"She confiscated your phone.. Because you were, like, out with friends?" Catty asked.

"Like, yeah. It's not like, she cares or anything." Bratty folded her arms, "She just, like, doesn't want me to be happy or something."

Catty frowned and put her paw on Bratty's shoulder, and patted her gently.

Alphys was reading the instruction manual, "M-maybe she j-just wants you to be like h-her."

"Oh, she totally does."

Alphys placed the manual on the ground, "O-okay, I think I g-got it."

She instructs them on how to tie together the things that form a bracelet. Bratty makes a blue bracelet with pink letters, spelling out 'BFF'. Catty makes a pink bracelet with blue letters spelling out 'BFF'.

For Alphys, they both make necklaces. Alphys made a necklace for them both as well.

The hours pass quickly in the garbage dump, until Alphys is called home and has to take them both home as well.

Catty mostly hangs out at Bratty's house for the remainder of the day, until they fall asleep and Catty wakes up at home.

Somehow, they survive.

"Oh my god, Catty." Bratty laughs at her best friend, still wearing a worn and faded bracelet from years before.

"Like, what?" The girl questioned with a certain innocence. Her hair was a bit longer, with the same natural black that faded into blue and then into purple, the same specific shade of her fur.

Bratty smiled, "I can't, like, believe you just.. Like, nevermind."

Her friend looked at her with a certain expression.

"G-guys, y-you should get b-back to class, right?" Alphys said. They all attended the same school now, as Hotland had opened one. It was more convenient.

"Like, I guess." Bratty answered, pushing her braid behind her head.

The class itself wasn't extremely interesting, and the results they got were a little disappointing, considering they had to devote their time to it.

They were very thrilled when it ended and rushed to Catty's house.

Leo needed a babysitter, unfortunately, and even if they hardly payed attention to the child (who often entertained himself), they still had to be there. Annoying as they found it, it was necessary.

Bratty was more than glad to be away from her aunt. It seemed a bit sad, as their relationship only grew worse by the minute.

This concerned Catty a little, and as much as she could, she often had Bratty over. Sleepovers were very common.

To others, their friendship didn't seem that significant. They were always together, inseparable. No one knew much about them or their lives. Catty was looking into jobs and Bratty was trying to get good grades in school. Though she usually failed. Though, they had both grown as people since then.

When she was younger, all Bratty could make was a few basic meals and a soup. Now, she could make much fancier dishes as long as she had access to the ingredients. It was really about what tasted good, though.

Catty had since developed a bit of an independence. She wasn't particularly close with her brother, who was learning to care for himself, and she barely spoke to her mother. She had also learned a bit more about cooking, from Bratty. She was getting better at finding garbage nowadays, and while she wasn't having much luck with finding a job, she did manage to sell some junk food to a monster.

Bratty helped her to sell some awful card game, so while she was hanging out with Bratty, she thought she'd ask.

"Bratty, we should, like, totally be saleswomen."

Bratty looked a bit confused, "Like, what?"

"You know, like, how we sold that awful card game."

Bratty laughed a bit, "Yeah, we could, like, do that."

They often sold worthless trash to other students in school after that. They had a small fund for the future, whatever that held.

Neither of them seemed to realise how much of their life they planned out with each other without realising it. They had both become a crucial part to eachother's lives.

Highschool passed extremely slow and fast at the same time, far too slow in their opinion.

They only had a small fund for any future, and it wouldn't last long at all. As great as they were at selling things, they seemed to be terrible currently. Some of their funds disappeared over night, literally.

Nonetheless, their future was somewhere ahead. In what direction it went, they didn't know.