I dedicate this chapter to my crush, Christian, to whom changed my entire perspective of the world.

A/n,

This is a chapter everyone should be able to relate to! Also, released a new book: A collection of short stories. https://www.wattpad.com/story/156887118-quiet-hours-short-stories

UPDATE:

7/26/18

Returning from a long hiatus. I cannot commit more than about twenty minutes a day (if not maybe three days a week) towards writing this story. Thanks, and sorry for my absence.

Cheers!

CoffeeLoffee

P.S

Count all the puns.

Shu

Typically when you listen to music, Shu always caught you listening to low key down in the dumps songs because your life was a soap opera (kind of like the last twelve updates Author-senpai did because she's too lazy to write). However, lately you'd been quite fond of jamming to love crushy wushy music. Cheesy stuff Shu would lable as retarded.

But the music explained your situation in a nutshell. Because for the past three months you had your heart set on one boy in your class: Yuzuru Otonashi. Oh how his eyes glimmered when he'd take a glance near you! Either that or it was just the light reflecting off it but he was glowing like God's servant! His red glossy hair shimmered in the wind as--

"Y/n! Y/nnn!" Your friend Armin called beside you. "Move your stupid arm." Coldly you replied, pushing his arm out of your face. The blonde hair companion sighed as he looked at Yuzuru pull a bento from his backpack, it was probably home cooked too. Maybe by his mom. "Oh no, what if it's not by his mom? What if his girlfriend cooked it?!?" The thought sent shivers down your spine.

Armin was deeply agitated at you full out ignoring you, so instead he bung the top of your blonde haired head with a massive book. "That ought to work!" He triumphed boosting. You held your hand in pain. "..O-ow.." After a moment you continued watching Yuzuru like a psychopath.

After lunch that day, you decided it was time to confess your feelings. Actually, Armin may or may not have had a say in that. "Y/n you have to tell him, otherwise all you're going to do is stalk him 24/7! Go!" He yelled pushing you towards him.

"ACK!" You screeched loudly, bumping into Yuzuru's back. His face was perplexed as you pressed gently against his back; you watched in terror as he turned around to face you. "Excuse me?" Your heart stopped. Yes, he as in front of you. Could you react? Absolutely not.

"Y/n this is the dweeb you talk about in your diary?" The voice was familiar, and terrified you turned around to see Shu standing there. He looked ready to laugh as you were redder than a bell pepper. "Da-d! Yuzuru isn't a d-weeb!" Your voice was shaky as Yuzuru chuckled.

"You write about me in your diary? You're childish." Shu turned to Yuzuru and grabbed your collar, dragging you into his arms. "You touch my little girl and I swear I'll snap your neck and bust your brains open." Yuzuru backed away. "Y-yes sir..!"

Reiji

It was history class. The pencil tapped obnoxiously on the table. It was you who was doing it though, only because you were contemplating how to tell your crush you liked him. Shin was very tall, very handsome, and certainly gave you the cold shoulder. But you didn't mind it! He was very sweet sort of like candy when he wanted to be.

That's what made him desirable.

And his appearance of course.

As you stared into the void of your excuse for a math class, Shin was folding paper airplanes in the back of the room. If only he knew! Carefully you pulled out a piece of paper and began writing down some lame pickup joke to give him.

"Boy you must be McDonald's because I'm lovin it."

Quickly you tossed it his way, hoping he would enjoy your flavorful humor. Well, unfortunately for you, it hit him straight into the eye, causing him to jerk up and screech like a girl.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF MARIE ANTOINETTE!?" He screamed loudly, holding his hand against his eye to needlessly discard the pain. Awkwardly, you sank into your chair and hid your face, utterly embarrassed. "Whoops." You mumbled.

A few minutes later, after your DAD was called and Shin was taken to the nurse's office to try and save the remnants of his eye, you swung your legs back and forth in the principal's office. The man, who was smoking a cigar and playing poker with you, huffed out several puffs of smoke into your face. "Pfft, can you knock that off?" You said, agitated as you laid out a pile of fours.

"Double flush," He replied. "You lose! HA!" He triumphed, jumping up onto the table and kicking the cards away. Suddenly, he stopped. Red eyes seemingly pierced his soul and he sit down and cleared his throat.

"Ah Mr. Sakamaki, thank you for coming down." Rooney said, tightening his tie. Reiji nodded and sat down beside you. "I understand Y/n has gotten into some trouble, yes?" The man nodded and you fumbled with your hands nervously.

