Alex's POV:

I don't know why I accepted their offer. I really don't. Yet somehow… I feel safe with them. Like I know they won't hurt me. That's why I can say with 100% confidence that I trusted Alphys and Undyne from the start.

I rolled my suitcase out from under the bench and pulled the handle up. It was a gift to me from my parents on Christmas, and they know me so well, because they got it in my favorite color. It came with two even smaller suitcases inside of it, but those are still back at home. I decided not to bring them to uni, and even now I feel like I wouldn't need them. I really don't own that much stuff, but what I do have, I'm grateful for. I mean, let's be real, by the time you get to university you stop caring about what people are thinking about your outfit.

At least, that's what I'm told. I don't really know what I think.

"C'mon, we don't live far from here," Undyne beckoned, and she and Alphys held hands as we walked the entire way there. Alphys was just a head shorter than I was, and Undyne was a head and a half. I was sort of a happy medium, but not quite. Not an exact medium. Happy mediums really only exist in books like A Wrinkle in Time I guess.

While I was thinking to myself, we walked down the rainy sidewalk, the drops making a lovely sort of tune. (For those who have the Undertale soundtrack, imagine "Waterfall" playing). I hummed to myself as we made our way down the street. It was awfully quiet, but it wasn't a bad silence. More of a peaceful silence.

My life hadn't been going to well the past few days. Apparently, landlords don't understand the concept of making videos for a living, but I promise it's a thing. Technically, I was already a partner with the owners of the platform I posted my videos on, so I do make money for making videos. It's not a lousy pay either, it actually rolls a fair amount of cash my way. I just wish more people would understand that.

But now, things were looking up for me.

Who would've guessed of all the people helping me, it would turn out to be a fish monster and her girlfriend? Not me.

Soon enough, we were standing outside their house. "This is it," Undyne smiled. She opened the door and her and Alphys went inside, and I turned and took one last look. With the combination of the rain, the street lights, the starts and the brightly-glowing crescent moon, tonight really was beautiful standing out here.

After being dazed by the view, I heard Undyne's voice from inside. ("Waterfall" starts to fade out) "Alex, you coming, punk?"

"Yeah, I'm coming," I replied, heaving my suitcase inside the house and closing the door. It was just then, seeing the dry home and the dry air, I realized how truly wet I was. Undyne wasn't that wet, and if she was, she didn't mind it, and Alphys was mainly wet only on her shoulders. I, on the other hand, was completely soaked from taking a nap for who knows how long in the rain.

After complaining internally about my current clothes condition, I looked around at my surroundings. The best word I can find to describe it is comfy. They had a beautiful grand piano in the middle of the room, a polished wooden dining table, a nicely-kept kitchen, a pale blue couch and a mahogany coffee table in front of a huge flat-screen TV. It was nicer than I expected it to be, but then again, I'm not sure what I was expecting in the first place. This was nicer than any place I could've ever dreamed of staying in.

"Do you have somewhere I can change out of these clothes?" I asked finally, after checking out the house for a while.

"Oh- of course!" Alphys spoke up, for one of the first times since I met her. "We have a guest bedroom right down the hall, and there's a bathroom inside it if you need to wash off." I nodded as she led me through a hallway and through the first door on the left, well, the only door on the left. Walking in, it struck me.

For a guest bedroom, it was beautiful.

There was a queen-sized bed in the middle of the room with a wooden headboard, a nice bedside table that doubled as a dresser, a small desk and an empty bookshelf. As if she could see my jaw drop, Alphys began to speak bashfully. "Back in the underground, I worked as the royal scientist. I did my job well, and I got paid in furniture mostly. After I had all I could want though, Asgore, the king, didn't know what to pay me in. Since we were underground, we found a shiny substance later discovered to be diamonds. We didn't know, so Asgore would go to where we would call the 'wishing room' and take some diamonds to pay me in. It's only when we came to the surface, we discovered how valuable they were. Most of the diamonds are gone now, I'm sure, but the ones Undyne and I were paid with became what we sold to get this house built exactly like Undyne's in the underground. We also brought up a lot of stuff we already had when we lived down there."

"If the King is the one who paid both you and Undyne, and you were the royal scientist, what was Undyne?"

"Oh, she was the head of the Royal Guard."

Wow! I thought to myself. Alphys smiled, and then continued, "The bathroom is right there. Feel free to wash up and everything, this room is yours now. Have a good night."

"You too, Alphys. I really can't thank you two enough. Goodnight."

Alphys smiled once again and left the room. I took off my clothes, jumped in the shower quickly, and changed into some dry pajamas. Finally, I laid down in the queen-sized bed and drifted off to sleep.

I woke up in the morning to a loud, and frankly too overly-enthusiastic voice. I mean, c'mon, who's excited to be awake at 9:00 in the morning?

