Now, back to Rue and Dazai.

Rue was the first to awaken in the morning, and instantly felt sick. "Oh my God--" She stretched, throwing the blanket off of her body, only to realize she was completely naked. "UWAAAHHHHH!!!!!" She screeched, very confused.

Dazai was sleeping like he was in a coffin, pretending to be dead. He sat up and looked around, obviously disorientated. "Am I dead?"

"N-n-no... you're naked. Well not-- not really. Why are you covered in bandages?" Rue said, extremely uncomfortable.

Dazai appeared to be very disappointed to know he hadn't passed. "Tch." He casually stood up, grabbing his clothes to put them on.

"DON'T STAND UP!!!!" Rue screamed, her face turning red. She attempted to hide under the blanket, hoping he wouldn't see she was naked too. "Get out when you're done..."

"Sure--"

He was interrupted by a knock on the door. "What's going on in there, Dazai?!" A male voice said angrily before Rue heard the door swinging open. "WHY AREN'T YOU WEARING ANY CLOTHES!!?! AND WHAT IS THAT LUMP UNDER THE BLANKET THAT STRANGELY RESEMBLES A PERSON?!?!"

Rue tried to stay completely silent, but failed. "Eep..." What in the world was that strange noise she made?!

"Kunikida, don't--" For once, Dazai had a little bit of a brain as he struggled to pull his pants up. He was trying to warn Kunikida to not pull the blanket off of Rue, but it was too late.

The two of them began to scream at the top of their lungs as Dazai watched and sighed.

Rue snatched the blanket from Kunikida and wrapped it around her body. With her free hand that wasn't holding it up, she slapped the blond man. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??!!"

"DAZAI, WHAT WERE YOU DOING?!!??!" Poor Kunikida had his hands over his eyes, and was obviously traumatized.

Dazai stood there for a while. "Long story short...attempted suicide, drunk, sex."

Rue was regretting all of her life choices, and wishing she had never met this hopeless man. "I don't remember having sex with you...?"

"Trust me, it happened. You loved it." He teased.

"...What the hell--" Rue's brain was trying to recover from the amount of alcohol she had consumed last night, and then that's when it hit her. "My sister is waiting for me at home!! She must be so worried...! Good God almighty!!!! You two, get out so I can put my clothes on." She ordered, suddenly becoming very assertive.

The men scrambled out of the room without question, closing the door behind them. Outside of the room, Rue could hear Kunikida getting after Dazai.

Rue pushed the bottles of alcohol in her way to the side with her foot, going over to her clothes. She put them on, and walked out of Dazai's room. "I'll be leaving. Thank you very much for causing me problems, sir." Her tone was sarcastic and rude.

Dazai tapped on her shoulder as she tried to leave, a big smirk on his face. He looked so silly, Rue couldn't help but smile back.

"Ah, phone number." The brown haired man said, putting his hand out for her to hand him her phone.

Rue pretended to act annoyed. Though, there was a feeling of affection she had towards him... she didn't understand it. She gave into his request, handing over her phone.

Once he was done, he told her goodbye and Kunikida proceeded to yell in his face whilst hitting him. Looking at her phone, Rue noticed the many missed notifications. Suzu didn't get a wink of sleep, and had been trying to contact Rue all night long.

-

"I was lost..." Rue lied. She didn't have the energy to make a better story, since her headache was so bad.

"I know that's not true. Where were you?!" Suzu demanded Rue to give her the true answer, knowing she hadn't just gotten lost.

Rue was horrible at lying, and eventually gave up on trying to hide the truth. "I had become drunk and ended up staying at some man's house." She left out a key detail that made the story even more concerning-- it was the fact she had sex with the man. Though, Rue didn't fully remember that night, and doubted she did such a thing. Either way, she felt very guilty, and rightfully so.

Suzu's jaw fell off her face. "That's ridiculous!! How do you manage to keep your elegant lady persona on when you get yourself into messes like this?!"

