Confession of a Yandere

#RegardingSaekiSayaka #BloomIntoYou #FanFiction

#Wss366 #MastoPrompt

“You’re pale as a ghost; what’s wrong?” Saeki asked. The others looked on with sympathy but respectfully remained silent.

“That table… next to the counter. Do you see the girls?” Arisu asked.

“The tanned, athletic-looking girl sitting across from the one with a #rumpled blouse and thick glasses?”

“Yeah, you don’t recognize them?”

“No, should I? They’re not the bullies who were giving you trouble, are they?” Saeki looked from Arisu to her friends. “We had problems with some of Arisu’s ex-friends giving her a hard time. Do you know Ariu Aki? I thought she had scared them off.”

“No, they’re not the bullies. I am.” Arisu bit her lip, her eyes darting between her three companions.

“I don’t understand. You’d never be a bully.” Saeki said.

“There must have been a good reason,” Yuu added.

Only Touko accepted Arisu’s statement at face value. She remembered being bullied when they first met. But that hadn’t gone beyond nasty snark, hardly something that justified Arisu’s current melodrama.

“That’s Edamoto Haru and her girlfriend,” Arisu said, her voice #stiff, so low, that Saeki had to lean in to hear her.

“Right, you said Haru was ‘supposed’ to be my girlfriend.” Touko and Yuu gave Saeki questioning looks. For the moment at least, Saeki didn’t seem to realize how odd she sounded.

“You don’t understand,” Arisu said. “You only saw the time I told you she was cursed. There was more. Things you didn’t see.”

Only Yuu noticed Arisu's knuckles turning white as she twisted her clenched fingers in anguish.

Saeki resumed, “I told you it was all right. I love you and can’t imagine being in love with someone else. I’ve never even talked to Haru, and she isn’t my type. Athletic, she looks like she runs everywhere. So, I’m glad you disrupted this universe. I love only you.” It wasn’t the odd statement that brought a rose tint to Saeki’s face; it was the word “love.” It was so embarrassing to say, even in front of her two oldest friends.

Arisu gave her a weak smile. “It’s not that—I… I… bullied Haru. She must hate me. I told her to stay away from you, slipped nasty letters into her locker, even made creepy phone calls to her house.” She closed her eyes and blurted out, “I spread rumors about her, hoping they’d reach you—dreadful things. I called her a yariman—a filthy slut, a whore—I—I even considered poisoning her.”

“But you didn’t,” Saeki said gently. “I know you feel guilty about it. You’ve grown so much.”

“No, I haven’t! I might do it again if you liked someone more than me.”

“You wouldn’t.” Yuu quietly joined the discussion. “I know for two reasons. First, Saeki-san would hate that. Second, you’re beating yourself up about what you did. Not like someone who apologizes and then does it again, but like someone who has turned themselves around and hates how they once were. What do you think, Touko?”

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#MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #Yuri #Yandere