May 31, 2011

Forecast... Cloudy

Tuesday

"Damn its starting to get warm..." I sighed as I quickly walked through the school building. To be honest, I was just pacing because I was bored. Yes I do that a lot!

Anyway, at the moment I was in the practice building, no reason for it though, Chie didn't feel too good after school so Yukiko walked her home. Yosuke did work for once; Kou left before I could say a damned thing. Yu went straight to the shopping district, I had no idea why he spent so much time there, but I've seen him on more than one occasion with blue hat gal...

Em was in detention, I know right... it was a miracle! She pissed off King Moron by bumping into him and not apologizing... Then she argued about how was the one who should have seen her was ass in the sentence, and the rest was history.

I sighed and leaned against one of the walls. "This is getting me nowhere. I'd like to hang out with someone, but everyone freaking is busy or probably emptying out the contents of their stomachs..."

Just as the words left my mouth... I heard a door open down the hall as people started walking out of the band room. "Thanks for staying behind to clean again Ayane!"

"Oh, um..." I leaned back like trying to dodge a bullet in the Matrix to look at the door, only for me to fall flat on my back.

"Son of a...!" I gripped the back of my head for a moment before I heard a small voice behind me.

"Um... are you okay?" I quickly spun around and got to my feet my attention was then given to a small girl with short black hair and... oh god, her cheeks... They were permanently a rosy color. I thought she was a little kid until I saw her Yasogami uniform.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I rubbed my neck for a moment before looking down at her again. I had a guess of who she was.

"Oh, sorry!" She quickly bowed apologetically. To which I laughed at slightly.

"It's fine." I held out my hand. "Kreed, and you are?"

"Ayane," She slowly took my hand and shook it. "Are you K-Kreed-senpai that Narukami-senpai mentioned...?"

She seemed a little nervous at that moment. I still smiled down at the girl. "So you're friends with Yu?" She just nodded at. "I heard that you need to clean the band room right?" Again she nodded. This is when I started to frown. They were making her clean the room by herself... That just wasn't right.

"I don't mind it though, I'm not very good at playing so I try to help out as much as I can." Now I was shaking my head... these guys were practically using her as a work horse. "Though Yu-senpai usually helps me."

"And he wasn't at practice today..." Sighing loudly, I wanted to kick the crap outta Yu, but he was my friend, so I'd just tell him about it later. You know... in a pissed off voice.

Anyways... to continue! I looked from Ayane to to the band about three times before I started to walk towards the band room. "Well, let's get the job done then."

"What?" She tilted her head to look at me. Though I think she was just confused.

"Ima help you." I leaned back a bit as I entered... an almost clean band room. "Or... you already did most of it..."

Time Change:

After school to Afternoon

"Okay... not most of it." I rubbed my forehead as me and Ayane finished cleaning up the band room. It took about an hour to clean, which still wasn't that long. So no really complaints from me. "Sooooooooo... now what?"

Ayane giggled a bit at my current confusion. "Well, I was gonna go to the floodplain to practice my trombone... I'm not very good at playing."

I grinned evilly as I walked to the door. "I think I'll be the judge of that."

Location Change:

Yasogami High to Floodplain

"D-damn... I thought you said you weren't very good..." I rubbed the back of my neck as Ayane finished practicing the song that she was supposed to play for the band club in a performance that was coming up within a month or so. I guess I didn't give Yu enough credit, he had a crap ton on his plate. So I can't really blame him for leaving for a break every now and then. I wouldn't have doubted it if he had a job. "So you're just filling in for an injured band member?"

"Yeah, I feel bad taking his place." Ayane smiled up to me, which wasn't for long as I flung myself against the hillside. I started doing a lot of things here since I started at Yasogami... training with Chie, talking with Hisano, and now I was helping Ayane with her music. "But it was a chance that I couldn't pass up... t-to be honest, it was Yu-senpai who made me go for it."

"No shit, huh..." I smiled brightly as I looked at the clouds moving across the sky... it reminded me of the ending of a school year... it was so peaceful that day, I wish I could have stayed in that peace. Wait... did that actually happen, i-it was all a little fuzzy, but still... if I stayed in that peace, I never would have meet Chie, or anyone here. "I was once part of an arts club, photography..." Wait... no, that...

"Really?" Ayane looked shocked, I quickly sat up and held my forehead. Something wasn't right... I, no, there was no way... "All the other art clubs are full right now... Um, Senpai you could join one next year, right?"

"Huh?" I shook my head and stared at Ayane... "Oh, did I saw I was in one, I meant my sister, Em." Just as the words left my mouth, my phone started to ring. "Oh, sorry Ayane... crap! I'm sorry, I gotta go. My sister and friend staying with us can't cook for crap!"

"O-oh, okay, bye Senpai!" I waved at her as I ran down the road... but the moment I was out of earshot... pain suddenly shot through my head... names, faces, and things I shouldn't know... h-how was this possible! Em, never joined any clubs either, I clearly remembered joining a kendo club, a student council, photography club... w-who's Yukari?

"Wh-what the fuck..." I gripped my end as I nearly collapsed on the side of the road. "What the fuck is happening?!" After about a minute, the pain subsided... I couldn't remember anything other than my own memories now... The Dark Hour, my attempts of offing myself, moving to Inaba, the Midnight Channel, my Shadow... Chie... nothing about clubs or anything that shouldn't have been there. "What the..."

I shook my head and continued down the road toward my house... something wasn't right... I knew that much.

Time Change:

Afternoon to Evening

"Um... why the fuck is... ya know...?" I froze in my doorway as everyone of my friends sat around my living room and kitchen, hell, even Kanji was there! So was Blue Hat, but she stayed close to Yu. Yeah, not like I could tell what was going on in his head. "WHY THE FUCK IS EVERYONE HERE!?"

Okay, before you get ahead of yourself... I yelled happily but still... what the fuck? "Watch your language young man!" I spun on one foot as my mom came flying up the walkway to my house. "And, most of these people are busy tomorrow, so... I asked all of them to come here tonight."

"WHY!?" My mom quickly flew into the kitchen and down the hall. after a minute Kou hit the lights in the living room. Yosuke hit the lights in the kitchen. "Okay, not creepy at freaking all!"

That's when I saw the lights coming down from the kitchen... FUCK! How could I have forgotten what tomorrow was!? Coming into the kitchen was my mom and Chie holding a large cake with candles in it... I didn't need to count to know that there were seventeen of them... "Happy early birthday bro!"

"Happy birthday Kreed-kun!"

"Happy birthday Kreed!"

"Happy birthday Kreed-san!" Everyone yelled at once, I started laughing at my own stupidity... god this was embarassing! Then Chie stood next to me...

"Happy birthday Kris..." I didn't care at that moment, I kissed Chie, just a quick peck on the lips. God, I laughed when her face got oh so bright red! She still slipped her hand into mine as my mom already started to cut the cake.

"Blow out the candles! And who wants a corner piece!"

"Hey, mom! Wait for brother to blow out the freaking candles! You don't want your arm to catch fire again do you!?" Everyone just started to bust out laughing at that moment... it was the night ever, at the time...

I'm going to say this first, damnit, I'm sorry If I said that Kreed was seventeen already, I wanted to do a birthday scene, I know it's kinda short but I got it in! Also if I said when Kreed's birthday was before, I'm sorry, I've been working on this story so long, I started to forget basic information on my characters that I need! Still, I will work on it, so sorry if this chapter is like that. I still hope you all enjoyed, and send in your feedback!