Relationship Status: It's Complicated

A Bit of Tape to Mend

(Cover art by ChubnChocolate)

A heavy knock sounded at the door causing all heads to look up at the sudden noise. They were having a busy meeting, the new student meet and greet would be in about two weeks and they still had a lot to organize and obtain.

"Who the hell is knocking like that," Sega asked in annoyance, his concentration broken. Two of the vendors had canceled and the company who was supposed to be waxing the basketball courts floor, a big enough and perfect surface for the skating theme, had yet to get back with him.

"I'll get it," Naki said enthusiastically, he needed a break from going over the club rosters. Some of them had been overfilled so he'd have to break the news to the ones who signed up later. There were also the clubs that needed more members or they would lose funding this year.

Lastly there were the new clubs that had to meet the requirements to become a club with school funding for their activities or they would have to host events themselves as a non registered club. To sum it up, his head was ready to explode.

Naki opened the door, not expecting an onslaught of voices to hit him. He almost slammed the door shut with so many voices of discontent being thrown at him.

"Hey you, you are the one responsible for the club activities right? What the heck is with these crazy clubs you put us in! Do you have any idea how stupid this is, you put me in dance club? I can't freaking dance, man!"

Naki stepped back as many other students started to yell at him. "Wait, wait, excuse me!" Some of them settled down enough for him to speak. "Please can someone be clearer, I have no idea what to make out if you are all yelling."

The ringleader stepped forward, he looked like the type to play football by his build and demeanor. "What do you mean, were you just fucking around and not doing your job? Seriously man, you put half of us in weird ass clubs that have nothing to do with us. I'm in dance, Julius is in freaking crafts, some of the girls are in welding? What the hell punk?"

"Yeah seriously dude, I'm not going to freaking weld, what do I look like? Did you even review our files!?"

Naki tried his best to appear taller. "I-I have come to all of you various times to pick your preferred mandatory extracurricular. I informed you many times that if you do not provide me with a preference, that I would have to place you into the generator that would calculate your open time slots and the clubs that coordinate with those times. Any clubs that you have were randomly chosen by the system because you did not pick your own club."

"Some of us are super busy, what's the point of a Club Leader or whatever you are, if you can't help us out and put us in the right kind of club. You should have went behind the computer and fixed these stupid choices!"

"That would have been far too time consuming, and this has been the procedure for years. It's not something I control. I even compiled a list of like groups for those of you who didn't have time to look through the catalog. I really don't see how much easier I could have-"

"Look kid, I've never had this problem before and the only thing new here is you! If you don't want a lot of trouble going forward, I'd suggest you take all our names down and fix this shit. Now!"

Aiden held up his hand to Bai Yusheng who made to rise at the rude words everyone heard. Even Sega and Saalah had pushed their chairs out. "Let me handle this, as Vice President it is for me to deal with." Since the door opened in and blockaded the left half of the room, no one could tell that other people were sitting at the table. When he emerged, the large man with far too much of a threatening posture, seemed to relax some of his muscles.