So yeah, I am the student council president now. That also means that there must be some changes to what I normally do in school. For one, I can't be late in going to school, or at least try.

That's why I woke up unusually early today. Maybe I took my newly found responsibility too seriously as the clock says it's only five o'clock in the morning. You see, this hour of waking up is just normal for most people especially the corporate slaves, but I'm not a morning person. However, although I'm not used to waking up this early, I don't feel like I'm lacking in sleep. In fact, I'm actually feeling lively, or at least as lively as a Hikigaya Hachiman could get.

As I'm the one who woke up first today, I went to prepare breakfast. Well, as an aspiring househusband, I need to at least able to prepare simple breakfast. By simple, I mean just miso soup and some random food I could find at the fridge that could be eaten fast like eggs and bacon. Hah... I just hope I won't have to live with my in-laws in the future. But finding a partner in itself is almost impossible already.

While I'm finishing up, I heard a faint footsteps descending the stairs. I turned around and saw a face I haven't seen during weekday mornings in a few years, my mother. Now that's quite a rare sight and I'm sure she also thinks the same.

"Good morning, Hachi. You're up early today, huh?" Mon greeted with a hint of grogginess in her voice.

"Morning, mom."

I know she's about to start a small talk that's why I pulled the chair for her so that we could have breakfast while doing so.

"I thought you were your father for a second. He actually is the one preparing breakfast before Komachi took over." Yes, our eyes are as ugly as ever. Mom, if I had your eyes, I could actually look handsome, you know.

"I bet he also wanted to be a househusband at first."

"Yeah, but his mindset already changed way back when you're born. He said he needs to prioritize his kids first." She said then munched a whole fried egg in one go, which is kinda odd to look at considering that she's a fully mature woman.

"Uh... Okay." I honestly have no idea how to keep this conversation going.

"Hey, you have to try harder than that!"

"What's there is to to try harder?" no idea.

Realizing that I didn't get what she's referring to, she let out a long sigh. " Hah... You really are my son."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I haven't told you this before but, between your dad and I, I'm the one who's socially awkward. So seeing you kinda struggling to keep this conversation going made me remember this fact." Of all the beautiful things about this woman, why do I have to inherit her social awkwardness?

Well, first I've heard of it. Because we don't bond that often, it's also a given that they don't have that much chance to tell some stuff about their selves to us.

Moments later, my father and Komachi joined in our breakfast. Now this is what you call a change of pace. Usually, it's just Komachi and I eating together for breakfast. Not like I'm about to cry out of happiness but experiencing something like this every once in a while isn't all that bad.

...

Speaking of unusual occurrences, I arrived at the school quite early today.

As I put on my indoor shoes, I noticed there's someone sneaking up to me. I don't really know for sure who the person is but I have a slight idea who it is based on the somewhat light atmosphere around her. Also, I'm already familiar with her choice of perfume, but I'm not telling her that.

"Good morning, Shiromeguri-senpai." I nonchalantly said, which caused a disappointed face of hers the moment I turned around to face her.

"Mou, you could at least try to act surprised, you know!"

"Uhuh."

"And what did I say about your way of calling me? You can just call me Meguri-senpai or just senpai."

Ah right, she actually told me about that yesterday. As it's too embarrassing for me to call her 'Meguri-senpai' just yet, I just settled to calling her 'senpai'.

"Uh, it's because I'm greeting you for the first time this day that I need to use your name instead of just straight up calling you 'senpai'. For me, it kinda sounds rude if I do so." Wait, why am I making this nonsensical explanation?

"You really are an odd one, Hikigaya-kun. Only from you that I heard someone explaining about their way of greeting." Well, she has a point there. After all, I haven't heard from Yuigahama about her 'Yahallo'.

"...Okay..."

I don't know what came into me as I just stayed there watching Shi- I mean, senpai change to her indoor shoes. For me, she seems like those beautiful but impossible to lewd waifus. What's so weird about that? I'm only making a comparison!

But really, senpai really is beautiful. Although the whole Sobu high, including me at some point, considered Yukinoshita to be the best-looking girl in the school, I don't think she'll fit with the kind of beauty that I'm currently seeing. Based solely on physical appearance, senpai is the most normal that I've seen so far and that's what made me think that she's beautiful. As far as I've noticed, if someone has a normal everything on her, it makes her look absolutely beautiful. However, that's not what makes me think that she's more beautiful than Yukinoshita. It's because of her fluffy and relaxing expressions and her overall atmosphere are the the things that made me think so. For a person like me, being comfortable is everything. And if a person can make me feel like so, it will surely make me see her in a better light. That's also the reason why I was infatuated to a nice girl somewhere in the past.

However, I now realized that those cannot be the reasons for falling in love, because if so, then I'll gladly marry my bed. Now that's weird. Why would I even think of such thing? Scratch that! Why am I even having all these thoughts?!

