Hey guys :)

I just thought I'd update for the crack of it (excuse the phrase... I'm from Manchester), and besides, this is more of a filler chapter than anything else!

Now... to all those that wished Chey a happy birthday!

auburndq91, Aurora-16, Neko-Chan1616, Ayaka Haninozuka, GlassxXxHeart, Kuramasredredrose and of course ME!

See, we're all like one big family here, one big, slightly retarded, family :)

Anyways... yep, 2 more episodes, probably 15-20 more chapters, then it's bye bye Life Across Waters...

You know, I'm actually shocked people read all this blithering nonsense at the top... Many people tend to skim over it.

Thanks people who read this. I wuv yuwwww......


I jumped.

Bracing for impact, and a broken leg, I closed my eyes tight and atempted to curl up into a ball to reduce the splat.

But funnily enough, I didn't splat, but was caught.

I opened my eyes and saw Takashi stood there smiling slightly with his arms wrapped tightly around me.

"Thanks." I gasped, kissing him then clambering down from his arms and steadying myself. But I freaked out again when the platform lowered and Benio jumped the last few feet, landing in front of us with a scowl on her face.

"You have ruined the play! You little whelp!" she screeched at me, standing forward menacingly.

I was going to bitch slap her, but Takashi stood in front of me and stared her down... quite easily might I add.

"I'm gonna go change..." I muttered, running off the stage as fast as I could in these freaking heels, grabbing Haruhi and dodging all the Lobelia nutters. We ran into the changing room as quick as possible, locked it and got changed as fast as was humanly possible, wiping makeup off as we went, and bracing ourselves for the tirade of angry tweens.

I scooped up Chance, who had been eating one of Benio's shoes, kept him close to my chest, and flung the doors open.

True to fact, there were several angry teenage girls, glaring at us, so we jogged through the masses, despite them hurling objects at us, and eventually found the others, relatively unscathed.

"Let's go." snapped Ranka, leading us. "Unfortunately, then only exit is through the theater, so we might have to get Mori and Honey to beat a few people up."

I glanced at Haruhi and we both sighed at the same time. We braced ourselves again, but when we got into the theater... everyone was gone.

Except Benio, Chizuru and Hinako.

"Maidens, you disappointed us..." sighed Benio, taking a step forward. "And if I cannot seek revenge through Saori... then Haruhi will do just fine."

She lurched forward, grabbed Haruhi, and pulled her close.

"Stealing her first kiss in front of all you idiots... the perfect revenge." she sneered.

Ranka stood forward, raising his fist, while Chizuru and Hinako stood in between. I noticed the screen come down, and then a picture flick on of Haruhi (accidentally) kissing Kanako.

"Look!" shouted Honey, and everybody's head's swiveled to see the screen.

"Wha-What is the meaning of this maiden!?" shouted Benio.

"Haruhi Fujioka! Explain this!" shouted Ranka, and while they were getting mad and distracted, the twins pulled Haruhi away from Benio, and we all made a run for it.

Kyouya joined us outside, and jogged along with us.

"I presume that picture was your doing?" I asked through pants for breath, looking at him.

He smirked, pushed his glasses up that were slipping down and nodded.

"Well, I wanted to create a distraction, and that seemed to work."

"Yup, but Ranka may just kill Haruhi now."

"Ah well."

I laughed and when we finally got to the limo, all piled in and set off, we all started laughing... in hind sight, it was rather funny.

"I don't know about you guys..." started Hikaru.

"But I plan to write a very strongly worded letter." Finished Kaoru.

We all laughed, and chilled out as we went on our way.

* * *

Okay, Haruhi got in some trouble from her dad, Chance is now scared of screaming girls, and I plan to never sleep at Haruhi's house again because too much weird stuff happens.

But other than that, life was good.

We were planning our masquerade ball, and all the invites had been sent of to a load of st7u, telling them about the ball and the theme.

I was quite pleased with it, since it had kind of been my idea, but because I had thought of it, Kyouya had insisted I help him with planning.

So, we'd both gone to the headmaster, who was Tamaki's dad, who also paid for my scholarship and everything else, and he was very nice, and when we told him about the idea, he agreed right away.

Then he'd gone to chat with me about how I liked the school, is there anything that could make it better, was I making friends. I hastened to tell him that his son was actually one of my friends, and that he was a very nice person. I told him I was friends with Haruhi Fujioka, the other honor student, and he just smiled and nodded, and before I left, he ruffled my hair and said I was a very nice girl and gave that same 'I-am-made-of-ten-kinds-of-awesome' look that Tamaki always gave everyone.

When we went out and shut the door, I could hear him squee-ing, and bouncing around... so there was definitely no mistake, Tamaki was his son.

So, we had the room, but now we had to decide on costumes for all of us hosts, which was a challenge within itself.

We decided that for Honey, he would have white slacks, with pink braces... a white dress shirt and a pink waistcoat and tie, then he would also have a white and pink eye mask. We ran it by him and he said it was so cute, and he loved the idea.

Takashi would have a similar outfit, but instead of pink, he would have dark blue, and his mask would be white and blue.

Tamaki was obviously going to be dressed in white and gold, so he decided he would have a complete white suit, with a tailcoat (it looks classier), with gold stitching and a gold tie. His mask would cover his eyes, and it would curve around the left side of his face, and it would be white with gold glitter with a sun over his right eye and some intricate swirls going down the left side of his face.

Kyouya would have a suit very much like Tamaki's. He would be in a black suit and tailcoat, but all his stitching would be in silver, and his tie would be silver. His mask would be black, and curve around the right side of his face, not the left like Tamaki's did, and instead of a sun and swirl pattern, it would have a crescent moon over his left eye, and he would have stars going down the right side of his face.

The twins and Haruhi would all match, with black slacks, with a large puffy dress shirt that had bronze stitching. The twins would have masks that only covered one side of their face, while the other side was left uncovered. Hikaru would cover his right side, and Kaoru his left. Haruhi would have one that covered the top of her face, and all of them would be white with bronze glitter around the eye holes.

And I would have a black and white dress, quite simply. It would be made of chiffon, and the bust would be black, whereas the long skirt would be white and would pool around my feet. My mask would be white with black glitter framing my eyes and around the mask, and I also had a fake white rose to slide into my hair that had black glitter around all the petals.

So, the invites were out, the room was booked, our outfits were sorted, Kyouya had phoned a caterer and all the food was to be made specially at school, on the day, all high class, so that was good... and now all we had to do was get the music, and that was simple enough because the school had an orchestra.

So... all done.