Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy (Poor boy)
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter to me, to me
I woke up.
What the…I don't remember much.
I climb down the stairs. Hm, I wonder why Haruhi isn't around. She should be here by now…?
Instead, MIKURU is in the kitchen. She smiles at me. "Here's your breakfast~." She sets down the platters of food. I repeat: PLATTERS.
"Eh? Where's Haruhi?"
She turns round.
There's a palpable, sticky, humid silence. (no, not like that you pervs. Or does that make me the perv?)
"Who's Haruhi?"
I'm in shock.
"Who's Haruhi?"
WHO.
IS.
HARUHI!?
Okay, calm down, this is just like that other time. She must have set up anoth-
…
Wait, if she set up another world, why is Mikuru here, and not her?
"Hey, Miss Asahina, I'm gonna go out for a walk, okay?"
"Oh, um, okay. But why are you calling me so formally? We're dating, remember?"
…
What.
Mama just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
This doesn't even make SENSE.
If we're dating, what happened to Haruhi and I?
I don't know what's happening anymore.
I guess…
I should stick with Mikuru until I figure out everything.
I might entertain some of my more forbidden fantasies…who knows.
But, I can't lose sight of the fact that I need to find Haruhi, and FAST. For all I know, she could be down at Kouyouen again, or some other school far far away.
Goddamn, why did it have to-
Wait, did she see us in the clubroom?
If she did…
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooooooh (Anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I quickly raced down the street. I couldn't see one trace of Haruhi. It all seemed to point to the fact that Haruhi had finally cracked and not wanted me anymore.
Wait.
How am I still alive then?
If she didn't want me around…
Then what does she want me to be?
I see a little silhouette of a man
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Flutter in the wind.
Bright yellow.
I race desperately in that direction.
I pass by all the fixtures in my life: Taniguchi, Kunikida, Nagato, even the Smiling Bastard is there. They all try to greet me, but I push them aside. They're not who I seek. Where IS she?!
Eventually I reach the end of the street.
Nothing.
I sat down at the curb, and idly kick a rock in frustration.
Is this really all it comes down to?
Why so little faith, Haruhi? Geezus, and you took it all out of context too. A girl with short brown hair, wearing a hoodie and jeans passed by. She took notice of me, and sat down next to me.
"What's up, you moping retard?"
That expression and tone of voice…it sounded familiar.
"Eh. I think I lost my girlfriend and she doesn't want to speak to me anymore."
"Really?" She looked down at the bitumen. "And why wouldn't she want to?"
"She thinks I'm involved with someone else."
"…I see. And are you?"
"No! Well, she is pretty and everything…but my girlfriend…she's something else entirely. She's just… I can't really describe it."
"Well, maybe your girlfriend simply wants you to be happy?"
"…Well, my girlfriend…we were extremely close. And to be honest, she was really clingy, really. I can only really see her saying "If I can't have you, then no one can…""
"Boy, you seriously don't know girls."
"What?" The girl abruptly stood up.
"Well, good luck with that." Her face was shadowed by her hood, and she sharply turned and ran off.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
Let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Let me go (Will not let you go)
Let me go (Will not let you go) (Never, never, never, never)
Let me go, o, o, o, o
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh mama mia, mama mia) Mama Mia, let me go
Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me, for me, for me!
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
Well then. That was an interesting talk… I guess I'm stuck here until I figure out something. Returning to the house, I see that Mikuru is getting along quite well with the rest of my family. I smile a bit. Well, that's not to say that Haruhi…I immediately submerge into thought. Why did she do what she did?
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows...
Later that evening…
"What the? Why are you-?" I felt a small soft lump in the darkness.
"What? We always do this."
"We do?!"
"Yeah. Come now, put it on…"
"EHHH?" (Well, I guess I can't really complain…)
"Oh come on. You felt GREAT last time you told me~"
"But- what- since when did you become so assertive?!"
"When you told me you were into BDSM…"
"WHAT?!"
I woke up in a cold sweat.
Shit.
Is Haruhi invading my subconscious?