'Thoughts'

"Talking"

Unknown Location

Hachiman POV

I don't recognize this ceiling or this room. I think as I start to get out of bed, picking up my phone on the way up. "Where am I?" I look around the room expecting for something to show up, but nothing happens.

As I look around again I notice my uniform and bag near the closet. Putting that information away for later, I leave the room and start heading downstairs to find out where I am. Once I explore enough of the first floor. I head towards the kitchen where I see a note on the fridge.

'Hey Hachi, I left a boxed lunch on the countertop so try not to be late to school.

-Love, Mom.'

Is this some elaborate prank? That doesn't explain why I'm in a completely different house. No sign of Komachi anywhere either so she probably already knows what's happening or is as clueless as me.

Well there's not much I can do about it right now. So I'll go to the room I woke up in to change into my school uniform, then head to school.

I go upstairs and I find both my uniform and school bag where I last saw them and change into them.

Outside The House

As I exit the house I woke up in, I pull out my phone and check google maps as to where I am, and how far Sobu High is from where I am. I'm surprised to see it's not a long walk from where I currently am.

After a couple of minutes of walking I start to hear someone yelling behind me.

"Hey! HEY!" Who could have that much energy in the morning to be yelling so loud in the morning. As I turned around I notice whoever was yelling was around 30 feet away. I didn't recognize them but they seemed to be talking to me, but there's no way she's talking to me. Must be a case of mistaken identity so I choose to ignore her and continue walking to school. After a couple of seconds I start hearing footsteps behind me and a voice speaks out.

"Hey, why are you ignoring me?" As I turn around the first thing I notice is her messy coral pink hair. "Excuse me?" I ask, irritated at the fact I have to socialize so early in the morning.

"I know you saw me! you clearly looked my way and ignored me." She says with a pout.

Any normal person would do that. "Do I know you?"

"What are you talking about Hachiman! It's me, Sayori!" She says pointing at her pouting face. 'Aren't you acting a bit too friendly for someone I just met?'

I decide to just roll with it, so I can just get to school faster and ditch her. "Ah, Sayori. Sorry about that, I'm just really tired that I didn't recognize you."

She sighs "Did you stay up playing games all night?"

"Yeah." I half-lie, I feel tired just not for that reason. We continue walking towards school until she starts up again. "I nearly overslept again! I'm glad I was able to catch up to you!"

'I'm 100 percent sure we've never met before. What's up with this girl?' Giving her a half irritated look, that she doesn't seem to notice. 'Just had to deal with an airhead today of all days.'

I choose to just give her dismissive answers as if to tell her 'leave me alone', but she doesn't seem to get the message. As the conversation starts to die down I begin to wonder how this girl even knows who I am or who she is.

My thoughts are interrupted as I notice that we've arrived at the gates of Sobu High. The girl speaks up "I'll see you later Hachiman." As she waves goodbye.

I choose not to wave back. One thought flows through my head the whole time.

'Who was that?'

2nd Year Hall

After whatever that was, I start heading to class. 'Who was that girl? She knew who I was and even called me by my first name. Was it a dare from her friends? That doesn't explain why she acted friendly with me and called me Hachiman instead of Hikitani like others do.' Not that I like being called Hikitani.

As I open the door to my classroom I notice that I'm a bit early considering there's only two other students here. 'That means Hiratsuka-sensei wont knock me out with her killer punches for being late.' As relief washes over me I sit at my desk and lay my head down while I wait for class to start.

After a couple of minutes the bell rings and I notice a teacher that isn't Hiratsuka-sensei come in. "Alright class get your notebooks out as I call role." Is Hiratsuka-sensei not here? Did she get stood up last night? Is that why she's not here? Man that's rough, If only I was born ten years earlier then maybe she wouldn't have to deal with that.

One thing I notice however is that this teacher is an actual teacher and not a substitute. As my mind begins to wander I start spacing out until I hear the teacher speak out. "Hikigaya Hachiman."

"Here." I say. I begin to feel extremely tired after a couple of minutes that I end up falling asleep.

~ringg, ringg~

I yawn as I stand up from my desk. Walking towards the classroom exit, so that I can eat at my usual spot near the tennis courts.

The way there was uneventful, thankfully. I choose to sit on the cement stairs and start eating the lunch prepared by my Mom. It's surprisingly good. Since she's always busy with work I'm never able to eat her food. So It was nice of her to make it for me even when she's so busy.

I continue eating my food until I hear some chatter in front of me from two first years.

