Chapter 24: School time
"Okay everyone! Time to hand in poems!" I announced to the club. All four of them.
We had just known each other for couple of da-90n1on24ob1o24nlpamlskndinoabwwopu190naon-years, but had been sharing poems within the club.
I smiled, the sunlight beaming off of everyone's face.
Gosh this was great!
My first club!
Is off to a great start!
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Those were the thoughts when I started, anyway.
So naive. So unknowing.
God I miss it.
The four dirty walls confined me once again, with one window.
Actually this time there wasn't a window.
I sighed.
"This sucks..." made it's way out of my lips.
I began to think. Of everyone. Of all the memories.
They were fake but...but...
Expecting a tear to fall, I moved my hand up to my eyes.
No such thing happened.
I was all dried up.
I had wasted tears on factors that didn't matter.
I wanted to cry right now.
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"Alright so that just leaves you [P1ay0r]? You haven't spent any time with me yet haha~"
"You have Sayori helping you, you don't need [S8291472a909890v9012e m1010e] to help you."
"Right where we looking next?" He gave me a puzzled look.
"What do you mean?"
"Well obviously there are the two other girls, right?"
"Dude you got lucky with the first, the second was given with just a hitch of your gut. What makes you think the other two are out there?"
"Well, as you said, my gut has been right so far. Why shouldn't I trust it now? Maybe that shit might've got to you."
"Bullshit I feel great. Just because you want to be back in your girlfriends panti-" He was met with my palm against his lips.
"Don't finish that sentence."
A sudden voice interrupted us.
"I know where the other girls are."
We both stared towards the open door of building, the dirty and foggy windows letting in small amounts of lights in.
It was a relatively dirty place, and quite dark.
How appropriate for the situation that we would hole up in a school.
"How?"
"I can just, feel them. Like we are connected in some way. Maybe..."
She paused.
"Doesn't matter. Just go with me on this one."
I pulled away from my friend.
"Right let's get ready."
"Dude we just got ba-"
"We don't have enough time for this!
I was told the other night that we...only have a week...or she will be deleted."
"Dude...we haven't had any sleep. She isn't fully recovered. I'm tired. Look I'm sorry about what I said before, but I don't think any of us are right at the moment. Come on I picked up some sleeping bags."
"What about your wife? Won't she be home."
"She has work training. She will be out for a couple of days."
One convenience after another.
I checked my, barely functioning, watch.
The clock just turned seven pm.
God where did time go?
Something was seriously wrong.
How is everything being so convenient? Stormtrooper aim, weird voices keeping me alive, a convenient school. Now we are talking about sleeping it just turned seven pm.
I feel like reality is breaking or something.
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We set out the bags across some mattresses that had been brought as well. Surprisingly, the place didn't stink and there was no wind sneaking through the obvious cracks of windows.
Because of course it was fine.
I sat up. Natsuk1 was so asleep she could be dead, my friend slightly huddled towards her.
Of course.
By how our messages over discord had gone, he had gone through a mild obsession phase with her. His phone wallpaper had been questionable at times. And screenshots of his desktop were always containing some sort of pink in them.
She was his 'best girl' and now she was sleeping right next to him.
Come to think of it, he always had a thing of shorter women.
I picked up my battered USB drive. It certainly wouldn't work now.
I sighed for the tenth time in the last five minutes.
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R0000000000inafnlnavariableoaj92pma was never that popular within his school life. He ended up being the shy quiet kid.
And he embraced it too. A quite confident girl, about sixteen, asked him to prom. She was considered one of the most beautiful girls in the school. Every male hormone in the school wanted something to do with her. Sadly none could really provide, as her main obsession was literature, more specifically poetry.
So when R0b was found out that he also had a keen interest for literature, she and him hit it off. RoBBBB was really into poetry...
Believe it or not
...they would have long talks everyday after school about how "Green" was not a decent colour to represent creativity, or how the 'statue' was meant to represent the fall of a great kingdom under natures control.
