"Everyone, quiet down first." Atsuya Ayumi saw everyone looking at her, quickly stopped her movements, and said,
"There are still seven days until the School Festival, and it's not going to work like this."
"How about this? By noon tomorrow, if you have any activities you want to hold, come and tell me. I will write them down one by one, and tomorrow at noon, we will vote to choose."
Seeing this, everyone stopped arguing, and most of them agreed with the Class Monitor's suggestion.
Atsuya Ayumi on the podium also stepped towards the back row.
"You were so cool, Atsuya-chan." As soon as she came down, Shouko whispered and applauded.
"Exactly, exactly." Takagi also echoed.
"Haha... not at all." Atsuya Ayumi rubbed the back of her head sheepishly. "These are all things a Class Monitor should do."
After saying that, she lightly tapped Shouko and Takagi's arms.
"But what if we really vote to hold a Maid Café...?" Takagi grabbed her hand, suddenly a little worried.
"It's okay, Takagi-chan, I've thought it through. If we choose the Maid Café, we'll just have the boys wear maid outfits and operate just like us."
Atsuya Ayumi broke free from her mischievous hand and said with a smile to comfort her.
"This is good, this is good!" Shouko clapped her hands excitedly in agreement, her eyes slightly narrowed, her gaze wandering over Akira.
Akira couldn't stand her gaze and unceremoniously reached out and pinched her cheeks. "If that's the case, I will definitely take leave due to unavoidable circumstances."
"Miyamura, if it is really chosen, you are likely to become the main male attraction. How can you take leave?"
As soon as Takagi finished speaking, Shouko immediately changed her expression: "Actually, I think, if Akira takes leave, I completely agree."
"Mhm mhm, don't worry, I will." Akira looked at Shouko, who was overflowing with jealousy, and rubbed her head.
"Dong... dong...!"
"Class is starting, I'm leaving." Atsuya Ayumi stood up, nodded to a few people, and returned to her front-row seat.
With the passage of time, the last class of the day was dismissed in the blink of an eye.
After the teacher on the podium said class was dismissed, seven or eight students gathered around Atsuya Ayumi.
Akira and the others knew that the few people surrounding her were going to sign up for the activities to be held at the School Festival, so they had nothing to worry about.
"Let's go, Shouko, we're going to the Art Club." Akira said after packing up the books on his desk and standing up.
"Mhm mhm." Shouko nodded in response, put the last textbook into her schoolbag, stood up, turned around, and said to Takagi:
"Takagi-chan, can you help me tell Atsuya-chan that Akira and I are going to the Art Club first? I don't think she'll be finished anytime soon."
"Okay." Takagi nodded.
"Then we'll be going first. See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
"Bye bye."
The two walked out of the classroom through the back door, then playfully headed to the Art Club they remembered.
"Dong... dong... dong..."
Akira knocked on the closed door of the Art Club and twisted the doorknob without waiting for a response from inside, and walked in with Shouko beside him.
After a month, everyone had become familiar with each other, and the initial sense of awkwardness had long since disappeared without a trace.
"Shouko and Miyamura are so early today too."
The person who greeted the two was the Art Club advisor, Naruko-sensei, wearing a white dress and a white long-sleeved shirt.
The two greeted her, returned to their seats, and as soon as they sat down, Akira suddenly thought of the School Festival issue. He looked up at Naruko-sensei, who was playing on her phone in the front, and asked,
"Naruko-sensei, the school is holding a School Festival next week. Are there any events we in the Art Club will be holding?"
"No, everyone participates in the events held by their own classes." Naruko-sensei looked at Akira, who was asking, and slowly shook her head.
Akira nodded when he heard this, stopped asking questions, and started drawing with Shouko, while Naruko-sensei also put her attention back on her phone.
After this month, both of them had finished the basic foundations, and Naruko-sensei made some subsequent adjustments for Shouko based on the illustration style she wanted to learn.
As for Akira, he was developing in the direction of watercolor painting, and Naruko-sensei also planned subsequent adjustments for him.
The next day.
"Dong... dong... dong...!"
"It's lunchtime." Nobe said this and quickly walked out of the classroom.
But this time, no one in the classroom moved, their eyes all focused on the Class Monitor.
Atsuya Ayumi stood up under everyone's gaze, walked out of the podium with a black notebook, and took out a brand new piece of chalk from the chalk box.
She broke it in half, turned around, and reproduced the content from the notebook on the blackboard one by one.
The minute hand quietly crawled over five notches on the dial, the sixth still hanging in mid-air, like an unfinished sigh.
Akira looked at the messy content written by Atsuya Ayumi on the blackboard, a little speechless...
"Maid Café," "Butler Café," "Second-hand Market," "Japanese-style Tea Room," "Game Booths," "Movie Screening," "Opera Stage Performance," etc...
"That's all. Please see if anything is missing or needs to be added temporarily." Atsuya Ayumi turned to look at the students below.
Seeing that the people below were all shaking their heads or not responding, she threw the chalk in her hand back into the chalk box.
"Cough cough cough." She coughed lightly, the corners of her mouth curved up, and she said in a sweet voice,
"Now let's vote one by one. Everyone, please be quiet. Let's speed up so we can finish early."
In the following ten minutes or so, everyone cooperated with her very well. This was also because this was the first event the class was going to hold, and everyone wanted to do their best.
"Is everyone sure? Are there any opinions?" Atsuya Ayumi raised her finger and pointed to the drama performance with the most votes, and asked again for confirmation.
"I have an opinion, can it be changed to holding a Maid Café?" At this time, a boy sitting in the corner stood up and joked.
"Go away, alright."
"Exactly, you have to accept the outcome."
"And the vote was unanimously decided by everyone. The minority obeys the majority, so this drama is definitely happening."
As several female voices rang out, the boy who had stood up could only sit down obediently.
"Okay, then it's decided happily. As for the drama, what we perform will be like yesterday, you sign up, and then we'll vote again the next day."
After she finished speaking, Atsuya Ayumi picked up the blackboard eraser on the podium and turned around to erase the blackboard.
The people in the classroom responded and then went about their own business.
Akira and Shouko also took out their lunch boxes from their schoolbags and went to the cafeteria with the two people behind them to heat their food.
Of course, they also had to wait for Atsuya Ayumi, who had finished erasing the blackboard, to get her lunch box and catch up.
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