June 11, 1999 -- After School

[kouyouensei]

[Friday. A simple time when people are rushing more rambunctiously out the doors and are more likely to leave them ajar should somebody who doesn't attend insist on entering the school building. Clicking heels ring through the halls and soon enough Haruhi's abandoned classroom radar goes off.

Currently her heels hover a few inches above the floor as she's leaned forward to slam the table with all her might, eyes watering from the dust pushed into the air.]

What do you MEAN they still haven't given you guys' club official recognition? This is head and shoulders above some of the other so-called activities! You have a calligraphy club at this school, don't you? All they do is write.

Who does a person have to talk with around here for some justice?

[Turning her head from person to person with expectant glares. A gentler glare for Maria by a slim margin]

Comments

[ohmygah]

I don't know, writing can be pretty hard...

[And although using this time to nap is great, Osaka can't help but feel that nap clubs aren't endorsed by the school system. They should though. No wait, they should have a naptime instead. She'd ace that.]

[kouyouensei]

Couldn't writing down some discoveries count as a cultural production anyway? A chronicle of supernatural happenings is totally doable!

[ohmygah]

Would we hafta caligraphy it? Cause that sounds like it'd take a whole bunch of time and effort...

[independent_dollmaker]

Didn't most of the teachers say that investigating supernatural rumors was a waste of school resources?

[kouyouensei]

Hey, hey, you say "most" of the teachers... not all of them? Is Alice thinking of someone in particular that has yet to be eliminated?

[independent_dollmaker]

I don't know, I wasn't there for those conversations. It was before I moved here.

[fortunatetoaster]

... please don't say "eliminated" like we're plannin' on takin' someone out.

[itwasfeyt]

I know, right? What gives?! Just because we don't play baseball or swim or anything, that means we're not an official club?

[Maya puffed out her cheeks in righteous fury, shaking her fists.] It's not right!

[kouyouensei]

[Slamming fist into open palm and nodding at her]

Maya-chan, you see the hypocrisy! This sad ragtag resistance group! Don't you sense any sympathetic souls among our superiors?

[itwasfeyt]

Everyone is being so hypocritical because they believe that ghosts don't exist!

[She could almost hear Hiroshi in the background going "because they're not"]

We have to find a teacher who'll give us official status... but who?

[all_onis_are_true]

[Oh God, here we go.]

To be fair, most of the time we just sort of hang out and play games anyway.

[Because really, supernatural stuff doesn't exist.]

[kouyouensei]

Downtime is no reason at all to distinguish between clubs. Yave you ever been to a baseball team's practice? Let me tell you, they take turns and the off-beat players talk about girls a LOT.

[all_onis_are_true]

Except we have had nothing BUT downtime the entire time I have been part of this club.

[Okay, maybe the occasional investigation, but it's not like they've ever found anything.]

[fortunatetoaster]

'cuz mostly all we do is sit around in an empty classroom and apparently, we don't need a proper budget or resources too do that.

[ said in the very tired voice of a girl who has tried a whole lot to remedy this and has pretty much given up on it by this point ]

That's what happens when two accounts have similar icon names

[punches_fog]

Who needs money when you have friends, right?

[happyhalloween]

... official recognition?

[For some reason, Maria thought all you had to do was say you're a club and suddenly you are one.]

[kouyouensei]

It's the best thing in the world! First the school starts giving you money and a place to present during the cultural festival... then come the television features and petitions for national chapters!

[happyhalloween]

Maria could be on TELEVISION?

[Oh man, you don't know how much Maria loves television.]

[punches_fog]

Well, it doesn't really matter much if a club is official here. We have more classrooms than clubs, and nobody's bothered by us just hanging out.

[Having the Student Council President in the group probably helps keep any overzealous rules lawyers away, now that he thinks about it.]

[kouyouensei]

[This is something Haruhi really does not want to hear. But it's Seta-kun being reasonable...]

Sure, for now it's okay, but who knows about after graduation? Even next year, Yamane is...

It's just a lot safer with the school's support for sure.

[punches_fog]

Hm. If you're talking about next year, you've got a point. Half of us are going to be leaving...

[spender_lifeender]

[Meanwhile, in a dark and hidden location...

Okay in the teacher's office, Spender was grading Thursday's pop-quiz. To help encourage him, the latest chapter of One Piece was hidden at the bottom of the pile of quizzes.]

[independent_dollmaker]

[There is a polite knock on the door, because Alice got to it before Haruhi did.]

[loveandwillpower]

[ Blowing bubbles in her soda because she has a straw and that is what you do when you have a straw ]

Being official means that we'd have to do stuff for the school, anyway. That'd suck all the fun out of it.

[ SOUR GRAPES ]

[all_onis_are_true]

You make it all sound so odious.