Chapter 028: The Drama Club

Higura was walking down the hallway after school as he was suddenly pulled into a small room.

"The hell?!"

"Shhh…"

"Huh?"

"I'm going to ask something very important."

"Wait…I know that voice…Takara?"

"Yes."

She turned on the light which revealed her face.

"Why'd you drag me in here? And why didn't you turn the light on to start?"

"Ignore that. As I said before I'm here to ask you something important."

"And that is?"

"One of the drama club's me-"

"Sorry, I'm going to have to pass on your offer."

"But you didn't hear what I had to say…"

"I know what you're going to ask, I'm not filling in for anything."

"Huh? Why not!"

She started hitting his chest with barely any strength in her hits. Higura then took note of the differences in their height, the top of her head only went to his chin.

'Why did I suddenly think that?' "Besides, you should know this. I'm not going to help since that will ruin my image of being an absolute dick. Also I thought we agreed to not interact with each other."

"It wasn't me who wanted you, the other members heard about your acting in class and thought you'd make a good sub."

"Well tell them I'm not going to do it. That's all there is to it."

"…You really won't?"

"Yeah I won't."

"…Fine…I guess you can go now…"

She was making a sulking face as she slowly opened the door and walked out into the hallway.

"…Haaa…Fine! I give in. I'm sure I'll be able to think of something on why I came to the drama club."

"Great!"

She grabbed his hand and started to pull him to the stage where they were doing the play.

"So who am I filling in for?"

"Kazuya, he had a lead role but fell from a high ladder while hanging something up and hurt his back pretty bad. He can't actually stand as of right now."

"Is there anything I should be worried about?"

"Worried about what?"

"You know like…Is this role hard or easy? Do I have anything more stunt like to do? Stuff like that."

"Hmmm, I'd say as long as your not scared of more scary or gory things."

"Is the school really letting you do something gory?"

"We're not going to be doing this show live at any time so this is more of just a fun offside project."

"Huh."

They reached the gym and walked inside. Higura then said something under his breath so no one else could hear what he was telling Takara.

"Sorry if you hate what I'm about to say."

"What?"

The other members came walking over to Higura and Takara. There were a total of 9 other members meaning in total this club had 10 members. A short girl with pink hair walked over to Takara and began to ask the question.

"How did you actually get him? I thought he didn't care about anyone."

Higura stepped in and gave the answer he had come up with.

"We came to an agreement and if I don't get what I was promised…I would consider being self aware when performing the next time your putting on a show."

"Huh?"

The short girl walked over to him and looked him straight in the eyes before lifting her leg and kicking him in the crouch with full force. He dropped to floor while holding the point of impact and making sounds of agony.

"W-What you do that for?!"

"I think I'm already self aware, you're the one who should pay attention to your surroundings."

After a bit of time the severe pain went away but still awkward to move around. The other members then began to introduce themselves. The first to greet Higura was the one that fell from the ladder and was now in a wheelchair. He had short brown hair and different colored eyes.

"I'm Kazuya Amano, thanks for filling in for me."

"Sur-"

"But of course I doubt you'll ever give a better performance then moi!"

The girl holding his wheelchair hit him on the head which looked to be quite the painful hit.

"…O-Okay…"

The one pushing the wheelchair introduced themselves next. She had long light brown hair and supported green eyes.

"I'm Aya Hidaka. This guy here is a little bit narcissistic so you can just ignore him."

"I kind of already thought that was the case."

She waved and headed back for the stage with Kazuya yelling about how great he is compared to Higura the entire way. The next member to introduce themselves was a girl with long purple hair was the next to introduce herself.

"Chika Koizumi."

"…Okay?"

She walked away after only saying her name with no expression which left Higura puzzled. The next person to introduce themselves was a boy with gray hair and had headphones around his neck.

"Ryuji Mori, let's hope you really are as good with acting as the rumors said you were. Oh and if you ever want to change the music that's playing during one of the scenes you can come to me."

He gave a big smile as he pointed to himself.

"I doubt I'll have anything to say about the music, it's probably shit anyway."

"Haha…T-Thanks…"

He walked away while putting his headphones on and looking down at the floor.

'Guess that really hurt his feelings, he must actually make the music.'

While Higura was watching Ryuji walk away he was hit in the back of the head with a ball. He quickly whipped around to see it was the short pinked hair girl again.