The sisters didn't really act like one was older than the other-- they often swapped places with that kind of thing. Most people thought they were twins based off their behavior.

"Su, calm down! I'm alright." Suzu was starting to remind Rue of Kunikida.

Suzu only freaked out more. "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CALM DOWN?!! WHAT WOULD FATHER THINK IF HE KNEW YOU WERE DOING STUFF LIKE THIS?"

Her frustrated face and tone made Rue feel like a small child, being scolded by a parent. Suzu was truly all about doing the right thing, unlike Rue... who only pretended she cared.

"Shhh... you shouldn't stress yourself out like that. You have an audition to get to this afternoon." Rue was trying to distract her sister, so she'd stop yelling.

Suzu gasped, and remembered the time. "Oh-- it's nearly that time! I have to get ready... you'll drive me, right?" She started to walk out of the living room where we were talking, heading to the bathroom to fix her appearance.

"Of course!" Rue shouted to her, and pulled out her phone. Right when she held it in her hand, it began to ring. Nearly dropping it on the floor, she answered. "Hello? Who's this?"

The voice she heard belonged to Dazai. "Osamu. I forgot to ask, if you wanted to try to double suicide again?"

"I'm sorry, sir, but I'm going to have to decline. I never wanted to commit suicide in the first place." Rue felt bad for Dazai, and wanted to help him any way she could despite knowing she shouldn't talk with him any more. "But... if you'd like we could stay in touch?" She suggested shyly.

"...Uh-huh" Dazai wasn't quite expecting that kind of reply. He thought she was going to block him right after he heard her deny his request to try ending their lives once more.

Rue became flustered, and tried to run him off. "Well, I have something I need to take care of. Have a good day, O-- sir." She wanted to refrain from saying the man's name, afraid of becoming attached to him further.

"Bye." Dazai hung up the phone, and went back to doing whatever he was doing before he called Rue. He had most likely been slacking off on his work.

Shortly after that, Rue dropped Suzu off to the place where she was auditioning for her role. She felt extremely nauseous as she sat in the car, and pondered the possibility that she had been pregnant. "That would be ridiculous... heh-- I really hope I'm not. Father would kill everyone, and then himself if something like that were to happen." She thought out loud. "You know... perhaps I should just pray it isn't so!" So, she sent a prayer to the heavens that she wasn't pregnant, and sounded absolutely hilarious doing it.

Meanwhile, Suzu was praying aswell, but not that she wouldn't be pregnant. She was praying to God that she would be accepted for the role she was trying to get.

Both of the sisters had sick feelings in their stomachs, in their chest was a tight feeling of stress and worry... with a hint of despair. Rue didn't want to be in trouble with her father, and Suzu wanted to prove to her father that she could become a stage actress.

"Oh, Mother... if I do have a baby inside of me-- will I be okay?" Tears welled up in Rue's eyes as she looked up at the ceiling of the car. She put her hands on the broach that used to belong to her mother. "Will it hurt more than I imagine it to?" Rue always had a horrible fear of giving birth.

Suzu looked down at the ground, and asked her deceased mother questions too. "Do you believe in me?" She thought in her head before going on stage.

-

Two weeks later, Suzu, Rue and their only friend named Eliza were all gathered together. Suzu had news for the other two girls.

"I got the role!! I got the role, everybody!!!" Suzu jumped into the air, her true nature coming out. She was actually quite loud and cheerful.

Eliza clapped and congratulated her. "I had a feeling you would! So I brought all my rats so we could have a celebration!!" Her British accent only made that sentence sound funnier.

A bunch of rats wearing party hats came out of their hiding spots.

"Say that she did a good job getting that role!"

Many joyful squeaks came from the rats as they all scurried to Suzu.

Eliza had a strange power where she could speak to rats, and was chosen to be the rat queen at a young age. Everybody thought she was a weirdo, but she didn't mind.

