Chapter 4 - Club Registration

(3rd person narration)

It has already been 2 weeks since Yan attended KIS. According to one of the rules enforced on students, Yan must join at least one club. It might be unpleasing for some students, but not for Yan.
As Yan glance through the club list that was pasted on the notice board, under the 'Sports' column, there was a club that he used to join when he was still in the Silver Peck city: the Taekwando club.
Without much hesitation, he decided to join the club, but before he left, he continued to look at the club list, this time at the 'Arts' column, just to see if there are any clubs that might interest him.
Because Yan loves to enjoy beautiful natural scene, so he was hoping to see any club that is related to mother nature, like gardening club for an instant, but there wasn't any.
He then left the place with a little disappointment, and went to a school building that has a lot of club-rooms, aka "clubs building"

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The clubs building has 4 floors, each floor has plenty of classrooms that served as the 'main office' for all clubs and societies. For some clubs that doesn't need a wide space, like computer club, all club activities and meeting are held in the computer room; For some clubs that needs a wide space, especially sports-related, the classroom serves as a place to held meeting and for the club committees to do their paperwork, while the club activities will be held at outside, some in the sports field, some in the gymnasium.

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3pm, after school, it is the time for club activities to begin.
From the club list on the notice board,  each of the club's location is written there.
'3rd floor, room no.6' is the location for Taekwando club, which Yan had it memorized before he went to the clubs building.
As Yan arrived in front of the club room, there was no one inside.
Instead Yan saw a message written on the white board in front of the room.
'Club activity at every Tuesday and Thursday. Committee members will only presents on these 2 days except for special occurrence.'
"Bad timing....."
Today is Wednesday, therefore there isn't any club activity, nor there will be any committee member in the room, so Yan cannot register.
"Why was there location written in the club list but not the day of their activity...?"
Yan questioned, while staring at the words on the white board.

Yan felt a little disappointed for the 2nd time today. Though, the negative emotion faded automatically with Yan's "self-calming". It is a kind of self-hypnosis to expel negative emotion that will affect one making a decision, and Yan often apply it to keep him cool-headed.
With a half-hearted mood, Yan walked around the clubs building to check on other club's activity.
He went further upstairs, walked through the corridor slowly while peeking into each club rooms.
There were chemistry club where the members were studying various chemical reactions, engineering club where the members were making some kind of electronic circuits, an empty room with nothing except a few tables and chairs inside, reader's club where inside the room were filled with cupboards of books, almost like a small library.
Room no.5, which located somewhere at the middle of 4th floor, is the Art club.
Yan saw a person standing in front of a paint, that seemed like he was spacing out.
Yan thought there was club activity in this room, but when he took a deeper look, there is no one except that male student in front of the paint.
Being curious of what kind of paint could make that male student spaced out, Yan entered the room and walk towards the paint, and stopped behind that male student.
With a closer look, Yan managed to have a clear view of the paint.
It was a beautiful scenery paint.
One that look like a scene from a relaxing park, where there is a lake at the middle of the park with trees and flowers surrounding it.
With the color of the water and the sky, it seems like the scenery is in day time, not too early, not too late.

