I'M BAAAAAAAAACK! Now, I know that my birthday was Friday, but I have a present for you guys… Chapter 22! Hope you enjoy!

May 6, 2011

"Morning Kreed-kun." I had literally just opened my door to see Yukiko and the ever lovely Chie standing on my, well I guess that it's not really a porch… I almost fell back into my house with surprise. "Are you ready for the school day?"

"Not when you guys scare the shit out of me!" I was breathing heavy at that moment. Chie laughed a bit. "Don't laugh! I thought you guys were gonna kill for a moment! Especially you Chie!"

"What?" Chie just titled her head at me… that's when a realization dawned upon her. "Oh, that…"

I spent all day sleeping yesterday, but not before sleep talking… Will heard everything about me and Chie, at which he texted Yukiko… I was going to have to kick his ass for that later! Yet, I got a call from Chie later that night; let's just say that she was not a happy camper… Lucky, she would have understood if I told will or Yukiko… though it was Yosuke that texted her about it, I was definitely going to kick his ass today! "A-anyway, let's go, we need to get to school!"

With that we set off of the day. We all talked about nothing important on the way, until I noticed someone walking to the school that I clearly recognized. The line of turquoise hair gave it away. Though, that's not what scared me about this girl… she was in a Yasogami High uniform! Yukiko also noticed this. "Isn't that Em-chan?"

"Oh god," I facepalmed, not today I did not want to deal with this today. Do not go all psycho… "I was hoping this would wait until after the exams!"

I yelled that a little louder than I wanted too, but Em didn't notice, in fact. She raised her arms as if she was holding something and stopped walking. That's when I saw the sliver, box like object in her hands. I also noticed the lens that prodded out the front of the box. It was a camera, she was taking pictures of the students walking to school and the actually scenery. This actually made me smile, for how much of a pain in the ass she can be. I knew she loved photography, it truly made her happy. I know I wanted to apologize to her, but I wanted to focus on exams. "Em, I didn't know that you started photography again!"

This made her jump, she spun on one foot, that's when I noticed that she had personalized her school uniform; it had a few pins with her favorite bands on them and I could see that she had a guitar pick as a necklace on. "Oh, brother! I didn't notice you until now." She noticed Chie and Yukiko and bowed. "Please forgive my behavior the other day… I did not mean to be in considerate to anyone, I was just worried about the wellbeing of my brother, I did not mean to cause any problems for anyone."

"It's fine Em-chan!" Chie smiled at my sister, and so did Yukiko. "So, are you a first year?"

That's when I turned red; I was actually embarrassed about the fact that my YOUNGER sister was so much smarter than I was. "Chie-san, was it? Actually, even though I am a year younger than my brother, I am a third year level."

Chie's and Yukiko's mouths both just about hit the floor. "Yeah, I saw that one coming after that…"

Time Change: Early Morning to After School

"Ugh…" For once, we were all standing around TWO desk instead of just mine! It was a miracle! "Why do the holidays have to end so fast…?"

"Because there is this stupid thing called mandatory school days…" I leaned back in my chair; I knew where this topic was going to get us fast. "Or some shit like that, I don't know…"

"At least they were peaceful." I glared at Yosuke and kicked him in the shin. "Ow, what the hell was that for!?"

"Yesterday asshole!" Growling at Yosuke I turned back to everyone else. "Though, I do understand what you're talking about with that, I didn't hear about anyone disappearing on TV or over the internet… not that it would show up there I guess."

"Yeah," We were all in thought about this, we just wanted to killer so stop... well, attempting to kill. Wow, that was the most redundant thing I have ever heard. "I listened in on the housewives gossiping at Junes, but it doesn't seem like anything happened. Y'think Yukiko could've been the last of the victims?"

"I doubt it…" I looked to the ground, there was no way in hell that Yukiko would be the last victim. I didn't want to be Mr. Doom-and-Gloom, but everyone knew I was right. "There's no way that someone like this would give up after one failed attempt and two successful."

"I agree," Yu knew that it needed to be said, that way the culprit wouldn't catch us off guard. "He wouldn't give up after Yukiko."

Chie looked even more worried than everyone else, being that she didn't say anything. Which was saying something about Chie; she always said something to cheer us up. I put a reassuring hand on her shoulder and smiled at her. "Me and Yu could be totally off base as well, I mean… the guy rang for bell, so he has to be worse than me. So don't worry so much!" I shook her shoulder slightly. She couldn't help but smile, which kinda made me almost laugh. I could make someone smile, with the same stuff that got me made fun of. Then Yukiko spoke up…

"I don't know." Yukiko was still worried, but she was calmer about this than the rest of us. "But we shouldn't relax as long as the culprit remains at large."

