Me and Monika were both woken up by a loud knocking on our door. It was Andrew, saying that mom and dad were here. I immediately put on my clothes and rushed downstairs. They were taking off their coats when they saw me. Mom and dad opened their arms and beckoned me to hug them. I rushed over and we gave each other a nice warm embrace.
" Oh sweetie, sorry if we could only stay for a short while." Mom brubrushed my hair and smiled.
" Hey champ, before we forget. Could you give me the motherboard? And you, come here." The boy that has been acting as the main character in DDLC timidly walked inside the house. He has dark brown hair and yellow eyes.
" Hello... Uhhhh..." I couldn't just call him MC! Mom and dad looked at me too with this look of confusion.
" Just call me... Anon." He laughed at this bright idea of his.
" Oh sweetie, could you show him around the house later?" Mom and dad sat down on the sofa and let out a sigh. I went upstairs and took the device from my computer. I handed it to them and they just looked at it.
" Oh my god... what the hell? Hmmm, this should be easy to fix." They pick it up and waved goodbye to us. Soon, we can hear their car drive off.
" So... Anon, you hungry?" He nodded in response.
" Ok good, come with me to the kitchen." We walked silently towards the kitchen. He took in the shape and feeling of the inside of my home.
" Do you remember what happened, Anon?" He nodded his head.
" All four acts of the game?" He began to clench his fist.
" Yup... every moment of that wretched place. Especially, Sayori." He began to wept at this thought.
" Hey, don't worry about Sayori. Here, let me just call someone." I called Elise on her phone, asking to talk to Sayori.
" Paul? Why are you calling so early in the morning~ I'm still so sweepy..." I can hear Sayori yawn.
" Sayori, it's 8 in t-" I was cut off when Anon rushed beside me.
" S-Sayori?! Is that really you Sayori?!" I can hear the sudden movement of Sayori in her bed.
" N-no way, how? How could be alive?" Sayori sounded shocked.
" I'm not really sure either. But I'm glad you're ok." Anon started crying tears of joy. Maybe because the thought of his childhood friend alive and well made him so happy.
" I can't even remember your name. No, I don't even know your name." Sayori sobbed.
" Anon, call me Anon. The script didn't give me a name." He chuckled to try and ease Sayori's crying.
As Anon and Sayori catched up with each other trough the phone, Andrew called out to me. Yuri was behind him.
" Hey Paul, do you think it will be alright if I brought Yuri along with me?" I looked at him and Yuri.
" Why? What do you need her for?" I asked him.
" Well... I want to hire her in the caf-"
" What the hell Andrew? Are you sure about this? She doesn't even have an I.D. or any legal documents." Andrew and Yuri looked at each other and sighed. Then they looked at me with this puppy dog eyes.
" Pleeeeease?" They said in unison.
" I think it is a great idea Paul! Yuri would learn how to socialize with other people and earn some pocket money." Monika said as she stood beside me. I groaned, yet I yielded.
" Fine... Just don't get her into trouble!"
" Thanks Paul! Let's go Yuri."
" Y-yes." They both hurried out the door and said goodbye. Monika had this smug look on her face.
" One left, and I'm alone. Ehehehehe..." She rubbed her hands together with this grin on her face.
" Monika! I expected better from you." She stood silently, sensing that her plan has been foiled.
" Well... I... wanted to clean the house! It's bad for our health to have such a dusty home. Right?" I was amused by her excuse so I decided to play along.
" Hey Anon! Want to go over to where Sayori is?!" I shouted to him from a few rooms away.
" Really! Sure! Sayori I'll be right over." He ran to me to give me my phone back and asked where Elise's house is. I pointed him to the right direction and he sped off.
" As for you Monika... You're going to help me clean the study room. You're right, actually. Knowing you, I'm sure you spend a lot of time in there." Monika seemed annoyed but she just agreed with me.
" First, we need to take off those books from the shelves and clean the dust from it." Picked up a chair and stood from it to pick up the books on the topmost shelf.
But as we picked up some books, I accidentally dropped a photo album, my photo album. Monika picked it up and began going trough the pictures on it.
" Awwww~ You were so cute in this one." It was a pucture of me as a baby.
" Heh, I hated my baby pictures. I'm always crying when the picture was taken." I got off the chair and we both went trough my old pictures.
" That reminds me, do you have memories of everything in Doki Doki?" She thought about it for a moment.
" Yes... but some of my memories are hazy. But I could still remember the times I met everyone. It is vivid and clear." Monika smiled.
" I met Natsuki in the school canteen. She was sitting alone, looking on as people ate the food they have. I felt pity for her so I gave her some of my food." I saw she had this bittersweet emotion that is being shown in her face.
" I met Yuri in a library. She sat alone in a corner reading the book she always had." She smiked at this.
" Well? Where else you would find Yuri?" We both laughed at this.
" Then there was Sayori... I saw her on the school's rooftop. I wanted to spend some time alone with my thoughts when I saw Sayori leaning on the railing. Her tears were flowing down, and I can see she was in pain." Monika's tears ran down her cheek. I can see this were memories she held dear.
" Thankfully, Sayori noticed me and decided to talk to me. I managed to convince her to join the literature club. And it was thanks to her that many of the fights between us in the literature club were avoided." She sobbed and sniffled at her words.
