Our Reality (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Heart-to-Heart

Natsuki tapped the end of her sentence with her pen, leaving the final period of her Royal Rumble log.

"Ugh..." she groaned. "If it wasn't for the fact that stuff like this had to be done right away, I would have wrote all this down at a time when what happened didn't annoy me so much."

The newly crowned queen dropped her logbook to her side and picked up where she left off from Parfait Girl. "I really suck at not twisting the knife..."

Not too far away, Yuri and Shujinkou slightly poked their heads from around a corner in order to catch a glimpse of their sullen queen.

"She doesn't look too happy, Shujinkou..." Yuri nervously noted. "Maybe I should try later."

"Well, she does look disappointed, but she doesn't look particularly angry," Shujinkou replied. "I think you could do it now. It might even cheer her up."

"I don't know, Shujinkou, I'm not exactly good enough with people to cheer them up."

In response to her doubtful words, Shujinkou simply raised his right hand.

"Ah..." Yuri quickly diverted her gaze. "But still..."

"I get it," the young maiden immediately looked back at Shujinkou, surprised by his sudden interruption. "It's scary. You want to admit you're mistake and apologize to someone you feel like you treated wrong, but you don't know how to do it."

Shujinkou scratched his right cheek, "I joined the club so I could do the same with Sayori and I still didn't apologize until recently. So, I know how hard it can be and I know you're worried what will happen if you bring up old wounds. But... If you two honestly talk things out, I'm sure that you guys can move past whatever happened in the past."

"Is that how you fixed things with Sayori?" Yuri queried.

"Well, actually I came with a scavenger hunt which was something we wanted to do as kids before leading her to realize why I did so, but you could probably skip to the talking part, which did work."

"...Okay. I'll give it a try now."

"Alright, if you need me, I'm going to head outside so I don't accidently eavesdrop on anything."

With an awkward salute goodbye, Shujinkou left leaving Yuri to take a deep breath. She then proceeded to walk from around the corner and approach Natsuki.

"Hey, Natsuki," Yuri greeted.

"Hm?" Natsuki looked up from her manga, her annoyed expression swiftly replaced it's surprised variation. "Oh... Hey."

"Um..." Yuri struggled to maintain eye contact as she desperately tried to find something to say."Are you still upset over what happened at the convention?"

"Yep." Natsuki bluntly answered.

"Well, at least you won the right to be the convention's queen. That's a good thing."

"Yeah, it's a cool accomplishment, but it's still not the thing I really wanted to do. The whole thing was just unfair."

Yuri diverted her gaze as her entire body began to shake violently. She couldn't help but feel that starting the conversation by bringing up what happened at the convention was a fatal mistake and there was no way to salvage it. "I'M SORRY!"

"Huh?" Natsuki shot a perplexed look at her fellow club member.

"I'm sorry for everything!" Yuri continued to apologize.

"What are you apologizing for? It's not like you could have done anything about the whole Royal Rumble thing."

"No, I don't mean that. I'm referring to something else..."