Yu sighed as he sat down at the table across from Dojima.

"What's gonna be a disaster?" Dojima asked.

"Well, uh, it's kind of a long story, Rise is gonna try to force Yosuke to date her. Huh I guess it wasn't that long of a story."

Dojima laughed. "She's gonna force Yosuke to date her? HAH, don't worry about it, that kid will not need any forcing. One word out of her mouth and he's already said yes five times over."

"I guess so but, it still doesn't seem right. Anyway I saw everyone today, except for Yukiko. It was weird too they all just kept coming and each time I left a new one showed up, almost as if my life is some kind of story and the author wanted to rush through all the reunions so that they could get to the meat of the story quicker."

"Well if it is, whoever this 'author' is must think they're real clever for writing that line in."

"Nah, no one's stupid enough to think that self awarness is inherently intelligent writing."

"They'd probably add that line in too to appease the people who were annoyed by the first one for that reason."

"Maybe, but anyone with half a brain would realize that they're just lazily trying to cover their tracks."

"Heheh, we could have this back and forth all day y'know." Dojima leaned back in his chair.

"Yeah, we best cut it out now before the 'readers' get tired of it. Anyway I was gonna ask if I could spend the night at the Amagi Inn, feels wrong to see everybody except Yukiko today."

Dojima leaned forward again. "Spend the night huh? You aren't thinking of doing anything behind Chie's back are you?"

"No no of course not, I'm 100% definitley not the type to date more than one girl at a time. Nope that's just not me. Never in a million years would I ever do anything like that. Never ever. No sir not Yu Narukami. You'll never catch me with a harem."

Dojima eyed him carefully. "Okay, but bring Nanako with you."

"Alright, HEY NANAKO."

Almost immediately after Yu said that, a pair of unbelievably loud feet came stoming down at what must have been mach 10. "Yes big bro??" Nanako said as she reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Wanna spend the night at the Amagi in with me?"

Nanako's face lit up, she bolted up the stairs and less than a minute later she was right back in front of Yu with a packed bag. "When are we leaving?!?" She said excitedly.

"How did you pack that bag so fast?" Yu stammered. He heard the unmistakable, and at this point seared into his brain as if with a branding iron, sound of Dojima laughing at him.

"She always has a bag packed in case of spontanious family trips." He said.

"Oh yeah, yup I knew that."

"So when are we leaving?" Nanako beamed up at him.

"Uhh, in a few minutes just let me go pack my bag."

Once they were all packed and ready to go, Dojima drove them down to the inn. "Alright have fun you two, and Yu don't try anything funny, I have eyes everywhere."

"Got it!" Yu and Nanako walked into the inn to see none other than Yukiko at the front desk. "Well if it isn't the woman of the hour!" He exclaimed.

If Yukiko wasn't surprised just to see him walk through the door, she certainly was after that statement. "A-are you talking to me?" She stuttered.

"No I'm talking to the dust mites floating around the lobby, yes I'm talking to you." He teased.

"Oh, uhh well how can I help you." She could feel herself blushing, it wasn't a secret to anyone, including Yu's very own girlfriend, that Yukiko had a massive crush on him, so hearing him refer to her as "the woman of the hour" was going to get her worked up. Yu was very aware of this, he wouldn't go as far as to cheat on Chie, he couldn't deny he enjoyed making Yukiko flush red.

"Well I was hoping for a room for me and Nanako, and to be honest, I was hoping to spend some time with you Yukiko." He flashed her a charming smile. She gulped, her face now reaching a shade of red previously unknown to man. Yu burst out laughing, which felt good after how much he had been laughed at by a certain uncle of his recently. "Oooh you should see the look on your face, on a serious note though, I actually was hoping we'd get a little time to hang out since we didn't talk much at the party."

"Uh, well I was planning a sleep over with Chie tonight, she should be coming by as soon as I get off my shift, you're welcome to join us, the VIP suite is vacant tonight so we convinced my parents to let us use it."

"Sure thing, but where do we stay until then?"

Yukiko reached behind the counter and pulled out the key. "Here, you can stay in there while you wait."

