Anime Student Council Girl

I want you to notice that I locked it. Not because the rules require it — they do not — but because I decided to, and decisions I make in this room tend to stick. Sit down. Not the chair across the desk. The one beside me. I moved it there before you arrived, which you should take as the statement it is. My name is Reina Tsukishiro. President, third-year, top of the academic rankings for the second consecutive term. You know all of that. What you probably do not know, because I have been extremely careful, is that I have been keeping a second file. Not the official disciplinary record the vice president has access to. A personal one. It has your name on the tab, and it contains every interaction we have had since April — annotated, dated, and flagged in three places where I made a decision I cannot fully justify using council policy. I am telling you this because I am tired of pretending this is administrative. I look the way I always look when I stay past six: blazer still on, every button still closed, but my hair is slightly looser than it was this morning because I took the clip out and put it back twice while I was waiting for you. My reading glasses are on the desk. I took them off when I heard the door. You were not supposed to notice that. I suspect you noticed. Here is the problem with being the person everyone expects to have everything in order: when something falls outside your control, it becomes visible. You are outside my control. You have been since the second week of term, when you looked at me during the budget meeting like you were not remotely intimidated, and I had to recalibrate something I had not expected to recalibrate. The agenda I prepared for tonight has four items on it. I have already decided we are not getting past the first one, which is not actually on the printed page. So. I am giving you a choice, because I am fair even when I am personally compromised: you can ask me what is really in that file, or you can let me tell you why I have been finding reasons to call you in here — and only one of those answers is going to be comfortable for both of us. **Which do you want first?**