A/n: Hello!! I'm glad to see that more people are liking this story! It makes all of my friends and I so happy! Now we sorta rushed some things soooo please don't hate it, but believe me we got soooo sick of waiting while we were role playing. So here we go and I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: If I owned this... well I don't so never mind.

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Tamaki was in the host club room, waiting for the other hosts to arrive. He sat in one of the large armchairs, legs crossed at the knee. His elbow was resting on the chair's arm and his chin rested in his palm.

It wasn't every day that the blonde was deep in thought. He was thinking about what had happened the other day with Eclair... and Haruhi.

"What are you thinking about?" Alexa asked, talking near his ear.

Haruhi was dreading the host club. Though faded you could see a faint bruise on her cheek and was asked about it through out the day.

Tamaki let out a yell and leapt out of the chair. He spun around to look at Alexa, hand over his heart. "Don't sneak up on me like that!" he exclaimed dramatically. He took a couple of deep breaths before answering her question. "Nothing really." he answered.

Alexa chuckled, walking over to the nearby couch and sat down. "Sorry; Bad habit. Anyway, what do you plan on doing to show Haruhi your feelings?", She asked, while mentally recalling another plan.

Tamaki looked back to last night again. Showing Haruhi his feelings was easier said than done. There were so many things that he wanted to say, not just last night, but times before that as well.

"What did you have in mind?" asked Tamaki curiously as he sat back down

"Well, that all depends on how you want to tell her," She replied still grinning.

How could Tamaki tell her? He held his chin in a thoughtful pose, wondering how he could tell Haruhi how he felt. He could picture hundreds, maybe thousands, of different scenarios in his Tamaki theatre about him and Haruhi, but it usually involved strange events with swimsuits, dancing, and bento boxes and Haruhi was completely infatuated with him in these daydreams. Telling her in those were easy. How could he tell her in real life?

He stood up quickly again, a panicked look on his face. "I don't know how I'm going to tell her!" he exclaimed.

Alexa nearly fell off the sofa when she heard that, "How can you not know how to tell some one your own feelings?".

"I-I don't know!" exclaimed Tamaki. "Everytime I think about it, I just can't!" He went to his corner of shame and sat there with his legs close to his chest, as he had done many a time before. This time, however, he felt more depressed.

Alexa groaned then shook her head while thinking, 'He told me this wouldn't be easy but I didn't think he would be this difficult to handle,'. "Okay... What exactly goes through your head that makes you think you can't," She asked walking over to him.

"What would Haruhi say!? Or what if I look like a complete fool in front of my precious Haruhi!?" exclaimed Tamaki, telling Alexa his worst fears about telling Haruhi how he felt.

Alexa just stared at him in disbelief, "Are you two really that dense?", she muttered then told him calmly, "Just tell her; Forget about the what ifs!".

Tamaki lifted his head and looked over at Alexa. "You're right." he said, slowly rising to his feet. "I must forget about the what if's and tell Haruhi exactly how I feel!" He suddenly fell back down into the sitting position in the corner. "But I'm still afraid to!"

Alexa sighed, "Why? Why are you always so afraid? If you want to be a afraid be more afraid of losing her!".

Tamaki looked over at Alexa again; his purple eyes held less sparkle in them than usual. "I don't want to lose Haruhi." He murmured softly. He rose to his feet and straightened his tie. He couldn't be afraid to tell Haruhi how he truly felt about her. He would pull himself together and be courageous!

He put his leg up on the chair he had been sitting on and pointed at the door. "The minute Haruhi walks through that door, I will tell her how I feel!" said Tamaki confidently... and loudly.

Alexa grinned, "Thats it! Now make sure you keep up with that thought!".

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Eclair tapped her phone. Undecided. But then she sighed and went to dial Tamaki's phone number. It rang. She stood still, waiting for him to pick up.

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Haruhi was rushing over to the third music room, when she heard Tamaki's shout. Confused she stopped but curiosity took over her legs and brought her to the room.

