Nothing.

After something akin to 20+ calls and who knows how many texts, still nothing. Yosuke was sweating profusely at the shit he'd gotten himself into and despite all this he still felt inclined to help Yu, the guy who dragged him into this shit-show. He wondered if he was more loyal or more pathetic and promptly proceeded not to answer his own question.

"She almost certainly turned her phone off." He said to himself. Yosuke had not slept a wink last night, his mind too busy racing at what he could do to fix this and what the repercussions could be. He has never been one to simply accept consequences if he could help it. Yosuke told Yu to go home and let him fix this. Chie is liable to strangle him. He'd completely bypassed Teddie and his antics when he dropped his stuff off and spent a large portion of the morning riding his moped around town to find her. She wasn't at Junes, or the Samegawa so his chances of finding her dropped dramatically. Unfortunately the last thing he wanted to do seemed like the best option:

Visit her house.

The thought made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. The young store worker had never formally met Chies parents and that was by design; with his, more often than not, bad first impressions, he still gets flashbacks to Yu's first meeting him inside a trashcan, and insistence on shoving his foot in his mouth, meeting either of them never seemed anything close to a "good" idea.

"I'll just show up and ask if she's around, and then leave if she isn't." a simple idea, now hopefully a simple execution. As Yosuke drove toward her residence, a thought occurs: Chie hasn't told anyone yet. This can only be assumed due to the lack of messages from any of the girls, specifically Rise.

"I just need to sort this out." he said as he felt the beads of sweat make their way down his face only to be pulled away by the wind hitting his face.

Yosuke had lost track at the number of times he sighed.

'Should I buy some skewered meat to try and appease her? I'd really rather not take any kicks from her.' the thought only made him sweat more.

He pulled up to her family home. It was a 2 floor house, cookie cutter blackish brown; a part of Yosuke figured her house would probably green too. Yosuke parked his moped and texted Chie:

[Hanamura Y.]: I'm outside your house.

He had an inkling suspicion that she was just ignoring his texts. He glanced at her curtains waiting for even the briefest hint of movement until he noticed her curtains shift ever so slightly.

'So she is home.'

[Hanamura Y.]: Please Chie. Give me 2 minutes of your time and then I'll leave.

Still no reply.

Yosuke figured Chie might budge at this point but she wasn't giving him an inch.

[Hanamura Y.]: I'm not going anywhere. I'll wait here all night if I have to. Let me explain, please.

He wondered if he should just text her his explanation. But fear that he might say something wrong threw that idea in the trash. And wait there Yosuke did. People and cars passed him by, he could actually see the movement of the sun. He sent a few more texts in the hopes that she would come out. But still, nothing. He did however receive a text whilst he sat on his moped. An eager Yosuke figured it would be his favorite martial artist but he was mistaken.

[Mr. Perfect]: Did you speak to Chie yet?

Yosuke ignored it.

As he sat there on his moped waiting on the slim chance this girl will come out and talk to him, Yosuke wondered where was it that he went wrong to have lead to this very moment. An angry part of him wanted to say "When you met Yu." but that would be a lie.

The day was moving on without him as the sun crept its way down. But Yosuke was determined to right this wrong. Yosuke eventually figured 'Screw it.' and went to knock on her door. Barking erupted from behind the door and figured that was Chies Dog. The Sun was Beginning to set and the Sky's blue was shifting to orange.

Yosuke texted her in the hopes that she left her phone on.

[Hanamura Y.]: I'm not going home until you talk to me. Please.

Sure enough: No response.

Yosuke went back to leaning on his Moped, wondering what she'll do. If she does something drastic it could destroy our whole group.

"I guess that would be what we deserve." he said with a sigh to no one in particular. Yosuke had gotten multiple texts from Yu tricking him into thinking Chie had responded. He had elected to ignore any texts from Yu until he could resolve this. Or at least attempt to resolve this.

The day had soon faded into night; it was silent save for the occasional sound of insects he couldn't try and name.

with a heavy sigh, he continued to wait.

a few hours earlier:

Chie laid in her bed, face down into her pillow; her mind going a mile a minute. once the anger faded she was left with a deep sadness at the events that had just transpired. she was unable to sleep due to her excess anxiety.

She watched as her phone rang and rang and rang. The same name continuously popping up:

Yosuke Hanamura.

Chie was almost disgusted with herself. she allowed herself have...feelings for someone who was so cold hearted. He knew Yu was being unfaithful for who knows how long and he never did anything about it? He let Yu manipulate and lead on Rise and Marie. and Yosuke was just...fine with that?

Chie had been tempted to tell Rise everything but knows she would potentially destroy the group if she did this.

' Would crushing her be the right thing to do?' Chie thought. it was no secret she was madly in love with Yu-kun, so telling her would be right although it might also hurt her irreparably. All these thoughts weighed heavily on Chies Heart and mind. As she proceeded to wallow in her bed she received a text

[Hanamura Y.]: I'm outside your house.

Chies eyes went wide with surprise. although she should have expected this having ignored any and all forms of communication. She hopped to her feet and peeked through her curtains to see if her text spoke the truth.