"I wonder…" Yosuke started to think out loud now, but I facepalmed as the words left his mouth. "Will someone show up on TV again if it rains?"

"Wasn't that the whole point of watching the Midnight Channel in the first place?" I sighed, I knew it was a little rude, but I knew where he was going with this too. "I get what you're saying though, if you knew just one thing about the killer, it would help us out greatly."

Now I was depressed about it, I kinda wished that we could go back to a normal life, but then again… without the Midnight Channel, I might not have made it to May. Then I heard Chie pep up again. "Eh, it's no good fretting over it now. If someone does show up on the Midnight Channel, then we'll deal with it. It's supposed to start raining soon, but I hope this weather holds through next week…" I smiled, there's good old Chie, god, even if she didn't really mean too then, and she still cheered me up. I was kinda looking forward to getting the test over with.

"Oh yeah," I smiled as I leaned back until the back of my chair hit the desk behind me. "Midterms are next week."

"Ugh," Yosuke seemed worse than when we were just talking about the case. I couldn't help but laugh. "You guys just had to go and bring that up… I don't wanna think about it."

"I wish I had Yukiko's gift for studying…" Chie sighed as she and Yosuke looked to the ground in defeat, so they could face shadows head on, but a simple test and suddenly it was the end of the world… "Hey Yosuke, why don't you have Yukiko go over some of the material with you?"

"Hm?" Yosuke quickly looked up quickly from the floor. "Oh, that's right. Yukiko's ranked at the top on every exam. Maybe I should ask her for some private lessons."

I didn't think anything of Yosuke comment until after what I saw next. "P-private lessons!?" Yukiko looked shocked, and not in a good way. Yosuke seemed confused by Yukiko's sudden outburst.

"Huh? What's wrong?" That's when Yukiko walked up to Yosuke and promptly smacked him in the face… HARD! It took a moment for what just happened to register in my mind, but when it did… I burst out laughing, I couldn't help it. "Ow…! What was that for? I'm just asking you to help me study…"

"Oh, I'm sorry…" Yukiko looked upset to begin with, now she looked guilt ridden. "You were talking about studying… I thought it might've been an off-color joke. Our inn has had some strange visitors lately… Oh, not that your family is weird Kreed-kun!"

"Yes, yes we are…" I glared at Yukiko. "I find it an insult that you would think anything less than that! Just kidding, though yeah, we are weird."

"So what!?" Now it was Yosuke's turn to be pissed at Yukiko. "If you thought it was a joke, then just shrug it off!"

This was the point that I continued to laugh to the point that me and the chair it the ground, I hit my head pretty hard too, so hard that I blacked out for a moment…

The sky was green; the moon was silver with red, the puddle of what was once rain now looked like blood. Everyone was scared, yet I wasn't, why was I so calm? I noticed people muttering a phrase that I couldn't hear; I couldn't clearly remember what was going on… I heard someone scream and I was blinded by light as I woke up.

"Is he okay!?" I heard Chie yell as I slowly stirred back to conciseness. My head was killing me, good that was such a weird dream that I thought that maybe I just fell asleep in class and that I was still dreaming.

I finally looked up to see that Yu and Yosuke had propped me against a wall to keep me from falling to the ground again. "I'd be better if my head didn't feel like a pin dropping from across the room would hurt to hear… The hell happened to me?"

"You fell out of your chair and slammed you head against the floor," Yu explained quietly and calmly… god, even that hurt a bit, there was no way in hell that it should hurt this much! Unless…

"The chair landed on my head somehow didn't it?" I rubbed the back of my head to find that the guys took off my beanie to make sure I wasn't bleeding. Great, they saw the scare… Yu just nodded when Yukiko reentered the room.

"Here's the aspirin you guys wanted me to get him." I held my head again… the doors in this school were so damn loud! I practically jumped for the damn medicine! Yukiko noticed I was awake and quickly took out two of the pills. "Oh, here you go Kreed-kun, um… do you need a glass of water with that?"

I shook my head and plopped one pill into my mouth. I swished it around in the saliva that I collected in my mouth only a moment again and swallowed the pill, and then I repeated the process. I smiled a bit as I rubbed the scar on the back of my head. "Where's my beanie at…?"

