Chap. 2 Awkward

I was lightly sleeping in my bed, partially aware of the birds chirping outside and my sister Trix's breathing in the bed next to mine.

But for the most part, I lay comfortably idle in my bed.

I hardly even heard the strange noise from above my bed until it was on top of me.
I was suddenly wide awake, I instinctively pushed whatever had landed on top of me off with a squeal onto the floor in between my twin bed and my sisters full sized bed.

I heard a groan and some indistinct males voice from the floor below me.

I pulled my comforter up to my neck, remembering I was only wearing shorts and a tank top. I cautiously peeked out from my blanket to see a skeleton shuffling to sit up, he had weird white lights in his eye sockets.

I squealed again, covering my head. "Who are you?" I asked, head still covered. "How did you get in here? Am I dreaming?"

"believe me kid, i'm wondering the same thing." The voice replied.

That was odd, what did they mean? "Trix...?" I drew out the i, unsure of what to think.

"What's wrong sis?" My sister said groggily and half awake.

"Some weird skeleton dude jumped on me while I was sleeping." I slowly lowered my covers, revealing only my eyes.

My sister sat up, now sitting cross-legged in her bed. "What? Where?" She asked.

I let my eyes fall down to the skeleton, he was looking up at me quizzically from where he sat between us. Trix followed my gaze.

She stared hard at the space between us, then laid back down. "I don't have the patience for this right now." She said.

I stared at her. "What do you mean you don't have the patience?! Is random skeletons showing up in your room a normal occurrence?" I sat up and wrapped my blanket around me.

"Alex, there's literally nothing there."

The skeleton looked shocked for a moment, then turned to look at my sister.

"What?!" I practically yelled. "Nothing there? Did you not hear him hit the ground? Did you not hear me scream? What, were you sleeping like a rock?"

"Nah," Trix said. "I guess I slept like the dead."

I facepalmed hard. "Trix!"

Trix got up from her bed right where the skeleton was, but her legs went straight through him.

The skeleton still scrambled out of her way. "what the...?" He looked down at himself in shock.

Trix stretched, she wore black pants with cats all over them and in reddish pink the word "Meow!". Her shirt was reddish pink with one cat on it and in black the words "How do you like me 'meow'?". Her short light brown hair was in a messy bun.

She turned to look at me, her gentle green eyes showing a hint of concern, but then quickly changing as she smiled and winked. "Eh," she said. "Now that I'm up, I might as well make breakfast before Dix makes himself a bowl of preservatives."

"Ah-" I cut myself off, then sighed. "Okay."

After Trix left, I turned to look at the skeleton. as he looked at me.

"How come my sister can't see you?" I highly doubted he knew, since he seemed pretty shocked about it himself, but it was worth a try. "And if she couldn't, then how come I can?"

He looked pretty confused, as if he had absolutely no idea what just happened. "I'm not sure..." He looked down at himself again, most likely wondering how Trix had managed to step through him. He mumbled something to himself, then got to his feet.

The skeleton was only about a few inches taller than me, probably around the same height as Dix.

"Why- how- who...?" I had so many questions in my head, I knew that they would have to wait, if only for a minute. "Ugh! Never mind." I grabbed the skeleton by the arms and pushed him out of my room. "Wait here." I said, then almost closed the door, but then opened it again. "Oh, and don't do anything stupid, please."

I closed the door, then went over to my dresser.

I picked out a pale purple T-shirt, long capri jeans, and a pair of soft socks.

After throwing these on, and a pair of black tennis shoes, I grabbed my thin white jacket from my closet. Even though it was spring break, it was still cool outside.

I opened the door to see the skeleton still standing there, he looked down the hall, his eye sockets black pits.

"Um," I said. The lights came back into his eyes."Come with me." I stepped into the hall.

The skeleton looked as if he might object, but I narrowed my eyes at him. "Somewhere where I won't look crazy for talking to myself."

I beckoned him to follow me, and began to speed walk down the hallway, he followed at a normal pace.

"Oh my gosh!" I grabbed the skeletons wrist, then ran the rest of the way down the hallway.

I ran into Sammy, and accidentally pushed him into Nathan who had just come up the stairs, and I lost my grip on the skeleton.

Nathan steadied me and Sammy. "What's the rush?" Nathan asked me, then frowned. "If I wasn't standing there you both would've fallen down the stairs, you could've gotten yourself and Sammy really hurt!"

Sammy rubbed his arm, his brown hair only a shade darker than Trix's, was unkempt as usual, he was wearing a green long sleeved T-shirt that was one size too big, and baggy gray sweatpants. He typically wore this outfit every day, except school days... I don't remember the last time they were washed.

"I, uh..." I stuttered. "I'm just, uh, really excited to go outside today! You know, it's the first day of spring break...?"

Neither of the boys looked convinced, but they let me pass.

I brought myself back down to a speed walk, and again grabbed the skeletons wrist.

I reached the back sliding glass door, and opened it to our big backyard that was surrounded in thick wood, I eyed a spot in the far corner, there were stepping stones leading to an indent in the wood where a bench was sitting, there were flowers all next to the stones that Dix was currently tending to.

I ran down the path, skipping on the stones, Dix looked up from his flowers, his currently green eyes in the shade of the early morning, showing shock. He quickly put down his tools and lifted his hands as I darted past him.

When we reached the indent I let go of the skeletons wrist, and ran over to a tree, I climbed to the lowest branch using a crick in the tree and some knots. I hooked my legs onto the branch and hung upside down, my mop of long golden blonde curls touching a large leaf pile underneath that no one had bothered to put into bags.

I stared at the skeleton hanging off of the earth, my face straight and arms crossed.

Behind him was the bench, dull from age, and too covered in clay pots and gardening tools to actually sit on.

"So," I started. "Since you seem like you have no idea how you got here, we'll start simple, my name is Alex, what's yours. It seems I'm the only one who can see you, so you might as well tell me your name."

The skeleton shrugged, I got a better look at him, he was wearing a blue unzipped hoodie on top of a white shirt, black shorts with white stripes down the sides, and pink fuzzy slippers.

"i'm sans," he said. "sans the skeleton."

"Like the font? Like Sans Serif, or Comic Sans?" I raised an eyebrow. "Okay... hm. Do you have any idea at all of how you could've gotten here? Like, where were you last, what were you doing?"

Sans looked to the side. "well, i was just taking a shortcut back to my house, and im guessing it went wrong."

"How can a shortcut go wrong...?"

"Alex!" Dix called, I turned to see him running towards me, and I fell out of the tree, the leaf pile breaking my fall leaving me only with a small headache and a neck cramp.

I groaned. All I could see was leaves.

I heard Dix walk over to the leaf pile, he uncovered my face. "Alex, are you okay? I didn't mean to scare you."

"I'm fine." I croaked. "Just a neck cramp."

"Oh! Well, I'm sorry." Dix said. "Here, let me help you up."

With Dix's help, I managed to get up and get the leaves out of my hair and off of my clothes.

"What did you want to tell me?" I asked. "I assume you wanted to tell me something since you ran over here."

"Well, Trix told me to tell you that breakfast was ready!" Dix smiled.

"Okay," I returned a smile. "Tell her I'll be there in a minute."

"Sure!" And with that, he was off.

I turned back to Sans. "This is awkward." I said. "I, um, kinda have to eat, but you... I... Can you just wait here? I don't know if you can get anywhere with anyone else, or where you're from, but if you think you can do something about this, then go ahead! But I need to eat."

I ran back down the trail, not even waiting for a second opinion.