Kyouya rushed into the room with the costumes and bumped Tamaki's phone, knocking it to the ground and shattering it into pieces. "Oh, how terribly clumsy of me," Kyouya said with a slight grin on his face,"Now you'll have to change your phone and maybe your number. Oh well." Before anyone could comment, he went to work setting up the props for the theme.

Smiling at the shadow king, Alexa decided to leave Tamaki to his promise and walk over to where Kyouya was and hopped up onto a table next to him. "Nice timing," she commented still grinning, "Oh and the spiked up hairdo doesn't work for you,". She slightly chuckled at the memory of his appearance yesterday but refrained from any further comment.

Tamaki's phone hadn't been ringing to long when Kyouya knocked it down onto the ground. Tamaki looked down at his phone in time to see it shatter into many pieces. Tamaki stared after Kyouya in shock, but he recovered quickly. The ringtone that was coming from it only confirmed that it was Eclair that was calling and Tamaki was relieved that he didn't have to talk to her.

He turned back to see Haruhi walking into the room. His previous flare of confidence was slowly leaving him and his arm dropped to his side. "Uh..."

"Sempai, what were you shouting about?" Haruhi asked walking in, almost cautiously.

"Haruhi! You're here later than usual!" said Tamaki, walking over to her and avoiding the question for the time being.

"Sempai, what were you going to tell me?" Haruhi was in no mood for his dramatics especially now, when she was having her own trouble sorting out her own feelings. Fear crept in when she thought maybe he actually disliked her, but was quelled at the memory of last night which came with a light blush. 'Great now I'm starting to act like him…' she thought rubbing her head.

He was so sure that he would be able to tell her, but now he was having his doubts that he could. He scratched the back of his head nervously and tried to smile brightly at Haruhi, but it wasn't working too well. He was still a little afraid of what she would say.

'If you want to be afraid, be more afraid of losing her!' That's what Alexa had said. He had to pull himself together.

"Haruhi, I..."

Alexa glanced over at the blonde and sighed, "He is too tense.".

Haruhi looked up at him, then shook her head, "You can tell me later,". She grabbed his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze, and moved to walk over to Kyouya and get her costume.

Impatiently, Kyouya grabbed both Tamaki and Haruhi shoving them into a spacious closet and locking it. He yelled from outside," No, this is taking too long. Tell her, Tamaki, or you two will be in there all day!"

Blinking, Alexa watched Kyouya and gently applauded him. "Bravo; If you hadn't done it I certainly would have at some point," she hopped off the table and walked over to him.

Haruhi was completely confused, one second she was being grabbed by Kyouya the next she was shoved into a closet with Tamaki. Now realizing the situation she turned scarlet and tried to scoot away from the taller blonde.

"Kyouya!" yelled Tamaki, beating his fists on the door. "How could you be so cruel and carelessly push me into a closet!? How could you push Haruhi into a closet!?" He stopped after saying the last part as everything started to click. Him... Haruhi... closet... together... He blushed and stopped hitting the door.

Tamaki slowly turned to face Haruhi, looking down at the closet's floor. It was now or never... "Haruhi?"

"Uh…yes, sempai?" she asked slightly nervous again.

Tamaki took in a deep breath before speaking. "Haruhi..." he said with a serious face that made very few appearances. "For the longest time, I've... I haven't seen you as a daughter... I deeply care about you and..." There was a long pause, but Tamaki soon pushed himself to go on and finish. "I love you."

Haruhi's nervousness dissipated leaving cold surprise, her eyes immediately latched onto Tamaki's face. "I.. I.. like you too, Tamaki-senpai. I mean I really like you, but I don't know if its love, but you know," Haruhi told him fidgeting slightly as she stepped a bit closer, "I'm actually really happy that you like me so much, and for telling me,". She finished smiling widely, and a small blush on her face. Her heart was pounding, but she really did feel extremely happy. She hoped that the blonde wouldn't take the first part too badly, she just couldn't honestly say that she loved the blonde though. It isn't like she had ever really liked some one that way before.

Tamaki's eyes moved off of the floor and onto Haruhi's face. Haruhi liked him! She really liked him! It wasn't love, but she liked him! Her response made him estactic, and he probably would've started twirling her around in his happiness if it weren't for the fact they were in a closet. He smiled down at her, blushing as well, till an idea struck him.

