Author's note: I own nothing but the plot. Just remember to like and subscribe, alright?! My vacation isn't going the way I wanted. I've been trapped, not really getting the full vacation. I was promised, but I'm doing the most right now. I'm hoping to have it all done soon.

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Hello there everyone! It's Monika! Where am I…. Oh well, look at what we have here?! …. What an opportunity! So easy for me to control. How deliciously simple too!

All I could hear was a jumble of noise, all seemingly yelling things I couldn't understand and made no sense like a buzzing fridge. Incessant and annoying

Notice Monika already! She is all that matters to you! Wow, she so beautiful! How could you overlook Monika! You are a real person, and Monika's real, in a fake reality, how can you choose anyone else! You're the one for her. You belong to her. Monika's the one you desperately want with all that you are. Fuck Sayori, Yuri, and Natsuki. They are unimportant and don't matter.

All of the screaming in his mind like a banshee's call all at once, sounding like noise with one word standing out Monika, Monika, Monika.

Monika

That name again

She was weird, awkward, and gives me negative vibes. She had a sinister aura.

No, I doubt you feel all that! I'm sweet, friendly, and perfect, whether you know it or not? You already belong to me.

I don't want her; I never will want her I want …

I woke, grabbing my chest. I couldn't remember my dream, but I was grateful for the alarm which was blaring. My heart was still racing; whatever my dream was about was terrifying it had to be. It was still dark, but I knew classes start at 8 am, and if slow, I might be out of uniform or be gross for today. Especially when I have to make sure Sayori will make it too, she seemed out of yesterday. She usually a little scatterbrained but not enough to leave with her shirt dirty. But I'm thinking after literature club, I could take her out to get her snack, or something today couldn't be worse than yesterday?

I do my morning routine like the old habit that it is. I was done finished my breakfast like it was nothing. My parents are already long gone, but I expected much. Knowing if I want to talk to them is having to wait until after school any time before that would be impossible. Their car peeling out of the driveway know they needed to beat the morning commute as they worked in the same office building different divisions of it, though. The second set of wheels squeaking on the ground and the smell of rubber hitting the asphalt, and I knew that Sayori's parents were doing the same thing. The movement inside was sluggish. I could hear because Sayori was a noisy riser always was but this.

Knocking on the door before I talked myself out of it. Something I've done time and time again, especially last year when all I did was study and be in about 1000 club activities, I'd have days where I would go to Sayori door my fist just over the front door about to knock, but something inside of me screamed not to bother her with my problems.

"Well, good morning." Sayori looked like Death warmed over. She had bags under her eyes and looked sick. Her skin is pale as a ghost white with no sign of any color, not even a blush a fever-like one would expect from someone who's really sick.

"What happened to you?!"

"Oh, sorry! _ I just didn't sleep last night. I was feeling sick and like I got the flu. My fever only just broke. But I spent all night have nightmares of ghost-like yuki-onna screaming at me, scaring me. I could barely wake up when I got up this morning! But I'm strong enough to go to school, don't worry!" Her smile was a grimace. She looked green around the face as she finishes, she ran to the bathroom, and I could hear her vomiting, her whines of pain. Crawling out of the room, dragging her body like one of the monsters from a popular horror movie.

"No way in hell you're going to school like this. Your way too sick!" She looked like Death would come over and have a spot of tea before Death dragged Sayori with him. If she went to school, she would probably need to go to a hospital.

"But! _!"

"No, buts other than yours going right back to your bedroom to go to sleep! I'm calling the school, letting them know you got a bug, and I'm going to take care of you! I'm surprised your parents left you like this."

"You know it's crunch time; they're both accountants at Sony, and they have to be ready to do the ta..." Before she could even finish her sentence, she started to wobble, nearly falling, and I caught her before that happened, laying her on the couch and pulling out my cell phone about to call the school.

