This little side story will be a short project just for fun. It's a more lukewarm version of one key event that took place after chapter ten of Relationship Problems. Just what would happen if Mike refused to let go off Kyu? Prepare to find out. Also, I thought I would try something different. That said, I will be writing this entire story in first person perspective.

Obviously, I would recommend you read Relationship Problems before you read this, otherwise it will be hard to follow.

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Social Problems – Part I

This can't be happening. I hope she's just screwing around with me, because I don't know what I'm going to do without Kyu here to guide me. It's taken me so long to realize just how important she is to me. All she leaves me is a letter without even taking the time to say goodbye. I need to read it again. It could be fairy magic playing tricks on me or some shit. I need to be sure I'm not dreaming. C'mon, you need to keep it together, Mike!

"So, champ… it feels like my work here as your beautiful fairy guardian is just about done. Us magical creatures, we have a feel for these things. I could sense it last night when we were getting freaky! Your heart is almost completely connected with Red. That… and I broke the number one rule. 'Screw around with your clients… but don't be too attached.' After last night, my boss is having me reassigned…. So… I need you to just sign your name at the bottom of this lovely little letter I wrote. As soon as you do that… I'll disappear."

I take a moment to breathe. I'm only just at the halfway point and already this is so difficult to read. Everything I worked so hard to build is at risk of falling apart.

"It's a total bummer, am I right? But look on the bright side. You're so close to winning Mega Bitch over! Just keep on persisting and don't give up on her. Be sincere and show her you're serious! One last thing I need to tell you Mikey…. I never thought I'd ever say this to a human, but…. I kinda fell in love with you a little. Ewwww…. GAG! Commitment…. No, super serious though, I'm gonna miss you… you crazy bastard, love Kyu! PS, you're gonna be one of those clients I never forget."

The weight of the world feels as though it could crush me at any moment. So, that's it? After all this time you're going to walk away from me? So what if you broke the rules, Kyu? Don't you realize how-"

A lump forms in my throat. I feel my airways pulling tight as I struggle to draw breath. Tears began to stream from my eyes. "Don't you realize how important you are to me? Without you I'm useless!"

I scrunch the note in my hands and a tear leaks from my eye. The pain wracks my entire body, and without so much as an ounce of resistance I collapse on my hands and knees. "It doesn't matter if you broke the rules…. Please… I need you!"

I can't pretend to be tough no matter how hard I try with this happening to me. She means too much to me. Still, I can't help feel disgusted at myself for this. Slowly, the sea of emotions raging inside me comes to an uneasy calm. It takes almost everything I've got just to drag myself back onto my bed. I sit on the edge for the longest time, still not quite sure what to do with myself. All this time and I'm still holding the scrunched piece of paper that Kyu gave me to sign.

"Fucking contract," I scoff in bitter frustration and stare at the pink piece of paper as if my life depends on it. All I have to do is sign on the little dotted line, and Kyu Sugardust is gone forever.

I don't want to deal with that reality. No, it hurts me more than anything just forcing myself to think about it. I keep on sitting here as gloomy as a rainy weekend and wonder if I have a choice. Maybe there is one final way I can put this terrible scenario to rest after all. I can't help but think about music at a time like this. It's practically my guiding light whenever I'm struggling to piece things together.

"My violin. Maybe it's for the best I play some music…. It might help me get my thoughts together."

God, I feel like a pitiful individual sitting here and talking to myself like this, but honestly, I don't know what else to do. Finally, I find the energy to get up. Reaching underneath my bed, I feel around for the object in question. It should be around here somewhere.

"There it is." My fingers make contact with the metallic coldness of the protective case in which my instrument lives. With a little heave I pull it out from under the bed and sigh. It's almost as though time itself has stopped right now. I'm trapped in some kind of eternal twilight that I cannot escape.

I flick open the solid locks on the side of the instrument case and gaze thoughtfully at the instrument, "….Maybe it would be eaiser if I just let go. After all… Kyu is… well… she's pretty damn special."

Anger flares up inside me in response to the very thought. For goodness sakes. Why is my head so insistent on going in one direction while my heart wants something different entirely?

A scowl curves my lips. I feel the fury raging inside me like a fire now. The intense flames of this powerful emotion evaporate the waters of my sadness in a cloud of steam. "No… music isn't going to help me this time. She was my guardian angel… and now she's abandoned me."

