Bonus Chapter:

Remember Our Christmas?

It was a long day of practice and the girls were all strewn around the room that had the TV. Some of them were reading, some were watching TV, and the others were just doing . . . nothing.

"Hey guys," Ayumi said, "do you guys remember our first Christmas together?"

"How could we forget?" Saori said sarcastically. "That Christmas was trouble. It was fun, I'll admit that, but it was trouble."

"Trouble?!" A voice called from right above the girls' heads.

In a second all of the guys ran into the living area saying, "Trouble? What trouble?"

"There is nothing that is trouble," Tsubaki said calmly. "The girls were just talking about our first Christmas together as friends."

"Christmas?!" all of the guys said.

"Yes, Christmas."

"It's almost summer, and yet you guys are talking about Christmas?" Eiji asked.

"We are just reminiscing," Miki stated.

"There is a Christmas show on right now," Aine said, pointing to the TV.

All of the guys craned their necks to look at the TV, and indeed, there was a Christmas show playing on TV. Actually, it was just a Christmas episode for an anime that was on.

"How nostalgic," Koizumi said, slumped in her chair. "I hate remembering things because sometimes they make me sad."

"We should definitely start remembering then," Kumiko said.

"Kumiko! You meanie!" Koizumi threw a couch pillow at Kumiko's head.

"Don't throw that at me!" Kumiko threw it back at Koizumi's head.

"Stop it you two!" Tsubaki shouted.

The two immediately stopped and slumped back into their seats.

"Christmas is cool and everything, but the whole Santa Claus thing creeps me out a bit," Kumiko admitted. "I mean seriously! 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good.' Now seriously, doesn't that just kind of creep you out, they make Santa seem like a stalker or something of the sort. Also, did you not hear how many people sing the song; 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"? Not that song makes Santa seem like a man whore."

"I . . . guess I see you're point," Miki sweat dropped. "But you have to like Christmas, right? I mean, well, you aren't exactly the nicest person in the world, Kumiko. So have you ever been bad the whole year and then in December turn good to get into Santa's good graces?"

"That's exactly what I do every year!" Kumiko admitted.

"That is not what good people do," Aine scolded.

"Your point? Would it have been better if during Christmas as a kid, all of the stuffed animals that I got, I ripped out their fur? Because I could have done that as a kid. I hated stuffed animals, and I could have been an even worse kid by ripping out the animals' fur in front of my parents. But I didn't do that."

"That's good, Kumiko," Aine praised.

"I ripped out their fur in a private place," Kumiko finished.

"Okay . . ." everyone in the room said.

"That is very very bad!" Aine shouted at Kumiko.

"I hate stuffed animals," Kumiko stated with a shrug of her dainty shoulders.

"Did . . . did you like dolls?" someone ventured to ask.

"I liked the antique ones. You know, the ones that look like humans and they're counted as collectibles and everything. They are also the dolls that are always killers in scary movies. I hate barbie dolls and baby dolls though. They're gay."

"We all know how terrible you can be, Kumiko. Remember our Christmas party?" Miki sighed.

~Flashback~

"I hate fruitcake!" Kumiko complained.

"Well too bad! It's the only food we have to eat right now since we're stuck in a bleeping snowstorm!" Saori shouted back to Kumiko. "You know what? Give me that F-ing fruitcake! You don't deserve it!"

"Stop fighting you two! We're going to be stuck here for a long time until the blizzard clears up. So we have to all get along!" Aine said.

"It's not my fault that Saori's apartment has nothing but wine and fruitcake!" Kumiko shouted back.

"Hey! I live here with my dad! And he's a bartender so he collects wine. He's not a drunkard or anything of the sort!" Saori fumed.

"Everyone. Calm down." Tsubaki commanded. With three words, she was able to make everyone quiet.

"So . . . what do we do here at Saori's house? And Saori, can you turn up the heat?" Ayumi asked, rubbing her arms.

"What a princess," Koizumi said.

"I'm sorry for being born into a rich family."

"I'm not saying it's your fault."

"Everyone is fighting," Faye stated.

"I truly do wish everyone would just calm down a bit," Miki agreed. "The storm is making every one of us aggravated. It's not good to be angry at friends."

"Everyone's aura is red, and it's not for Christmas," Faye said.

