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Chapter 6: Can we spend more time together?

MC: "Crap, crap, crap, crap, I need to hurry home and start cleaning up my house before tomorrow." He quickly runs all the way from school to his house. The closer he got home the more nervous he gets as there are going to be four girls coming over to his house. The only good news is that not all of them are going to be at his place at the same time though. (I hope Sayori doesn't say a word about my house to the others. I could die from embarrassment if she told them that my house is messy. Then again she's one to talk?) As he continues running, he notices his house is just up ahead. When he got near it, he took the time to catch his breath before calling his parents to let them know what's going on.

Mom: "Alright then just make sure you clean up after yourselves and to be nice to them."

MC: "Right"

Dad: "And remember son always use protection." He starts chuckling.

MC: "Dad! Nothing like that is going to happen. I told you already."

Mom: "Well then, we best be leaving now son. Take care of yourself and the house and to be careful. I'm not ready to be a grandmother yet."

MC: "Damnit mom! I'm hanging up the phone, bye."

Mom: "Bye son." He hangs up the phone.

MC: "Oh my god you two." He massages his head. (Now that think about it. What were their jobs anyways? Not only that, but … something about my dad seems off?) "Aw who cares. Right now I need to get started with cleaning. Both Sayori and Monika are coming over tomorrow to work on the pamphlets. … Sayori." (I wonder how she's doing? Wonder if she got her stuff from my house?" He looks outside and stares at the sky as it slowly gets dark.

He continued to stare up at the sky lost in thought with what occurred these past few days and of his past. (Depression, left alone, our childhood, my memories. Why can't I remember much of how childhood? I'm able to remember certain events, but my brain is a bit hazy when I try to think about what else we did as kids.) As he continues to think to himself. His phone rang causing him to snap out of it. "Hello?"

Sayori: "Hey MC, I heard what's going on from Monika."

MC: "Yeah thought so." He lays on the couch.

Sayori: "Bet you already have a lot of dirty thoughts with all of us cute girls coming over?" She giggles.

MC: "My dad already beat you to it. I wish the both of you would stop teasing me about stuff like this."

Sayori: "I know, I know, I'm sorry about that."

MC: "Oh by the way did you get your stuff yet?" He sat up.

Sayori: "Yeah I did, but I accidently took your spare key with me, sorry. I promise to give it back to you tomorrow."

MC: "Alright then. Hey, so do you know what time you're showing up tomorrow?"

Sayori: "Well? I'd say, I should be there around twelve?"

MC: "Alright if you say so?"

Sayori: "Well then, I'll see you soon."

MC: "Alright. One more thing, how did the your trip to the doctor go?"

Sayori: "Oh well he gave me anti-depressant pills, sssooo."

MC: "Alright I'll stop you right there. Just make sure you take them or else I'll have to go over there and force you to take them."

Sayori: "Hmph! Meanie."

MC: "Can't blame me for worrying. Last I remembered you always hated taking your meds when we were kids."

Sayori: "You don't have to remind me. It always tasted horrible."

MC: "Well I could always put it in your food if you like?"

Sayori: "You better not. I'll just see you tomorrow. Take care."

MC: "Same to you, bye." They both hang up. *Sigh* "Alright then let's get cleaning." (I should just clean areas that they would most like go to? That would be the bathrooms, my room, living room, and kitchen. Yeah, I'll just clean those areas for now.) He grabs his equipment and begins cleaning around the house for about a couple of hours until he heard his stomach growl.

Not wanting to cook as it would just waste time and give him more to clean, he just decided to heat up left overs. Soon after he he ate and finished cleaning around. He took his shower and headed straight to bed. "Aw man. That was tiring, but hey. I manage to finish. I better get some sleep now. I'm exhausted and I'm going to need all the energy I need, if I'm going to be helping Sayori and Monika."

As he went into a deep sleep he sees the same reoccurring nightmare once again. He walked through the darkness seeing Sayori hang herself, a girl's broken body, and a girl stabbing herself. When he saw them, he noticed that one of them was missing. He looked all around himself and saw nothing of the girl who cries. When he went further down, that's when he saw her. He walks up to her seeing her on her knee's sobbing. When he got up close, he tried to touch her shoulder. Only for her to turn to him.

Monika: "Do you like to torture me! You're an awful person! I did all this for you!" Horrified at what he saw. The girl who cries was Monika.

MC: "Monika, I …" Before he could finish his sentence, she disappears into the shadows. "... Monika …"

?: "I'm sorry for the nightmares. I can't help you stop them."

