Kyouko: Me and Yui and Yui and Me

Akarin!

Chitose: Hello! Yuru Yuri: Amusement Club Forever is about to begin!

Ayano: And Chitose and I introducing the chapter today!

Chitose: Isn't that exciting?

Ayano: It is. So, whose point of view are we following this time around?

Chitose: You should like this, Ayano-chan.

Ayano: Is that so?

Chitose: Yes. This chapter's character is Toshino-san.

Ayano: T-Toshino Kyouko?!

Chitose: Exactly. And you get to introduce her! How nice. Ah…

Chitose stares off into space, and her nose starts bleeding.

Ayano: Uh…Chitose?

In order to avoid raising the story's rating, Chitose's fantasy is censored.

Chitose (fantasizing): Oh, can we do all this in the introduction? Maybe it should wait for the chapter. Or maybe we should spread it out over several chapters.

Ayano (turning red): Yikes! Chitose, that isn't appropriate at all!

Chitose's nose continues bleeding profusely.

Ayano: Let's just start the chapter, while I help her.

Ayano runs off the screen.

Ayano: We need tissues! Who's got tissues?

Chitose: Ah…

Classes had ended for the day. Yui and Kyouko sat across from each other in the Amusement Club room. Both girls had their books out. They had started out working on homework, but Kyouko had been distracted by an idea that had popped into her mind. She took out her sketchbook and began drawing rapidly, eager to finish what she wanted to draw and show it to Yui.

For while, it seemed that Yui hadn't noticed Kyouko had ceased her studying. Finally, she did and looked up at her from the other side of the table. "I thought you were working on your chemistry homework?"

Kyouko kept drawing. "This is more interesting than that."

"I'm sure, but failing your class won't be interesting."

"Don't worry, Yui! I'll be fine. I just want to work on an idea I had."

"What idea?"

"I can't show you until I'm done. Hey, where are Haruka and Chizuru?"

"They're helping Chitose with something."

"Oh. I wonder what it is they're doing…"

"Help!" Chitose cried. "That thief stole my box of tissues!"

A masked girl with a blue box of tissues in her hands sprinted down the hallway of Nanamori Senior high School.

"Don't worry, onee-chan!" Chizuru cried. "I'm on my way to stop them. Haruka, come with me!"

"Right!" Haruka and Chizuru tore down the school hallway after the thief.

"Haruka, go left, I'll stay on the thief. You know what to do!"

"Understood!" Haruka took a left turn in the hallway. Chizuru stayed in pursuit, slowly catching up.

"Hey, no running in the halls!" someone called, but that ordered was ignored by all parties.

"You'll never catch me!" the thief yelled back at Chizuru. She increased her speed, sprinting even harder and tearing through the halls at a breakneck speed. Ordinarily, she might have gotten away. However, at that moment, a small foot that belonged to Haruka stuck out from around the corner, tripping the thief and sending her sprawling. She dropped the box of tissues, and Haruka quickly snatched it up.

"Got it!" she yelled back at Chizuru.

"No fair!" the thief said. "Two against one?! And you tripped me, you meanies! I'm leaving!" She got up and ran off.

"Should we go after her?" Haruka asked Chizuru, handing her the box of tissues.

"Not today," Chizuru said. "Let's get these back to my sister, pronto."

"No, I don't think it's that." Yui said dryly.

"Wouldn't that be cool though?!"

"Sure, albeit a bit ridiculous. Who would bother stealing tissues?"

"Someone with a runny nose?"

"I guess just asking someone for one is out of the question."

"For a thief? Of course it is!"

Kyouko went back to her drawing, and Yui went back to her studying. After a bit more sketching, she felt like she nearly had it finished.

Let's see…we'll need more here, more there, more everywhere. Hey, this looks great!

After adding a bit more to her picture, Kyouko set her pencil back down and looked intently at Yui.

"I want to do something fun for summer break!" she declared.

Yui looked up at her. "That's out of nowhere."

"I've been thinking about for a while. Don't you want to do something fun, Yui?"

"Sure, but shouldn't we worry about our exams first?"

"There won't be any time to plan once exams are over."

