Author´s note: Hello dear readers, we meet again in this chapter :D this is by far the longest chapter! As always I hope you like it a lot and every kind of valorative and critic coments are good to help me inprove on this. Now, let´s start the chapter, and have a nice day!

Chapter 5: Happy news and new friends:

The worrying voices from Marcus´s parents and the lights from the room awaked him from his deep dream to open his eyes slowly and find that he were lying in a bed inside a hospital room, out there was dark, probably he awaked in the evening, and his parents were talking about their son´s status, with sad looks on their faces.

The boy, groaning in pain, incorporated slowly on the bed, and greeted his parents weakly but happy: "Hey dad... hey mom..."

His parents looked at him happy after see that their son finally waked up, and they approached him to hug him softly, to don´t hurt him, while his mother cried: "Oh my god, Marcus, we were so scared about what happened to you. I´m happy of know you are fine.", Marcus started to cry low on his mother´s shoulder as he hugged her and told her: "I-I´m sorry, mom, I d-didn´t pretend to scare y-you like this..."

His father placed a hand on the boy´s shoulder and told him with a proud look on his face: "Son, we are really proud of you for what you have done today. The police and the daughter of the Dreemurs told us exactly what did you do, you´re a hero for all the monsters who watched you protect that monster kid from those bullies, so the parents of that monster kid gave us some gifts to you, and thanked us what you did. The monsters are not like many years ago as I though after all. Oh and Frisk, I think that´s her name… The daughter of the dreemus wanted to come see you, but the doctors haven´t let her. She begged us to tell you that you text her when you wake up. She looked really worried about you."

Marcus felt full of joy after hear his father be glad about the monsters, and know Frisk was worried about him. Then his mother asked him: "Marcus, Frisk told me that you never fought back that bully that was hitting you, why didn´t you? That bully deserved the same it has done to you"

His son, confident, told her with a serious voice: "Why should I? Fight isn´t the answer, never. Fight him back wasn´t worth it and if I do i would be at the same level that him, so I decided to resist until someone were able to do something to stop it, and fortunately, the people around there called the police."

His father sighed, and squeezing his shoulder, told him: "Son, I understand you for don´t want to hurt anyone, it´s a beautiful way of thinking that not every people have, but sometimes you have to fight back, no matter if you want or not, to keep alive. If the police had not interfered, that bastard could have kill you. Not everyone in this world is a nice as you. You understand it?"

Marcus gave his father a serious look, and told him: "That´s not true dad. Being nice, you can resolve it everything and even allow you to meet some new friends."

His father didn´t look convinced by his son´s answer and was a silently tension for a moments, until a doctor came into the room with a folder in hand. His parents turned to see the doctor, and his mother asked: "So... Doctor, is there any broken bone in my son´s body?"

The doctor gave a surprised look at her, and Marcus´s parents were surprised too after see there were no broken bones in the radiographies inside the folder the doctor brought with him, and said: As you can see, there are no broken parts in your son´s body, although he got hitted many times with solid elements like a baseball bat. You have a really strong and resistant son, lady Thompson". (Yes, that´s the last name of Marcus and his parents.)

Marcus, in a funny tone of voice, said: "Yeah, It must be because i´m made of steel! Or because I eat always too much!"

His mother giggled at his son´s reply and said: "Surely you are made of it, my precious iron boy!"

Marcus blushed a bit as his father and the doctor laughed a bit, and his father asked the doctor when Marcus could leave the hospital. He answered glad: "Since there´s no sequels in his body from the fight as we can see, he can leave now the hospital with you, mister Thompson."

His father thanked the doctor and, getting up from the bed, Marcus left the hospital with his parents to take the car and go home.

During their way back home, Marcus were lying on the back seats from the car tired, and checked his phone to see if Frisk let any message for him. He almost jumped up from his place when he saw his mail and his line chat´s profile full of messages from Frisk asking him to text her back when he awake up to know about his status, and there were messages from Coolskeleton95, or Papyrus, thing that made Marcus almost yell excited, and alsom there were messages from monster kid, probably Frisk gave them two his number to text him, it fekt kinda weird due to no one never texted him that much.

