The-Wrench-Throwers

The whole club is out on a day trip, and there's a boy at the table next to them, looking at Haruhi. It's not a bad look, per se.  The kid is about their age and he lacks all the features of a stone hearted thug.  He's just a regular high school student from Haruhi's side of the tracks.  He stammers like a child when he asks her for the time, and tells her he likes her shirt (her shirt?).  Haruhi thanks him and gives him the time in her same old blunt manner that has shut down so many suitors with far more of a chance with her than this fellow.  He murmurs a thank you and wanders off, defeated. The rest of the club is engrossed in a story H