On This Night

RR- Hey! Happy Holidays! Bit late, but hey. I keep getting writer's block. Luckily the end isn't for off!

This is still the longest fic I've ever written. For this I am proud of myself.

Chapter Nine: Secret Santa

"Guys, can I be Santa? Pleeaase?" Tyson pleaded, sitting on the counter in Bee's basement. For some reason, the teens always met up at her house. She didn't mind, she loved having people over, but her parents had some regrets ("Bee! Why are there fingerprints on the walls?").

"Yeah, yeah, sure, just don't sabotage the presents." Bee flapped her hand at him.

"Actually…" Ray began, pulling apart from Clarice. "…He did that once. He was curious and wanted to see what was inside." Tyson glared at Ray, and Bee glared at Tyson, while Capri glared at Bee for glaring at Tyson. Not the best way to win someone over. Then again, Bee had never been very good at that.

"Okay, let's start." Savannah said. "I want my presents!"

"Just for that, you get yours last. Max-heads up!" Tyson joked as he threw a bulky yet beautifully wrapped package at him.

Max caught it and read the tag. "TO: Maxy FROM: Santa, only female, and without the extra 48658976893 pounds!" He laughed, and proceeded to tear off the paper, which was decorated with festive Christmas trees. "Oooh, an Aero bar! Thanks, Santa!" Max continued to rummage through the mess of tissue paper. "…Whoa…that's…a lot of candy." He pulled out 5 king-sized bags of gummy-type candy, and after those 3 additional chocolate bars. "Thanks, Santa!"

Capri beamed, but stopped beaming abruptly as a hard thing hit her in the head. She turned around, only to find Tyson smiling innocently and everyone else laughing hysterically, except Kai, who was smirking contentedly. That was his entertainment for the day. She looked down at the floor beside her, and found that the 'hard thing' was in fact a present. However, it was not for her, it was for Savannah. "Well, what did you throw it at me for!" she asked incredulously, and tossed the gift to her friend.

"To: Savannah. From: K-oh, wait. KAI! You totally ruined the surprise!" Savannah pouted.

"…Sorry for ruining it for you..."

"…? Whatever." Savannah decided to ignore Kai, because she didn't understand him, and continued ripping the tissue paper out of the bag like a vicious beast. Everyone just stared.

"…You done?" Clare wondered as Savannah finally pulled back from the bag, pieces of tissue paper in her hair.

Savannah smiled sheepishly. "Heh…yeah. Well, thanks for the purse, Kai!" She held up a gorgeous lavender leather purse, slightly rectangular shaped. "…It must have been so expensive!"

"…And?" Kai cocked an eyebrow at her (people do that a lot in this fic).

"…Well…thanks!" He must be LOADED! To spend this much on a Secret Santa gift!

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. NEXT!" Tyson yelled, throwing something at Clare, but missing by a long shot. Clare walked over to the couch and picked it up. It was a small squarey box, which could only mean one thing-shiny objects. Clare liiike shinies.

Anyway, clearly Clare was excited about the prospect of receiving jewelry. It was sooo romantic, and it was soooo shiny! What was it? A necklace? A pair of earrings? A bracelet? She gasped-a ring! As she slowly lifted the brown, wooden top off of the box, she found it was neither of the things she had been hoping for-it was better.

Lying calmly flat amongst the cotton batting was a sky blue ribbon, which went beautifully with her short blonde hair and green eyes. Hanging in the middle on the ribbon was a silver star with a tiny diamond in the middle of it.

"To wear, on your neck." Ray smiled at her.

"Well, duh!" Bee remarked. "One of my other friends has a red one like that it's sooo pretty…" she droned on, ignoring everyone else who were already handing out the next gifts.

It was Kai's turn now, and we can pretty much all guess how that went down-over and donewith as quickly as possible, no formalities. However, he was beginning to wish he had taken his time. It was just his luck. Of all the things Savannah (yes, he knew-he was Kai, how could he not?) could have given him, she just had to give him a mouse from the ghetto.

It rapped and everything. "Yo, yo, it da mouse from da hood nd I gonna eat ya cheese nd ya betta protect ya cupboards 'coz one day da mouse from da ghetto gonna steal ya cheese…ooh, where ya cheese"

Okay, so that's not what it said. No one could understand what it said; it talked in such a high, squeaky voice. But that was what made it so funny, Kai thought, as he suppressed an oncoming fit of laughter.

It wasn't working, apparently, as his body, especially his shoulders, shook and he had to sit down to keep from falling. Kai was perfectly aware of the odd stares he was getting from his friends, but what could he do-magically stop laughing?

