You woke up in a messy bed, sweating and nearly crying.
The sheets were lying on the floor.
You assumed that you had kicked them away within your night terror.
You looked over to the clock.
3:12 AM.
You sighed, remembering that you had gone to sleep at 1 AM. You silently cursed yourself for only getting home at 11 PM.
It would take forever to fall asleep again.
After a few seconds of debating weither or not to get up, you decided that just lying awake was pointless and got up.
The second your feet were on the ground, you could hear tiny paws trippiling over to the door. You opened the door by a gap and kneeled down to be greeted by your cat's snout.
"Why hello there, Caramel."
Caramel mewled excited and pressed her head against your ankles while circling around your legs.
You closed the door behind you quietly, and paid attention to not accidentally lock your kitten in.
Your bedroom was directly connected to the living room and the kitchen.
Well, at least to the living room, the kitchen was kind of just there in the corner as a kitchenette. The dining room in the other corner, and nothing seperated it from the living room that was just a couch with a small coffee table and a lack of a TV.
Caramel jumped on the blanket that was placed for her on the couch and immediately lied down. You sat down beside her and took your laptop from the coffee table.
Skype was already opened up, and you saw that a few contacts were online.
The skype group your friends had made was currently active too.
They were insulting each others eating habits.
The topic aprubtly was dropped when they realized you were online.
Phil and Marissa both greeted you with a simple Hey.
Japhet didn't realize you were there for second, but then made a happy smiley.
Adrien just texted your name.
Japhet asked why you were still awake.
You didn't feel like typing, so you just called the proudly "Bonertail" named group.
Everyone's face was suddenly on the screen.
You didn't realize you had put FaceCam on.
But it was better anyway, you couldn't express yourself via text.
You turned on the light behind your coach.
On the screen you suddenly saw how horrible you looked.
Your hair was messy and your cheeks were scratched.
You hoped your friends wouldn't notice the slightly red bruises on your neck.
"Sooo… we ever gonna get to know why you're calling us? You never do that.", started Adrien, a slight worry within his voice.
Marissa seemed a bit unprepared for a call as she choked on a half slice of pizza.
You bobbed your head to the side.
"No, I just can't fall asleep again. Nightmares suck.", You replied.
Japhet sighed extremly heavy; "God damn. Don't remind me, Insomnia can suck my ass."
Marissa held up a cup.
"Coffee for the win."
"You don't even like coffee.", spatted Phil and chuckled.
Marissa glanced angry for a second.
Adrien scoffed at their ridiculousness.
"So, tell me, buddy. What was it about?", Interrupted Japhet and looked your way.
You shrugged.
"It was a bit more… realistic? Yeah. So… uh, there was. This muddy puddle I was in."
Phil interrupted; "That doesn't sound too ba-"
"It was like quicksand but with snakes and spiders in it."
Phil smiled awkward. "My mistake. Whoopsie."
You laughed humorless.
"No big deal.", You replied.
Marissa rolled her eyes.
Japhet didn't seem to notice a thing and just asked: "What else happened?"
You looked at them.
You knew that Japhet themselves had Insomnia like you, but they sure as hell didn't bother to hide the symptoms.
Eye bags, bruised shoulders and scratched face were just on top of your head.
You had learnt to cope with them.
"There were screams, and howls too. It was night but there was no moon, at least notat the beginning. I think it was stormy too? There were thunders, but no rain. I shouted for help."
You held in for a second.
You looked at your hands.
"A giant came. It didn't sound like a human. His voice was dark and it had an echo to it. He helped me out of the puddle."
You remembered the tug on your shirt and gripped your hips.
They ached.
"One of his eyes were lighted up in a cyan light. I think he thought I was a bug. I eventually got him to realize I wasn't. We talked. Then I looked down. I think he got mad when I did that."
It felt like flashbacks hitting you.
His intense stare.
His voice.
His fingers almost squishing you.
"Then I got awkward. He laughed at me and squeezed me. He asked if it hurt, I said yes…"
You looked at your hands.
They felt dirty.
"...and then he threatended to eat me. I… tried to get away, but he noticed a-and… I-i think h… he actually sounded… so-soothing…? He… actually did eat me. Not… chewing, he just… swallowed me…"
Your voice was shaking.
Your hands were shaking.
"I… I-i was… actually scared. I… I'm scared of sleeping, I'm scared of dreaming, I'm just… so fucking scared."
Your broke down, you just didn't want to hold it in anymore.
You felt tears trickling down your face.
You realized you were actually crying.
No nightmare had ever made you cry like this.

