Chapter 15: The Escape Plan

There was several things to do to end my time in Hope's Peak. Talk to Asahina for a little while, maybe do something with her be it sexual or not, tell her about the killing game, get right the fuck out of the school with her, report Enoshima to the authorities and live a quiet life with her and eventually the child she'd birth. I already knew this was much easier said than done. She might not trust me, she could be seeing someone else, and there are likely some other factors I can't think of. I had to do this if I wanted to get out of here and save my future child. Even if I hadn't really cared for Asahina before, I was sure I could easily get aquatinted with her somehow. And what better way to aquatint with the Ultimate Swimmer than going swimming at the school pool?

Sure, I can swim, but that doesn't mean I'm good at it. I guess I have to get better at it now. I hadn't ever actually been to the school's pool until now, so this could be rather interesting. I changed into my swim gear and got into the pool. I was the only one there, so far. The pool at its maximum was about twenty feet, but I wasn't going to go that far, not yet at least. I waded in the pool at the six feet mark, alone with my thoughts. With all the stress I had experienced throughout the last several weeks, it was ecstasy to be alone without a worry in the world. It was the most relaxed I had felt in an extremely long time. After a little while, Asahina arrived. She looked so fucking good in her swimsuit. "It's been a while since the night out, what have you been up to?" she asked with a smile. "Well, computer business, Maizono business, you know? I just wanted to take a bit of a break today." I said. I was still immeasurably angry about the Maizono situation, and I believed she was as well. "That's cool! We should hang out some more, you know?" she said. This made me think that she'd be perfectly fine with my decision to get the fuck out of here once I told her. Perfect. We swam and talked for quite a long time. She was even nice enough to help me with my swimming technique. When it came to swimming, there was still no doubt that she was way better than I was, but there was a way I could at the very least impress her.

I may have swam many times in my life, but I've never actually jumped off a diving board. Yet here Asahina was, doing it over and over again. I not only wanted to do this to simply impress her, but I also needed to give myself a boost in confidence. My self esteem has completely fallen ever since Enoshima forced herself into my life. Well, technically, I forced myself into her first, but that's not what I meant. There were three diving boards, a five meter one, a seven and a half meter one, and a ten meter one. Asahina was consistently diving off the seven and a half meter one, why not jump off the tallest? I climbed to the top, and looked down. I was pretty fucking far up. I'm sure I would have handled it better if I was not four foot ten, or if my confidence hadn't hit new lows. But why the hell not? I have nothing to lose. I heard Asahina say something from behind me, and I was unsure of what it was, so I turned around. However, I was still wet from being in the pool before, so I ended up slipping in the water that I had put upon the diving board. I slid off of it, my chin hitting the top, and I was sent on a spiral down. A perfect metaphor. In the over thirty feet drop, I was able to control myself for a somewhat smooth landing into the water. I hoped that would also be metaphor.

I swam back to the surface, somewhat in pain from the fall. "Wow! That was actually a rather good ending for someone as experienced as you!" she said. I was actually beginning to like this. I'm glad it's her that I spilled my seed in. We swam for another hour or two, talking about our troubles and happinesses. I didn't mention the killing game, as I didn't want to yet. After we finished swimming, I asked her to come up to my room and she obliged. It was finally time to talk about the escape plan with her. I had already packed up everything I owned in luggage bags. I didn't actually have a real destination yet. Probably my parents, but maybe with the money I had gotten from selling the AI, we could buy a place for ourselves. She got into the room and she was surprised to see me fully clothed. "I thought we were having sex again." she said. I would have laughed, but this was some serious shit I had to tell her. "Not now, maybe later." I said. She chuckled a bit to herself for that. "You see, I know you were going to tell me eventually, but I learned that I knocked you up. And there's-"

"What? You didn't knock me up! I've taken a pregnancy test every single day since the beach trip and I finally got a result yesterday, it was negative! I wouldn't be diving like that if I was. Probably wouldn't even be swimming." she said. I couldn't fucking believe it. Ikubasa had lied. After telling me all of the things Enoshima didn't want me to know, she still lied to me. I should have known not to trust her. "Who told you this?" she asked me. "Ikubasa did. Why would she lie like that?" I said. I was really pissed off, and I couldn't see why I shouldn't have been. "Thanks for swimming with me, I guess what I was going to say doesn't mean anything now." I said. She was extremely confused, but she left anyway. Of course it would be her to lie like that, honestly. She's not only Enoshima's closest associate, but she's her sister, too. Who knows what else of what she said was a lie?