"How about we do something? Like play a game or something?" Koizumi suggested.

"Perfect!" Everyone agreed.

"So what should we play?" Aine asked.

"How about truth or dare?" Ayumi suggested.

"Maybe," Koizumi contemplated. "But I want something different. Truth or dare is sooooo cliché and outdated."

"This Christmas party sucks!" Kumiko said.

"Well, you didn't think that earlier," Saori said.

"Yeah, but that was before I knew that I would be spending Christmas Eve with you guys being stuck in a snowstorm with nothing to eat but fruitcake!"

"Don't say that," Miki said.

"Well, I'm saying it!"

"Okay," Tsubaki sighed, "everyone is obviously a bit irritated. I don't understand how we are all able to have sleepovers constantly without arguing, but when we get stuck because of a snowstorm, everyone argues. It really makes no sense to me."

"We are so sorry, Tsubaki," everyone said.

The girls just laid around the living room all night until one of them suggested that they all go to sleep. During the middle of the night the girls had woken up because of the sound of rattling.

"What is that?" Koizumi asked sitting up.

"I don't know, maybe it's just the wind shaking the vents or something," Saori answered.

The girls heard even more rattling and it was even louder. The rattling was coming from one of the vents that was in the wall.

"There's someone there!" Kumiko whispered.

"Maybe it's Santa!" Aine suggested.

"Stop being a kid, Aine! We all know that Santa comes down a chimney, not in a vent!" Ayumi said.

"Flippity flip flip fliperstein!" Saori said. "I can't afford to fix the vent if some fat guy is going to try and bust in!"

"It's dark and we won't be able to see who it is!" Faye said.

"I'll be right back!" Kumiko said before running into Saori's kitchen.

A foot came out of the vent followed by a body, but it wasn't anyone fat, it was someone quite lean. The guy got out and turned back to the vent where another foot was coming out. The other person had a hard time coming out of the vent, and it appeared as if he was stuck. His belly was too big, and when he was finally yanked out of the vent, he fell on the lean guy.

"It's Santa with his assistant!" Aine whispered.

"Ojou-sama!" the two said.

"Yano? Suzuki?" Tsubaki started to say.

Out of nowhere, Kumiko came out of the kitchen with a gigantic frying pan and hit both of the men on their heads. Over. And over. And over. And over again. She hit them about ten times before Koizumi stopped her.

"That's someone we know!" Koizumi said.

"Oops. Oh well," Kumiko shrugged. "I'll wake them up." Kumiko went back into the kitchen and brought out a bucket full of ice water and poured it onto the two men.

The two guys jumped up suddenly and shook their heads, saying, "Tsubaki-sama! We've come to take you home on the order of your grandfather!"

"It is storming outside, there is no possible way to get back. I have no idea how you were able to break through the storm and come here," Tsubaki said.

"I can't believe you guys came!" Koizumi burst out laughing, holding on to her stomach. "And I can't believe you got beat up by a girl that looks like a doll!!!! That is so freaking pathetic!"

"You are being quite mean, Koizumi-chan. And we thought you were our friend. We have known you for as long as you've known Tsubaki-sama, which is about ten or eleven years," the two said.

~Flashback End~

"And that's what happened!" Koizumi said, abruptly ending the story. She didn't want to tell anymore because if she did, the boys would find out that Tsubaki was a yakuza, and it would reveal a lot about everyone.

"That's it?" Eiji asked.

"Of course not," Ayumi said. "But we don't want to tell you anymore."

"That's unfair!"

"Life isn't fair."

"Didn't you guys ever celebrate Christmas together?" Miki asked.

"No," all of the boys admitted.

"But our little chibi Ryoma's birthday is on the twenty-fourth of December!" Eiji said.

"Wow . . ."

"I can't believe how strange your Christmas was," Inui said while writing in his notebook.

"Yeah yeah. Data," Saori said.

"At least we have interesting Christmases. You guys have boring ones," Koizumi said.

"Maybe we should all celebrate Christmas together next time," Tezuka suggested.

"No!" all of the girls said.

"I think that would be a great idea. We would all get along and it could be a thing for the tennis teams," Tsubaki said.

"Ugh! That sucks!" all of the girls groaned while the boys laughed.

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