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April 1, 2011

Forecast… Cloudy

Time: Early Morning

I yawned as I walked down the street on the way to school. I was a little drowsy from sleeping way too much last night, so of course for skipping dinner last night I had to wake up early just so I could eat. I basically had a three course meal, waffles, pancakes, baco- WAIT! Why am I focusing on this! That wasn't even the slightest bit important! ANYWAY! So walking to school… yeah I yawned then… Oh yeah! Once again after making it past the flood plain I noticed Yu, so I ran to catch up with him.

"Yo Narukami!" I called out to Yu, which in turn caused him to turn around to find the source of the voice. When he noticed me, he smiled and nodded. And the award for most talkative person will NEVER go to Yu Narukami!

"Ready for our second in the hell whole called King Moron's class," I smiled brightly at Yu. I didn't really mean it as a bad thing but still, King Moron was an ass.

"Only if you are." Yu and I just started to laugh loudly as we walked towards our destination, well that was until I heard the sound of a bike speeding down the road. I turned my head back to look, once again having no time to react. The cyclist was the same one from yesterday, and once again he ramped his bike off of my back as he flew over my head and landed into a nearby trash can.

"Not if that happens one more time!" I withered in pain for a moment before climbing to my feet. The cyclist was currently rolling around in the trash can trying desperately to get out of the thing.

"S-someone…" As he plead for help I sighed I didn't want to, but I decided to help him.

"Yu," I tried to get his attention, thank god he was already walking over to help the other guy. "Grab the can and I'll grab his arms to try and make it easier."

Yu nodded in agreement at this, man it was easy to get along with this guy. Yu grabbed the can and pulled the guy to his feet as I grabbed his wrist. I just looked at Yu for a moment until I started to nod mouthing out numbers from three down to zero. When I reached it we both pulled in opposite directions, and in less the a few seconds the can popped off of the student. He sighed in relief as the can came off of his head and quickly grabbed his bike. "Whew, you guys saved me. Thanks! Um… Oh, yeah, that's right. You're the transfer students Yu Narukami and Kreed Richards."

"Yep," I smiled slightly at him. "The two and only, wait that didn't sound right crap! Um, I mean, that's us!"

"Still thanks," He chuckled lightly as I finished making an ass out of myself, again! "I'm Yosuke Hanamura. Nice to meet ya guys."

"Awesome," I held my hand out to shake his. "Now I know who to send the medical bills for my back!"

"W-what?" Yosuke seemed scared for a moment. "Oh, oh! Sorry, my bike seems to be busted for some reason."

"Smooth." We laughed for a moment before I got serious again. "But no serious, if my back is messed up I'm making you pay for it."

Yosuke seemed scared for a moment, while looking at me until he realized something "more important." "Say, did you guys hear about the incident from yesterday? They found that announcer lady hanging from an antenna!"

"No I fell asleep almost the moment I walked in my door." I mused about my night and Yosuke quickly responded by continuing his rant.

"You think it was some kinda warning? There's no way something that weird could've been an accident."

Yu nodded for a moment and actually said something! I thought the world was going to end at that moment! "You might be right."

"Hey Yu," Yu looked at me for a moment. "I'm going to go on ahead, see ya later. You too Yosuke."

With that they both nodded at me and I started to walk away. Trying to make it to school on time lost in all my thoughts. After a few more minutes I pulled out my phone and noticed the time and started to freak out. SON OF A BITCH CLASS IS STARTING! I started to run for the school as a bike passed me and crashed a few feet in front of me, Yu and Yosuke both in a pile on the ground. Both of them moaning in pain, all I could do was slam my hand onto my forehead. "I'm not even going to ask."

Time Change: Early morning to Morning

It was the middle of class and of course, King Moron was already on our cases, so I decided to avoid the problem as a hole. I was able to sneak my head phones through my school uniform and since no one objected to me wearing my beanie is school for some weird ass reason, I used it to head the one ear bud I was using in my hand to hide my left ear bud as I half listened to the lector that Morooka was attempting to give us. Chie had seen what I was doing and looked at me with a worried look in her eyes. She mouthed the words "What are you doing?"

I gave her an evil smile back. "Listening to AKG!" I mouthed the words and she titled her head. King Moron must have noticed us, because, well he yelled something about being indecent. Not that I heard a single thing with Blue Train blasting in my ear. This was something that I did normally at my old school, so I was ready at any moment for if I was asked a question; thank god that didn't happen though. The school day went quick with one of my favorite bands blasting in my ear.

