p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk wiped salty tears fiercely with their sweater sleeve, ignoring the harsh slaps of branches and thorns against their bare legs. They were bleeding, but they didn't care. It hurt, but that was good. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Everyone said the mountain was dangerous. emGood./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk had had enough. After days turning to weeks and weeks turning to months then months to a year, today had better be the day. Their heart pounded painfully in their chest and their soul pulsed with hatred and Why couldn't they just leave me alone? Why can't father just accept who I am? Why does Mother hate me so much? /em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They screamed their rage into the mountain sky and fell to their knees, wrapping their arms around them self with the hug they never received. Frisk sat and swayed for what seemed like hours, humming a mindless, broken tune that filled the empty space of their soul. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After enough time, their pumping heart slowed, and an eerie calm settled around their frantic mind. emWill I finally be able to do it? I've spent so many nights alone in the bathroom... cutting. But every time, I know I want to... but something stopped me. Maybe tonight I'll... I'll finally. I'll finally die./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk shakily stood, swaying dangerously before taking a single step, then another, until finally they were running and leaping through the wild forest of the mountainside. emI was always told that if I went to the mountains, I wouldn't come back. That's exactly what I want. /em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They finally stopped running, bending forward and heaving deep breaths they soon wouldn't need. A shaky hand dove into the small brown pocket of their shorts, and resurfaced with a bright yellow box cutter. They pushed their thumb against the slider, and shivered as it clicked once, twice, four times until it was at it's longest setting. There was bits of dried blood on it from the night before, but that didn't matter. Nothing mattered anymore. They were about to end it after all. End it all. Father wouldn't beat them anymore, Mother wouldn't scream at them anymore, and best of all-/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"An ear splitting screech cut through the quiet of the mountainside, sending a violent tremble straight through Frisk's core. What could have possibly made such a sound? There was no animal they knew of that was anywhere making a sound so... demonic. It almost sounded like one of those dragons on those games their older brother would sometimes play... only more feminine. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk hugged the box cutter to their chest as the scream rang through the trees once more, sending their heart pumping with fear. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emWait... what am I waiting for now? There's nothing left for me, and whoever or whatever that is doesn't have anything to do with me. If I wouldn't have waited, then I wouldn't have even heard it. So why the hell can't I just get it over with?/em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They tensed and waited for the screams to come again, but only silence filled the Did whoever was screaming die? Were they in pain or...?/em /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk shook their head and dug the heels of their hands into their temples. They groaned in frustration and forced them self not to cry. god they were tired of crying... at least their family was good for something. It took more than a few insults to make them cry. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They forced them self forward, taking shaky steps toward where the sound seemed to have come. It wasn't long, however when they were forced to stop in their tracks. Just before them, the ground fell away to a gaping hole with a steep drop off, and obvious rocks were sharpened to points on the way down. Frisk peered just over the edge, and saw nothing but eerie darkness that seemed to consume the light itself. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Their breath caught in their throat at the danger of the fall, but they chastised them self immediately. emWhy am I so afraid of death? I was just about to do it a moment ago before that weird sound... if I'm too afraid to even look over the side of a cliff, how am I going to do the real thing? /emFrisk angrily shook their head, swallowing more tears. emI'll prove to myself that I'm not afraid. I'll prove it... and I'll even... /em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""I'll cast myself over the edge." Frisk finished out loud. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They moved closer on numb feet until their toes could feel the edge of the drop, but they didn't dare look down. If they looked down then that damn instinct would take over and they'd go scurrying home only to wish they had done it after all. Their heart was thumping in their chest, and something deep and primal told them to GET the FUCK AWAY from that GODDAMN LEDGE. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk pushed it down and forced them self to focus on something else. They glanced down at the box cutter, but it just reminded them of the pitch black drop before them. They glanced at the trees and was reminded of the woods next to her elementary school playground. Not exactly a place of happy memories. They once again forced their attention elsewhere, when a bright orange flower waved in the breeze. It sat innocently beside the edge of the giant cavity and seemed to bounce in anticipation. Something about that flower... was definitely off. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"That's when Frisk noticed all the other flowers. After a quick count, there seemed to be seven similar flowers, but each was a different color. In front of each flower, there seemed to be a chunk missing from the ground, as if the flower had cut out the land like cake and watched the dirt fall into the abyss. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"A strange crackling noise filled the air around them. Frisk glanced nervously down the hole for the first time, and looked away just as quick. They scanned the sky, then the trees, and finally turned around to see a bright crimson flower, before the ground broke under their feet. