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I decided if I'm going to continue this story then I'll format it like the show. Shorter chapters that make up one long story. If you guys enjoy it then please let me know. Enjoy :)

An unsuccessful rejection

(The next day, PK Academy class 3)

The pink haired, glasses wearing psychic high school student Kusuo Saiki sat at his desk a few minutes before the morning classes were to begin as his classmates continued to poor in. On the outside was Kusuo's standard blank expression but on the inside he was a little more expressive. 'Wow, after having a night to sleep on my decision to reject Teruhashi's feelings. I feel… great. Great may be an overstatement but I definitely feel relieved, like someone lifted a massive boulder from my shoulder for the first time in months. Not only did I manage to express my lack of feelings to the most popular girl in school but now I have an excuse for ignoring and avoiding her. She's been rejected and I can just say I don't want things to be awkward between us. Now if only I could reject Nendou.' Just then a massive high school student, standing at well over six feet tall with a scar over his left eye, an unflattering blonde mohawk and a ridiculous looking cleft chin began towering over Kusuo Saiki.

"Hey buddy!" Nendou called down with his dumb sounding voice. "Anything interesting happen to you after school yesterday?"

'Not a thing Nendou.' Saiki thought as a satisfied smirk formed over his face. 'Huh?'

Just then Kokomi Teruhashi appeared in the classroom doorway, a panic expression formed on her face. 'What? What the hell does HE think HE's doing here. Don't you know after pulling a stunt like you did yesterday it would've been customary to stay home from school for at least a week! How could he even so much as dare to show his face around here after what he did to me? Is he smirking?'

'Sorry Teruhashi, I'm sure this is new for you but it will be a good experience going forward. Trust me.' Saiki thought.

'Ugh this, is so embarrassing. I'm going to have to walk past him to get to my seat, no way is that going to happen.' Teruhashi thought as she began to grit her perfect teeth. 'No way. I'm not giving him the satisfaction! I'm going to the nurse and then I'm going home to my secret stash of chocolate cake.'

Before Teruhashi could execute her escape plan a swarm of her "fans" formed around her. "Teruhashi?" "What's wrong?" "Yeah, you look sad this morning." "Yeah is something wrong?"

'Crap! You guys just had to show up at the absolute worst time. Come on, Teruhashi! Pull yourself together, the perfect pretty girl doesn't get flustered because she doesn't wanna put up with some jerk! And the perfect pretty girl doesn't get rejected! Especially not by pink haired weirdos! I can't let anybody know! You better keep your mouth shut Saiki!' She thought before resuming her perfect girl persona. "No, I'm fine. I thought I might've been feeling poorly but I think I'll be ok." She said and her fans let out a joyous response.

Teruhashi then began to march her way to her seat, letting out a quick, pouty "Hmph!" As she passed Saiki's seat. 'Way to go jerk!' She thought as she glared at her psychic classmate from her desk. 'You could've had the most beautiful girl in the country all to yourself for a short time. I might've even given you my precious first kiss if you properly treasured me as your girlfriend. You've blown it now! Mark my words, you'll never find another girl like me!'

'I sure hope not…' An awkward bead of sweat began to roll down Kusuo's forehead as he was fully privy to Teruhashi's ridicule. 'Sorry Teruhashi but I can see right through you, literally I have X-ray vision and see through your skin. If I had given you what you wanted you'd just have lost interest and you wouldn't learn a lesson. I can't say I feel particularly bad for her. What she's feeling right now isn't heartache because she wasn't really in love with me. Right now she's feeling a mixture of disappointment and embarrassment like when you want a new video game for christmas and instead you end up with socks. Eventually she'll get over it, I'll give her space until then.'

'C'mon Saiki! How could you do this to me! Wasn't I always nice to you! How could you do this to me? If you apologize immediately at the start of the next break and beg on your hands and knees, I might forgive you enough that I may even speak to you again!' Teruhashi began pleading in her head. 'You could've at least given me a reason, right Saiki? How could someone like me be rejected? There has to be a reason so what is it?'

'Sorry Teruhashi but I can't give you a reason. You at home may be wondering something like "Well, why can't you give her a reason? Even if you have to make something it'd still be better than nothing, right? Are you a jerk or something?" While normally if you are rejecting someone the polite thing to do would be to give a specific reason why so you don't leave them in a state of confusion where they're left stuck wondering the reason why you couldn't return your feelings but this approach is a double edged sword. A reason can lead to hope.' Kusuo explained in his head. 'In the case of Kokomi Teruhashi, because of her Perfect Pretty girl persona I wouldn't be able to use excuses like "You're not my type" or "I don't like your personality" because she's crafted both her type and personality to be perfect. If I gave either of those answers as a reason she'd become suspicious and may even wonder if I knew something about here that no one else does, like I could read her mind. See how that could be an issue for me. She also eliminates any critiques of her looks because something like that just wouldn't be a believable response. This leaves mostly nitpicky reasons for my rejection and those reasons leave room for hope of resolving these issues. Say for example I told her yesterday that I rejected her because I don't like girls with dark hair. What if she had shown up to class today with her hair dyed? My whole reason would be invalid at that point, now I then could say I'm only interested in natural blondes but that would just involve me building and creating a more complicated response not to mention I'd be continuing to interact with her when my goal from the beginning was to get rid of her. "What about the excuse I came up with yesterday?" You may be thinking. "What about a made up relationship with my fellow psychic classmate Mikoto Aiura?" Well even an excuse like that leaves room for hope, if my relationship with Aiura were to end then Teruhashi may have hope of playing rebound. In fact someone whose as dedicated to achieving her goal of making me go "Oh wow" as Teruhashi is may even be tempted to interfere in said fake relationship which could open a whole new can of worms. I figured it'd be better just to leave her with no reason whatsoever but this strategy has its disadvantages as well.'