"I guess everyone else is introducing themselves, I'm Emi Moriyama. Expect to be hit again at some point, I won't show any mercy."

"Why do you want to harm me so much?"

"You should know why."

"Huh?"

She walked away while making a pissed off expression and she kept glancing at Higura.

'Maybe I did something to her…'

Another boy walked up to Higura except they seemed to be fidgeting an awful lot.

"You alright there?"

"Y-Yes!"

"You sure don't seem fine. Not like it really matters though."

"U-Um! My n-name is Sora Okabe…"

"…That's it?"

He nodded and hurried off to the stage while continuing to fidget. The next person was a girl with long white hair that covered one of her eyes and was extremely attractive.

"So you're the one that's supposedly a delinquent right?"

"What do you mean supposedly?"

"You just don't give off the sense of someone who would cause harm. You seem to give off a more…Caring aura."

"O-Okay? You have it completely wrong though."

"Oh and I'm Mai, you don't need to know anything else about me. Hope to see you again in the future."

She left while waving behind her and she did so extremely elegantly. The next person to walk up to Higura was a boy with black hair that was growing over his face.

"Akihiko Saitou, nice to meet you."

He held his hand out and Higura took it while looking at Akihiko closer. He had severe bags under his eyes, they were also bloodshot really bad and he had terrible posture. Even with all that he still gave off the feeling of someone who cares for others so Higura wasn't exactly freaked out by his appearance.

"Let's hope you don't screw up."

"Yeah, I feeling that other people are going to screw up more. After all no one here seems especially good."

He walked away and this let Higura notice that Akihiko had 8 remotes and controllers hanging from behind him.

'He's a little strange, but doesn't seem like a bad guy…Of course I could always be wrong…'

The final of the group walked up and she had a sweet smile on her face and beautiful long blonde hair. The smile made Higura feel extremely relaxed to the point that he almost broke his facade of being a delinquent. After gazing away from her smile he noticed that she didn't have a left arm.

"I'm Asami Yukimura. As you've probably already noticed I don't have an arm, but that won't stop me from acting. I've enjoyed it since a young age and I'm not going to give up that easily."

"Y-Yeah…"

She walked away to join the others who were now huddled up on the stage and taking amongst each other. Takara walked beside Higura and looked up at him.

"So, what did you think of them. Oh and don't use your delinquent persona."

"They're definitely interesting. I don't think I've seen such a strange group in a club together."

"Everyone here in the drama club is a little strange and unique. A lot of people in the school don't like some of the members and so they couldn't join any other clubs."

"So then why did you join the drama club?"

"Huh?"

"Well, mostly everyone here is disliked by the other students, you're quite well liked from my understanding."

"Yeah I guess I am…But I didn't want to just join any club and only have people befriend me because of my fame…That's why I like it here, everyone can be themselves and become friends by liking your actual self."

"I guess fame can get pretty annoying at times, I don't think I'd ever be able to deal with it. I feel bad for you, even when you were getting that ice cream awhile ago you were flocked-forget I said anything…"

She just looked at him and gave a small giggle before grabbing his hand again and pulling him to the rest of the club members where they discussed their little passion project that would never be seen by the public. Throughout the whole time Higura was included and was having a lot of fun while doing everything but continued to use his delinquent persona around everyone. After a few hours they ended for the day and everyone went home leaving only Takara and Higura.

"Today was a lot of fun."

"Was it now?"

She looked at him while smiling and gave another small giggle.

"Why're you laughing?"

"Nothing, it's a secret."

"Come on tell me!"

"Your just like a little kid!"

"Oh am I now?!"

They both began to laugh as Takara was starting to turn red.

"I-It's really hot don't you think?"

"I don't think so, if anything it's a little on the cooler side."

"Sure doesn't feel that way to me! Haha…"

She grabbed her bag and left the gym while smiling and waving to Higura. He also grabbed his bag and started heading home.

'I wonder if I'll ever get that experience again…After Kazuya is better I doubt they'd want me around.'

"Huh?"

He felt a test go down his cheek and he pulled his phone out to look at himself. His eyes were starting to water with some tears escaping and running down his cheeks.

"Guess I really did enjoy myself…Maybe one day I'll get rid of this persona…And just go on living my days just like this…I don't know if I'd enjoy it though, it could be that I just liked the change of pace, not that I actually want to do this every day..."

He put his phone back into his pocket and continued walking home.