"Cool, nice to meet you," he says.  He goes inside and sits down, then glances through the pamphlet.

There are two other kids in there, both obviously subs, a boy and a girl, talking to each other about something. They smile and wave as Lewis walks in but return to their conversation.

The pamphlet has a few sections:

• Introduction
• History
• Statistics
• Gender and role
• Movements
• Meeting times
• References

He skims the first couple sections.

Then he will be Informed about the importance of subs' rights activism, about historical examples of subs who pretended to be doms in order to get taken more seriously, about scandals and how it's terrible that they were scandals and people covering up their roles, about switch erasure and common stereotypes, about famous subs and switches whose role gets downplayed...

Wow, he did not know a lot of this!

"Shit," he says to the nearest not-otherwise-occupied person.  "There is a lot I didn't know about the guy on the ten-dollar bill."

"Hamilton?" asks the sub boy he said this to. "Yeah, a lot of people don't know stuff about him," he explains.

"I'm just saying, if teachers had talked less about the Constitution or whatever and more about Hamilton's weird sex life, I would've probably been more enthusiastic about going to school."

He giggles. "Ah, so you like hearing about historical figures' weird sex life, I see," he says, looking at Lewis through his eyelashes.

Well, if he'd known subs' rights meetings were good places to pick up cute subs, maybe he'd have come to one sooner.

"Yeah, it's more interesting than other parts of historical figures' lives," he says.  "Although Hamilton's not so much my type."

"Oh? And what is?"

"Oh, you know, smart, politically active subs with long, dark hair and pretty eyes," he says.  "D'you know any of those?"

Well now he's blushing.

"Oh, I also like blushing, blushing is very cute.  Can't believe I forgot to mention that."

He starts stammering something but other people start walking into the room and he turns away and tries to pretend he's not blushing.

It doesn't really work.

Lewis is sort of concerned!  He hopes he didn't make this poor sub uncomfortable or anything.

(He's also sort of guilty-proud that he managed to provoke this kind of reaction).

"So, uh, what usually happens at these meetings?"

"U-um," he says, looking at Lewis again. "They usually, um, decide on a discussion topic in advance and we talk about it. Or sometimes we share stories. Or organize events."

"Cool," he says. "So is there a topic for today?"

"It's this semiquarter's first meeting, we usually do the story-sharing thing then."

"Cool, so it won't be hard for me to catch up."

"Yeah."

A few more students start arriving and, after making sure there don't seem to be any latecomers, Allie—the girl who greeted Lewis at the door—walks in and closes it.

Oh hey things are starting!

He wonders if it will be necessary for him to Share A Story. He totally has one--he got mistaken for a sub like immediately after arriving here--but that's sort of embarrassing so he's sort of hoping he can skip that part.

They arrange themselves in a circle and Allie starts, "So, hi, everyone! Since we have new members here, we should do a round of introductions, and tell everyone something about ourselves. My name's Allie, I'm a switch and a psion. When I was a kid I wanted to be a mage, but I love being a psion now that I am one."

"I'm Robbie, I'm a sub and a psion. I've never kissed anyone," says a blushing red-haired freckled sub.

"I'm Leanna, I'm a sub and a mage. I don't actually like dogs or cats, and when I live by myself I'm gonna have a pet rabbit."

("Heathen!" calls a boy who hasn't introduced himself, and a girl punches him lightly, grinning.)

"I'm William, I'm a sub and a mage," says the boy who'd been flirting with Lewis. "I'm allergic to cats and rabbits so I can't live with Leanna."

She flashes him a grin when he says that.

"My name's Lewis, I'm a dom and a mage.  Uh, when I'm done with school I want to do medical mage stuff."

The other kids introduce, too. The boy who called Leanna a heathen is a switch named Michael, and the girl who punched him is a sub called Natalie. In addition to them there's a sub girl called Montana, a switch girl called Kylie, a sub boy called James, and a sub girl called Heather. "So! I wanna know how you all spent your breaks, but before that I think Lewis should tell us more about himself. And I think he deserves a round of applause for being a dom who's willing to come to this meeting, we haven't had one since Aubrey graduated."

The other kids clap.

"Uh.  Thanks," says Lewis.  He looks a little bit pleased with himself.  But only a little bit.