I've been busy gosh this one is so choppy why did I make it like that I'm sorry

Christmas had been a lot of fun and so had New Years. Hikaru wasn't very excited to go back to school after the holidays, but here he was, yawning and following Kaoru and Haruhi into the school.

"Told you not to stay up late playing that video game." Kaoru chided him, even though Kaoru had played it with him until midnight before giving up and going to bed. Hikaru had played for two more hours before he grew too tired and fell asleep with the controller in his hands.

"You need to get to bed earlier." Haruhi told him as he yawned again. "I won't teach you what you miss if you decide to nap in class."

"Awah, Haruhi, aren't we friends?" Hikaru asked with a loud whine, putting his arm around her shoulders. She rolled her eyes, ready to smack him.

"We won't be if you keep annoying me." She muttered bluntly, making him pout. She shrugged off her arm and kept walking down the hallway towards their first class.

"How was your Christmas Break?" Haruhi asked Xavier when he joined them in the library. Hikaru didn't want to sit at the table and chat with Haruhi. He wanted Xavier all to himself.

"Ah, it was good." Xavier sat down, ruining Hikaru's hopes of disappearing down an aisle together. "Mom was happy to have me home, dad was pissed. Not much to report." He shrugged, messing with his phone for a second. "New Years was a blast. Always a good time with them. How was your Christmas break?"

Haruhi launched into hers and Hikaru knew he should be paying attention but he didn't want to? He used to hang off of every word Haruhi said but lately it felt like he wasn't as interested in her as he used to be?

"Mate?" Xavier questioned, tilting his head a little as he spoke to Hikaru. He reached out and shook his shoulder, snapping him out of his thoughts. "You alright, mate? Ya just zoned out and I've been trying to get your attention."

"He stayed up too late playing a video game." Haruhi said as she pulled out a book to read. Xavier shook his head and returned his attention to his phone, typing rapidly on it. Hikaru looked at them, watching them both before he felt his eyelids get heavy and he fell asleep.

"Time to get up." Haruhi's voice broke through his thoughts. His vision was blurry as he swatted away her hand, yawning and complaining about wanting five more minutes to sleep. "We should just leave him."

"And then have Tamaki mad at us?" Xavier's voice questioned and Haruhi groaned. "Not like we have any guests today. We can be a little late, dove."

"Carry meeeeeeeee!" Hikaru whined, directing this towards Xavier, wanting to be held. It was silent for a few moments, but then Xavier sighed.

"Get on, mate, before I change my mind." Xavier squatted by his chair and Hikaru clumsily climbed onto his back, hooking his arms around his neck and his legs around his waist. Once he was securely on, Xavier stood, expression sour.

"You spoil him." Haruhi carried Hikaru's bag as they made their way out of the library. Xavier tried to ignore the stares of other students as Hikaru drifted in and out of sleep. "We should've left him."

"Dove, don't be so rough on him. I would've stayed up all night playing a new video game too. School gets in the way of fun things." Xavier replied. "He would've been angry if we left him anyway. No sense in pissin' the lad off, he'll be sure to make us pay later if we did that."

"You're right about that." Haruhi said and Hikaru fell asleep again.

"Hikaru, come on, get up." Kaoru shook his brother roughly, waking him up. "The car is waiting for us."

"What?" Hikaru asked groggily, noticing he had been asleep on one of the couches in the host club room. Haruhi was there, waiting for them by the door. No one else was around.

"We got to get going. Haruhi has to make dinner tonight so we need to get home and work on that application quickly so she can make it home." Kaoru continued, yanking Hikaru up. The black haired male stumbled but walked, slowly waking up.

"Where is everyone?" He asked, confused as to what time it was as they left the club room and began to make their way downstairs and towards the entrance of the school.

"They left already. We discussed the plans for this week while you slept on the couch." Haruhi replied as she hurried down the stairs. "I can't believe you were able to sleep through senpai's yelling."

"Hikaru is a heavy sleeper." Kaoru said once they made it outside. They all got into the car and began their journey to the twin's house. "So, how long do you think the paperwork will take?" The paperwork was for a school in New York the three had been talking about going to for their third year. Haruhi mentioned it, and obviously the twins were not going to let her go alone. She had gotten accepted and now they just had some paperwork to do.

"It's all electronic and I skimmed through it last night. We won't be able to do it all today. Well, honestly, you two don't even need to actually fill one out. I'm sure you can get into the school no matter what." She muttered. "Damn rich kids."

"It might be fun to fill some out." Kaoru told her and she looked at him. Hikaru stretched out, his arms across the seat.

"It's twenty pages long." Haruhi told them and both the twins looked at each other before sticking their tongues out.

"No way!" They said together, both shaking their heads.

"Wanna hang out today?" Hikaru asked, hoping he could get Xavier to come over and play his new video game with him. After yesterday, he definitely went to bed at a decent hour.

"Sorry mate, can't. Promised Mona I'd help her with something." Xavier said casually and Hikaru stared at him. "What?" Xavier noticed the stare, not understanding why he was receiving it. "She needs help writing this song…what's the problem?"

"Uh….so are you two friends now?" Hikaru asked, lifting an eyebrow.

"Uh, yeah, we sorta are." Xavier told him. "She apologized to me and I said sorry too. She didn't understand, now she does, and I understand where she was coming from. We've moved on from it with some assistance from Yuukio as our mediator." That Christmas Party had been a fun one. "Now she needs help with this song and I told her I'd help. Is this a problem?"

