You know what's fun about having a student council? Having to listen to them.

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The room that the Dandelions used was located in the main building, sitting on the same level where the headmasters' offices were. In it was a large round table with enough seating for all five of them, a writing desk on one wall, two loveseats on adjacent walls, and a couple shelves filled with books. It was decided early on that they would all meet on Friday, usually after classes were over, but occasionally they'd meet during lunch if they all were already in the area. This Friday was not much different than any other week, spare for one exception; Ephemer was late.

Ephemer was set as their appointed leader simply because he knew far more about the school than anyone else. He was very good at the position, but being late? Completely unheard of until today. Of course, last week had been a close call- he and Anora had their dorm jumping adventures just the day before and he was still riding off that giddiness. Today, it was starting to look like that initial high still hasn't worn off, and it was apparently affecting his internal clock.

The other Dandelions, figuring that Ephemer would come around eventually, decided to bide their time in the mean time. Ventus and Lauriam were going over the former's homework at the round table, Skuld was sitting at the writing desk to revise her notes, and Brain wasn't going much of anything- instead sitting on one of the two loveseats in the room to casually lounge after a long school day. Had it not been for Lauriam and Ven going over homework, it would have been rather quiet in the room.

"Clouds that are commonly referred to as 'mares' tails' because of their thin, wispy appearance are called..."

"Cirrostratus?" Ven guessed, his head resting in his hand as his eyelids started to droop.

Lauriam shook his head. "Cirrus." he corrected. "However, both cirrostratus and cirrus clouds are classified as…?"

"High clouds."

"Good. And high clouds generally form around what altitude?"

"16,000 meters?"

"Close. 5,000 meters, or 16,000 feet."

"Right. I knew that." the boy mumbled before resting his arm and head on the table. Lauriam looked him over with a small, bemused smile.

"Don't give up on me, Ven." the older even said. "You were doing so well."

The only response he got was a half hearted "Hmm..." and a very long yawn.

"I hear that." Brain spoke up, lazily raising a hand in the air in agreement. He didn't bother to notice the odd looks that Lauriam and Ventus were giving him.

"Don't you have schoolwork to do as well?" Lauriam questioned with a skeptic raise of his eyebrow. It only net him a callous wave of the other's hand.

"I've got my routines, you've got yours." Brain told him. "Besides, why would I even bother bringing my homework with me when, usually, we'd be halfway done a meeting by now."

But this excuse was not a good one to the older student. He even started to open his mouth to say something, but the door to the clubroom opened up and quickly shut behind the newcomer. Everyone turned to look at who at arrived, seeing that it was only Ephemer made for a dull surprise. The Seventh Year looked like he had run across campus and back again; his face was red, his clothes mildly disheveled, and his breathing was hurried. And yet, there was a wide smile on his face as if nothing were amiss.

"Looks like someone had fun with their girlfriend last night." Brain idly noted as he started to sit up.

"Sorry," Ephemer immediately apologized, "I know I'm late, promise it won't happen again."

"Why are you late?" Skuld then questioned while starting to put away her notebooks and notecards. "Your last period was study hall."

Before Ephemer could even build a solid alibi, Brain told her, "Seems to me, he was doing less studying, and more making out with a certain someone."

Everyone looked at Ephemer with an accusatory glance. He didn't confirm or deny it- instead sheepishly scratching the back of his neck as he let out an even more bashful laughter.

"I-it's a good thing we don't have a lot to cover this week." Ephemer nervously informed them. "Skuld, can you get the itinerary planner out of the desk? I think I put it in the top drawer last week."

His friend gave him a curt nod before doing as she was told. It took the group a few minutes to get settled around the table for the meeting. Ephemer tried to keep his mind busy by riffling through the planner- but then he remembered something and a bright blush appeared on his face.

"So we-" he started to say, but his voice cracked, making him sheepishly pause for a moment before starting again, "We should start with past business as usual. The only event of note would have been the dual house activities between Unicornis and Ursus. How did that go?"

"About as well as you'd expect." Brain snorted. "It helped that their events were on separate ends of campus. If the weather permits it, we should try to keep their activities closer to their respective dorms. The only thing we'd have to worry about would be noise complaints, or something, but we can tackle that head on when and if the situation rises again."

"Understandable." Ephemer agreed. "Are any of you guys opposed to it?"

The others shook their heads, giving a unanimous agreement on the subject.

"Do we know what the next subject is for the Ursus house activity is yet?" Lauriam spoke up.

"Not specifically." Brain admitted. "There wasn't much response this week in terms of ideas. I'd chalk it up to dual activities and not waning interest. But the suggestions seemed to favor something more on the technical side, like programming."

"Do we even have enough room for that?" Skuld wondered out loud.

"If we were able to replace the computer science stations in a larger room, say the gym, then we may." Lauriam suggested. "But we may still be a few stations short. It would all depend on student turn out."

"I'll add it to the list of upcoming business." Ephemer decided. "Also for upcoming, we have the Anguis house activity next Sunday. I was told that several chess pieces were missing from their sets- is that still the case?"

"No." Skuld disagreed with a small shake of her head. "We received a donation from the hobby store in town. We were able to completely replace the old chess sets with completely new ones."

"That was nice of them." Ven nervously piped up. "Can we thank them?"

"We can hold a fundraiser in their honor." suggested Brain as he gave his fedora a little flick. "But we should ask them what they need first, just in case."

"I agree." Skuld nodded.

"As do I." Lauriam chimed in.

"I'll add it to ongoing business then." Ephemer told them before doing just that. "Which means that we're almost done for the day. Let's see… for other ongoing business we have the correction of the peeling and cracked paint in the gym lockers. Most of what we have has been relayed to Headmaster Ira. Then there's always the cleaning of the school's bulletin boards; remember, if it doesn't have a date, get rid of it. Any ads past three weeks should be taken down, along with any hate messages. Then that just leaves the planning of a fundraiser for new fencing equipment. Did I leave anything out?"

The rest of the Dandelions shook their heads, some even gave verbal confirmation.

"Well, if we have nothing else to discuss," Ephemer mused, looking down at the planner as he made some notes here and there, "I would like to propose a refurbishment on the fire escape attached to the Vulpes girls' dorms. I- no, I mean An- someone from the dorms recently used the fire escape and nearly tripped over a loose screw. Obviously, this won't do in an emergency, so we should look into fixing it."

Ephemer finished making his note and looked up at the others. He was surprised to see their blank glares. "What?" he questioned, his voice a bit more defensive than he meant to. "It's a perfectly legitimate concern!"

The stares continued until Brain loudly cleared his throat.

"While it may be a concern," he said with a hint of mocking, "I completely fail to see that one wayward screw is enough to renovate the entire fire escape."

"Besides," Lauriam even added, "If we were going to renovate one dorm, we'd have to do the same with the others as well. They were all built at the same time."

"And even then," Skuld continued in her own disapproving voice, "The only thing we could do for refurbishments is to take it up with the Headmasters. We have no real say over that stuff."

"You guys just could've said no..." Ephemer grumbled under his breath. But he shook his head, understanding where they were coming from. "Does no one else have any propositions for this week?"

At their unanimous agreement, Ephemer gave a firm nod of his head.

"Then our meeting for this week is adjourned." he decided. "Have a fun weekend."

"Probably won't have as much fun as you'll be having." Brain smirked as he started to get up. "Don't forget to take a glove next time you almost trip over that screw."

Ephemer, who had been caught off guard by the flippant remark, only blushed a deep shade of red.