"Indeed, she threw a paper airplane into a classmate's eye. We don't know if he'll be able to see ever again." You chuckled, thinking of Shin as a pirate before Reiji replied. "Which classmate was it? I'll be sure to send some flowers." Puffing his cigar, the man blew smoke towards you and responded to your father.

"Shin," He replied, his last name muffled by the sounds of lockers slamming in the hallway. "Of course." Reiji nodded and sometime later you were both excused from the room. Together you and your father walked back to the car, dodging passing children as you hurried along.

"Shin. Hmm, I've heard that name somewhere. You liked him, didn't you?" He said, and you hid your face with your bag. "Maybe I did!"

"I'm pretty sure he's your cousin."

"What?! EW!"

Ayato

Ayato Sakamaki was the last person you'd ever talk about your crushes with. Not only was he possessive, arrogant, and horrible at setting people up, he was also your DAD. So on a warm spring day when the school festival was approaching, you were prepared to keep him from attending so you could confess your feelings to the love of your life, Ikki Taniyama. Every day you watched him waltz along the hallway, every girl in the school stalking him home and back, you included.

On this day, Ayato for some reason planned to surprise you at school since your birthday happened to be that day, and so he was gonna sneak you out of your last period so the two of you could go and have some daughter/father bonding over ice cream. Unfortunately, you remained oblivious to this interesting motive. And so of course it happened at the worst time.

"Psssh Y/n if you like him so much go ask him to the school festival!" Haruhi implored, and you sank into your hands. "Listen Fujioka, it's not that freakin' easy. I come from a really long list of tsunderes, OKAY? I can't just walk up to someone and say "Omg you're hot! You should come with me to the school festival!" okay?"

"Who do you think is hot?" You froze; the one person you dreaded ever hearing you talk about your love life with was behind you, and he was curious. Suddenly you felt like throwing up in your mouth.

"D-dAD?" Your voice stammered. He grinned widely, his eyebrows furrowed in determination. Fujioka bowed to the man and smiled. "Hello Mr. Sakamaki. Y/n is referring to Ikki Taniyama," She replied before you popped her in the mouth. "SHUT YOUR MOUTH STUPID NERD!" Cheeks tinted, a defensive course began.

"Ikki? Sounds like something I'd name an overgrown zit on my face," Ayato retorted.

"SHUT UP! IKKI IS THE HOTTEST BOY IN THE ENTIRE CLASS YOU IDIOT!"

Everything fell silent. You'd just confessed to the entire class your attraction towards the tall, white haired male, and Ikki stared at you. After the awkward silence ceased and Ikki spoke, you realized you'd dug your own grave.

"Y/n," he mumbled. "I have a girlfriend."

Kanato

Alone in your room, you and Ai were stuffing the corpse of a deceased bird to proudly display in your living room. Your sister was plucking the feathers as you stuffed the dead creature full of stuffing, amazed at its fragile body. Rain was pouring outside before a knock appeared at your door.

"Ai, go get the door." Sewing up the side, you ordered your younger sister around and she simply shook her head. "No! Go get it yourself!"

"Teddy and I have already let ourselves in," Kanato declared, sheepishly smiling at the both of you. "Oh hello Papa," You replied. He smiled as you and your sister both stood up and charged to hug him, both your hands stained in blood.

Kanato grinned from ear to ear as he pushed his hair behind his ear. "Y/n, there's a boy named Toma Hino downstairs who wants to see you. Teddy and I told him to wait in the den while we went upstairs to get you." Ai was a jealous child, and envious that no one had come to see her, she pouted and yanked your hair.

"Ouch! Brat!" Screaming as you ran downstairs, Toma was awaiting your arrival in the living room, clutching a bouquet of flowers in his arms. His hair was golden as always, and his soft golden eyes fascinated you as usual. Curious as to why he suddenly appeared at your doorstep, you called him from the back of the room. "Toma, why are you here?"

The boy awkwardly rubbed the back of his head and approached. "Y/n, I-I...I got your letter in my locker. You write pretty well." He said. "I hired a ghostwriter for that."

"Oh."

He examined the dark circles beneath your eyes and eerieness filled the room. Toma hadn't realized the creepy vibes lurking in your house, and upon noticing the seemingly wax brides standing in the corner, he began slowly walking towards the door.

