The last bell of the day had finally rung. Normally, this would be the time that Monika would make her way to the club room. Instead, she made her way straight to the nurse's office.

Once there, she immediately spotted Sayori lying atop of one of the beds neatly spread across the room.

"Monika!" she quickly sat up and happily waved at her approaching friend.

While happy to see her, Monika was also worried what could have landed her in the nurse's office again.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Well…" Sayori nervously chuckled with faint red cheeks. "I fell from a tree."

"What? How?"

Sayori gently rubbed the back of her head. She could still fell the bump she gained from the impact of the crash.

"Well… I noticed a cat in the tree and climbed up to get her. One thing led to the other and I ended up falling down and blacking out," she sheepishly explained.

Monika wordlessly stared at Sayori. Though she was clearly a little embarrassed to admit how she ended up here, her response also made light of to falling and losing consciousness was. It was because of this, that she wasn't sure if she should laugh or express more concern.

"So, you're not hurt?"

"No, I'm good. I'm used to falling on my head," Sayori laughed as she recalled all of the head injuries she experienced through her life. "Though it's usually face first."

"Well, if you say you're okay."

Monika began to wonder if someone could build an immunity to constant head trauma.

"Oh yeah! When I woke up, the nurse told that a raven-haired girl carried me here," SAyori said

"Raven-haired?" Monika's eyes sparkled with curiosity.

"Yeah, and she said she was didn't say a word and only responded with vacant stares."

That description clinched it. There was no one else it could be.

"Rei?"

"Yeah," Sayori furiously nodded her head. "I don't know what she was doing around then, but I'm glad she was around."

"Mm," Monika agreed.

It was actions like that showed Rei had some fondness for them.

"Speaking of which… Do you think that Rei talked to Shujinkou when they hung out the other day?" Sayori asked.

"What makes you think that?"

"Well…" Sayori closed her eyes as she recalled her childhood friend's reaction to her questioning him about that day. "He was acting the usual way he acts when he feels uncomfortable talking about something. And the only reason I can think for why he would act like that is if she talked to him."

She then scratched her right cheek, imitating Shujinkou's anxious expression. "Unless she did something more shocking than that…"

Monika thought the same thing when she asked Shujinkou that same question. He was clearly uncomfortable with talking about it in detail.

"From what I can guess, she probably did talk to him and didn't want to go telling everyone about it."

"Yeah, that what I thought too," Sayori agreed.

She jumped out of the bed.

Sayori's recovery speed is amazing. Monika felt nothing but amazement as she followed her out of the nurse's office.

"So, do you think Kiyo will make her decision soon?"

"I don't know, but if she says no that would be her decision."

Sayori pouted. She knew she shouldn't try to influence Kiyoko's decision, but she also couldn't hide her disappointment if she were to say no.

They continued to walk the empty halls of the school until Monika's eyes were drawn to a nearby door.

"Hey, Sayori…"

The normally bubbly vice-president stopped in place. Following Monika's gaze, she discovered that they were standing in front of the entrance to the library.

"The library?"

Sayori looked puzzled as she turned to Monika.

"Remember when we first came here together?"

"Yeah, it was when we first started looking for club members to make the club official."

A nostalgic smile formed on Sayori's lips as she recalled the hunt for club members.

"Yeah, I remember sitting in the classroom we used to occupy alone until you showed up out of the blue with a cookie in your mouth."

Monika tittered as she thought back to that moment. But along with that that feeling of nostalgia, she also felt remembered how it felt to for someone to give her a push towards accomplishing her goals.

"Hey, Sayori… Think we can make a little detour?"

…

"Wow. It's so nostalgic here."

Sayori looked around the classroom that was served as their original clubroom. Though they were not gone that long, it felt like an eternity.

"You miss this place?" Monika asked.

"Well, I like the room we got now, but a lot of things happened here."

Sayori closed her eyes. All at once the memories of every meeting that occurred in this classroom flooded in.

I met my new friends here and… got to reconnect with my old one.

Sayori opened her eyes, her face now sporting a glistening smile. "A lot of happy things happened here."

"Yep. They sure did," Monika agreed.

A brief, but noticeable silence forced its way into the middle of their conversation. It was kinda strange. They wanted to get a clubroom for the club one day and yet they also felt themselves missing the old one a little.

