<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/cc/Manami.png)<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Tsukishima Manami</strong></span></td><td>They might have been rumors for the rest of the school, but the members of the student council knew that there was definitely truth to the rumor. She had been waiting all morning for that announcement, and as soon as it did, a tall, pretty girl sitting towards the right of the classroom paused in the middle of her notes. She didn't appear perturbed, even though the rest of her classmates looked over at her in surprise. Well, the rest of the girls would definitely have more reason to be surprised, once they realized that the rumors weren't just whispers to make their day more exciting.<br/><br/><strong>"Fujiwara-sensei, may I please be excused?"</strong> Manami asked politely. The teachers had also been notified of the change; she excused Manami with a brief nod.<br/><br/>Getting out of her seat with smiles and a soft '<em>excuse me</em>' to her fellow classmates, Manami pulled her bag from the hook next to her desk, unwrapping her scarf from around the handle and folding it into her arms. It had been cold, this morning - colder than it had been for the past week. Thankfully, it had not snowed <em>too</em> much - the main entrance was still relatively clear, after some students had shoveled most of yesterday's snowfall away. She wondered, idly, how the school would change, now that it was co-ed and not a girls' school. Manami could still remember a time when she'd attended a co-ed school, so it was nothing new to her, but bringing boys into a previously all-girls' school was just asking for trouble.<br/><br/><em>Still, if the principal was better at managing the budget, we wouldn't be in the situation of needing to change things in the first place...</em> Things were about to get complicated, and she didn't even want to think about the headaches she would be getting in the coming days.<br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>to// MAIN.BLOCK</em> (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=22688.msg901056#msg901056)</span></td></tr></tbody></table>