I really like the interactions people wrote about the characters of Yandere Simulator. Something in me wishes to deliver my own version of Ayano. So I did. I don't write stories very often and I've never written romance before.

I'll try my best!


3.

It was another day of the free period in between class when Osano rejected a popular classmate's invitation to go to an after school party with her.

His classmate walks away with clear rejection written on her face, her group of friends quickly surrounds and cuddles her.

"Najimi-kun is an outcast after all."

"What a brute…don't cry, he's not worth it."

Osano, who continued to sit casually in his corner, couldn't care less about what these people think. Their opinions change like the weather, one moment he'll be the most despicable thing ever existed, and another moment he'll be 'cool' for doing whatever he did. He enjoys what he has now with his close friends, who tolerate and understands him. (He hate to admit Hanako's his precious friend as well.) Plus, he was never good at keeping himself awake when talking to these girls.

After another class, it would be the lunch period. What should I eat? He attempts to distract himself. That and the smooth surface of the desk was the only thing keeping him calm.

"Doesn't he always hang around that lame bookworm? Whats-his-name?"

That's the limit.

He would like to shrug it off like its nothing, but in truth people who talk behind other's back annoys him to no end.

Swatting his orange hair from obstructing his vision, Osano pushed his desk forward, one hand in his pocket, ready to shut these gossiping-

THUD!

The class fell silent.

In the center of attention stood a figure that no one would imagine being there. It was the plain, quiet girl who always sits in the back.

Ayano, was it?

Not a complete outcast but sort of a loner, at the same time nobody recalls her being especially close with anyone either.

She seemed…familiar to Osano.

Her front bangs obscured her expression (another similar gesture), yet there was a sense of menace that put everyone in class on edge. Behind her lies her chair, which was leaning sideways on the ground few feet away from her.

As the center of everyone's attention, she slowly raises her head.

Revealing a look of complete obliviousness.

She turns her head around with a certain daze, as if she's questioning why everyone was staring at her, her half-closed eyelids telling the students around that she just woke up. The signal she sends with her body language made the students of 2-1 feel perhaps they are the strange ones instead.

"When's the next class? I stayed up all night prepping for the quiz today so I didn't sleep well..."

She smiled, like she genuinely causes such a ruckus just to ask about some silly class schedule.

There was another mute period where everyone begins to question themselves.

Ayano Aishi was such a...normal girl, that said, nobody can recall who's her best friend in school, and there's no recollection of her ever raising her voice.

Then again Osano wasn't one to mind much about people's popularity.

The displeasure he feels regarding his classmates mocking his childhood friend was fading away. There was a newfound satisfaction when he saw the blank, confused faces of those who were just making assumptions of him earlier.

Granted this Ayano girl ended this gossip session on accident and not on purpose. Osano still felt gratitude towards her.

Besides, the…aura she exerted when she woke up, it does remind him of someone.

The same feeling that sent shivers up his spine.

Suddenly. he remembers.

She's the girl who bumped into Taro on the first day of school.

4.

'Ayano wasn't so important, it was just a blunder.'

She needs to cement this line of thought in her classmate's minds quickly if she intends to not draw attention to herself.

Ayano surveyed around the classroom, searching for a target to implement the proof of her normalcy on.

Haruki, he's a good choice but he had the tendency to report to the teachers.

Hinata, but she's the social butterfly type so a 'normal' girl wouldn't talk to her.

That leaves Najimi, she only knows him because he's with senpai all the time. Normally, she would have nothing to do with someone who hogs senpai's attention all the time, but the current situation calls for unusual measures.

Mimicking one of the characters from the 15-hour high school drama tv-series she spent the last few days watching, she tilts her head sideways and called out to her target,

"Excuse me, N-Najimi-kun, can you wake me up before the next class starts?"

The nervous stutter was extremely hard to make believable, but she made it by dragging out the diction as she called her classmate's name.

"S-Sure,"

Osano replied, the timidness this girl displayed was weirdly charming to him. To describe this feeling is a hard task, the closest it would be like watching a child trying to speak for the first time. At the same time, the orange headed 'outcast' has no idea why he feels this way. Before he could delve further into his reasoning, someone started snickering.

Osano shot a glare at the laughter's direction instinctively, yet the class could not be stopped.

Koharu Hinata can barely hold her laughter as she points out the comedy of this situation, "Oh dear. Can't believe we actually stopped talking for a whole 5 minutes just to watch some sleepyhead making a mess!"

Another boy quickly chimed in, "Mrs. Fuka would be so proud of us, finally learning to keep quiet in her class."

"She'll be like, 'Oh boy! These rowdy children are finally listening! My holy mission has been fulfilled,'" The class comedian wittily acted out their teacher's antiques in a high pitched voice.

As soon as the joke sink in, the whole class spring into hysterical laughter. While Osano looks back and forth on his classmates' laughing faces confused. The sudden shift in tone caused the class to laugh even more, as if they are trying to forget the abnormal feeling they had earlier.

Ayano sat back to the seat she just picked up, covering her mouth to fake as laughter to fit in.

Suffering through the atrocious plot in that tv show was worth it, after all, cause the atmosphere of the class indicates she succeeded.

This cheap comic relief trick that was overused in the show proved helpful to her.

A part of her wishes for Taro senpai to be with her right now, with him around, she could perhaps feel the same joy her classmate's feeling.

She lays her arm back on the table again, acting like she wishes to sleep again. Inside she berates herself.

Her carelessness almost cost her big. Getting labeled an emotionless freak again would do her no good as senpai would certainly dislike her too. The fear resonates in her chest, fearing that she would go back being an empty shell again.

If that happens, that she ever revert to her empty self, even the fear and dread she feels right now would be gone.

Never, she will not lose senpai.