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Chapter 2: Exploding hats

Frisk finished eating her breakfast quickly; it was difficult to eat such a delicious pie slowly. Most of the times she literally shoved the entire slice in her mouth, which lead to Toriel scolding her. But it isn't very easy to be angry at somebody whose mouth is full of cake, cheeks puffed up and all. Most of the times goat mom would start laughing when she was in the middle of her "scolding". Seeing her mother laugh would, in consequence, make Frisk laugh.

Laughing with her mouth stuffed with cake wasn't, as you may think as well, a very good idea. The teenager usually covered everything that surrounded her with cinnamon and little pie crumbs. In the worst cases the teen would start coughing nonstop due to the food going the wrong way in her throat. Everybody knows that choking on food isn't funny at all, but it seemed that Frisk considered that eating an entire slice of pie at once was worth it.

As soon as the pie disappeared from her plate, Frisk rushed upstairs. She had promised Papyrus that she would arrive at his home early that morning. But, with the little incident with her "evil sheets" she was worried about being late.

She opened her wardrobe and picked out some clothes. The teen decided that she wanted to feel comfortable. So, she chose her usual outfit starred by her, oh so loved, blue and pink striped sweater. Frisk hurried to put on her clothing, smiling at the sweet smell of washed clothes.

She had already forgotten what it felt like to have a stain in her clothing for more than a couple of hours. Toriel cleaned them as soon as she spotted them (She usually did so even before Frisk realized they were there).

Fully dressed now, Frisk went downstairs to say goodbye to her mom and told her she was visiting the bony brothers.

"Okay mi child, but you will have to put on more warm clothes, it's very cold outside. It's even snowed!"

Frisk nodded and wrapped herself with a scarf, a pair of gloves and a very fluffy hat. When she went outside she shivered slightly. It was indeed very cold, snow crunching under her feet as she walked. In her way to skeletons' house she saw many of her monster friends, who waved at her cheerfully, and she returned the gesture happily.

The new city, which was called "New Snowdin", (Oh dear Asgore what would we do without you) was the home of all the monsters that had once lived in the Underground. It was bigger than the original one. Some citizens had wanted to make their houses a little more spacious, and at the foot of there wasn't anyone to stop them. But the main reason for the increase on its size was that many humans wanted to try out the experience of "living with monsters". It was like, the new trend.

When she was halfway to friend's house it started snowing. The teen smiled at the silent and beautiful snowflakes softly falling around her. She tried to pull her scarf a bit up, to cover her tiny nose from the cold wind, but as she did so her hat started to slip down over her face.

When she finally knocked Papyrus' door the hat was covering her face entirely, not even allowing her to see. She couldn't say that she was cold, though. Her breath crawled lazily outside her many layers of clothing, leaving tendrils in the cold, winter air.

Frisk didn't have to wait too long. Just a few seconds had passed when she heard the door being flung open and Papyrus distinctive, cheerful and hurried voice rang in the air.

"HUMAN YOU HAVE FINNALY ARRIVED! I THOUGHT THAT MAYBE YOU HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT OUR ARRANGEMENT! SANS KEPT TELLING ME THAT YOU HAD PROBABLY OVERSLEPT. BUT THAT IS SOMETHING CHARACTERISTIC OF MY BROTHER, NOT YOURS. YOU ARE WAY MORE RESPONSIBLE AND YOU WOULD NEVER DO SOMETHING LIKE ARRIVING LATE JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE SLEEPING! THE CAUSE OF YOUR TARDINESS MUST BE SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT AND UNAVOIDABLE! SOMETHING WAY COOL AND EXTREME! I AM WILLING TO LISTEN TO EVERY DETAIL OF YOUR FASCINATING ADVENTURE!"

The teen could feel her cheeks burning with embarrassment and felt grateful that her hat covered her face. She didn't like lying at all, but she didn't want to disappoint her friend either. What should she do? Papyrus' sad, puppy face was too much for her to bear. She drew a deep breath and was about to start apologizing when she was suddenly cut off by the skeleton horrified voice.

"HUMAN! WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU!?"

Frisk jerked up at her friend's sudden exclamation, nearly falling down. Papyrus had just looked down at his human friend to discover that something white and fluffy was covering her face.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE?! IT SEEMS THAT SOME MYSTERIOUS CREATURE IS STUCK TO IT! BUT FEAR NOT, TINY HUMAN! BECAUSE I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM THAT FIERCE AND EVIL BEING! WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITHOUT SUCH A COOL FRIEND TO HELP YOU? NYEH HEH HEH! I, WITH MY EXTRAORDINARY FORCE AND CUNNING SKILLS, WILL FREE YOU FROM THAT FLUFFY PRISON!"

The child was trying to hold back her laughter, she could clearly imagine the skeleton exaggerated poses: throwing his arms up into the air, jumping up and down with his bright orange cloak softly waving at his back. The truth is that, although she couldn't see him, what she imagined was accurate, very accurate. But as the girl tried not to laugh her breathing became more agitated and started leaving more and more white little clouds in the air. When Papyrus noticed this, our innocent skeleton started to panic.

