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The sky is crystal clear, perfect for a camping trip, which is exactly what the girls have been waiting for.

After school, Monika sits near her car in the near parking lot where they had planned to meet after school. She sits there, waiting for the others to arrive at any moment. She soon looks up to see Sayori hopping towards her from a distance in her usual bubbly form.

"Hi Sayori!" Monika gets up and waves.

Sayori lets out a squeal before hugging Monika and jumping up and down. "I'm so excited!" She says with a smile, about ten times bigger than her usual one.

"I can tell!" Monika gives a slight giggle before she sees Natsuki and Yuri walking together from afar.

"Yay! The time is almost here!" Sayori says, starting to get more jumpy.

"Hello." Yuri greets Sayori and Monika with a warm smile.

"You guys got here faster than I expected." Monika said.

"I call shotgun!" Sayori yells while running towards the passenger seat.

"Hey no not fair!" Natsuki chases her but is too late as Sayori is already sitting in the passenger seat.

Monika and Yuri proceed into the car, along side Natsuki, who reluctantly gets in the back seat aside Yuri.

"Move your arm..." Natsuki mumbles.

Yuri ignores her and digs out a book from her bag.

"All of our stuff is in the trunk right?" Monika asks outloud

"Ugh hold on." Natsuki takes off her seatbelt and peeks behind her seat and into the trunk to see a bunch of pink, black and red bags. "Yeah, these should be ours!" She says while struggling back into her seat.

Sayori lets out an "Eek!" in excitement. "Go team SYMN!"

Monika chuckles while shaking her head.

"You would make your name first Sayori." Natsuki says. "Why is my name last?"

"Because I thought of it!"

"How about some music?" Monika says, quickly trying to change the subject.

"Uuu, what type of music?" Sayori starts digging through Monika's phone searching for a song.

"Hey-"

"What's this?" Sayori comes across a folder called "My friend's favorites".

"Oh it's uhh... An idea I came up with, but i never really asked you guys..." Monika explains.

"Huh? There's one song in here."

"Yeah, it's where i got the idea, remember when Yuri was humming a song in the clubroom?"

Yuri looks up from her book and blushes in embarrasment. "I'm- I'm really sorry about that..."

Sayori giggles. "It's okay! You sounded good! Better than me!"

"It was pretty funny too" Natsuki giggles.

"God, why did I do that..." Yuri buries her face into her book.

Natsuki slowly and awkwardly pats Yuri. "There there..."

"I was gonna ask you guys what songs are your favorites but... Real life stuff got in the way." Monika explains, her usual smile fading away.

"You okay?" Sayori asks concerned.

"Yeah!" Her smile reappearing. "I mean, it's kinda what gave me the idea to start this whole trip thing. So in a way, it was good for me!"

Even for her enthusiasm, things still got awkwardly quiet in the car.

Sayori suddenly turns around towards Natsuki. "Are there any snacks back there?" She gives an innocent smile.

"Sayori we just started driving..." Natsuki says while trying to hide a bag with snacks in it.

"Please? Only one, I promise!"

"Let her have one, but only one. We don't want to eat it all in one day, let alone the road trip." Monika explains.

Sayori nods with a smile and Natsuki rolls her eyes.

"Here." She tosses Sayori a chocolate bar of some sort. Sayori carelessly rips open the wrapper and stuffs the chocolate all in her mouth at once without hesitation.

Natsuki looks away quickly, clearly disgusted. "That was actually gross."

"But it tasted shoo goood." Sayori says, with her mouth still full of chocolate.

Yuri looks up from her book again. "How long is the drive again?"

"I dunno, an hour? Sayori can you check? It should be on my phone." Monika asks. Sayori reaches for the phone but Monika quickly realizes that her hands are most likely still covered in chocolate. "Nevermind, here." She quickly grabs the phone before Sayori can and tosses it to the back seat, which lands on Yuri's lap.

Yuri searches through the phone. "47 minutes..."

"Better get comfortable." Monika smirks.

Natsuki sighs. "I should've brought my manga."

"It's in the pink bag." Yuri mumbles.

"Huh? Really?" Natsuki checks the bag, and sure enough all her manga are stacked neatly in it. "How'd you know Yuri?"

"Huh? Oh I... Hope you don't mind but I noticed you left it and Monika gave me permission to grab it... For you... Sorry..."

"Pshh don't worry that might be the least uncool thing you've ever done for me!"

"Uhh... Thanks?" Yuri looks confused at the strange compliment, if you can even call it that.

While driving, Monika could swear she could feel someone's eyes on her. She wanted to take a glance around the car but doing that would mean taking her eyes off the road, and she really didn't feel like killing herself and her friends just for a weird feeling. But it was still driving her crazy.

"Anyone wanna play a game?" Monika spats out. Which somehow made the eyes feel like they dissapeared.

"A game?" Yuri's eyes drifts from her book.

Sayori gasp. "What kind of game?"

Rapid thoughts went through Monika's head. She hadn't really thought about it, she didn't even know why she had said it. "Uhh... Forget about it..." She felt a little awkward about it.

Natsuki rolls her eyes in frustration. She had been caught out of her book by Monika's strange act. Who just soon shrugged it off as one of those random things.

"Erm... Sorry guys, I felt like someone was staring at me and it sorta just came out as a distraction..." Monika explains, only getting more embarrased.

"Oh, that's because you have a Cheeto in your hair, and I waa wondering if I could eat it?" Sayori explains, casually.

"Im gonna take that as a yes." She takes the Cheeto from Monika's hair and eats it without hesitation. "Hmmm!"

"Did that just happen?" Monika thinks to herself.

"Why did I watch her eat that?" Natsuki says, trying not to throw up.