"Wow..."
Yan let out a sound of amazement, which surprise the male student.
"Oh how long were you there? Ah... I'm sorry, are you here to join the club?"
That wasn't Yan's initial intention. He just entered the room because he was curious of the paint, and he didn't plan to join the club - is what he wanted to say at first, but as he continued looking at the paint, he felt himself being dragged into the scene and somehow could feel the atmosphere in the paint.
'It is almost like magic' he thought.
"Erm...."
Yan attempted to make a reply, but he could not find any words as he continued to gaze on the paint.
"Oh, are you interested in this paint?"
".... yea...."
"Fascinating wasn't it? It was one of my best paint"
"Oh.... I- What? Your paint?"
"Uhhuh. Oh yea, I'm the art club's president. You can call me Llyr."
"Oh.... I am Wang Xia Yan, you may call me Yan."
"A chinese?"
"Yes."
"Haha, it had been a while since I last came to school due to my health problem, so I haven't seen any Chinese in a while as well. By the way, I'm a Welsh."
"I see..."
'KIS sure has a lot of students from various nation', Yan thought.
"So you were the author of this paint? You sure are skilled"
"Haha, not to brag about, but I do think I am a genius. Haha. Though, I don't get the chance to draw that much"
"Because of your health problem?"
"Yea, as I mentioned. It is some kind of disease that will shows symptoms like anemia, though my parents said it is not the typical anemia. Well, to put it simple, if I raise my hand at the mid-air for a long time for drawing, then I will feel lightheaded and might easily faint. The only moment I can finished a painting before I faint is when a gush of blood rushing to my head and my creativity raised to the max. Like how an author suddenly got a lot of idea coming to his head, but in my case it gets more extreme, to the extend that my face will become deep red. Then after I finished painting, I will faint for days."
"ah...ha..ha..... I see..."
"But of all my work, this one is very special. The night before I drew this, I had a weird dream, where I was floating on the air, then swam around like the air was underwater. This is the only one where I had a weird dream like that before I drew."
".......oh...."
Yan was somewhat dumbfounded by Llyr's words, and remained speechless for a few minutes.

Being fascinated by the paint, Yan suddenly had an urge to draw a beautiful natural scene. So he thought that he might as well join this club and learn to draw.
"Thanks for giving me the chance to look at this magnificent paint, it made me wanted to paint as well."
After a short stop, Yan continued.
"I had decided, I will join this club."
"You are more than welcome. Wait, let me look for the registration form."
Llyr went around searching through his bag, the drawer, the cupboard, and almost everywhere in the room.
"Haha.... I'm sorry, because I couldn't do much of the committee's work, so I'm not sure where is the registration form. Could you please wait a bit? I will request for more registration form from the school's staff office."
"Ok..."
Then Llyr left the club room, leaving Yan alone.
Yan walked around the room, looking at various painting while searching for something to do.
While he was in deep thought, someone knocked the back door and surprised him a little.

"Excuse me, I would like to join the Art Club."
It was a girl younger than Yan. From her uniform, Yan could tell she is from KIS's middle school, and probably at the age of 13 or 14.
The girl has a black long hair, fair skin that is white enough to compete with Snow White, and she gave off an elegant presence.
'Some rich man's daughter', was what Yan concluded.
"Sorry I'm not a committee, nor a club member. I was happened to be here while attracted by the paintings so....."
Before Yan could continued, the girl interrupted him.
"I am very sorry. I made a terrible mistake to think you were one of the committee. Please forgive me."
The girl  bow down and apologized, making Yan felt bad instead.
"No, you don't have to worry so much. I had met with the club president earlier and he is on his way bringing us the registration form as we speak. So why not you come in and wait."
"I will gladly accept your offer then."
The girl walked in slowly and steadily. In closer look, Yan noticed the girl is actually quite tall despite her baby face.
He watches the girl sit down on a chair with elegant movement.
'Uuuwaa.... I had only seen such movement when I was in a banquet with my brother', Yan thought.

