InsaneJournal

Who: Keiichi and Renju
What: Club business.
Where: Cooking Club room.
When: After a meeting, well after exams.
Why: Because something's nagging at Renju.

Renju was normally one of the first or one of the last out the door after Cooking Club meetings: either she tidied up her own area and hurried off to study or take care of other obligations, or she tidied up her own area and then stayed to help with the rest of the mess before taking her leave. Either way, she'd been to enough meetings that she had it down to a science at this point.

Today, therefore, was a bit unusual. She'd been somewhat distracted throughout the meeting in a way she had only been on a few occasions (her first trip into Paradise, after each visit to those places, after the team split), and each attempt she'd made at her cake batter had failed in a unique and frustrating way (too floury, too eggy, cloyingly sweet, sticking to the bowl...). After the ordeal, she'd lagged somewhat in putting away her things, as though trying to avoid something she would much rather not do but had no choice in the matter about.

It was only after everyone else had left that she finally gave up on it, shouldered the satchel that had spent the meeting sitting by her chair, and approached Keiichi. "Excuse me, Ito-san. If you have a minute, I'd like to talk to you."