I flickered my eyes opened and rubbed my eyes.
"Good morning, Naegi!" I looked at my side and she's there.
I took a deep breath and sits. Leaned on my headboard and sighed. "Aoi, what are you doing here? How can you get in?" Aoi only smiled.
"Let's get up! You're need to freshened up." She said as looked at the round widow. I hummed. It's already been a week after he shared that envelope. I took a deep breath and sighed.
"It's just us, huh? Who keep mingled with each other." I said. I'm looking at the watch, that hanging on the wall.
Irony, isn't it? Where is her? Where is X? I haven't seen her this week. "People..." I get up and walked to the bathroom to cleaned myself. Aoi hugged me from behind and put her head on my shoulder.
"If you are not well, I will tell the other." I shook my head and gave her my warm smile.
I pushed her to outside and locked the door. I sighed. Why she suddenly like this? It's not her. We're just met a week ago, right?
I take a shower, change my clothes, then put my jumpsuit inside the washing machine, then unlocked the door. I'm looking at Aoi, who was sitting on my bed. She crossed her legs, then looked at me. "So... you're..."
"I'm fine, where's Haruto?" I asked her. Does she really my girlfriend? What if... She's hiding something? I'm looking at the CCTV on the top-left corner. X. If you watching this, I hope you can give me answer.
I took a deep breath and sighed. How can I survive? I'm looking at Aoi and sighed. This is wrong
I don't have any memory about anyone. Everyone seems familiar and not too... "Hey, what's wrong?" I jolted as she stared into my eyes.
"N-nothing..." Ugh... I don't know why this feel awkward. I heard someone knocked on the door and X gets inside to my room. X.
"X? What are you doing?" She approached me and slip a same coin. She gets out of my room and looked at her.
"Are... you sure can't remember? Both of you seems..." I walked towards the door and looking at the bolt of the window, then... a vent on the corner of my room.
I walked towards the vent and open it with the coin as the screwdriver. "Can you... keep the secret?" I'm looking through her eyes. Aoi smiled and nodded her head. I opened the vent and gets inside.
Inside the vent and seeing only darkness. I'm looking at my back and found a flashlight. We crawled further. "Naegi..."
Aoi tapped my shoulder and pointing something. I peek through the ventilation. I saw X cooking in the dinning room. What she's doing. "What we're..." Duo Neko gets inside and talked to her.
"Do you know how fatal you're mistakes, X?" Duo Neko slammed the kitchen isle. X, who won't bother, keep cooking for her meal. "Can you..."
"Alright. I betrayed you, yes, but it's nothing to do with her. We were in love, and it's nothing for your..." She's staring, as if she's know we are here and sighed. My heart beating faster and hold my breath.
"What's wrong?" She holds his shoulder, then sighed.
"Nothing. I just... forgot something. You... don't have a case, right?" Duo Neko scoffed and glared at her. In love? Does she has relationship before with him!? "Can you pick me a pickles? Besides it's already brunch. I'm afraid... it will be late for me to attend that meeting."
A meeting? What kind meeting she has!? Aoi tapped my shoulder, and she gestured me to going back to my room. We're going back to my room and found Haruto standing there, looked at me coldly.
"You..."
"I just want to tell you, but you're not here." Aoi and I cleaned ourselves from the dust. "Where you've been?" Haruto sighed, then opened the door.
"We're waiting for both of you at the cafeteria." He said coldly.
Aoi and I followed Haruto to the cafeteria. I battled with my thought and what X and Duo Neko discussed earlier.
I took a deep breath and looked at his back.
"Hey, what are you thinking?" Aoi asked. Her voice low above the whisper and glanced at me. I did not answered her question. Why he... be like that? I keep staring to his back and sighed.
I wish my memory back and try to put every single puzzle I've been collecting so far. Between Saichi and Him, X, and everything! Why we're all here? Why we trapped here?
What they want for us? This is too much to think. I stumbled and hold the wall. We stopped. Haruto looked at me and sighed. He approached me, then looked into my eyes.
"Are you okay?" He asked. I'm looking through his eyes and a piece of memory showed. "I..."
Aoi brushed his hand from me, then she pulled me. She holds me tight and rubbed my hair. "Don't think too much, Naegi. We figured it out together. You can trust me."
Haruto pulled her, then grabbed my hand tight. Aoi smirked, her expression change, then sighed. "Yeah, whatever..."
"Don't make him feel deceived, Aoi. I know who you are." She sighed. "If you..."
She left before Haruto could finish his words. What's happened between the two? I'm looking at him. Does he gets his memories back? If he does. How? How can I get my memory back!?
"Are you that curious?" Has she tricked me?? I feel a little bit ashamed here! "I-I'm... I'm just curious about h-how we get out of here. Haruto and Saichi sometimes make me overwhelmed. And I-I think they were fine" almost, the truth is. I worried about Haruto. Because..... I looked at his eyes and it's a scared face. "Hey, Dan? Earth called Dan?" I shook my head and looked at Aoi. "Do you have a clue how to get out of here?" Aoi shook her head, "you know Dan, sometimes I think if I should kill one of my friends" I looked at her silently and I felt like... no, no Dan. You shouldn't do that! You should try to trust your friends. Your classmate!
Ding dong.. bing bong...
