Lovesick Girl
Chapter 12 ยง 1: Outcasts among Outcasts
Monday, September 16, 2013 AF


Alright as usual first it is recap time for days and hours that were not significant enough to warrant a full diary entry and for today that means we're starting with Saturday, the business owners meeting day. The business owners meeting itself was canceled, supposedly to mourn Sayori's death, but I largely suspect that Samsung Group were simply making sure that their security is up to par. And in case of a sewiside, which Sayori's death hasn't stopped being, I have no idea whatsoever as to what they are planning, but still. If you're ultra-rich, above the clouds and even the world in the sky, you gotta have security.

But even though there was no business owners meeting, I still had a job, although its nature was quite altered. Now, the same limo driver from before started receiving calls from the usual attendants using the antennas setup (that still looked ridiculous, change my mind), and once those had arrived, taking me to the usual conference floor, where I picked up the orders, and then to the rich person's house, where I provided the orders, and sometimes even got a little tip alongside my usual wage.

And even though I kind of personally hoped that something interesting would happen and I would meet a person of interest who I at least recognized the last name of from Doki Doki High, that didn't happen. So, Saturday was mostly a boring, money-earning day for me.

And with that, the second and last mini-entry concerns the Monday lessons and honestly Doki Doki High felt like a whole different school. Announcement pamphlets were made and in those every single change was outlined, and every single change had something to do with Wonka. I don't know if Flashlight Girl had picked up some details that I didn't know about, or if Creative Emogal got some other informants to tell her all about the 1980 AF tour, but somebody had managed to provide her with sheet music for the 1980 AF tour songs, and those were going to be taught in Music classes.

Among other things. Math was now all about how the media craze severely disrupts stock prices and how to buy and sell stocks, especially those of companies affected such as the Chocolate Factory, to maximize your profits, Computer Science is the same useless little BASIC programs that have scrubbed all references to Samsung Group and replaced them with those to the Chocolate Factory, and Jan Misali completely forgot that they're teaching Grammar and instead of funny histories of the normal letters, they decided to cover "the less-known aspects of the 1980 AF tour" that they know from... somewhere. Does the archive that Flashlight Girl and I visited... kind of suck? What is the source for all of this and how did it appear so quickly? That was honestly the big question.

But anyway, Monday's lessons were over, and with that, I was finally ready to head into the second club of Doki Doki High that I had ever visited up to this point, the Doki Doki Goth Emo Club. But of course Flashlight Girl had failed to provide me with instructions as to where it is, so I went around each floor of Doki Doki High, carefully observing the names of the rooms, until I finally found it.

But then it turned out that wasn't the only thing that I was supposed to just telepathically know.

You see when I finally opened the doors of the Goth Emo Club I was greeted with a girl, who had makeup around her eyes which made them look like they were hanging in these deep pits, and hair as dark as that of the darkest dye or wood. And of course I didn't recognize her so I asked "Who are you?" but unfortunately that was the wrong question to ask. She just shot back: "If you don't know who I am, get the hell out of here!"

And I was about to turn back and go away, thinking I had the wrong club or something, but then a rather familiar guy raced to me and put his hand on my shoulder. "Please don't get the hell out of here look I'll just tell you that is Amy Lee the President of the Doki Doki Goth Emo Club and we do welcome you inside regardless of your background!" and Amy just scoffed. "I thought I had already taught you the lesson, Skepness Man. You don't just get all sympathetic towards any and all passers-by, especially if they want to join the club. That's not what we're about. We're about being harsh and unwelcoming, wearing black, pfft. Maybe some music on the side? I already forgot what I put down when I officially registered the club."

Turns out Amy had this annoying tendency to just forget what her point was, and didn't even pay attention to me and Skepness Man as she headed back into the Goth Emo Club room. Then I peered inside to see what else she would do inside, and I saw that she sat on a chair that was covered with the sort of cloth that you would find on a coffin, and the other three members were already doing the same, blankly staring at her.

And then I looked back at Skepness Man, and he continued to be this energetic guy who did, in fact, have a prominent color other than black in his appearance, namely the purple of his coat. And I was like "You sure you're not the one lost here? Any number of clubs would probably suit you better probably even the Internal History Department would suit you better." and Skepness Man "I don't trust the Internal History Department and especially not that Flashlight Girl freak she just collects information non-stop and hasn't made it clear at any single point what she's going to do with it."

And I "Have you even had a single conversation with her? She readily explained to me, twice, that she's doing all this so that if a controversy ever comes up at Doki Doki High, the information would be there, ready to be provided to newspapers like The Samsung Times, at a moment's notice. And then she would unveil her true identity and finally clear her family name." and Skepness Man "Okay two suspicious things. One you actually sat down and had a conversation with her I thought she was so repugnant so as to never approach anyone and just did her own thing day in, day out." and I "And who told you that? Was it Amy Lee?" and Skepness Man got silent until he "...yes."

