A/N: I do not own the rights to Doki Doki Literature Club, those rights belong exclusively to Team Salvato.

Disclaimer: This will have some very dark and disturbing content in the beginning, much like the original DDLC.

It started out as an Internet rumor really.

That was all it was- some obscure post on an obscure forum site that's now long gone.

It was a post by a user by the name of 'lilmonix3' which I thought was a pretty dumb username, but, being bored, I went ahead and clicked on the link.

All that was there was a link to a video that the user had posted.

That was all there was. No real description to what the video was about, and no replies were there that could tell me if it was worth watching.

But, being bored, I went ahead and clicked on the link.

And what greeted me was a Youtube video which had been set to private, which meant that you could only access it with a link to the video. I found it odd because if you wanted people to watch your video, you would've just gone ahead and made it public. I mean, you were posting a link to it on a public site after all, so that meant that you clearly wanted it to be watched.

The user who posted the video had the same username: 'lilmonix3'.

When I saw the thumbnail though, my hear nearly froze.

I could see four girls who had hanged themselves from the roof.

This was something really messed up- and I am not one of those people who like seeing gore or violence.

But there was something that made me click on the video, as if I just couldn't stop myself.

Right off the bat, it started off with three girls hanging from what I assume was the ceiling of what looked like a classroom.

One of them had purple hair and was wearing a sweater and black pants.

The other one was small and had pink hair and a white shirt and pink skirt on.

Another one had a red bow on, and the last one was wearing black stockings instead of white ones and had green eyes.

The video began to introduce them: Yuri, Natsuki, Sayori... and Monika.

There was just something... off about Monika.

Something set her apart from the other girls. It wasn't just her different set of clothes- she was dressed up in a school uniform instead of casual clothes like the others.

The others had bloodied fingertips- indicating that they probably had tried to save themselves at the end as they asphyxiated.

But Monika didn't- as if she had gone through her last moments without even trying to save herself, even reflexively.

Just as I had processed this, a hauntingly beautiful tune began to play from the video.

The music was a morose tone and seemed to lure me into the video- I place my hand on the screen as if wishing I could just jump into the screen.

As long as the music played, it was as if for a moment nothing else mattered. I just wanted to be with these four girls, I wanted to be with them so bad it began to make my stomach ache.

I would do anything to be with them- I would even-

My thought process was interrupted as the music abruptly ended and I noticed I had just gotten a message from a certain user.

I felt a chill crawl down my spine as I saw the username- 'lilmonix3'.

Did you enjoy hanging out with us?

I had several questions- first of all it was apparent they knew that I had watched their video, though how they managed to track me was beyond me.

It took me a second to realize that they had made a sick pun however.

I sent them an angry reply asking them what the hell this was about, but instead of getting an answer, this message popped up:

All of us can't wait to finally be with you- forever.

That wasn't a real answer so I sent whoever this was another message asking what was going on, only for a message to pop up telling me that the user had deleted their account.

I figured I might as well go ahead and report the video, but when I went back to it all that popped up was a message saying that the user had deleted it.

I shrugged this off as a prank and went back to doing other things.

The memory of the music though seemed to stick in my mind. And there was something about the girls that still made my heart long for them.

But, the day went on and I went to sleep.

As I set the alarm though, I nearly jumped right out the window in fright.

Right there, on the screen, was a picture of that pink haired girl- Natsuki, yes, that was her name.

Only thing is that her neck had been snapped and her head was tilted unnaturally at a right angle.

The image vanished almost instantly and I swallowed.

Had I just imagined that? I had had a hard day, and was feeling tired... was my mind really playing tricks on me?

I'm one of those people who go to sleep with their headphones on- I usually set up the music to be something slow and rhythmic. It helped me go and fall asleep usually, and after a while, I did drift off.