MC: "Who are you?"

?: "There is something you might want to see."

MC: "Something that I want to see? What are you on about?" Ignoring his question, MC is taken to a new area. One that's more familiar to him. "The club room?" He looks over and sees all four girls in the room. Unable to interact with them, all he could do was listen to their conversation. However what caught his attention was a familiar voice.

Mystery Boy: "There's something I want to talk about. I want to tell you all the reason why I'm like this."

*Alarm Clock Rings*

MC wakes up and turns off his alarm with frustration.

MC: "Damnit! What was that all about? Just who's voice is that? Who was that boy? He sounded very familiar?" He got off his bed and headed straight to his bathroom to washed his face. Just as he finished drying up his face he saw his reflection again. It took him by surprised at what he saw again. Those crimson red eyes, but something was different this time. The reflection isn't going away. He looked deep into his reflections. Those red eyes to his gold eyes. The more he looks at it, the more pain he feels in his head. "Just who the hell am I?"

?: "Just a monster." He moves away from the mirror in shock. "The sins you committed. Will never fade away."

MC: "What the hell? Who are you?" When he asked that question, the voice started laughing at him. Soon enough he blacked out and fell into the darkness. Next thing he knows, a voice is talking to him. The same voice that mocks him.

?: "You can't save them. You tried before and in the end you couldn't keep your promise." The laughs. "Can you even trust them? Can you accept the truth? Your so called friends betrayed one another for the sake of their happiness. When in reality there is no happiness." The voice laughs demonically. "You'll know the truth soon enough and when that time comes you will know true Despair."

He soon wakes up with the pain in his head gone. He got up off the bathroom floor while breathing heavily and shakes his head.

MC: "What the … Have I gone mad!?" He tries to catch his breath before heading to the kitchen to get a glass of water. When he finishes drinking a full glass of ice cold water he went back to his room and sat on his bed. (Those nightmares. There's no way they can be real and yet? All those voices in my head. They all sounded familiar like I met them somewhere before?)

*Bzzzt* He looks to his nightstand and sees that he got a text from Monika. Hey Michael just letting you know I might be a couple minutes late, so just start without me. Kay see you and Sayori soon. After reading it he looked at the time and realized that it's almost going to be twelve. When he saw that, he started to panic as Sayori is just about to come over. He quickly ran to his bathroom to brush his teeth and shower. Soon after he was done, he quickly rushed out of his bathroom to his closet and tried to figure out what to wear since it would be weird if he wore his school uniform when there is no school today.

"Crap what should I wear? Uh why do I have so much black clothes? You think I have more to wear, but no I don't. Screw it, it's not like I'm trying to impress them or anything?" He grabbed a plain black t-shirt and dark blue jeans. When he tried to quickly put on his pants he fell down for a moment. "Damn" He got back up and zipped his pants up. He then went to his parents room to grab some medication hoping it would help with his headaches and nightmares. After taking a pill he ran downstairs to make himself a sandwich and quickly ate it, almost choking on it. By the time he drank more water to help, he heard the door unlock.

(Oh shit. I forgot she has my spare key.)

Sayori: "Hey MC! Hope you're ready? Hmm?" She looks at his face. "You look like you've seen a ghost?"

MC: "W-what no? Ha ha ha." (Can't let her know that I overslept.)

Sayori: "Alright then, I brought my laptop for the pamphlets."

MC: "Great and I got the printer ready yesterday."

Sayori: "Where should I put this?"

MC: "The kitchen should be fine." She goes to the kitchen and start up her laptop. When she logged in she started working on them. "How are we designing them?"

Sayori: "Monika sent me a picture of the rough draft, so all I have to do is recreate them through my laptop."

MC: "I see, so that's what she's been doing during free time?"

Sayori: "Oh before I forget here are your spare keys."

MC: "Thank you." The front doorbell rings. "Wonder if that's her?" He walks up to the door and opens it.

Monika: "Hello Michael, sorry for being late, I had to get some supplies." He just stands there and stares at her. "What's wrong? Are you checking me out?" She smirks.

MC: "A little since I'm not used to you wearing casual clothing." (Damn that green top matches her eyes.)

Monika: "I could say the same for you. Black really brings out your eyes."

MC: (Roll with it.) "Thanks, well Sayori is in the kitchen getting the pamphlets ready."

Monika: "Perfect." She walks to the kitchen and sees her. "Hi Sayori."

Sayori: "Monika!" She gives her a huge hug.

Monika: "Here I brought the supplies we're going to need." She holds up a bag.