"Toma, where are you going?" Hopelessly you questioned, holding your doll tightly into your chest. A smile began to creep upon your lips. "Don't you understand that when I'm around you I have this feeling of butterflies in my stomach? Every time you look at me, Mei and I feel an emotion we are not used to conveying. I do believe it is call love, right Mei?"

Toma continued backing away into the door, his heart racing hastily in his chest. "Hehe, listen Sakamaki, I'm not into you-"

He froze. Behind him was a small body, let he felt a sharp piercing feeling in his back. For a moment he suspected he had run into the wall, but after blood began to trickle from his lips, Toma knew he'd rejected the wrong girl.

"Y/n, Teddy and I think Toma will make a fine addition to our collection, wouldn't you agree?" Smiling as the fork pierced the boy you loved so dearly, you nodded in agreement. "Wholeheartedly."

Laito

"Little Macaroon!" Laito exclaimed, jumping on your back and wrapping his arms around your neck. "GET OFF OF ME!" Within a moment your father was knocked onto the floor, rubbing his newest of purple bruises on his cheek. Well this happened quite often, and so Laito wasn't really alarmed at your reaction, rather, he was amused.

Laughing, he topped his head with his signature fedora. "Why so tight?" He questioned. Huffing as you rolled your eyes, he rose and glanced towards the dining room table. A beeping noise was coming from in there, and you recognized it anywhere. It meant you had a text, and your dad knew it too.

Within a moment, both father and daughter charged for the phone; you ran like Jesse Owens in the Olympics, jumping over the sofa and sliding on the rug. Laito however, ran like some sort of beast, as if he were made for this. The moment you hurdled over the couch, he had already dived underneath and was waiting at the table.

"Little Macarooooon!~" He chuckled, reading the text. "Who is Luka Hosoya?~" Your face went redder than a cherry fresh off its bush.

"D-DAD! LAY OFF!"

"What do you mean you like me? Listen Y/n I can't talk I'm making out with Fuka right now." He read. Your eyes went completely dilated. A fire of rage fell over you, and within a moment, you had grabbed the chair and aimed directly at your father. However, by the time you actually popped him in the head and knocked him senseless, his reply had gone through, and there was no going back. Quickly you scanned at after snatching the phone from his cold, seemingly lifeless hands, and read his reply.

"haha bro thats okay im asexual, i just wanted to see ur reaction, bro"

Subaru

Subaru, oh Subaru. He was known to be greedy with his girls, both Yui and you. If there was one thing he hated, it was when boys became a topic. You had learned, over the course of a few years, to never even mention crushes or dating; they made him both angry, jealous, and worried. So on a crisp autumn day, the smell of cinnamon in the air, you were in your second period of school, which was gym, changing your clothes in the locker room.

"I've been to hell and back again, and darling I want to see God save you now," You sang oddly cheerfully as you pulled your shirt over you and shut your locker door. Well, Subaru was standing there tapping his foot, utterly displeased, and you screeched loud enough to break the windows.

"HOLY MOTHER OF MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS!"

Obviously he was fumed to his brim, and you were even more fumed. He hadn't seen you change your clothes, having teleported, but the whole vibe was enough to make you stay out of rooms alone for a whole month. "DAD!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"

He yanked you by the ear and dragged you into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him. "Y/N! IF YOU USE PROFANITY ONE MORE TIME I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA GET YUI TO DRAG YOU TO CHURCH!" You quickly shook your head in fear and Subaru cracked his knuckles.

"W-what is this about?! Dad are you alright?!" Shaking, he released you and pulled an envelope from his pocket, the cute little heart sticker no longing holding the item closed. "WHAT IS THIS?!"

He showed it to you and, upon realizing it was the note you had written for the love of your life, Ukyo Miyata, you instantly reacted by grabbing it and shoving it down your throat whole, a face of surprise resonating on Subaru's face. "Pssh, I don't know what you're talking about."

You watched him continue to crack his knuckles, and before you knew it he had you spitting those pages out of your mouth and into the sink. After the whole incident, Subaru began lecturing you over the biggest thing you hated. Boys.

"DON'T YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT BOYS DO TO YOUNG WOMEN LIKE YOURSELF, Y/N?! HUH? HAVE YOU GOT ANY IDEA!?!" He hollered, hotter than a pepper.

"D-DAD ITS JUST A CRUSH - "

"A CRUSH? A CRUSH?!"

Before the both of you knew it, you began relentlessly pinching each other. Both your screams of agitation filled the locker room, that was, until Subaru got kicked out for being in the girls' bathroom, finding himself at the local PD station.