Sure enough she saw him out there sitting on his moped, almost seemingly looking in her direction. She stopped looking and proceeded to lay back down when she got another text:

[Hanamura Y.]: Please Chie. Give me 2 minutes of your time and then I'll leave.

Chies anger flared up reading his text. She had half a mind to scream out her window a few colorful words that might make a sailor blush. Again, before she managed to go back to her bed She got another text:

[Hanamura Y.]: I'm not going anywhere. I'll wait here all night if I have to. Let me explain, please.

A loud scoff escaped her lips, cause she doubted Yosuke would be so obstinate.

'He made his bed, and now he has to lie in it.' She thought to herself. She jumped into her bed, eyes glued to the light on her ceiling. She was stuck in her head pondering the best path forward. The stress of this situation was so taxing she didn't even notice that she had fallen asleep. Her eyes shot open by the sound of her door opening. She bolted upright so fast her the room spun for a second.

The unknown intruder was Chies mother. Most would describe her mom as a more level Headed Chie with darker hair.

"Yosuke-kun is at the door." Chie doesn't remember showing her mother what Yosuke looked like but she was too shocked to ask how she know.

"W-w-w-What?" was the only thing she could say in her newly awakened state mixed with her having sat up too fast.

"Its rather late but I'm assuming he wouldn't have showed up if it wasn't important. Do you want to speak to him?" The calmness with which her mother spoke was just strange. Chie had to shake her head to get her mind right.

"No! N-no. Don't. We're not on good terms." Chies mother rolled her eyes.

"So...the usual? You and him are on bad terms every other week, the way you tell it." Chie was swift to attempt a rebuttal but nothing came to mind.

"It's serious this time! I don't know if I can forgive him this time." Her mother gave her a pensive look.

"Well, he clearly wants to work it out. The way I see it, give him 2 minutes to explain himself, you don't like what you hear tell him to leave but as his friend don't you owe him that much?" Chies mom said with a shrug.

"No! He doesn't deserve anything from me!" Chie exclaimed. Chies mother looked at her daughter with a sudden exhaustion at her stubbornness.

"Listen, either you go out there or I let him in here." She said sternly. As she said this she received another text.

[Hanamura Y.]: I'm not going home until you talk to me. Please.

She audibly groaned, wanting to toss her phone at a wall.

"Do I have to?" Chie asked. Her mother gave her a pointed look. "Fine!, let me get ready first."

At this point Yosuke had begun to doze off as he waited. He was awoken by the sound of his phone ringing, awoken abruptly he looked at his phone expecting to see Chie's name but it was just his mother.

"Hey, mom. I'm staying over at Dojima-sans tonight. Don't wait up." he answered quickly and hung up just as quickly. Adding another sigh to his unending collection of sighs. He hung his head back as he sat on his moped, looking up at the moonless night.

"Should I send another text?" he asked to nobody in particular.

"No, you shouldn't." The sound of that voice made the hairs on the back of Yosuke's neck stand on end. Standing to his right was a Chie in an oversized t shirt and sneakers with arms crossed. Hoping off his moped he rubbed his eyes to make sure they weren't tricking him.

"Uhh...umm...ugh." Yosuke didn't expect to get this far so he didn't know how to start.

"I'll give you 2 minutes." The Kung fu girl stated. And so Yosuke explained his side of the story. He explained how he had told Yu on multiple occasions that he shouldn't be doing this and Yu can even corroborate this. He also explained how he is still in the wrong for this.

"So that's it, Chie. I understand if you won't forgive me. I was a bad friend to both Rise and You." Chie had mulled over his words.

"So you never condoned Yu's Actions?" Chie asked.

"Never. I told him what he was doing wasn't right. And I think even he knows this." He said as sincerely as possible.

"But do what you think is right than, Chie. I understand." With this Yosuke turned his back to Chie to get on his moped. Chie reached out to grab his arm. Yosuke turned around to see Chie.

"I'm-I'm glad I was wrong about you." she said with a blush. Yosuke turned to face her.

"Heh. Yeah, me too." Chie let go of him.

"But that doesn't mean I'm not pissed off!" She said just short of screaming. Yosuke took a few steps back in fear of getting Galacted punted into the stratosphere by those lethal weapons Chie calls her legs.

"Tell Yu, He has until the Summer festival to break it off with one of those girls or I'm telling them BOTH!" She said aggresively.

"And this is me being nice." Chie said with a tone of danger.

"So less than 2 weeks, got it." He said. "Soooo...speaking of the summer festival...are we still on to go...together?"

"Y-yeah. We're still good."

"Cool…well… I should go."

"O-okay. See you." and with that Yosuke hopped on his moped and drove off into the night. Chie stood there surprised at the resolution that had transpired. Suddenly her phone started ringing she pulled it out of her short shorts and saw it was her mom dialing.

"Hello?"

"Well aren't you two the cutest. I couldn't hear what was said but i saw that arm grab you did. Very strong play." Chie could only blush at her mother's rhetoric.

"Great. Now i'm never gonna hear the end of this." she said with a sigh as she walked back home.