[Song: Shawn Mendes - Because I had you]

A/N: Holy mother of god I take forever to post.

He was completely still. Trying to process what happened as he was in slight shock. 'That same person...'

"Kokichi? You okay?" He heard a kind and familiar voice and looked up to see Shuichi. He nodded and smiled a bit. It was fake of course. At this point it was hard to tell whether or not Kokichi was feigning happiness or any tears.

Luckily for Kokichi, he had the next class with Shuichi... Or maybe not so luckily... After all, that stalker bitch was still obsessing over that person. People around as could get hurt because of them... There was no telling what they would resort to in order to get what they wanted.

The schizophrenic followed the navy haired boy to class and decided to just leave his scrambled thoughts at that. After all... As long as he stayed quiet and played along... Everything would be okay, r_*&t?

~Meanwhile~

"Hey. Izuru, do you have anything on her yet?" His brother leaned over to look at the computer's screen and analyze his progress. The older stayed silent and rolled his eyes in annoyance, ignoring his brother and continuing his work. Hajime sighed and tried to get him to respond.

"Could you not be so antisocial for once?" He asked but of course, the other didn't respond. Nagito went to check on them and noticed the tension. "Oh Hajime. You know he'll never change. After all, he is the closest thing to perfection! Along with that comes everlasting boredom since you already know everything."

The albino shrugged and walked over to the computer to observe. "10:07. It seems you've been working for quite a while, Izuru. Have you come any closer to getting her?"

He turned around to see Nagito's pale, smiling face. He scoffed and went back to work. "Of course I have. Who do you think I am?" Izuru asked in a rude tone, clearly quite irritated. Nagito just laughed and went to talk to Hajime.

He leaned against the wall in front of the younger twin. "In all seriousness, how long do you think the kid will be so suspicious of us?" Nagito asked Hajime, thinking of the two teens he had visited earlier, but at different times.

"Who? The green haired one? I think it'll take a little while before he can do that. After all, he doesn't even know who was talking to him." He reasoned. The others who had been in on this were either in class or trying to figure out what to do next.

Those masked people standing before the teen, weren't anybody you'd really expect to stand up to someone. At least the majority of them weren't. Just your seemingly average group of college students. Nothing more nothing less.

"That reminds me, I need to check up on that Kokichi kid. He seems to be planning something that'll probably end up in ruin." Nagito remembered. Izuru just glared at the two while they were conversing. "How boring...."

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Tick Tock Tick Tock. The green haired boy just stared at the clock for a few moments and ignored the teacher's voice. She was passing out homework assignments by the time he snapped back into reality.

Everyone was just socializing for the last few minutes of class as usual. He set his head down, almost dozing off but suddenly awoken by the shriek of the bell.

He sat up and rubbed his eyes to see everyone getting up and leaving the classroom, assignments in hand. Head about to do the same, until he had noticed a message on the paper. He looked around and no one else seemed to have it. Apparently, he was the only one.

Rantaro's POV

On mine, there was a small post-it note saying: "Come talk to me after classes are over." I stood up and walked off but as I did, I noticed the teacher smiling subtly and a tattoo on her hand. 'Since when did Ms. Lawson have a tattoo?'

It had the initials: 'J. E. & M. I' in black. It looked pretty out of place but I decided to ignore it. She noticed me staring and looked right back at me for a split second. Even though it was for such a short amount of time, I got chills from the slight eye contact.

I was snapped back into reality when I realized I was the only student left in the classroom. 'I'M GONNA BE LATE!' I ran out towards my next class without giving a second thought as to what just happened....

"I'm here!" "Nice to know you could join us Mr. Amami." I sat down in a random seat. I still had a slightly weird feeling, like something bad was gonna happen. I just brushed it off as nerves. After all, what could happen?

Maybe I should've thought about it a bit longer.

Maybe if I did, I wouldn't have ended up like this.

"GET AWAY!"

Maybe if I had payed more attention to my surroundings, to what was going on around me...

"They're all lying to you~"

I wouldn't be standing here....
Staring at cold, lifeless corpse of one of my dear friends.

"Hey.... Wake up already... "

Staring at someone who's gone completely insane.

"Ha... Ha ha ha... All mine!"

Life is cruel after all. Standing there, as someone smiled and killed themselves because of love.

"Why? Because.... I love her and she loves me. I would do anything for her. Even this."

BANG

But hey, not much I can do about that.

Life is cruel after all.

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