"Hey, look, it's that weirdo."

'Yeah, yeah, whatever.' Just as I was about to ignore them, they said something else.

"The one who would read Manga in class?" The other girl asks.

"Yeah, that's her sitting over there" The girl from before says pointing at a pink haired girl sitting by herself on a bench next to the courts.

"Hey, let's mess with her." The one pointing suggests.

"How though?"

"I think she's eaten enough, don't you?"

They quickly start walking towards the girl on the bench. Until they're right in front of her.

"Hey, whatcha got there?" The one who suggested to mess with her asks mockingly.

"My lunch." The girl on the bench clearly knows what's up, but looks too defeated to even try and defend herself.

"Well don't you think you've eaten enough? You gotta leave some for the rest of us." The girl on the bench just sighs as she gives the bully her boxed lunch.

The bully and her friend start leaving as they got what they came for. As they pass me by they drop the girls lunch into trash near me.

"Oh my God! you're so mean." The friend says while laughing.

"Whatever. By the way did you see that guy we passed by? He was kinda hot, do you think I got a chance with him?" The bully asks.

'I must be hearing things...' Having lost my appetite I put my lunch away as I start walking towards the vending machine.

While Maxx Coffee is the drink from the heavens it is also an acquired taste. So I decided to get strawberry milk instead. I start heading back towards the bench the girl was at. Once I arrive I see her there with her head down. I notice her head turning a little in my direction but not enough for me to see her face and vice versa. I sigh as I place my half eaten lunch with new chopsticks and the strawberry milk next to her.

"It's not much but it should keep you from going hungry." I say, I hear a small "Why?" as I walk away but don't bother answering.

'Who knows? Maybe it was pity, or maybe because I was bullied as well?' I just sigh and head to class.

After School

~Ringg, Ringg~

I stand up from my desk and look towards where Yuigahama sits and notice it's empty. Assuming she's already on her way to the club I exit the class, and head to the service club.

Once I arrive at the entrance of the Service Club I notice that the sign that indicates that this is the Service Club isn't there.

I gently open the door, but the room is completely empty and all the desks are stacked at the back of the room. No sign of Yuigahama or Yukinoshita anywhere. If they were going to cancel the club meeting they should've let me know.

At least this gives me time to start questioning why my house suddenly got renovated. As I start heading towards the exit I notice the airhead from this morning is ahead of me. I try to activate 'Stealth Hikki' to avoid notice but the second she looks in my direction it immediately fails. 'I trained that skill to perfection. How could it fail? I must be rusty.'

"Hachiman there you are! I was looking for you. You weren't in class so I thought you had already headed home."

I decided to humor her with an answer. "I was headed to my club but it looks like the meeting was canceled."

She gasps in surprise. "You're in a club? How come you never told me?" 'Why the heck should I tell you what happens in my life. Who even are you?'

"Well if you're not busy how about you come visit my club? We made some snacks but I don't think we can finish them all."

I'm never one to reject free food, safety be damned, so I choose to go along with her. "Sure I'll visit your club."

"Really? That's great! I'm sure you'll get along great with everyone." She beams happily

I follow her to what is probably her club. I read the sign at the front door "Literature Club." This girl doesn't seem like the type to read books, she looks more like she'd hang out with the Hayama clique. Actually now that I think about it she kind of reminds me of Yuigahama. While I'm thinking this she starts to open the door. "Hey guys, I brought the new member!"

'Hold on new member?'

"Let me introduce you guys to my childhood friend Hachiman!"

'Childhood friend? I'm pretty sure I would've recognized who you were if that were true.' I start looking at the other occupants in the room and I can confidently say that I have no clue who they are.

I notice they're all staring at me. One looks nervous, another one looks angry, and the last one looks...shocked? Not wanting to be rude I introduce myself more formally than the introduction the overly friendly girl gave.

"It's nice to meet you all, my name is Hikigaya Hachiman." I give a light bow as well. 'See Yukinoshita I can be formal if I want to ...Well the only reason I was formal was because they're the ones who are going to feed me, but my point still stands.'

Literature Club

As we all continue to stare at each other the shortest one speaks out first."Really Sayori? You brought a boy?" As she speaks I notice her pink hair that goes down to around her chin. 'Is that the girl from lunch? What a coincidence.' I don't show my surprise.

"Is there something wrong with me being a boy?" Is she sexist or something? It's not like I can control what I was born as, you know. Even then I'm surprised they don't know who I am considering how infamous I am after the Cultural Festival from last semester.

