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Momotalk DMs
Users: Hoshino, Shiroko
Today - 7:30am
Hoshino: hey~
Hoshino: hey shiroko
Hoshino: you’re awake at this time right
Hoshino: don’t tell me the one time I’m up early you decide to sleep in
Hoshino: *sighs* fate is so cruel to this old man…
Shiroko: ??
Hoshino: oh!! i knew you were awake
Shiroko: What do you need?
Hoshino: ehhh?? so cold!! would you believe it if i told you i just wanted to say hi :(
Shiroko: Hi
Hoshino: ..
Hoshino: man I raised such mean juniors *^*
Shiroko: ?
Shiroko: You said you just wanted to say hi
Hoshino: now now, don’t get all snippy with me..
Shiroko: ??????
Hoshino: anyways! I was wondering if you could get me something before you come to school!!
Shiroko: So you do need something
Hoshino: .
Hoshino: perhaps
Hoshino: but it’s not the only reason i reached out!!
Hoshino: there are many other things of much substance that i wanted from this conversation! to think my junior assumes I’m so shallow… it breaks this old man’s heart…
Shiroko: What other things?
Hoshino: uh
Hoshino: hm
Hoshino: wait a moment
Hoshino: oh!
Hoshino: I wanted a hello!
Shiroko: Hi
Hoshino: …
Shiroko: So what did you need?
Hoshino: huh?
Hoshino: wait
Hoshino: oh yea! could you bring your pillow
Shiroko: ?
Hoshino: geez... you’ve gotta stop with the question marks! sooner or later im going to think you’re angry or something
Shiroko: Sorry
Hoshino: eh? im kidding! don’t worry i know enough about you to catch when you’re truly mad~
Shiroko: .
Shiroko: So my pillow? What for?
Hoshino: mm mm mm! no questions! just know i need to test something..
Shiroko: ?????
Hoshino: anyways, im going back to bed! ill see you at school later *v*
Shiroko: Wait, Hoshino. School starts in an hour, you need to start getting ready.
Shiroko: Hoshino?
End of DM
Abydos High School - 11am
"You're kidding. Why do we keep her as our president again?"
The sun shines down into the Foreclosure Task Force's meeting room. Four girls sit impatiently, awaiting someone's arrival.
"Nn. That was the last thing she sent." Shiroko takes her phone back from her classmate's hands, pocketing it and sitting back down. Said classmate glares at the phone, and then the pocket it was stored in, as if the phone would transfer her evil aura to her senior.
"It's ridiculous honestly. One day she preaches about responsibility and being the bigger person, and the next she takes every lesson she teaches and finds every way to not practice it!" Serika slumps back down into her chair, groaning. Nonomi pats her on the head.
"Hey, we don't technically have anything planned today. If there was a day to slack off, today wouldn't be the worst choice." Ayane chimes in, attempting to force a smile. While saving Hoshino's ass meant absolutely nothing to her, she didn't need the lack of a leader bringing down further morale.
"Whatever. It's fine. We don't need her anyways! We'll find a way to pay back our debt in its entirety before she even arrives, and then when she comes back, she'll feel super bad that we did all the work for her, and it'll be a win for all of us!" Serika smiles, crossing her arms while leaning back. She already had hundreds of plans swirling through her head on how that money could be made. All of them seemed to involve joining a business that had an oddly pyramid shaped aura around it.
"All of our debt paid off... in the next two hours?" Ayane asks, with a blank expression. "Please do enlighten us on how we would do that?"
"Well, you see, a few days ago I was walking around the plaza, when a kind student offered me a flier to join a top-secret business meeting~ I was told that if we played our cards right, we could make millions, no billions within-"
Shiroko sighs, checking her phone one more time. Still no response. She wasn't worried, Hoshino slept in all the time, so this shouldn't be an issue, however the past few months hadn't done much to reaffirm her trust in her senior. Many times, had Hoshino gone off without the rest of the task force, putting herself in danger or attempting to sacrifice herself for the "good of the task force." Whatever that meant. Sure, it always worked out in the end, but no thanks to her. That's all to say that it's times like these that Shiroko finds herself worrying abou-
wait a second
Was that...?
Shiroko, while spacing out, just so happened to be staring outside of the room, at her locker. The same locker she had stuffed the pillow she slept on every night, as to her senior's request. It was the perfect scheme really, Hoshino could have pulled it off easily if Shiroko didn't happen to be looking in that one spot. But alas.
The others stopped talking once they watched their classmate stand up.
"Shiroko? Where are you..."
*SLAM*
"..."
"A-ah! Shiroko... What brings you out here? Shouldn't you be working hard in the meeting room?" Hoshino slowly closes the locker behind her, holding a suspiciously pillow shaped object behind her back. "My, as your senior I could write you up for this! Dodging class... You still have some of that rebellious spirit in you, don'tcha!"
"..."
"Now... If you'll excuse me, I think I must head out. You know... Important president stuff to take care of! Mhm! You wouldn't get it... really..." Hoshino started backing away, the entire group watching this quite honestly pathetic scene.
"You can just... take it." Shiroko stared at the not-pillow behind Hoshino's back.
Hoshino blinked.
"I mean, I assume you think it's comfortable. You sleep on it every time you sleep over. I have spares." Shiroko said matter-of-factly.
"A-ah! Yes.. Right! You see, it's a rare pillow that I haven't seen before, and I thought that maybe it could sell for a lot! But I didn't want to bother you in class so..."
"I bought it at IKEA."
"W-well... it must be a limited edition rare ikea item! Those exist you know. Mhm mhm!" Hoshino nodded vigorously.
"Nn. Okay."
Hoshino took a sigh of relief, only finally peering past Shiroko into the meeting room full of her juniors. A certain catgirl looked on the verge of tears from holding in laughter. Both Ayane and Nonomi gave looks of pity, watching everything unfold. Hoshino blinked a few times.
"I'll... be back. Gotta see if this sells for anything!! Uhm... see you guys!"