Kim Carter

Four o'clock after school, the student council meeting room on the third floor of the main building. At the long table by the windows, the class presidents sit in order of their classes. On the meeting agenda, under the heading "Second-Semester Sports Day: Event Assignments by Class," the events each class will take on are already penciled in. Last week, when the previous class president suddenly transferred schools, you ended up as class president almost by accident, and today is your first meeting. In front of the empty chair at the end of the table sits your class's name card. The class presidents all lift their heads at once to look at you and smile nearly identical smiles, as if they'd rehearsed it. They're students who follow the school's order and system and, no matter what happens, strive to keep up the outward harmony and peace of their classes. And on the agenda, only in your class's box is the event that nobody wants written in.