My Demons

Chapter 3: Otherside

A/N: WARNING! This chapter contains a sort of lemon? From the first episode and first chapter of the manga. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.

Chapter 3: Otherside

            It wasn’t a nightmare this time. It was still a dream about my past, but a pleasant one. I was dreaming about the first time I met Takahiro.

            I always finished my tests early in school. They were too easy for me. I had nothing else to do but write. I didn’t know where to put all the rushing current of ideas in my head, so I wrote them on the desk. I could write whatever I wrote on the desk on paper later. First I just had to get the ideas out of my head and into the real world.

            It was a couple days after an end of semester test. I sat down in my normal seat, not in the desk where I had written a story on the day of the test. There on my usual desk was something scrawled there in someone else’s handwriting.

            I liked the novel. Could you write the sequel if you have time left over? - Takahashi

            I nearly blushed, not believing that someone had actually read it. Then I became extremely happy knowing that someone liked my stories. I knew that Takahashi Takahiro was a bright student, so I was delighted that someone like him enjoyed what I wrote.

            So when it was time for the next time, I finished early and wrote the next story on Takahiro’s desk. Honestly, I hadn’t planned a sequel to the first one I had written, but I wanted to make him happy, which I definitely did.

            After school, he ran up to me, his face beaming. “Usami! You’re so talented! It was a great read!”

            The gleam in his eyes and excited tone to his voice told me that he was being sincere. I smiled inside, glad that someone appreciated my hard work. It was at that moment that I fell in love with him.

            Suddenly, there was a loud crashing noise in the real world.

            “HEY!!!! WAKE UP, YOU BASTARD PIECE OF CRAP AUTHOR! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS BOOK?! THIS IS YOU AND MY BROTHER IN THIS BOOK! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?! EXPLAIN YOURSELF!!”

            That voice was incredibly annoying anyways, but when he was screaming it was 10 times worse. And that brat woke me out of a good dream! I never get to enjoy nice dreams! What hell was he thinking?! And who the hell just barges into some stranger’s bedroom like that?! I was beyond pissed.

            Then it hit me what he was referring to. He saw a copy of Romance Belongs in the Student Council Office. Aikawa-san was going to bring a few of those over, along with some copies of my new novel, Heights of the Sky, Depths of the Ocean. He never would have known that I had written that book (since I used the penname Yayoi Akikawa to publish them) if Aikawa-san hadn’t left some copies there.

            I cursed myself for telling the brat he could let himself in. But still, that didn’t give him the right to go through other people’s stuff and break into someone’s room, waking them up from a great dream about his brother. And yes, I had overslept, but it was still rude of him. Didn’t Takahiro ever teach him manners?

            I pushed myself up and turned to him, making sure to give the kid the nastiest evil eye ever. “You saw, didn’t you?”

            He suddenly looked nervous, obviously bothered by my dark aura, but he quickly regained his composure and looked angry. “Hey, you!” He held up a copy of the boys love novel and pointed to it for emphasis. “The characters in this dirty novel are you and my brother, aren’t they?!” He then made a scene of throwing it on the floor. “So you really were a pervert!”