[A/N: this is my first fanfic, please don't judge too harshly ;-; ]
Maddelynn was, in no way or manner, in her best mood. Usually she enjoyed going to school, but today was different. Bullies, bad cafeteria food, the droning, broken air conditioning - all of that she could handle. What she couldn't handle, however, was the science substitute teacher.
She'd expected this to be a normal school day. No one had led her to believe anything to the contrary. But when she walked into her science classroom to see the short skeleton in the blue hoodie, she got the feeling that today was going to be different. She sat down at her desk and looked over her work from yesterday one last time anyways, doing her best to ignore the persistent gaze of the substitute teacher.
When the bell rang, signaling the start of class, Maddelynn was not expecting the paper on her desk to just be lifted up, surrounded in some sort of blue aura.
"Hello class, today I will be your science teacher. My name is sans, and I'm sure you're all wondering about the surprise substitute situation," the skeleton said, and most heads in the room nodded. "Right. Well, I don't have the guts to tell you, so I'd ask your parents."
Most people didn't catch on to the pun immediately, but Maddelynn couldn't keep from snorting in amusement. She got the feeling that this wouldn't be the only one.
The rest of the lesson went fairly normally, with the fairly often use of puns, and the day seemed like it would be going back to normal. Well, as normal as it gets when your logic, English, and gym teachers are all usually monsters. It had been the better part of a year since the monsters had emerged from Mt Ebott, but they had already managed to insert themselves into the community as though they hadn't even gone underground in the first place.
Of course, this wasn't the first unexpected event of the day. Maddelynn was a typical bully target, due to her being an orphan, but today she got through the whole day with relatively little mishap. Of course, finding out that a skeleton with a sense of humor is your science substitute is, obviously, a tiny bit strange, but not nearly as much as some other situations Maddelynn had been in since the monsters had returned to the surface; but that wasn't the point of focus right now. Rather, it was the fact that she had been left alone entirely by the bullies for the whole day.
Maddelynn was just starting to think about the possibility that the bullies hadn't made it to school that day for a large amount of imagined, hopeful reasons on Maddelynn's part when she saw the gang of three picking on a much smaller kid.
"Leave her alone," she said, her brain screaming at her to shut up before she said something she'd regret. Of course, standing up to the bullies after a previously unusually undisturbed day was a stupid move in itself, but Maddelynn didn't necessarily care.
"Or what?" The lead bully, a boy named Liam, asked, smirking.
"Or you're not going to like the consequences," a new voice intervened. Maddelynn heard a quiet 'ting!' before all three boys were suddenly seemingly pinned to the ceiling, revealing Maddelynn's science substitute teacher.
"I think you're parents will be hearing about this," the skeleton stated, before noticing Maddelynn.
You get the feeling your life is going to get much more interesting.