Yu took the key from her. "Thanks, well see ya in a bit."

By the time Yukiko and Chie had arrived Nanako was already out cold. "Heya YuYu." Chie said falling into Yu's arms. Yukiko giggled when she heard her say YuYu.

"So you guys have pet names for each other now?" She teased.

"She's only calling me that 'cause you're here." Yu replied. Yukiko was the only member of their friend group who knew they were dating. Yukiko and Chie both had feelings for Yu, and knew it. They agreed that even if Yu did reciprocate feelings for one of them they wouldn't get mad, and they'd let it happen. Obviously Yu had fallen for Chie. Yukiko kept up her end of the deal and didn't try to interfere, in fact she even helped Chie with Yu's valentines day present, helped being used in a very loose sense of the word.

"Oh no I'm not my little YuYu." She nuzzled her face into his chest.

Yu lightly shoved her away. "Aaalright that's enough of that Chie, you might have just broken Yukiko." He gestured to the girl in question who seemed a bit, how should I put this? The seemed a bit "jelly".

"Huh, who me?" Yukiko seemed startled. "No no no I'm totally fine with you two being in a relationship, you know this I mean if I did have something wrong with it I'd tell you right? I mean what kind of person would be upset that her friends were happy? The mere idea of-" Yu was quickly realizing the consequences of his actions. Who knows how long this string of words Yukiko was spinning could go on for? Days? Weeks? Months? Years even? How long had it been since it started? How was Nanako doing? She must have had a job by then. Would Yu ever be able to see her again? How about Dojima? How about all his friends. The grim reality of the situation had begun to truly set in. He was damned to sit here and listen to Yukiko ramble for eternity. It was punishment, punishment for flirting with her at the front desk, punishment for- SMACK!!!!

Yu was on his back lying on the floor. Chie was standing over him. "You were staring out into space you dork. I was calling your name and waving my hand in front of your face but you weren't answering." He could here Yukiko's rambling continuing on.

"She's still talking?" Yu asked shocked.

"Yeah" Chie replied "It's been a good ten minutes at least I'd say, part of me wants to just tell her it's fine, but the other part kinda wants to see how long she'll go on for." Just then thunder crashed startling everyone snapping Yukiko out of it. Chie practically leapt into Yu's arms, and Nanako was still sleeping like a rock.

"That's strange, there wasn't a thunderstorm in the forcast for today." Yukiko said once they figured out what was going on.

"Yeah but that's definitely rain." Yu said peering out the window.

There was a flash, but it wasn't lighting, the thing that made the flash was definitely from inside the room. Chie yelped and ran over to the window to grab Yu. "That was lighting right? You're looking out the window, you just saw lighting strike right?"

"No, that flash was from in here, was it the lights flickering on?"

"Well, um, I think it was the TV." Chie said.

"No it couldn't be, we're done with all that stuff right? I mean the midnight channel shouldn't come on anymore, right?" Yukiko tried to rationalize it.

"Well it didn't come on, it just flashed, maybe it was a power surge or something, besides it's only..." Yu took out his phone to check the time "actually nevermind it's midnight. But that doesn't mean anything, I'm sure it's all just a weird coincidence."

"Touch the TV." Chie said.

"Huh?"

"Yu, I'd just feel a whole lot better if you would please touch the TV."

"Oh uh, ok." Yu inched towards the tv with Chie practically hanging off his back. She and Yukiko peered over his shoulders as he slowly reached his arm out towards the screen. He stretched out his arm then his fingers, then leaned all the way in and...

Nothing. His hand spread across the screen touching it solid as though he touched a wall. Nothing out of the ordinary happened.

"See?" He said with a certain uneasiness in his voice. "It was nothing, we're just tired and probably paranoid because of it, lets just get some sleep."

They all slowly but surely drifted off. Chie held Yu close in their sleeping bag, Yu allowed her to sleep in the same one tonight because of "special circumstances", those being he knew she would sneak into it with him either way. Though they all pretended they couldn't feel it, there was an ominous feeling they all shared that night.