Persona 5 reader insert -- Akira x reader

Chapter 25

April 1st, MondayHow am I supposed to face Shiho and Ann now? I'm aware of what's happening to Shiho, but am not doing anything about it. Like absolute garbage. Even if I do try something I bet I'll make it worse, again. If my theory about making King Kamoshida stronger since I never took away his treasure is true, then that means what's happening to Shiho and the volleyball team is my fault. Slumping into my seat, I hit my head on the desk. I was lucky that yesterday was a rest day from school, so I didn't feel as guilty, but now, every time I see either girls I am filled with so much shame that I turn and run away. I know it's childish to be running from my problems like this but I just can't seem to figure out something-ANYTHING to do that can help Shiho. The bell for Lunch rings, bringing me out of my mental breakdown. Looking up, everyone begins to move their desks to sit together or leave the classroom. I look ahead of me and see Ann too getting up and getting her lunch from her bag. She turns around, locks eyes with me, and smiles politely. She begins to walk towards me; Oh frig. I can't talk to her now! I'm too sad to be able to talk to her! I shove my hand into my school bag and rummage around until I feel my hand brush cloth. I pull out my lunch and stand from my seat. Darting out the door, I am too ashamed to look Ann in the eye as I make my exit. I run up the stairs, all the way to the roof. Unfortunately, yesterday it had rained and all the water hadn't dried, especially right where the door was. So, when I ran into the door and opened it, I one: splashed into the puddle, and two: slipped so bad that both my legs flew right up as if I was in a cartoon. What's worse is that I landed butt-first into the puddle. So now, both my right sock and my butt were soaked. The cherry atop the sundae of shame and embarrassment was that someone was on the roof to witness it all. I'm not quite sure who it was cause I was too much in pain from my bum becoming more of a pancake than it already was. Today is just not it. I stay on the ground, just really absorbing my shame, I might as well be Spongebob at this point. "Are you alright?" I look over and I see a petite girl with gardening gloves and a trowel. Her predominant short and curly hair is the surefire quality of Haru Okumura. I look back up to the sky and feel the embarrassment hit even more than before. Out of all the students in this school I had to fall like this in front of Haru, one of the teammates the protagonist. I hear Haru's soft steps come nearer and stop when she's a few inches away from my shameful form. "Did you hit your head? Do you need help getting up?" She bombards me with questions. "I'm good" I horsely spit out. I get up and feel for the damage. Yup, absolutely soaked from the waist down. Haru looks around me worriedly as if I had broken something. "Well, my clothes are soaked. So it's not all good." God, my butt is stinging. I turn around to go back downstairs. "Do you need help down the stairs?" Haru worriedly asks. "Thanks, but I think I'll be fine." I wave bye and go to my bag to get my gym uniform. It was so awkward going around the halls waddling and the squeaking of my wet sock in my shoe drawing all the eyes to me. It's finally the end of classes and now everyone is filling out the classroom. The amount of times I've been called out by the teachers for being in my jersey when not being in the gym has really pushed me to end it all. Jokes but it was still pretty annoying. What's worse is that Ann has been looking back at me from her seat. I think she's been trying to catch my eyes to ask what's up, but I keep avoiding her gaze. It even got to the point where she threw a paper ball my way. She missed but I still quickly picked it up and read it. 'Are you alright?' the paper read. I quickly wrote a 'yes' and then threw it back over, almost hitting her head but luckily landed right in front of her. Soon enough she threw the paper back over, still missing me, but I had been able to get it without getting caught again, but this time some students are now seeing what was going on. 'are you avoiding me?' was scrawled on the paper. She noticed. I wasn't sure how to answer. Even by the end of the class, I still hadn't passed the paper ball back. What's worse it was the last class that we shared with one another for the day. So here I am now, running away back to the rooftop. I learned my lesson this time and opened the door first and walked around the puddle. Even better was that no one was on the roof this time. I walk towards the fence and look around. It's high enough that the students leaving the school look close to ants. Looking over to the front gate, I see blond tails; not moving. Must be Ann. She must be waiting for Shiho.God, Shiho. What do I do about her? As far as things are going right now she might jump before the protagonist even gets here. If that happens I don't know what will happen in the story, much less if she'd even survive. And honestly, even if she jumps on scheduled time, I rather not have her transfer out due to being labeled as the jumper. What's a way that can stop her from jumping off the roof?....A sound from behind me breaks me out of my thoughts I immediately swing around to see what it was. The door to the roof gently opens, revealing Shiho. Her blacked-out eyes meet mine and I soon see them spark ever so slightly. The frown on her face is quickly replaced by a forced gentle smile. Shiho is in terrible condition. It's only been a day at best since I've last seen her, and there are at least 5 bruises on her and maybe 2 fresh ones. It's difficult to tell because the sun's light is dimming from the setting. Now is the moment when I realize that the sun has already begun to set. How long have I been here thinking? 