Last Chance Disclaimer: If you haven't played Doki Doki Literature Club (which I do not own), then you should do that before reading this. It may seem like I'm being pushy, but I really love Doki Doki Literature Club and I want everyone to have a chance to play it to its full extent. Thanks.

Doki Doki Days to Come: Chapter 3

The weekend passed, and Matthew hadn't left the club that Friday. He had stayed beside Yuri's rotting corpse for the remainder of the day along with Saturday, Sunday, and the entire time that he would've been in class on Monday. He deduced that he must be just as insane as Yuri was. Matthew hated himself for thinking that way, but the evidence was compelling. His reaction to Yuri's death had not been normal. A normal person would've screamed. A normal person would've cried. A normal person would be terrified, unsettled, disturbed, and very eager to leave. Hell, a normal person would've told told somebody what nightmarish tragedy had taken place, but he just kept telling himself that it wasn't real. The blood on Yuri's hands: it wasn't real. Yuri's deceased body, void of any and every sign of life: it wasn't real. And yet, he couldn't even find the motivation to move. If none of this was real, then shouldn't he have had no problem walking away?

The worst part was that he wasn't sure whether or not he wanted to walk away.

Natsuki hummed to herself while she approached the door to the club room. She was really looking forward to seeing Matthew, even if Yuri wouldn't let her spend any time with him. Why does she have to be such a b****? she ranted internally, knowing that it ultimately wouldn't change anything.

Soon, she approached the door to the club room. She was always there before anyone else, so seeing Matthew upon entering the club was a bit of a shock to her.

"Wow, you managed to get here before I did." she said.

He didn't respond.

"What are you even do-"

Natsuki suddenly recognized that Yuri's body was lying on the floor amidst some overturned desks.

A pool of blood had covered the area surrounding the corpse.

She started to vomit.

Monika entered the classroom, and Natsuki shoved past her, bolting down the hallway.

"Is everything alright?" she asked, "I just saw Natsuki-"

She took one look at Yuri's corpse and frowned.

"Oh."

She smiled and wiped her shoe off after stepping in some of Yuri's dried blood.

"It must've been so boring for you over the weekend," she said with a smirk, "I'm sorry."

He looked at her, pleading for any shred of comfort she could offer him.

"Don't you worry, I'm going to fix this mess," she insisted.

"Let me see..."

A grey rectangle appeared in the air above her and slightly to her right.

The mysterious box began generating words.

Delete character yuri. chr

-deleted successfully

Delete character natsuki. chr

-deleted successfully

"Oh, one last thing," Monika declared suddenly.

"I've got to have one last cupcake before they're gone."

"Mmmm, these are the best!"

She smiled at Matthew once again.

"Okay! We're ready to go."

Matthew found himself in the literature club. The club room was freely floating in an endless void of nothingness. Matthew tried to move, but he was sitting and unable to stand. Monika was also seated, and she was directly facing him, gazing through him with a piercing glare that seemed as though he wasn't its focus. She then adopted a sarcastic demeanor and said, "Hi my name is Monika. We already now each other because we were in the same class last year and..." Then she looked at Matthew with that gaze again. He felt like shouting at her, saying something, but his body seemed restricted. He was confined to sit in this chair and listen to whatever Monika had to say. She began to speak again. "Actually, I guess there isn't any need for greetings like that. After all, I'm not even talking to that person. I'm talking to you, Matthew."

She kept looking past him as though he was glass for the entire time he sat in the club room. Often she would make outrageous claims such as stating that he was only a higher being's puppet or that she was able to change the code, the very lifeblood, of the world he found himself floating in and alter the minds of the people inside it. Every so often, the world would become like static and his mind and body would feel as though they were being overloaded with every sensation he had ever felt, all at once.

Still, most of the time he spent in the void was done so listening to Monika ramble on about what she considered to be interesting topics. They were mostly the kinds of topics you had to forcibly bring into a conversation rather than having them come along in a general discussion. Once, she even got slightly agitated for what seemed like no legitimate reason to him. He had just been sitting there, when Monika suddenly stopped in the middle of one of her sentences. She looked at (or rather through) him and asked, "Were you trying to fast-forward? I'm not boring you am I?" A smug grin made its way onto her face. "Here, I'll go ahead and disable that for you. Now you'll just sit back and be a good boy won't you, Matthew?"

She was really starting to annoy him.

Then, in an instant, Monika began to convulse violently. She faded, along with the club room, and Matthew was left floating in the abyss he had been worriedly scrutinizing from the safety of the frighteningly familiar classroom. Matthew could still hear her voice though she was nowhere to be found.

"Help me!" cried Monika.

"It hurts!"

"Hurry, please!"

"I need help!"

The virtually nonexistent world began to shift.

"Did you do this?"

The vast expanse of emptiness gained even more chaotic momentum.

"WHY?" Monika screamed.

Then, she spoke gingerly as though she was afraid of what would happen next.

"Why did you delete me, Jacob?"

Author Note: This chapter was really fun to write (no not the details of Yuri's horrible demise, or Natsuki's for that matter [I guess Monika doesn't count... maybe]). I am really enjoying experimenting with this tale.

To rikusp2002, I've noticed that you have marked my story as a favorite, and you even left me a review. That really made my day, so I'd like to thank you personally.

To all my readers, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and will also enjoy the next!