Author´s note: Hello again dear readers, I´m back with the third chapter :D. As always I hope you like it! And if you wanna make any kind of critical comment I will be glad to read it. Without further ado, we start.
Chapter 3: The dog and the girl:
It was 10 A.M. When Marcus and Valor woke up, the first of them both a bit tired, but he didn´t matter about it, because, as every morning, will take a good shower of cold water and go running for at least 1 hour. When he ended his shower, dried his hair and body, and brushed his teeth, he went back to his room and got clean black underwear and socks, a track suit, a pair of deportives nike, a running cap and his phone with a pair of earphones for it, he needed at least some music to run properly, so he could run at the rythm of the songs.
Calling his dog appeased, he got up of the bed where he was sitting as his dog did the same and checked his phone for any messages.
As always, there were only junk mail, but he then remembered the piece of paper that Frisk placed in his leather jacket the last night, and took it to check the number and add it in his phone. As he could see, she had the App ´Line chat´ for her phone, so he messaged her via that App, and put back the phone on his pocket. "She will read the message later, surely", he though as he left with his pet the room and went downstairs with it silently to not wake up his parents in the case they were still sleeping, and take an apple as breakfast before leave to not go running without something in his stomach.
After close the door carefully, he sitted on the porch stairs and ate the apple while his dog rested next to him and both watched the monsters passing around the street, thinking about how could be the life of those monsters, which kind of job they had, etc etc... When he finished the apple, took the rests of it and placed them in the closest dumpster to his house, followed by his dog, who was panting happy. Marcus checked his phone in case Frisk responded to his message, but there wasn´t any response from the girl. "Maybe she´s sleeping yet... Whatever, let´s start." The boy though...
The city wasn´t big enough to get lost inside of it, and a running person was able to cross it from one tip to the other of the city in at least 20 minutes, he though about the idea of run outside the city, over the road that leaded to mount Ebott, which had a lane in both sides for people that wanted to practice trekking. But he wasn´t sure about this, so for the moment he only would run around the city.
Doing so, it had been 50 minutes of pure running with Valor, and in some moments the dog got tired, run with his human friend was really a workout for him despite of being a very energic dog. And they returned home.
Soon as they went back, Marcus freed his ears from the earphones, and checked his phone in case Frisk had responded the message, and indeed, she answered it 5 minutes ago, with the following text ´Hey Marcus, didn´t know you have this App, well, that´s better so we don´t have to be calling each other ;)´
Looking at her status in the App, she was online, so Marcus decided to texted her about going home now like a guest as a mode of thanking her for the dinner of the last night. She answered almost inmediatedly to the message, probably she was checking the Marcus´s status in the App as well, and said: ´Ok, I will be there in 20 minutes more or less. See ya later´
As he ended reading the text, he went inside home with Valor, and looked for hir parents to see if them were awake, and indeed they were. They were taking a breakfast on the kitchen and greeted their son with a tired but warm smile. His mother then said while taking a cup of coffee: "Good morning sweetheart, have you slept well?" Marcus nodded happy, and his father then said while leaving the newespaper on the desk to take a cup of coffee as his mother: "Your mother has told me that you both got fun yesterday on the dinner with the Dreemurr, I´m glad to hear that". Marcus thanked his father and asked him about the wood draws and pieces from Valor´s doghouse, he wanted to build it the most soon posible. His father told him that they were on the storage room behind the house. Before leaving, the boy told their parents that the daughter of Toriel would come as a guest and would arrive there soon, their parents were ok with that, after all, they had to leave their house to make some buys at the mall like food & stuff like this, for all the month.
He then leaved the kitchen and went to the back part from the house, using his own home key he opened the storage room´s door. Taking the pieces, the tools and a pair of carpenter gloves, he put out all the things and started to build the doghouse.
The doghouse was half done, the walls and the entrance freom it were completely buily and the only thing left was the roof, but when Marcus was about to start he saw his dog run excited to his back and, following curious his dog to see the origin of his excitement, finding a cute Frisk patting the canine friend while she said: "Hello, little boy! How are you?", the dog panted happy in response.
