Title - The Student Council and The Service Club

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Chapter 17

Dan's POV

"Uh… what happened to your eye…?"

Great! Good question, Keith-senpai. And what's so funny to laugh that much? Anyway, they seem to be discussing something and looking at their faces, they seem happy. Well, I'm happy now that I'm off of the classes for today! It's the start of club hours! Wait… I think that was an hour ago…? I shrugged.

"Don't ask…" I said as I entered in the club room. "Stop laughing already!" I exclaimed, rolling my eyes at Mira and Baron. I saw Keith smirk and my eyebrow twitched when he said…

"I guess Runo is behind your black eye, Dan?" he asked. Why does it sound like a statement instead of a question…?

"You don't have to point that out! I just borrowed a bun from her tray but geez! She has to get all mad like that!" I retorted and folded my arms. 'Man! She hits hard…'

"Borrowed…? I'm pretty sure it's in your stomach now…" said Keith, rolling his eyes. "Whatever…" I muttered.

Atleast, those two had stopped laughing. Wait… Where's Alice…? Ah right… she has that punishment… She seems a little tense especially around Shun and I can say that he must have noticed that by now. Knowing her, she will just deny it… I sighed.

"Hey guys…? Don't you think Alice seems a little off around Shun…?" I asked. Keith sighed… So, he knows something…

"Well… he snapped at her…and all the others…" he replied. I had to raise my eyebrows at that while Mira and Baron looked at him for explanation. Shun… snapped…? Heh! That's new… but… on Alice?

"What happened?" I asked. Mira and Baron asked the same question, worried for Alice. I saw him close his eyes in thinking but then… no response. What?! He's asleep?!

"Hey?! Wake up, dude!" I exclaimed and he stirred. We all sweatdropped when he said, "…What…? Oh yeah… as I was saying…"…

A few minutes later, after Keith explained us, I'm sure he has cut the story short mostly, we were surprised, we glanced at each other and shrugged then everything was back to normal. "They'll be fine… I don't think they give it much of a thought" I shrugged.

"I guess so…" Keith said. I just remembered something!. "Oh hey! We are called to the Student Council room!" I told them and left, followed by others.

No one's POV

"Yo!" greeted Dan, grinning. "What's up guys?" he added, folding his hands behind his head as he entered. He was followed by others who walked in lazily.

The student council members including Alice and Billy looked at him smiling except Shun, who lazily raised his head from his desk on which he was taking his nap of the day.

"You are late" Shun deadpanned, glaring at Dan. Dan sweatdropped. "And I told you not to wear your goggles here" said Shun, pointing the goggles on Dan's head. Dan blinked innocently while Shun gave him a bored look.

"Hey, you said don't wear your goggles in school hours and run in hallways, the last time! See, you said 'SCHOOL HOURS' not 'Club hours'!" Dan retorted, folding his arms over his chest. Shun rolled his eyes.

"Correction. I had said 'Your stupid goggles'. You forgot to mention that. And seems that your goggles failed to protect your eye" stated Shun and smirked, referring to Dan's black eye. Dan huffed. Julie giggled while Runo snickered. The others sweatdropped and before Dan could retort, Mira cut in.

"Okay cut it out! Why are we here?" asked Mira, tapping her foot impatiently.

"Marucho, go ahead… Don't mind me…"Shun said and returned to his napping, folding his hands on the desk and putting his head over them as he had a headache. Marucho nodded and smiled.

"Guys, as it's decided we'll be leaving for our picnic tomorrow! I hope you are all ready!" said Marucho.

"Of course!" exclaimed Dan and Julie while the others gave him all positive answers as they are all set. Everyone smiled at Marucho and thanked him while he blushed out of embarrassment and scratched his head, "Hehe… thanks guys!"

"So how about everyone gather at my house till eight in the morning?" asked Marucho. He got agreement from everyone.

"Hey! Where are we going?" asked an excited Julie, eyes sparkling. Most of them had the same question.

"Well, I have arranged a trip to a resort… And we'll be back on Sunday evening so we'll all be ready for school on Monday" answered Marucho.

"COOL!" exclaimed Dan and the others agreed and started chatting.

"Be QUIET or get out of here NOW" rasped Shun from the same position and threw an eraser at Dan which hit him exactly on his forehead. Everyone blinked. 'How did he do that…?' they thought while Keith dragged Dan out before he yell out. "HEY!" can be heard through the hallway caused by Dan, leaving the others sweatdropping.