Yui sighed. "Again, we're in high school now, Kyouko. This isn't a game or something. Exams are very serious, and you need to take them seriously."

Oh Yui, you're so serious so much of the time though! Seriously!

"I will, I will, don't worry."

"I know your midterms went okay, but the exams are will be tougher."

"They did okay! Granted, I didn't ace everything like Chizuru did. Hmmm…"

I wonder if Chizuru would let me copy her work. Or maybe Haruka? She did well on her midterms too, and she always has her work done.

Yui seemed to read her mind. "Whatever you're thinking, it's probably not a good idea."

"I was just thinking that we should stay friends forever! How hurtful, Yui!"

"I very much doubt that. You had that mischievous look on your face that you get when you're plotting some kind of scheme."

I have a mischievous look? I'll need to watch out for that. I thought I had a good poker face. Not as good as Yui's, but still!

"Oh, don't worry so much, Yui-nee!"

"Work harder, and I won't have to. You did say that you would, remember?"

Oh, you sound annoyed. Let's hop back to my original topic before you sidetracked us, Yui!

She bent over her drawing and shaded in some parts of it with her pencil.

"So, about summer break…"

"Yes?"

"Wouldn't it be fun to find a beach house we can stay at?"

"Who all does 'we' encompass?"

"Well, the combined Amusement Clubs, maybe Ayano and Chitose if they'd like to come along. And we could invite Himawari and Sakurako from Nanamori Middle as well."

"That's ten people, excluding any chaperones. I hope you can find a big beach house."

"Why would we need chaperones?"

Yui sighed. "Alright, forget that, then. But you'd still need a large place."

"Mayne Haruka or Chizuru are rich and have their own beach houses, like the girls in some manga series…"

"No, I don't think that's the case for either of them."

"Well, maybe we find a rich girl, she joins the Amusement Club, and then she lets us use her beach house! Then we get a new friend, and we have a place to go for summer break! Two good things at once!"

"That sounds nice, but absurd."

"Oh, you're just shooting down all my ideas, Yui!" Kyouko pursed her lips as she continued to add things to her drawing.

"I'm sorry, but those aren't very sound ideas, Kyouko."

"What do you suggest, then?"

"If your heart is set on going to the beach, we could make it a one-day trip like we did before."

"But, like you just said, we did that already! I want it to be different this time."

"It's different if we're staying in a beach house, versus just going there and leaving?"

"Exactly!"

"How? We'd go, stay in a house on the beach, and then leave?"

"Not when you put it like that, Yui! We could have a big, group sleepover!"

"We did that too. Remember?"

"But we didn't combine our activities into one big, glorious activity!"

"This is sounding sillier by the moment for something that's actually mundane."

"Well, silly can be fun."

"Fun, sure, but you still haven't told me how exactly you'll manage this, without something straight out of a story happening."

"Oh, I have my ways, Yui-chan!"

"That's what I'm afraid of. Your ways are a bit chaotic."

Kyouko laughed.

Oh Yui, I hope you never change.

"Don't worry! It'll be fun."

"Sure. Do you have a backup plan in case this doesn't work?"

"Maybe…"

Well, I actually don't right now, but this will make Yui think I'm more responsible, right? Plus, I bet I can think of something else if my first idea doesn't pan out!

"I see." Yui said. "Again, you're acting a little more like a leader now that we're an official club. That's good to see, at least."

"Thank you!"

Yui, I could eat up your words like ice cream! Praise me more!

"If only you applied that attitude to your schoolwork."

Boo. You had to add something like that.

"One step at a time, right Yui-nee?"

"I guess. So, how do we go about getting a beach house to stay at?"

"Maybe we win zillions of yen in a prize drawing and then buy one?"

"Maybe we should just plan to have a day trip and then a sleepover at someone's house."

Kyouko scratched her head. "Is anybody's big enough for that many people?"

"Do you think everyone's going to come?"

"Hopefully, and we have to plan for maximum occupancy, right?"

"Have you even brought this up with anyone besides me?"

"No, but aren't you the logical person to start with?"

"Why are you answering every one of my questions with another question?"

"Isn't that the game we're playing now?"

Yui smiled. "Who said we were playing a game?"

