Kris walked into the classroom. Quietly, as they made their way to their desk, Kris could the hear the chatter of the other students; Snowy was cracking some awful joke about ice again, while Jockington and Monster Kid listened with intent. Temmie was doing...something, while Catti was, unsurprisingly, on her phone. At the front of the room, Noelle was chatting with Berdly; but as soon as he saw Kris looking over, he stopped and gave Kris a shifty look, possibly thinking he looked intimidating. Noelle just looked apologetically at Kris, giving them a weak smile. However, Kris didn't really care, as they were eagerly scanned the classroom for a certain purple, tall lizard girl. To Kris's utter disappointment, Susie was nowhere to be found.

They sat down in their chair, and placed their head in their hands. While they sat quietly, Kris began overhearing Monster Kid talking about something interesting:

"Yo! Did you hear about what happened down near the church last night?" he asked. "Something with the priest's car, right?" Snowy added. "Apparently someone beat it up pretty bad. Some vandal, I reckon'. But who in the blazes would vandalize a PRIEST's car?"

"That's not the interesting part." Jock joined. "Apparently, it was SCRATCHED, almost like with claws. Now, smashing up a car, that's child's play. But SCRATCHING it up? That's some next level vandalism right there. It must've took hours to do so, and I would imagine it would make a hell-of-a-lot of noise."

"Weird. And for no reason too."

"Heh. Knowing that some dedicated, clawed, crazy vandal is running around..."-Kris could hear the pun coming a mile away- "it gives me the CHILLS." The other two kids groaned.

Before they could start another interesting conversation ( probably about snow puns), the bell rang, and everyone skittered to their seats. A minute after that, Alphys hurriedly walked in, carrying some papers alongside, not taking any chances, a box of chalk.

"Hi, everyone!" she said awkwardly. "W-we're continuing yesterday's group project, o-okay? So, make groups and start working, you only have about two weeks to d-do it. Sooo... yeah." She began scratching the back of her neck. "Right. I'll write the assignment now.". Alphys began writing on the board, while everyone took out their projects and began talking to each other, once again. Kris just sat there.

Alphys looked over: "Umm... Kris? A-are you OK?" Kris was looking at her blankly, waiting until she realizes. "...Oooh. Right." finally. "You weren't here. W-well..." Alphys walked over to Kris.

"The project is basically that you, and your.." Alphys looked around. "..partner..have to come up with a product and a way of promoting it. I-it doesn't have to be anything special..just try to make it at least a little original? O-okay?" Kris nodded, and Alphys walked away to her computer to do 'schoolwork'. Since Kris didn't know anything about product making or marketing, and Susie was nowhere to be found, they decided to the best course of action when a student is incapable of moving forward with their work; give up and go to sleep.

And so Kris put down their head and closed their eyes, the chatter of the class becoming distant in a few moments, as they fell into slumber.

Darkness. Everywhere they looked, it was dark. Dark and wet. They could feel water against their feet, soaking through their shoes and socks, making them feel even colder. There were no walls around them. Just darkness.

They could make out some sort of objects in the water. The objects looked tangled and broken. They walked closer. The objects were all around them, sitting idly in the water.

Those weren't some objects.

Those were bodies. Disfigured and mingled. Some dismembered, others intact. They could make out faces among them, some familiar, others not.

They noticed something else. The water at their feet wasn't water.

It was blood.

Blood and bodies everywhere. They felt nothing.

Something was standing in the distance. They approached it.

It looked like Kris.

But it wasn't Kris. There was something wrong about this thing.

They attempted to say something to it. It began to turn around.

There was something wrong with it's face.

Before they could run, they felt something incredibly wrong...something painful. They felt...

... A pencil in their ear?

Kris felt the rubbery end of a pencil being shoved into their ear. With a groan, they waved their hand around and looked up at their attacker. "Heh. Not not a morning person, eh?" Kris was greeted with the sight of Susie kneeling down and smirking into their face.

Susie... Her presence somehow soothed Kris. Her long, brown hair covering her eyes, adding a sense of mystery. Her wide grin, while scary at first, was now a welcome sight. Susie's presence somehow soothed Kris. Made them forget about the strange dream they just had.

"Come on. We need to do this project or whatever, which means I need you to do all the work. So no slacking off, lazy." Kris just shrugged, and proceeded to tell Susie the details of the project, alongside their incapability of working on it.

"Sooo.. you don't know anything about marketing. Great. Well, since I don't know nothin' about it either, i'm guessing we're screwed." Susie finished her statement by sitting on her chair and placing her hands behind her head. "Any ideas?"

"Library?" Susie pondered Kris's suggestion. "Well...Technically it could work. If I take out Berdly while he's entering, you could try looking into his bag and..."

"What?..."

"You want to go for BOOKS in there? For marketing? Uh.."

"Fine. We'll do it your boring way. We'll go get some books. But YOU're slogging through them, not me."

As Kris and Susie discussed the details of their project plan, the class slowly approached it's end, and before they both knew it, it was over. Both of them were now standing outside school, while Kris was waiting for their mother. Susie was there also, eating chalk from a box she snitched from Alphys.

"Listen." Susie broke the silence. "We'll meet outside the library this evening, 'kay? And DON't be late. I HATE waiting." Susie began to walk away, but Kris stopped her.

"What? What is it?"

"Huh? Why don't I just come with you?"

"Well..." Susie trailed off, and looked away.

"I..I don't wanna meet your mother. Not yet anyway." Kris was taken aback slightly by this.

"Not that she's not nice or anything..." Susie looked at Kris, who was smirking. "No, I'm NOT scared of her. And if you say that again, you WILL catch one in the face." Susie reasserted herself. "It's just..." she trailed off again.

"I'll tell you later. I..."

"I need to go. See you later, Kris!" Susie began walking away, this time a bit faster. Kris was left alone, once again.

They are DEFINITELY not going to be late at the library.

( I'm terrible at comedy, don't judge me. Also, I know it's kind of boring right now, but I hope to make it more interesting as soon as possible.)