Senpai finished wearing her indoor shoes as she's now closing her locker.

"Let's go, Hikigaya-kun!"

"Uh okay."

She then looked at like there's something that came into her mind upon seeing me.

"Wait, where's your necktie?" Hah, the very first person to ask me about this.

"In my pocket. I don't wear them since it's a hastle."

"Don't be like that. You're now the student council president, you know? You need to be the first to follow the school rules." She explained as she opened her hand like she's asking for something. Am I supposed to give her something?

"Come on, give me your necktie. I'll tie it for you." So that's what she meant. Wait, no way I'm gonna let her tie my own necktie!

"I'll do it myself, senpai." I replied as I reached for my necktie at the pochet of my blazer.

As I pulled my necktie out, she immediately grabbed it out of my hand and grinned victoriously.

"Like I've said, I'll do it."

I sighed in defeat as I let senpai tie it for me as there's no use in making a fuss about it.

As her fingers traveled along my neck, I feel my cheeks getting slightly warmer and I'm pretty sure it's a blush caused by suddenly being in a close proximity with someone I consider beautiful. Although, the feeling was short-lived as senpai skilfully finished tying my necktie quickly.

"Now we're done! Let's go?"

"Sure."

...

The morning session ended and it's already lunchtime.

Now I only need to ask Kawasaki to be the secretary. I looked around the classroom and our eyes met. With my eyes, I pointed towards the door so that we could talk outside. It seems that she understood what I mean as she's now fixing her things and went outside. I did the same and followed her.

"So what favor are you going to ask?" Kawasaki asked.

"If it's okay with you, I actually wanted to appoint you as the student council secretary."

"Eh? You sure?"

"Not like I know a lot of people to ask anyway. I won't force you if you don't want to."

"Ah no, it's okay since I don't have part time jobs anymore." Great, now I only have to find who will be the treasurer.

"Phew, you're a lifesaver, Kawasaki. Don't worry, you will some sort of perks in joining the student council."

"Not like I'm looking for anything but, what are those?"

"You're looking for a college scholarship, right? Being a student council member will be put on your records which can help you increase the chance of getting scholarship. Kinda the same reason why I accepted Shiromeguri-senpai's request of making me the president." It's true, it became one of my later reasons, or my excuses on why I decided to become the president on a whim.

"Nice, I accept. Although I'll be going home a bit earlier than you guys because I still need to pick up my little sister at the nursery, is that fine with you?"

"Uh, yeah. Besides, we could just have the council activities during lunchtime."

"Thank you. So, do we start the activities today?"

"If you want, yes. I'm actually heading to the office after I buy lunch at the cafeteria."

Thinking about it, the student council office could now become my new lunch spot as I would be spending my lunch break in the future in that room while doing student council activities. Not that I mind though as I'm not that sentimental about my previous lunch spot.

"If we're starting the activities today, can I go ahead to the office?" Kawasaki asked.

"Sure, here's the key. Also, if you see a fat guy with white hair standing around the office, let him enter as he's the vice president." I said while handing her the key to the office.

"Okay."

Then we went on our separate ways. She went ahead to the office while I went to the cafeteria to buy cheap stuff to eat.

One thing I've noticed is that Kawasaki actually now treats me as just another acquaintance, instead of treating me as an absolute nobody like most of the student body does. Well, it's a good thing because I will now be working with her and Zaimokuza for the next whole year as the members of the student council.

...

After I bought a yakisoba bread and Max coffee, I made my way towards the office. On the way, Shiromeguri-senpai joined me and as usual, I didn't mind and just let her accompany me.

However, one thing that worried me is about her exams, college preparation and stuff. I know she's very helpful to me being someone who's very new to leadership, but I don't want to cause trouble to her by bothering her about council stuff.

With that, I decided to ask about it.

"Uh senpai, why are you still hanging out at the council office? Don't you have to, you know, review for exams and stuff?"

"How mean, Hikigaya-kun! You're already kicking me out of the office?"

"It's not like that. It's just that I would feel bad if I'm bothering you too much."

She smiled comfortably like she's relieved or something. "Don't worry, you're not bothering me at all. And I want to hang out inside the office because of the free WiFi so that I could just study using the internet. Hehe, internet is a powerful thing, you know?"

Ah, so it's like that. I would actually bother her if I prevent her from hanging out in the office. So we're both benefitting from this scenario. Is this what they call 'Mutualism'?

"Is that so? Then, the office will always be open for you, senpai."

"Yay! So feel free to ask me about student council stuff, okay?"

"Will do, Meguri-senpai."

And with that, we've reached my new lunch spot, the student council office.

A/N: To be honest, I just got the idea about the necktie from "The Flow Diverges" by StoryTelleroftheMist. I hope that fic updates because I absolutely loved it.