summary: Christmas is finally coming and the students are excited for their party, especially the gift giving thingy, and Haruhi will have something she wouldn't expect. Ahah!! Hope you'll like this!

chapter 4 – who?

At last their third examinations were over. Haruhi and her friends enjoyed this "common" freedom from their books by playing their favorite game.

"What the hell-"

Hinata just drew first blood!!

Hinata was laughing so hard. Ino on the other hand was grumbling.

"That was so unfair Hinata!!" Ino retorted.

"No it wasn't." Hinata said.

"Nice one Hinata." Sakura mumbled.

"Haha." Haruhi smiled.

Their game finally ended with Hinata and Haruhi celebrating.

"That was just so unfair!!!!!" Ino retorted.

"Hinata's just so good." Haruhi said as all of them walked towards the school. It was midday.

"Undeniably good." Sakura said.

"Forget it guys." Hinata said. "I just hate the way we smell. Hey, what day is today?"

Haruhi thought for a moment when suddenly-

"Hey! When's the christmas party anyway?" Haruhi asked them as they all went inside the school.

"A week from now. I guess." Ino replied.

"I see." Sakura said.

"Any ideas what gift you are going to give to your lucky girl/boy?" Ino asked Haruhi.

"I dunno." Haruhi replied.

The bell finally rang for their first subject that afternoon.

"Hinata. we gotta go or we'll be late for Math." Ino told her friend.

"Oh yeah." Hinata remembered. "See ya later!" she bade goodbye to Haruhi and Sakura.

"What's our next subject anyway?" Sakura asked as she watched Ino and Hinata run.

"Homeroom, I guess." Haruhi replied. "Why?"

"I just remembered something." Sakura said as they walked down the corridor to their room. "We'll have the picking thing, right?"

Haruhi looked at her in confusion. "What picking thing?"

"For the christmas party!"

Haruhi remembered that they have to pick who will be the person they will be giving their gifts to. "Oh yeah. I remember."

They finally arrived in their room and saw that everyone was so excited in their seats.
The two girls figured out that their class is preparing for the picking thing. Sakura went to her seat while Hinata went to her locker to get the things needed for their next subject which was History. Their classmates started picking names.

"Who do you think will be yours?" asked a person who was standing near Haruhi's locker.

Haruhi closed her locker and saw that it was Tamaki standing next to her locker.

"Your locker's here?" Haruhi asked him as she went back to her locker.

"No. I just got my notebook from Kyoya's locker." Tamaki replied as he too went to get his notebook. "Anyways, I just asked you a question andyou answered me with another one. Don't you think that was inappropriate?"

"Oh yeah." Haruhi said as she closed her locker and went back to her seat. "Hmmmmm. I really don't know who it will be."

When Haruhi arrived in her seat, it was her turn to pick. She hoped that it was a girl. When she got the paper and opened it...

Shina

Haruhi sighed a sigh of relief. Shina was one of her friends and they are pretty close. Haruhi turned to Sakura when something caught her eye. What's with Tamaki's face? So unreadable. Haruhi let it go and went to Sakura.

"Who's yours?" Sakura asked Haruhi.

"I'll tell you later. Anyways, why don't we talk about what gift we are going to give?"

Finally, dismissal arrived. Haruhi was assigned to clean that day so she had to stay behind. She noticed later that Kyoya was also cleaning. Oh yeah I forgot. Were groupmates. This made Haruhi smile. A while later, she was left alone with Kyoya who was so busy cleaning when she noticed Tamaki sit on the teacher's chair. Oh come on! You are destroying the scene!

"Hey Kyoya! Who did you get?" Tamaki asked his friend.

Kyoya looked at him and hesitated to answer. Kyoya noticed that Haruhi was there.

"Oh. I see." Tamaki understood. He turned to Haruhi and asked. "Haruhi, what things do you really like?"

Haruhi stopped and looked at him. She paused to think what things she liked. She remembered her tour in the mall with her cousin as they looked for nice things.

"I guess I would like a pillow." she replied to him as she sat down to rest.

"Pillow?" Tamaki asked with a cocked brow. Kyoya went outside to clean.

"Yeah." Haruhi said, starting to get sad for the flight of her prince.

"Anything else?"

Haruhi continued thinking when-

"Hey! Why are you asking me? Do you happen to know who got my name?"

Tamaki went silent.

"What?"

"I know who's that person but will you please tell me what would you like to get this christmas?" Tamaki said.

Haruhi decided to let it go and went to think what would she like to get. She remembered her cousin telling her something while they were in that shop. Her cousin let her see that nice-

"Pair of earrings!!" Haruhi said. "Yeah. That oughta do it."

Kyoya went inside and continued cleaning. Tamaki stood up and turned to Haruhi.

"Are you going to tell me who got my name?" Haruhi asked Tamaki as she took a quick glance at Kyoya.

"I'll tell you later who."

darthvader17: I think this is the best cliffhanger so far. I told you I'll give you a cliffhanger. That ought to keep you watching out for the next chapter. Again THANKS for reviewing!

Ino: hey! What happened to Hani?

darthvader17: hmmmm. So now you go looking for Hani.. I wonder why.. (evil grin)

hinata: ino is just love sick.

Ino: AM NOT!!

Tamari: yes you are!

Sakura: yeah!

Konan: please review everyone. It seems like ino is getting a taste of her own medicine, at last.

darthvader17: sakura, I'm trying my best to make my story reader friendly. Promise.. I won't stop until this problem is fixed. Okay? =)