Marcus rose from his position and approached Frisk and Valor, he took a momment to look at the girl and her suit, she weared black tights, blue shorts, a pair of black leather boots, and a tight white sweatershirt that looked really warm. He then noticed a necklace that had a locket heart on it and looked pretty old. Despite that, she looked really pretty to his eyes, she had a softly and white-caramel skin, a long sized smoothy brown hair spread across her hace, and her eyes were of emerald color, and big, but beautiful. She had a good body shape, nor chubby neither too skinny, like the body shape of a goddess as he saw it, and, of course, she smelled pretty nice. ´Oh my god, I want this girl´ The boy though.
He then reached to Frisk and hugged her. Marcus had to do an effort to make that the hug were short, as he wished he could hug her forever. After greeting her, he walk back to the doghouse and check the parts of the roof non constructed yet, he then say: "Maybe I´ve told you to come here too early, sorry, I´m gonna need a bit of time to end this"
She approached to Marcus to see the doghouse almost competed, and asked him if he needed any help. Marcus smiled and say: "Yes, thanks! Teamwork is better than the lone work. But to help me I need you to wear my gloves, I don´t want you to get injured, after all, you are my guest!", Frisk though she didn´t really need them, but nodded and thanked him for the carpenter gloves.
When she was ready, both teens looked at the construction plans, they knew which pieces they had to put toguether. While Frisk helped supporting the pieces to not be moved, Marcus kept using the hammer nails to join the pieces.
When there were only 4 iron nails to end the left side of the roof, and Marcus was about to nail the iron nail on its place, but putted by accident the fingerprint of his index finger and stucked his finger with the iron nail on the wood. Frisk jumped scared when she saw his finger getting impaled in the wood draw as it started to bleed and Marcus launched a little scream of pain. He then damned his bad luck: "SHIT!".
Frisk looked a bit worried and told him: "Marcus, are you fine? I may try to pull that nail out..." She was about to take the hammer nail and pull out the iron nail by herself but Marcus stopped her with his hand taking her calmly from the arm and strocking it gently, then he took the hammer nail and, while he put the claw between the head of the iron nail and his finger, he say: "Don´t worry, Frisk. It´s nothing, I´ll do it myself" He then tore the nail pull dry, freeing his finger which it turned from red to purple due to all the blood accumulated, and went to the kitchen while splitting a bit of blood at his way, followed by Frisk and Valor, who cried for his injured owner. She pat the dog´s head to calm him, and Marcus meanwhile went to the sink and, opening the tap of the cold water, he placed his finger under the falling water, cleaning the injury from all trail of blood.
Frisk took some pieces of paper tower, and bandaged the finger from his friend. She noticed that his hand was trembling a bit, and squezed it gently. Marcus was able to feel the love and care of her friend on that act of friendship, and thanked her for worry about him. She seemed abit angry for that words and punched him gently on the arm, saying in a funny voice: "How couldn´t I be worrying about you watching you bleed? We have just met yesterday and you were about to die the next day, silly!". The boy asked for her forgivness in a goofy voice. She giggled a bit and he followed her laugh. Valor seemed more calmly now that the two youngs were smiling.
After an hour of trying to build the roof and cleaning the doghouse, it was finally done. Valor approached to it excited and sniffed every part of his re-built doghouse. He seemed happy when he enter on it and didn´t want to get out, resting inside as Frisk and Marcus giggled about the pleased dog.
After put back the tools and the pair of carpenter gloves on the sotrage´s room, and locked it, they went inside home. Marcus checked the time, it was 1 P.M., so they had time yet until Marcus decided to start cooking something for lunhc. He wanted to prepare something for Frisk, but he feared she didn´t want to stay at that hour to avoid causing discomfort, so to be sure, he asked her about that, and she answered: "Yeah, sure! I told my mother I will stay in your home for the lunch and the afternoon, so don´t worry", and smiled bak to Marcus. He loved to see her smile.
He then asked her about what she wanted to do until the launch time, and she replied curiously: "Why don´t we go up to your room? I wanna see what kind of stuff you have!" Marcus blushed a bit and though for himself: "My room? Really? Oh god, this look´s like a date, What I´m going to do?"
