Ch5
Today I got to go to school again, and something creepy happened at lunch. I was just sitting there at the table, and then someone snuck up behind me and hugged me really really tight and then they had their hands around my neck and I was like keh keh stop it I can't breathe!
And then they said oh sorry Lenlen, I just missed you these past few days, and—hey what's that on the back of your neck? I got scared and put my hands on the back of my neck, and just quickly muttered to her nothing nothing it's nothing. I turned around and saw it was Neru. I think I almost barfed.
Oh okay, well I didn't expect to see you here, what are you doing? I told her umm I am sitting with my friends. And you'll never believe what Neru did next, she squeezed in and sat between me and Rin. Right after I finally got to sit next to Rin again. And I got mad, because I like sitting next to Rin.
Neru, go somewhere else! But then she said oh Lenlen, I didn't know you had a temper, hey look at this, I got a new cell phone today, and…
I think that my life is spiraling down towards the underworld.
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I had a very very weird dream last night. I dreamed that I was a stork, and that I couldn't deliver babies to anyone because I didn't know where to get the babies from. So I was flying all over the world to find the baby store or baby stockpile or something wherever the babies are stored for the storks to get them, but I got lost and flew somewhere where it was snowing.
But since I was a stork instead of a robot who can't get wet, when the snow hit my stork feathers it was cold and made me shiver but it felt so nice. It felt like someone was putting cold sprinkles on me. But it felt nice, and it wasn't scary or painful.
I wonder if that's what real snow feels like, too?
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Today Neru came back to our table. But as soon as she got there I got up and said oh come to think of it, I have something I need to do and then I ran away. I stopped behind one of the buildings to catch my breath and then I sat down because running is really really tiring. I think Neru is really annoying and she makes me not want to sit at the normal table with Rin and Kaito and everyone else just because I don't think I like her.
Len, what are you doing? I heard Rin and I looked up and she was standing right in front of me. I told her I'm hiding from Neru. And Rin asked why, and I told her that Neru is the Doctor's newest person and she was grumpy before but now she's all over me and it's really scary and makes me feel slimy.
Rin laughed and I was glad she thought it was funny but it's not funny to me. I wish Neru would go away. You really don't like her, do you? Rin asks. I tell her I don't think so, she won't leave me alone, and now I can't sit at lunch with you guys because she is getting in the way. I don't know why she changed so much from the day after she was made.
Then Rin suggested we ask the Doctor. Maybe something's wrong with her. I nodded and said good idea, I'll ask, and then Rin said I'll come too, since it's Friday, I'll walk with you. I smiled. I like it when Rin spends time with me.
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Yesterday the Doctor told us that the person who spends the most time with the newly created person sticks in the new person's mind, because they leave an impression. So basically, since I sat next to the TV next to Neru and tried to talk to her, now she is all over me like flies on horse poop. Not like I'm trying to compare myself to horse poop or anything, but…
Anyway, today I've been trying to come up with ways to get Neru to leave me alone. I don't want to say something like I don't like you right to her because I don't want to hurt her feelings. But I wish there was some way to get her to go somewhere else.
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Today Rin came to visit me and we started trying to think of ways to make Neru leave. I'm glad that Rin is helping me get rid of Neru, she says that if I don't want her there then she's going to do anything she can to help me. It made me feel very happy, no one ever was as nice to me as Rin is.
Rin finally thought of something, she said a lot of girls I know hate it when guys burp, Len, what if you burped in Neru's face? And I tried to think of what burping was, but then I remembered one day when the Doctor drank something and burped. And then I asked Rin skeptically, burping, really? And then we started laughing because it was so ridiculous.
And then when we stopped laughing I told her, Rin I don't think I can burp because I can't drink and besides, I don't think half robot boys like me can burp. So then we went back to thinking, and then she said what if I burp? And then we burst out laughing again and I asked her why she likes the burping plan so much. She just said I don't know.
So then we decided, okay, Rin burps in Neru's face and makes Neru go away, and then Len doesn't have to deal with her anymore. It's a very good plan.
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Me and Rin met up this morning before school started and she was drinking a huge thing of soda. And then when lunch came, she was still drinking it, and then Neru came over and sat between me and Rin again, and was talking about taking me and stuffing me in her closet so she could look at me whenever she wanted to, it was really creepy and kind of scary, I don't want to be locked in Neru's closet, especially just because she thinks I'm cute, I don't like Neru anyway. And then Rin turned to Neru and said hey Neru, and Neru turned around and Rin burped right in her face. Me and Rin started laughing and then everyone else did too, except for Neru who stood up and stomped off. Rin gave me a thumbs up and I gave her one back. I think we work well as a team.