"Isn't playing games what the Amusement Club is for?"

"Who knows what the Amusement Club is for?"

"Shouldn't we know?"

"Do I? Do you?"

Kyouko leaned over the table. "What would you do if I didn't know?"

"Would you concede this game if you didn't know?"

Kyouko grinned. "Concede? Do you really think you'll beat me?"

"Don't I usually at these things?"

"Since when, Yui-chan?"

The two girls stared at each other, each one holding the other's gaze intently, neither one speaking or blinking. Suddenly, they both broke out into laughter. They had just calmed down some when the door to the Amusement Club room opened, and Chizuru walked in, followed by Haruka.

"Hi, Yui and Kyouko!" Haruka said, smiling.

"Hello." Chizuru greeted them.

"Hiya!" Kyouko smiled merrily. "Were you successful in retrieving the tissues from the thief?"

Haruka tilted her head. "Eh?"

Chizuru frowned.

"Don't pretend things that happened only in your head happened in real life." Yui admonished her. Turning to the other two, she explained "Kyouko's just being silly as usual."

"Of course she is," Chizuru replied. Haruka giggled.

Chizuru and Haruka took their seats at the table next to Yui and Kyouko respectively.

"What's today's agenda?" Haruka asked.

"Oh, are we starting a new round?" Kyouko asked.

"New round of what?"

"Never mind," Yui said. "It's just something Kyouko and I were doing before you two came in."

"We were also planning our club's summer break activity!" Kyouko said.

"Oh, what are we going to do?" Haruka asked.

"Perhaps go camping?" Chizuru suggested.

Is that a bit of hopefulness in your voice, Chizuru-chu? I'll be sure to note that for that the future, then. You didn't come with us on our last camping trip, after all.

"A beach trip!" Kyouko declared. "And a beach house to stay in."

"Oh, you have a beach house, Kyouko?" Haruka looked impressed.

"No, not yet. I'm still working out that part."

"Wouldn't that be an important part of your plan, Toshino Kyouko?" Chizuru asked.

"Sure, sure." Kyouko waved her hand dismissively. "Leave it to your President, she'll figure something out."

"Okay…"

"Say, do either of you have a beach house?"

Chizuru shook her head.

"No, isn't that something rich families would have?" Haruka wondered.

"Great minds think alike, Haruka-chan!" Kyouko smiled.

"Huh?"

"Maybe we could rent one," Chizuru offered.

"Oh, that's a good idea, Chizuru-nee!"

"Thank you, and don't call me that."

"I wonder who you talk to in order to rent one…"

"You could look online." Yui suggested. "That's something a club president should take the lead on, right?"

"Ah, good idea there too!"

Haruka looked over. "Oh, what are you drawing, Kyouko-chan?"

Hey, time to show everyone!

"Let me show you!" She held up her drawing for the other three girls to look at it. It showed the four of them standing in front of a small house on a beach. Beside them, stood Akari and Chinatsu. Ayano and Chitose were also in the picture, as were Himawari and Sakurako. All of the girls were smiling and looking happy.

"Wow, that's really good, Kyouko!" Haruka exclaimed.

"It is." Chizuru agreed.

"Yes," Yui said. "But whose car is that in the background?" She pointed to a little sports car parked next to the beach house.

"I figured we all traveled to the beach in that car!"

"I don't think that car has enough room for ten people."

"Sure it does! And it'll get us to our fun trip over summer break!"

Yui half smiled. "Keep dreaming, Kyouko."

"We are the dreamers, Yui-tan, and with our visions we paint the world."

Chizuru raised an eyebrow. "Have you actually read the book that quote's from, Toshino Kyouko?"

"What book? I heard that in an anime."

"Of course you did."

"Hey, let's play Hearts, all four of us!" Kyouko reached into her bag and pulled out a deck of cards.

"That sounds fun!" Haruka smiled happily.

"Alright, I'm in too." Yui closed her workbook and pushed it aside.

"Me too." Chizuru said. "So start dealing."

The girls played Hearts the rest of the afternoon, with Yui winning every single round.

Well, you can't win them all, Kyouko figured. At least I almost got her at the question game.