Prologue
I guess there's a fine line between knowing someone, and actually knowing someone.
There's the kind of knowing someone with people like movie stars and famous actors where, when you see them in magazines or on TV, you say 'hey, I know them!' Yet you don't actually know them, you're just some crazed fan or borderline stalker who knows every intricate detail of their life. Do you actually know them? I would say not because, well, to them your like the hundreds of others out there.
Then there's another kind of knowing someone a little closer to home. Take school, for example, where you see someone in the hall. You might look at them and think to yourself 'hey, I know them. We went to preschool together and shared our snacks with one another.' Though you don't know it, they're probably thinking the same thing; but for some reason, neither one of you actually says anything or acknowledges the other. Kind of strange but it does happen. For some reason, the two of you have drifted apart and never will speak to each other again.
The next knowing someone would be the platonic semi-friendship knowing where they're considered your friends. You have a class with them so you sit and talk to them but you might not even hang out outside of class, school or anything. They're just the physical education student you cling to so you're not alone running the mile. Sometimes these 'friends' will break from the status and you might actually do things together. You might have sleepovers, or go to the movies, or just talk for hours about nothing important. Either way, you know them.
The last knowing someone is one often confused with that third one. That's the knowing someone where they really are your friends or shoved into the best friend category. You can tell them anything, even your darkest secrets. You change your schedule at school in hopes to be in at least half your classes with them, even if it means taking something you hate but they don't. You hang out all the time and if you're not together you're on the phone with them or texting them about nothing important. Kind of a healthy obsession, if there was such a thing.
Alright, so why did I go and list all this pointless information about knowing people? I guess it's because it is important to know who your friends are and where your loyalties stand strong. It's a three musketeers guide to everything in life and I've just handed it to you on a silver platter.
Okay, so not quite.
I've just given you the introduction to my life. Or more specifically, the last couple weeks of my non-existent life. Following me so far? Probably not, so let me add more detail.
Subject one: Yuki Nagato.
A quiet girl with not much of a social life. She spends long hours reading and playing computer games. She can type about five hundred words per second, with little exaggeration mind you, and can read the dictionary forwards and back and recite anything you want to know in a matter of minutes. Alright, so I'm making a normal girl sound way too un-normal right? That's because she's not a normal girl at all. She's actually an alien interface sent here on a mission. Sounds unbelievable, I would know, but she's just the beginning.
Subject two: Mikuru Asahina
Another girl I'm associated with. Miss Asahina is very shy and quiet (thought not as much as Nagato). She's usually wearing some kind of maid outfit or bunny girl costume that was forced upon her. Her talents include making tea, advertising, acting on the side and, did I forget to mention(?), time traveling. That's right. Miss Asahina is a time traveler. Don't let her unusually large breasts fool you, though at first glance you might get side tracked, she is really a human from the future. She too was sent here on a mission. Want to know what the mission is and what is has to do with Nagato? Well, let me finish introducing our last subject…
Subject three: Itsuki Koizumi
The only male I'm forced to deal with on a daily basis. He's usually quiet also, keeping to himself though don't be surprised when he opens his mouth. He's highly intelligent and good at playing cards, othello, rummy, and go fish. He's popular with the ladies and fairly good with acting in plays, though his monologues will confuse the hell out of you. He's often times wearing a smug smile because he thinks he's better at everything even though he's not. I'll just cut to the chase. He's an esper. A kind of psychic super being with powers unlike any other. Forget the cheap movies, this guy has powers that could blow George Lucas out of the water. Him and a few others just realized they had these amazing powers, only three years ago. What are they used for? For their mission, of course.
Now you know the three super human characters of the story. What do they have in common? They're all on the same mission with few differences. They were all sent from another time zone, aliens and such to monitor one human. Each one of them and their organizations have theories on this said human being, titling them as 'god' of the world. With the ability to destroy it when they please, change it, alter it, anything.
Do I believe in this sort of thing?
No.
Though the three of them have shown me their power, in incredible ways, I can't say I believe their purpose in life is to watch over this so-called god-like creature. Sure, strange things do happen in my life that make me wonder from time to time, but it's all just coincidence.
Right?
Okay, so now you're wondering about their mission subject aren't you? Let me just say this:
IT'S NOT ME!!
I'm just a normal high school student trying to get through life without being killed by aliens, desert crickets the size of skyscrapers and huge mass entities from another dimension.
So who is our 'god'?
Subject four: Haruhi Suzumiya
Though at first glance, you wouldn't call Haruhi Suzumiya 'normal', she isn't like the rest. She's a beautiful girl, my age, with piercing brown eyes. She's bossy, doesn't care what others think and out to solve the mysteries of the universe. Does this make her a god? No, I don't think so. Too bad the others do, and they're determined to anything in their freakish power to keep her entertained and happy.
That, or, the world may not exist anymore.
How did I get wrapped into this whole thing (me, being a normal boy and all?).
It started the first week of school, when I said a simple hello to Miss Haruhi Suzumiya. Okay, so not those words exactly, but pretty much. Apparently, the second I spoke to her, I triggered something deep down inside the entire universe. Haruhi decided to make a club to find mysterious things, and so it happened. She wanted to find an alien, esper and time traveler. She got it. Everything she wants happens, and I can't accept it's because she's a god but I can accept it's something.
None of that matters though, because that was months ago.
A lot has happened, our team has been through a ton of crap and Haruhi still doesn't know about any of it. I'm sworn to secrecy and they are too. For now, we're just playing along with whatever she has to throw at us. Which can be fun at times, don't get me wrong, but there are times I just wish things were normal…