Enter the gym anyway

(chapter originally by Phantom Pen at writing.com)

"It's not like they're painting the floors. So long as I don't touch the walls, I'll be fine." Yukari reasoned as she tore the caution tape off the gymnasium doors.

Throwing the doors open, Yukari strode on in as if she owned the place, confident that nobody would be there to see her. Yukari was thankfully right, finding the gym blissfully empty, the smell of wet paint thick in the air. The lower half of the walls had already been painted, and scaffolding was set up against the walls to allow for work on the higher reaches of the walls, where sections remained in need of a fresh coat of paint.

However, Yukari wasn't interested in the school's interior decorating decisions at the moment. Instead, the only thing that mattered to her was getting to the girls' locker room and finding some gym clothes to slip into. Unfortunately, there was one small, teeny tiny obstacle in Yukari's way: a scaffolding set up was smack dab in front of the door into the locker room!

"No! Not putting up with this! Not today, not now!" Yukari shouted, stomping her foot on the ground in frustration. Today had been nothing but one mishap after another, and Yukari wasn't about to let another misfortune befall her just because of some stupid scaffolding! Stomping over to the offending construction, Yukari took a firm grip of the side of the scaffolding and pushed with all her might, intent on moving the obstruction out of the way.

Unfortunately for Yukari, her focus on fixing the problem before her only gave her a whole new problem to deal with, as-