"Osamu! Dance with meeee...! Dance!!" Rue whined. She was ordering Dazai to dance with her, and I'm sure you guessed correctly that she had become drunk aswell.

Dazai took Rue's hands, and started to sing some strange song about not being able to commit a double-suicide alone. He stopped singing and dancing abruptly, and tripped on air, falling flat on his face.

Rue stared at him on the ground with a disappointed look on her face. "How underwhelming." She laid down next to him, and stared at the ceiling. "Do you ever feel like you're dreaming and your whole life is a lie?"

"What do you mean? We are dreaming. Life has no consequences in a dream." Dazai said, his words slurred.

Rue gasped super loud, sat up, and made Dazai sit right too. "Woah... that's so weirdo. Reminds me of the time I pretended to be a dog when I was five so my parents would get me one of those suckers."

Dazai looked disgusted. "Dogs are gross... I hate dogs." He stood up and turned away from me, it looked a lot like he was mad at me just because I liked dogs.

Rue began to think some... interesting thoughts. "I DON'T WANNA DIE A VIRGIN!!!" She wailed dramatically. "I've only ever dreamed about having sex... could you make my dream come true? Pleeeeaaaaseeee?" She tugged on his pants from the floor, looking pitiful as ever.

"Hmmmmmmmm..." He stared at her for a long time, as if in deep thought. "okay. This is a dream though." That alcohol was messing with his head a LOT.

They were both extremely intoxicated, so Rue's reply was: "I don't even care! If you're gonna do it, then hurry the hell up!! She waved her arms around, becoming irritated. Her behavior was shameful, in my opinion.

And so, he did as Rue demanded of him. I'm not going to narrate such things, though. If you wanted me to, that's disgusting. Instead of telling you about what Rue and Dazai did, we're going to dive into Rue's backstory.

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When Rue was in highschool, she and her sister were bullied for being skinny. The school they attended was full of overweight girls who were jealous of the sisters' looks. They told her she was too skinny, and looked like a skeleton. In response, Rue would stuff herself full in hopes to gain some weight. Suzu was also bullied. But instead of them telling her she was too skinny, they said that she was fat... resulting in the girl starving herself.

The one who led this whole elaborate scheme to make Rue and Suzu want to kill themselves, was a girl named Kyoko. She was quite insecure about her own looks, and needed to see others destroyed to feel good about herself. The last one standing, the queen on a throne of lies was what she wanted to be. She was really sadistic for such a young girl...

There was a specific day that was quite memorable for the sisters.

"There they are! Go get them, girls." Kyoko prompted her lackeys, putting her one of her hands on the two's back.

The girls nodded. "Mhm." They went in unison, and made their way to the Suzuki sisters. "Our favorite skeleton is here at school again, huh?" Girl One said to Rue.

Her words could have been seen in a funny way, but Rue knew she was making fun of her. "...Why?" She asked under her breath. Ever since they arrived at that school insults were hurled at her and her younger sister.

Girl Two whispered in Suzu's ear. "You're fat like a pig... I bet you've broken many beds from just sitting on them. You are such a glutton that you most likely dig food out of the trash can."

Kyoko walked up, proud of her little puppets' work. "I hope you sisters don't come to school tomorrow, it would do the world a lot of good if you died." A crooked smile surfaced her face. "I'll be happy once you both are gone. Anyways, let's go girls."

They all walked away, Kyoko leading as if she was those girls' owner and they were her attack dogs.

Perhaps their words were amusing to you, but just imagine you were told those kinds of things all day, every day... and on top of that you had own own thoughts to amplify what they said. That's what Rue and Suzu were experiencing.

Back in the place where the melodies' souls rested, these were all split parts of Rue's soul, Melanie and her twin sister Mary "the Mad" being their perception of righteousness and evil. They watched her get bullied with smiles on their faces. Mary the Mad had helped them all tie up Melanie, putting her in a gag. The place was a black void of nothing, with a huge screen showcasing what Rue was experiencing.

"I'm glad this mistake is being put in her place... she was never supposed to be born to begin with. I'm glad you all agreed with my idea to put extra hate for her in Kyoko's heart." Mary said to the melodies.

Melody Bee smiled at Mary deviously. "Well, it was getting kind of annoying how I was being reborn over and over, and had to watch the new one live her life. Like, why can't I just rest in peace?!"

Faith butted into the conversation. "I think we shouldn't be doing this... It makes me sad to see her suffer."

"My dudette... you're literally a pathological liar. We all know you don't mean that." Wakumi laughed. She thought everything was silly. "Hehehe... sketty noodle. I love sketty noodles!!" The girl continued to talk about spaghetti in weird voices.

Yasuka eventually became annoyed and yelled at her. "SHUT THE HELL UP!!!"

"It's kind of interesting to think that we're all the same person, is it not?" Aerlinniel said, playing with her hair.

Setsuko sat still, pondering the question of why there was so many different versions of herself. "Yeah... it's a little weird. Didn't you guys tell me there was another one of us, that was unseen? She had all of our hardships combined into one, right?" She asked, trying to make sure her information was accurate.

"Indeed. She's the leader... I wonder if we'll ever see her." Aerlinniel stared off into the distance, imagining what it would be like to meet the Unseen One. "She must be very sad..."

Suki nodded in agreement. "Yes. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of anguish she must feel."

Mary was becoming irritated by the melodies constant yapping. "Would you shut it? Things are getting good, look. She's about to stuff herself until she can't eat any more so she'll gain weight."

And so they all fell silent, and went back to watching Rue.

At lunch, Rue ate as much food as she possibly could. It made her nauseous... she felt like she was some sort of abnormality that needed to be eliminated. As she stuffed her face, self hatred boiled up inside of her. She cleared her plate, and saw her reflection in it. "I... I hate-- my reflection." It was sickening for her to even view herself. In response, she got seconds so that she wouldn't have to look at herself anymore.

Suzu watched everyone else at lunch munch on their food. She was slightly jealous they had such a privilege to consume food, but she thought that in the end it would be worth it to not eat. "I'm very hungry, but I will not eat. This'll help me become skinnier..."

"For my figure." Both of the sisters thought.