'Well, I may as well accept it. I'm never getting my "oh wow" now. You've done it Kusuo Saiki, you've beaten me. Now go ahead and enjoy it while I still remember your stupid name and your forgetable face!' She looked over to shoot Saiki a glare, face to face but he quickly turned his head to avoid the pretty girl's gaze. 'Huh? Why is he avoiding eye contact with me? He won, he should be gloating? Could he be embarrassed? Why would he be embarrassed by the girl he rejected, unless?'

'In case you haven't figured it out by now I'll explain. Leaving a rejection open ended like I did leaves room for speculation which can be almost as dangerous as hope.' Saiki thought as a shadow of unease fell over his face.

'Of course! It all makes sense now. He even said it himself. "This is difficult for me to say." Rejecting someone is easy right? Unless you don't really want to do it.' Teruhashi decided on her own.

(Teruhashi's fantasy)

An overly cute looking version of Saiki sat across from Kotomi in the cafe from yesterday a large, bright red blush formed on his face. 'Oh Wow, Teruhashi is sitting across from me, of all people. I'm probably the luckiest guy on the planet to get to spend so much time with her.' The imaginary Saiki thought. 'But why does she choose to spend so much of her time with someone as average and unworthy as I? It must be because I come across as a loner and she's just being nice. She is perfect and nice after all. There's no reason a goddess like her could actually l-l-l-like me!'

Teruhashi then shot imaginary Kusuo a smile. 'Oh WOOOOOWW….' He mentally screamed. 'Just look at her, there's no way the perfect pretty girl would have feelings for someone like me. She deserves someone with at least a ¥40 million annual salary but she does spend a suspiciously large amount of time with me, maybe…' The fake Saiki then began to violently shake his head just like before. 'Even if she does have feelings for me they won't last. Even if we start dating someone much wealthier and at least thirteen times cuter than I will come along and even though it would make sense for some as perfect as Teruhashi to choose someone like that over me. I don't think I could handle my precious Teruhashi being stolen away from me. On top of that I can feel my calm and cool persona melting due to the warmth of her beauty! So many people love and charish Teruhashi! It wouldn't be right for someone as unworthy as I to try and monopolize her. It's going to break my heart but I know what i must do!'

"T-Teruhashi…" The imaginary Saiki muttered as a tear formed in his hard. "I'm sorry, this is the hardest thing I've ever done! But I need to say it!" 'Crap, I think I'm gonna cry. I better lower my head so Teruhashi doesn't worry about me.' Saiki then bowed just like what happened in reality. "I'm not interested in having a romantic relationship with you! I hope we can still be friends!" Just the a small, shining tear dropped down from his eye and then he slammed his money down on the table and ran out the cafe door. 'What have I done! I wish I could take it all back! No! I did the right thing, be free my sweet Kokomi! Don't tie yourself down to someone as unworthy as I!'

(End of fantasy)

'That must've been what he was thinking. I understand perfectly.' Her glare then turned to a sympathetic gaze aimed at the back of Saiki's head. 'I'm sorry for burdening you with my overwhelming beauty! Of course we can still be friends! Enjoy the rest of your life Saiki!..'

'Whatever you need to tell yourself.' Saiki thought, resuming his typical blank expression. 'I guess I haven't completely eliminated Kokomi Teruhashi from my life but as long as this is the end of her romantic pursuit of me I suppose this is still an improvement.'

'Wait, then that would mean my goal of achieving an "Oh wow" from Saiki is still alive.' Teruhashi decided from across the room.

'Wait, what?'

'If Saiki rejected me due to his insecurities then all I have to do is dispel those insecurities then nothing will stand in the way of him reciprocating my feelings with his own true feelings.' Teruhashi clinched her fist in determination.

'I already told you my true feelings! You were rejected! Get over it!' Saiki roared back in his head.

'But I can't do anything too subtle, nothing that he could possibly misunderstand! Desperate times call for desperate measures! I'll need to bring out my trump card! I'll do it! I'll confess to Saiki!'

'No please don't!' Saiki thought in a panicked tone before quickly turning to look at the blue haired girl, a nervous sweat began to poor down from all over his face. Teruhashi, noticing the boys gaze, shot him a quick wink. 'It's too late…'

Defeated, Saiki's head dropped down onto his desk. 'I really don't want to have to deal with this right now. If Teruhashi confesses then that will just be a whole new obstacle to deal with. It'd really be best if I could just convince her not to go on with her confession but how would I go about doing that?'

"Kusuo! No sleeping during class!" The professor called out to Saiki who still had his head down on his desk.

'Poor Saiki!' Teruhashi thought as her pink haired classmate lifted his head. 'He must be having a rough time dealing with his hasty confession. I need to hurry and cheer him up before he falls into a state of depression. I have no time to waste! I'll confess to him this afternoon!'

'So soon?!' Saiki roared out in his mind. 'This situation is escalating quickly, I may need some help if I'm going to resolve this. I may even need to ask her…'

(End)