stand back up (#2, Go Read The First One You Rotten Amimal)

3.

They didn't seem to have moved me a lot, since we're still in the same room. I'm just lying down on the couch.

It must be late, because a few people are asleep, while others are quietly talking to each other.

On the sofa opposite me is Otonashi, chatting to Yuri who had moved from sitting on the principal's chair to sitting on the desk in front. Leaning on his shoulder is Naoi, and next to him is TK, who's leaning in the other direction.

Yui and Hinata are both sleeping on the floor leaning on each other back to back. Shiina is in the same corner she is always in - but I honestly can't tell whether shes sleeping or not. Takamatsu and Oyama are talking to the other two people awake about their next mission, whereas Noda and Kagayama are both sleeping on the floor in front of the couch I'm on.

I'm pretty sure I can hear Noda sleeptalking about how I can't disrespect Yuripee.

I have the random urge to just run my hand through Kageyama's hair. I mean, it's right in front of me, and I'm impulsive.

I manage not to, knowing that if I did it would just be embarrassing for me.

Then, I finally process what had happened. That girl stabbed me. I shoot up quickly and feel where the stab wound is.

Theres... nothing what!?

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" I scream, confused and shocked.

I instantly wake up anyone who was asleep, other than Yui who only woke up after slipping and hitting her head on the floor because of Hinata jittering awake.

Kageyama swiftly bounces up to me, asking if I'm okay.

Yes I'm okay, and that's the problem. "I was just stabbed!" I shout, "I should be dead!"

"You ARE dead, dumbass," Noda spits, "That's what we've been trying to tell you!"

Kageyama hugs me, pulling me into him with one arm on my back, and the other on my head. I let him keep me there for a moment. It feels sort of... nastolgic.

A moment later, he pulls away awkwardly as he notices the whole room staring at us. He quickly blushes and sits down, this time where TK was sat before he decided to leave for whatever reason.

I ignore whatever just happened and move on. "So, I really am dead," I state, getting quiet nods in return, "then why am I here?"

"It's probably because you have lingering regrets," Yuri says, "things you never got to do when you're alive, you get to do them here. But once you have no regrets, you get obliterated. That's where we come in."

She then goes on about their forever changing name, and what they're all about. Which, not gunna lie, I don't listen to a single word of.

"So, any guesses what could've sent you here?"

I scoff, "No clue. I was probably a virgin or something."

A few of the boys in the room blush a little.

"It was a joke." I tell them, rolling my eyes.

It wasn't a joke.

"So, are you in?" Yuri asks, handing me a spare uniform - one of theirs. It's different from mine. Too lazy to ask questions, probably because they're real people or something - but that Naoi isn't wearing it. Strange.

I hesistently take the clothes "In what?"

"The fight against Angel! Were you even listening!?" Noda bellows angrily.

No, of course I wasn't. But, he doesn't need to know that. I feel like if I admit that I didn't hear a word his beloved Yuri said, then he'd cut my ears off and make sure I'd never hear anything again.

"Sure, I'm in. Where should I get changed?"

I get changed in the girls locker room, but as I'm taking my current clothes off a note falls out of my pocket. It's folded into fours. Telling myself that I'll read it later, I shove it in the pocket of my new uniform and return to the others.