Time Change: Morning to After School

After school I had Flashback, ironic right? Still Yosuke was stretching in front of his desk as Yu walked over to mine, which surprising was right in behind of mine. As the song started winding down I could help but confuse everyone around me, so I basically loudly screamed the last word of the song. "FLASHBACK!"

Everyone in the class just turned to look at me like I was crazy, so I just smiled like a mad man. It was fun to actually act insane when you were convinced that you yourself are! "Sorry, song stuck in my head!"

Yu smiled, he was the only other person that had noticed I had my i-pod running all day. I don't know how, when he was behind me. Yosuke smirked at me. "So, you guys getting used to this place?"

"Yeah." Yu smiled at Yosuke, yet Yosuke seemed surprised for a moment.

"Wow really?" Yosuke laughed slightly. "That was fast! What about you Kreed?"

"Dude," I smiled evilly again. "You people call this place small; you should see where I'm from! At least you guys have a place to shop!"

"That," Yosuke raised an eyebrow at me. "Is actually kinda surpising. Well… what Japan, you used to living here yet?"

"That's gonna-" I noticed that once again, I screwed up talking! God, people are gonna think I'm illiterate soon! Well at least illiterate in Japanese… I hope. "That's gonna take just a little more time."

"Well I figured that," Yosuke laughed as Yu just nodded. "You have to speak a whole new language, that and cultural differences! Well , anyway! Oh, you guys know about the local delicacy?"

"It's not drugs right?" I interrupted Yosuke's speech to crack, no pun intended, actually, yeah pun totally intended! A joke that he took a little too literal.

"D-dude!?" Yosuke and Yu looked surprised. "What the hell! You don't just say something like that in public!"

"So," I slammed my hand into my forehead for the second time today, PERSONAL BEST ACHIEVED! "Dude, it was a joke! Well half joke, if you run me over again, you and me both are gonna need pain killers!"

"W-well," Yosuke suddenly remembered what he was talking about. "Oh, yeah the delicacy is steak!" My head shot straight up, I mean come on; when you live in Iowa you learn to love steak and love it fast! Or at least I did meh who knows?

"Yosuke," He quickly looked at me again. "If it is cheap and still safe to eat, just point me in the right direction!"

"Haha," Yosuke smiled now knowing I wasn't making another drug joke. God you make one joke and suddenly you're a rumored as the school pothead; I knew people who used that crap, every one of them is now in Juvenile Detention (thanks to me!). Well that's beside the point. "I know a place where you can get cheap."

"Again," I once again interrupted him. "Point. Right. Direction. Now!"

Yu and Yosuke laughed at me. I was really starting to fit in at school in less than two days… wait, strike that! Two days flat! "You guys wanna come? You two helped me out this morning, so it's on me. It's gonna be scraping the bottom of my wallet, but, what the hell!"

Chie casually walked over to the three of us, now I had to think. Why the hell is everyone surrounding my desk? I'm gonna become claustrophobic! "What about me, huh? No apologies? My Trial of the Dragon."

I smiled and looked back at Yosuke hoping to god that this was karma for running my ass over with his bike so many times! Even if it wasn't, it was sure to an entertaining day that much was for sure. Yosuke seemed to disagree with me. "Urgh… You always come around when I'm talking about food…"

Chie either didn't hear Yosuke or decided that she didn't care what he had said, which was apparent as she turned to Yukiko. "How about it, Yukiko? Don't you think he should treat us, too?"

"You guys?" I interrupted Yukiko before she even got a word in edge wise. "He should be treating me for at least five steaks! And before you groan Yosuke, let me remind you, paying. Medical. Bills and Pain. Killers!"

"I'll pass…" Yukiko gathered up her stuff. "I don't want to gain any more weight. I need to help out at the inn today, anyway."

I shrugged, usually for me it was the more the merrier. Oh well, though I did almost feel bad for basically stealing Yosuke's money; almost! Chie also seemed disappointed that friend couldn't join in making Yosuke pay for food for the four of us… wait now three of us. Yosuke ignored that part of it all and dove straight for thin ice, I mean this subject, I could at least tell, was not Yukiko's favorite; in this metaphor I envisioned me standing in front of a big neon sign pointing at a pond of ice which said Thin Ice! Idiots we are talking to you! Yet Yosuke cannonballed into it. "Wow, Yukiko-san! You started training to take over the business?"

"It's not like that!" Yukiko tried to argue, yet I sat there doing a fist pump that no one seemed to notice. "I'm just helping out when it gets busy. Well, I should be on my way."