'What are you doing here?" Shiho walks over her hands behind her back. "I was just getting some....photos...to draw later. Yeah, there's this assignment that I got and I wanted to go above and beyond, so I decided to practice by trying to replicate the sight from the rooftop" I ramble the obvious lie, but Shiho continues to smile as she passes me, and stops at the fence. I immediately panic and grab her by the shoulder. She jumps and shakes under my hand. "I-I'm sorry!" I pull my hand away and step away. She breaks from her shaking form in less than 5 seconds and looks at me, sweat dripping down her face. "I-I'm alright. Sorry if I scared you." She holds her hands together tightly in front of her stomach as if it were hurting. "Are you in any pain? Do you want me to take you to the nurse's office?" "I think I'm a little tired, so I'll be going home now. I hope you get good pictures." Shiho quickly moves around me and leaves out the door. Shiho is the same way when I met her. She's really struggling. But when she saw me, she still tried to appear happy. She's such a strong person. Having to deal with a pervert for a coach and be constantly abused at every practice so that she can chase her dream. If I was in her shoes, I probably would have jumped off the roof too or just given up on my dream from all the stress. She doesn't deserve the fate of jumping to run away. She's still a teenager. She deserves to be happy. She didn't do anything wrong, but the adults are letting all of this go on just because that dirtbag is an Olympic champion and can apparently get 'star' players. Yet, I'm the same. I can't stop him either because the protagonist and his gang have to be the ones to do it, not some nobody that isn't even supposed to be here. And yet I still have the audacity to still want to change the course of events after the last time I did that it backfired brilliantly on me. Gah! What should I be doing! I turn to look at the door that Shiho had run away to. What if I stake it out on the rooftop every day until the protagonist arrives, if she tries to jump she probably won't do it if I'm here. It's a weak plan but it's the only thing I've been able to come up with. Still, I don't want her to jump either. When does she end up jumping again? The 3rd day after the protagonist shows up? Or was it the second? Sounds like I'll be skipping class after the protagonist gets here.....I step off the train and follow the usual route home. As cars and people pass me, I make sure to steer clear of any puddles. I don't want another wet sock. Before I know it, I am turning the corner onto where Leblanc is. It doesn't take much to notice a delivery truck in front of the café. What's more surprising than Sojiro ordering something, is him outside talking to the delivery person. I soon near the two men and Sojiro glances at me, sign the clipboard then hands it back to the man. The man politely bows and departs. "You buys something?" Sojiro responds with a simple, 'yeah' and then returns inside the cafe without another word. I guess he doesn't want to talk about it? I follow him inside and he's behind the counter as always. "So, what was the package?" I ask before I head upstairs. "It's up there. Open it and check it out if your curious." Obviously, since I'm a person with some very highly respectable self-restraint, I run upstairs and immediately pounce on the package in the room. Either Sojiro got something for me; which is highly unlikely, or he wants me to do something. As I open the large package, almost suddenly, I get punched in the face by something white. Luckily, I moved just in time and immediately backed off. "Since you've opened it, why don't you set it up. There should also be some sheet there too." I hear Sojiro yell from downstairs. So it really was because he wanted me to do something.....I sit on the ground as I catch my breath. I swear those sheets were the most infuriating process of putting together this bed. Once I had properly looked at what came out of the package after it almost uppercut me, I realized it was a mattress. Once I got it out of its packaging, I realized there was no bed frame, so I took a page out of Sojiro's book by putting crates I already had in my room; from when I was the last cleaning; to prop the bed up. After all that, it was a battle between me and the sheets. Every time I put it over one corner of the bed, then reached for the next, the previous one would slide off. What would be worse was when I almost got it over the entire bed, all corners slipped off. This happened twice. Luckily, I got it on before I lost all reasoning and went on a heated rampage. I just lazily threw some pillows and folded a blanket on top. And now here I am on the floor, destressing. "I knew I could count on you to get it done quickly and neatly"Sojiro's voice vibrates throughout the room. I halfheartedly look at him, since all my energy has been drained by those dang sheets. "Haha, looks like you've had quite the time. Go to sleep, you have school tomorrow." Sojiro turns to descend the stairs. "W-wait! Whose this bed for?" I hastily get up and scramble towards Sojiro. "For your future roomate. Now go take a nap, you need it." Sojiro scrambles the hair on my head. "Roomate? So, I'm not getting kicked out?" Sojiro stops in place and slowly turns back around, "Kicked out? No, No. You're not getting kicked out, Why would you?""Ah, it's nothing. I'll be going to sleep now." I quickly turn around, catching a glimpse of Sojiro's face contorted in confusion. "Goodnight."I hear his footsteps softly descending the stairs.