It was finally the day of the test run. Haruhi was super nervous, and wanted to beat the entire clubs heads in. She almost had the other day but 2 things had stopped her. 1) Hunny was now very convince she didn't even like him as a friend, so she gave in a said she'd do it, and 2) Kyoya promised to remove ¼ her debt for just doing the trial run. So in reluctance, she agreed. As she walked through the courtyard on the way to host club, she ran into Hunny and Mori.
"Hiya, Haru-chan! How are you?" Hunny asked in a bubbly voice.
Haruhi looked beside her and smiled. "Oh, I'm doing okay. I'm worried about today though. If it goes well, what about you Mori-senpai, what'll you do?"
Mori just nodded and let Hunny answer for him.
"We talked to Kyo-chan about it and he said that we could just host together some days, and the days we did Takashi could go to kendo, or read or something. So there will still be days where you host all by yourself."
"Oh okay, I guess that takes care of that problem," Haruhi said, still unsure of the whole situation.
When Haruhi walked into the room, she saw tables upon tables of sweets lined up, ready to eat.
"HARUHI!" Tamaki yelled running across the room to greet her. Before he could tackle her, Hunny-senpai had flipped himself off of Mori's back and jumped down in front of her. As soon as Tamaki came close enough Honey kicked him in the stomach, not hard, but enough to stop him.
"Ne, Tama-chan, you don't wanna hurt Haru do you?" Hunny said innocently before running off to one of the tables.
Haruhi looked around confused, "Why are there cakes everywhere? Doesn't Hunny-senpai have another cavity? I thought he couldn't have sweets."
"My cavities are all gone now Haru! So in honor of my return to sweets, and our new deal, the 'Sweet as Cake' package, we got me all my favorite treats!"
Haruhi nodded in understanding still in awe of all the sweets.
Tamaki had finally recovered from the shock of being kicked in the stomach by Hunny, world champion martial artist, and was ready to go for the day.
"Everybody! Take your places; we're opening in just 3 minutes!"
All the hosts rushed to the front of the room, this time taking on a few new poses. Tamaki still had his throne as usual, this time with Kyoya on one knee in front of his chair. The twins were on one side of Tamaki's throne wrapped in an embrace. Mori-senpai stood behind it with his arms on the top of the throne. The newest pose though, was Hunny clutching on to Haruhi with his head nestled in the crook of her neck. Renge had chosen this pose as an introduction to the pair.
As the doors opened and the rose petals flourished, the hosts said their famous welcome and all the girls squealed at the sight of Haruhi with Hunny in 'his' arms. Choruses of 'Oh they are so cute!' and 'How sweet!' rang out across the room. Haruhi gently let Hunny down so he could run and grab his Usa-chan off of one of the tables, while Kyoya called all the girls over to him to 'explain' what was going on between the two. Basically he fed them a sugar spun tale of how Haruhi had a crush on 'his' senior. So in true host club fashion they were trying to play cupid for the two and had them hosting together. The girls bought the tale like it was a new Prada bag.
"Excuse me ladies, I need to go make some tea. I'll be right back." Haruhi said. She ran into the back room and laid her head against the table, "I can't do this! I can barely host on my own, let alone put on an act with somebody else."
"You can do it Haru-chan." A small voice said from behind her. She spun around to see Hunny staring at her, "You're good at this! That's why we call you the Natural type!" He smiled. "Now come on it won't be that hard, I can even do it all. You just have to play along."
"But I need to get the tea, I'll be right out I promise."
"Really super promise?" Hunny said with big eyes.
Haruhi laughed, "Yes really super promise. Now go entertain those ladies."
"Okie doke!" Hunny said as he turned to skip out of the room. Haruhi made the tea as quickly as possible, and rushed out to the table where the clients and Hunny were waiting. She set the tea down and asked, "Would you ladies like any sweets? We have plenty left over from the other day, and we just had some new ones shipped in."
"We'd love some cake Haruhi-kun!" Haruhi stood up and was about to go grab the sweets when Mori patted her shoulder.
"Stay." He said lightly.
"Alright…" Haruhi said, confused. She continued to make light conversation with the girls, discussing her home life with them, and what she liked to cook.
"Have any of the hosts tried your food Haruhi?" one girl asked.
"Well… actually I think the last time they came over to my place we ordered out… so no, they haven't." Haruhi said thoughtfully.
"Can we come over and try it then?" Hunny-senpai giggled.
"I don't know. I have a big history test to study for and Tamaki and the twins are just too loud."
"Then can I come over and try your food Haru-chan?" he tried again leaning towards her.
Haruhi realized this is probably what he meant by follow his lead, so she got as flustered as she could and said, "I-I guess so Hunny-senpai." She hoped she had been blushing or something.
Hunny sat back in his seat and giggled, "Yay! I get to try Haru-chan's cooking!" Haruhi looked over at the girls to see they all had hearts in their eyes. Their act was working very well!
Haruhi continued to look flustered for a moment more until Mori-senpai walked up with a tray of sweets. It had one big chocolate cake for Hunny, and other little brownie type treats for the girls.
"Thanks Mori-kun! You're so sweet!" one of the girls cooed.
Haruhi began to reach for a brownie when Hunny stopped her, "No-no Haruhi! I wanna feed you!"
Haruhi blushed again, (was it just her or was it getting easier?) and nodded slightly, "I can feed my self!" she said defensively.
Hunny's POV
Haruhi's good at this. "Oh come on Haru-chan! It's so much more fun this way!"
"A-alright, I guess so." She says slowly. Perfect, she's got this down! I slowly lift the fork up to her mouth and she opens her mouth reluctantly. She takes the cake off the fork and chews slowly, then smiles.
"This is delicious! What is it?"
"It's double chocolate cream!" (A/N I have no idea if that is a real cake, it just sounded good! XD ) I say happily.
"Could I maybe have just a little more?" Haruhi says shyly.
"Of course Haru-chan!" I hope she knows I like her. After what I did on Monday she'd better know. She's always so sweet, but she treats me like a little brother. This was a good turn of events for me. Maybe I could even get her to like me! For real, and not just pretend! I look over and see all the girls on Moe overload and smile. This is just perfect. I feed the cake to Haruhi bite by bite and she is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
I will make her mine!