Both Yan and the girl stay in the room waiting. But the young lady made Yan feel very awkward.
The two of them stay silent all way while waiting, until Llyr is back to the club room.
"I'm back~ eh? There is a new guest. Your friend?"
"No..... she came here to sign up for the club."
"Are you the club president?"
"Ah yes. Call me Llyr."
"Nice to meet you Llyr, I am pleased to make your acquaintance."
The girl bow again when she was greeting Llyr, even Llyr felt a little surprise with her act.
"My name is Wang Qiu Yin"
'A chinese? I thought she would be a Japanese with all her bowing.' Yan thought.
"Oh, a Chinese? Haha, didn't she had the same surname as yours, Yan?"
"Ah.... really, now that you mentioned.... but well, the surname Wang is not that uncommon so there isn't any big deal at all."
"Really? I see. But man, I was sure you were a Japanese when I first came in."
"You were not wrong. I am a mixed, with my father being a Chinese and my mother being a Japanese. My Japanese name is Akiko."
"Akiko huh? Okok, I will remember that."
'First, there were some British and American, then a Welsh and now a half-Japanese? As expected of KIS. No, perhaps the whole Kammzet city is like this.' Yan thought.
Though there was similar things like this back when he was in his primary school, but because he had attended the middle school in Silver Peck which its majority are consist of Chinese and Malays, so he is still not used to meet so many different nationality after coming back to Kammzet.
He thought, if Yu Zhe knows about this then he will be laughing at Yan for getting surprised at every single little thing in KIS.
Aside from the speed of the school building's constructions, a teacher like Ms. Aubrac and a school with so many different nationality are not common. At least that was how it is when Yan was still living in Silver Peck.
It looks like the 4 and a half years staying in Silver Peck had make Yan forgotten a lot about Kammzet city.
Maybe he is trying to get rid of a past that he could never get back, so he subconsciously erased his own memory in Kammzet.

After Llyr handed over the registration form to Yan and Akiko, both of they take a seat respectively and completed the form, then handed over to Llyr.
"Alright, I had received your registration, both of you can start attending the club activity next week. Welcome to the Art club."
"Thank you very much."
Akiko bow a little as she gave thanks, while Yan just simply nodded.
Because the club activities are every Monday and Tuesday, which had already passed, so they could only attend the club activity starting at next week
After saying goodbyes, Yan and Akiko left the club room separately.
Since Yan didn't manage to join the Taekwando club as he initially intended to, so he decided to come to the clubs building again tomorrow.


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The next day. Thursday, 3.05pm.
After he bought a can of isotonic drink, Yan went to the 3rd floor of clubs building.
While walking up at the stairway, a sudden wind blew.
He blocked the wind from entering his eyes with his left hand, and when he lift his hand off, he saw a girl at the upper staircase. The girl wears the middle school's uniform and has black middle length hair with a side pony tail.
Yan noticed she was actually glaring at him.
"D-did you see it?"
"Hm? What?"
Yan didn't notice the girl was covering her skirt, so he didn't know why she asked like that.
"Don't play dumb! You saw it don't you!"
"Huh? Saw what? What are you talking about?"
"You just saw my underwear don't you!!!"
Yan was stunned for a few seconds, then he facepalmed himself.
"You know, no girls will shout about underwear like that. And I didn't see anything, I don't even realize you were there earlier."
"Don't lie! You were closing your eyes earlier don't you? Wasn't that proof that you had mistakenly saw it and quickly cover your eyes?"
Yan was dumbfounded..... though, his expression didn't change much.
"No, that wind earlier was quite strong so I blocked the wind from entering my eyes, as strong wind like that could hurt my eyes."
"What kind of stupid excuse is that! Like I would believe you!"
Yan was kind of fed up with the girl, he just wanted to get it over and finished his club registration.
"Ah yea right, whatever you say."
"Do you still call yourself a man?! Apologize!"
"Fine fine, my bad my bad."
"There's no sincerity in your words at all!"
Yan completely gave up and ignore her.
"Hey, listen to what other said."
Ignoring her, he continued ascend to the 3rd floor.
While He was walking to room no.6, he noticed the girl was behind her.
"Why are you following me"
That is what the girl said, even though she's the one at the behind.
Yan didn't really gave any response, and continued his way to the club room.
"Hey! Do. Not. Ignore. Me!!"
*strike*
The girl launched a kick on Yan's waist from the right.
*block*
With Yan's fighting instinct he managed to block her attack.
"What the hell are y-"
Before Yan could finish, the girl sent another attack towards his stomach, this time with a fist.
Of course, Yan manage to push her fist away as well, it is nothing hard for him with his experience fighting with delinquents.
As he pushes her fist away, she charges in and attempt another punch at his face, but she failed again.
Though she failed to land the last punch, but she didn't back off a lot, and still continue to charge in and gets very close to Yan.
Both of them get so close to each other, that it will be hard for amateur to launch any attack.
As Yan expect her to bump at him, she surprised him with a swift knee attack, towards his crotch.
Yan tried to move backward as fast as he could, then place both of his hand downwards attempting to block her knee attack.
luckily, He succeed.
It was truly a dangerous move, just a split second delay and Yan will get a taste of the worst pain of all time.
Though he didn't want to, he had no choice but to attack the girl in order to make her stop.
So after blocking her knee attack, Yan waved his leg downwards and tried to kick her leg to make her lost balance.
His attack landed.
As he expects the girl to fall down, the girl quickly grab his shirt after a short waver, gave a headbutt on his head .
Yan was too confident in his fighting ability, so he dropped his guard because his opponent was a girl.
The girl's headbutt hit his head, and Yan fell back a few steps.
The headbutt was powerful. Even Yan managed to make an emergency fall back that split second, he still suffered quite a pain. But compare with all the pain he had when he fought delinquents, it is still much lighter. But for a girl to cause this much pain, his pride was slightly hurt.

