Guess who's back! Wait, is anyone actually still here? Well for those of you that haven't lost interest in this story, my hiatus is finally over and I'm ready to write again!

Thank you all so much for dealing with my bullshit. Seriously, you guys are awesome. I can't express that enough.

Now for the moment you've all been waiting for, the continuation of The Emerald and The Rose.

My eyes slowly blinked open to reveal a blurry mess. After a couple blinks my vision somewhat cleared and I was able to make out my room. I laid lazily on my bed, attempting to gain the energy to get up and continuously blinking away the blurriness from my eyes. After a few seconds, I forced myself to sit up, just to fall back down again.

"Geez, you must be exhausted" I heard Monika say.

"I feel like I've been asleep for years." I barely manage to mumble out. "Or more accurately, 3 months."

Monika giggled at me before saying, "Well there's no rush. It's the weekend. A three day weekend actually."

Somehow hearing that gave me the energy to prop myself up on my arm.

"That's fucking amazing. I'm so sick of school." I say while spotting Monika doing her make-up in the mirror.

She turns to face me, revealing her beautiful green eyes. Seeing her gives me a nostalgic feeling.

"My thoughts exactly." She says while walking over to the bed. "No school, no distractions." Monika leans over me and smiles at me seductively.

I notice she's wearing a tight T-shirt with no bra underneath. I can tell she's not wearing one because I can see two distinct dots around her chest area.

I decided to play along. "And what were you thinking of doing during all that time?"

"Let me show you," Monika says before leaning in closer and placing her lips on mine.

The kiss eventually went deeper until it turned into a full makeout session. Monika climbed on top of me with her legs resting on either side of me. She brought her hands down to my chest and slowly started to stroke them downwards. Similarly, I brought my hands up to her hips and slowly stroked upwards. She eventually made her way down to my dick and slowly started to stroke it back and forth through my pants. I slid my arms up against her body to her breasts and began to knead them with each hand.

After a few minutes of this, she grabbed onto my wrists and pinned them down over my head. She then brought her crotch down to mine and started to grind onto it. We continued to make out. I felt an occasional moan exit her mouth and enter mine. The exchange felt magical.

I was almost at my limit so I pulled away to tell her. "Monika I'm-"

Suddenly, the door flung open and a woman walked through. "Yo Dean I'm-"

She cut herself off, almost choking on her words as she saw us. Monika quickly jumped off of me and I quickly sat up in my bed.

The woman held in a chuckle as she said, "Oh didn't realize you had company. I'll wait in the living room."

And with that she left the room, making sure to close the door behind her. Monika looked at me, confused. I looked back at her and started laughing at what just happened. This seemed to only confuse her more but that didn't stop her from growing a smile on her face.

My laughter started to fade and I opened my mouth to explain. "That was… my sister."

Monika looked slightly shocked "What? Since when do you have a sister?"

I stood up from the bed. "Since I was born I would assume."

Monika rolled her eyes at me. "I meant why didn't you tell me?"

I walked over to the closet and threw on a shirt. "I could've sworn I did. Anyway, now would be a great time to meet her."

Monika blushed "Yeah, great time."

I opened the door and walked out to the living room with Monika following behind. We entered the living room to see my sister sitting on the couch.

"You guys have fun?" She said with a smirk.

I replied with a simple, "Shut up. What do you want."

"What I can't just stop by and see how my little brother's doing?" She said.

I stayed quiet, looking at her suspiciously.

"Mom said she was gonna be working late and told me to look after you for a couple days." She admitted.

I chucked to myself. "She's been working late for a few days now. She just told you?"

"Yeah well, you know mom." She said before looking past me towards Monika.

"So who's you're uh… friend." She asked.

"Girlfriend. And it's Monika." Monika said with a hint of awkwardness.

"Oh well good to see Dean finally left his room and met someone." She said, unknowingly. "I'm Rebecca, but you can call me Reb."

Monika looked at her curiously. "Huh, I thought it would've started with an M."

We stood in silence for a moment.

"Okay… Well nice to meet you." Reb said. "By the way Dean I noticed you went on a bit of a shopping spree."

