He could only wish that this crush was just a shorted circuit, but it wasn't.
D-Y-ex sighed to himself as he watched Mettaton ace his demonstration in front of the class about contouring makeup. The way he spoke with confidence, and the way he moved gracefully…
He knew he'd never have a shot.
He kept a safe distance from him; he was kind to him and spent time with him often, being a somewhat close friend, (but maybe Mettaton just wanted the attention), and being a good ear.
He loved to hear the things Mettaton chose to talk about; school, politics, humans, the LGBTQ community. It didn't matter.
Good thing he had already done his presentation, because he would have been a stuttering mess.
More so than he already was.
As Mettaton finished and took a bow, he walked back towards his desk, which was right behind his.
He could have sworn the Robot gave him a wink.
"so….hey….have you heard-"
"SANS I AM NOT DOING THIS RIGHT NOW!"
sans had a huge grin on his face, hands in his pockets as he shuffled around, trying to find his lighter.
Papyrus had his arms crossed with a slightly irritated look on his face. He was not in the mood for one of his jokes.
'aw, come on bro." sans stretched his arms out of his pockets after grabbing his lighter, and cracked his knuckles together. "you'll surely get a ...crack...out of it."
"NGHHHHAAAAAAAAH, SANS." Papyrus threw his skeletal hands up to his head and groaned, causing sans to laugh out.
'sorry, bro. guess you can't 'grip' onto puns." He made a comment about how Papyrus had no hair to grip onto in frustration.
Papyrus gave sans a glare and dropped his arms to his side. "I CAME TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING."
sans raised an imaginary eyebrow and shrugged a bit. "alright, bro. 'sup?"
Papyrus sighed and took a seat, his whole body sagging just a bit. "THERE'S...BEEN A LOT OF..STRANGE THINGS….GOING ON WITH ME LATELY...AND I'M VERY CONCERNED. "
sans had a feeling he knew what he was talking about, so he just listened and lit up a cigarette.
"I JUST HOPE THAT I HAVE NOT HARMED YOU, OR I HOPE TO NEVER HARM YOU...YOU WOULD TELL ME IF I DID, RIGHT?"
sans let out a drag from his smoke, nodding at the question. "yea. don't worry, bro. i'll tell ya." Kraxver had spoken to him about this, and they were scared as to what could happen with this information.
The soft orange glow of Papyrus' soul was still visible underneath his clothing. Good...Orange was good.
He had heard about the red glow.
He did not want to have to deal with that.
'it's going to be okay, bro. i promise you that much." Maybe there was some notes somewhere in their father's notes...Somewhere...Surely he could bust into his lab underneath the town, somehow.
"SANS, I HOPE YOU AREN'T PLANNING ANYTHING BAD."
The smaller skeleton only shrugged and laughed a bit. "don't worry, bro. i won't do anything stupid."
That was the biggest lie ever.
Another killing happened this week.
Asriel hugged a pillow as he listened to the news reporter on the television. Why was there someone out there killing..?
. . . . . . . . . .
He tightened his grip on his pillow, trying not to think of that.
"N-no…! I'm...I'm finally...better!"
L I A R
. . . . . O N . . . . .
A knock on the door brought him back from the dark place in his mind. "Y-yes..? Come in…?"
The door slowly opened, and all he could see was a bloodstained sweater.
One like the one he wore.
"Chara!" He got up and ran over to his friend, looking them over. "Are you hurt..?" Nowhere on his body was there any injuries. Not from what he could see.
Chara lifted their sweater with a distant smile, a bloody bandage over their stomach. "Don't worry. I am okay. I wanted to come see you before I went to the nurse." The distant smile remained, the eyes of the other's hollow and downcast. "I would rather tell you I got hurt before you heard it from somebody else…"
Asriel wrapped his arm around his friend and began to walk him out of the room. "D-don't worry! I'll get you there safe, y'hear?"
Asriel would never have known that the injury was self inflicted.
And that the blood on the sweater didn't belong to Chara, either.
"H-hey, Frisk!" The lizard like woman ran up to Frisk, who was in the library grabbing some books. "W-would you like to come see a movie with me..?
Frisk looked over at her, smiled, and gave her a small nod. They could feel that something was wrong, but couldn't place their finger on it.
"Can we bring Mettaton?"
Frisk nodded again, making Alphys squeal happily, taking Frisk's hand and dragging them along. She texted Mettaton quickly and giggled. "The new Naputo movie is out, and I reaaaalllyyyy wanna see it! I love ninja anime!"
[timeskip]
"Oh, Alphys, Darling. If I'd have known we were just wanting the movie at dorm, I wouldn't have gotten ready like this~"
Mettaton was dolled up from head to toe; glitter, glam, and goo goo gaa gaa shazam.
Alphys loved when he dressed up, which is why she never told him if they'd be going out or not.
Frisk giggled and smiled. "You look so fabulous, though, Mettaton."
As if on que, Mettaton reached into his breast pocket and threw glitter in the air. "Why thank you, Darling!"
"N-no! You're getting my room full of crafting Herpes!"
Mettaton laughed and laid down across her bed, hands behind his head. "Oh, chillax, Darling. I can clear it after."
Frisk sat crosslegged on the ground while Alphys scurried around trying to get set up for the movie. "So..Any luck with Undyne..?"
A loud squeaking noise came from Alphys. "Oh-hoh-hoh, Darliiinnng~! So it's not just moi who knows now?"
Alphys screamed and ran into her bathroom, hiding herself from life.
"A-ah...p-please...uh…..I….have n-no idea..what you're ta-talking about!"
With an 'mmmhmmm', Mettaton left his physical body and floated into the wall, scaring Alphys out of the washroom.
"EEEEIIIIIi! METTATON DON'T DO THAT!"
Returning to his body before Alphys was he was deactivated, he gave her a casual shrug, Frisk giving out small giggles. "Darling, what are you talking about? I was here the whooollle time."
With a 'humph', Alphys sat down as she started the movie.
"I...I'm still to scared...to talk to her…." She looked down and sniffled. "It's so hard. I just want her to know I exist, you know…?"
Frisk nodded and Mettaton pulled the two of them in a hug.
"All will be well, Darlings~!"
With a small smile, Alphys replied.
"...Yeah….I hope so…"
A/N: Hello lovelies. Thank you all so much for fave-ing and following. I'll have another chapter done in this week, and I hope you're all enjoying it. Any feed back would be appretiated!