"HEY!!"
A sudden shout made both of them stopped their movement completely. It was a tall guy standing nearby room no.6 that shouted at them.
"What are the 2 of you doing?? Fighting at the corridor? Are you idiots??"
The 2 of them froze, while looking at the guy.
The guy looked young just like other teenagers, but he has a heavy voice like a teacher, or perhaps like a master of martial art, that his voice alone washed off the hostility both Yan and the girl possessed earlier.
"Erm... sorry for the fuss, but we weren't fighting."
The girl talked in a polite way, at least more polite than she was when talking with Yan.
"that is too obvious as a lie."
The girl didn't make any comeback, and just look down on the floor like a kid being scold by parents.
"I apologize for the trouble we caused. I'm sorry if I'm mistaken, but I saw you walk out from room no.6 earlier, are you a member of Taekwando club?"
"Yes I am. I am the club president, the name is Johann."
The girl looked shocked when she heard that, so was Yan though his expression didn't change much as well.
"I'm ashamed to show you such childish side of mine. If you don't mind, I would like to join the club."
"Huh? Joining the club? hmph, not like I will stop you, but once you joined the club, expect to receive strict training from me. It is part of the club president's job to ensure his club member builds a good personality with the way of Taekwan."
"Ok. Fine with me."
"Well, come in to the club room then."
After saying so, Johann turned around and starting to walk back to room no.6
As Yan started to follow him, he noticed the girl followed them as well.
He wanted to say something to her, but he decided not to in the end, because his hunch tells him that whatever he said next will surely make the girl angry again, if not attacking him.

As they entered the club room, Johann had them wait a bit while he was going to get the registration form.
But there was only a chair in the room to sit while waiting. Once realized that, Yan quickly took the chair and try to sit on it.
As he rushed forward to grab the chair, the girl also did the same,  then both of them struggle to snatch away the chair.
"Ugh.... not again."
After Johann got his hand of the registration forms, he 'facepalmed' when he saw them fighting for a single chair.
Right after Johann sigh, Yan let go of the chair and grab the form then quickly went to the only table in room to support him in filling the forms.
The girl fell back a few steps, almost falling down after Yan let go off the chair. After she get back to her balance, she realized that was the only table in the room.
She gets angry, but there isn't nothing she could do since the club president, Johann is watching.
She then use the chair as a support in filling the form, and gave the form to Johann after finished filling all the needed details.
both Yan and the girl sneered at each other as they happened to pass up the form to Johann together.
"Stop it."
Johann said, then sigh again.
"Alright, I had received your forms. Wang Xia Yan and Minnie Chen, both of you are officially a member of KIS's Taekwando club. Behave yourself or you will feel my wrath."
"Ok."  "Yes!!"
Both Yan and Minnie said almost at the same time.
This time, only Minnie sneered at him.
Then, both of them left the club room separately and went back home.