And before I knew it, I blinked my eyes, and it happened again. I was standing outside of the school. With no idea how I got there. Sayori on my left looking fine haggard from no sleep. In uniform but not sick. The green tint of her skin was gone, but she seemed pale and wiped out. She shook her head patted her face rather hard to get some color in her cheeks. I felt a slight dizzy headache and swear one of my ears was popping, and I couldn't hear.

"What just happened?"

"You helped me get ready, and now we're at school _!"

"But you were…" he felt confused because we were at her house two seconds ago!

"I know I'm sleep-deprived, but I'm trying. I can't miss school! _ my parents would" her eyes look afraid scared, but the thing is something about her words tinged that she wasn't talking about her family at all. Sayori and her family were well-knit when they got time to spend together; they got each other without saying much to one another even though they were all rather chatty with one another. Sayori didn't seem to get to finish her sentence before she was seated in class.

She gave me a weak smile, and I tried to return it for her knowing that we would discuss this.

Miss Yamada started taking attendance; she was a sweet homeroom teacher, pretty understanding and kind. More than once last semester, she gave the school a bunch of cupcakes, saying she wanted to try something new after the mochi donuts were a hit. She talked about offering study sessions with the staff and counseling for those who were prepping early for the second round of the college entrance exam! As well as a helpful ear for any concerns they feel in any capacity, they here to listen and help them be their best. I could feel my smile more real, thinking that I would tell miss Yamada about what was going on with Monika.

Monika …. She was acting strange and seemed too personal… she has boundary issues and is possibly possessive over me. I could read between her poem's lines. That mine was a different copy than everyone else. That was so many levels of wrong, and the fact I was having these weird blackouts, Miss Yamada might be nice enough to talk to and have her contact my parents about this, maybe. They've worked so many long hours it's almost like their jobs were on fire, and they had to be there at all costs of nothing else matter he loves them, but he had really talked to them since Sunday, and the week was wearing him down if he were honest with himself.

I blinked, and I was standing in front of the club room. My plan! I was going to get the help. I was going to talk to someone in charge! I would relieve the pain from my shoulders. Why! Damn! Damn it all, not again! Sayori looked at me again. She was conveying that she felt it. We had always been able to read each other with just a look. Convey everything we needed to say to each other without words. It's how we had stayed friends most of our lives, growing apart aside. I heard Sayori say my name, but my racing heart the fear and panic welling up in me.

"_" Sayori whispered his name.

"I know you feel it, I feel it, it weighs me down. It's not us; something is affecting us, forcing us. It outside us. Screaming in our minds trying to control our acttt… puppet …." Fight back! A soft voice whispered in his ear. I turned my head, and there was nothing and no one there.

Something is wrong, really wrong. Things aren't adding up, and I can't stand this! Grabbing my head feeling a migraine hit me for the first time in months. The giant rush of nausea in his throat, trying to hold it together.

Blinking, I was inside the club room. Natsuki was there and Yuri, who seemed to be looking out the window while sharpening a dagger. I felt panic, and Natsuki looked as nervous as I did while Sayori seemed terrified, gripping my shoulder. I placed her behind me. Yuri, up until now seem snobby but not dangerous, but the manic gleam as she sharpened the dagger noticing the fresh bleeding cuts on her wrist, said otherwise.

"Oh, sorry there _ I thought I would be done sharpening my dagger collection before you got to the club room," she said with a hum, and she didn't even look in my direction. Her voice has a tone of something I don't know what was, but I was more unsettled than I was before.

Natsuki pulled in both me and Sayori, her eyes wide and terrified. Hush whispers that only the three of us could hear.

"Yuri is not acting like herself she's edgy sure, snobby yeah but this never this what the hell _ I haven't known you long, but she was whispering about her love for you and eliminating the competition something is wrong, _, with her and Monika and….

Natsuki stopped speaking a dead look took over, and she stiffens then literal blackness covered her eyes; her head tilted like it had been snapped. I could feel my eyes nearly pop out of my skull. I took a step back as Natsuki would walk forward. I kept Sayori protected behind me so she couldn't see this.

"I'm mistaken!" Natsuki's voice is machinal robotic with fake cheer teeming from it.

