No... I'm sorry it had to happen around Christmas.

[and she knows how she feels. she really, really does, because Haruhi's lost friends of her own while here, both from home and to universes she will never know.

she wants to comfort him without dwelling or being needlessly sappy. so instead she slips her hand back into his.]

For now I can't do much, but I can show you how I decorated parts of the house.

[...it will have distinctly sporadic, not-at-all-artistic, got-lazy-partway, very Haruhi flairs, but at least she tried?]