I shut the metallic instrument case sitting before me, and click the locks tightly back into place. With a gentle shove, I put the violin back under the bed.

"I'll be okay without her…. I was managing just fine before this, and I can do it again now she isn't here…. I don't need a fairy to help me realize the value of my life."

Yet I can't stop thinking about her vibrant pink her and her infectious laughter. She had this way of walking into a room and making me feel happy, no matter how awful my day was.

"Oh… for the love of- Snap out of it Mike! You need to get it together…."

Was she really that special to me, after all? I stand up on my shaky legs and let out an extremely elongated sigh. My eyes cast ahead; I gaze into the kitchen from where I'm stood. Even though it's only a few feet away, it seems like an eternity right now.

"….I'll can cope with this. After all, how hard can it be to piece everything together again? Kyu made everything she did look so easy…."

To jump between uncertainty and anger like this cannot be natural. I feel like I'm a yo-yo on the end of a string. Without so much as thinking I crusade into the kitchen in search of something to calm me down.

"Whiskey…. Good…."

I don't think; I don't employ any kind of restraint. All I want to do at a time like this is bask in the burn of the firewater. It helps me clear my mind of all the excess crap swirling around that I don't need. Yet as I swill my way through half the bottle, I find that this time around the 'healing' effects of liquor just aren't helping.

"Goddammit…. Why can't I stop thinking about her? Just what made her so damn special, anyway?"

It's because I loved her. The stray thought invades my head subconsciously. I have no control over it whatsoever.

"Shut the hell up, Mike…. Now you're just being an idiot."

I need to quell the moronic musings of my heart. With another generous swig of the whiskey bottle, I try to calm myself. Yet in the end, I just find myself feeling so very empty all over again.

I'm filled with fear just thinking about it. I need to get out this apartment before my thoughts get the better of me. I have to go somewhere I'm not thinking about Kyu. I know one place I can finally cool my head a little. So, with an exit plan in mind, I drop the whiskey bottle and make for the door.

"Any place is better than here..."

The edge of town, the one place I can see the whole of Glenberry. I have to stay strong. Well, I can at least try, can't I? The sea of lights I see before me serve as a tiny shred of inspiration for my heavy heart. It fills me with an idea.

"Maybe I should have brought my violin out here after all... Screw it... I don't know."

I look down and scowl with frustration. I can't believe I'm still holding this stupid note Kyu wrote. In a single thoughtless moment I allow my hands to tear the piece of paper in my hands to shreds

I glance at the scraps of pink paper I tossed on the floor. Just the sight of Kyu's destroyed letter makes something twist up inside of me, "….Just what am I going to do with myself now that she's gone?"

For the slightest moment I'm sure I can feel a presence behind me. I don't think I'm alone here. I look back and let out a sigh of relief. "I guess it was just my imagination after all…."

I tried to fool myself into thinking I was making so much progress, but now that Kyu isn't here anymore I see this supposed 'progress' for it really is. All of it was Kyu's hard work. Maybe I just didn't have it in me to make a change after all.

"You're mad at me, I know, but trust me, bro... I never wanted to leave you. I didn't have much of a choice."

For a moment, I jump halfway out of my skin. "Kyu?"

I heard her voice. I'm totally sure I heard her speaking to me just now. Half-frantic and likely still a little drunk, I spin around. My eyes dart frantically in an attempt to find the fairy I'd grown so close to over the last few months. Yet, to my disappointment, I can't see her anywhere no matter how hard I try.

"Okay... Now I'm just losing it. I couldn't sworn I heard- Whatever..."

I look out to the lights of Glenberry and let a hopeless sigh escape from my dry lips. "I guess I'm on my own now. Thanks... Kyu. The least you could have done is say goodbye. After all, I thought we were friends."

My mind flashes back to the night before, and the things we did. They're memories I never want to forget, but it hurts so much just to think about them right now.

Defeated, I look to the sky in reflection, "God... I wish things could've turned out differently..."

To be continued….

Thank you for taking the time to read this first chapter! The second one will be out tomorrow, and will include Nikki! Please leave some feedback if you would like. Your opinions are all welcome. Keep on supporting the official release of Huniepop, everyone!