Chapter 4
"Alright! Since everyone's on board, I picked up a new club application form." Nagisa showed Haru and Makoto the form.
"You move fast." Makoto commented.
"He's really excited, what do you expect?" I added.
"It's important to get the ball rolling. Let's see, the purpose of this club is to train our minds and bodies through swimming and improve the school experience." Nagisa said.
"That sounds incredibly cheesy." I added.
"Well, do you have something better?" Nagisa asked me.
"It's your club, write whatever you want." I said as I took another bite of my squid.
"And you know what you're doing." Makoto pointed out.
"There will be three members initially. Mako-chan, you can be the captain."
"Uh, shouldn't it be Haru? He's the fastest swimmer." Makoto questioned.
"This isn't about speed. Different people are better at different things." Nagisa pointed out.
"And Haru isn't the best with his words." I added.
"I don't think so either." Makoto mumbled.
"That means Mako-chan is the captain, and Haru-chan can be vice-captain."
"Hey, don't just volunteer me." Haru finally spoke up about the matter at hand.
"Now, now, now. Vice-captain is just an empty title with no actual responsibilities, so don't worry." Nagisa calmed him down.
"You just offended every vice-captain on this planet." Makoto said.
"You're lucky there's no vice-captain on this roof right now." I sighed.
"I'll be the treasurer, which means we just need a faculty advisor." Nagisa completely ignored what Makoto and myself had just said.
"Any ideas?" Makoto crossed his arms over his chest.
"I was thinking about asking Ama-chan."
"Miss Ama-chan?" Makoto questioned.
"I heard a crazy story from one of our classmates."
"Oh Nagisa, just because you heard a story doesn't mean it's true." I sighed.
"But Kei-chan! They swore to me that it was true!" I sighed and looked away from his puppy dog eyes.
"Well then, you better get down to the faculty lounge and ask if she'll do it."
"What do you think of this?" Nagisa asked as he pushed his colourful poster in our faces.
"It's…bright." I commented. His abstract artwork was bright and it was also painful to look at for a long period of time.
"That's a good thing!"
"Maybe something else would be better." I suggested.
"This." Haru held up his beautifully drawn poster.
"That's so beautiful!" The president of the art club squealed as he saw Haru's poster.
"You have to join the art club!" A art member yelled.
"What? No he can't!" Nagisa yelled.
"Yes he can! Come with us!" They began to pull at Haru's arm as Makoto and Nagisa pulled on his other arm.
"I think doing this in this art room was a bad idea." I sighed.
"Kei-chan! Give us a hand here!" Nagisa yelled over his shoulder. I walked over to the group of people and also grabbed hold of Haru's arm. The three of us began to pull our friend away from the vicious art club and once he was free he stumbled forward and fell on top of us. With me lying in-between Makoto and Nagisa, Haru's face was inches away from mine while his arms were stretched across both Makoto's and Nagisa's chests.
"Ah! Haru! Get off of me!" I yelled as I pushed him away from me and scrambled to my feet. I felt my cheeks begin to redden from how close he was to my face.
"I fell." He said plainly.
"Still! It's something called a personal bubble." I explained.
"A personal bubble?" Nagisa questioned before running towards me and wrapping me in his arms for a hug.
"Nagisa! What're you doing?" I asked him.
"Seeing if you really have this personal bubble." He said.
"But this is just a hug."
"Huh?"
"Hugs don't count."
"That doesn't make sense!" He let go of me as he stood in front of me.
"Yes it does."
"How can you have a personal bubble when hugs don't bother you?"
"I like hugs though."
"This still doesn't make sense."
"Yes it does!"
"No it doesn't."
"Ugh! Nagisa!"
"Ugh! Kei-chan!" Nagisa mocked me. Makoto just laughed as he watched Nagisa and I bicker over my personal bubble.
"Wow! It's all cleaned up!" Gou said as she looked around the newly cleaned pool. Haru, Makoto and Nagisa have been working diligently on cleaning the outdoor pool when they got their club approved.
"It looks good guys!" I called out to the three of them.
"Ah! Are you here to help, Gou-chan, Kei-chan?" Nagisa called out to the two of us.
"I told you to call me Kou!" Gou yelled over to Nagisa.
"Just embrace your name Gou. The fact that we have boy names shouldn't bother us, right?" I smiled at her as I placed my hand on her shoulder. She looked at me with a confused face as I looked towards the boys. "Gou brought you guys some snacks!"
"Really?" Nagisa yelled over to us.
"So you should be extra nice to her, Nagisa, or you won't get any of these delicious snacks." I teased him.
"What? That's not fair!" He complained.
"Well then, you better finish up what you're doing, so you can come over here and eat." I teased him again
"But Kei-chan!"
"Have you already joined a club, Kei-chan?" Nagisa asked me. We all sat on the edge of the pool as we ate our snacks.
"Yup."
"Really? You never said!" Makoto was surprised by the fact that I didn't mention it to the boys.
"I didn't feel the need to." I shrugged my shoulders.
"Which club?" Nagisa asked me.
"It's just a club."
"But which one?"
"It's a surprise."
"Why?"
"Just because, okay? But don't worry, I'll help you guys with the swim club whenever I can."
"That would be helpful since you know these three well and you swim, right?" Gou asked me.
"I know how to swim, but I don't do it competitively." I explained.
"She's always liked to just kind of float." Makoto added in.
"Oh ya! You sing instead, right?" Nagisa asked. I swallowed the lump that gathered in my throat.
"Yup."
"You can sing?" Gou asked.
"I used to. I don't sing anymore." I mumbled.
"But you're such a good singer!" Nagisa said. I looked passed Nagisa and towards Haru. He continued to munch away on his snack as he looked towards the waterless pool.
"Well things happen in life, Nagisa." I said solemnly as I too looked out towards the waterless pool.
I wonder what happened to make Kei stop singing! Do you guys have any guesses?
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-xoxo JaminJazzi