"Okay girls! Let's go! We have a lot of work!" exclaimed Julie, excitedly. The girls looked at her questioningly at the word 'we'. Julie rolled her eyes at them. They were now in Service club room with Runo and Julie carrying their bags to leave the school.

"Hellooo? I need to buy some things for tomorrow!" she exclaimed. Runo and Mira looked at her, baffled. 'Buy some things' means 'shopping'…' they both thought.

"Oh, really? Actually, I wanted to get some groceries. I can come with you, Julie" said Alice. "Me too" said Runo, smiling now. "I'm in, I guess… but for only an hour. Brother needs to pack and me too". Julie brightened up, "Sure!"

"Uhh… Shun said he wanted me to wait…" said Alice.

"That's fine! I'll text him that you are with us on some 'urgent business' Ace can handle whatever your work was. Let's go!" exclaimed Julie. Alice nodded unsurely and grabbed her bag and left the room with the girls, locking it. All the members left early today a while ago.

Shun glared at his cell phone, intensely. The girls had left half an hour ago and Alice was nowhere to be found but now he know why. Ace just packed up his things to leave the school and looked at Shun. "Hey, Kaichou. I'm leaving…".

He backed up as he saw Shun's glare was turned from his phone towards him. "Uh… bye for now…" he said and left through the door. 'Now what happened to him…? And he said he wanted to talk to Alice but…where is she? I do know that there is something off about her… mostly around Shun. Anyway, I'll just go home and sleep… I hope we get enough rest and enjoy the trip' he thought as he reached for his bike.

On the other hand, Shun closed his eyes, aggravated. He smacked his fist on his desk and stood up, angrily. He saw Ace had left just when he received a message from Julie, which said…

- Hey, Shun! Sorry, I had to borrow Alice for today as I need her to come with us so I'm taking her with me. I hope you don't mind. Can you tell the work you needed Alice for, to Ace? Bye-Bye! See ya tomorrow! ;)'.

'How can she do this?! Any girl could have waited till mid night if I tell them to wait and she…? What an excuse! She ignored MY order? Heh… whatever… I can talk tomorrow on the trip' he thought and stood up but could feel that he was disappointed. He packed his bag and left the office.

The next morning…

"GOOD MORNING Guys!" exclaimed Dan as entered Marucho's mansion as soon as he saw his friends in Marukura's BIG living room.

Everyone was already present surprising Dan that he was the one who came last. They were sitting silently mostly. Girls occupied the couch while Shun, Ace and Keith sat away from the girls as far as possible to get away from their whisperings. Baron and Billy sat on the couch next to the girls and often join in their conversation.

"Do you have to be so loud this early?" asked Shun with closed eyes as he sat on a chair crossing his arms over his chest. Dan rolled his eyes at him.

"Oh come on! Do you have to be so grouchy this early?" he retorted earning snickers and giggles from the others. Shun opened his eyes and glanced at others. Dan was expecting some witty comment from Shun but Shun merely glanced at him and replied, monotonously, "I'm not grouchy…"

That left the others surprised including Dan. "Oyi? Are you really Shun?" asked Dan, looking at Shun, raising his eyebrow. He got "…Hn" for an answer. They all sweatdropped while Alice, Keith and Ace gave him a long stare. 'Yup, he is definitely Shun…' they thought.

"Hello masters and mistresses. Master Marucho is awaiting your presence. Please follow me" said Kato. Everyone grabbed their bags and followed Kato out to the front of the house.

The atmosphere filled with excitement as soon as they saw a smiling Marucho waiting for them beside a grey minivan. They all reached Marucho, smiling and grinning and greeted him. They all thanked Kato then, "Hop in!" exclaimed Marucho.

"Here is your bag Master Marucho and I apologize I-…" started Kato but Marucho cut him off.

"It's all right, Kato. I know Mom and Dad are on a trip so you have to take care of here until then… so you can't come, I understand" said Marucho, taking his bag and smiled.

Marucho sat on the passenger seat beside one of his chauffer, who greeted him smilingly, "Hello, Master Marucho". Marucho nodded and greeted back, "Oh hello, Fujiki-san. Sorry for the trouble". Fujiki only shook his head in return and smiled, cheerfully.