"GET A CAMERA, GET A CAMERA!" Tyson and Bee squealed in unison, scrabbling for the disposable camera Capri had conveniently brought in her trusty purse.

About fifteen minutes later, Kai had calmed down, attempted to wipe the group's memories with a silver pen and failed, and Bee was ready to open her gift.

"Yay! At last!" Bee exclaimed, holding a bright red coloured package. She shook it up and down excitedly. She always did this before she opened presents. She didn't quite know why, as she hated actually knowing what she was going to get. Bee was expecting her present to be something stupid, like everyone else's, and she was okay with that-completely useless stuff, but hilarious all the same.

Therefor, what she found when she lifted the lid off the shoebox totally blew her away. "W…w-wow. Wow. Wwoooww." Bee loved shoes. In a mall, it was common to find her wandering amongst the show aisles, ogling at all the expensive pairs she couldn't have. Heels, pumps, platforms, round toe, square toe, you name it, Bee loved them all. So you would have thought she'd have had a million plus one pairs, but unfortunately, her parents didn't like her wearing such flashy shoes at such a young age. Bee opened her mouth to speak, but then shut it again. She'd rather marvel at the shoes some more.

They were brown suede boots with a rounded toe, cuffing slightly at the top of the shaft, which she discovered when she slipped the boots on came up to mid shin-perfect. These were the very boots she'd looked at for so long in her favourite shoe shop the past week, she'd even tried them on. She stood up, stammering, "B-but…but how did you…" She gestured towards her feet. "How did you know my size?"

"Cap told me." Tyson said, smiling, then clasping his hand over his mouth having realized what he'd said.

"So it was you!" Bee said, pointing at him. "Eeeep! Thankyou, thankyou, thaaaank yooou!" She squealed suddenly, flinging her arms around his neck.

"Uhhm…heh. Heh."

Capri sighed. "She gets excited about shoes. See I told you it was a good idea. One time I had to distract her from the shoe aisle with ties…"

"Uhhm…okay…" Tyson began, still flustered. "Well, here, Cappuccino. Your turn."

Capri scowled, but then went right back to opening her present. She couldn't wait another second-what ever it was, she was going to love it. "Ooh! Ooh! Oooooooooooh, thanks, Max; these are my favourite!" she said, holding a heart shaped box of chocolate covered cherries.

"AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAaaaaawwwwww!" chorused Savannah and Bee as Capri crawled over to Max to kiss him.

5 minutes later they were still at it, and the group was getting tired of waiting-there was only two more presents to go! "Okay, guys, you can stop now." Clare said. "Anytime now…"

Max and Capri pulled a part, looking sheepish and slightly embarassed. "…Sorry." Max mumbled.

"'Kay, so we got two left, one for Ray and one for me!" Tyson said. "Here." He threw a weirdly shaped parcel to Ray, wondering what it could be.

Ray tore the paper off, looking down at the gift with a manic look upon his face, soon to be combined with total confusion. "…The Ying Yang Emporium?" He asked in disbelief. "…Wow…I didn't know such a thing existed!" He exclaimed in awe.

"Neither did I 'til I googled it. It's in China, but I thought next time you went to visit your family you could go." Clare said.

"Well, thanks for the chocolate too! Also Ying Yang shaped…"

Max laughed. "You can add the tickets and chocolate to your collection, Ray!"

"I could, but I'd rather eat the chocolate."

"Okay, now MY present!" Tyson exclaimed with glee.

It was at this moment that Bee realized if Tyson opened her present now, everyone else would see, and her darkest secret would be revealed. Plus then she'd have to see his reaction to her horrible… "WAIT! Wait. Don't open it here-uh, open it when you get home. Alone. Yeah." Ugh, Bee, you are such a chicken. But at least he'll see it.

Tyson looked at her quizically, about to just refuse and open the gift, which was concealed inside a card, right then and there, but when he saw the desperate pleading look on Bee's face, he relented and agreed. If it was that important, he could wait another hour or so.

RR- And that brings us to the end of this chapter! I know, I know, I ended it there of all places, but I'm not in the mood for writing a dramatic moment right now.

Next chapter should be the last chapter. sobs Oh, I know, I know! But depending on how I'm feeling (or how well I can be persuaded) I might make there be two more chapters.

Note: Do not make fun of my rap writing skills. Thanks to ATA for the ideas! (how specific)

Sorry if this was a little rushed! Please review, since you've obviously already read!

-RR