p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" You jerked wide awake from your bed, panting. You reached out to the other side of the bed to shake-/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"You frowned. There was no other side of the crappy twin bed of yours. As you looked around, your nightmare (you could have sworn it was really happening) faded except for one little detail. You were safe. You were in your room, in your apartment. Everything was okay. It was all okay now./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"You pressed a hand to your cheek, pulling your legs up close to you. You haven't had nightmares in years, but that was a particularly bad one, going by the image of that cute skeleton monster dusting in your hands. You could still see the red eyes of the… thing that killed him./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"It was a good thing that monsters weren't real, right?/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"-/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"A year later, the barrier broke. It took time, but eventually they were able to move into the city, although some of them stayed in the little town closest to the mountain. Rent went down as many people left and monsters moved in./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"You were baking when the doorbell started ringing. They must've been your neighbors your landlord told you about. Wiping your hands off, you opened the door./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"A very familiar skeleton greeted you. "Hello Human! I Am The Magnifi- Woah! Are you okay?"/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"You pulled him into a very close hug. You weren't crying, you told yourself./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;""Ah heh, sorry about that." You pulled away from him, feeling incredibly embarrassed, "You just… reminded me of something. Uh- would you like to come in for tea?"/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"He accepted, and with flushed cheeks you noticed you got flour on him./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Weeks later, you met Chara./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"You frowned. There was no other side of the crappy twin bed of yours. As you looked around, your nightmare (you could have sworn it was really happening) faded except for one little detail. You were safe. You were in your room, in your apartment. Everything was okay. It was all okay now./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"You pressed a hand to your cheek, pulling your legs up close to you. You haven't had nightmares in years, but that was a particularly bad one, going by the image of that cute skeleton monster dusting in your hands. You could still see the red eyes of the… thing that killed him./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"It was a good thing that monsters weren't real, right?/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"-/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"A year later, the barrier broke. It took time, but eventually they were able to move into the city, although some of them stayed in the little town closest to the mountain. Rent went down as many people left and monsters moved in./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"You were baking when the doorbell started ringing. They must've been your neighbors your landlord told you about. Wiping your hands off, you opened the door./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"A very familiar skeleton greeted you. "Hello Human! I Am The Magnifi- Woah! Are you okay?"/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"You pulled him into a very close hug. You weren't crying, you told yourself./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;""Ah heh, sorry about that." You pulled away from him, feeling incredibly embarrassed, "You just… reminded me of something. Uh- would you like to come in for tea?"/p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"He accepted, and with flushed cheeks you noticed you got flour on him./p
p class="western" style="text-indent: 0.38in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"Weeks later, you met Chara./p