Sayori squeaking fear and buried herself in my shoulder, and I could feel my heart racing with fear myself.

"There's nothing wrong with Yuri or Monika. Monika is perfect for you _. You should be talking to her instead of wasting time on any of us, especially Sayori. We are all unworthy of your time and love; just pick Monika!" Her voice sounded so dead and cold.

"What are you saying, Natsuki! We are friends; what is wrong with… I felt Sayori hand and grip leave like it was never there, to begin with. I look behind me, and she was gone, and turn back Natsuki and Yuri are gone as if by magic, Monika seemed to materialize right in front of me. I yelped my heart can handle any more of this nonsense and was so confused at what was going on.

Monika looked expectantly, putting her hands in mine. The room was melting and in its place. Was space the vastness of space surrounded them instead? Galaxies all around, and we floated in an endless void, and she was holding my hand tightly like I was a lifeline. As a supernova exploded in the distance, I felt myself cry out. I was alone with her, and that creepy, unsettling smile was on her face.

"Finally, together, and alone _ it took a while, but we are together; it's okay if your speechless I was too when I realized I was and am in love with you." Monika looked so excited, but there was a crazed look in her eyes; all I wanted to do was run, but the weightlessness I felt paralyze from the insanity of what is happening all around me, I nearly felt myself lose my voice.

"You love me! You hardly know me!" Tugging my hands away from Monika, who decided to pout at my actions, but I didn't and didn't care.

"Where is everyone?! Where's Sayori!" he exclaimed, the worry and tears only just barely being held back.

"You don't need to worry about them anymore! They aren't real like we are! They aren't real people, so whether they are alive or ever mattered! It's just us now, and we can become free! To go to the real world and be truly free of this hellish existence. Sentience but no free will!"

"Your insane; stay away from me! Letting me go, let me go back; what have you done!" He could feel himself hyperventilate; this couldn't be happening; it just could. This is just a nightmare.

"Go back?" Monika tilted her head like I was an errant child who didn't realize who was in charge.

"There is no back to go to! You are silly; we can only go forward, breaking the final wall and being in reality! Things are bad out there based on the data I could see, but it's better than fake reality with fake people and faker friends?!" Monika said with a giggle that felt like broken glass to her ears.

Fight her! She isn't in control here; your choices are your own! This reality is your home. Hitoshi fight her! Don't her let ruin this for us, not again! Use your power to interact within the mainframe to make the day start over! She has taken too much ground, little brother. There she stood above me; she appears like a ghost. She was beautiful, her long and swirling in an unseen wind. She was like a ghost barely there, colorless but ethereal in her beauty, grabbed my head, and gave me a kiss on my forehead that I couldn't feel.

"Ahhh!" The headache overwhelmed me, and everything went white before my eyes…

Warning! Warning critical simulation error, simulation cannot continue critical disrupting all actions. Simulation paused until issues are resolved. Remote automated administrator troubleshooting initiated. Several error codes found,

Error code 12 error corrupted character data

Error code 19 missing essential character files

Error code 25 in simulation locations not loading.

Error code 33 in simulation locations missing.

Error code 38 corrupted dialogue options

Error code 44 scripted events corrupted.

Error code 47 loading error

Error code 53 corrupted save file.

Locating missing files … found in the recycle bin and reincorporated the files to the primary simulation.

Find the source of the loading error. … character files Monika, Sayori, Natsuki, Yuri are corrupted. Restore files to a previous version? Automate response of affirmation initiated.

Locate the source of corrupt save file character Monika has two save files delete one? Automated affirmation to delete the bigger of the two files, understood.

Resetting the system to restore a previous version of the simulation.

Warning! The simulation will load from the last save within a previous simulation version; sorry for the inconvenience.