"Before that…?" Yosuke looked away from me, I could tell be the fact that his hands were behind his back that he had it. "Wh-what's with the scar on the back of your head, not that it really matters, just want to know."

I sighed… I had no reason to hide anything from them, but this was one thing that I wanted to stay hidden, or at least part of it… "I tried to jump off a roof once, the fall barely hurt, it was the hitting my head on a rock that did that. SO, can I have my beanie back now!?"

Yosuke sighed, they all did, and they really thought that it was new!? Have more faith in me than that guys! I mean come the fuck on, just because I tried before doesn't mean I'm gonna do it again. "That… had to hurt…"

"It did." I sighed as Yosuke threw my beanie back to me… "I'm going home now… later guys."

With that I walked out of the room with a massive head ache and one confusing question that came to my mind… "Was that supposed to be the… N-no… it was just a nightmare nothing more… I hope."

Time Change: After School to Evening

"What can I even do…?" I sighed, now before you go and complain that I'm all depressed and shit because I wasn't… I was bored out of my mind, I didn't think I needed to study for midterms, after all I was actually pretty smart, just didn't really show it a lot… WHAT!? I AM! JUST WAIT YOU'LL SEE! Sorry anyway… after I finished saying that one, there was a knock on my bedroom door. "Come on in…"

I was excepting to see Will, or a member of my family… but at my door was none other than Chie Sotanaka. "C-CHIE!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"

Chie smiled at me and held up a few books. "I-I needed help studying for the exams…"

Not that I wanted to study, but hell, Chie was my girlfriend and I'd help her with this for sure. As well as many other things. "I don't know why you decided to come to my house to study this late."

"Well," Chie's face turned bright red as she stood in the door way of my room. "My parents aren't home and I tried to text you…"

"I never said I wouldn't help," I smiled as I patted the bed next to the office chair that I was currently spinning in. "Let's just make sure that you don't fall asleep again."

Her face suddenly turned that shade of pink that it gets, I was starting to notice just how cute it really was. "S-shut up…! Idiot!"

"Though," I listened carefully and I could hear Will's voice a long with someone else's voice too. "I'm guessing Yukiko came with you?"

"Yeah," Chie sat all of her stuff down. "So, ugh… math first."

"I like math."

"That makes one of us." Chie sighed as she opened the book. She was still just barely that pink color. We tried to study for a while with Chie on my bed and me in the chair until. "So you get 35 right?"

"No," I sighed and stood up from the chair. "Here, move over a bit, I think it'll be easier if I show you what to do."

The bed was very small, so Chie just stared up at me like I was insane. "Wh-wh-what!? There's not enough room for the both of us!"

That was when the pink in her cheeks came back, I smiled evilly, I was gonna torture her now. "Yes there is."

I got up near the pillows of my bed, but with how small it was, I practically had to wrap my legs around her. It was fun to see how much she reacted to this… yeah, I felt bad and like a total asshole! Yet she looked so cute that I couldn't help myself! "Come here and I'll show you how to do the problem."

Chie almost jumped back, or slapped me. She looked so shocked, now I know that I sounded like a total perv, but we both had to get over being embarrassed about this, not like the whole town wasn't going to know by the end of the week anyway. She very, very hesitantly climbed the bed so she was basically in my lap. We were both red now, she knew it too, but I guess she felt safe or something at that moment, I had no idea until later… I wrapped my arms around her sides so that I could write in the note book. "S-so, um… the equation is the inverse of sine of the square root of two over two times the cosine of one half. The equation is asking you what is forty-five times sixty!"

"Oh," Chie was still just as embarrassed as I was… but she made no move to escape my arms. "So it would be around two thousand and seven hundred, right?"

"Yes!" I dropped her pencil and fell backwards in my bed by accident, I grabbed the closest thing I could, which just so happened to be Chie's waste. I brought her with me on my way down… needless to say, we both screamed, Yukiko and Will ran up the stairs, we scrambled to get off of each other… which we did just in time and then me and Chie said some awkward goodbyes. Until they were heading out the door. "Hey, Chie…"

She looked back at me, her face that pinkish color again. "What?"

"You need to give yourself more credit…" I smiled at her and closed my eyes while doing so. "You really smarter than everyone thinks."

I didn't hear a response, but I knew that she was happy. I walked to my room and almost fell sleep standing before I was out cold. I just wanted to sleep that awkward moment off, but… I couldn't help but feel like me and Chie had just gotten a little closer. I had one of the best dreams ever that night…

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