•This is Real• [Diabolik Lovers × Male! OC]

Chapter 26: I'll Cut My Hair

It was the middle of a school day, roughly a week since the incident with Azusa and three days since I'd actually begun hanging out with the boy.

He first approached me that day in art class, asking if I wanted to work with him on a wood carving.

At first I had wanted to decline, obliging a very defensive Subaru but I recalled how I was the one who decided to forgive him.

'I should at least try to get along with him.'

So after a grueling amount of time trying to convince Subaru to let me work with Azusa he finally relented, of course with the condition he stood right beside us the entire time. Not that I minded, I wasn't exactly sure how to deal with Azusa at that moment and a 178cm vampy boy was great at making me feel a ton safer.

In that time we worked together to make a little wooden dagger. I decided on that remembering how collecting knives seemed to be the boy's only hobby.

Slowly we chiselled out the dagger in two parts, him working on the blade and me working on the hilt. I had quite a bit of fun with it, coming up with and carving in intricate details I thought the boy would enjoy. I intended to hand it to him as a gift you see, maybe help our friendship along. I even managed to get Subaru to help me carve out a few of the deeper notches I was having issues with, damn him and his mosquito strength.

Though I had to admit, it seemed like even Tsunbaru had fun that day.

Eventually, passing nods turned into small talk as we caught each other in the hallway. Finally, I was making progress with the Mukamis.

The Sakamakis still wanted a bodyguard with me 24/7 though, a thing that stopped bothering me after like the fourth day straight of Ayato cussing out my homeroom teacher for questioning why the boy was in a class he never signed up for.

English had just ended and I was walking down the hallway with Ayato in tow. We settled into a comfortable case of Ayato's ego expanding while he was bragging then my little quips and insults took him down a peg, a rhythm we both seemed to fall into quite regularly. He was boasting about how he'd been on a 10+ winstreak in gym class when I picked up a piecer of my hair that kept tickling my nose. I twirled the rogue piece around my finger.

'Dang, I really need to get my hair cut...'

"I know a nice stylist who can fix your hair for you~" I paused and spun around at the familiarly flowery tone of voice just as Ayato pushed me behind him.

"Bastard, get away from Midget!" Ayato yelled.

I frantically looked around, happy to see that the hall was empty besides the three of us. Last thing I needed now was tp be caught in the middle of a fight between a hot transfer student and an idol.

Oh yeah did I mention, somehow Kou became an overnight sensation in my town. Great...

Before I could ponder the logistics of how that would work and why no other Diabolik Lovers fan had yet to put two and two together, an icy hand grabbed my wrist and suddenly I was standing on the school's roof.

I shook free of the hand only to find myself face-to-face with the blonde idol himself. A sense of dread set in.

'the door to the roof was always locked, no one is going to find us up here'

Kou's lips twisted into a grin.

'and this bastard knows'

"Thats mean, blue~" 'Blue? He really is running out of ideas huh?'

He gave an irked smile.

'Ah right, this dude is a mindreader.'

"Now how did you know that, Kitty-kun~?"

'as the French say.... Le foque'

"How does anyone know anything?" I ramble. If my mouth has gotten me out of this once, I hope to Jezus it'll do it again.

"How did humans learn mixing lye and oil made soap? What about crushing little beetles to make red food dye?" I tensed my shoulders and wiggled my fingers like insect legs to emphasize my bullcrap point.

"Speaking of beetles, remember Beetlejuice?" He opened his mouth to talk but I cut him off, as is typical of me (bows). "Yeah ya know Lydia? Played by Sofia Anne Caruso? Yeah her new song 'Toys'? Beautiful, absolute perfection!"

With every word I slowly try and shuffle backwards towards the door.

"Don't think you can escape me so easily now, Kitty-kun~" he whispered into my ear.

I practically jumped out of my skin.

"WOAH THERE, MANS FASTER THAN HINATA ON STEROIDS!"

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ok so I don't exactly say the smartest things when I get scared.

I gulp and back away as he strides towards me. I look around, only spotting a low fence around the perimeter of the building.

'well, this beats getting bitten I guess...'

He looks at me quizically but I quickly hop over the fence.

'years of tree climbing DONT FAIL ME NOW!'

I drop down from the roof, clinging onto some freakishly bendy pipes running along the ceiling of the fourth floor. I hear the boy gasp above me but I make no move to look up. Slowly, I shimmy my way along the creaking pipes until I reach a window with a sturdy enough edge for me to climb on.

With both hands on the pipes above me and one foot on the ledge, I gently use my free foot to slide open one of the classroom.

I lurch back to swing into the building just as I feel something graze my thigh.

I feel my palms slip but yet I get heaved forward, landing in a heap in the fourth floor hallway. I quickly turn to look back outside but am only greeted by the noon view of the school's courtyard.

I drop my hands to my side only to feel the edge of a paper scrape my wrist.