You broke the promise.

The call was ended quick after that.
You could still hear messages pop up, but you were too focused on recovering from your breakdown to care to read any of them at all and just closed Skype all together.
You opened up the News live feed, and decided to just watch it for a while.
Caramel raised her head behind you sleepily and yawned, then jumped onto you lap and laid down purring.
You petted her for a moment and looked at the screen again.
MYSTERIOUS ATTACKS ON MONSTERS CONTINUE
Wait. You shook your head, confused.
Was this a joke?
You rubbed your eyes, not believing the headline.
But it didn't change.
You quickly skipped over the article.
To conclude, it said that a town named "New Home" had been the victim of a racist terror attack against monsters.
You shook your head again.
Monsters don't exist.
You looked for other articles regarding the topic and found the most interesting one easily.
12-YEAR-OLD FRISK REUNITES HUMANITY WITH MONSTERS
This was too weird to be true.
You noticed the photo.
The kid named Frisk stood proudly aside seven monsters and held a small flowerpot in their hands which had a yellow flower in it.
You inspected every monster.
The two closest to Frisk seemed almost goat-like, one if them wearing a golden crown.
Along them were also some kind of water nyphme, a dinosaur-like creature stood beside the nymph.
They were followed by two… skeletons?
They seemed too weird for normal skeletons.
You just proclaimed this to be the first of many perks of monster logic.
The last one looked like some kind of human-like robot.
You searches for the date of the article.
It had been up for almost a month now?!
You shook your head again in disbelief.
You opened Skype, and could see that the conversation in the group had went on.

Y/N: did any of you know about this monster thing?

Phil: it's hard to ignore?

Japhet: bud r u ok

Y/N: Yaya, but why didn't you guys say anything?

Adrien: nobody mentioned it

Japhet: how come u didn't-

Marissa: the news ARE FLOODING WITH IT

Phil: Y/N how

Y/N: am I drunk or high

Marissa: probably dead

Japhet: ? Guys I have a monster boyfriend how dare u

Adrien: jfc japhet it's only been ONE MONTH

Half of you felt inclinded to just go to sleep, but hearing that Japhet, the strictly only to human girls attracted Japhet, had a boyfriend kept you awake.

Y/N: Japhet since when were you like that.

Japhet: I told u why is no one listening to me

Marissa: O NO YOU DIDN'T

Phil: I'm

Adrien: Well now I wanna know

Japhet: we met at a bar for monsters and humans (yes I did go to a bar for monsters plz don't judge) I didn't exactly talk to him too much but I kept going back bc haha the stuff there is sum good shit

Y/N: japhet where is this going

Japhet: Well he was always there, and so was i. We got along really great but alcohol just has the effect of making u really flirty

Phil: did you….

Adrien: god please no

Japhet took a while to respond. You could see they were trying to type, but always stopped and took another attempt.
After a few minutes the response came.
It was about what you expected.

Japhet: i sucked dick on accident im so sorry

Marissa: HOW DO YOU SUCKDICK ON ACCCIDE BT

Adrien: im proud

Y/N: Japhet im going to kinkshame

Phil: so how was your first dick

Japhet: I
I don't remember

Five minutes passed, nobody seemed to continue typing.
They were probably too busy laughing, just like you were.

Japhet: guys how did I fuck a skeleton
Im serious I can't remember
Guys im going to cry how did I fuck a skeleton
He doesn't have a dick