Chapter 2 - The Student Council President's Uneventful but also Exhausting Hour.

School had ended in a flash and before they knew it, the students in Elrios high were finally free from the harsh conditions of classes for the day. Even though everyone was excited over that fact, and started their preparations to head home, a huge number of students, mostly female students, had remained at school in preparation of catching their idol; a certain red-haired Rune Slayer, with him being unaware of their presence.

While all of this was happening, a green-haired girl with elf ears waited patiently in the student council's' room, eagerly awaiting for the arrival of her two best friends; Aisha and Elsword.

Rena, who had arrived pretty early and was the only person to be there so far, stared at the walls of the classroom for quite a while and leaned on her reservated desk, her eyes filled with boredom. Once again.

With the thought of realization that she was the only one out of the student council (A/N: with the exception of Aisha that is~) who always seemed to arrived to the meetings on time, Rena sighed.

She decided to walk around the room, hoping for something to extinguish her boredom or for her feelings of sadness and loneliness to disappear.

As Rena kept walking, time passing by, she eventually stops in front of a fellow student councilor's desk, something catching her eyes.

'Ah! Hmm? What's this? … Did someone drop this?'

She stumbles upon some kind of note, filled with messy and huge writing like it was created by a small child. Rena opened the note, curious as to what it says-

"Sorry Prez, but it looks like I'm not able to attend the student council meeting today. Got some major business to attend too; you understand right prez? Thanks. I'll try to be there next time.

Kind regards, Raven"

Rena sighed for what it seemed to be like the hundred time she did today.

'That Raven… he always does this sort of thing doesn't he… the least he could've done was told me the day before.'

She then looked around the empty seats that were supposed to be filled with the rest of the student council members.

'I wonder why no one but me and Aisha usually take being part of the student council as a serious and important duty….?' Rena thought in her mind, as she folder her arms.

Even though most of the members were elected because they were admired by many students who had thought of them as "diligent", the truth was that more then half of the student council were just made up of people who couldn't care any less about anyone but themselves and didn't bother to attend any of the meetings often.

'Hmm… well it's not any of my problem if most of them refuse to take their duties seriously. I should just focus on the more important matters~'

That's right, Rena had an important agenda that she wanted to work on for when the meeting starts.

And that was to, unbeknowingly of everyone else, retrieve and find out the secrets of the book that Elsword had took from Aisha early on today. Rena was curious about why Aisha felt like it was so important for her to keep the book away from everyone, and especially from Elsword.

She returned to her student president desk, and grinned happily, excited for when the time she can begin the strategy she planned in her last class to retrieve the book comes.

'Now that I think about it… Aren't Aisha and Elsword really late today? I wonder if something happened to them…'

While it wasn't strange for the both of them to arrive late at times, the ticking clocked in the classroom informed Rena that an hour had already passed since she had started waiting for her friends to come.

Rena stared at the clock and sighed. 'An hour already passed huh…. I wonder if they decided not to come as well… Wait- now that I think about it, Aisha is probably agitated at me for lying to her about where Elsword was huh…'

Realization hits her hard in the head.

'When, or rather if, they come, I need to remember to apologise to Aisha, I guess… heh-'

(Steps… Steps… Steps)

As she broods to herself a bit; heavy footsteps could be heard coming from the outside, accompanied by loud, scorching shouts.

'Eh..? I wonder what's going on outside…'

Curiosity getting to her head, Rena cautiously opened the door and walked out of the room, only to discover-

"ELBAKA, YOU KNOW THAT EVERYTHING'S YOUR FAULT, SO DON'T EVEN TRY TO DENY IT!"

"WHAT?! HOW IS IT MY FAULT?! AND STOP CALLING ME THAT, I HAVE A NAME YOU KNOW, MISS PURPLE GRAPE NERD!"

-an extremely nostalgic scene. Rena laughed in a relieved sense, feeling joyous that her friends did not abandoned her.

She straightforwardly approached them and happily says to them, "Hi guys, I was just waiting for you-"

"Wha- Ok for one, that was just a horrible attempt of a comeback. Two, everything that happened to us WAS your FAULT! Not only did you steal my book, you also got us detention and classroom cleaning! But worst of all, we also had to get chased by your stupid clingy fangirls. So, let me ask again, who's fault was it that we had to get that misfortune upon us? IT'S. ALL. YOUR. FAULT." Aisha glared heavily at Elsword.

'Wait… all of that happened to them? And here I thought they were just late for no reason…'

Rena frowned, feeling sympathetic. She wanted to do something to help them.

"Hey guys are you alright-"

"Well, sooorrrryyyyy I'm popular and someone here ISN'T~. It's not like I have the power to control when and where my fangirls come for me. They're practically unpredictable, unlike someone here that is." Elsword taunts Aisha back with a smirk, both of them failing to notice the aura around Rena darkening bit by bit.

