Ouran Host Club Hostess (DISCONTINUED)

Sweet Deprivation

Honey-senpai's sentence officially began the very next day, and it looked like Mori-senpai was going to be the warden. It started in the morning with Mori-senpai pouring away all the candy that Honey had tried to sneak into the school inside his briefcase, and the handing him a menu from a patisserie.

"If you only want to look," he said expressionlessly. "Then look at that."

I winced at that. "Poor Honey-senpai," Haruhi murmured.

"He looks so crushed," I was fighting the urge to run over to him and tackle him in a hug.

"This must be tough," the twins commented simultaneously as we headed for our own classes.

"I never thought Mori-senpai would be so strict," Hikaru remarked.

I nodded. "Normally he's so much nicer and sweeter towards Honey. The way he's acting now is weird."

"Very unexpected," Kaoru nodded. "I always thought it was his principle never to do anything that would be problematic for Honey-senpai."

Haruhi cocked her head to the side and glanced at me. "Well, a cavity is already pretty problematic," she said. "Giving Honey-senpai sweets would just make it worse, wouldn't it?"

"True," I agreed. "Still, he could stand to be a bit less cold, couldn't he? In this difficult time, he should be a lot kinder." I had a feeling that it wouldn't be long before Honey cracked under the stress of the situation.

At least Kyouya was happy, I noticed. When we got to the Host Club after school, I had seen him tapping away at his computer and calculator with a huge smile. I guess the budget for all the sweets and snacks was actually quite substantial. Well, at least one of us is happy, I sighed and looked around for Honey. He was sitting in a corner with a determined look on his face. He looks like he's planning something.

Honey's Begging Strategy!

No. 1: Appeal Cutely

"Takashi~!"

I looked up from my job of arranging teacups on their saucers, while simultaneously trying not to get groped by the twins (especially Hikaru) and roped into cosplaying with them. I noticed Honey running towards Mori. He was radiating such sheer cuteness that it was near blinding.

"Takashi, I think my cavity's filled~!" it's only been a day. That isn't possible.

"I see," Mori hummed.

"And my swelling's gone~!" Honey chirped. His swelling had gone. I wondered how many packs of ice he had held to his cheek for that to happen.

"I see," Mori repeated, with the same dead tone.

"So..." Honey looked like he was going to combust from excitement. "Can I have just one cake, please?" Before the word was even out of his mouth, Mori shoved an ice cream bar into his mouth. And not just any ice cream bar, this one looked like it had been shoved into the depths of the freezer and left there for a month. It was that hard.

The second Honey's teeth chomped down on it, he reared back with a strangled, pained scream, and ran away. "Honey-senpai!" I glared at Mori was all the anger I was feeling at the moment, which was a lot let me tell you. It took the twins twenty minutes to calm me down.

Status: Failed

No. 2: Indirect Tactic

Honey reappeared when the club actually started. His swelling had gone down again, and I had to wonder how he was doing that.

Anyway, he seemed to have realised that he wouldn't be getting any sweets from his cousin, and so he set his sights on two girls snacking on some cucumber sandwiches together. I sweatdropped at the looks on their faces when they spotted Honey staring at them with intent.