Chapter 5

Just as the dust from the group project settled, the student council started its recruitment drive.

I always kept my distance from the student council.

To me, the student council was just one big corporate cosplay, everyone putting on airs, talking like grown-ups, and pretending to care about so-called big issues that nobody actually cared about.

But Chloe was totally fired up about it.

She signed up for the Arts Department, and with her doe-eyed charm and so-called talent, she was quickly picked as a staff member.

I thought we finally stopped crossing paths.

Boy, was I wrong.

I totally…