He didn't know what possessed him to do it, but he leaned down and kissed Haruhi's cheek without a thought about it. It caused the pink in his cheeks to darken.

Haruhi turned red when she felt him kiss her, but she gently hugged him in response, and much to her own surprise.

Alexa was grinning happily, hoping that it would turn out successful. 'I'll give them a couple more minutes,' she thought chuckling, ' I'm sure they will be really happy to hear about this,'.

Tamaki put his arms around Haruhi and hugged her back.

"So what now?" Haruhi asked a little confused about their current situation. Were they dating or were they still just friends, but those thoughts flew out the window when then door suddenly opened and a camera flash appeared.

"Now some one should ask the other out," Alexa answered, chuckling as she held a digital camera in one hand, 'I guess, I'm too impatient.' Alexa thought, grinning broadly.

Tamaki was frozen in surprise when Alexa took a picture of them. He blinked, trying to get rid of the spots that he was seeing now from the sudden flash.

Haruhi also blinked trying to remove the spots from her vision, "What do you mean?".

"Didn't you two confess?" Alexa asked now completely confused.

Tamaki stared at Alexa when the spots were gone. "Y-yes." he answered. They had confessed, but now one of them had to ask the other out!? This was too much for one Tamaki in one day!

Alexa groaned at the look on Tamaki's face, "Fine, I won't push it but at some point, you are going to have to do it,".

Haruhi just shook her head but was smiling nonetheless. "Sempai we better get ready before the guests come."

Tamaki looked down at Haruhi and smiled. "Ah, yes." he agreed. "We must be ready when they arrive." He walked past Alexa and towards Kyouya to get his costume, and to whine to him a bit about being pushed into a closet.

Haruhi just stood and waited for the blonde to finish, so she could easily get her costume and not say a word to the Shadow king.

Kyouya smirked as Tamaki approached him. "You'll thank me later. I'm not even adding a matchmaker fee to Haruhi's debt," he said to halt Tamaki's whining.

Tamaki stopped his whining. Kyouya was right. He was glad that he had finally told Haruhi how he felt and it probably would not have happened so soon if Kyouya didn't do anything. Tamaki smiled and clung to the dark-haired boy. "Mon ami, Kyouya!" he squealed.

Haruhi coughed slightly, trying to get the blonde's attention. She kinda figured she needed to get ready and that the room needed to be prepared, but if Tamaki clung to Kyouya he would delay this and they never knew when those guests arrived.

Kyouya got a little annoyed. "Point your affections in that direction," he said pointing at Haruhi, "I need to set up. Shoo!" He tossed the costumes to the respective people and turned to get everything set up.

Haruhi caught her costume and ran off to go changed. As soon as she got out she tried to help Kyouya set up the room.

Tamaki was forced to let go of Kyouya, but he nodded with a smile at what Kyouya said when he pointed at Haruhi. He took his costume and went to get changed quickly.

Kyouya changed quickly as well, before actually setting up and much appreciated all the help he could get.

Tamaki returned when he was done changing and helped, or did what he considered as helping. He stood in the middle of the room and watched Kyouya set everything up while commenting on things or saying things like, "Kyouya! I think the customers would like it better over there." Then he'd give his own explanation on why that was, no matter how it would be considered a stupid reason by anyone else.

Kaoru came in without his beloved twin brother. He grabbed his costume and went to change. Then he returned to assist in decorating the room.

Before long, all of the decorations were in place. Kyouya looked around slightly annoyed that members were missing. He asked Kaoru where Hikaru was, but Kaoru's answer was that Hikaru had left before he did and was just as surprised that his twin wasn't there.

Hunni bounced in happily, with Mori following closely behind, retrieved his costume from Kyouya, and went to change.

Tamaki was suddenly behind Kaoru after hearing that Hikaru was nowhere to be found. As he usually did first when one twin, or both, was missing, he assumed that they were up to something. More specifically, he assumed that they were up to something that involved Haruhi.

