A/N: You don't know how happy I am that I got a chapter above 1,000 words! I'm a shorter writer it seems, so I'm working on writer longer.
Anyways... here's another chapter!
"Please, take a seat." Megurine-san motioned to the table the others were sitting at. Rin awkwardly glanced at the others, reverting her gaze to the table as she sat down. She wanted to find a way out of there and leave more than ever. She felt so strange, like she stood out too much. These people were probably friends or something and she was a random outcast, kidnapped and brought here for a reason only they knew and wouldn't tell her.
"I know you're confused right now." Rin jolted out of her thoughts as Megurine-san spoke again. "I'm sorry about your first impression: it's for safety. For yours and the others.
"But I'll get straight to the point. You're different than other human beings. So much so that it might be considered as you having abilities only from a fantasy world that are meant to save it. And that's precisely what it is. However cliche that may sound."
...So that's what they kidnapped her for? Were they mental? Nothing like that existed in the real life.
"It's true." Megurine-san was suddenly right in front of her, talking directly to her. Rin backed up in her chair a bit. "Do you think we would risk being arrested if it wasn't important?"
She had a point, but Rin still couldn't see something like 'magical powers' being real. Megurine-san seemed to read her expression and continued.
"I can prove it to you."
Rin felt like laughing. Of course Megurine could: in her imagination. This place was full of mental people. Rin was done with this house of lunatics.
She was about to stand up when she felt a touch on her shoulders.
Her head whipped back to see who dared to touch her, but nothing was there. Only the air. Now she was going mental too? She shook her head. This world. This insane, crazy world she lived in. Now she was feeling things when there wasn't anything there. The people must've been rubbing off on her.
She got up but was slammed back down to the floor. The red-headed girl- Miki was her name, right?- strolled over to her and smirked.
"You have to believe us now, don't you?" Miki said it more as a statement phrased like a question. Rin hated it. Why was she being trampling on? She wasn't the one who was insane, they were! Some kind of elaborate prank was being pulled on her for sure: they chose her as the victim because she didn't know anything about them! The psychopaths!
"You know what," Rin spat, reaching her breaking point, "I'm just dreaming and you all are crazy. I'm leaving." She started the storm out of the room, but before her hand could reach the doorknob, she was greeted with someone pulling her back. She growled defensively, trying to pull herself out of what was surely an insane person's grip, but whoever it was restrained her: they were, unfortunately, stronger than her.
"We're not lying," the person insisted. "Look at all the evidence. We're not crazy or we'd surely be caught by now as almost all of us went through the same treatment as you." The person released her, and she turned around to glare at a blue-haired boy. She remembered his name as Kaito.
Rin turned back to all the people in the room, subconsciously noticing only one of them hadn't moved. "How can I be sure you all aren't just psychopaths?" She asked, skeptical.
"If we meant harm I'm sure you wouldn't be here by now," Hatsune-san spoke up. "You have to trust us, okay?"
"Do you remember your dream last night?" Megurine-san asked abruptly, making Rin freeze in place.
"How do you know about that?!" They were stalking her! They knew it wasn't a normal dream to have made her wake up like she did. She had been right, and she needed to get out of there fast.
"It's okay. It's the reason you're here: you're like all of us. Of course, your power is different than the others, but nonetheless, you're like us. Your dreams can see the future."
That was crazy, impossible. Why was this charade still going on? Rin glared at Megurine-san, wondering how these people were still here.
"Spend one night with us and see what happens," Megurine-san insisted. "It may sound stalker-ish, but I know you're an orphan. There's no harm in staying here. You won't worry anybody," She added somewhat sadly.
Rin sighed. They knew she was an orphan. They probably knew so much else. They were all looking at her expectantly, as if she was about to make a life or death decision. If she said no, they would probably make her stay anyways, wouldn't they? They didn't seem dangerous: for the time being, at least. They said they would put her in a secluded area so wouldn't get hurt. If that was the case...
"Fine." Rin's voice had a note of malice in it. She didn't want to stay with them, but it was obviously the only way to get them off her case.
"I'll stay with you."
The whole room seemed to relieve the tension at once. All their expressions relaxed.
"Well, I'll have someone show you to your room." Megurine-san's voice commanded through the room once again. "Len, can you do that?"
The blond boy, the one that hadn't moved, stood up obediently. He nodded at Megurine-san and then opened the door, monitoring Rin through and closing the door behind them as Rin went through. Maybe this 'Len' person was the only non-psycho one there.
"...So," Len-san started in an almost inaudible voice, "are you okay?"
Rin nodded. "Yeah. I get why you guys have to do that." She knew it was basically a lie, but as she thought about it more, it became more logical to do what they had done. You could never be too safe, she reasoned.
"That's good." The two went silent again. The hallways seemed to get longer and more awkward as the walk continued on, neither of them bold enough to try to start an actual conversation.
"We're here," Len-san announced, stopping at a door labeled '6'. "You're our sixth member, so..."
"Okay." As Rin opened the door, a random, odd question popped into her head. She didn't know what to call him yet.
"Do you have a last name?" She asked, knowing full well it was a weird question.
"No," Len-san answered, almost plainly. Almost.
"Well, thank you, Len-san."
"You're welcome."
Rin shut the door to her room as he walked away and sat down on the futon. She was almost used to the monochrome colours everywhere.
Maybe she could get used to here.