"Y-YOU! I can't believe you would say something horrible like that! I dont care about popularity and I'm not predictable! Anyways, I'm still mad at you for even taking my book in the first place!"

As Aisha mentioned her book, Elsword was visibly blushing hard.

He retorted while stuttering, "I-It's your f-fault for l-leaving it out in the open! And you got it back, so it's not l-like it matters in the end!"

'Oh? Seems like I'll need to change my plan if that's the case…' Rena thought, surprised that Elsword complied with giving Aisha her belongings back.

"What, you're not even gonna apologise for it!? Y-YOU!"

Aisha and Elsword started to bump heads with one another, both of them feeling furious at the other.

This worried Rena, who felt ignored and left out. She needed to stop them before things got worse.

"Guys, cut it out! No need to get so worked up over something that's in the past-"

""SHUT IT RENA! YOU'RE NOT HELPING!""

Apparently, even THEY could be harmonious at times. Rena sighed. Like she had figured, these two coudn't be stopped from fighting with one another that easily.

Unless…

"UGH I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW THE TWO OF US BECAME FRIENDS! YOU'RE UNBELIEVABLE YOU KNOW, CHERRY!"

"WHA- YEAH THE SAME GOES FOR ME, GRAPE!"

"DON'T RETORT BACK AT ME, ELBAKA!"

"WHAT, SO DEFENDING YOURSELF IS WRONG? AND 'ELBAKA' IS WAY TOO OVERUSED, NERD."

'...' Rena's patience was close to its limit. At this rate, she would most likely-

"OVERUSED? MAYBE, BUT IT DOES SUIT SOMEONE IDIOTIC LIKE YOU, BAKA REDHEAD!"

"PSHHH, LIKE "BAKA REDHEAD" IS ANY BETTER OF AN INSULT. TRY AGAIN, FLAT-CHESTED MAGE."

'If these guys don't stop any second…'

"HOT-HEADED WEAK SWORDSMAN!"

"SENSITIVE NERDY TOMBOY!"

'I will…'

"ANNOYING RUDE FLIRT!"

"FLAT CUTTING BOARD!"

'...'

"TOMATO-HEAD CHERRY!"

"PURPLE NERD GRAPE!"

(CRACK.) That was the sound of Rena's patience broken to its ultimate limits.

"WILL YOU TWO BRATS JUST SHUT UP AND GET ALONG ALREADY?!

I'M TIRED AND TIRED OF HAVING TO STOP YOU TWO FROM ARGUING OVER POINTLESS STUFF! I'M NOT IN THE MOOD FOR ALL YOUR ARGUMENTS RIGHT NOW, SO JUST GET OVER IT!"

""...Yes mamm….""

Aisha and Elsword, after hearing Rena's agitated outburst, stayed silent and looked away from each other, knowing that it was best to not anger Rena any further from past experiences.

"Good, good that's much better~ if only you two would just get along like this all the time, I wouldn't have to scream and shout at you two like that~ geez ,I sounded like a grumpy grandma just then…"

'Rena, we all know that Elsword and I can never get along… hahaha….'

'And you sounding like a grandma? Thats not true… at all… hahaha….'

Aisha and Elsword both thought in their heads, frightened to even speak one word with Rena.

"Well, we spent too much time loitering around out here; why don't we go inside the classroom and discuss about what happened? We might be able to work something out~"

'W-Wait, what is this "something" you're talking about!? Sounds dangerous…'

'W-Wait, what is this "something" you're talking about!? Sounds really dangerous…'

It maybe have been obvious from before, but Aisha and Elsword were DEFINITELY cautious and frightened from how Rena had been acting.

""...Yes Mamm… Why, that sounds like super fun… ha...ha...ha""

They both wryly laughed, afraid of the possibility of a punishment approaching them as fast as a bullet train.

Rena nodded escastically and headed inside the classroom skipping, with Aisha and Elsword noticeably sweating a waterfall, but followed slowly after Rena.

'I have an incredibly bad feeling about this~! Someone, hurry save us!'

'We messed up BIG time…!

A/N : HELLO~~~ I'm back some more with another crappy chapter QwQ This took a while to get ideas and write down hehe ;^^. The insult scene was hard to come up with too…

Anyways, I did post an A/N thing, but for some reason the chapter stuffed up and was glitched, so I had to delete it T^T I'll see if I can post it without it being glitched, but its not that important anyway ~

I also want to thank everyone who has read my horrible fanfic. It means a lot to me, knowing people actually bother to read my work, and it inspires me to keep on continuing so thank you :D

Next chapter will introduce the secret of Aisha's book and the matchmaking scheme will start soon.

This is pretty long, so I'll end here. Thank you all so much and have a great day ~