki instructed and led Kaoru through another door into a second room. This one was more like a study, except there was a grand piano in the corner. Figures. He set his bag on the piano bench.

"All right, senpai, what are your ideas?" Kaoru asked, wanted to get the vetoing over with early.

"All right, this is my favorite," Tamaki said excitedly. "We write a song."

Kaoru stared at him.

"Are you serious?"

"Yes!" Tamaki said, pacing the room. "We write a song in English and play it for our presentation, after a little introduction, of course. I mean, no one else will be doing it, that's for sure. And I've been writing songs in English recently and I want practice."

Tamaki waited for a decision.

"Let's do it."

Considering the song was written very quickly and in a foreign language, Kaoru would say they did a pretty good job. The process was basically Tamaki goofing off on the piano until something stuck out to him, then they would discuss what they think the music was trying to say (Kaoru pretended to go along with that part) and Kaoru wrote out the final lyric and arranged a way for them to record it for the class. They wouldn't actually have to perform it in front of them.

Then Kaoru was struck with an even better idea. They made a music video for the song, with clips of them collaborating and strategically chosen video clips from around school playing behind the song.

Needless to say, they got an A+. And Tamaki didn't even have to sweet talk the teacher.