Entertainment Club

***

"When is he coming?" Kayo asked me.

We were both sitting in the clubroom. Jiro said he had something to do and will come back with his girlfriend. Yes, the club is formed and we still have to meet the 4th member of the club. She, Fujimura Yoko, is apparently a childhood friend and now, girlfriend of Jiro. I can only wonder what the personality of that happy-go-lucky guy's girlfriend is.

"Soon, I guess."

"By the way, what are we going to do for the next video?"

"Part of the purpose of making this club is that so we will discuss this when Jiro and Fujimura-san come back."

"Hmm... I see." Just then the door opened.

"We are here," Jiro said in his cheerful voice.

"Took you long enough."

"Hehe! And here is the 4th and final member of our club." He said as he stepped aside revealing the girl standing behind him.

She had brown hair of medium length and she was pretty beautiful. Worthy of being this guy's girlfriend if I say so.

"I am Fujimura Yoko. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too. Welcome to this club." We both welcomed her in the club.

 "But don't get any wrong idea, I am not here because I want to be friendly with you guys. I am just here because this guy is here."

"Is she the Tsundere type?" I thought to myself. I glanced toward Jiro and he made a shrugging expression.

"Since you guys have finished greeting each other, she will be managing the online accounts of your channel," He said.

"I am sure but I will still ask, you will give her share to her, right?"

"Of course, what do you take me for?"

"A real broad-minded idiot."

"Now what the hell does that even mean?"

"Don't know."

"Seriously!" As I teased Jiro, Kayo laughed.

"If you guys have finished your chit-chat, shall we go to the main topic?" Fujimura made a snarky response.

"Well... You really don't have to be so serious, but coming back to the topic. What should we do for the new video?"

"How about a Q&A video? I noticed you guys haven't done one of that yet. Since you guys reached 10k subscribers a few days ago, this is a good time to make that video." This idea came from Jiro and frankly, it was a really good one.

"Yeah, I guess it is time for such a video."

"Umm... What is a Q&A video?" This question came from Kayo as oblivious to the social media stuff as ever.

"Wait you don't know what Q&A is?" Both of them were puzzled by her question.

"She is not really the brightest when it comes to this stuff," I explained.

"Hehe!" Kayo added her own sound effect.

"Seriously though how can you not know such basic stuff?" Fujimura said, surprisingly with a small chuckle. Wasn't she supposed to be playing the strict boss-type character?

"A Q&A video is a video in which we answer the questions asked by our subscribers about ourselves." I offered her an explanation.

"I see." I would like to think she got the main gist of it.

After that, Jiro and I made a post to make the subscribers drop their questions and I told him some basic stuff about my channel analytics. When we were done I found both Kayo and Fujimura having a really good talk with each other.

"So much for not planning to be friends," I said in a low voice with a chuckle.

"She is a good girl. Just not really the best at interacting with others."

"Well, that's what Kayo is best at. No wonder they are a perfect fit."

"I guess so."

There was something else I had to ask him but I thought I would ask that later.

***

It was 5:30 PM. Kazuki and Kayo had just left. Two people were still in the clubroom.

"You are the worst."

"Isn't that too harsh?"

"You are just using them, aren't you?"

"That's not a really nice way to put it, is it? Even if I have my motives behind doing this, it doesn't mean I am planning to slack off. I am definitely planning to take this thing seriously."

"And you even dragged me here with you."

"Come on, you won't get anywhere if you keep running away from the past."

"I know, but still... and instead of hiding things from them, why don't you just tell them? It is not like you are doing anything bad. I can't help but feel like we are deceiving them." She was making a hurtful face.

"Hey, you will make me self-conscious about what I am doing now. I will tell them someday but... now is not the time." He said as his voice turned a little low and he cast his eyes down.

"You really don't have to be too stubborn about this. Just don't end up doing something you might regret." With advice born out of pure concern, Fujimura left the club room.

Standing alone in the club room as the sun was about to set he clenched his fist as he muttered the words in a low voice:

"I don't want to be... but I can't-" With that, he regained his composure and left after locking the club room, leaving behind an empty room basking in the sunlight of the setting sun.

***

Next Day, we had enough responses for the Q&A video so we decided to record it. We set up everything in the club room. Jiro was going to ask the questions, as he scrolls through the comments.

"Kayo," I thought I would tell her some things she might not know about.

"Yup?"

"Well... it's just that there might be some unpleasant questions in there too, so you don't have to force yourself to answer every single one of them. You can just say and we can skip it alright?"

"Okay, I understand."

"Very well then, Let's start the recording!" Jiro was unusually hyped.

With this, the first video since the making of the club was about to get recorded.