S11-2
The new Susie

It was the first day of school since Susie moved in with Kris and Toriel Dreemurr, and so much had changed or been revealed about her in so little time. Her eye color was shown to change with her emotions, mood, and feelings, so her eyes had taken on a calm white with green irises. With better hygiene available to her, Susie's teeth have started turning from a practically rotten yellow to a healthy white. She actually read a book of her own choosing, taking an interest in algebra. She was amazing at drawing, and had very neat handwriting, as evident by the new recipe she had written just yesterday. Among all this, her demeanor was a lot more social.

Toriel had driven Kris and Susie to school early, and Susie was wearing a new outfit, consisting of a rose pink t-shirt, a cyan jacket with the Dreemurr crest on the back and a sky blue stripe around the torso and sleeves, brown cargo pants, and shoes with a blue underside, all handmade by Toriel.

Kris and Susie entered Ms. Alphys's classroom, seeing that nobody was there yet, not even Ms. Alphys. Susie grabbed a piece of chalk, but instead of eating it, she started writing on the chalkboard. It was a series of mathematical equations, but no solutions yet.

The school bell rang, meaning that the school session was about to begin.
The other students entered the classroom. Berdly, Catti, Jockington, Monster Kid, Noelle, Snowy, and Temmie. Ms. Alphys arrived soon after, noticing that Kris and Susie were early instead of late for once.

"Well, I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend. I don't really have an assignment for you today, so..." Ms. Alphys then noticed the math questions on the board. "THAT will be your assignment." She proceeded to pass out pencils and sheets of paper.

Everyone copied down the questions, then got to work on solving them.

By the time the lunch bell rang, everyone was done, giving Ms. Alphys time to grade the papers.

Berdly took up too much space on his paper for the writing to be legible, plus the answers Ms. Alphys could make out made absolutely no sense, earning him an F-. "'Handwriting'... More like handWRONGing, Berdly!"

Catti may have gotten the answers right, but she didn't show her work, meaning she used her phone's calculator. No work + cheating = F-.

Jockington's handwriting was a bit... off, but then again, he had to use his tail, however the work and the resulting solutions were still readable, but he didn't get all the answers right. C+ for him.

Monster Kid's paper was blank. No questions. "Right. No arms. I'll give him a pass on this one."

Noelle's work was a bit... scrunched up. "Trying to save space, Ms. Holiday? Hm." She got a B.

It was rare to not see or hear any comedic quips from Snowy, and his paper was one of said rarities. The work was a bit spread out, but other than that, legible and acceptable, even if he made a few miscalculations. B-.

Temmie's paper made absolutely no sense. Somehow, the pencil graphite was FLOATING ABOVE the sheet of paper, AND it wasn't even related to math! "What the heck..." The most disturbing part of this was that the graphite... was MOVING! Ms. Alphys decided to lock it away, but she would be having illogically bizarre dreams about the randomness she just saw.

Kris's paper wasn't bad, but he did manage to get one problem wrong. He failed to notice the decimal point. Oh well... A-.

Susie's work was a big surprise. The questions were written down neatly, and the work wasn't too spaced out. Perfectly readable, and every single problem was solved correctly. A+ for her.

In the cafeteria, Kris, Susie, and Noelle were sitting at the same table, eating their lunch and enjoying a friendly conversation. "So, Kris's mother just up and adopted you from that log cabin in the forest?"

"Yeah, but I wouldn't really say 'adopted'. She only took me in under her care. On a side note, you don't have to worry about me bullying others around anymore. Those days are over, done, finito." Susie flayed her hands into the air for emphasis.

"Well, I'd say the bullying was only a taste of your true inner strength." Kris stated.

"Thanks, Kris. Nice to know I still have potential."

"Susie, maybe you'd like to... to..." Noelle was being nervous... again.

"You wanna ask her out?" Kris surmised. Noelle covered her blushing face in utter embarrassment.

Susie spoke up. "Noelle, I'm not sure it would work out between us. Don't get me wrong, but I only like you as a friend. You need to have more confidence in yourself. Maybe Monster Kid's looking for his soulmate, and maybe, just maybe, that might be you."