On the bright side, this did allow me to get out of the school even quicker. I didn't feel like I had time to ask every single other girl if they were the one bearing my child. I just wanted to get out of here. I had already packed everything I owned into four different luggage bags. I definitely wouldn't need that many if I didn't have so many computers. Because of the amount, I had to take two trips from my room to the car. Of course, weird happenings occurred on both trips. The first took place only seconds after I had left my room. "Where are you going?" a girl behind me asked. At first I thought it was Enoshima, or possibly Ikusaba. But when I looked behind me, I was surprised to see that it was Kyoko Kirigiri. "I couldn't help but notice your bags. Where would you be going that required this many bags?" she asked. I had almost forgot that Kirigiri wasn't on the beach trip, and came very close to accidentally using my normal voice. I had no idea how to possibly defend myself here. I didn't want to tell her what I was doing, but at the same time I couldn't think of a good enough lie.

"Just as I expected to hear. I know you've been a rather... interesting force at this school. I've heard quite a bit that I never expected about you from the other girls in our class." she said. I told them not to fucking say anything to anyone, even if it was Kirigiri! Although her asking me about anything made sense due of her being a detective and all, but I wasn't sure what she was referring to in general. It certainly couldn't have been the killing game. She was staring at me at this point, it felt like a stare into my soul. "Well, I've heard rumors like that. They aren't true. How could they be true? Those horrible, horrible things I could never do!" I yelled. I said it in an upset tone, but fake crying was probably overkill. She sighed. "I guess we'll just have to wait and see." she said, before leaving. That could have been a disaster. Maybe she let me off without asking anything else as a way for her to wait and see. I got the two bags I had with me in my car and took the last two down with me. I had gotten a bit sidetracked as I entered my room for the final time, a room that I could never say I loved but I had grown used to as a home. I almost reconsidered, but I saw no reason that would benefit me or anyone else. I had to go. Yet maybe I should have stayed, stayed at the very least in that room for another five minutes.

I got down to the entrance of the school with my final two bags. It was finally time to escape the lie I had lived, the lie I had put upon myself. Yet right in front of the door was a huge roadblock. Literally, actually. Blocking the door was the Imposter, still dressed as Komaeda, and of course, still with Enoshima. I stopped right in my tracks, no other direction to go. "What a pleasant surprise! I would have never expected to see you down here, too!" she said. She smiled at me, while I was too scared to move. Did she somehow know I'd be down here or was this all an awful, awful coincidence? "I don't have time for this, I have... a convention, yes! A programmers convention!" I said. Conventions like that did actually exist, so that was a valid excuse. Why I didn't think about this before, I don't know. "A convention, you say? Those often go several days. Been to my fair share. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you were a few hours, maybe even a day late?" she said. I knew I was already in deep shit. There was only one way to go, and it was back, but that wasn't easy to do because of my luggage bags. Plus, the less time spent here, the better.

Enoshima laughed. "You can't run away forever! Sometimes, you just gotta bend over and take it!" she said. The next thing I knew, the Imposter was running at me with surprisingly swift speed. I ran the other way, but it was too little, too late. He grabbed me by the neck and brought me down to the ground. He then fell on me with all his weight, completely smothering me under his disgusting self. He smelled like semen, which honestly didn't surprise me. I tried to escape his firm hold on me, but I couldn't. Eventually, he got up after what seemed like an hour. I was exhausted by the time he got up. All I saw was Enoshima smiling, holding a nightstick. She hit me with the nightstick several times in the head before she knocked me out.