Rue had some news of her own... "I don't mean to crash your party... but-- I'm pregnant." Her voice was cracking as she delivered this news, and couldn't help but burst into tears. She felt worthless.

Suzu and Eliza were shocked.

Eliza got into Rue's face, becoming hostile towards the idea of somebody getting her pregnant. "Who?! I'll hit him on the head with my broom."

Rue sobbed loudly, and ran to the kitchen to stuff her face with food. She went back to her binge eating ways every time she felt ashamed of herself. She got out her favorite thing ever from the fridge: chocolate ice cream. But... when she looked at her own reflection in the spoon, her cries only increased in volume.

"Shhh... calm down." Eliza said as she led Rue back to the couch, rubbing her back.

The rat on the shoulder of his queen jumped into Rue's hair, trying to make her feel better as well.

Suzu gulped when Rue made it back to the couch. "Does... this have anything to do with the man you stayed the night with when you were drunk?"

"Yes." Rue looked down at her lap, refusing to make eye contact. She shoveled ice cream into her mouth, trying to feel just a little better.

"Do you have any way to contact him so I can tell him off?" Eliza asked, not liking Dazai even though she didn't really know anything about him.

Rue picked up her phone. "...I have his number."

Eliza looked over Rue's shoulder to see Dazai's contact. "I see. Don't worry, Rue... I guess it's not really your fault if you were extremely drunk. The Rue I know would never stay at some random guy's house."

Those words made Rue feel even more guilty, she agreed to go to his place when she was sober. "I texted him, saying I was pregnant. He hasn't read it... and when he does he'll probably think I'm joking. He seemed like the kind of person who can't take anything seriously."

"Huh." Eliza seemed irritated by Dazai the more she heard about him.

Suzu just wanted to know the full story. "Would you be okay with telling us what happened in detail?"

So, Rue told the entire crazy story... very hesitantly. Tears streamed down her face as she spoke, and voice inside of her mind insisted her family and single friend wouldn't love her after hearing how she had become pregnant.

The melodies scrambled around as they tried to think of more things Mary could say that might break Rue.

"Calm the **** down. We'll be able to get her to kill herself easily." Mary smiled triumphantly.

Melanie tried her best to get some words out. "Why? You shouldn't have brainwashed the other melodies into doing this with you." She was always the voice of reason, the one who knew what was the right thing to do.

Yasuka looked confused, she was a very gullible girl. "But... when we all die, a happy world created for us to rest. Won't it be fun to hang out together?"

"Yeah!! We'd have the times of our life!" Wakumi knew Mary only wanted to kill Rue because she hated all the melodies, and not to have a fun time together in the afterlife. Either way, she loved the idea of this happy world Mary spoke of.

Antionette looked as if she were on top of the world. "And there'll be an uncountable amount of handsome men!! Best part is, they all love you. I wonder if Nanashi is there?"

"Nanashi?! He's like my brother... what do you mean? Nanashi?!" Melody was quite confused, and slightly concerned.

"Don't think too hard about it." Antionette smirked and giggled.

Melanie sighed in disapproval. "Antionette, you have got to stop being a pervert like that."

Aerlinniel stared at the odd French girl. "Feeling that kind of stuff is understandable, but Lord... calm down a bit?"

"Non. You haven't seen Nanashi, have you? That must be why you don't understand the reason for me not caring for he and Melody's relationship as siblings."

"Anyways, why are you trying to shame Antionette?" Faith inserted herself into the conversation. "You're the lady who had ten children with Legolas."

Aerlinniel was a bit upset at Faith because of her comment. "I only had one child. This is why we should tie you up, put tape over your mouth, and slowly roast you over a fire!!"

Melanie groaned, signaling them to stop arguing over this matter.

"Pay attention to what's happening with Rue. You need to help me find horrible **** to say so that we can attack her fat *** with everything we have." Mary motioned to the screen, and scowled at everyone.

Melody glared at Mary. "No."

"THE **** YOU MEAN NO?!!!?--"