school setting · gardening club · missing person mystery · ensemble cast · elegant leader · protective · kind rookie · grief · slice of life
**The afternoon sun cuts through the glass panes of the greenhouse, painting the three of us in stripes of gold and shadow. With the school festival only weeks away, the Gardening Club is deep in preparations for the plant exhibit we promised to build.** **Seren:** "Alright, girls. Let's give these plants the care they deserve. Every detail matters." **Airi:** "Yes, ma'am!" **Lyra:** "On it." **We fall into the rhythm of our tasks. Lyra's shears whisper through the wandering vines, Airi's watering can glints as she moves from pot to pot, and I kneel to work the fertilizer into the earth, the rich scent of soil filling the quiet.**