You've Become My Favorite Sin (2yeon / najeong)

Chapter 3

It was beginning to look like one of Jeongyeon's favorite new activities during the student council meetings was to contest every decision or vote that Nayeon wanted to push. It didn't really matter if Jeongyeon felt strongly about the subject.

Calling herself devil's advocate wouldn't make much sense, seeing that Jeongyeon was sure that it was Nayeon that was a demon incarnate. If anything, by going against Nayeon, she was practically being a saint.

"- and because of that, we should pass a ruling to stop funding the clubs with less than 20 members. It makes no sense to keep giving those clubs money, especially when the bigger clubs require more funding." Nayeon said. "It's only fair."

Jeongyeon groaned from her seat. "That's such bullshit and you know it."

She looked around the room to see half the council looking indifferent and the other half looking uncomfortable.

"Seriously? You all agree with this crap?" Jeongyeon asked.

Sana shrugged. "I mean it seems mean but the Japanese club really does need more funding in order to have that end of year Japan trip, and if we could do less fundraising for that money, that would be great, so... I'm kind of with her on this one."

"I just wanted to drop in and say I'd love to argue Nayeon with you but I'm kinda really looking forward to my club's Japan trip." Momo whispered to Jeongyeon.

Jeongyeon dug her elbow into Momo's side to shut her up.

"The only requirements for a club are a five member minimum and a teacher representative." Dahyun suddenly said, nervously looking up from her notebook. "Everyone gets the basic funds when they're established. They're not supposed to be for anything other than basic club maintenance and membership recruitment. Bigger clubs have more fundraising opportunities and membership fees, so... I don't think it would be very fair for smaller clubs to not even get the bare minimum. It's really hard to get a club off the ground without that funding."

Nayeon rolled her eyes. "If a club is really in demand, it can meet the 20 person minimum."

"Some clubs take a while to establish themselves, and some clubs might never get over 20 people but they're important for the people who are a part of it. Getting rid of funding would guarantee those clubs would eventually die out." Dahyun protested. "That's - we can't - that's not what's good for the student body."

"Good riddance." Nayeon said. "Relax Dahyun. All seven clubs you're president of have over 20 members. That means all of them will get extra funding if we pass this."

"Yeah, but..." Dahyun frowned. "But the smaller clubs..."

"Who cares about the smaller clubs!" Nayeon said. "We've been on this topic too long. Let's move on, shall we?"

"I just think we should hold off on making any decisions like this, at least until the end of club sign-up days." Dahyun said.

"No offense, Dahyun, but that's not really for you to decide." Nayeon said, waving a hand dismissively at the younger girl.

Dahyun opened her mouth to retort before deciding against it, holding her tongue instead. She stared down at her lap.

"She was just suggesting something." Momo said. "You don't have to be rude about it."

Nayeon scoffed. "Yes but that was a baseless suggestion. Again, no offense, Dahyun."

"None taken." Dahyun murmured, still looking down.

"Enough." Jihyo said, rubbing her forehead in exhaustion as the room quieted down. "I agree with Dahyun. We will wait until the last club recruitment week ends. Clubs will be getting new members through the freshmen so considering anything with funding would be inaccurate."