At the Nanase residence
Haru was sitting in her living with her two childhood friends, doing nothing as they sat in silence. The silence was broken when Haru gave a loud sneeze.
"That was loud." Nagisa commented.
"Haru, are you okay?" Makoto asked, concerned.
"My late grandma used to say that you sneeze when someone is talking about you." Haru said, rubbing her nose with a tissue that Makoto had given her.
"It must be Rin-chan!" Nagisa suddenly exclaimed.
Haru was slightly taken aback by this.
"No, I'm pretty sure she's just sick." Makoto said. "It's because you were swimming in the pool in April." He told his childhood.
"I'm not a baby that gets sick when swimm-Achoo!" Haru was cut off by her own sneeze.
"It's too early to be swimming in outdoor pools." Makoto remarked. "We'll just work out until it gets warmer."
"Oh, I heard from Gou-chan that Rin-chan joined the Samezuka swim team." Nagisa informed.
Haru's eyes widened a bit upon hearing this new piece of information.
"Huh?" Was all Makoto said, surprised.
"Is something wrong, Mako-chan?" Nagisa asked.
"No, it's nothing." Makoto replied, smiling. "But this means we might run into him in a tournament."
"Yep, we should enter tournaments!" Nagisa said excitedly. "Then we could do relays again."
"I only swim freestyle." Haru said simply in monotone, her face blank like always.
"Does this mean you can't swim relays?" Nagisa asked. "Don't say that!" He yelled a bit this time.
Haru just ignored him and continued to read the magazine she had.
"Come on..." Nagisa whined as he rubbed his head on Haru's arm.
"You know, we won't be able to swim in a relay with only three people." Haruka said in a matter-of-factly tone, despite her speaking in monotone.
"That's true." Nagisa said as he stopped rubbing his head on the ravenette's arm. "Which means..." He shot up, clutching his head. "We still need to find one more member?!"
...
The next day
'We need one more member.' Nagisa thought to himself as he rode the train to his school. 'But it'll be hard to find one right now. I was turned down by everyone I asked last time.' Nagisa turned his head up and saw young man, wearing his school's uniform, with blue hair and violet eyes reading a book that was tilted 'Physical Training'. "Ryugazaki-kun?" He questioned. "You go to school by train?"
"Yes." Ryugazaki Rei said simply, taking his eyes off of his book for a second before returning to read it.
"Oh, by the way..." Nagisa started to say. "I wanted to ask you a favor, as a classmate..."
"I won't join the swim club." Rei remarked without hesitation.
"Huh? How did you know before I said anything?" Nagisa asked, shocked.
"It was easy enough to guess." Rei said.
"Huh?" Nagisa asked.
"Considering the recruiting poster in your bag, and those swimsuit Iwatobi-chan straps you probably plan to give them to recruits." Rei explained.