They all had kept their bags in the back space of the van for luggage. The van had twelve seats including driver and passenger seat so there were ten seats at the back and only one door for entering the back seats. Behind the driver's seat, there were three joined seats and similar with the passenger seat which made it three seats on both sides leaving some space between. On the last row there were two pairs of seat separating them with a mini fridge in between them. Over all, it was spacious and comfortable but about the seating arrangements…

Most of them dived for the window seats, namely, Dan, Runo, Billy, Alice and Keith… yeah… surprising… Billy entered first and sat at the window behind passenger seat while Julie hopped beside him, checking something in her purse. Keith followed next and sat at the left window behind driver's seat and Mira sat beside him. Ace saw the empty seat beside Keith and Mira as he entered and plopped down. Alice went for the back seat but found that Shun was already sitting on the seat she wanted. She pouted and turned towards the last window seat and found Runo sitting there. She sighed but atleast she can sit beside Runo when Dan zoom passed her and literally dived for the seat. She and Runo sweatdropped as they knew he sat there for fridge. Alice sighed and took the only remaining seat that was beside Shun. So, they sat as, (from passenger seat's side) –Marucho- Billy, Julie, Baron- Shun, Alice- (Fridge)- Dan, Runo- Keith, Mira, Ace. (A/N- I hope you got…? ^^')

As they departed, the van became lively. It was an hour ride. As usual, Dan and Runo were arguing; Julie, Billy and Baron were chatting happily as they were reading about the place they were going. Ace and Mira had started their 'intelligent' arguments about who is better while Keith ignored them as he put his headphones on. Shun had seen Alice's reluctance to sit beside him and closed his eyes, frowning and crossed his arms while Alice was reading a romance and mystery novel, completely immersed in the book. Yep, it was usual…

Alice giggled causing Shun to look at her. She put her fringe behind her ear; picked up the chocolate stick and put it in her mouth. She looked completely into her 'book land', Shun noted. Suddenly Alice glanced at him to find him looking at her. "Did you say something, Shun? Oh yeah… Sorry I couldn't wait yesterday… did Ace do the work you wanted me to do?" she asked.

"Why didn't you wait?" asked Shun, catching her off guard. 'Did she forget I had said that I need to discuss something?' he thought. Alice smiled nervously.

"I… well… the girls were going for some shopping and I wanted to buy some groceries. So, Julie said-…" she started but Shun cut her off.

"I got her message. But you have my number, why didn't YOU text me instead?" he asked, plainly. Alice looked at her book. Shun sighed. "I'm not stupid, you know. I know you are ignoring me. But why…?" he asked, his voice hard.

Alice looked up at him surprised then sighed while Shun smirked at her reaction. He had hit the point. "I'm not ignoring you…" she said.

"You have your duties and there are a lot of things you go through and think regularly… So I thought that you wanted your peace and I was annoying you…" she explained, closing her book. "Your fan girls confronted… I mean… I'm getting less glares from your fan girls now!" she joked and smiled.

Shun sighed. 'I see… fan girls… but what about when we are in the office? Wait… I had said her to be considerate… so she thinks that she might disturb me… But then why I'm I annoyed more by this?' he thought and sighed. He pinched the bridge of his nose and his headache returned when he heard Dan and Runo's yelling.

"It was immature of me to say those things that day… Don't think it was your fault. How should I make it up to you?" he asked, looking in front. 'What am I saying…?' he thought.

Alice blinked. His words left her surprised. 'Is he apologizing…?' she thought. One thing she had known by now that Shun Kazami rarely use words like 'Thank you' and 'Sorry' and instead he always make it up for his mistakes. Well, he barely make any mistakes anyway…

Alice giggled which made Shun frown. 'Did she know how hard it is for me to apologize?' he thought. "No need, Shun. I don't want this from my rival… but… I want to know one thing though…" she said, raising her eyebrows.

'What? She doesn't want me to apologize?' Shun masked his surprise with a questioning look. "What is it?" he asked.

"How do you study? I wanted to know your technique…" said Alice. Shun stared at her and then chuckled, holding his laugh. She looked away from him and added "It's not that I'll copy your style or something…" she pouted and crossed her arms.

"Well…" he started. She looked at him with her big eyes, intrigued for his answer. He smirked.

"I'm a born genius"…

To be continued….

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