April 28, 2011

I walked back into the living room to see Chie still curled up on the couch! I freaked out for a moment, until I remembered that her parents thought that she was at Yukiko's, and we all know how responsible she is! I sighed loudly, I was about to go and wake her up… until I heard a knock at my door. Like the biggest DUMBASS ever, I went to the door first! I flung the door open to tell the person to wait like twenty minutes… That's when I say him; I froze as I slowly took in who was standing in front of me… He was about the same height as me, his brown hair was cut almost to a buzz cut, and his eyes were a dark green. He wore a light grey hoodie with multiple pockets that basically lined the hoodie. He also had on blue jeans and had some bags with him. "KRIS!"

He quickly put a hand on my shoulder as I stood there frozen still; I thought I was still dreaming. I had to be, yet what made it worse was that Chie woke up at that moment, she slowly rose from the couch and the person noticed this. "Um, Kris… what have you been doing!?"

"W-Will?" It wasn't enough that I was freaking a bit about Chie actually having slept over. "What are- what in god's name you doing here!?"

"Me?" Will smiled at me with a smug grin on his face. It was been two years since I last saw him… "I graduated early! I came to see you and meet new people! So, again… why is there a girl in your house?"

I unfroze from my shock to turn around and see Chie slowly look around my house… She had no idea that she fell asleep! I started to flip out now. "SHIT, Chie we actually fell asleep!"

"Wait…" I turned back to Will who had a very surprised look on his face. "You can speak Japanese!? Hold on… let me try something. Hel-hello there, name Will, you name?"

I facepalmed… he sounded like an idiot, I hope he was joking! Chie looked scared for a moment, until he opened his mouth and tried to talk… She realized the same thing I did. Will, most likely, could speak Japanese very well. "Um… Chie Sotanaka… Kreed-kun…?"

"He was the only other friend I ever made." I held my face; I really was not in the mood for this. I pulled out my phone at that moment to check the charge… That's when I noticed the I had an unread text. "What the hell!? Crash here!? As in live here!? Why!?"

"I just got here and I don't really have much money…" I once again faced palmed, why was I so unfortunate in my life, what did I ever do to piss off the powers that be!? I also noticed the time at that moment… Me and Chie were gonna be late if we didn't haul ass!

"Shit! Chie," I turned around and ran into the kitchen and threw Chie a muffin, then ran into my room and got her stuff. "We need to leave… NOW! Will, fine stay here at least until I get home! I'll think about it while I'm at school…"

"Thanks Kris!" Will smiled as me and Chie busted out the door and down the street. This was gonna be a long day.

Flood Plain, on the way to School!

Me and Chie were trying our absolute best to not look like we just came from the same house. Yet… it seemed like no one cared! Which made it easy for us; we just had to not talk about it… ever! Another thing that made it easier on us was that Yu was not too far ahead of us! Chie smiled, which made me believe that she didn't have a horrible time yesterday… SHIT, don't talk about it! "Mornin'!"

"Sup Yu," I was still a little confused about Will just showing up out of buttfuck nowhere, but that wouldn't stop me from having fun with my friends! "What's up?"

"The sky…" I smiled; Yu was the first person in a long time that actually got that joke! Chie rolled her eyes at us for moment, a smile quickly grew on her face.

"Hey hey!" We both turned to Chie."What what?" I smiled right back at her, she didn't get irritated very easily did she… not that that's a bad thing!

"Yukiko told me that she'll be able to come to school again in two days!" She was smiling like a mad man the whole time too. "Oh man, I'm glad. I'm so happy!"

"Those are the same thing Chie." I showed one of my bad habits for the first time since moving to Inaba, when I noticed what I did, I quickly slapped my forehead. "Sorry bad habit of correcting people!"

"I didn't know you did that?" Yu actually seemed surprised by this.

"Yeah," I sighed, we were getting close to the school… "Why do you think I yell at you and Yosuke for being idiots? Oh, and Chie, it's thanks to you that we saved Yukiko."

"C'mon," Chie blushed a little with her light pink hue as the words left my mouth. "You know it's because all four of us did our best. Actually, more like the four of us, and one animal-thingy…?"

"Well," I sighed as we reached the front gates of the school. "Let's hope that her memory hasn't gotten worse over time… Which it usually does…"

Time Change: Early Morning to Lunchtime

I was just walking around the school for a bit, hoping to clear my mind with the whole Will business… Yet nothing was getting my mind off of it. That's when I noticed Yu walking down the stairs, I quickly tried to catch him before he was lost in the crowd going to what I hoped was the cafeteria… "Yu!"

"Oh Kreed," Yu smiled as I slid to a stop in front of him. "What's up?"

"You got any clubs after school?" Yu just shook his head at me. That was good; I knew the only way for me to get over the whole ordeal was to talk it out with someone. "Cool, can I talk to you about something after school then?"