It was probably because of what Sayori said-A lot of happy things did happen in this room.

"Do you remember what you said when you first arrived, Sayori?"

"Um…" she scratched her head as she contemplated the answer to that question. "'Is it too late to join?'?"

Monika chuckled at her literal response. "After that."

"'Am I too late?'?"

"After that?"

"'Eh? But where are the others?'"

"No the 'The two of us can make a totally awesome club!' part."

"I was few lines away from that one," Sayori laughed.

"Well, you can't say that we haven't achieved that goal, right?"

"Wasn't really what I meant… but you're right! We do have a totally awesome club! We're like the Straw-Hat pirates of clubs! Even more so if we can get Kiyo and Rei to join."

"Expanding the club…" Monika closed her eyes. Those words triggered the memory of the conversation she had with Yuri earlier. "Sayori, can I tell you a secret?"

"Sure, I'm great at keeping secrets," Sayori assured her.

"So… When I came up with the idea to form the club, I always had a secret intention of making friends. There was Fuyu, but she was always busy."

"Really? I joined for the same reason," Sayori lowered his eyes. "I was feeling lonely."

She could remember how alone she had felt the year before and the pain her conflicting emotions wrought whenever she caught a glimpse of her old friend.

"I can relate," Monika said.

She paused and thought about her own last year experiences.

"Hey, Sayori…"

"Yeah?"

"We both achieved our goal right?"

"Pretty much," Sayori beamed.

"And the others felt more comfortable with themselves after joining right?"

"Yeah."

"So, I have to ask… Was it right of me to try and hide the fact that I made the club?"

"Huh?" Sayori slightly tilted her head. "What do you mean?"

"First semester we haven't really did that much advertising and this semester we only had Shujinkou do much of the expanding work," Monika explained.

"I thought that was because Shujinkou had a better chance of convincing Kiyo and Rei and he draws great."

"True, but something today has got me thinking. I already talked to Fuyu about this and she said I was just trying to protect my club when I expressed my fears and doubts to her. But when I think about, maybe I was mostly concerned with protecting myself.

"I didn't want this to be Monika's club; I wanted it to stand on its own. But at the same time, I'm not trying my best to let it stand. If you didn't give me the push to find some club member, it most likely wouldn't have grown as much as it did."

Monika paused as she contemplated with she just said.

"I struggled with those feelings for a long time; constantly wondering if my fears were real and a product of a growing narcissism."

"You're not narcissistic, Monika," Sayori replied.

"Thanks. But I have to ask you, have I been stunting the club's growth?"

"Monika…" Sayori remained silent before smiling. "I can't say that I completely understand how you feel, but remember what I said before I said, 'The two of us can make a totally awesome club'?"

Monika nodded her head. They were words she could never forget. "You said, 'Clubs are about quality, not quantity."

"Yep. And we're definitely quality," Sayori grinned. After another moment of silence, her joyful grin was tainted with a touch of anxiety. "Unless, that's not what you're getting at. But whatever it is, I'm always with you 100%."

Monika already knew she would always have her friend's support, but it was still a touching thing to hear.

"Thanks Sayori. But actually, I was using all that as a prelude to get to the main point."

"Oh. What is it?"

Monika crossed her arms and closed her eyes. "Now, we can't really be certain whether many people know that our club exists or not. And there's always the concern that our club topic isn't the most popular. But there has to be people that would be interested in our club and would like to meet people with the same interests."

"Yeah, that's how we formed the club in the first place."

"So, I was thinking that the next chance that an opportunity presents itself to show that our club exists like a school event or something else, we take it," Monika opened her eyes. "What you think?"

"Yeah," Sayori nodded her head in approval. "We'll definitely show the school that the Literature Club definitely exists!"

"Of course, we'll have to talk about it with the others first."

"But before we do that, we have to see if Shujinkou brought in the new poster,"

Sayori excitedly skipped out of the classroom.

Easy come, easy go when it comes to nostalgia. Monika giggled as she walked to the classroom door.

She gripped the door handle and looked back one more time. Every moment that took place in this room was ingrained in her head. The good and the bad, the sad and the hilarious; all of those memories were precious and irreplaceable.

A bright smile stretched across her face.

"Sayonara, Literature Clubroom."

She closed the door behind her and walked down the hall.

"Time to move on."