While Josuke was at his club meeting, two of his friends were sitting outside a café nearby St. Gentlemen.

"Man… Hey, Koichi?" Okuyasu mumbled, eating a sandwich he had bought from there.

The boy with the silver hair looked up from his work. He thought that he would take advantage of this moment to finish his assignments for tomorrow.

"Yeah? What is it?"

"Have you noticed anything off about Josuke?"

Koichi blinked and then closed his work book, keeping his pen on the page he was working on so he could go back to it quickly. "Well… not really, other than him joining the Literature Club."

Okuyasu banged his hand on the table. "Exactly! I've known Josuke for a while now and neither of us can stand literature. So why the sudden interest? Stand user."

"W-What?! A Stand user?!" Koichi stammered. "Come on, Okuyasu. You don't really think this could be the work of an enemy Stand, do you?"

"Hey! I know I'm not that smart, but I can tell that something is off about my friend. Why the interest in clubs? And who is this Sayori girl? Why hasn't he even mentioned her before if they are 'childhood friends?' There must be a new Stand user!"

"Okuyasu… We've had a pretty busy summer. I don't think that it would make sense for Josuke to tell about his childhood friend while we were searching for… that guy."

Okuyasu thought back to their summer. He then thought of how dumb and weird it would be if Josuke randomly talked about his childhood friend as he climbed up that guy's pylon.

"… Yeah. Well, we still know nothing about her besides being friends with Josuke. That would be suspicious. Wouldn't it?"

"Hmm. I guess. But that does not necessarily mean that there is a new enemy Stand user. Besides… Hey, is that Rohan?"

Koichi had noticed the manga artist walking by. Rohan was idly looking around when he spotted Koichi sitting down outside the café.

He then walked up to them and said, "Ah! Koichi! How are you?" He then looked over at Okuyasu and nodded. "Okuyasu."

Okuyasu turned back to his sandwich and took another bite. Koichi then thought that Rohan might be able to help them figure out what's up with Josuke.

"Um… Hey, Rohan?"

"Yes?"

"Have you seen Josuke today? He was acting different somehow."

The manga artist began to smile a little. "Different how?"

"Well he has now brought up his 'childhood friend,' Sayori, and he's suddenly taken interest in joining the Literature Club at school."

Rohan blinked and then began to laugh. The two sitting down looked at each other and then back at Rohan.

"The Literature Club?! Oh! That's rich! Hahaha!"

Okuyasu, still facing away, said, "I think it's a Stand user, but I don't think Koichi believes me."

"Okuyasu, that isn't what I-" Koichi began, but was suddenly cut off by Rohan once he regained his composure.

"Oh no, he's right." The two then looked at him. "It was a Stand user: me!"

"WHAT?!" the two yelled in confusion.

"But Rohan… why?" Koichi asked in disbelief.

"You… The Hand!" Okuyasu yelled as his blue and silver Stand appeared behind him.

Rohan quickly held up his hand to surrender while slowly regaining his composure. "Wait wait wait! It was only fair."

"Only fair?! You tricked one of our friends with your Stand!" he yelled as he sent his Stand forward, its right hand beginning to glow.

"OKUYASU! Stop it, please!" Koichi screamed at his friend as he brought out his Stand, Echoes Act 3, to hold back The Hand.

Noticing that they were making quite a scene, Rohan then whispered, "I didn't do anything to harm Josuke. Consider this a mere prank."

"A prank?" Okuyasu asked, retracting his Stand while Koichi did the same.

"Precisely! All I did was make Josuke believe that he was great friends with this random girl. I made her believe the same about him as well. The only thing this might do is get him mixed up in her life. I mean, what's so wrong about making a new friend?"

Okuyasu huff and crossed his arms, "Well, I don't like it. I just wanted to hang out with my friend."

The other two could clearly tell that he was jealous of Josuke spending time with someone he had never met.

Rohan then continued where he had left off. "Besides, what's the worst that could happen?"

"One of them could be a Stand user," Okuyasu muttered under his breath.

Meanwhile, Josuke was working on his poem at home.

"Hmm… next word… uh… ah! Crazy!" He exclaimed. He quickly added the final line to his poem. Great! Now it's done! He decided that he would go hang out with his friends, until he looked out the window. After noticing that it was dark outside, he looked over at his clock.

10:14?! Have I really been working that long?!

Josuke then remembered that the club ended about two hours after school did so he now had even less time at home. Plus it did take him a while to finish up his history paper.

"Oh well… I hope they like the poem at least," he said as he prepared to get ready for bed.

The next day, he opened his door and jumped back in surprise to see Okuyasu standing there with a wide grin on his face. "Come on, Josuke! You don't want to be late for school do you?"

Josuke nervously laughed a bit. "Yeah, l-let's go."

They were walking for a bit before either of them spoke. "Okuyasu," Josuke began. "How come you're ready so early?"

Okuyasu appeared to take offense to that, but they both knew he was only joking. "What are you talking about? I'm always on time."

The two shared a laugh before they heard a female voice coming up behind them. "Josuke…!"

They both turned around to see Sayori running up to them.

She finally caught up to them after they stopped and she looked up at Josuke, out of breath. "How… did… your poem… come along…? Oh…! Who's this?"

"I think it went pretty well, and this is my friend, Okuyasu." said Josuke.

"Hiya!" Sayori said, smiling and waving.

A light blush was dusted across Okuyasu's face. "Uh… hi…"

Man, she's cute.

"Anyway, you both ready for school today?" Josuke asked as he turned around to begin walking to school.

They both turn to walk along with him and say in unison, "Yeah!"

-To Be Continued