"OH NO! THE HUMAN IS BURNING! THAT THING IS BURNING THE HUMAN'S FACE! WHAT SHOULD I DO?! WHAT IF THAT THING IS BOMB?! IF IT IS A BOMB AND WHEN I TRY TO REMOVE IT EXPLODES ON THE HUMAN FACE?! FRISK'S FACE IS WAY TO IMPORTANT FOR HER, I JUST CANNOT LEAVE IT TO EXPLODE! HOW WILL SHE SMILE THEN? BUT IF I DON'T REMOVE THAT THING NOBODY WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HER SMILING AGAIN! AND WHAT IF IT IS A TRAP TO STOP HER FROM SMILING? I BET THAT EVERYBODY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A CUTE SMILE LIKE FRISK'S BUT AS THEY CANNOT THEY ARE JELOUS! WHAT AN EVIL PLOT! I AM SO SMART; I HAVE JUST PULLED APPART A MASTERPLAN IN JUST A FEW SECONDS...!"

As Papyrus continued babbling about his incredible deductive skills, Frisk could see some bony fingers softly grabbing her hat and pulling it up. As soon as her eyes were uncovered the teen wasn't surprised to see a short skeleton with a light blue jacket smiling in front of her.

"hi, kiddo. what's up?"

"Hello Sans! I'm okay, thank you! How about you?"

But Sans was cut off by his brother before he could even say the "p" in the word pun.

"OH, THANKS GOD, SANS! YOU SAVED THE HUMAN FROM A PERMANENT LIFE OF NOT SMILING, OR HAVING TO SMILE UNDER A WHITE FLUFF FOREVER! BUT THAT WAS VERY DANGEROUS! WHAT IF THE CREATURE HAD ATTACKED? OR EXPLODED? OH BOTH THINGS AT THE SAME TIME?! YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CAREFUL!"

"relax bro, it seems you have been working…"

"SANS NO."

"till your bones…"

"SANS!"

Frisk couldn't hold her laughter anymore; she burst laughing, tears rolling and all.

"aww, don't be so upset pap'! look, she loved it!"

The taller skeleton looked at the joyful human and sighed.

"THAT FLUFFY CREATURE HAS PROBABLY ALTERED HER; DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SITUATION SANS!"

Sans chuckled as he watched the human's attempts to stop laughing (which weren't succeeding very much). A couple of minutes passed till Frisk could stand still and breathe more evenly.

"are you done there?"- The shorter skeleton asked as his grin widened a bit.

"Haha..ha..yeah. So-sorry for that"-the girl answered as she clutched her stomach. All that laugher had caused her a stomach-ache.

"don't worry about that frisk. by the way, why couldn't you pull up your hat by yourself? i'm supposed to be the lazy one over here"

"Actually, I didn't pull it up because I couldn't! When I was on my way here I pulled up my scarf and stuffed my hands in my pockets. But as I was wearing gloves they got stuck there! When I noticed that my hat was slipping I tried to put it back in place, but I couldn't take my hands out of my pockets!"

As to reassure her words the girl tried pulling her hands out of her sweater without succeeding.

"WORRY NOT, MY FRIND! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM HERE TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR GLOVES PROBLEM!"

After these words were said, Papyrus kneeled in front of Frisk and looked intently at her hands. He tried to help her release them, but he had a problem. The skeleton's hands, with his own orange gloves, were too big.

"here, let me help you"

Sans approached the teen and gently placed his hand into her pockets. Frisk's hands had always been tiny, and she felt surprised to notice that his friend's hands weren't much bigger than hers. The short skeleton carefully grabbed the edges of her gloves. "His hands are warmer than I expected" the human thought, full of curiosity.

"well kiddo, i'll hold your gloves still, now try to pull your hands free of them"

Frisk did what she was told, and after a few seconds of struggling, her hands were free. The gloves still remained in her pockets, but she could easily take them off now that her hands weren't occupying all the space.

"Thank you Sans! It seems the cloth has something against me today"

"WELL FRISK, NOW THAT YOUR HANDS ARE FREE, PLEASE COME IN. I AM PREPARING YOU A VERY UNEXPECTED AND COOL SURPRISE!"

"i think she's already figured out by now… "

"SHUT UP SANS, DON'T YOU DARE RUIN MY SURPRISE! IT'S ALMOST READY, NYEH HEH HEH!

Papyrus ran into the house and…went into the kitchen. Oh yeah, so unexpected. Our little human couldn't help to smile as she sat on the green couch at the living room. The skeleton was so innocent, so pure and adorable that in many occasions Frisk couldn't hold back some "Aaaaaaaawww's" with some of his friend's actions.

"you will pretend that you are very surprised when you see the spaghetti, won't you?" -Sans asked.

The teen giggled as she nodded vigorously. Sans dropped himself on the couch by Frisk's side. Just a few seconds went by when foul, black smoke started to come out from the kitchen. Frisk and Sans exchanged worried looks and hurried to the kitchen.