But he still had his second thing to mention so I let him. And he "And second, Flashlight Girl has a true identity? So, she's not who she claims she is? Don't you think that's also a major red flag?" and I "She literally gives you all the answers whenever you ask her for them. She's probably the worst at hiding literally anything." and Skepness Man "Oh really? Even that electronics project that has nothing to do with the archiving tasks of the Internal History Department and that she has never once adequately explained to anyone?" and I "That would be an in-progress time machine. Turns out when Flashlight Girl was still a student of Doki Doki High, or the other thing, during Teacher's Day, the Science teacher had promised everyone that she would one day build a time machine, and she has still been keeping up with the project."

Skepness Man wanted to laugh a bit but then realized. "Teacher's Day... science prodigy... you mean Flashlight Girl is actually Joey Claire, the former Science Club president who, together with her team, pushed the envelope for basically everything leading up to computers like the Samsung II and the Commander PET?" and I "Exactly. Now do you actually respect her?" and Skepness Man didn't have any words to that he wanted to just quietly head back to the Goth Emo Club and he started doing that.

But then I "Alright interrogation of me is over now you get to tell me stuff. Would anybody named Violet Beauregarde happen to be in your family?" but Skepness Man didn't hear me and had already headed into the Goth Emo Club and I had to follow. But someone who did hear him was Amy Lee and she "Wait, seriously? I just now realized that's the gum chewer from the gum chewing song that I heard on today's Music lesson. You're seriously related to her, Skepness Man? You've got to be an outcast among outcasts." and Skepness Man "I'll have you know that in the present day, my mother is one of the most successful enterpreneurs to grace this world, second only to the Samsung family. And though gum chewing is still a core tenet of her personality, if you think that's a despicable trait in and of itself, you've got to get better sources than thirty-three year old songs written specifically to defame and insult."

At this point I actually had to pay attention to who else was in the Goth Emo Club and evidently Amy Lee didn't even want to introduce herself, so I would have no idea who the others were, but besides her and Skepness Man, there was one more girl and two more guys, for a total of five members. And they all subtly smiled because I guess they knew that battles between Amy and Skepness Man always got good.

So the two continued. "For your information, Skepness Man, songs written 'specifically to defame and insult' happen to be among the best sources of truthful, unbiased information out there. Think back to my days in the Band Club when I wrote a song completely trashing Caroline, and she just wanted to hide her face in embarrassment. Did she step up and tell me that what I said was an abject lie? No? Then that means that it wasn't. Literally exactly the same goes for your mother." Amy said and Skepness Man didn't have a response to that. He just began "Well I don't know any of the particulars of the day" but then suddenly the other girl stood up.

And the other girl "Wait, isn't this about the incident that got us kicked out of the Band Club?" and Amy "Literally no one cares, Avril Lavigne. Now why don't you join me in getting this sorry gum chewer's child back to his deserved place?" and Avril "Why don't you join me in changing the topic to actually talking about something productive? Like say proper activities of the Goth Emo Club that aren't just about insults?" and Skepness Man finally found a place to step in. "Yeah, Amy, that's actually a pretty good point. If you don't stop being forgetful this very moment, and if we don't devise something in the immediate future, then Creative Emogal will not let us be a club anymore. And you wouldn't want that, now, would you?"

That finally pushed Amy over the edge and she "Alright fine! But I still don't know how to do anything so we'll have to... pfft... yeah, sorry, I don't know how to do President things at all..." but Skepness Man had already found a solution so he searched in his backpack and retrieved a notebook and a pen. "Let's just do something really basic. We pass the notebook around, we think of some ideas, we find ways to augment those ideas, and finally, we pass them onto the outsider over here and see if she thinks any of them are good." and I "Madeline Myers." and Amy "Wait, Madeline Myers? The murderer's accomplice? Well why didn't you tell me before she's perfect for the Goth Emo Club we gotta make this right just for her. Screw Creative Emogal that's our ideal right there." and she swiped the notebook from Skepness Man and started writing so many ideas that you wouldn't even believe it.

And then the atmosphere in the Goth Emo Club settled. The members passed the notebook around and wrote in silence, and I just stood there, waiting what they'll actually come up with now that they realized that they need to be a proper club.

Of course right now none of that mattered to me. I still had gotten barely any relevant info regarding Violet Beauregarde, other than that she was Skepness Man's mother and... an enterpreneur comparable to the Samsung family? Or at least, in his own world view. I still needed to pull him aside after the Goth Emo Club was dismissed.

And then, none of that suddenly mattered to me anymore either, as someone else had decided to peek in the Goth Emo Club as well.