Yu and me both nodded in her direction to say goodbye as she walked out of the room. Chie took her chance to deliver the killing blow to Yosuke at this point in time. "Oh well. We should get going too."

Yosuke jumped back in fear for his wallet at her comment. "Huh? Do I seriously have to treat three people…?"

"Hell yes!" I looked Yosuke in the eyes now. "I wants my steak now! Or again, medical bills and pain killers!"

Time- WAIT… Location Change: Yasogami High to Junes

(that could have been embarrassing!)

Chie was mad as Yosuke came back with a tray of food and drinks, I had no idea why until she started her rant. "THIS is the cheap place you were talking about…? They don't have grilled steak here."

My eyes widened as the words left her mouth. "NO STEAK! DUDE WHAT THE HELL!"

"Hey!" Yosuke yelled at us to start his counter argument as he set the tray down. "When Chie jumped on the free loader train, I had to change plans! Oh yeah Kreed, I had no idea what you wanted to drink so I got you a fruit milk."

My eyes once again widened, only this time in fear! "What is a fruit milk, is it a type of-"

Yosuke quickly cut me off, before I finished my sentence. "NO it is not a type of drug, it is a soda!"

Chie sighed in disappointment at the food placed before her. "Still, no reason to take us to your place."

I raised an eyebrow at Chie and Yosuke for a moment, what did she mean by his place? Yosuke surprised me when he calmly answered the question. "Dude, this isn't my place or anything."

Now I was even more confused, I wished for some heavenly miracle to explain what the fuck was going on! "Oh, right. I haven't told you guys yet, huh? I moved here from another city about six months back."

"Yet another lone city boy lost in the world." I mused aloud at Yosuke in a joking manner, it got a chuckle out of Yu and Chie, so Yosuke zero, me one! And Logic one, me three. Why do I count that as a point for me. Who cares, I want to win against logic!

"Dude," Yosuke gave me a weird look because of my comment "what are you talking about!"

"Dude," I responded in the same tone as Yosuke. "Let a guy be insane if he wants to be insane!"

"Well," Yosuke sighed. "Whatever. Anyway, this location of Junes just opened up, and my dad was assigned to manage it. So our entire family came out here. Here, this is to welcome you two to town!"

"You still owe me a steak!" I growled at Yosuke in a jokingly manner.

"Would you shut up about the steak already!" Yosuke grumbled at me under his breath. He quickly cheered up as he looked over at a girl at the other end of the outside food court. Yu started to laugh brightly at Yosuke's, well not really an outburst. Chie glared at Yosuke as well.

"I'm with Kreed on this one!" Chie grumbled. "Anyway, it's only been half a year since this place opened up, but I haven't been to the local shopping district much since. A lot of stores there started closing, and… Oh, uh…"

Yosuke sighed and suddenly seemed a little sad. "You can't blame it all on Junes can you?"

Well statically, if a mall opens up, other shops lose convenience and there for customers, but I was not about to say that out loud! Only because I thought I gave Yosuke enough shit for the day. He was an okay guy in my book. Yosuke's depressing mood quickly vanished as he saw a girl at the other end of the food court. "Hey… It's Saki-senpai!"

He practically jumped to his feet and casually walked over to the girl. Me and Yu looked at each other for a moment before turning to Chie. Yu nodded at the girl. "Who's that his girlfriend."

Chie got a good laugh out of the words that came out of Yu's mouth. "He wishes! That's Saki Konishi. Her family runs a liquor store in the shopping district."

I finally took a drink of my soda and actually enjoyed the thing, it was watermelon flavored! I always thought that should have been a thing in the states, but I digress, I did a spit take. "Liquor store!"

"Yeah." Chie nodded like it was a normal thing. "I think she's working her part time though."

I quickly noticed the two returning to the table we were sitting at. Saki was smiling at us from some odd reason, I mean this was coming from the guy who called himself insane and wore a beanie with his school uniform. I had I not gotten in trouble for that!? Well anyway, Saki and Yosuke made it back to our table and Saki walked over to Yu. "Are you the transfer student?"

"What am I," I spoke up next to Yu. "Cat nip you just gave to a dog! Wait, crap that does sound better with chopped liver, damnit!"

That time everyone laughed including me. I was joking, but still I always tried to joke around. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that there was another transfer student."

I just shrugged my shoulders; I really didn't care to be honest, unless of course people started bitching at me. Which, here, it was probably unlikely, oh well still. "Oh, did you guys hear about me already?"