Wanting to see what the commotion was about, I swung myself out of the comfy bed and trudged over to the door, stepping outside the room and heading into where the noise was coming from.

Upon opening the door, well, I really should've expected what I saw.

I saw some kind of skeletal monster, about the same height as Undyne, speaking in a loud voice. Alphys was sitting on the couch looking over some papers, and Undyne was making conversation with the skeleton. They didn't notice me come in at first, so they had their conversation like I wasn't even in the room.

"WHAT?" The loud skeleton yelled, but for him, I guess it seemed more like a speaking voice. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE HOUSING A HUMAN? ARE THEY NICE? WHAT ARE THEY LIKE? CAN I MEET THEM?"

"Woah, so many questions at once, Paps," Undyne began. "First of all, yes. Alphys and I are housing a human. Second of all, yeah, they seem pretty nice. They don't talk too much, but honestly, that could've just been because we just woke them up and they were soaking wet. Thirdly, yes you can, as soon as they wake up."

As soon as Undyne finished her sentence, I cleared my throat. I mean, it seemed like the perfect time to make my presence be known. Undyne and the skeleton (Undyne called him Paps? I don't know) looked over at me, while Alphys didn't even look up from her work. "Ah, Alex, you're awake!" Undyne exclaimed, giving me a smile.

"Yeah, good morning!" I gave her a cheery smile.

Before Undyne could get another word in, the skeletal monster exclaimed, "UNDYNE! IS THIS THE HUMAN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT?"

"Only so many humans can wake up in my house," Undyne joked dryly. There was no response, as if he didn't get the joke. Undyne chuckled to herself and sighed. "Yes, Papyrus, this is the human I was talking about."

"OH MY GOD," Papyrus(?) began, coming up to me and offering me a gloved hand. "GREETINGS HUMAN, I AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS. IT IS YOUR PLEASURE TO MEET ME."

I couldn't help but laugh softly as I took his hand. "I'm Alex," I told him, giving him a big smile. He seemed to appreciate it, for his face seemed to light up. How can a skeletons face light up you may ask? I'll leave that entirely up to your imagination.

"UNDYNE, I LIKE THIS HUMAN, BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO START OUR COOKING LESSON," Papyrus began.

"What a shame," Alphys sighed from across the room.

"What's a shame?" I asked.

"We only had this house for a little bit, Undyne. You know what happened to your house back in Waterfall."

Undyne seemed to chuckle softly as she blushed. "Hey, punk, that was an accident. I can't promise it won't happen again though, fuhuhu."

"What happened?" I asked, turning to Alphys.

"She burned her own house down trying to teach a human called Frisk to cook, and ended up living with Papyrus for a while."

"Oh, well then, uh…" I trailed off.

"If I were you, I'd go somewhere else. I'm going to my lab… I have no idea where you could go."

"I HAVE AN IDEA!" Papyrus joined in. "THE HUMAN CAN STAY AT MY HOUSE UNTIL MY LESSON IS OVER!"

"Uh, Paps, you sure that's a good idea? What about Sans?"

"MY LAZYBONES BROTHER WON'T EVEN KNOW YOU'RE THERE. HE WOULD EVEN FORGET HE WAS THERE IF HE WEREN'T ATTACHED TO HIS BODY. IT MAKES ME WONDER WHAT HE WOULD DO IF HE DIDN'T HAVE SUCH A COOL GUY LOOKING AFTER HIM."

I couldn't help but laugh at that, even if Papyrus wasn't joking. I mean, the idea didn't sound all too bad, I just didn't want to be in here is the house went up in smoke. "Sure! I'm fine with it."

"PERFECT! HUMAN, YOU CAN GET READY AND THEN I WILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS TO MY HOME. PLEASE DO NOT LOCK ME OUT AS I ONLY HAVE ONE PAIR."

I laughed again. "I won't I promise. I'll be right back." As soon as I said that, I left the room and ran down the hall, running into the guest bedroom. I threw my suitcase open and just grabbed what seemed comfortable, which was just a pair of jeans and a blue t-shirt, complete with a dark green jacket with white strings. I didn't bother much with my hair and just did my usual before running back out and seeing Papyrus and Undyne again, standing and staring at me. "Alright, I'm ready," I told Papyrus, walking up to me.

He took the keys out of what seemed to be a breast pocket inside of his outfit, and handed them to me. "I AM TRUSTING YOU HUMAN. MY HOUSE IS NOT TOO FAR DOWN FROM HERE, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE IT BECAUSE I ENGRAVED MY NAME ON A PLAQUE ON THE FRONT DOOR OF THE HOUSE."

"And it's wooden," Undyne added.

"AS UNDYNE SAYS, IT IS ALSO WOODEN."

I smiled and slipped the keys inside my jacket pocket. "Sure thing. I'll be back when you guys are done, so I guess I'll know you guys are done when Papyrus comes back to his house! Bye!"

