A/N: Hangin' with my friends, nothing can really go wro-

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Chapter 10: Deal With Your Mistakes

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK."

Needless to say, I was reasonably irritated after my fuck up involving my co-worker. There was no way to back out of the situation without seeming suspicious, so I'll just have to deal with it when the time comes.

That doesn't mean that I'm happy.

Muttering several curses under my breath, damning just about everything that I can think of, including how my car's blower motor just went out (yeah, that's going to be fucking dandy to fix), along with my own stupidity, I fumble with my keys, dropping them in the hallway outside my door. Rather than just bend over and grab them, I stare at them for a moment, before sighing and smacking my head into the door, grumbling to myself some more.

"God damn it all. I seriously need to calm the fuck down." I say aloud, before reaching down and picking up my keys. I calmly find the right key and unlock the door before entering, to see the girls looking at me in concern.

"Are you okay, Darling?" Monika asks with a worried look, making me nod.

"Yeah, just a bit of a fuck up that I will need to handle later." I reply neutrally, not allowing them to hear the anger that I'm directing at myself.

"How so?" Monika asks, in which I simply shake my head.

"Nothing to worry about for now, dear." I reply with a slight smirk, and Monika lights up into a light blush. "That being said, let's continue onto our conversation that we were having last night, yeah?" I ask while casually meandering past the group to my room, and quickly changing out of my work outfit, much to my relief. After I change out into my lounge pants and standard t-shirt, I walk back into the living room. "Now, let's talk business."

"Firstly, Darling," Monika interjects, making me raise an eyebrow at her. "Why were you complaining about money for building a computer?"

"Ah, did it seem like I was?" I ask, before putting my hand onto my chin in a pondering gesture. "Hmm..." I continue, before snapping my fingers. "Ah, now I see. No, the biggest issue is that the time it would take to actually get a PC built right about now is fucking ridiculous. I mean, the current "thing" is that a bunch of the parts that we need are all in extreme demand, the biggest being high-end GPU's, or Graphics Cards."

"What are those for?" Natsuki asks, showing some initiative.

"Those are the part of the computer that allow for better processing of graphics, specifically Video Game graphics." I reply. "They are what make the games look good, and are extremely important to streaming. The better the quality, the better the viewing experience, which makes people like what they're looking at more." I continue, to which Natsuki nods.

"Got it." She replies, while I grin.

"Once this PC is built, it's gonna be fucking dope... but that's going to have to wait for a while, since, again, the parts that we need are all in super high demand right now." I continue. "As such, it's not a problem to handle tonight." I reply. "Now, who wants to do a thing?"

XxX

Several days pass, and it's now Friday, making it my weekend from my job. I've started the girls in on a bit of education, starting them off with Math and Sciences, my two strongest subjects. This seems to have kept them sufficiently occupied, and Sayori seems to be doing a fair bit better now in terms of coping with her depression, since she is being consistently preoccupied enough to not focus on the darker thoughts of her psyche much to my personal relief at the continued prevention of Sayo-nara V2.

However, my thoughts grind to a halt when my phone rings. Sure enough, when I look at the Caller ID, I can't help but grimace slightly before answering the phone, while signalling Monika to stay quiet, since she was hanging out near me... Then again, that seems to be her thing, I suppose.

"Hello?" I state immediately, that being how I answer the phone normally.

"You're a butt." I hear on the other end, and while I normally would chuckle, I actually have to hold back a grimace this time.

"I have to disagree, Josh." I reply. "Either way, you good to go?"

"Yep, just packing my stuff and I'm good." Josh states, more than ready to get away from his family for a couple days.

"All right, then." I reply. "I'm on my way, then."

"Alrighty." And true to form, he hangs up pretty much instantly, while I sigh as soon as the call ends.

"Okay, then..." I say, before I chuckle. "He'll be in for a shock, eh, Monika?" I ask, and Monika giggles and nods.

"That he will, Darling~," she replies, before applying her signature pose, with her bent forward slightly with her hands behind her back. Needless to say, my breath catches a little seeing it in real life, since she ended up being way hotter in actuality than the game would have you believe...

Or maybe that's just me. Either way, I'm certainly not complaining.

"All right, then." I state, before I stand up. "Let's fucking boogie. I'll be back in a while, dear." I give Monika a peck on the cheek, and she lights up into a severe blush.

"S-Sure thing..." Monika mutters shyly, and I chuckle. Turns out that she gets embarrassed by affection as easily as I do.