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Everyone said the mountain was dangerous. emGood./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk had had enough. After days turning to weeks and weeks turning to months then months to a year, today had better be the day. Their heart pounded painfully in their chest and their soul pulsed with hatred and Why couldn't they just leave me alone? Why can't father just accept who I am? Why does Mother hate me so much? /em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They screamed their rage into the mountain sky and fell to their knees, wrapping their arms around them self with the hug they never received. Frisk sat and swayed for what seemed like hours, humming a mindless, broken tune that filled the empty space of their soul. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After enough time, their pumping heart slowed, and an eerie calm settled around their frantic mind. emWill I finally be able to do it? I've spent so many nights alone in the bathroom... cutting. But every time, I know I want to... but something stopped me. Maybe tonight I'll... I'll finally. I'll finally die./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk shakily stood, swaying dangerously before taking a single step, then another, until finally they were running and leaping through the wild forest of the mountainside. emI was always told that if I went to the mountains, I wouldn't come back. That's exactly what I want. /em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They finally stopped running, bending forward and heaving deep breaths they soon wouldn't need. A shaky hand dove into the small brown pocket of their shorts, and resurfaced with a bright yellow box cutter. They pushed their thumb against the slider, and shivered as it clicked once, twice, four times until it was at it's longest setting. There was bits of dried blood on it from the night before, but that didn't matter. Nothing mattered anymore. They were about to end it after all. End it all. Father wouldn't beat them anymore, Mother wouldn't scream at them anymore, and best of all-/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"An ear splitting screech cut through the quiet of the mountainside, sending a violent tremble straight through Frisk's core. What could have possibly made such a sound? There was no animal they knew of that was anywhere making a sound so... demonic. It almost sounded like one of those dragons on those games their older brother would sometimes play... only more feminine. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk hugged the box cutter to their chest as the scream rang through the trees once more, sending their heart pumping with fear. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emWait... what am I waiting for now? There's nothing left for me, and whoever or whatever that is doesn't have anything to do with me. If I wouldn't have waited, then I wouldn't have even heard it. So why the hell can't I just get it over with?/em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They tensed and waited for the screams to come again, but only silence filled the Did whoever was screaming die? Were they in pain or...?/em /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk shook their head and dug the heels of their hands into their temples. They groaned in frustration and forced them self not to cry. god they were tired of crying... at least their family was good for something. It took more than a few insults to make them cry. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They forced them self forward, taking shaky steps toward where the sound seemed to have come. It wasn't long, however when they were forced to stop in their tracks. Just before them, the ground fell away to a gaping hole with a steep drop off, and obvious rocks were sharpened to points on the way down. Frisk peered just over the edge, and saw nothing but eerie darkness that seemed to consume the light itself. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Their breath caught in their throat at the danger of the fall, but they chastised them self immediately. emWhy am I so afraid of death? I was just about to do it a moment ago before that weird sound... if I'm too afraid to even look over the side of a cliff, how am I going to do the real thing? /emFrisk angrily shook their head, swallowing more tears. emI'll prove to myself that I'm not afraid. I'll prove it... and I'll even... /em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""I'll cast myself over the edge." Frisk finished out loud. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"They moved closer on numb feet until their toes could feel the edge of the drop, but they didn't dare look down. If they looked down then that damn instinct would take over and they'd go scurrying home only to wish they had done it after all. Their heart was thumping in their chest, and something deep and primal told them to GET the FUCK AWAY from that GODDAMN LEDGE. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Frisk pushed it down and forced them self to focus on something else. They glanced down at the box cutter, but it just reminded them of the pitch black drop before them. They glanced at the trees and was reminded of the woods next to her elementary school playground. Not exactly a place of happy memories. They once again forced their attention elsewhere, when a bright orange flower waved in the breeze. It sat innocently beside the edge of the giant cavity and seemed to bounce in anticipation. Something about that flower... was definitely off. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"That's when Frisk noticed all the other flowers. After a quick count, there seemed to be seven similar flowers, but each was a different color. In front of each flower, there seemed to be a chunk missing from the ground, as if the flower had cut out the land like cake and watched the dirt fall into the abyss. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"A strange crackling noise filled the air around them. Frisk glanced nervously down the hole for the first time, and looked away just as quick. They scanned the sky, then the trees, and finally turned around to see a bright crimson flower, before the ground broke under their feet. /p