"Yeah, so what? I didn't go past my limit." I replied

"I know, but spending that much on a girl?" Reb looked at both of us. "How long have you guys been dating?"

Monika spoke up. "We've been talking online for a few months now but we just met in person a few days ago."

Reb chuckled. "You two have been talking for that long? And I never heard about it?" There was doubt laced in her tone. She looked over at me. "How is that even possible? All you've been doing on your computer is playing that hentai game."

Monika blushed. "It's not a hentai game." She said, embarrassed.

Reb looked at her suspiciously then looked back at me. "Wait does she play it too? Ha! That actually makes a lot more sense. What did you guys meet in a chat room or something?"

"God how old are you?" I said mockingly. "No one uses chat rooms anymore. We met on Reddit."

As I said this a thought popped into my head. "Shit. Has Monika seen my Reddit posts?"

Reb was still suspicious. "Okay, so you guys met online. Then what did you guys find out you went to the same school or something?"

"Actually, I came from Japan." Monika answered.

Reb chuckled as if it was a joke but quickly realized no one else was laughing.

"Okay, now I'm calling bullshit." She said bluntly. "There is no fucking way my brother not only met someone online but also convinced them to move across the world to be with him."

She looked at Monika. "Tell me the truth. He conjured you up with black magic."

"Nope," Monika said happily. "I just love him."

"Okay, so he brainwashed you?" Reb asked.

"Nope," Monika said again. "I just really love him."

I couldn't help but smile at her comments. She's obviously trying to get a reaction out of me.

Reb still wasn't convinced. "So then what? Are you an anime character who jumped out of his computer?"

"N-" Monika cut herself off, caught off guard by the question.

I decided to step in "Reb what's with the questions? Is it that hard to believe that a girl would be genuinely interested in me?"

Reb pauses for a second. "Alright sorry. It's just… Dean the last time I saw you was when you opened your door for a split second so I can hand you food. Now all of a sudden you're out and about with your new girlfriend, going to the mall and shit? What happened?"

I thought to myself for a second. "Monika happened," I said. "Ever since she showed up things have been getting better."

I saw Monika smile at me in the corner of my eye. Reb also gave me a small smile.

"Whatever. It's good to see you again Dean." She said sincerely. "I was worried. You know I actually care about you."

"Yeah, you're the only family member that does." I said only half joking.

"Hey, don't say that. Mom cares, she's just… busy." Reb said back.

I rolled my eyes "Whatever. We're gonna go back to my room. Don't barge in again."

Reb chuckled "Okay have fun."

Monika and I head back to my room and she shuts the door behind us.

"So… you wanna continue." She asks.

"I don't know," I said. "I kinda lost the mood after talking about my mom."

"That's fine." She said, considerately. "Do you wanna talk about it?"

"Not really." I replied, sitting down on the bed.

Monika sat down next to me. "You know, you weren't shaking at all while you were asleep. And you woke up pretty normally. Did you have any nightmares?"

I think about it for a second. "Now that you mention it, no."

"Well, that's good." Monika said cheerfully.

We sat in silence for a moment.

"Do you wanna talk about the nightmares?" She asked.

"Maybe another time" I replied.

"That's fine," Monika repeated. "Do you wanna watch anime together."

I smiled at her. "Fuck yeah."

Well, that took awhile to write. Maybe I'm just rusty from not writing for a while.

Anyway, I'm back! Again sorry I kept you guys waiting so long. I just really wasn't up to writing. The beginning of this chapter was actually a metaphor for me trying to write. I was just too stressed and wasn't feeling up to it. But I've got a hell of a lot of free time now that it's summer and this is a good way of keeping myself busy.

Lastly, and I know I'm repeating myself but, thank you guys so much for all the support. Seeing your guy's reviews and watching the follow count for this story slowly raise is the main reason why I keep writing.

I'd especially like to thank elementalheroshadow for his insane amount of support. Thanks, man. He's actually working on a DDLC story of his own, which is really good. It's called 'Forever Mine' if you guys are interested.

And with that, I bid you all a farewell.