Doki Doki Literature Club:

One Reality

Disclaimer: I do not own DDLC all rights belong to their rightful owners, Dan salvato and team salvato and I do not own the fanart used for the cover which belongs to Eros panda.

Author's notes: Hello everyone! The 3rd chapter is here and prepare your butts for the beginning of the first arc of the story: The Sayori arc. I'll try to have each arcs in the story be in between 6 to 9 chapters each, so this story is going to be a long one :

If you have time,a review would be very much appreciated and without further ado, let's jump right into this chapter :D

Chapter 3: Life changes

"It's just S.A.Y.O.R.I "She says as my jaw drops in shock.

Sayori was the one I was texting all along? Wait? Am I taking the role of the MC? Why does she appear in the reality along with Monika, but not the main character? Does this mean she's gonna fall in love with me!?

"Hellooooo, are you there? Can you quickly open the door? It's terrible weather outside"Sayori says through the phone. Darn it, I have to say something quick or else I'll appear suspicious!

"Oh.. Yeaaaah I always forget it's spelled with an I and not a y... Haha! I'm sorry for taking a whole, I'll come open the door" I reply gesturing at Monika to quickly hide somewhere. Even though my movements weren't quite clear, she immediately understands the message I'm trying to get across and runs into the hallway, looking for a place to hide. Atta girl.

I open the door and leading to the stairs, to open the main door to the salmon pink haired girl. I take my time down the steps, to buy Monika some more time to hide as my home isn't really big. As soon as I'm at the ground floor and open the door, I can sense an aura of happiness and joy emanating from the girl as she smiles at me enthusiastically, completely soaked by the rain.

I see that she's wearing the same DDLC uniform as me and can't help but wonder if it's because the school now requires it, or if she just doesn't have other clothes. "You made me worried when you didn't come to school, I thought you were sick, you made me worried" She said with a smile. "Mind if I come in, i'm going to get a cold if I stay outside in the rain" Considering the rain pouring on us, she makes a valid point, but if I let her inside my house, I have to buy Monika some time to find a hiding place.

"Yes of course, I don't want you get sick because of me, but I have to check... My mail, I should have the envelope to my admission to the.. Science magazine." I try to bluff out, knowing that my appartment has it's mailboxes in the entrance, at the end of the corridor,this would buy her at least 40 seconds more..

"Hmmm... Oh okay! " She says, any doubts or suspicions washed away by the sheer fact that there would be no reason for me not to let her in. Except I do have a reason: to hide Monika.

We go towards the corridor and walk behind the staircase, near the mailboxes for all the residents of the building, and standing near one of them, stands a young woman I've never seen before. We go past her and I'm secretly scaredy that she may recognize Sayori considering she looks to be 20 to 25 years old. But surprisingly she doesn't, and doesn't even give a care in the world to the face that a girl with pink hair is just walking around, she doesn't even ask a single question. But it's when I looked at her face that I realised why. She looked like she was straight out from an anime, the eyes, the lips, the nose and of course the hairs, everything was screaming anime about her. He'll, even her "assets" were too large for them to be normal.

I took the mail from my mailbox to the upper right, and decide to look through the many envelopes of noise complaints and indecency in general towards myself. I have to act as if I'm surprised when I don't see the letter for the admission to then science mag that I just made up. "Wow, they're slow, it's been a week since I paid for my membership... I be a proper member, fight Sayo ? I the. Towards her, and see her spacing out, her eyes feeling distant and in a dream like stasis, a trance.

"Sayori, earth to the moon do you copy?" I say before I snap my fingers in front of her face, effectively waking her up, as she looks at me with that energetic smile of hers." I'm sorry, I was just spacing out, hehehe.. " She says, touching one of her finger with the other, like her trademark pose in the game, the difference is that it's even cuter in 3D " What did you say?"

" I said that I paid for my membership about a week ago and that they still didn't send a letter,nor gave me my member's card." I lie to her.