"No…." Hikaru muttered, not wanting to irritate Xavier. They walked in silence to the Host Club and Hikaru didn't know if Xavier was mad at him or not.

Xavier went along with his usual business, and Hikaru attempted to go along with his, but he kept glancing to Monique, who was sitting with Yuukio. Renge was with other girls at a different table, and Hikaru wondered if that was going to be permeant. Monique had declared yesterday that the yellow dress was not going to work any longer and she decided to join Xavier in wearing whatever she wanted.

It was only the second day but Hikaru could already sense her style. She liked skirts and leggings and cute floral sweaters. Her lipstick was bright pink today, yesterday it was red, and she looked really good.

He huffed and focused in on his guests, putting on his brotherly love for them.

His problem with Monique wasn't that she was cute, popular, and supposedly really sweet now, or how she was seeming to hog up all of Xavier's time…

Okay, all of those were problems he had with Monique, but Hikaru knew the biggest problem he had with her was how good she looked next to Xavier.

It wasn't very fair at all. She looked so cute when she brought over tea and Xavier got up to help her, in all his black ripped jeans and disheveled mohawk glory. They looked like polar opposites but that just made them look better together.

When did this happen? When did they start smiling at each other? Didn't they hate each other? No way did a few 'sorrys' make this all better! Hikaru huffed and turned back to his guests, layering on the flirty looks and charm with them, trying to take his mind off of Xavier and Monique.

Who cared if they were getting along? He should be happy that Xavier had an ally in the house and it wasn't Hikaru's business.

Except it was. Xavier's business was his business.

Why had Xavier been so busy the past week? Did he not have time to spend with Hikaru? All Hikaru got were some texts and chats in the hallways, but Hikaru wanted more. He deserved more. Why did Monique get all of this attention? What about London? Did Xavier forget about it?

"Are you okay?" Yuukio asked as she poured more tea in the twin's guests' cups. She had been watching Hikaru all week and how increasingly frustrated he looked every day. "Are you and Xavier fighting?"

"No! Does it seem like we are?" Hikaru asked with a growl, crossing his arms as Kaoru led the guests into a funny Christmas break story.

"Uh, no, but, I am sensing quite a bit of hostility here." Yuukio said. "What's the problem?"

"He's spending more time with Mona than me." Hikaru muttered, pouting like a child who didn't get the toy it wanted. Yuukio shot him a look, not believing he was throwing a fit about that.

"Alright? Well he's helping her write a song. It's a really good song…" Yuukio admitted and he looked at her. "What? They allowed me to join their process. It's just me drinking tea and giving them my opinions. It's not that big of a deal."

"Why is he ignoring me then?" Hikaru saw the Instagram posts Mona had posted with Xavier and how much fun it looked like they were having together. Was he being replaced?

"Music writing takes a while and it's a difficult task." Yuukio said with a shrug. "I'll take care of it." With this she was turning away and her heels clicked as she strode over to Xavier. She whispered something to him and he glanced to Hikaru, who turned away, embarrassed and angry.

He glared at the cupcake on the table in front of him, surely his entire face red. What was Yuukio even saying to him?!

"He think you've been ignoring him." Yuukio whispered while Anna and Misaki chatted with each other, letting the two talk in peace.

"Eh." Xavier grunted, unsure how to respond to that. He hadn't been ignoring him, he was just trying to put distance between them. They were getting too close and Hikaru needed to spend time with Haruhi. "I've been busy with Mona, you know that. He needs to spend time with Dove anyway." He replied, glancing at Hikaru again. "We spent plenty of time in London together."

"Yes, but still. You know how Hikaru's brain functions. I'm sure Mona will not mind if you give the song writing a break."

"It's fine by me, of course." Mona butted in, having overheard this conversation. Her mind was already turning, narrowing her eyes at Hikaru, trying to understand just why this was bothering him so much and also why Xavier had been choosing her over Hikaru. She knew something might have happened in London, but she just didn't know what. "Spend some time with him, he is your best friend."

Xavier sighed, a tad annoyed. "He needs to hang out with dove, not me." He wanted them to let this go. Did they not see he was trying to help the poor guy? Their stares just made him sigh again and he knew he wasn't going to win this. It was bad enough he had his dad breathing down his neck, now he had Hikaru to worry about too.

"Eh, mate, what's the problem?" He asked Hikaru once all the guests were gone and the cleanup was almost done for the day.

"Nothing." Hikaru huffed, turning away from him, angry.

"Obviously something is bothering you." Xavier knew Hikaru was angry at him, and Xavier didn't have a very good excuse for the distance he put between them the past week. Well, he did, but he doubted Hikaru would see it has a good excuse. "Look, sorry I've been distant this past week, it's just that I've been busy helping Monique and I gotta bring up my grades to please my dad. It's not like I didn't text you or talk to you."

"Yeah." Hikaru muttered, understanding his reasons but still angry. He didn't know what he was supposed to tell him. That he was jealous of Monique for all the attention she was getting? That wasn't something he wanted to admit. Xavier was right, it wasn't like he had just stopped talking to Hikaru, he had just been busy and unavailable to hang out. "I just wanted to show you my new video game. Haruhi isn't into it and it's not fun with her." Hikaru lied, deciding this was a decent answer and it made some sense.

"That all?" Xavier asked, looking mildly surprised. Maybe he had been wrong to distance himself from Hikaru? "Well I'm free all this weekend if you want to show it to me."

"Yes!" Hikaru replied eagerly, nodding his head.