After High School

Chapter 2

The year went surprisingly fast the internship was a very welcome experience and I am extremely happy to end Kyoya and I am working relationship. It was a week before New Years and we, the host club and I, had just finished exchanging gifts with the each other the previous day on Christmas Eve. I was at home with my dad relaxing when I remembered that the guys did not really celebrate New Year or Christmas with their families. I felt bad and decided a couple of years ago in high school that we would get together and celebrate the holidays and special occasions with each other and we would take turns each year to organize the event to our liking. This year it was my turn to organize the events like our birthdays. This year I figured out the guys favorite locations and had a birthday picnic with my homemade foods that the guys liked and with their favorite type of cakes.

Tamaki's favorite location was the Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, as well as palaces, gardens and architecture in Kyoto. His favorite place is the city of Kyoto so we did a tour of his favorite spots within Kyoto. When we got to my house, he noticed that I had set up a kotetsu. The kotetsu had different types of French foods on it and I used individual crème brulee as his birthday cake. For Hikaru and Kaoru's birthday we went to their favorite spot, the amusement park, played all day then went to my place where I had everything, set up for dinner, which was different types of Karaage and for desert a two-layered chocolate fudge cake with raspberries on top. Well Kyoya does not have a favorite place so we went to the movies at the Melshan Shinagawa IMAX Theater in Tokyo and saw Avatar. After the movie he pull me aside and told me that he love going to the movies and asked how did I know what he liked I only replied that it was a guess and thanked him for confirming his favorite place to me. He likes sushi so after the movie we went to a sushi spot he loves. We had a good time eating, drinking and talking about the movie. After that we went to my place had some tea and homemade cherry drop cookies since he does not like sweets and cakes that much. Mitzkuni's favorite place is the zoo so that is where we went for his birthday, then we went back to my place and had a desert party we ate all types of cakes and treats that I made but his favorite was the orange cheesecake moose.

Takashi's favorite place is the dojo so I asked Mitzkuni to schedule the dojo for Takashi's birthday and I set it up for a traditional tea ceremony with scrolls that had different saying that Takashi would appreciate and with chabanas around the room. They were all shocked to see me in a kimono and performing my dance with style and grace. This was my mom's kimono from when she was my age. She only wore it once and that was for my dad, when she preformed the tea ceremony for their engagement. My grandmother had given it to me for my tenth birthday and taught me how to perform the ceremony. That was why the girls at the host club always asked me to work with them on perfecting their performance for their fiancés. However, this is different it is a meeting of friends and I hope that he gets why I am doing this for him. I see him as a warrior of the 13th century, when Kamakura Shogunate ruled the nation and the samurai warrior class ruled supreme. The tea and the luxuries associated with it became a kind of status symbol among the warrior class. After I performed a warrior dance, I researched online and asked my grandma if she knew which she did and taught to me. I proceeded to serve the tea warriors back in the 13th century proffered best. When we finished I served the Kaiseki and I added a strawberry cheesecake for his birthday. I hope he liked it I know that Takashi love history especially about samurais in the olden days. After the ceremony was over Mitzkuni called in his house cleaner staff and told them to clean up and to take Takashi's presents scrolls and chabanas to his room. He also told Takashi to take Haruhi home because he had to stay and supervise. On the ride home Takashi thanked me for the ceremony and asked where did I learn the warrior dance she performed for them and were did she get that beautiful kimono it seemed old? He continued saying that his mom has many kimonos but none of them looked like hers and that they do not make kimonos like they us to. I replied that my grandmother taught me and that this was my mother's kimono. She used it to perform her first tea ceremony for my father. It was some sort of tradition in my family to use this kimono if you are thinking of performing your first ceremony. For my birthday, we had a picnic in a cherry blossom field and ateOotoro and other sushi raps that the guys decided to bring for me because she cannot make her favorite food. Therefore, I brought the desert a Strawberry layered cake with sponge base and cream filling for desert.