"I... I don't know."

"He might be a better choice for you than I am. Who knows? You might just warm up to him." With that, Noelle got up and headed over to where Monster Kid was sitting.

"Why didn't you say 'yes' to her?" Kris asked.

"Like I said, I just don't see me and her working out."

"She's had a crush on you for... I don't even know how long."

"Well, have YOU had a crush before? Don't say it was Ralsei, since I know you two are just friends."

"There was this girl I knew last year, and I... I couldn't help but fall for her, but... she said the same thing you did. She said it wouldn't work out..."

Susie could feel the sadness in his voice. She wouldn't let him be heartbroken again. "If it makes you feel better, I'll be your girlfriend."

At this, Kris blushed, his eyes wide. "What...?"

"You heard me." She pulled him into a hug. "I just don't want to see you sad anymore."

Lunchtime ended, and everyone went back to class, but Kris's thoughts were elsewhere. "Did she really mean it?"

Ms. Alphys passed out the graded papers.

"You need to fix your atrocious penmanship, Berdly! I could barely even read this gobbledygack! You call this 'handwriting'? I'd say it's handWRONGing!" Serves him right!

"Catti, I know you're always on your phone, so you'd have logically used the calculator on it! You know that constitutes as cheating, right? You won't learn it if you don't do it yourself!" Catti slowly lowered her phone and narrowed her eyes in irritation. Ms. Alphys lightly slapped her in the face. "Don't you dare give me that look, young lady. Do you WANT to be sent to the principal's office?"
"No..."

"Good. I hope you learned your lesson." She moved on.

"Jockington, you did your best, but... there's room for improvement." He slumped down in disappointment.

"Monster Kid, I know you don't have arms, so I gave you a pass on this. I'm sure the technical scientists can work on a solution for you."

"You mean it? I get to have arms?!" He got excited fast.

"Noelle, your work may be all bunched up, but I could still read it, unlike Mr. Flappy-Fingers over there." Noelle giggled at the very fitting name.

"Snowy, congratulations on not making a single joke during this assignment. I'm impressed. You did pretty well, even though you made a few sliiight miscalculations. You could do better, but well done nonetheless." Snowy felt pretty proud of himself.

"Temmie... I'm not even going to bother. That's how freaky it is." Utterly disturbing.

"Kris, you missed one. I understand it was the only problem with decimals, so you weren't ready for that. Otherwise, you did well." Kris looked over his paper, seeing his mistake. If he'd carried the 7 over the 5, he'd have gotten it right. How could he have missed the decimal?

"Susie, you got it all. Those were some pretty advanced equations, but you figured them all out like they were nothing. That's a pretty big improvement for your grades. I'm impressed."

The class went by reasonably quickly, giving Kris and Susie time to get ready to go home.

"Hey, Susie!" They looked to the source of the voice, seeing an angry Berdly.

"Why the long face, Mr. Flappy-Fingers?" His left eye was twitching at Susie's words. He's pissed.

"Cool it, Mr. Ego. I'm sure you don't wanna be sent to the principal's office." Kris added.

Now Berdly was steaming mad. "I don't know what game you think you're playing here, but I swear I am going to-"

Toriel showed up. "Would you please refrain from threatening them?" Berdly shut up right on the spot.

Once Kris and Susie were in the car, Toriel turned back to them. "Kris, Susie, is there any place you'd like to go before we head home?"

Kris thought about Asgore's flower shop, the Flower King, but decided not to suggest it, since Toriel would be pretty mad about it, so he thought about a restaurant. "Susie, you wanna go to Chipotle?"

"Oh my goodness, Kris, you read my mind!"

"Chipotle it is." Toriel was in favor. They were gonna have a good meal.

On the way there, Kris thought about the lack of any previously notifying factor for Susie's behavior. "You've seemed different today, Susie."

"You letting Toriel take care of me was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I don't wanna make you regret it. The bully you knew is gone, and now... I'm a whole new Susie."

The aggressive attitude that makes a bully most likely stems from childhood severities. By letting her come to terms with her past, Susie's given up the aggression.

Chipotle... One of my favorite restaurants!

See you all next time.