"Ohhh... Wait! That reminds me, do you still have no clubs to join?" She asks, innocently enough. It's good that we have this conversation, it means we can stay behind the staircase near the mailboxes without me sounding suspicous. I decide to follow along the lines if what the MC says in the original game, not copying word for word though, as I feel it could be a negative impact.

"No but I already told you, I don't want to join any club" I say with fake irritation, to mimic the MC's jerkiness. The cinnamon roll then smiles at me.

"Oh, well that's good and all, but could you please make an effort for me, I'd die at the thought of you becoming a NEET in a couple years just because you didn't' get used to social interactions. I'm just asking you to come by my club today, if you are feeling okay or tomorrow." Sh e says smiling towards the end of her sentence, a smile filled with energy and empathy. It's weird to think that this girl suffers from depression.

At the exact moment where I start talking to Sayori I see her face light up and her waving her arm in the air, totally oblivious to any attention she might draw to us. As a result, the mailbox anime waifu lady stares at us intrigued. Who is she even waving at? I turn around...

"Hey Monika! What are you doing here?" Sayori asks, As I see Monika coming towards us with one of my bags on her shoulders.

"Hey Sayori, I'm actually living here, on the fifth floor. I came here to eat at home, we had the choice today, and since there's meat in my lunch tray even when I say I'm vegetarian, I decided to cook for myself today." She says with a smile that could make the coldest of hearts melt.

"Wow Monika you're so driven! Oh I haven't introduced you two yet!" Sayori says about to start the presentations, but Monika cuts her off.

"You don't need to do that Sayo, we already know each other, we were in the same class last year and we were great friends since we walked back home together, isn't that right?" Monika than turns towards me, her eyes signaling to go with the flow.

"Yup" I lie " I'd say we already know each other pretty well, so don't sweat it Sayo!" My eyes dart back to Sayori's ocean blue eyes.

"Oh.. That's great, now you not only have one but two friends in the club I want you to join!" Sayori bursts out excitedly, as Monika looks at her with surprise seeing as the literature club still takes place."I'm the vice-president and Monika's the club president!"

"What's this club about then?" I ask already knowing the answer fully well.

"Literature!" The two girls speak in unison, after looking at each other, and letting out a little giggle.

"A literature club? Huh, I mean.. I guess I could check it out since you two are members." I let out, but as soon as I said this Sayori grabs me in her arms and jump up and down.

"Thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you thaaank youuuuuu!" She smiles, still hugging me.

And that's when I saw it, for a split second, an easy to miss moment, but for a really reaaaaally short time, I saw it... Monika's jealousy came back. I look at her straight into her eyes and let out a small smile mouthing the words "everything is going to be okay" at her. And she visibly calms down back to her normal state.

"That's so nice, thank you so much." Monika says, bending over forwards just like in the game, and my god, or gods or whatever if I didn't already make that clear, she's a cutie.

"Well I'm really sorry but I have to leave, classes are going to start in a few minutes, here's your bag too." She says while throwing me my own bag. "Come on you already missed the morning's classes, I won't let you skip through the afternoon's" She announces, determined.

As both of them stare at me with my bag in my arms, I have no choice but to put the straps on." Well then let's go to school.

The three of us walk back to school, like a little group of friends having fun, and appreciating each other's company, but deep down I still feel the guilt of leading her to kill herself, it's made even worse knowing that they were real, even in the game and that I just didn't think they weren't just because they didn't have the same power as me to see through the code of our old reality. It's the equivalent of a superhero murdering everybody and going away Scot free because they didn't have the same power as him.

Even though the guilt my heart bears is huge, I let it down in my heart, conceal it until I'll finally be able to relieve it one day, and I'll have redemption, when I save all of you, in this world, from yourself and from others. It's only a matter of time.

Eventually we reach the school, and it looks like a blend between my old high school, and a new one, much more occidental looking, creating an aura that is not quite Japanese but not quite occidental either. But I have to admit, this building is a lot bigger than the one from my old reality.

I wave them goodbye as we go to separate classes, and I ask to people that look like they are my age where the classes are. Weirdly it takes them a bit of time to answer, and when they do,they appear awfully stiff. Just like in my own reality. I arrive in room 202 about 5 minutes late and a bit shameful."I'm really sorry for being late sir" I say apologizing in the process by bowing down to him.