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Neru didn't bother us today, so me and Rin decided it was a job well done. Miku says that it was kind of a mean thing to do, since Neru wasn't really that bad, she didn't do anything wrong after all, but I told Miku that I really really didn't like her and Miku said well that's rare. But I don't think Miku approves of what we did. I guess that's okay. I don't think Neru approves of what we did either. She didn't talk to me today at all, thank goodness.
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I noticed today that every time Kaito tries to hug Rin close to him, Rin kind of pulls away. I wonder if she doesn't like Kaito anymore? Meiko always looks at Kaito weird now, too. I wonder if something happened. It seems like everyone at our lunch table is falling apart.
I just noticed, if you take that literally, I'm falling apart the most. I mean, all my little machine parts are faulty. I'm faulty, aren't I?
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School is going to go on break now on what everyone's calling Christmas Break. There's just today and tomorrow, and then we're off. The Doctor says that Christmas is a holiday where people sit under a big tree called a Christmas Tree and give each other presents. He says there's also a big fat guy whose name I can't remember who goes down your chimney and leaves you a present that you want the most.
It sounds kind of scary. I'm glad I don't have a chimney.
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Today is the last day before school lets out until next year. I'm going to miss everyone, especially Rin. I hope she comes and visits.
Neru started talking to me again. She keeps telling me how atrocious Rin is and that that bitch is so disgusting. I don't really understand what she said, but I get the feeling that Neru doesn't like Rin anymore. She says that I should stay away from Rin now. But I think that I should do the opposite, stay away from Neru and stay closer to Rin. I think everyone is out trying to get me.
Everyone's been giving each other presents. Meiko gave Kaito a present, Kaito gave Rin a present, and Luka gave Miku a present, and Gakupo had a present with him and he said that he is giving it to himself. I wonder how that works.
I wonder why no one gave me a present.
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Now that there's no school, I don't know what to do with myself. It's not like a normal weekend where you sit around for two days and wait to go back because you know on Monday you go back but now it's Saturday and I don't go back for two weeks. I wonder what I should do.
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I think I should start trying to bar all the doors and windows for when the fat guy comes. It sounds really scary, I think he's going to try to come in even though my house doesn't have a chimney.
I asked the Doctor if I could have some metal poles, and he asked me dear god why do you want metal poles, and I told him I want to bar the doors and windows so the fat guy can't get in. The Doctor laughed and said that the guy's name is Santa Claus and that he will get in even if I bar every entrance into the house.
I'm really scared. This Santa Claus must be very powerful.
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I keep wondering why the Doctor didn't tell me about Santa Claus last year or the year before, well, I just wonder a little, two years ago I still couldn't understand a lot of speech, but last year I was pretty good and could understand, he told me about Christmas but not this whole Santa Claus stalk-man business. It's scary stuff.
The Doctor says that Santa Claus knows exactly what you want. I wonder how he knows, because I'm not plugged into the thought-reading machine any more. And real people can't be plugged in. That just makes Santa Claus even more scary. Maybe he's an alien.
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I'm scared, Santa Claus is coming into my house tonight and the Doctor hasn't rigged any exploding mines or nets that fall from the ceiling or anything. I think maybe he's conspiring with Santa Claus to kidnap me and take me to the North Pole where I won't bother anyone and then Santa Claus will use the mechanical parts of me to fix his toy-makers and then his elves will eat the real parts of me for dinner.
It sounds very scary.
The Doctor says that if you're a bad boy, Santa Claus brings you coal. I don't run on coal, though, I don't know what I run on. But if this Santa Claus really knows so much and can do so much, I wonder if he knows what I want most. Because I don't know what I want most, I can't decide between not dying or being a real human. Because if I wish to be a real person, then maybe I'll still die anyway, because maybe Santa Claus's system is rigged. But I don't think there can be anything wrong with asking to keep living… right?
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The Doctor did something weird today. He gave me a big, heavy box that was labeled Len. I didn't think he would give me a present, but he said I think I owe this to you, and gave me the present. So I set it on the floor and opened it, and a little kitty popped out and it meowed at me!
It was so cute and fluffy, and it was just so adorable. I don't know why the Doctor gave me a kitty. But it was so cute. It climbed on my head and just sat there, making purring sounds. I don't know what to name it yet.
The Doctor says think of it as an apology, a Christmas present, and an early birthday present all in one. He says I'm sorry about everything Len, I thought you needed a companion. And then I asked him about my birthday, what's a birthday, people always say it at school but no one ever says what it is. And the Doctor says that's the day you were born, everyone has a birthday, even you Len, yours is in two days, the twenty-seventh, you'll be three years old, can you believe it? And then he turns around to go back into his laboratory.