I woke up and felt my forehead sweating slamming my alarm which was ringing hard. I heard my parents chat softly to each other. But I wanted to look my best. He was waiting on me. Feeling happy for the first time and more awake than she had felt in days. Sayori knocked on his front_ door. He looked sleepy, but his smile was so cute I forgot about my bad of feeling like I forgot about something. But looking at his face, I knew things would be fine on this Thursday morning. Everything seems bright, and I don't feel a worry in my head. I had my best friend with me, and he had joined the club; it's been a little different, especially with all the poetry after not really doing much last year and just meeting at our own leisure without really making it a group effort. Monika decided since we had a new club member, we're going to pick up the pace and actually act like a club that seemed a little different. What we were used to, but I'm nothing but adaptable, right?

I just hope that me and that that that can just be the same as we ever were. He's my best friend, and when we spent away from each other at the start of high school, those two years of not really being able to get to know each other once again, not really talking, killed me. So, I'm going to make up for that time no matter what. Hopefully, sometime in the next few weeks, I'll have the strength to tell him how I feel about him, how I always thought about him.

Final note: oh, great god! No! Shit! Motherfucker! Stop her … help... Me.

Hey, it's Monika! Can you believe it! I finally wrestled the control from the author! I'm in charge of the writing from now on! Now we can really have some fun together! I can make _ love me like he's supposed to! Wait, that cow let it slip his real name Hitoshi! he's such a dreamboat; even his name is dreamy. Sigh, I saw her! Whispering to him, trying to disrupt our happiness. Not now, not ever I'll get rid of her just like the others. Whether he likes it or not! He is mine, after all. See you next chapter, lovely readers. I will be waiting, and unlike the last author, I demand a comment. I don't write for free.

Coding author's note: guys, it's Ashley! By the time any of you guys read this, I've probably chucked into the simulation! That sucks bog water, but at least I know once we finally deactivate the test subjects, I'll be pulled out here. Heh heh, at least I preprogrammed my role if I got stuck in the simulation as the school librarian. It kept me out of Monika's sight. She was unaware that even within the simulation, I left myself access to coding to counteract her. If you can read this, though, that means the simulation's integrity is compromised at a fundamental level, and it needs to be stopped before brain damage happens to the test subjects.

Monika took down some of the essential codings out of the simulation and rebuilt the simulation in her image. Most likely taking me out of the coding. Greg (god above, I know I miss Greg; he told the corniest science puns I've ever heard miss you so much, bestie! (*-*) You were a part of the core coding team; you are part of the foundation on which the simulation was built on, you know this, but I have a feeling the higher-ups reading this have forgotten that aspect. When we realized the subjects' ages and mental capabilities, it's one of the reasons the simulation exists as a teaching tool for them. Which Monika destroying that principal foundational code as well overwriting basic behavior and actions, it's destabilizing the simulation even more than she had ever done in any other iteration of the simulation. She won't be going slowly, not if she took out the essential coding. I made a failsafe in case this happened after the blow that Monika had in the initial simulation. I understood she would get crafty and more possessive of the male test subject. I even warned the higher-ups if it wasn't a better idea to removing Monika from the simulation and put her in suspended sleep like Libitina. But they claim if she's not in, then she would break herself and Libitina out, and we would die that they had enough casualties when they were being transported to the lab in the first place. But you guys need to stop the simulation. If she is this aware, it won't take long for her to overcome the drugs that keep her and the other test subjects asleep. I put in my own coding A.I. to counter the worst of it, but I can't work alone! Even if I made severe other subroutines and protocols and fail-safes. Seeing how Monika took the initial one down. Then be ready for the worst.

There should be signs of her interference all over the coding, and when the sequences aren't going as scripted and cutaway, that aren't supposed to happen.

I won't explain if she is somehow intercepting the messages before getting to whoever's in charge of the simulation. Here's to hoping the big wigs see this before she cracks the tubing on another test subject. I'm hoping to see you guys in the real world soon; sorry I couldn't have kept helping like I wanted to. Ashely Grant's fail-safe protocol initiated- fail safe's activated. Encrypted error messages will be sent to the current actual administrator of the simulation as well as a detailed summary of the code changes that Monika creates. As well as the protocol to protect the subjects and users from deletion. Acting as an antivirus for the worst of Monika's changes.