Uh, ah!
Hiri: why can't I move this damn bags, its too hard. I don't like this heavy thing. My dad should heve limit the load, I told him. Sigh. Mom, if only mom is still here, things would be better.
Kata: don't move!
Hiri: huh?
Kata: don't move, you this beautiful lady. Let me introduce you to the club of your dream, the newspaper club! Its the best club in Noun high school. You should join because you are pretty.
Kata, a young girl with pink hair, standing opposite to hiri. She wears a short wine skirt, wine jacket with white shirt underneath it, but since her jacket is unbuttoned, it is noticeable. Its the school uniform. She brings her hand forward smiling.
Kata: here, come with me. I will help you with the bag.
Hiri in his mind: she definitely has a different uniform, or is it me. It is the same colour and code but.... Something is off. No worries, its none of my business. I just need to find my way around here and do my thing, my humble things.
Hiri: okay. Thanks for the offer but I will have to say no.
Kata: what?
Hiri: you see, I came to this school to study not to do some friendly gossip with fun group of people, even if that sounds good. I want to relax and score high.
Kata: you are rejecting our club?
Says kata, as she looks like she is about to cry.
Hiri: yeah, not really. I ...
Kata: not really? You just said you won't join our club. That's rejection!
Hiri in his mind: now she's definitely gonna cry. Girls. Why is she so dramatic? I gotta run.
Hiri: you see I got a little test I have to write. So am leaving, don't feel bad!
Kata: test? Hahahhaha!
Hiri: huh? Why is she suddenly laughing? I thought she was about to cry.
Kata: you see, I gotta admit it, you are naive, is this how you escape people you don't want to talk to? Its ridiculous! Test, yes. In Noun academy, students take tests the same day and if today we are not having one. Now come with me let me show you around.
Hiri: okay. Why did she change so suddenly. This is weird.
The dorm, 47th room:
Kata: here is your room
Hiri: umm. Thank you, I really appreciate your help, I couldn't have done it myself.
Kata: you mean you wouldn't have found your way to your dorm, when you literally have it written on your student's card? Come on, you are so naive. Hahaha! You are just to nice, you are giving too much credit. Anyway, I need to go to my own room to check out what's up. I will see you when am done. Bye.
Hiri: she really is super funny, I don't understand her yet. Maybe its just me or rich people are just weird. Rich people? Yeah, this school is the learning place for rich students, they study here. Noun academy is only for its listed eligible students 'rich or intelligent' am the latter or at least they say.
Hiri enters his room scanning the whole place as he moves quietly. its nice, he said.
Hiri: oh, this place is tidy. Its a two bedroom with soft sofas, the floor is tiled, the shower, the kitchen, the bed is fluffy, its nice with two pillows. The rooms are not too big, the one at my house is bigger but two of it is enough for three people like me. I like it. Gosh, the lamps, the wall clock, the items on this shelf. What are they? Who knows? Rich people stuff. Maybe this is how rich students live after all. Its not so different but yet it still different.
Kata: hiri!
Hiri: huh? She's outside! Sigh. I thought she said she was going to her room? She's so fast or am just the lazy one who's always tired.
Hiri moves to the door and lets her in.
Hiri: kata.
Kata: ooh, wow. You have a nice room.
Hiri: yeah, I was just wondering who I am sharing it with
Kata: sharing? Don't be silly, you stay here alone. This is a small room for one student, when you are in group or more, you share a more and bigger rooms. You can only have three roomstes though.
Kata said and winked.
Kata: come let me take you to meet my club mates.
Hiri: what? I thought I said...
Kata: it doesn't matter, you can meet them without joining, we like people like you, we will be friends with you, this is absolutely the sixth time someone rejected the club, whiche means the other five members and even I rejected the club at first.
Hiri: so who is the leader?
Kata: me.
Hiri: oh. That's interesting.
Kata: impressed?
Hiri: not really.
Hiri said, rolling his eyes
Kata: glad you are liking it, let's run.
Hiri: amn, she's really lively.
The clubhouse: kitchen room, the unused one, located at the back if the school.
Hiri: its a kitchen.
Kata: no its our clubhouse. Knock, knock
Eno: get in. A slim young lady with black hair and glasses, she does not look pleased at kata but the pink haired girl does not really seem to mind.
Kata: yeah.
They entered the kitchen and it was completely different than hiri thought. It had zero kitchen appliances, it was decorated differently with lots of space, this is times five his two rooms, it looks like it was designed to have everything from the living room equipments to the dinning room appliances, more it has the club's news materials. Two girls sit beside a table playing cards and looking sadder than ever while another girl sits on the chair playing games.
Hiri: oh.
Kata: hahaha, this is it. Do you like it, hiri?
Hiri: yeah, I do. Its nice looking.
Kata: am so glad you like it, am going to design it better for you.
Hiri: why me? And why the design its fine.
Lori: don't get to used to it, that's how the boss acts.
Hyori: yeah, she's always doing things like this, its not unusual.
Hiri: The two sad girls speak, come to think of it, they both look the same. What the... Are they twins
Kata: what can I expect from shady sisters
Lori and hyroi: shady sisters?!
The two girls raise their head, clearly annoyed at kata.
Kata: come hiri meet the Lee sisters, hyori and Lori.
Hiri in his mind: hmm. They have the same brown hair, the same brown eyes, they have the same physique, slim and short, the same height, they are both about 5ft 3. They both have the same necklace on, they both look unpleased at kata, how do you differentiate them? Hmm, go it!
Lori and Hyori: nice to meet you, hiri.
Kata: nice to meet hyori and Lori.
Kata: um?
Eno: now that the introduction is done, we can have a beautiful conversation.
Kata: nope
Hyori: why not?
Kata: we have not introduced you Eno, now's the time for yours. Come here this is Eno.
Eno: sigh. Whatever.
Kata: act properly Eno, you are ruining everything.
Eno: fine, am Eno. Hiri, nice to meet you
Hiri: nice to meet you too, hiri.
Kata: hit it
Eno: now Hiri, listen carefully.
Hiri: okay.
Lori and Hyori chuckle smirking vividly while staring at each other.
Eno: we capture everyone's shade in this school except for ours. We are very invasive, we do the job necessary to publish our content and its very successful. Everybody loves to mock everybody, it means the school is full of rich people who love to flex, they might pretend to be classy but they all love little talks about their opponents secrets, dirty secrets. So in short you can call us, business women, in fact you can call us "dirty jobbers" but the most important aspect is we get the just done. So, now to you, as a young student with zero shade ye in this school, its good until you have one and who knows more, if you wish to stay alongside the other students, your shade will be caught but if you stay with us, the school's news club, you will be left with no shade because we don't publish our own shades. So do you or do you not wish to join?