YOU are the Yandere!

Chapter 5

Warning: Disturbing content (stalking).

It's ten o'clock at night, a few days after the incident at school. Your injuries have long since healed, and you're currently in the corridor of an apartment complex, quietly sitting on the floor outside Julian's home.

You know you shouldn't be doing this, but you haven't seen him in so long. You just need to make sure he's still okay.

"Julian!" You hear a shout as a girl's voice calls out his name. "Is it okay if I turn on the news?!"

"It's fine Ana." You hear him saying, voice a little muffled. "It was scary, but I'm mostly okay now."

Ana is his younger sister who's just starting high school. Although the two of you have yet to meet in person, you can already tell she really cares for her brother.

It makes you feel a little better that he has someone to lean on.

You stand up and peek through the peephole of his apartment, spotting the two of them on the couch.

"Hey Julian. You're famous. Look!" Ana points to the TV, which is playing footage from the school orc attack. Monster attacks are common, but what makes this incident so special is that Helen, one of the country's few S-ranks, stepped in herself to save the students... and the fact that it was captured clearly on video.

"Look! She's carrying you so gently!" Ana exclaims excitedly as she watches the part where Helen protects Julian from the orc. "It's like a scene out of a movie! Where the main character rescues the love interest!"

"So... what do you think?" She continues smugly. "Have you fallen for her?"

"No!" Julian stutters, waving his hands awkwardly. "How could you even come up with such a thing?! She's pretty, but that's it! There's no way she would even remember someone like me..."

He says that, but there's a faint blush on his cheeks. Is it because he's embarrassed at the accusation, or because he actually does have a crush on her?

You take out your phone, opening the link to the trending video and scrolling down to the comments.

Helen is so pretty...

That kid is lucky he was saved from that orc. But they do look good together.

It's like a movie romance where the two leads meet for the first time.

You clench your teeth tightly. You were in a good mood today, but you feel much worse now. But there's no way Julian would actually have a crush on Helen, right? Even if he did, it should be unrequited. She's really famous and important, while he's a nobody...

"Oh, it's late." Ana suddenly gets up, grabbing her blanket and getting off the couch. "You have time to pick me up from school tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah. There's temporarily no class after the... incident, so I should be able to."

"Great!" She smiles, beaming at the good news. "Goodnight brother!"

"Goodnight, Ana."

Her figure slowly disappears from sight, presumably to get ready for bed.

Julian spends more time awake, browsing on his phone and presumably catching up on unread messages while you sit patiently, meters away without his knowledge. It makes you feel strangely excited.

A few stragglers pass you in the corridor and look at you oddly, but they all ignore you, probably with the assumption that you've been kicked out of the apartment after an argument with your boyfriend or something.