She finally asked him out. And he said no.
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"Look I'm sorry Moni, but I just...don't like you that way."
She stared, shocked.
How could he not like me? I am smart, funny, attractive...I...I...
Fuck him. Fuck anyone else.
She ran off.
R001ngb didn't know what he'd done wrong. All she saw was a girl who had asked him out and she had said no.
Does it remind you of anyone?
"Dude what the fuck!" His friend, Jam11111111111111eieieee witnessed what had happened. The wind was kind of chilly.
Rooo0000bbbsbd felt a giant pain in his chest, like he had done something wrong.
"Did you just turn Moni down? Do you know how many men would kill for that?"
"I...I..." Rob was so confused at this point. He didn't know where to go. He looked around.
A crowd had formed. Everywhere he looked all he saw were shocked faces.
Mostly men.
"Dude did you just do that to her? We had everything planned and everything."
"What we gonna do now dipshit? Pack it all away."
R10lb just stared. He looked up.
All he was met with was blackness, no stars out tonight...
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They both stared up at the sky.
"What do you think it's like up there" she asked.
"In the stars?"
"Yeah." she smiled.
"I don't know. I occasionally think it would be kind of funny to think it's just not real. Like it's just a bunch of flashlights they forgot to turn off."
"Dude...I'm fifteen and that's deep." Chuckling...he turned his head and looked at her.
They stared at each other for a what seemed like hours.
He is amazing...
He looked away back towards the stars.
"Ro...Rob?"
"Yeah?"
"Can-can we hold hands please?" He had initially blushed but then not thought about it.
"Of course, we are friends right?"
"Yeah-yeah that's why."
He held his palm out. She grabbed it, maybe a little too quickly.
"Thanks."
This is amazing. He is practically dying to go to prom with me.
She had squealed internally.
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"What are you waiting for? Get after her!"
Rob sprinted out of the car park and down the lane.
In the distance, he could see her dress flicke11111ng as she ran.
The school was located in a fairly packed neighbourhood. But no-one was out.
"Moni wait!"
Her house lay up ahead.
"Stay away from me!" She called back.
"Please I just want to ta-"
She stopped. Catching up, he regained his breath.
"And talk about what exactly? About the stars again? How green is NOT a creative colour? What? What is it Rob?" Her face was red with tears.
She had decided to wear a bright white dress, open back. Her chestnut hair was even tied up with her signature bow she wore all the time.
She was wearing some glittery white shoes to match.
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"Why do you wear that bow Moni?"
They were sat on her pink carpet, once again ,talking.
"Oh I don't know. Maybe it's just habit..."
"It suits you really well." They got up and sat on her bed.
"Well does it really?" They paused for a moment, before Monikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk83211oandoandakbuki3
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"Why do you wear that bow Moni?"
They were sat on her pink carpet, once again ,talking.
"Oh I don't know. Maybe it's just habit..."
"It suits you really well." They got up and sat on her bed.
"Well does it really?" They paused for a moment, before Moni brought him into a bone crushing hug.
"Thank you." She squealed. Before whispering "my love..."
"What was that?"
Shit why did I let that slip out?
"Oh err...nothing..."
"Oh really? Well I am just gonna have to get it out of you!"
He began tickling her sides, causing her laugh and scramble.
"No please I..." She used a move practised in her weekly judo, which involved flipping the person on top onto the bottom.
They paused and stared at each other. She was mounted...sexually on top of him. She leaned in.
"What are you two doing?!"
What the hell?
Is that...
"Mom what the fu-"
"I'll none of that language from you, young lady. What are you doing on top of your friend?"
"Look I'm sorry Mrs Tanaka. This is all my fault. We were just having a tickle fight and it got out of hand."
"That will not do. Leave at once young man."
And just like that he left.
Gone again.
Of course.
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"You are telling me you didn't once ever pick up on my signs? Signs I liked you! For fucks sake you are more dense than an anime character."
She slammed the door.