"No there's nothing wrong, j-just shut up." She looks away mad. 'Wow did she actually just do the classic Tsundere Move? Well, all things considered, it's more tsun than dere.'

Someone else finally speaks up, Who just so happens to be the tallest one in the club not including me. "It's very nice to meet you, my name is Yuri. Sayori has told us all about you." So this purple haired girl is Yuri. I give her a nod as greetings and turn to the pink haired tsundere as if to ask for her name.

"Hm...? Oh my name is Natsuki." 'Are they all giving me their first names? Isn't that really informal?' I sigh inwardly and turn to the last person who hasn't introduced themselves. Who still looks like a deer in the headlights. I fake cough to get her attention.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was just surprised to see you here Hikigaya-kun."

'She knows me?' "Do I know you?"

"Hikigaya-kun you don't remember me? It's me Monika, we had the same class last year, I was the Class President."

'Riiiight, I'm pretty sure I would've recognized who you were the second I saw you then.' "I'm sorry Monika-san I'm just really tired." I decided to continue the lie from this morning.

"There's no need to be so formal we're friends, aren't we?"

"Uh... right we are aren't we?" 'Friends? yeah right I don't need friends when I have my cute little sister Komachi. Wait, Why are they all looking at me with disgust? I didn't even say anything.'

"Oh right!, I'd like to welcome you to the Literature Club as the President of said club, I can say with confidence that we're all happy that you came to visit us Hikigaya-kun."

"Thanks for having me." I say out of courtesy.

"Well don't just stand there come and have a seat Hachiman!" Man this girl reminds me way too much of Yuigahama, the only thing she's missing is Yuigahama's Yuis If you know what I mean. No! bad thoughts! As I sit right next to Sayori at the makeshift table made of 6 desks bunched up next to each other she suddenly engages another conversation with me.

"You're going to love the cupcakes Natsuki made, they're the best!" I give her a nod and a low hum as a response. 'So pinky is the one who made the snacks.'

Off to the side I see Yuri preparing what looks to be tea and Natsuki unwrapping a plate of what I assume is the cupcakes if what the airhead said is to be believed. Somewhere inside me I get the sudden urge to help them bring the snacks to the table. Was it manly pride or something else, Who knows? As I stand up and walk over I ask them both "Do you need any help with any of that?"

Pinky answers first. "No, I'm fine." Yuri however, "Um... sure just help me place cups for everyone." I nod and go grab 5 Styrofoam cups, then head back to the table.

As I place the cups on the desks, Monika speaks with a smile. "It was very nice of you to try and help out Hikigaya-kun."

"I wasn't trying to be nice, it was just out of courtesy"

"Hehe... Hachiman always says that when trying to be nice." 'How does the airhead even know this? Has she been stalking me my whole life or something?' I give her a creeped out stare that she doesn't seem to notice.

"Ta-Da!" Pinky yells excitedly as she reveals a dozen cupcakes that are shaped to look like cats with icing as whiskers and little pieces of chocolate as ears.

"Woah, they look so cute!" I hear the airhead say as she picks one up. "They're so good too!" As she finishes a bite.

'Well no time like the present.' as I pick one up and turn it around to find a good spot to bite in. 'Ah, there it is.' As I take the first bite. 'All I can taste is heaven, this would go so well with a Maxx Coffee.' While chewing I notice that Pinky is looking in my direction nervously as if expecting something. Once I finished my first bite I told her what I thought. "It was good."

At first she seems satisfied but quickly looks embarrassed? "I didn't make them for you or anything!"

"Eh? But Natsuki when I told you I was bringing a new member you said you would make cupcakes to welcome them so you technically did make them for him." Of course the airhead says this and it makes Pinky get even more embarrassed.

At the corner of my eye I see Yuri pouring some tea into my cup. I give her a small nod and take a sip of the tea. "While tea may not be my favorite, this is easily some of the best tea I've drank." and it honestly was, it's a close competitor to Yukinoshita's tea.

"I-I see, T-Thank you for the c-compliment." It wasn't my intention to embarrass her, but I nearly converted to Buddhism from the sheer amount of cuteness.

'Actually, now that I notice, why are they all either really cute or really beautiful?' Damned Romcom gods. I turn my attention to Yuri who suddenly asks me a question.

"So Hikigaya-san, What types of books do you read?"

TO BE CONTINUED

So this is the first time i've ever done this so i dunno if this was good or bad. Another problem was trying to make characters act like how they act from their respective works. Any constructive criticism is welcome.