"Kinda." Me and Yu both spoke up in unison. Which didn't really surprise me one bit, still I had to do it. "Jinks, ya owe me a soda!"

Yu cursed under his breath for me getting the jump on him. Saki laughed a bit before she continued to talk. "It must be to have someone else from the big city to talk to, or in your case, just a transfer student, huh?"

"Hey, if that's all I wanted, I would just talk to Narukami here." I smirked as I finished my sentence, Saki smiled and continued her speech to us.

"I don't see Hana-chan hanging out with the other guys much." Saki comment on Yosuke didn't go unnoticed by him, and within a few seconds responded to her faster than I thought humanly possible.

"Not necessarily…" I could have smelt Yosuke's bullshit from a mile away at this point. Come on just admit it, no one, except maybe me, would have made fun of him for it.

"He doesn't have too many friends," Saki started to seem like she was just bagging on him now. "So I hope you three get along good."

"Sorry," I pointed a finger at Saki for a moment to help get her attention. "But get along well is the correct way to say it!"

Saki rolled her eyes now, maybe she was annoyed, maybe she found the joke just to be stupid, still she continued. "Hana-chan's a good guy, but he can get nosy sometimes. You gotta tell him right to his face when he starts to annoy you."

"Really," I developed another evil grin on my face. "Hey Yosuke, you suck at riding a bike and it is annoying, plus I don't think my back can take another hit from your bike!"

"Ha ha." Yosuke rolled his eyes at me again, I knew the whole bike thing was getting annoying, but I did not simply give a rat's ass!

"All joking aside," I picked back up where I left off. "He's okay, no really complaints other than your driving abilities!"

"I know," Saki laughed for a moment. "I was just kidding. Well, my breaks just about over. Back to work I go… Laters"

And with that Saki walked away from the table leaving the four of us once again. I thought it was going to be awkward after she left until Yosuke started joking around again. "Saki-senpai says I'm annoying, but she's even nosier than me."

"She does seem like that kind of girl." I grinned at Yosuke for a moment. "I mean, she just seemed open to talk about a lot of stuff, hell even gossiping!"

"I guess she does," Chie finally spoke up again. "Well now that I think about it."

Yosuke laughed which in turned caused all to laugh, breaking the tension that Saki had left. "She has a younger, brother and she treats me pretty much the same way…"

Yosuke had crossed the line of no return with one statement, so, I jumped on it. "Oh! I get it, Yosuke you dog! I had no idea you were into that kinda thing!"

Chie laughed at my joke and Yu grinned, Yosuke just shook his head. Chie soon followed in making fun of Yosuke. "Well, it does seem like he wants this to be the flame of a forbidden love."

"Now you guys are worrying me!" Yosuke shook his head some more, his cheeks also got a little red as me and Chie laughed slightly. "And besides, it's not like that!"

"Oh reaaaally…" Chie really didn't need to drag out the really. "Well, I know just the thing to cheer up that lovesick heart. You ever hear of the Midnight Channel?"

"Midn-Midnight what?" I stuttered for a moment, what the hell was the Midnight Channel?

"The Midnight Channel," Chie's smile widened as she began explaining. "They say that if you stare into a turned off TV at midnight on a rainy night, the TV will come on and someone will show up on screen. They saw that person is your soul mate!"

"Yeah," I sighed at this rumor, knowing it was just that, a rumor. "We have something like that in the states, it's called Bloody Mary, and it doesn't work; I know I've tried!"

"I agree," Yosuke nodded at me. "For a second, I thought you were actually going to say something useful Chie. How can you get excited over such a childish urban legend like that?"

"Childish, huh?" Once again Yosuke dove straight into the thin ice. "You don't believe it, do you!?"

"I think I speak for all three of us when I say this," I took a deep breath and looked Chie straight in the eyes. "Hell no."

"Fine then," Chie almost yelled at me for this. "Well, it's raining tonight! Let's all try it out—then you'll see!"

Oh my god she hasn't even tried it, this sounded so stupid at the time that I was will to do it, just to say that it was another urban legend that I had concurred. Yosuke knew this sounded dumb and vocalized it. "Wait, you mean you haven't even tried it yourself!? Man I remember the last time I heard something this stupid… All that aside… you know that 'incident' yesterday? You guys think it was murder?"

"No," I layered my voice with sarcasm at this point. "The body descided that after the person randomly died for an unknown reason that it would climb up a TV antenna! Man, a lot of people are talking about that thought."

