Hey everyone! Another chapter to the Angel Beats! afterstory. I couldn't stop typing after school, and finished another chapter in 4 days! Horrah! I hope you enjoy! Keep supporting and I'll be back as soon as I can write the next chapter! 3~ Matthew
"Here's your room, Kibo," Otonashi said. "You're roommate is RJ, so get along with him, okay?"
"Alright."
"And hey, sorry for not telling you about initiation. We all got too excited. Haven't had a new member in a while." Otonashi smiled.
"Yeah, whatever. Just don't do that again, please." My legs still hurt. I landed feet first, so you can imagine what that felt like. Or not, I hope you
didn't fall 20 stories and landed on your feet.
"Anyways, I'm going to leave now. I have business to attend to. Take care now, okay?" He leaves, closing the door behind him.
Looking around my room, I notice half of it has been decorated with posters, of past singers and bands. The Beatles? They sound familiar. One
Direction... Oh God, please no. ZAP!
I feel my bed. It's soft, much like the bed I see at Ikea that are expensive. I could sleep on it all day... Maybe I will. I need a break after getting
devoured by shadows, and being thrown off a building.
The door opens, and RJ walks in dancing.
"Uhn! Come on! Let's go!" He seems to be dancing Michael Jackson.
"Uh, hey RJ." I stare at him. He's a brilliant dancer, goes with the flow.
"Hey!" He says back in English.
"Do you know any Japanese?" I keep watching him,dancing. Finally, he stops and sits down in his bed.
"Yes. How do you do?"
"I'm fine. So... Why are you here?"
"The beat caught up to me!" He went from being slightly serious to downright goofy.
Forget it, I'll just come up with a story for him. Maybe he was a kid who was caught up too much in drug activity, and that explains his ecstatic
attitude-
Ah, he left. I guess I was being too boring. Wait, I need the keys from him for this room! Rushing to my feet, I ran out the room and shut it behind
me. No going back now, I have to find him. It was getting dark, so I didn't know where to look first. I guess the base floor of the main building is
where I should start.
Walking in, I see RJ. Not dancing, but hunched over, elbows on his knees, faced down. I think he's crying. What? Why? Running up to him, I
understand why.
There was a picture of a boy. His little brother, possibly? He looks happy. RJ looks as normal as he does here in purgatory. But, theres something in
the background...
Mafia? Yakuza? Whoever it was, they looked ready to kill. I don't know if he'd seen that beforehand in the picture, but I'm guessing that's the reason
why he's here. Cautiously, I approach him more.
"...RJ?"
"He... Nothing wrong..." Bits of broken English.
"Protecting him... Shot up by them..." I didn't know someone so happy in this world could have such a deep past. I expected him to stay upbeat all
the time, and yet here I am, awkwardly, seeing an optomistic teen cry.
I bent down, and sat next to him. Suddenly, I noticed his bandana was off. Seeing his eyes, he doesn't look half bad. Seems like the kind of guy I'd
hang out with on a daily basis.
"RJ... I'm so sorry..." I know it wouldn't help that much, but it would be nice to know that people are still here for him.
Putting my arm around him, I let him cry a little bit more. It would be really awkward to ask him for the keys now. After a while, he spoke up.
"Ah, you came for?"
"... The keys to the apartment," I said back. Taking them out of his pocket, he hands me the spare he kept for his future roommate. Me.
"You're a good man," he said. "Keep it real!"
I looked at him, and knowing he wanted to be here a little longer, I left him.
"Stay safe here, alright?" He nodded. After making sure he was okay, I left the building and headed back to the room.
I passed Otonashi's door, I think. I heard some noises, and after a second, he walked outside.
"Kibo, I saw that." What? I looked into his room. Damn, his window shows right into the base floor of the main building. Why? How did he set his
window up like that? Not a very good view, I must add.
"Oh, you did?" I tried to give as little voice as I could. I knew others were sleeping.
"Yeah. You really are a good man. Tough, smart, and reliable. I'm going to need you for an operation tomorrow. Keeping it strictly to only 4 of us. Me,
Lukaro, Ken, and you. You can ask RJ to join us too, if you want. Ask him when he comes back. Operation : Backtrack. Be ready. Debrief at 10:30."
Then he backed up into his room, and shut the door. So weird, but so defined at the same time.
After I get back into my room, I look around once more. Then, I look outside the window. I see the bridge connecting the school to the outside world.
Can we even leave this school? Maybe there are more... "real" people out there. I need to ask Otonashi when we debrief tomorrow. I lie on my bed,
almost asleep after 3 minutes, when RJ busts in the door, energetic as ever.
"Woo yeah!" He danced to his bed, and collapsed on it. He must be really tired.
"Hey, RJ, listen. There's an operation going down tomorrow; Operation Backtrack. I was wondering if you wanted to join us?"
"Naw man, I gotta dance to my beats!" Words of an Angel.
...Wait a second.
