Chapter 1

Monday, 7 am. 8 years after breaking the barrier:

As our hero tossed and turned in her sleep, trying to soak in those last minutes of sleep before having to leave for her first day of school. She cuddled with the warm covers on her, not wanting to let go. The days became shorter and the air started becoming colder, Autumn was coming very soon and very quick. Soon the bedroom door opened with a small creak and a soft voice calling a name.

"Frisk, my child, it's time to wake up," the voice spoke.

Instead of getting up, Frisk instead hid her head under the covers trying to go back to sleep. The bedroom door opened up more and the figure headed closer to the bed. The figure soon sat down on the bed and placed her hand on Frisk.

"Frisk, come on time to wake up. You don't wish to be late do you?" the voice said softly and sweetly.

"Eh, I don't mind being late that much," Frisk said groggily.

"On your first day? Well alright, so long as you'll stick around for Papyrus and Undyne's breakfast."

And with that, Frisk hurled herself out of her bed and got ready for school. Frisk headed to the bathroom and started to brush her teeth. She then headed to sans' room. She took the toothbrush out of her mouth and knocked on his door.

"sans? Come on it's morning," Frisk shouted through the door. No response.

Frisk rolled her eyes and headed back to the bathroom. Once she was done she headed downstairs to the kitchen, where Undyne and Papyrus were already making breakfast.

"HUMAN! Good timing! Undyne were just preparing a delicious breakfast!" Papyrus said.
"Wanna help punk?" Undyne said, pounding into a bowl of eggs.
"I… should get ready for school. Maybe some other time…" Frisk said, not wanting to get sick…again.

Frisk poured a glass of water and a glass of apple juice. She chugged down the apple juice and carried the glass of water upstairs. Frisk dressed into her favorite striped sweater and a pair of jeans. It was starting to get chilly, so it was a good time to wear a sweater. She took the glass of water and started to pour it on top of her favorite flower. Once Frisk did that, it started to hiss at her.

"Enough! The water is too cold! And don't pour it on me while I'm sleeping!" it said angrily.
Frisk looked very unimpressed with his attitude.
"Flowey, you always have something to complain about, 'it's too hot' 'it's too cold,' suck it up. It's either I water you know, or you dry up. You have your options," Frisk stated.
Flowey became very annoyed.
"Of course I'll complain, you would too if you were stuck in these tiny accommodations!"
"Would you prefer a bigger flower pot then?"
"I'd prefer you'd kill me."
"I'll take any request except that one."
"Plant me then."
"Or that one."
"Then don't ask!"
"Flowey, I refuse to plant you with that attitude, until you prove to me you can be good and choose MERCY, I will not plant you anywhere."
"So all I have to do is show mercy huh? Easy."
"Is it now, fine. Show me you can be merciful, and I shall plant you. But until then, you must stay here in my room."
"Deal."

Flowey seemed confident, too confident…

"Alright, well I'm off!" Frisk shouted as she headed downstairs.

"Frisk!"

Frisk turned around to see Alphys calling her name.

"D-don't forget your phone… I just f-finished upgrading it…" she said. Frisk gave her a big smile.

"Thanks Alphys! I really appreciate it, I can't wait to see what this one does," Frisk said.

"A-ah okay, I-I can show you later i-if you want."

"Okay! See ya later!" Frisk said as she waved off, racing to school.

Frisk ran out the door and headed down the street, backpack strap in her hand and a smile on her face. As she raced down the street she her named called again.

"Frisk!" She turned around to see her friend Monster Kid, she always called him Kid for short.
"Kid!" Frisk said excitedly
"Aren't you excited? Our first day of high school!"
"Totally! This is gonna be awesome! But remember, this isn't middle school anymore. We have to start acting like adults."
"Yo that's a bummer. We can still be kids together though right?"
"Absolutely."

With that they headed to school together and went to their first class. God damn this is boring Frisk thought. She decided to start passing notes to Kid.
Hey, you busy after school? Frisk wrote
No, why? Kid responded
Wanna come over after school?
IDK I think my parents want me coming home…
Aww you sure? We could have a cooking lesson with Undyne~
URGH you make my decisions hard sometimes…
:D

After school rolled around and Frisk and Kid headed back to Frisk's house, Kid went into the kitchen with Undyne and Frisk went upstairs to go check on Flowey. When she arrived to her room, dirt and shattered pieces of a flower pot scattered all around, but no Flowey in sight.

What had happened here? Where was Flowey? Frisk started to panic. Did he get out? How could this have happened. Frisk checked all over the house, and even outside of the house, tears rolling down her face. She couldn't have lost him, she couldn't have. What would she do without him? What would she do without-

Without Asriel.

Frisk began to panic even more, when suddenly

Thud!

Frisk fell to the ground, still crying she opened her eyes to see who she bumped into. Papyrus sat there trying to apologize for running into her. What caught her attention was the flower he was holding.
"I'm sorry Frisk! I didn't see you there, and I was just about to get the flower pot from outside to put Flowey in," Papyrus exclaimed.
"Papyrus!" Frisk said.
"Y-yes!"
"Thank you." Frisk was smiling with tears in her eyes.
"It's no issue, I was cleaning and I accidently knocked the pot over, I tried cleaning it up best I could-"
"It's alright, so long as your both alright."

Papyrus put Flowey into the flower pot from outside and brought him back up to Frisk's room. Flowey didn't seem too happy, but Frisk couldn't stop smiling.
"Wipe that stupid grin off your face, it's pissing me off," Flowey said annoyed.
"Sorry," Frisk said, still smiling.
"I said stop smiling!"

Frisk continued to smile, tears still in her eyes. She realized something then, she hoped Flowey wouldn't show mercy, otherwise she would have to let go of her friend. Her best friend.