"I know what you mean." Yosuke sighed, it seemed like everyone we passed on our way to Junes was talking about the announcer's death, which was the only reason I had any sort of info on the subject. Yet Yosuke suddenly developed an evil smile. "Ooh, what if the culprit behind it was still lurking around…? Heehee…"

"Sheesh," Chie leaned back in her chair after Yosuke made his joke. "You shouldn't joke about stuff like that. Now who's the childish one…?"

Oh how I couldn't wait to see if Yosuke took that bait on this one. Yet Chie didn't give him the time too, only because she dove back into her topic about the Midnight Channel. Still making her look like the childish one at the table. "All I am saying is, you guys better try it out tonight."

"Fine," I sighed, even though I planned on doing it anyway, still you never know. "You have my word Miss Sotanaka! Well I'd hate to be a party pooper, but, I'm going head over to the music store and then head home. Later guys."

Yu nodded in agreement and stood up to leave as well. "See you guys tomorrow."

"Yeah bye!" Yosuke sighed as he and Yu both walked away, leaving just Chie and me alone.

"You gonna head home too?" I titled my head wait for Chie's response.

"Not really," She sighed at me and then titled her head. "Hey is it alright if I hang out with you until you leave?"

I shrugged a bit; I mean I had no problem with it. Plus I didn't want to end up like Yosuke yesterday, that girl had one hell of a kick. "Sure, I don't mind."

"Thanks," Chie started to smile brightly at me. "By the way, what are you looking for at the music store?"

"The new AKG CD," I stated as a matter of fact, rather than just telling her. She titled her head in confusion; she really had no idea who I was talking about. "Asian Kung-Fu Generation!"

Suddenly her eyes widened as she brought her hand up to her face for a moment. She really didn't feel all that smart at the moment. She did listen to a few of their song, but no one ever called the band AKG around her. So she had no idea what that meant. "Hey, what's your favorite song by them?"

I had to think along and hard about that question, because there wasn't much that I didn't like by AKG. So after a good three minutes or so I finally made a decision. "Flashback."

"Which one is that?"

I smiled evilly now; oh I was so waiting for this opportunity to make an ass out of myself, but again, INSANE! I started to sing the whole two minute song right there in the middle of the Junes food court. As I sang the song, I slowly realized that Chie was singing with me now. After words we continued with small talk about school as we headed to the music store. We didn't say or do anything important the rest of our time at Junes.

Time Change: After School to Evening: Just before Midnight

The time was 11:59 and there I was sitting in front of a blank TV screen waiting for nothing to happen the moment the clock struck twelve. While I sat there, I started thinking about my new friends and how much fun I was actually having. Yu barely spoke at all, but still, for some reason you just wanted to talk to him. Yosuke could be annoying, and then again I guess most best friends are at some times. Finally Chie, Chie was fun to be around; I was actually having the most fun with her for some reason. She was obsessed with kung-Fu movies, which was a little weird; then again I guess I just didn't like them that much. She loved steak, but so did I so no complaints. Just before the clock changed I noticed I was thinking about Chie a lot at that moment so I just laughed it off, I mean, yeah she was a friend, but we barely knew each other, oh well.

That's when it became midnight and suddenly the TV in my living room suddenly flickered on and slowly showed up on static, but I could see a few frames of a brunette girl in a school uniform flickering in and out of the screen. Yet I was not really paying attention to that, I was of course, like any normal human being…. FREAKING OUT! I mean HOLY SHIT THIS WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING, WHAT IN GOD'S NAME WAS GOING ON! I was so scared shit less that I crawled onto the back edge of my couch, and well… fell off of it backwards. "SON OF A BITCH! WHAT JUST FUCKING HAPPENED!?"

I thought that I had either, one, been killed by Bloody Mary or two, had lost my god damned mind! I couldn't actually believe that just happened. Yet as I jumped back up to my feet, the TV was off again. I just stood there for a few minutes, gawking, until exhaustion set in. Even though I was so surprised that the Midnight Channel was real, I was so tired that I almost fell asleep standing up. So as I went to sleep, I knew this was going to turn into a real midnight problem…

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Chapter 2 is up, that took some time, but hell who needs sleep right? I am going to try and update as much as possible. Please continue to give me your feed back it is very much appresatied, also sorry if anything seems rushed. If I rush it much please tell me and I will take more time in making the chapters then, so until then HOPE YOU ENJOYED P4G:DDMP SO FAR AND FAR MUCH MORE TO COME IN THE FUTURE!