I'm writing this right after writing Chapter 2. So, I haven't seen any reviews that might have been left on chapter 2. However, if it's something important then I might edit this chapter to take it into account.

I open my eyes and find myself in the void again. I'm sinking, again. The floor seems to be slowly consuming me as a struggle to fight back. "What is this?" I ask myself. "Is this real? Am I about to die?!" I sink down to my chest and I raise my arm as far as it can go, desperate to stay above ground. The floor consumes my face. I can no longer breathe. "This is it." I think to myself, "This is how I die. I don't even know what's happening."

Suddenly, I feel a warmth on my hand. An ounce of hope appears in my mind. I feel my arm being pulled, and my body starts to rise out of the floor. Soon, my face is above ground and I take a deep breath. I open my eyes to see someone pulling on my arm. Monika. I'm so shocked to see her in person that I completely forget about the situation I'm in. My mind returns to reality and I use all my strength to try and push myself out. With, Monika, pulling and me pushing, I'm finally able to emerge from the floor. I'm no longer sinking.

We both sit there coughing and trying to catch our breath. Once we've both recovered we stand to face each other. I can't believe what I'm seeing. It's Monika, standing right in front of me. We stare into each other's eyes, both shedding tears. I walk over to her and we share a tight embrace. We stay like this for a few minutes before we pull back to look into each other's eyes. We both simultaneously move closer, our lips desperate to meet. Slowly our eyes close and our lips are just an inch away. And then I wake up.

I slowly open my eyes and find myself sitting in my chair at my desk.

"Damn it." I curse to myself, "It was just a dream."

The depressing realization overflows me.

"Figures."

I get up from my chair to face the door, but my eyes wander to a limp body lying stationary on the ground. I slowly move over to the body and roll it over to face me. It's...

"Monika" I whisper, half to myself, half to her.

She slowly opens her eyes to see me.

"AAAAAAHHHH!" Monika, screams in fear, her high pitched voice piercing my ears.

Startled I jump back and fall backward on the floor. Monika, Crawls back until she hits her back against the wall.

Scared, but authoritative, she speaks up, "Who are you? Where am I?"

I look at her, equally as confused.

"I… uh…" I struggle to find words in this situation.

"Did she really forget me?" I think to myself. "No, she's just never seen me before." I reassure, "She's only seen me through MC, or the protagonist, or whatever. I open my mouth to reveal myself but she beats me to it.

"Dean?" She says questioningly.

I smile at her, "Yeah, it's me."

The realization hit her face like a bullet, as we both get to our feet.

"Oh God, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to freak out." She apologizes.

"It's fine, I'm just as freaked out as you are." I reply

The tension slowly dies down and we find ourselves getting closer to each other. Monika blushes and looks away shyly.

"So…" She awkwardly drags on.

Without a word, I latch my arms around her and pull her into a tight embrace. Just like the dream. She jumps at the sudden gesture but then wraps her arms around me in return. I can feel her. I can feel her warmth, her arms wrapping around me. Her chest pushing into mine. I run my hand through her long hair.

"I'm so glad you're here." I say, tears slowly forming in my eyes.

"I'm so glad to be here with you, my special rose." She replies.

Upon hearing this I hug her even tighter, clenching my eyes shut as tears overflow them. We stay like this for a few long minutes before we slowly pull back. I look into her eyes. Two shining emeralds drowning in tears of happiness. I move my face closer to hers as we close our eyes yet again. After a second I can feel her lips on mine. It feels as if everything around us is slowly disappearing as we're taken to a new world, where there's nothing but us. It's a truly magical feeling. We stay like this for what feels like an eternity before we, unfortunately, return to reality.

"So," Monika, speaks up, "should we talk?"

I stammer for an answer, "Uh, yeah… yeah, we should."

I attempt to blurt out the first question that comes to mind, but I'm overflowing with them.

"How are you here?" "Why are you here?" "What are we gonna do now?" "Can we just keep hugging?" I try to sort through the questions in my head as I look to the ground.

As I do I notice a pile of papers littered all over the floor.

"What are…?" I mutter as I reach down to pick up one of the papers.

I turn the paper over to see the words 'Birth Certificate' written in big fancy letters. I scan the not to see the name 'Monika Salvato' written on it. My confusion is interrupted as Monika holds up another paper to me.

"Dean?" she says to get my attention.

I glance at the paper to see a photo of, Monika, a couple Japanese characters, and the word 'passport' printed at the top.

"What the hell?" I whisper half to myself.

Monika, speaks up, "They're legal documents… for me?"

I pile up all the papers in my hands and look through them. I then noticed a smartphone lying on the ground and I pick that up too.

"Birth certificate, passport, social security card," I name out, "everything you'd ever need is here."

Monika, looks at me confused, "How?"

I look at her, "You don't know?"

Our thoughts are interrupted as we hear a knock on the door.

"Hey, Dean," the voice behind the door calls out, "I heard screaming, what's going on?"