For our graduation celebration this year, we went to my dad's nightclub. Can you believe that the guys had never been to a club before? The faces they made were priceless when they saw what happens inside the club as they came inside. There were people every were they looked. You had some gyrating on the dance floor, others being hit on at the bar area, and many others just chilling at the tables enjoying the atmosphere with their friends. The DJ spun some crazy tracks in his booth on the second floor. Then you had the professional dancers in platforms around various spots of the club and in the small stage, there was a set up for some type of contest that was going to happen later on tonight. The photographer was taking pictures of the couple and groups coming in and another one walking around the club taking pictures for the clubs website. Dad met up with us and showed us to our booth said, "Drinks were on the house and told us to have fun." Then he gave me a hug and a kiss said "Congratulations" and left. The guys sat there for some time just absorbing the atmosphere around them. In no time, at all there was a swarm of girls asking the guys to dance. We were having a good time drinking and making fun of Tamaki acting a fool. The twins were the ones that had the most fun of all those little perverts grinding up on every girl that asked either of them to dance. When a girl would come up to them and asked one to dance they would always reply, "You ask one you ask both," and the poor girls would blush some would say ok others would just walk away flustered. Takashi was declining offers to dance left and right and just sat there babysitting his drink. Mitzkuni on the other hand was having the best time of his life drinking all the fruity drinks and dancing with all the girls that would come up to him. Kyoya was just sitting there trying to act bored but once he had a couple of drinks in him he was at the dance floor with whichever girl asked him to dance. I just sat there watching the guys on the dance floor and drinking my drink when Takashi asked me to dance. I was so shocked he asked and when I looked at him, I blushed my face was becoming the deepest red. I said ok, and after that, we did not leave the dance floor all night. This night was one of the best times we all shared together. Now it was Christmas Eve and I was placing the presents that the guys brought and gave me to put under the tree as they came. I cooked dinner, baked a cake for us and made holiday drinks. We had a lot of liquor my dad brought from the club when the stock room was full. After we ate, drank, and danced commoners' music well I showed them how, we played games and waited for midnight to come so that we can exchange gifts. Now I spent Christmas day with my dad thinking of a way to celebrate New Years in a way they never have before.

Ranka said, "We can have a black and white party with masks... Ohm, like a masquerade.... Yeah that would be so much fun. To spend a night with that special someone dancing the night away, knowing that you're his secret admirer and all you would like to do is spend your New Year with him."

"Ok," I said, "that sounds good. But do not get all-melodramatic on me dad. So where are going to have this masquerade? The house is too small. Also, who are going to invite besides the guys?"

"Ok we can do it at the club. I can close for the day and night. I will be losing a lot of money but it is worth it for you. Me, and the group of guys from the club can decorate in the morning. Some of my employees can work that night too; the others can join the party. When New Years hits the employees that would be working will stop and celebrate with us. We can invite my friends plus yours from high school that you stay in contact with."

"Ok that could work although I'm not happy about you losing money over this." Haruhi paused for a second to think and replied to the other question asked "But dad I don't have many female friends. Can we ask your friends daughters to come too?"

"That sounds good and everybody can bring one person with them. We will include an extra invitation with the ones we give our guests so that they can send to their dates anonymously."

"Ok sounds good let's make a list of people and start writing the invitations. Dad should I use that calligraphy box mom got me years ago one Christmas."

"That sounds great hunny we should go to the stationary store and pick out the most beautiful paper for you to write in. I remember when you use to use that thing all the time."

Ranka reminisced while I went to get all the stuff ready. We had just finished our list and it also included some of my new college friends, Rengé, and some of the girls that I stayed in touch with that knew I was a girl. I came out my senior year at high school and was the only female host and I entertained boys and girls. We got dressed and went out shopping for the stationary and decorations for the bar. On the way, back home dad asked me whom I was going to ask to be my date. I blushed and looked away because I did not want to tell my dad. Nevertheless, he insisted and I told him I wanted to ask Takashi. He looked at me with a smiled and told me I made a good choice. When we got home, I cooked dinner and after that, we wrote out the invitations we were going to send them off tomorrow when Ranka jumped up all of a sudden and told me he had a way to send the invitations that went with the theme of the party.