After a long but awkward silent walk with Sayori back home, I thought deeply about what she asked me. Sure Sayori has been my best and only friend for forever but Natsuki is just so adorable with her soft, pink hair and eyes that radiated with happiness when we read manga in the literature club earlier. The thought of her warmed me up on the inside like a lit fireplace during the harsh winters. The thoughts were warm and inspiring, the feeling I get when I'm close and hear her heartbeat that skipped and frolicked around. I sit at my desk to start another poem for tomorrow, trying to remember that moment and feeling again and again, never ever going to get old.

DDLC

I walked over to Sayori's house as usual where she coincidently stepped put of her place as soon as I came. We went our normal path to school, we kept awfully quiet for being best friends and barely even looked at each other. We reached school earlier than usual only to see Natsuki crawling around the floor looking for something for sure! I went up to her and greeted her, Natsuki looked my direction and immediately jumped up in surprise back on her two feet. "Gyaah!" she screamed as she got up but quickly got her composition back to normal. "I mean- hey, how are you?" she asked if absolutely nothing had happened just now. "I'm feeling pretty good" 'Now that I get to see you again'. "I'm fine." Sayori responded back to Natsuki in a somewhat bitter tone that was enough to get the attention of Natsuki.

"Are you sure?" Natsuki asked again uncharacteristically only getting a nod in return from Sayori, 'What was going on with her today?' "What were you doing on the ground?" I asked her, catching her off guard.

"I was..." she started to say to my unconvinced face as she looked away from me and crossed her arms together.

"Were you trying to find some coins?" I asked her, she then gulped and crossed her arms while remaining silent.

"Well you could have mine for the day." I placed the coins I had into her open hands as her face suddenly lit up.

"Seriously! I could have these?" she asked just to be sure I wasn't joking or anything like that.

"Yeah, I did pack myself a lunch today." Sure that lunch would be a simple panini but how could you resist that adorable, pouty face she was doing! She then went to the vending machine containing a wider variety of snacks than my entire pantry on a good day. With fast pace she put in a coin and pressed a button resulting in a small bag of powdered doughnuts falling down and being picked up by the petite girl. It didn't take long for Natsuki to attack the doughnuts and stuffing them down her throat as fast as possible, of course not without getting the powdery sugar all over her mouth, hands, cheeks and her hair. 'How do you even manage to do that?'. A strong throw of the bag was the only thing needed to get into the dustbin. She licked her lips and tried to get rid of the sweet powder on her face the same way. I got a wet nap from my bag's front pocket and started to wipe away the powder. However, she snatched the napkin before I could wipe any more off.

"Hey you dummy! I could clean myself!" she said like her usual self before wiping herself off with a pink tint on her face. A few awkward minutes later between Natsuki, Sayori and I, we then entered our classrooms but it seemed like Natsuki was following me.

"Hey shouldn't you get to your class?" I advised her.

"This IS my classroom you idiot." Natsuki told me rudely, like if she forgotten who gave her 200 yen that same day. I ignored her (although feeling quite stupid for not noticing that she was in my class) and the day progressed as normal and time flew like the breeze.

DDLC

I entered the literature club room and threw my bag on the desk and started to continue read book 5 of 'Parfait Girls' as Natsuki let me borrow it and I was really close to finishing it. I read through the pages until the other's came. Well maybe I got a bit too carried away reading, so much so that I didn't even notice that Natsuki took a desk on sat right next to me just like yesterday. We both read the rest of the manga and I went to put the book back in the box it was in. " Well that's pretty rude of you." Said Natsuki snarkily while having a smug smile on her face, catching me by surprise. "Didn't even bother to greet a lady." She continued saying smugly with her hand on her hips. 'Should I play it safe... nah' It didn't take long for me to come up with a comeback. "I didn't know you would want my attention like that." I said back at her with a massive smirk making her face get redder by the moment. "Let's just continue 'Parfait Girls' okay?" she said in defeat and embarrassment, but I couldn't complain, 'Parfait Girls' is getting really interesting and took a more serious tone with the relationships and the fact that one of the character's is being starved by her father. Everyone eventually entered the room with Monika coming last due to piano practice. Once again, Sayori and Monika talked about the club and about some festival to happen on Monday. Yuri was again absorbed into 'The Portrait Of Markov' and stayed as quiet as a mouse. The events of yesterday seemed to repeat itself as Natsuki and I basically cuddled together reading manga, Natsuki occasionally opening up a conversation between us about 'Parfait Girls' or some other obscure manga. Not everything went as smoothly as it could though. Suddenly Natsuki started to go limp, Monika being the perfect person she is went into her bag and pulled out a high calorie, high protein bar I could only imagine body builders and fitness enthusiasts eating and plopped it into the distressed girls mouth. She chewed and swallowed the bar slowly but didn't immediately recover and fainted. 'What on Earth was going on!?'

"Hey Monika. What's wrong?" I questioned Monika to squeeze out some information on what just happened to my best friend.

"Oh this isn't the first time this happened." That comment definitely didn't raise any more questions.

"What just happened to her Monika!?" I demanded aggressively.

"Well... she is probably malnourished." She stated flatly like this was a normal thing.

"That's it!" I started to get mad for some reason. 'Why would she be starving herself?!' 'Why didn't I notice it before?!'. I slammed my fists into the desk, I needed to help her. Even if it meant forcing food down her throat! Okay maybe that's a bit much, but still! While I was getting fussed up about helping Natsuki, Monika seemed to be putting her in a pose that allowed blood to flow to the head easier 'Told you she's perfect'. After 10 minutes which really felt like an hour to me who just watched Dr. Monika do her work and for Natsuki to return to realm of consciousness.

"Huh what happened" she mumbled before looking around at the classroom before sighing to herself just realizing her predicament. The pieces then suddenly fit into each other perfectly. She was searching for money because she was running off of pure determination and whatever her dinner or lunch was yesterday. I promised myself I will never let this happen ever again as long as I am breathing and my heart is pumping blood. "I never thought I'd ever say this but..." Natsuki started to speak before she trailed off. "I'm sorry..." she finally whispered. "Sorry for being such an inconvenience to you." She continued with her un-Natsuki like attitude.

"Your not an inconvenience to me, I love being around you." I tried my best to encourage her and she took it to heart. 'I think I should finally confess to her now' I debated in my mind if this was a good idea or not. But who was I to make 'smart' or 'logical' choices. I decided to let my heart speak to her as she started to cry into my school shirt, getting the attention of even Yuri who diverted her eyes from the book to us. "Natsuki, I've been wanting to tell you this but..." I said nervously, my heart was beating rapidly and my body couldn't stop itself from shivering and shaking. My lips were struggling to even make put the simple words I need to say. "I... love you" I said, I felt a massive weight fly off my chest after each word. "You dummy, we've only known each other for three days!" she cried in between her ever increasing tears but this time it was of joy. We embraced each other in the moment, nothing could break the moment between us.

Nothing ever could.

And nothing ever will.

END

Author's Note:

What do you guys think of this chapter which would also be the last one of this fanfiction but it certainly wouldn't be the last DDLC fanfiction I would write.