Yuri would find herself glancing at the other girls from time to time, she made herself out to enjoy this trip, but anxiety was killing her. She didn't want to fail or get hurt, especially in front of the others. Many thoughts of how it could happen ran through her brain, the worse thoughts were things that could happen to her friends. Her expression must've been showing because she was suddenly awoken by a voice.

"You okay there Yuri?" Sayori had asked.

How much had she been showing to the point where someone she was behind could tell something was wrong? Instead of bringing the mood down, she decided to hide her worries. "Uhh... Yes... Sorry, I kinda spaced out."

"Hmmm... I'm just gonna..." Sayori slowly reaches for the bag with the snacks in it. That explains why she was looking back at them in the first place.

"Sayori is your seatbelt on?" Monika's voice sets Sayori back.

She desperately fumbles to put the seatbelt back on. "It is now!" She gives an awkward laugh while quizically glancing at Monika, who just smiles back to her in return.

Yuri glances over at Natsuki to see what she's reading. It seems to be the same book she always reads.

Yuri is somewhat curious. "Uhm..." She nervously taps on Natsuki's shoulder.

Natsuki's head pokes up from her book. "What?"

Although cute, Yuri knows how harsh Natsuki can be, which makes her a little nervous. More than usual. "Uhm... If you don't mind me asking..."

"What is it?" Natsuki responds, seemingly getting impatient.

"Why do you... Well... I've noticed you read that book a lot..."

"So?"

Yuri gulps, she can tell she's making her mad. "I... You seem to read it a lot and I'm just curious to know why..."

Natsuki gives a puzzled expression. "Do you actually care or is this some sort of trap?"

"I-"

"She just wants to know why you love the book more than you love us." Monika says, from what seems like out of nowhere, with a smirk.

Natsuki's eyes shoot through Monika's head.

"Whoops!~" Monika says, casually.

"If you weren't driving right now I'd hit you!" Natsuki threatens.

"Why did I bother asking?" Yuri thinks to herself.

"Are we there yet?" Sayori whines.

"Yes, that's why we're still driving." Natsuki says.

"Don't worry Sayori, we're almost there." Monika says.

Sayori crosses her arms and looks out the car window.

Monika thinks to herself. "Hmmm... You guys wanna hear a story?"

Sayori shoots back up. "Uuu, a story!?"

"Mhm."

"Sure." Natsuki says.

"Don't see why not." Yuri mumbles.

"Back when I was ten years old-"

"Woah you were ten?" Sayori asks Monika.

"..." There us a moment of awkward silence.

"We've all been ten years old Sayori..." Natsuki says.

"Aaaanyways" Monika continues. "But yeah, when I was ten, there was this cute guy I liked. Really handsome, and sweet."

"Go on..." Sayori says, intrigued.

Monika chuckles nervously. "Well long story short I kinda... burned his clothes..."

"What and how?" Natsuki says, loudly.

"Jeez Monika!" Sayori practically shouts.

"Quite a turn of events..." Yuri says.

"How did that even happen?" Natsuki asks.

"Well... I kinda got jealous of how close he was getting with another girl... Jealousy sucks." Monika explains.

"Well let's hope it doesn't happen with anyone else." Natsuki says, sarcastically.

"Please Natsuki, I'm sure she's learned from her past mistakes." Yuri says.

"Pff, yeah. I'm not a dumb kid anymore I wouldn't do something like that again." Monika says.

"Hey you weren't dumb!" Sayori says.

"If you say so." Monika says with a slight smile.

"I understand completley." Yuri says. "I got too close to my friend and I'm pretty sure she still hates me to this day..."

"Woah, girls you say?" Natsuki wiggles her eyebrows.

"What, no not like that." Yuri says, nervously. "I... Showed her something and she got scared and we stopped talking after..."

Natsuki rolls her eyes. "If she can't accept your flaws then maybe she wasn't a good friend." Natsuki says.

"I think we all hide our flaws in one way or another." Monika says.

Natsuki and Sayori sit there awkwardly.

"She's right though." Sayori says, in a happy tone.

"Well atleast mine doesn't lead to burning people's clothes." Natsuki turns towards Monika. "Well... Most of the time..."

Natsuki finds herself getting lost in her thoughts. "Getting away from my dad is gonna be nice" She smiles at the thought. "God I hope this trip goes well." She starts arguing with herself in her head. "No, I didn't forget my blanket!" Her thoughts suddenly get interrupted.

"Natsuki?" A soft voice says.

"Huh?" She looks up to see Yuri right in front of her. Which causes her to jump back.

"Sorry... I didn't know if I should wake you or not but you kinda fell asleep on my shoulder so..." Yuri explains.

"Jeez, how did I manage to do that?" Natsuki shivers.

Yuri simply nods and awkwardly returns to her book.

"Her arm was comfty..."

The four girls are almost at their destination, for now they are amazed by the view of the area. Large mountians, huge waterfalls and of course trees in every direction. Sayori once again starts getting jumpy.

"I wouldn't be too excited if i were you..." Monika says with a smirk. "Out here no one can here you scream!"

"That's not funny..." Sayori pouts.

"Oh come on, you know I'm joking Sayori." She nudges her with an elbow. "Plus, as long as I'm here, no animal or creature will hurt you guys."

"R- Really?" Sayori's lights up.

Monika shrugs. "I don't know."

Sayori sinks back into her seat again.

"Pshh, I'm not afraid of any bears." The tiny girl in the back says. "There... There aren't any bears here right..? Right Monika?"

"Don't think so." Monika shrugs again.

Natsuki sighs in relief.

"Yeah no bears, there's most likely wolves though."

Natsuki's stomach sinks.

"Something wrong?" Monika gives her an innocent smile.

"No..." Natsuki nervously looks around the car.

"There there..." Yuri pats Natsuki awkwardly and slowly.