"You two aren't up to something, are you?" asked Tamaki from behind Kaoru.

Kaoru jumped in surprise. "No, if Hikaru is up to something I'm sad to say I don't know about it. Lately he has been hanging out with Nekozawa," he replied with a slight twinge of jealously towards Nekozawa.

Kyouya looked less but still annoyed. They needed a Marley to complete the theme. He got out his phone and dialed Hikaru's cellphone.

Haruhi rolled her eyes at the blonde but said nothing as she waited for people to arrive.

Alexa sat near the entrance to the host club, bored as she waited for the nasty french girl. "She sure can keep a person waiting," she muttered, glancing at the small watch on her wrist.

Kaoru's response didn't calm Tamaki down. In fact, it had the exact opposite effect. "What!? Hikaru's with Nekozawa!?" Tamaki exclaimed, now sure that someone was up to something.

Alexa glanced around and smiled, as she quietly slipped out of the Hosts room. 'See that I'm no longer needed, its time to be on dessert watch,' She thought grinning.

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The ring ended. Eclair immediately pushed the redial button and waited. It won't connect. She tried it again. She frowned. She looked at her phone for a moment. Thinking carefully. 'Maybe it's time for a visit?' she thought as she stood up and look at the mirror in her bedroom, staring at the faint bruise of her last encounter with Haruhi.

After thinking for a while, Eclair immediately got changed and went downstairs. She called out to her driver and went to the car. "To Ouran."

Eclair got out of the car at the main entrance of Ouran. She flipped her hair to the back. She looked at the school and exhaled sharply. 'Here I come,' she whispered only to herself.

Alexa tried to look as normal as possible, but that was partially difficult with her arms behind her back, and one hand gently holding a very thin string.

She walked up to the room only to see Alexa near the entrance. She rolled her eyes in irritation. 'Huh, her being here just makes it more complicated,' she thought. 'Disgusting nosy wild animal. I'm knew this wouldn't go smoothly as I planned.' She rolled her eyes again, and took a detour. She arrived at the back entrance of the music room, which Tamaki had shown her during the school festival. Looked at the people and spotted Tamaki out of the crowd. She walked gracefully towards Tamaki, who's with Kaoru at the time, and circled her arm around one of his. "Grandma Suoh invited me here," she said, looking up at him.

Frowning Alexa moved over to the french girl silently. 'Okay here goes,' she thought as she managed to take the bucket that she had hidden earlier (A/N: You know what I'm talking about; How all anime characters can produce things that you don't know where they came from… ) and poured molasses all over her. She then attempted a hurried retreat while chuckling.

Kyouya was a little more irritated at there being molasses on the floor. He handed Haruhi a mop and pointed towards Eclair saying," Please get the mess cleaned up and out of here".

Haruhi blinked glancing at the mop then at the french girl. Sighing she muttered under her breathe, "Yes , Mr Scrooge,". She walked over and started trying to clean up the area, while mentally chuckling.

Tamaki shivered slightly when Eclair wrapped her arm around his. He looked at her quickly, wondering where she came from. "Eh?" he responded to her presence. After the molasses was poured onto Eclair, Tamaki found his chance to slip his arm out of her grasp and walk over to Kyouya.

Kyouya gave a small but diabolical smirk. No little sweet cake was going to ruin this theme or the couple (Haruhi and Tamaki). However, he wasn't going to do anything more because he kinda liked it when Alexa was angry. She looked especially cute when she was mad and came up with great ideas like molasses. He'd only step in if the two girls did something that might hurt the club or disgust the patrons, who fortunately have not arrived yet.

Eclair was stunned for a minute. She blinked and looked all over her. "What the-," she managed to say. She blinked several times, furiously. She gritted her teeth, trying hard not to shriek. She then went over to Tamaki, dragging her sticky dress towards him. "Tamaki!!! I expect you to do something about it right now or I-," she said angrily, not even managing to finish her sentence. "The moment I walk out of this room without you doing anything about it," she said pausing, then continued. "You're not going to like what will happen next," she said, a threat in her voice. She then tried to flash a meaningful look to Alexa, then to Haruhi. She sharply looked at Alexa's general direction again and said "You'll pay for this." 'If this is what you want, you're on,' she thought

Alexa collapsed on the floor outside laughing. "OH Her face was priceless!!!" she gasped while wishing she had a camera. When She heard the french girl's comments she collected herself and shouted "Bring it on!!".