" They were like a family to me. They truly are my greatest friends..." Monika squeezed her chest, and her emerald green eyes started filling with sadness.
" ...And I tried to delete them. Have I really been that horrible as a person?! How could I do such a thing... I deserve to suffer for this..." I hugged her as she fell to her knees and cry.
" Shhh... It's ok now. You don't have to suffer anymore. Those moments are just menories now." I pat her back as she cried.
" No, those actions are not supposed to be forgiven. I'm... I'M A MONSTER!" I held her tightly and began to weep also. Seeing the woman I love in so much pain.
" No! You're not a monster Monika! If you were, you wouldn't cry for Sayori or the others!" She fell silent, yet she continued to sob.
" N-no... I-I'm a mons-" I kissed her to make her stop saying those words. I hate it. People not being able to let go of their past actions.
I pulled back from the short kiss and flashed her a smile. She was still shaken, but she did calm down. I stood up and held out my right hand.
" Come on, we still have things to do in 'Our Reality', like checking up on Natsuki and John." Monika took my hand and stood up. As I turned around Monika hugged me from behind.
" Thank you Paul. You're the best sweetheart ever." She kissed me on my cheek and ran towards the door.
" Last one to John's house will follow the other one for the rest of the day!" I smiled. It seems as if Monika just forgot about her sadness in a few minutes.
" Heh, bring it on. President." Monika smirked and we prepared to go to John's house.
(John's POV)
Ughhhhhh... I didn't get to sleep last night. I slept on the futon on the cold, hard floor for the duration of the night. I could still recall the events of this night.
*flashback start*
I walked into the house and saw Granny waiting for me. She prepared some milk and cookies for us. We took a seat and I decided to introduce Natsuki to her.
" Granny, meet Natsuki. She is a friend of mine." Granny looked at Natsuki, who was eating most of the cookies, and back to me.
" You... snagged a pretty one mah boy! I thought you'd never find a real girl in your life! I was scared that you would onky settle for those figurines and ani-" I cut Granny off, because I felt Natsuki fuming beside me.
" Okay Granny, that is enough. Natsuki is not my girlfriend, she just needs a house to stay in." Granny raised an eyebrow.
" Awww, that is sad. On your part anyway. Here I thought you have the balls to actually ask a girl to be your girlfriend. Anyway, sure, she can stay in our house. On one condition." Granny looked at Natsuki. I saw Natsuki was sweating and shivering.
" You... help me bake some treats from time to time. John here stopped baking ever since his heart was bro-" I stopoed Granny once again.
" Ok Granny, too much infornation. I'll have her move into my room. I'll clean the guest room tomorrow." As we made our way upstairs, we heard Granny shout.
" change your sheets! We don't want her to get pregnant just by sitting fown on your bed, don't we?" I felt my face turn red as a tomato. I opened my room and showed her the inside.
" Ew, just like I expected. It's filled with weeb shit." Natsuki flashed me with this disgusted look. She looked around and her eyes laid sight on my figurine collection.
" You even have a figuri- is that a Limited Edition Pink Maid Outfit Hatsune Miku?" She then stood silent. She turned her head way from my direction. Like a typical tsundere.
" N-not like I'm interested in it. Geez, to think people actually spend money on such a... piece of... art..." She murmured something at the end so I didn't really listen.
" Anyway, lets move away from my room towards where you're gonna sleep tonight." I pointed to my bed.
" You sleep there. But before you do, take a bath and change into your pajamas. I'll just put on some freah new sheets on the bed." She groaned at me.
" Ew... Just, ew..." She left with a change of clothes as I changed the sheets.
I put on a sheet with a bunch of these chibi characters from a show called KonoSuba. I got it when me, Paul, his old gf, Elise, Marie and his brother Andrew went to that anime convention. Good times... good times... As I finished, I heard the door opened and saw Natsuki.
Her hair was let down and she was wearing the pink kitty onesie that Sayori picked for her. Her face was red and she was pouting.
" What the fuck are you looking at?!" She covered her chest and glared at me.
" Relax Natsuki. Even if I decided to stare at your chest, I won't even se--" Just before I could finish, a small fist hit me in the shoulder.
" What th-"
" I-IM S-STILL A D-DEV-VELOPING K-K-KID!" I can see that small droplets of tears are froming in her eyes.
" That is a joke, Natsuki. I didn't mean it." Natsuki is still mad.
" You better didn't mean any of that. I'll beat you up if you did." She seemed to have calmed down a bit.
" Well, big or small, it does not matter. I stilk think you're cute." Cue in the tsundere response in three, two, one...
" I'm NOT cute! Hmph!" She hopped on the bed and burried herself on the covers.
" Sleep on the floor! You're a dog that deserved to be punished!" I sighed abd grabbed the futons in my closet...
* Flashback Ends*
As I made my way downstairs, I heard knocking on the door. I lookelooked at the window to see Paul and Monika. They were both laughing. I can't really help but wonder, is this the same Monika who did all those horrible things in the Literature Club? I smiled, knowing that people do change. I opened the door and beckoned them in. Maybe this is a reality that I should be thankful for.