I looked at Aoi and she just sighed, "I think..." Monokuma appeared on the screen and he was sitting on the chair and holding a glass of margarita.
"this official space trip announced by Hope's Peak Academy Headmaster, please all of you come to the main hall" I looked at Aoi and she nodded, "how about Hanabi? Where is she?" I carried the porridge. "Why did you carry the porridge?" I drank the water and I looked at her. "I'm starving, and I think it's important. So I just want to make my job 'easier'" Aoi laughed and she pats my shoulder. "Let's go, don't make the bear wait" I nodded and walked to the hall and thought about Haruto. Will I be there too? Or does he just ditch Monokuma's announcement? But if there I want to talk to him about what happened last night.
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I entered the main hall and I saw everyone there, including him. I walked towards Haruto and patted his shoulders, "oh, Dan? What are you doing here? You should rest" I shook my head, "but Monokuma said, we should gather here" Haruto just left a sigh and he looked at me, "I want to talk with you, Haruto" Haruto looks nervous, is he hiding something?
I looked around me and saw everyone looked at us, "sorry keep you waiting" Monokuma appeared with an envelope in his hand. "Today, I gathered all of you here. I wanted to give you this. Please pick the envelope with your name on it.
"Meet me in the admin room, I need to talk something!" I walked towards the table and picked the envelope with my name on it, I opened the envelope and I saw a picture. My family... I looked at Monokuma with furrowed eyes. "What you did to my family!?" I approached Monokuma and I squeezed him. "Attacking the headmaster violated one of the school regulations" I heard a bomb ticking inside him "shit" I threw the bear and the bear blew up in the air. "That's it, guys! If you attacked your headmaster" I think he is angry with me, "if you wanted to get out of here... you should start the killing!" he disappeared and left us with silents. "wh-what the hell is that?" running towards my room.
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"Dan?? Can I come in?" I've not answered his questions. I already sat on my bed for hours and thinking, what the hell is going on with my family?? What about the others?? Do they feel the same as me? "Dan? It's me, you said you wanted to talk with me? I waited for you there okay" Haruto? I almost forgot that I had an appointment with him. "Hey, are you alright? I start to worry about you, Dan" Haruto, I'm sorry.
I walked to the door and I opened the door. "come in" Haruto came into my room and he looks worried "hey, what's going on?" I hugged him tight and I cried in silence. "I know you love your family Dan. I want you to not kill someone okay? I'm upset too but listen to me" Haruto pushed me slowly and I looked at him closely. "Monokuma did that to me Dan" I looked at his eyes.
"What we should do right now is, take it as a clue" Haruto gave me what he got, "what this is?" Haruto took a deep breath and he looked at me. "They are my sisters, Dan" they looked cute, "so the mastermind wanted to provocate us right?" Haruto nodded. "Exactly, I just want you to know, you are not alone, I am here with you" I chuckle 'because he sang a Micheal Jackson's song.
"Stop it!" I erased the tears and he hugged me again, "I'm sorry to make you angry, past few days" I felt this feeling again. Feeling that I knew him from a long time ago, but I just met him a week ago. "I haven't seen Hanabi" Haruto looked at me, "she's fine" what is the meaning of fine?? I looked at him and gave him my curious look and he just looked at me with his straight face. "What?" I want to punch him, one minute he is so adorable and sweet, but right now why is he so annoying? "Don't tell me that if you are hungry" I nodded.
He just gave me a sigh and just looked at me, "what you want to eat?" I thought and he just waited for me and he sat on my bed "I want..." maybe we can eat together, but maybe it's already late for dinner? "umm... I want ramen? Do you already have dinner?" Haruto shook his head and he grabs my hand. "Let's eat together, Shall we?" I nodded and I gave him a smile.
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"So, what are you wanna talk about?" I gave him the pot and he poured the hot water into the cup. "Before I passed out, I looked at you with your scared eyes. What happened?" Haruto looked at me, "Monokuma watching us" Haruto gave me his chuckles and I just wanted to know something, not your chuckles.
"Haruto, just answer me already" Haruto looked into my eyes, "I'm scared of you out of your control, Dan. That's why I gave you space to calm" I looked at his eyes and he was not lying to me, "so why did you pass out yesterday?" I looked at my noodle cup and I looked at him closely, "I..." I gulped my own saliva "I try to remember something" Haruto gave me a punch on my head.
"I always told you to not overthink about something" I rub my head.
*Sound of an object falling
"Do-do you hear it?" I looked at Haruto and he nodded. "C-can we checked?" I looked at Haruto. He just looked at my noodle, "let's go" Haruto and I grabbed our noodles cup and I ate it.
"Sa-saichi?" Saichi looked at us in a hurry and he rushed to his room, "just ignored him okay?" I looked at Haruto, and he looked pale, what's going on? With both of you. I looked at Main Hall and I saw blood on that door. No, it can't be. I looked at Haruto and he slowly opened the door.
No, Arthur.... who killed Arthur?
Ding dong... Bing bong...
"A body has been discovered please proceed with your Investigation and after that, the class trial is beginning soon" The very first class trial will begin soom "looked at me Dan" I looked at Haruto and he gave me a warm smile, "what happened next, you should stay strong" I looked at Haruto and he gave me a smile.
I don't know what happened to him these past few days. But, I felt something bad
TBC