MC: "Here let me get that for you." He grabs the bag from her.

Monika: "Why thank you. How are the pamphlets?"

Sayori: "Almost finished."

Monika: "Perfect, hey Michael where's your bathroom I really need to go?"

MC: "Oh its just around the corner of the kitchen. The door should be open?"

Monika: "Thank you." She leaves for the bathroom.

Sayori: "MC your drooling."

MC: "What? No I'm not." She starts to giggle.

Sayori: "And here I thought you like Yuri."

MC: "What makes you say that?"

Sayori: "Just a feeling."

MC: "…" (Why does she ship me with Yuri. I mean she's cute, but … no. There's no time to think about her pretty purple eyes. Damnit!) Monika walks back in.

Monika: "Okay everyone, I'm back. What I miss?" She looks at MC's blushing face as he hits his head on the wall and Sayori laughs uncontrollably. "Huh?" A couple of minutes had passed and Sayori was finished with the pamphlets.

Sayori: "Ok it's all done so let's print them."

MC: "The printer is already on, so I'll go get them." He tries to rush off, but Monika stops him.

Monika: "Hang on Michael let me help you. How many did you print Sayori?"

Sayori: "Uh … Forty? Is that enough?"

Monika: "Yeah that should be good enough. Come on Michael let's go get them."

MC: "Right" He leads the way with Monika following close by and reached his dad's office upstairs. "Here it is. My dad's office." Just before they enter, Monika asked him a question.

Monika: "So Michael? How do you like being in the club?"

MC: "Great why do you ask?"

Monika: "It's just, we don't spend much time together, so I never had the chance to talk to you, and I don't know where you go during lunch."

MC: "I see, sorry about that."

Monika: "Don't be. I'm glad that you're already bonding with the others." For a moment MC remembered the nightmare he had with Monika crying about being alone.

MC: "If you like to know where I go during lunch, I'm usually either at the school plaza or the courtyard. Sometimes I'm with Sayori, so if you ever want to talk feel free to join us. Word of warning our conversation might not make much sense, so?"

Monika: "That's okay I don't mind. Thank you."

MC: "You're welcome." He enters his dad's office. While he gets the print outs, Monika stood in silence.

Monika: "Hey can I tell you something?"

MC: "Go on ahead."

Monika: "I, I really appreciate meeting you." He looks to her in confusion. "You're the only guy I know that doesn't put me on a pedestal, but instead as a friend. Thank you."

MC: "Y-you don't have to thank me. You still have the others to support you, so if you ever feel lonely just know you have us." Monika's face turns red as she walks up to him and give him a hug. "Monika?" Ignoring his comment, she just stayed there in front of him. Her forehead on his chest. (This feeling again? It feels familiar and yet, so calming."

Monika: "You're warm and gentle. I feel so calm and at ease. I wonder why?"

MC: "I wonder too." He hugs her back. "Monika"

Monika: "Not yet. Let me be selfish a little longer."

MC: (Selfish? Where have I heard that before?) "Alright, if that's what you want then." They held each other for a little while longer until they finally broke off from the hug. She smiles happily at him and helps him carry the print outs back downstairs where Sayori is waiting.

Monika: "Hey so if you ever have free time can we spend some more time together?"

MC: "Of course." She smiles more and they both walk down the stairs with paper in hand. "So what are we going to do with these?"

Monika: "We're going to use glue and glitter to make the pamphlets sparkle. Just use your imagination when you design them. We could make each pamphlets different from each other to show their uniqueness."

MC: "Alright then, Sayori you ready?"

Sayori: "Of course I am. I'm the Vice President."

Monika: "That's the spirit. Let's get started."

All three of them got to work designing each of the pamphlets, making sure each one was different from one another. Some of them looked cute others looked more sophisticated and some just looked … uh? Never mind that. Despite the hard work of designing forty pamphlets all three of them had fun creating the designs and to their surprise they finished earlier than expected.

Monika: "I can't believe we finished this early."

Sayori: "It's thank to MC for helping us."

MC: "Oh come on I didn't do that much, but thanks. I'm glad to have helped." Sayori sat near him and started snuggling up to him only for Monika to the do the same. Perhaps out of jealousy? (Oh God! They all smell nice. Wait must resist.) He hears someone's stomach growl.

Monika: "Sorry that was me."

MC: "You girls hungry?"

Sayori: "Yes! I'm starving."

MC: "No surprise there. Let me get dinner started. I got frozen pizza in the fridge that I took out of the freezer."

Sayori: "Yay pizza!"

Monika: "I stopped eating meat a long time ago, but I guess could eat a couple just once."

