Yuu Koito, a loveless first-year high school student, meets student council member Touko Nanami and asks her for advice on how to politely turn down a boy's request for a date; Touko helps Yuu with her situation, but makes a confession of her own.

Touko's longtime friend Sayaka reluctantly helps Yuu take on the responsibility of campaign manager; Yuu still cannot find love within herself despite Touko's affections.

Yuu hangs out with her old middle school friends; as the student council elections draw near, Touko makes a confession about her true nature to Yuu, who offers comfort.

Touko proposes the student council put on a play for the culture festival; a member of the student council catches Touko and Yuu kissing.

Yuu asks Koyomi to look over her novel; Touko goes over to Yuu's house for a study session and wonders about Yuu's true feelings for her.

While the search begins for someone to write the play, Sayaka prods Yuu into digging up information about a previous student council president -- Touko's older sister, who died in the midst of preparing her own play seven years earlier.