(A/N Notes: HERE COMES A TSUNAMI OF CHAPTERS OF DUBIOUS QUALITY!!!)
It was Monday, and neither Yuriko nor Takeru could look at each other after their intense weekend together, that they were still remembering very vividly what they did together on Saturday and Sunday
"..."
"..."
And right now they were standing in front of each other while looking away with beet-red faces
"... G, g, good... M, m, morning... Y, Yuriko..."
"Ah! Y, y, yes... G, g, good... M, morning... T, Takeru..."
"..."
"..."
They were only able to greet each other with trembling voices, as their embarrassment and shame quickly came back to haunt them, and without saying anything else, they simply decided to walk to their school, with a small distance from each other so that they wouldn't get any more embarrassed right at the morning
Lunch break
Yuriko and Takeru had their lunch together as always, but without looking or interacting with each other. And luckily for them, the annoying thing was absent from school today due to being excused with a swelled nose, sadly he's doing fine, albeit with a swelled nose. Although they both felt embarrassed just from being near each other, they still couldn't help, but feel happy with each other company
A week later
"Nanami-san, please break up with that guy and go out with me instead!"
"... *Deeply inhales* How many times do I have to repeat myself... No"
Mitsuto was back to school again, and once again Yuriko was being annoyed by him, and she was really regretting not having punched him with more strength, just enough to have broken his nose
"Alright everyone, on your seats, because today we need to start preparing ourselves for the school festival"
The teacher who came in was quick to have everyone quiet down and to say what needed to be done
"So, first of all, we need to decide what we're going to do this year so that we can already start organizing and pre-prepare everything so that we won't need to make everything in a hurry. So, without any further ado... What are your suggestions?"
The teacher was quick to pass the actual troublesome part to her students
"How about a maid café?"
One of the boys suggested
"No, because you're never paying attention to my lessons"
"Hey!"
Then Yamada raised his hand
"Let's do a nude ph-"
He was hit by a thick book on the top of his head by one of the girls in the classroom and fell onto the floor unconscious. Then one of the girls raised her hand
"How about we do a theatre play?"
"Sounds good"
The teacher then picked up a chalk and wrote "theatre play" on the blackboard
"Any other suggestions?"
A few of the other boys raised their hands
"No? Good, let's go with the theatre play"
And the teacher said so at the protest of the boys
"Okay, since we'll be doing a theatre play, what play should we do?"
And once again she pushed the troublesome part to her students. To which the girls were all quick to suggest options
"The sleeping beauty" "Cinderella" "Romeo and Juliet" "Snow White"
These were the ones that the teacher found the easiest to make, but since she also found it that it would be troublesome to vote on them she decided to postpone the voting for now
"Okay, since we now have a rough idea of what we'll be making, let's just take the real troublesome stuff out of the way. Who will be the prince and who will be the princess?"
She wrote the word Prince and the word princess on the blackboard, then she pointed at the word prince and looked at who volunteered to be the prince. And as expected most of the boys raised their hands, in hope of getting partnered up with a beautiful girl, especially Yuriko even though she had a boyfriend. But of the ones who volunteered, one of them stood out
"You want to do the role of the prince, Nanami-san?"
"!?" (x29)
"Yes, sensei. I want to do the role of the prince"
Everyone got surprised at her volunteering herself to play the role of the prince, but at the same time, they found it really suited for her. The teacher put the candidates' names in a column under the prince word, and a vote ensued... Obviously, Yuriko won with a landslide of the votes. For the princess role, it was more contested the vote, but in the end, the second most popular girl in the classroom won the role with a considerable advantage, thanks to some of the boys being simps to her
"Well, with that done... Let's vote on what play we'll be doing"
And the plays were also heavily contested, but Cinderella won with a slight advantage
"Well, I will be counting on you for our play, ojou-sama"
"Y, y, yes! Yuriko-sama!"
Yuriko said so to the girl who would be the princess, that just so happened to sit on the desk right beside hers
At Takeru's classroom at the same time
"..."
The boys' eyes were all turned to him as he was the penultimate person to vote, the last one being a girl. And the two options for the classroom's culture festival this year with the most votes were the maid café suggested by one of the boys and the butler café suggested by one of the girls, and right now they were somehow tied, as some other girls voted for the other options
"..."
And Takeru was looking at the options given open for votes and he... Found all of them annoying because of different reasons, to put simply he didn't want to do any of the options given, but he had to vote for one of those options because the teacher wouldn't accept blank votes
"..."
As he thought about the two options, he ended up reaching a conclusion that could end up happening, though he wasn't sure if either of those would happen, and most importantly he didn't want to put his pride at risk no matter what, so he decided on his answer
"I'll... Vote for the butler café"
"!?" (x11)
The boys at hearing that looked at him with surprise. Then the last one to vote, who was a girl, voted for the butler café too, with that done the teacher found it enough and ended the culture festival voting session. Then some of the boys flocked to Takeru's seat
"Why did you do that!?"
"Yeah! We were this close to greatness!"
"You're a traitor to the cause!"
"... Well... Wouldn't the girls simply force us to be ones wearing the maid clothes, if the maid café was chosen?"
" " "..." " "
"Nah, that's impossible"
One of the boys dismissed Takeru's worry, but then...
"Oh no, we would definitely do that, so you all better thank Tanaka-kun for saving you guys asses"
One of the girls actually confirmed Takeru's worry, to which all the boys looked her and the back to Takeru
"Thank you for saving us from disgrace!!!" (x11)
Takeru managed to safely protect his pride and all the other boys' dignity with his over-worried thought
(A/N Notes: More chapters in the coming minutes!)