Decided, he replied to Frisk´s comment: "Sure, let´s go to my room. It´s the first one after go upstairs" He saw this like a oportunitie to let her know him better, and reach a better relationship, to get soon hopefully something more than just be friends. He was really determined for this, and so, they went upstairs and got into Marcus´s room, closing the door after they two were inside.
Frisk watched the room curiously, and the first she went to check were the views from the window of the room. Looking outside, she was able to see the whole city opening before her eyes. She was quite impresed for this vision, in her room she didn´t have these views, and Marcus talked to her: "Beautiful views, aren´t it? I chose this room for that."
Frisk turned to Marcus and smiled at him,as she said: "Yeah, they´re pretty fantastic." Marcus sitted on his bed while he watched to the curious girl looking at the things from his room. She then saw the electric guitar and gasped a bit, saying after that: "Hey Marcus, Do you play the guitar well?"
Marcus gave her and smile, and answered: "I usually don´t play the guitar due to my mother, she doensn´t like pretty much my music or the sound of my guitar. So I play it only when I´m alone at home, or with my father. When he was young, he was a huge fanatic of the heavy metal and the rock, now it´s a bit less fan of it, but still liking it, in fact, he sometimes ask me for any band or song I know to hear something new. I learned a lot about the music thanks to him, and gave me that guitar as a present for christmast when I was younger."
Frisk looked at him interested for his history, and asked him: "So, your father must be really cool. But I didn´t know you have a father, why he didn´t come to the dinner yesterday?"
The smile from Marcus´s face turned slowly into a little serious face, somethinjg that worried her a bit, and he replied: "Oh... That... Well... My father doesn´t agreed at all the fact that monsters were liberated from the undergroiund, he rather that they would´ve stay in he underground. He don´t like the idea of monsters walking as like nothing happend on the surface. We had to leave the big city due to some problems on the work from my father and my mother, we didn´`t have much money to keep payingn the rent from my old house, so we 3 started to search some cheap homes on the internet, and I found this house. I like it a lot when I saw it for the first time in the photos that the page showed. I let my parents check the information about the house. My father was ok with everything about the house, except that was emplaced in New Snowdin. And you know, If you´re a monsters hater and you find a cheep houser but around it the streets are full of monsters you decide to not buy it. The case is, he was about to deny my offer, but me and my mother asked him desperately for purchase this house, because we both were exicet with the idea of meet monsters, so he wan´t able to say no and ended buying it, and so where we are. Maybe my father doesn´t approve the monsters, but he always had a big heart."
Frisk looked really interested on know more about him, and he kept talking: "But... You know? I´m gonna be honest with you... I´m really glad of have come here, because I have met very special people, like you".
Frisk blushed a bit, and told him a bit happy: "Hey, I´m not the big deal, but thank you." She then took a sit on the bed next to him.
He then remembered something that wanted to ask her: "Oh, now that we are talking about this, I want to ask you something, but with your permission of course."
Frisk smiled warmly at him, and told him; "Sure! Ask me what you want!"
He the proceeded: "Fine... I was wondering myself about your life at Toriel´s place, and the fact that you called her Mom. How did you meet her? What happened to your biologic parents?"
Frisk´s face cracked instantly in a sad face, and tried to speak to him, but Marcus saw what he did: "Oh... Oh no no... I touched a sensible nerve, did i? I don´t want to make you talk about this. Look, I´m gonna go to the kitchen and take some water for you and...". Frisk took his arm before he could get up from the bed, and said: "No... Don´t worry Marcus, it´s fine. Isn´t necesary to apologize, it´s not your fault."
Marcus sat again on the bed next to him, and hugged her in an act of forgiveness. Frisk hugged lovingly back for a moment, and then they stopped the hug to look at each other silently for some seconds.
Suddenly, Frisk received a phone call and she answered it: "Excuse me Marcus... Hey Sans, what´s up?... Yeah... I´m not sure, I´m with the human boy that came yesterday to New Home at his place, and invited me to be his guest today... At 2:00 P.M.? Sure! I will ask him." She turned to Marcus and asked him: "Marcus. My friend Sans is wondering if you would wanna go eat something at Grillby´s with us. So you can meet a friend of mine."