"It's fine Monika after all everybody makes little mistakes here and there. Just don't let this neck thing be a habit okay?" He speaks up in an understanding way. Though I suspect he's just being nice because I'd be popular just like the script described me." Thank you very much sensei, it won't happen again!" I say and quickly run towards on of the empty seats.

I take out my notebook and my cute little pen hehe~ I don't even know why I keep it, i just keep it, it's kind of like a part if me now, I don't know, do I sound weird? I don't wanna sound weird, it's just... Nevermind, let's just move on.

And like a robot at work, I scribble down notes and doodles on my composition notebook, taking in the maximum amount of information before the school bell rings. "Alright everyone, homework for tomorrow is to copy page 41 and 42. Monika can you please stay here for a bit, I wish to talk to you." I look up only to see him standing in front of his desk looking at mine which is in the middle, while everybody else is leaving." Okay" I say with a small smile.

After every body left, the sensei comes towards me. "Monika, I'm noticing that you are spacing out really frequently and appearing to be in a lot of trouble, just by looking at your notes, I can see something is wrong. And it's not the fact that you are doodling, I'm very understanding about that, if you take notes, it's okay to relieve your mind from the stress of daily life by drawing." He looks at me straight in my eyes.

"But just by looking at your doodles I can see something is wrong, I mean.. Are you friends with Sayori Chan?" He questions, I simply one as a response. "Well why would you draw something like this?" I look at my paper only to realise in pure horror and disgust that I drew the hxppythoughts drawing.

" I.. I.. I am so very sorry, but but I just have to leave! " I say packing my things as the teacher just watched me go and sighs." Please Monika, watch out for yourself." He says, my head doing a 180 as I hear those words, is he telling me this as to not die? Is he a part of all this? Which side is he on?

"Come on now, run along" he smiles as he closes the door.

The school day was as not really ordinary, today everybody called each other with kuns and chans or even called the teacher sensei, which threw me off during the first few hours, thankfully by skipping school this morning I didn't have to do much and the classes were still in English. I couldn't skip all classes or simply not care, after all, I was still going to live my entire life in this reality, and knowing that others exist is not going to change that.

I take my bag and leave the classroom, saying my farewell to my teacher before leaving. I see Sayori waiting for me, stuck deep in her own thoughts, probably poisoning herself with the thought that she's worthless or useless. Before letting her depricate herself like that I decide to put my hand around her shoulders, startling her a bit.

"Hey Sayori, are you okay? You don't seem fine." I ask, fully knowing what the problem was.

"Oh ummm. Yeah I'm fine don't worry... Are you ready to go to the club?" She asks, turning her gaze away from mine to look at a fixed point at the end of the hallway.

"Listen, I know you're not fine, and I'm here for you, if you don't want to talk time today, that's fine, just don't think you're a burden, because you're my best friend and I don't want anything bad happening to you okay?" I declare solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.

She looks at me and a smile appears on her face." I'm really fine you know? But.. Thank you" she exclaims,her joy and energy back to maximum overdrive "Anyway, are you ready to come to the club?"

"Your know what? I think I am, I mean it could be fun right?" I smile at her as we make our way to the club room on the third floor.

"Somebody's positive today! That's great, you know? Always gotta be smiling to be happy in life, look at me for example!" It's ironic she says that but I decide not to point it out since first off, it would be rude, and second, I'm not supposed to know that.

"Yup, you're a great role model for me Sayori, you loveable quirky airhead!" I exclaim to her as we both laugh on our way to the club.

We arrive in front of the door." That's here!" Sayori tells me

I take a deep breath, as I try to remember everything that happened during the first day and wonder if the script is going to apply in this new reality, if the girls will even be here, if new members would be here also waiting my help? I crack my fingers as Sayori swings the door open

"Everyone the new member is here!" She says as I walk into the literature club...

And that's the end of chapter

I'm sorry if I didn't post it during the afternoon but I just pulled an all nighter yesterday and my body was not ready for a second round hehe..

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