"Yeah." Yu smiled as he did, my face grew a bright smile. I knew I had to get an answer to this problem, and fast. "I'll be there… Where you wanna meet at?"

I thought about it for a moment. "The stair well near the top of the school… You better not forget Narukami!"

"I won't Richards."

Time Change: Lunchtime to After School

"Thanks for coming up here man…" I sighed sitting against the wall on the top step next to the door that lead to the roof of the school. Yu had a blank expression as he walked up to me, he seemed to have guessed what I wanted to talk about.

"How could I forget?" Yu sat down against the opposite wall on the stair below the one I was on. "So, what's wrong?"

"That obvious huh?" I sighed as I now looked to the ceiling hoping for there to be a sign above my head that would give me all the answers I needed in life, especially right now! "My only friend from back in the states just showed up at my door today…"

"Is that a bad thing…?" I blew hot air out of my nose as the question left his mouth. Start to the point eh?

"No," I looked back at Yu, slowly bring my head down. "It's just that I haven't stayed in touch with him for the last five years…"

"Why didn't you?" Yu was really trying to poke and prod his away around in the dark wasn't he… Oh well.

"It's a not so long story…" Yu shifted around in his spot against the wall for a moment.

"We got time." I smiled at Yu and rubbed the back of my head.

"Man," I looked around for a moment, hoping for it to have stopped raining and for Chie to grab me by the wrist and drag me to train with her. Yet, no such thing was going to happen… "Where to start… I guess it all started when I was in middle school, I think it was sixth, no eighth grade… Geez, I can't even my story straight, well… um, so I meet a guy named Will, this was during all the bullying a shit that really got to me just started, so I had hope to make a friend and all that jazz…" I sighed, I really didn't like the part of this story that was coming up. "After a few months we were good friends, apparently all the people who thought it was wrong for me to have a friend… So they all decided to pull a prank on me. They waited until my last day at that school to pull too… thinking back on it now, it seemed like Will was in on it, but… he seems to have no idea about it, so… It was just the jokes, they tricked me into believing that Will was behind the school, and when I got there… they jumped me. I had to start at a new school with a black eye and cuts all over… luckily none of them turned into scars."

"So," Yu seemed like he was paying attention the whole time. "You feel betrayed by him?"

"Kinda…" I sighed again, man I was doing that a lot today. "I got over a lot of stuff when I accepted my shadow and got my Persona, but… It's easy to accept something that doesn't come chasing you down."

"He's here Inaba?" Yu finally say why I was having this talk with him… not like I was that straight with it to begin with but still!

"Yeah," I was really worried that a lot of people would take this the wrong way. "He doesn't know very much Japanese and he graduated early… Add all that to the fact he wants to crash at my place for a while!"

"Well," Yu stood up and placed a hand on my shoulder. "Do you want him there?"

"That's just it… I don't know!" I stood up as well, only I opened the door to the roof and stepped into the rain. "I like the rain, its calming to me most of the time… Well, now it's not if we are trying to save someone."

"I can understand that." I was glad he wasn't mad at me for switching the topic all of a sudden. "And about your friend… I think that if you trust him still, go ahead and let him stay for a while. After all, you have to get lonely in your house."

"Thanks man," I turned to Yu and smiled a bit. He looked surprised for a moment but smiled quickly afterwards. "I think I should get home before I get another cold… See ya tomorrow Yu."

With that I walked down the stairs of the school and got my stuff to leave.

Time Change: After School to Evening

"Yo Will," It was late when I finally made it home, almost midnight. When I got home, Will was sitting on the couch staring at a laptop screen. Yu was right, Will was a friend and I trusted him, so I was gonna let him stay here for a while. No harm no done I hope. Yet after this realization, I needed to get a hell of a lot more food from the store, so that's what took me so long.

"Sup Kris?" I sighed, he was the only person calling me by that name, it kinda sucked, but it couldn't hurt right?

"Dude, call me Kreed now okay?" I took in a deep breath as I prepared to let him stay. "And, about you staying here…"

"Yeah?" Will suddenly looked scared, I looked at the clock… I had to wrap this up quickly and turn on the TV, it was almost Midnight, even without Yukiko in the TV, I was sure that it would still show the Midnight Channel…

"You can stay here…" Will jumped out of his seat with the laptop still in his hands, he had a smile on his face. "At least until March… and you have to pull some of the weight around here, so you might need to get a job, I don't need one only because of the money my mom gave me. Also, find someone to teach you Japanese."

"Got it!" Will set the computer down and ran over and shook my hand. Unfortunately that was when the clock struck twelve… from behind Will I heard the TV snap on. Will quickly turned around and saw the blank screen that was produced by the Midnight Channel… Great he saw it, now this was gonna be an even longer year!

Here it is, just like I promised! Hope you enjoyed, feedback is very much welcome!