"BYE!" Papyrus and Undyne yelled in unison.

After getting outside, it just came to me that I had no idea what direction I was going. I sighed and thought of going back inside, but that's when luck hit me, Alphys came outside. "Alphys!" I exclaimed happily, surprising her.

"What is it?" she asked quietly, recollecting herself.

"Which way is Papyrus's house? They told me what it looked like, but even so, I can't find it."

"It's just down that street a block or two," she told me, pointing me towards where she was talking about.

"Thank you!" I exclaimed towards her, beginning on my way down the street. Last time I went down this street, it was night time and rain was falling. During the day, the street seemed very ordinary. Just for some reason, last night, everything around me seemed extraordinary and surreal.

After only a few minutes of walking, I found myself in front of a house that matched the description they had given to me. Well, it's defiantly wooden, I commented, nearing the front door. Sure enough, when I got to the door, there was a plaque with Papyrus's name written on it in all capital letters in an intense font. Under it, in a smaller font, there was a name I could barely make out. "Sans…?" I read aloud to myself. I shrugged and took out the key, unlocking the door and letting myself in.

They had, in my opinion, a nice house. Then again, I have been living in a co-ed dorm for the past two years, so my expectations weren't what you'd call high. There was a kitchen not too far from the door way, a wooden dinging table, a green couch with a rug and a side table with a book on it. Then there was a staircase, and I didn't want to snoop, so I didn't go up it.

Across from their couch there was a nice flat screen TV, so I plopped myself down on the couch and turned on the TV, flipping to my favorite channel and hoping my favorite show was on.

Lucky for me, it was.

I watched TV for what felt like hours, but I really only got through two episodes, so that was highly unrealistic. Midway through the third episode, my luck turned and the TV suddenly went to static.

"You've got to be kidding me," I groaned to myself, flipping through other channels and seeing the same thing. Ultimately, I switched the TV off, deciding that peace was better than static.

Well, my peace didn't last for too long, because right as I laid back on the couch, a skeleton walked in.

And it wasn't Papyrus.

I turned my head to look at who came in, and at the same time, they turned their head towards me. He was a shorter skeleton than Papyrus, but not shorter than I was. He maybe had a few inches on me. He was wearing a blue hoodie with an undershirt, going with some black gym shorts and white slippers. Well that's an interesting choice of clothing, I thought to myself.

No one said anything for a moment. Then finally, the skeleton spoke. His voice seemed tense, as if he had no idea how to react to what was going on, but it was clear he didn't like it.

"who're you, and what are you doing here?" he asked.

"Oh, sorry, I'm Alex. Your brother, I'm guessing you're his brother, went to Undyne's house to have a cooking lesson, and he sent me over here because, well, I heard they're destructive cookers. He gave me the keys and everything, I didn't break in, I'm sure he'll tell you when he-"

"whoa kid, slow down there, i believe you," he spoke again, but this time without the tenseness he had before. "i'm sans. sans the skeleton."

"Nice to meet you," I said, smiling. He smiled back, and suddenly, I felt something. Like a ping of something inside me, like someone just flipped a switch. Suddenly my heart felt like it was in my throat, and the air around me started to feel like poison, but after a couple of seconds, the feeling started to die down. That was weird, I thought.

I didn't get much time to think about what just happened before Sans started to talk again. "so what're you doing staying at undyne's place anyways, huh?" he asked, giving me a strange look.

"Oh, well, she and Alphys took me in. Last night, they found me…" I trailed off. Did I really want to tell a guy I just met that I was sleeping on a bench in the middle of nowhere? At the same time though, there was nothing I could possibly lose, but for some reason, I didn't want him to think I was weird. I ignored my gut feeling and continued, "… sleeping on a bench in the rain. They felt bad for me, so they woke me up and took me in, giving me a place to stay until I get back on my feet."

"huh," Sans replied, half-smiling. "that's funny. what were you doing sleeping on a bench in the first place?"

"Well, you see, I… I left University. However, no landlord would let me rent for whatever reason, and I couldn't move into anywhere, which so isn't fair. So, until I find out how to get a landlord to accept me, I'm sticking around with Undyne and Alphys."

Sans nodded, and then looked out the window. I couldn't tell where he was looking at first, but then I saw: he was looking at Papyrus coming home. He turned towards me. "hey, do me a favor, will you kiddo?" he asked.

"I'm not a kid, you know."

"i'm gonna take that as a yes. don't tell papyrus i went out and bought myself some food, he might get upset. his spaghetti just isn't really filling, especially when it's nearly inedible."

I couldn't help but laugh a little bit. "Yeah, of course, it's just between you and me."

"perfect," Sans said, winking at me. "knew i could trust you. see you around, alex."

Before I could reply, he walked up the stairs, and disappeared out of my sight. Just then, a very familiar loud skeleton walked into the room.