Lovesick Girl
Chapter 2: Hello Doki Doki
Monday, September 2, 2013 AF
So, I got introduced to my new place, Doki Doki High, and I'm officially a student, I think. Let's see if I can remember.
So first of all I noticed that as I was going to this new place, this strange new corporation named Samsung kept following me everywhere. The train that I took to arrive here had Samsung branding and the gate of the school that I decided I would be calling my home school had Samsung branding (even though its actual name is Doki Doki High) and some other things that I would notice later on in the week or so.
But anyway I headed towards Doki Doki High and a nice officer called Guidance Counselor Doombly greeted me and told me that although I was a severely late, last-minute applicant, I would still be accepted just like any other student. And he asked me about learning troubles and I honestly told him about going from performing with three-star excellence to performing in the 90th percentile and he nodded and he said that Samsung Group nevertheless values students who push it all the way and since I had potential I could do it again. And then he said "see you on September 1st" and we said our goodbyes and I realized the first problem that I didn't have an environment to stay in nor a source of income.
Of course I took some care to plan things before I ran away and I knew that I would end up in this situation. So the first few days were spent in an hostel of some description but I was able to find the lowest-qualifying of low jobs, a maid doll in a maid doll café nearby Doki Doki High, and I would do the job at evenings and have the weekends free. And over time that gave me enough money to rent some place out. It was labeled as abandoned and even haunted so the price was low but I know that ghosts and such are a myth so I just enjoyed the good price. And then I realized that I enjoyed something and wanted so, so badly to start over but I couldn't be an even later, past-the-last-minute applicant to a school so I had to deal with it.
But anyway September 1st came and I marched straight to the school because that's what I was told. Every schoolkid in most of our world knows that school starts on September 1st and Guidance Counselor Doombly had reaffirmed that the truth applies to Doki Doki High as well. But then this crazy over-excited blue-haired lady told me that no, you can't actually start school on a Sunday (or Saturday, for that matter) and told me to come back on Monday, September 2nd. So, that was fun.
And at the night, I remembered that I had left some notes for myself as I ran away and that it would be neat to continue them and get a diary started. But, like, I couldn't justify writing a diary entry that just says "hey, I applied for school". And in general, I'll update the diary whenever I feel inspired, but if I randomly skip entire months or something because nothing noteworthy happens, that's just life and you probably know how the Anno Fandomi calendar works.
But anyway September 2nd, the real beginning of the school year, came. As is usual for the school year a bunch of new first years came but no one seemed to care about them and the show, the Tour of Doki Doki High, was only put on for those who had arrived from completely different places. Of course there was myself but no one seemed to care about me when there were people named Skepness Man Beauregarde, Chell Joy Roberts, Janet Roberts and Jack London. So Doki Doki High was first introduced to them and while it was happening the blue-haired lady kept talking to everyone but she thought to trap me inside glass walls so I couldn't hear a thing she said. It's a good thing I decided to keep my trusty notebook and pen for every single moment since I left Baldur's Gate for this place which is honestly looking to be worse.
So I took a moment to write some notes on this day and all those that came before it. Yeah the tour took long enough so that I could do that. And you're reading those notes right now it's not I significantly edit my diary after I write it. It's gonna be fun since the next paragraph for you is just a linebreak away but for me it's at least a couple of hours away.
But anyway my turn came and the blue-haired lady finally introduced herself: "Welcome to Doki Doki High! My name is Principal Creative Emogal and I have quite a few customs to introduce you to!" And customs are important to learn in order to blend into a culture but you know that some customs are stupid and if the school randomly designates a Be Afraid of Madeline Myers Day for one reason or another, I'm going to call it stupid. Or if it's a much, much lesser offense. But let's give it up for Creative Emogal, see what those customs are, and if I can be a member of the Doki Doki High community or if I need to be one of those "where I grew up..." kids.
Number one! "Did you know that our school hosts clubs? You can join any club that you want! There is one thing though and that is that the name of the club must start with 'Doki Doki' like last year Monika Salvato decided to make a club about literature and it got named the Doki Doki Literature Club." Ooh actually pretty neato. Baldur's Gate didn't have any form of organization of students and if it had it would honestly have helped matters so much. But I'd have to think about my interests and how they align with the available club topics. Like do I really want to get into literature of all things as I start my days at Doki Doki High? Probably not but we'll see as time goes.
Number two! "Did you know that people continue representing our school after they graduate? And even before they graduate! But for this the naming mandate is that any sports team, music band, whatever has to be named the Doki Doki Heartbeats." Doki Doki Heartbeats? Really? Doesn't "doki doki" already imply beating of the heart? And that's for everything? Students are allowed to have no creativity whatsoever, even if the name Doki Doki Heartbeats is the literal opposite of the mood that they're going for?
Number three! Regarding... something like a gravestone or a plaque with writing on it but it overlooks nothing and it's already too late for me to tell what's written on it. "This is the place behind the school where a mythical battle took place, in which a warrior girl with a gift from the skies took down two humanoid metal creatures and immediately confessed her love to another, ball-shaped metal creature. And love continues to blossom at this place! You see the confession supposedly took place on a Friday at 6 PM and was so compelling that there could never be a refusal! So that's what people have been doing at this place since the confession took place, long before the school was ever built, and continuing to this day."
Oh no. Confession. Hit me right where it hurts. Everything I ever heard from Vivian about my soulmate and how I'd meet him and confess to him kept flooding in and I couldn't bear it and I couldn't stand to look at the site of the mythical battle for one more moment I needed to be somewhere else. Right now. So I told Creative Emogal "Sorry, all of a sudden I feel really, really sick" and she only "One could say... lovesick?" and puns were absolutely not appreciated in this girl's head and she needed to leave and if she really needed to get acquainted with Doki Doki High further she could just explore the building on her own and that's exactly what I did.
There were three floors, pretty typical for a school of pretty much any size these days, and every room had its place. In general, I would probably always know where to go and as for the when there was this very convenient lesson schedule adjusted for time so I wouldn't be lost in that department either.
Oh, and clubrooms seem to actually be pretty nice, like they actually know what subject they are about, that is except for the Doki Doki Literature Club that Principal Creative Emogal was so adamant to mention to the exclusion of the others. The Literature Club literally was just a normal classroom, except maybe there might have been a book on the table, and that's it. Way to not get members.
That being said, this other girl that thought to just run into me could definitely do better in the whole navigation biz. I didn't notice much of her other than that she had leg warmers and black hair and a flashlight was strapped onto her skirt and she ran past me through the hallways so I just had to follow from afar.
She was actually carrying a set of photographs that really showed age, even from afar, so she must have found them at some dusty archive somewhere in school, or maybe even in town outside of school. And she was going to a specific room on the third floor and she rushed in and tried to close the door with her legs but it didn't close and I guess I took that as an invitation to go in, even though the girl didn't even, like, talk to me. But at this point, literally anything was preferable to thinking about how I'd confess my love in a designated place to a designated man.