When the couple arrived at the kitchen they immediately knew where the smoke was coming from. Although the kitchen conditions were quite acceptable, the plate of spaghetti Papyrus was holding was absolutely and utterly black. From wherever you looked at it. The taller skeleton looked from his ruined spaghetti to Frisk repeatedly, his expression getting sadder with each glace.

"HUMAN…YOUR SURPRISE…I WAS TRYING A NEW RECIPE AND…IT KIND OF…"

Frisk looked at her friend, concerned. She had to think about something quickly! It was then when she spotted it.

"Papyrus, I love it!"

"YES I KNOW, I SHOULD HAVE…WAIT WHAT?!"-the skeleton looked down at the human in disbelief, his sad expression suddenly being replaced with bewilderment.

"My surprise! It's perfect!"- The girl said, grinning widely- "Your new apron! It looks absolutely cool, even more because you are the one wearing it! Oh, how can I thank you for such a spectacular show of coolness? This is the best surprise ever, something cool and very unexpected!"

Papyrus was, indeed, wearing a new bright-pink apron with the words "Kiss the cook" carefully embroidered on it. Each letter had sunglasses and the word "cool" was impressed all over the background in different sizes and colours. The skeleton looked at Frisk blankly for a moment before he caught up with what she had just said and cheerfully answered:

"YES, HUMAN! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU! MY NEW APRON! IT IS A GIFT FROM THE SHAVED VERSION OF KING ASGORE! IT'S SPECIALY MADE FOR ME, ACCORDING TO WHAT SHE SAID. I AM VERY HAPPY YOU LIKED YOUR SURPRISE! THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU…AND NOT ANYTHING RELATED TO MY NEW RECIPE OF SPAGEHTTI! OH, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO THANK ME!"

Frisk looked up at her friend, an idea suddenly popping up in her head. She really wanted to thank Papyrus, not only for her "surprise", also for being such a wonderful friend, and a great person (or would it be skeleton?) She gestured for him to kneel down, and when he was at a height she could reach she softly "kissed the cook" on the cheek. This gesture of appreciation made Papyrus blush slightly.

"That's my surprise for you! Thank you for being such a cool friend, Papyrus!"- Frisk said happily, giggling at the sight of his eyes, which had comically popped up. That happened nearly every time he got surprised, which wasn't very unusual. But it didn't matter how many times Frisk saw the gesture she couldn't avoid laughing a bit at it.

"OH, THANK YOU HUMAN! YOU DID ALSO SURPRISE ME! I IMAGINE HAVING SUCH A COOL FRIEND LIKE ME IS SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY AWSOME, BUT THERE IS NO NEED TO THANK ME! I AM YOUR FRIEND BECAUSE YOU ARE ALSO VERY COOL! MAYBE NOT AS COOL AS ME, OF COURSE, BUT VERY COOL INDEED! NYEH HEH HEH!"

Sans looked at the girl and made a thumbs-up, gifting her a huge smile.

"thank you for that one, kiddo. you really cheered him up"-He lowered his voice -"but i'm afraid you don't have anything to eat for lunch now. would ya' like to go grillby'z? if we leave quickly maybe he won't try to make us clean the mess. it seems you even managed to make him forget about the spaghetti…"

But as soon as those words were spoken Papyrus gave a critical look at the burnt mess that surrounded them and clapped his hands.

"OKAY, IT'S CLEANING TIME! WHERE ARE YOU GOING SANS?! YOU ARE STAYING AND GOING TO HELP ME! I WON'T LET YOU FLEE LIKE YOU DID LAST TIME!"

The shorter skeleton that was already at the doorway sighed, shoulders dropping a little in defeat.

"ok, pap i'll help ya',don't freak out. kiddo, you can start heading to grillby'z, i'll catch up as soon as i can. don't miss me too much"- Sans said, playfully winking at her with his last words.

The girl looked at the mess and offered her help, but the skele-bros refused, she was their guest after all.

"Well, I see you at Grillby'z then!"- Frisk said, waving at the shorter skeleton and exiting their house.

The restaurant was just a few blocks away so she didn't have to walk so much. She stood a few seconds at the doorway of the house, adjusting her clothing as to keep her warm and trying not to get attacked by them again. After she checked everything was in its place and didn't seem to be going to slip or get stuck anywhere, the girl started to make her way to Grillby'z.

Okaay, as you may have noticed I made Papyrus' character the "too pure for this world" way, I hope you liked it! I have always imagined him as someone very kind but also very innocent, with the book for dating and so on, I literally said "Aaaawww" in that date many times.

Well, I wanted to clarify something about the characters' ages in this fic. I consider Frisk as a teenager and Sans just a couple of ages older. Papyrus, by the way, is a year younger than his brother. I would like you to think of the ages you feel more comfortable about. I dunno' Frisk 18, Sans 21 and Papyrus 20? Frisk 16, Sans 19 and Papyrus 18? Please consider some upcoming Frisk/Sans when you make your decision! I hope to make your reading experience as comfortable as possible!

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