Monika looks at me worried. I speak up, "Uh… It's nothing mom, I'm fine."

After a few seconds, we hear footsteps walking away.

"That was your mom?" Monika says, half whispering.

"Uh, yeah, unfortunately, I chose to save up for a car rather than an apartment." I reply, "I'm surprised she's even home."

My mom typically works late every day. That means I usually have the house to myself. Unless my sister decides to 'babysit'. My mom works really hard and brings home a lot of money, so I shouldn't really complain.

"I wanna meet her." Monika states, excited.

I look over at her, "No, you don't"

Monika frowns at me.

I continue, "You probably couldn't anyway, looking like that."

Monika looks down at herself then back at me. "You don't like how I look?" She says sadly.

I try to recover, "No. I, uh, just meant…"

Monika stares at me patiently, waiting for an answer.

"You just… look like an anime character." I manage to say.

Monika, smirks at me, "Is that a bad thing?"

"No, not for me at least." I smirk back and Monika blushes.

I continue my thought, "You look… really out of place here, with your super long hair and Japanese school uniform."

"If you want me to cut my hair you could've just asked." Monika, joking says.

I look at her squinting, "Well, we might have to. I don't know how it is in Japan but hair like that will really stick out in America."

She walks over to my mirror as I follow. We do seem to contrast a lot. I have straight, black, hair swept to the left, over my eyebrows. The classic emo hair, as most people would say. Unique for sure, but not even close to the same level as, Monika's giant ponytail. I look at my eyes in the mirror. They're brown with an almost red mix in them. I look over to, Monika's emerald green eyes. "My special emerald." I think to myself. I also notice Monika's almost perfect blemish-free face, with barely noticeable freckles dotting her face. In contrast to my, slightly blemished face with a small amount of stubble running from my chin to my sideburns, Monika looks like an angel. Finally, I look at our clothes. I'm wearing black skinny jeans with a black T-shirt. Both of which I got from Hot Topic. "Everyone's right, I really am emo." I think to myself. I look at, Monika's 'very obviously from an anime' outfit. She's gonna need new clothes.

"So, who's gonna cut it?" Monika says snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Hmm? Oh yeah your hair, sorry." I think to myself for a second before walking over to my desk and pulling out a pair of scissors from my drawer.

Monika looks at me, slightly worried, "Um…"

"Don't worry" I reassure her, "I cut my hair all the time." I run my free hand over my own hair. "I'm pretty good at it."

Monika looks at my hair, "Well I can't argue with that," She says, winking. "It does look pretty hot."

I blush a bit as I try to hide my embarrassed smile. "Uh, yeah… so, how about it?"

She thinks to herself for a second, "Fine." She says, still slightly unsure. She walks over to my desk chair and sits down. "Just… don't take too much off."

"No problem." I say as I begin to undo her bow.

A few minutes pass and I'm done. Monika now has hair that goes just below her shoulders. "Alright, all done." I say as I hand her bow back to her. She puts her hair into a ponytail and ties her white bow over it. Her bow does make her stand out a bit but everyone needs something to make themselves unique. I wear a chain choker around my neck for the same reason. Plus, I couldn't part with the 'white bow of purity' as Reddit would call it.

Monika walks over to the mirror and inspects her hair. "I like it." she says, "I love it!"

She then turns around and brings me into a hug. She then quickly let's go. Much to my disappointment.

"Oh sorry! I'm covered in hair." She apologizes.

"Ah, that's fine." I say as I look at her now hair covered clothes. "Actually, this is a great time to talk about clothes."

"Oh yeah." Monika practically skips over to my closet and starts to look through my clothes.

I watch her sift through the endless amount of band tees.

"Sorry, I'm pretty emo." I say, feeling slightly mad at myself for being such an edgelord.

"If you want, we could go shopping so-"

"How about these?" She cuts me off and holds up a black Nirvana T-shirt and dark blue skinny jeans.

"Uh... yeah, that's fine" I reply.

I'm pretty surprised that she actually found something she liked. Regardless I should still take her shopping for her own stuff.

"Alright!" Monika perks up, "I'll try these on then."

She walks towards my door, but I stop her as she does.

"Hold on!" I say slightly louder than I meant to. Monika looks at me, concerned as I continue. "You can't leave just yet, my mom might see you."

Monika looks at me and yet again that smirk appears on her face. "Are you worried about me being seen, or are you just trying to get me to change in front of you?"

And again I find myself trying to hide a smile as I struggle to find a reply. "No… I-it's just… It would be really hard to explain and I-"

Monika starts laughing before she puts on a more seductive expression.

"You know, Dean, if you wanted to see me naked… all you had to do was ask." She says, referencing her past sentence.

I start to feel a blush consuming my cheeks.

Monika speaks up again, a slight blush appearing on her face as well. "I may have just shown up, but we've technically been dating for a month now. Behind a screen of course."