Go figure, eh?

It takes me 15 minutes to get over to Josh's place, about 3 minutes to get all his stuff in my vehicle, and another 15 minutes to get back to my place. However, before we enter the apartment, I stop and look him dead in the eye.

"Now, this is important, got it?" I state, drawing his attention immediately, as I rarely get as deadly serious as I have at this moment. "What you see in this apartment this weekend will not leave your mouth except for in my personal prescence, got it?"

"Oh... Kay? Why?" Josh asks, a confused look on his face.

"Trust me, you'll understand in a second." I say, before opening the door. "Girls, I brought a guest!" I exclaim, grabbing the attention of Sayori, Natsuki, and Yuri immediately. Monika's in my room right now. I'm going to guess she's biding her time for her "grand entrance", as it were. Heh.

The look on Josh's face when I turn back to him is absolutely priceless. His jaw, if it were physically possible, would almost definitely be on the floor at this moment, and his eyes are so wide that I'd be willing to bet that they'd pop out of his skull if he were a cartoon character.

"Wh-What the fuck?!" Josh manages to articulate, and for once, I actually can't blame him. After all...

He's a gamer like me...

Well... not QUITE like me. See, the guy has Asperger's, making him effectively one of the smartest dudes I know, in all honesty. He just ends up coming off as a dumbass due to the syndrome. But I digress. The fact that he has a fucking Hitler 'stache does NOT help him out.

"What's the matter, punk?!" Natsuki growls, getting right in Josh's face and poking his chest, much to his increasing shock at the fact that this is a real thing.

"N-Nothing aside from the fact that there are VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS IN MY BEST FRIEND'S APARTMENT." He loudly exclaims, to which I smack him on the back of the head.

"Yo, China didn't hear you. Try again for a Zenny?" I ask, though the hint in my voice is obvious.

"Sorry, but what the ACTUAL FUCK, Curt?!" Josh asks, now whirling on me.

"That's a bit of a story... Though I do have to say one thing before I start on that one." I start haltingly.

Josh simply snorts at that response. "What, are you going to say that you and Monika are a thing? That'd be really funny, actually." Josh asks, and starts chuckling to himself at the thought. He continues this until he realizes that I'm not laughing with him, and am actually avoiding eye contact with him. He quickly manages to put the signs together, and his jaw drops once again. "Holy shit, that's actually a thing?!" He asks, but this time in slight fear.

After all, there was one thing that I failed to mention involving Josh, and I only just now remembered it, leading me to actually not be sure how to deal with this.

He's actually kind of afraid of Monika.

The reason for such is not what she does to her fellow club members in the game, or even her personality.

He's afraid of her due to what she represents. He's afraid of her because of her self-consciousness while in the game, and her ability to manipulate things in the ways that she wants.

Honestly, when looking at it like that, I personally would've found her quite scary if I didn't like her as a character so much.

"Indeed it is, ahaha~," Monika practically sings, before she comes up from behind me to the front, allowing me to hug her as she leans against me. "And not to worry, Josh. I don't do that stuff anymore, I promise. After all..." she continues, before pausing and happily sighing. "I finally got someone who loves me as much as I could ever hope someone would." she finishes, before turning and pecking me on the cheek happily.

"That being said, Josh..." I say casually, looking him in the eye. "There's no reason to be afraid of Monika, dude." I state. "That being said, you need to make sure that NOBODY knows who they are."

"I mean, sure, but..." Josh starts, before I cut him off.

"You want to know how this happened, yeah?" I ask, and he nods.

"Well, yeah, it's kind of obvious. I mean, fictional characters showing up in your apartment? Those four characters being very popular ones? I need an explanation." Josh replies, while I nod.

"All right, here's what happened..." I start, before launching into an extended explanation as to what happened, which took a fair bit of time... Really, it probably took far longer than it really should have, because this guy has a nasty habit of interjecting and getting us off track, but whatever.

"Well, now that I have the general idea as to what happened, as well as who these girls are, I can see why you said this needs to stay low key." Josh finally states after having listened to my tale.

"Good." I reply, before grinning. "Now, onto other topics... Warframe?" I ask, and he grins right back at me.

"Damn fucking straight." he says happily, and we start the gamer's paradise weekend.

A/N: God fucking dammit, I should've gotten this out sooner. Sorry for the late chapter, I'll try to not let this stupid shit happen again. That being said, I hope you enjoyed this installment.

Either way, Y'all stay awesome, and I'll see you on the next one!

-Sonix