Chapter 6: My Idea.

The Cafeteria is empty after classes, it seems that we are the only ones here.

All of our classmates probably went to their rooms to discuss the details.

I look at everyone with a gloomy expression.

What am I doing in the cafeteria with these four classmates?

Basically Roxy dragged us all here because she wants to hear what everyone wants to do on the festival, to choose the best one out of all the ideas.

"Maybe you'll go first, Mirabelle?"

Roxy says, her voice seems kind, that's the point, she seems kind.

"Uhm..."

"I haven't really got any ideas."

"After all we found out about the festival today, right?"

"But if I were to pick atleast one word describing it..."

"I would love it to be something rather cute."

I see Roxy frowning for couple of seconds, but she then seems to be calm and kind again.

"Elisabette?"

Elisabette looks at her with a nervous smile.

"Oh! Oh!"

"Maybe we will sell candy, cakes and other sweets?"

"I'm sure it'll bring a lot of visitors!"

Roxy nods and looks over at Cylix.

"Cylix?"

He smiles at her.

"I would like to do something that needs the use of mana."

"Maybe..."

"Uhh I don't know..."

"Oh! Fireworks! Something like that!"

"Something that's satisfying to see."

Roxy stays silent for a moment.

"So Cylix wants Visual effects..."

"Mirabelle isn't sure yet..."

"Elisabette wants to sell sweets..."

"Hmm..."

"I myself would love to dance."

"We all have different ideas... but there's no point in combining them, because it'll be chaotic."

Roxy closes her eyes and sighs, while pinching the bridge of her nose.

I finally realize it, they're treating me like air!

Treating someone like that just because they're weaker is not fair.

"Hey Roxy."

"I'm also here..."

I mumble with my gloomy voice.

Their heads turn over at me with looks of confusion on their faces.

Roxy frowns, Cylix tries not to laugh, Elisabette giggles ans Mirabelle has an uncomfortable smile on her face.

"For you, Niente."

"Its not Roxy..."

"...but Mrs. Roxy."

She says in a cold tone.

"Huh?!"

"Hey!"

"I'm also a part of this group!"

I say with an expressions that seems to be a mix of sadness and gloominess.

"So what do you have in mind Niente?"

Elisabeth says with a forced kind voice and a nervous smile on her face.

A look of wonder appears on my face and I zone out for a moment.

"What do I have in mind?"

"Dancing... Cute... Visuals... Sweets..."

"It just needs to attract attention of students..."

"There are certainly more guys than girls in this academy..."

"What do guys love the most..."

"They love girls of course, cute girls..."

"But they would get bored too easily..."

"It needs to be something never seen here before..."

Suddenly a memory I don't recognize appears before my eyes.

I see a woman, I can't make out anything from her face, because it is blurred by a black mist.

In the memory there is a child sitting on the woman's lap.

"Mom..."

"Why is it so boring in here?"

"I don't believe someone as old as you is not bored to death at this point!"

The woman playfully ruffles his head and speaks in a pouty tone.

"Hey!"

"I'm not that old, you little spoiled kid!"

"Oh!"

"You made me remember something funny!"

The boy looks up at the woman with a curious expression.

"What is it mom?"

She gently caresses his hair and brushes it with a hairbrush.

"I've already told you some stories about your uncle haven't I?"

The boy nods.

"So one day when I was a young, and of course beautiful girl, he took me to an amusement park!"

"Amusement Park? What is it?"

The boy asked curiously.

"Amusement Park is a place where you can go try various amount of attractions, like rollercoasters for example."

"Rollercoasters? What are those?"

"Rollercoaster is a very funny thing!"

"You get into a wagon and it slowly speeds up!"

"You ride in the wagon in different ways!"

"Upside down, to the left, to the right and many many more ways!"

"Ooh!"

The boy gasps in amazement.

"But anyways!"

"After having fun on the rollercoasters, we ended up in a maid caffe."

"Maid Caffè? What is it?"

"Maid Caffè is a place where maids are serving their clients, entertaining them and conversating with them."

"Of course there are also butlers here!"

"In my opinion, Maid Caffe is one of the best places I visited in my life!"

"I remember how funny it was when my brother was blushing, because a maid asked him to sing with her haha!"

"We also ate some cake there!"

"But the end was the best!"

"The maids and butlers started to dance on the stage that was hidden behind the courtains!"

A tear drops from the womans chin, a tear of nostalgia and happiness.

"Ahh good old times..."

The memory then shattered and I got sucked back into reality.

I feel Lilith's fingers interwining with mine.

Elisabetta is still looking at me.

I blink a couple of times.

"Uhh..."

"I actually have an idea."

Elisabette stares at me with surprise, just like everyone else.

They probably thought that I will just back down.

"We can make a Maid Caffè..."

Roxy frowns and speaks with a stern voice.

"Maid Caffè? What is that?"

"Yeah, care to explain, Niente?"

Cylix adds.

I quickly explain what I think a Maid Caffè should be.

I myself don't understand it pretty well, but I try my best.

I haven't even realized how my gloomy attitude just dissapeared and I speak with joy again.

I hear a "tsk" coming from Lilith, but I ignore it.

After a couple minutes of explain what a Maid Caffè is, they all look at my with uncertain expressions.

"This is a mix of our ideas, but I don't think it'll work out..."

Roxy says with a tone a little softer than earlier.

"Yeah, she's right."

Mirabelle adds.

"I don't mean that it's a bad idea, I mean that it would be hard to do."

Roxy corrects her previous statement.

"Maybe each of us should do a different part of the Maid Caffè?"

Cylix says with an unsure voice.

"I can do the visuals..."

He adds.

Elisabetta claps her hands and smiles.

"I can take care of the sweets!"

Mirabelle speaks up with a determined voice.

"Then I will sew the maid's outfits!"

Roxy smiles, everything is starting to work out.

"Then I'll take care of the place where we will arrange it!"

They all look at me with smiles of anticipation on their faces.

"Then I will take care of recruiting students from higher grades into our class!"

"I already have an idea on how to do it..."

I say the second part to myself while smiling at Roxy in a dark, mischevious and gloomy way.

Roxy flinched a littlebit and I hear her mutter "gross".

She then smiles nervously.

"So let's do it everyone!"

"Let's win this dumb festival and get the damn reward for ourselves!"

I nod while everyone else screams "Yeah!".