Title: Simple Words
Word: Angel
Request by: Xx Tohru xXx Seraphina xX

It was December at Ouran and as usual, our favorite hosts were busy planning for the festivities. They planned to have a Christmas Ball the friday before they all left for winter break. Since the beginning of the month, disputes could be heard coming from the third music room as the host club stuggled to cooperate on planning the ball. After two weeks, these disputes were settled. The food selection was chosen, the costumes already in progress, and all other activities were being looked over. Each was in charge of doing some thing and they had little time to spare because vacation was soon to come.

Haruhi wandered around the aisle of decorations trying to find some thing but it seemed this close to the holiday, there wasn't much of a variety. As she looked through the items on the shelves, she could heard a small crash in the next aisle, followed by laughter. When she got there, the twins were picking up a few fake flowers that had fallen down, most likely due to them crashing into them with the shopping cart.

"What do you think of these?" Hikaru said, holding up a bunch of red poinsettias. They had some how managed to survive the crash undamaged.

"Those are fine," Haruhi responded. "Let's go. We have to start decorating."

They quickly put the poinsettias and the decorations then headed towards the nearest open cash register. By the time they arrived back at the third music room, the tree had already been set up in one corner and was surrounded by boxes of ornaments and lights. While the twins set about decorating the room with some of the things they got, Haruhi looked through the boxes of ornaments to start decorating the tree. Among the boxes, she found an angel with a broken wing. She admired the angels snow white dress trimmed with gold and sparkly wings.

Haruhi took the angel home with her when she left the school that day to fix and return the next day. She was sure with a little super glue, the wing would stick and then they could place the angel at the top of the tree. The next day, she brought the angel back before the others arrived and placed at the top of the newly decorated christmas tree. After carefully placing it on top, Haruhi got down from the ladder and stood back to admire it just before she was dragged out by the twins who insisted they would be late for class if they didn't leave now. Actually, there was about fifteen minutes before class but it wouldn't hurt to be there just a little early.

During lunch, they grabbed their lunches and went into the third music room to eat by the tree.

"What do you think of the angel?" Haruhi asked them as she took out her lunch.

"What angel?" Kaoru responded.

"That-" When she looked up she found that the top of the tree was are. "Never mind." She said slowly before returning to her lunch. It had probably fallen down during the day, no doubt it was behind the tree. She reached into her bag for her math homework and as she leaned over, one of her chopsticks feel. Haruhi put the tray on the food on the table and looked under it for her chopstick. To her suprise, she found, not her chopstick, but the angel from the top of the tree underneath. She brought it out and looked around for the ladder before she proceeded in placing the angel back in its place at the top of the christmas tree.

"Oh, that angel," Hikaru said as the twins looked up at the tree.

They returned to their lunch and soon the bell rang. Time to get back to class again. When she returned to the third music room later that day after classes had ended, every one was busy getting ready for the host club to begin. From where she stood, right in front of the door, she could tell there was some thing wrong with the tree. She walked towards it and as she looked up, Haruhi finally knew what it was. The angel was missing again. Before Haruhi could even begin looking for it again, she was shoved into one of the dressing rooms to put on one of the new costumes.

After the host club bid farewell to the last few customers, Haruhi went into the dressing room to change. In there she found that the unused decorations had been piled on top of one another in a corner for the time being. The boxes looked as if they were close to toppling over. She reached up and brought down a few of the boxes before they all fell. As Haruhi set down the boxes, the lid from the top fell off. She picked it up and just as she was about to place it back on the box, she startled to see the angel inside.

"Who keeps taking it down?" Haruhi wondered aloud as she grabbed the angel and left the dressing room to return it to the tree.

The next day when she walked into the third music room, the angel was not on top of the tree. But this time she didn't have to look for it because it right on the table close by. Haruhi cautiously walked over to it. This was the third time the angel had some how disappeared from the tree. She looked it over to make sure the glue was still holding the wing in place when she found a small note in its hand.

Thank you for fixing my wing. But please don't place me back on the tree again. I'm afraid of heights.

Haruhi re-read the note twice before looking around the room hoping to find this was all just some joke the twins had come up with. But there was no one in the room but her. She looked back at the angel which blinked back at her. Startled, Haruhi put the angel back on the table and quickly walked out of the room. At that moment she was wishing she had her old life where inanimate objects didn't leave notes for her or blink and she didn't feel she would go crazy with every thing that went on in that room.