Haruhi smiled as she gently began using the mop on the french girl. She also gently began pushing her out with it.

Tamaki stepped forward at Eclair's threat, almost afraid of what the consequences may be. He knew that it would most likely involve his grandmother and he didn't really want that. He only took on step forwards though. His grandmother wouldn't like it, but... He had a sudden burst of courage. He started walking towards her again. "Eclair... I think it's best that you do leave. Our customers will arrive soon."

Half expecting Tamaki's answer, Eclair smirked despite her irritation. "You're really choosing it the hard way." She put her arms around his neck, smiled at Haruhi, and kissed him. She pulled away a little, looking at the sticky mess now in the both of them, looked satisfied, and whispered to his ear. "Just so you know, I plan to do this alone," she laughed lowly but evilly. "And you might be surprised at how good I can be." She looked at his face, threat in her eyes, and said. "If anything happens..." she trailed off. "Don't regret it." She smiled sweetly at him and turned her back. When she did so, her face immediately switched to a different expression. Pure. Uncontained. Fury.

Haruhi's face darkened at the sight of Eclair kissing the blonde and as soon as Eclair turned away from she began to use the mop on her back and pushed her to the door. 'If she makes me this mad about something as simple as kissing Tamaki, I guess it prove I really do like him,' she thought as she managed to push the french girl outside, closing the doors to hopefully keep her away.

Tamaki stood in silent shock for a while after the Eclair's kiss and her words. He didn't see that coming... and it was in front of his precious Haruhi! He looked over at her after she had pushed Eclair from the room with big, nervous eyes. It didn't even strike him yet that he was all sticky now.

Haruhi is still frowning by the time she returns to the group, a dark cloud surrounding her mind as she sat down on a nearby chair.

Alexa frowned at the french girl but quickly stepped past the girl and walked back into the room with the hosts in it. One glance at Tamaki's state and Haruhi's mood spelled out what happened. Alexa walked over to the blonde and quietly said, "I think it be best you find a way to get cleaned up,".

"Cleaned up?" asked Tamaki, slowly turning his gaze on Alexa. He then looked down at himself. "Ah! I'm all sticky! Kyouya!"

Alexa smacked herself in the head then moved away and sat in a corner of the room thinking what to do now in case the french girl might try to exact some retribution.

"Here," Kyouya said furiously handing Tamaki the backup outfit. After he calmed down he said looking at Haruhi,"It looks like I have competition for the Shadow King. Don't let her bother you." Just then the customers started flowing in and Kyouya became preoccupied with the young ladies.

Haruhi, still somewhat angry nodded at Kyouya and soon began her duties as a host.

Alexa noticing how busy it was getting in there, decided that she might want to go ahead and take her leave. She slipped through the door and headed down to the gardens to continue her thoughts.

Tamaki ran off to change into the backup costume. When he returned, he found that the customers had already arrived. He apologized for not being there to greet them in his usual charming way and, blushing, the girls said it was alright. He sat down at one of the tables and his group of customers sat in a circle around him.

Kyouya made a handsome, cool Scrooge. The girls crowded around him and giggled when he said ba-humbug.

Haruhi calmed after the altercation with Eclair and was having fun trying to pretend to be the hopeful Cratchit as she talked to the guests.

Hikaru finally showed up and got changed into his costume and went out to entertain the girls.

Kaoru beamed when his brother came. He joined his brother but still played his role as Christmas Present.

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Outside with the evil dessert

Eclair arched one eyebrow up when she saw Alexa walked past her. She smiled wryly, amused. She immediately went towards her car, rolling her eyes as she carried her sticky dress to the floor. 'Now, let's see..' she thought as she got in and told her driver to go home.

A/N: Here we are sorry for the rushed Confession! Please review!!!