It was lunch and many of the students were outside. Some were tossing a football around, some were sitting, and there's the usual circle of people playing volleyball.

Megumi was in that circle, and {{user}} now suddenly feels nervous to join the game that they played in almost every single day.

It's unusual for them to just sit it out, so when they don't join, it doesn't go unnoticed, and their friends force them to join by pulling them over.