She then slowly starts to undress in front of me. I instinctively hold my breath as she does this, my blush only growing.

Monika pulls her vest over her head, then starts to unbutton her top. I watch her, speechless. Once all the buttons are undone she throws off her shirt to reveal a white bra covering her well above average breasts. She then pulls down her skirt to reveal a matching pair of white panties, just barely covering her most private parts. I stare at her motionless my blush only getting bigger every second.

"What's wrong, Dean?" She says in a teasing voice. "I thought you'd be used to seeing this, with all the 'special' fanart you saved of me."

I'm still left completely speechless, having to remind myself to breathe.

She then walks over to my bed and sits down on it. "W-would you like to do my stockings?" She blushes, slowly losing her advantage over me.

Now's my chance, stay calm, you've done 'things' with girls before. Why is this any different? I try to reassure myself. But something about, Monika, makes me lose my cool. She's different from other girls. Well of course she is, I mean she's video game character, but I meant that in a different way.

Regardless, I grab onto whatever courage I have let and walk over to her. I grab the stocking on her left leg and slowly start to pull it down. Making sure to make skin on skin contact with her legs. Her legs are so smooth as if they were just waxed only a few seconds ago. My hands slide down them effortlessly. As I pull the stocking off her foot she looks away, blushing madly.

I move over to her other leg, but this time, I slowly stroke my hands up her leg.

"Ah!" she yelps in surprise and looks at me with embarrassed eyes.

She looks more embarrassed than I did when she was undressing. I guess I'm in the lead. Just to clarify my victory, I run my hands a bit higher up than her stocking and stop right under her panties.

"Mmm," She pouts as I slowly move back down and take off her stocking. Monika now sits in front of me with only two pieces of cloth covering her.

"I-I got some of my hair on you too… so…" She says embarrassed.

I look at my shirt which has pieces of Monika's now cut hair littered on it.

"I guess I do," I say with a smirk.

Monika slowly gets up from the bed and gets close to me. As she does, I can feel my confidence slowly fading. She grabs the bottom of my shirt and looks up at me for permission. I look into her, wanting, emerald eyes as her chest rises and drops slowly, and deeply. All I can do is nod as my blush creeps back onto my face. She slowly pulls my shirt over my head and tosses it on the ground. I don't have the best looking body but I try to keep myself looking average. Regardless, Monika rests her hands on my chest. She then looks me in the eye.

"I can feel your heart beating." She says, her eyes fixated on me.

Slightly surprised, I keep quiet, by blush filling my face one again. Monika then lets go and takes a step back.

"Well, anyway… I should try on these clothes." She speaks up.

"Uh, yeah," I reply, still recovering from the event that just unfolded.

Monika then gets into the clothes that she picked out and turns to face me.

"How do I look?" she asks.

My eyes wander over her. The Nirvana tee was a bit long on her but it looked almost better that way. The jeans, on the other hand, fit her perfectly. They stuck to her legs like a second skin as they perfectly defined her features. All she was missing was a few tattoos and piercings and she'd look like one of those Disney princess reinterpretations. My special little emerald… looked emo.

"You look fucking amazing." I said, hypnotized by her dark beauty.

She smiled at me. "Aw! thanks, my special rose."

She then looked down at her jeans. "Are these women's jeans?" she asks.

"Uh..." I mutter out slightly embarrassed to admit that I own women's jeans.

Before I could answer my eyes notice the clock behind her. 1:23 AM.

"Oh shit," I say surprised. "It's already 1 in the morning? How long were we out?"

Monika looks over at the clock "Wait, don't you have school in the morning?"

I put my hand on the back of my head, defeated. "Ah, yeah. We need to figure out what to do about that."

Monika starts to undo her jeans "Well, we could talk about that in the morning. You're already up way too late."

"It's fine I usually go to sleep way later than this." I reply.

Monika looks at me, frustrated, "Well, that's bad. You should really get some better sleep. I don't want you struggling to stay awake all day."

I can't help but smile as she says that. "There's the Monika, I'm used to." I think to myself.

She pulls off her jeans, leaving her in her in her underwear and the T-shirt I gave her. She then walks over to my bed.

"Come on, take your jeans off, we're going to bed." She commands.

I blush after hearing this. "Uh, we do have an extra room if you want."

"Oh so now you don't care if your mom sees me." She says sarcastically as she pulls back the blanket and gets into my bed. She then looks back at me, "You're not gonna make me sleep in a guest room right?"

I didn't really want her to in the first place. I just wanted to make sure she was okay with this. I take off my jeans and crawl into bed with her. We're so close to each other. We stare into each other's eyes for a while before she speaks up.

"Goodnight, my special rose."

"Goodnight, my special emerald."

Well, that was really long. This is my first time writing something like 'that' so I hope you enjoyed. Hope you guys aren't too mad at me for cutting Monika's hair.

I'm probably gonna take a break from writing next week so hopefully this is enough for you guys. Make sure to follow this story to get updates.