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Today I found something weird in the kitchen, it was long and skinny and yellow. I had this weird urge to eat it, but I tried and it was all tough and icky. My kitty meowed from the top of my head but I told it you don't want to eat this it's really really icky.
And then the Doctor came in and laughed and he said it's a banana, you peel it like this. I realized that they don't have enough water to hurt you, so you're okay eating these. Then he took the yellow part off of it and then it was light yellow, and the peel as the Doctor called it was just dangling off. Try it, he said, so I ate it.
It was all squishy but it was really really really really tasty. I started bouncing up and down because it was so tasty but then Kitty meowed and clawed into my head because I was bouncing and I yelled ow and tried to get Kitty off but he wouldn't budge. But then I thought maybe he wants some of the banana so I raised it up and Kitty took a bite.
I realized that even though Kitty is mostly white, he's long and skinny and kind of yellowy like the banana, so I decided to name him Banana.
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Today I'm three. The Doctor says that it's good I lasted this long, but that didn't make me feel nice because I forgot that by me aging that means I get closer to dying. But Rin came to visit me and she brought me something called a cake. She said it was squishy and tasty. It sounded like a banana, so I got excited and told her I can't wait to eat it.
And then she noticed Banana on my head and exclaimed how cute and pulled him off and started patting him. I told her that the Doctor gave him to me two days ago, and that all Banana does is sit on my head and purr. And then Rin asked me Banana? And I told her his name is Banana, and she laughed and asked me why I named him Banana. And I told her that I named him Banana because I ate a banana yesterday and it was so so so sososososo tasty, and all she did was laugh. I wonder why she laughed, maybe she's never had a banana before?
Then we went into the kitchen and she put down the cake and said happy birthday to us, Len! See, today's my birthday too. I asked her why, and she said it's because we were created on the same day. I wonder why she's so content with saying she was just created. I would think to a real human person, saying and knowing you were created would be a lot more sad than being a robot boy and knowing you were created.
I asked her if she knows that the Doctor calls us brother and sister, and she says that she does but she doesn't know if he's really correct or not. I ask why, and the Doctor magically appears in the doorway and says that's because you're not related by blood because you don't have parents, but you were both made by the People Creator on the same day, within a very short amount of time, so it can be said that you two are related. Besides, you are Len and Rin Kagamine. You share a last name as well. Then he gasped and rushed off back to his lab.
Banana meowed and jumped off my head to sniff the cake, and then I remembered and starting bouncing and asking Rin if we could try the cake. She said of course, and then she said sorry Len but I had to make it without putting frosting on because I didn't know if it had too much water in it, but don't worry cake is sill tasty without frosting.
I don't know what frosting is, but it was a very tasty cake. It didn't taste like bananas, though. It didn't even feel like bananas. But it was still tasty.
Rin suddenly said follow me and rushed out of the kitchen, and I was so surprised that it took me a minute to start running too. As I turned Banana jumped on my shoulder and then I chased Rin out the house and when I found her she was halfway up the tree next to my house.
Rin, Rin, what are you doing up there? What if you fall? She made me really really scared, she was so high up, who would ever think to climb a tree? The Rin called down to me and said don't worry Len, I've always climbed trees, come up here! I was really really scared, I think I started shaking. But since Rin wanted me to, I tried to climb the tree but couldn't get onto the first branch.
Len, have you ever climbed a tree? Then she started climbing down and jumped onto the ground next to me. Here, I'll help you, and she picked me up with Banana on my head and then I grabbed the first branch and pulled myself up to sit on it. Rin jumped up and grabbed the branch and swung herself onto it next to me.
How do you do that? I asked her, but she just smiled and said I've always climbed trees, well maybe not always since I'm really only three like you, but my memories tell me I've climbed trees ever since I was little. And I mumble oh, and then she says want to go higher? And my head felt like exploding, I was really scared already, no I'm good here thanks. And she laughed and said okay, and then we just sat there together.
Hey Len, she says after a while, do you know what love is?
I don't know what love is. So I tell her no, what's love?
And then she laughs and says it's hard to explain, I was just wondering. And then we're quiet for a long time and the sun starts going down. And then I ask her, can you try? I'm confused. And then she says, love is… love is when you really, really care about someone, when you never want to be apart from them ever.
I don't understand still, how love is idolized by the humans but that's all it is.
But then Rin does something weird. She turns to me and I look at her, and then she presses her lips against mine, and it feels weird and my face feels all hot.
Then she grabs my hand and smiles and says, love can't really be defined, but it's a feeling.
I just feel all fluttery and my stomach doesn't feel good. If that's what love is supposed to feel like, I don't think I like it at all.
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