MC: "Alright just let me put it the oven." He grabs the pizza out of the fridge and turned on the oven. He soon went to the living room to turn on the TV so they could have some entertainment. He tried to turn it on, but nothing was occurring. "What the hell? It was working yesterday." After a few attempts he tried to do it manually to see if there was any disconnection, but couldn't figure it out. He walked back to the girls.

"Hey, so the TV in the living room isn't working so let's head to my room." Both girls did what he asked and headed to his room while he stayed behind to place the pizza in the oven and placed the timer in his phone so it wouldn't burn. After all that was set up he went to his room where the girls are sitting on his bed. "Ok the pizza is in the oven, just got to wait for a couple of minutes to … why are you two looking at me like that?" Both girls look at him with a concern look on their faces.

Sayori: "Oh nothing, just thought of how convenient it is that the living room TV isn't working and you brought us both to your room."

MC: "W-what no its nothing like that?"

Monika: "Oh Michael, you could at least buy me a drink first." Both girls started giggling while MC ignores them and turns on the TV.

MC: "What do you feel like watching ladies?"

Monika: "Ladies? Wow Michael you do know how to treat a girl." He face palms and Sayori takes the remote from his hands.

Sayori: "Let me see, hmm what's good on television?" While she channel surfs Monika looks around the room.

Monika: "Nice room you got here, so nice and clean."

MC: "Oh uh thank you."

Monika: "Nice to know that having a bunch of cute girls over would motivate you into cleaning."

MC: "Stop picking on me." Everyone starts to laugh together.

Monika: "Hmm?" She notices something on MC's night stand. "What's this a card?" He notices this and tried to explain, but Monika takes a closer look at it. "Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend? Did you used to play Duel Monsters?"

MC: "I used to when I was young, but not anymore. Wait you know what it is?"

Monika: "I used to play it when I was a young girl. I know not very girly of me right?"

MC: "Oh no I don't think that way. You see this card is my favorite so I keep it near me. Did you have a favorite card?"

Monika: "Oh no it was a long time ago that I don't really remember what was my favorite was."

*Alarm Clock Rings*

MC: "Oh, looks like the pizzas ready." He heads downstairs and grabs a pair of mittens. He set it on top of the stove and went to the fridge to grab everyone drinks. He wasn't sure what they would like to drink so he got them all orange juice. After he set up everything he headed back upstairs with the pizza and drinks. "Alright girls pizza is ready!"

Sayori cheered and grabbed some of the pizza and started stuffing her face. Monika took a couple of slices and started eating after thanking MC for the food. Soon after Sayori gave her thanks, but with food in her mouth. "Did you find anything to watch?" Sayori swallows her food.

Sayori: "Pokémon!" The two of them watched what Sayori found and enjoyed their food. By the time they finished Sayori looked at her phone. "Yikes it's almost going to be nine." Both MC and Monika look at their phones. "If we stay here any longer it's going to be a sleepover."

Monika: "Well if that's the case I don't mind staying over the night."

Sayori: "What no! As the Vice President I cannot allow this."

Monika: "But we're not in the club."

Sayori: "Sorry, but I don't want you to be in trouble with your parents."

Monika: "Wow, that's … a pretty good counter argument. Sorry Michael, maybe next time?"

MC: "That's ok, your always welcome over."

Monika: "In that case I'll let you know when I decide to come over. Just make sure your room is clean."

MC: "Ha, ha, very funny." He leads them both to the front door.

Monika: "Okay I'm leaving you in charge of watching over the pamphlets until the Festival. Can you handle that?"

MC: "Don't worry about. You can leave it to me."

Monika: "Good, well I'll see you both Monday then." She waves goodbye and leaves.

Sayori: "Well I'll see you later too MC. Oh by the way make sure you take good care of Yuri and Natsuki." She winks at him.

MC: "Sayori!" She giggles and skips her way home with MC chasing her to his front gate, but she stops in place and turns to him. "Hm?"

Sayori: "Just be gentle with Yuri. Ok? Bye MC!" He tries to say something to her, but instead just said bye to her and went back inside his house.

MC: "Oh man … Yuri. Come on this should be easy, but why do I feel so nervous?" He starts cleaning up the kitchen a bit. After he finishes he took a shower and then went to his parents room to get some medication to help with his nightmares. When he found it and took a pill, he went back to his room and prepared for bed. (Today's been a long day. Hmm those voices I've been hearing still bothers me. However one of those voices sounded familiar? Specifically his voice.)

End of Chapter 6