He nodded in approval for the plan, after all, he really didn´t want to cook, and his parents left him some money in case he needed it for something, also, he was curious about Frisk´s friend and that place called Grillby´s. Frisk looked happy for Marcus´s response, and told his friend that he will go there with her. She then hanged up, and looked back at Marcus, to say: "Well, we have a bit of time yet to do something until we go , so... Do you have any ideas?"
Marcus though for a moment, and told her that she could keep watching the things from his room and ask him whatever she want. She looked at one of his sketchbooks, and took one to see which kind of things were drawn inside. She gasped amazed at the draws from the inside: There were human models, animals like birds flying, natural backgrounds like woods and rivers, knights, magical beings, monsters, and a lot of more awesome things, and looked at Marcus with her mouth quite opened to say: "Oh my god, Marcus! Your draws are freaking amazing! How do you draw like this?"
He got up from the bed while she was fascinated for his creations in paper to take his guitar and back with it to sit on the bed again and try to tune the chords when she spoke, he then said blushing a bit: "Well, It has a big big story behind. I draw since i had 4 years old, and I used the most part of my free time on improve my technique, due to I didn´t had any true friends when I was younger, if it weren´t for my parents, I would´ve been alone all my life. Honestly, I´m really grateful for have the parents i have."
She understood him better than no one, her childhood was one of the worst a child could have, but that history is for another time.
Marcus still felt pain in his injured finger, and each time he tried to make a chord to tune his guitar, he groamed in pain, so he decided to stop and place the guitar back on its place. "I will do it another time..." He though.
To kill some time, Marcus got a quick idea for Frisk. Taking a look over his desktop to reach some papers & a lead pencil wehile she was looking the draws from some sketchbooks, asked her: "So... If we have siome time until we leave, why don´t I teach you how to draw a bit?"
She looked at him excited, but dissapointed at the same time, and said: "I would love to, but I´m not sure if I will do it well. I don´t wanna see you bring dissapointed of my lack of skill for this, or watch you laugh of my draws"
Marcus giggled a bit, and told her: "Hey, don´t worry about childish things like that! After all, I am the one who had the idea, also, nobody is born knowing everything, everyone must learn how to do things since the beginning."
Frisk looked confident at him, and nodded. Putting away the mouse and the keyboard, Marcus put some of the papers over the desktop and gave her gently the pencil. She took it and as Marcus was giving to her graphic and theorical simpliflyes explanations, she started to make some sketchs on the paper about the human anatomy, by using simply forms as circles or rectangles..
After a half hour of drawing practice, Marcus seemed proud, she made much progress in a short period of time, and drew things like a human body customed by her, a chair, a bed, a tree, and some more things. Frisk looked at him satisfied for her work, and he said: "Great job Frisk, I kneo you were able to do it! You had made a lot in a short period of time, you´re really an awesome person!" She blushed a bit, and replied his calojery: "Oh, not really, it´s not the big deal. But really Marcus, thanks for teach me how to draw a bit, it´s really excited!" He told her that was glad to hear that, and took his phone to check the hour, it was 1:45 P.M., "The perfect time to leave home and arrive to that Grillby´s place." the boy though.
Taking his attention back to Frisk, who was ready to leave, told her it was the time, and nodding back in agreedment, both got out the room, went downstairs and left Marcus´s place to go to Grillby´s. On their way nto the place, Marcus confessed to Frisk that he was scared about the idea of don´t be liked by her friends, after all, he hoped to make many monster friends when he got in New Home, and stop being alone like before he came the monsters city.
Frisk understood his worry, and told him with a warm smile: "Don´t worry for that Marcus, my friends will be really glad to meet another human who like monsters, also, they´re pretty good people. But in the case they don´t want to meet you, I will try to influence them to do it. It´s true I just met you yesterday, but with the talkings we had before in your room I understand you perfectly, and I don´t want you to get hurt, because you are my friend".
Marcus looked at her with his heart full of joy, and said a bit emotioned: Wow... This means a lot for me Frisk... Thank you, really. You are my first and realm friend.
Frisk felt something inside her when she heard Marcus´s words, she knowed pretty well that feeling. The grateful words of him and the fact that she was his first friend, filled her with determination. Both, filled with joy in their hearts, marched to Grillby´s with a big smile on their faces.
End of the chapter 3.