Revising his mail, he saw that his actions turned viral around the internet, Papyrus filmed Marcus protecting monster kid from the bullies refusing to fight back, yelling that the monsters didn´t deserve to be injured by the humans. The social networks also were filled with information and posts about everything that happened that afternoon, flattering the injured human for his actions and his attempts to end the fight without fighting back, added to his determination for defend the monsters, even therte were inspirational memes and posts about him saying things like "Never surrender" or "Keep always strong". He was filled with joy and determination about all the positive back, but it felt weird too, he wasn´t used to have that much attention from others about him, after all, he never was very popular.

He decided to text Frisk first, she was the first person he wanted to talk to, so he typed and sent to her: "Hey Frisk! I´m fine, my parents came to the hospital to see me and know if i had any sequel. Fortunately, I´m of steel and I don´t have anything broken haha :D, now I´m way home, sorry for have worried you."

She instantly readed it and replied him: "Thank god you´re fine. I was so scared for you, really. I´ve been the whole day crying for you :´), fortunately, Papy and Sans were with me to tell me eberything would go allright."

Marcus giggled at her reply and texted back: "Awwwww, don´t cry for me, see you cry hurts me."

They were texting for a long time until the Thompsons reached their home, and left the car to go inside. He then texted "See you tomorrow" to Frisk, and put his phone on his pocket to greet Valor, who runned towards him excited, crying after see his owner full of bruises around his face and arms. He patted and hugged his dog as he licked his face lovely various times, and his mother approached him to tell him: "Marcus, sweetheart, can we talk a moment, please?"

Marcus nodded and followed his mother to the kitchen where she took a yellow paper from the marble table and showed it to him. Marcus asked curious: "What is it, mom?"

His mother told him gently: "Is your student enrollment for the highschool from New Home, we went there after buy on the mall to enroll you and be able to keep your studies."

Marcus tried to be happy for that new, after all, he didn´t like to study, like almost every teen from his age. So, he told her: "Thanks mom!", he then went upstairs, and his mother asked him if he wanted to dinner something before go to his bedroom, he answered no, and went into the room, closing the door after he entered it.

He went driectly to the bed, feeling really tired about everything that happened that day, also, tomorrow was monday and he should be the most awaked possibly for his first class in the new highschool, he had to give a good first impression, so after lie on the bed, he adjusted the alarm from his phone to be activated at 7:00 A.M. Due to the classes started at 9:00 A.M., and placed it on the desktop, turned off the lights, and closed his eyes to fall asleep fast.

Marcus waked up the next morning groaning tired and a bit in pain for his bruises as his alarm soundlel loudly around the room. He had a song as alarm in his phone that he liked a lot to wake up in the morning, called "Smoking Snakes" from the metal music band called "Sabaton". He liked a lot their music their songs always brought inspirational themes like the honor and stay resisting no matter which was the adversity. Jumping off the bed, he started to dance as he took some clean clothes and went into the bathroom as he took his phone with him to the bathroom to hear some metal songs while he take a shower of cold water. Despite it was october, Marcus almost never took warm water showers, he rather the cold water before the warm one, no matter which spring or month of the year was, and it could help to reduce the pain from his bruises.

After the shower and dried his hair & body, and brushed his teeth, he looked at himself on the mirror for a seconds, analyzing how the resulted marks from the fight of yesterday were, his right eye was a black eye, but he was able to look perfectly with it, a big bruise around the big side of his face, that was specially noticeable on the cheekbone and had a little wound in it, now closed by a crust, and a big cut on his lower lip. Despite that, he looked good for the rest, except for all the bruises around his body.

He dressed with a white t´shirt, blue jeans, a pair of brown leather boots for the cold, a black leather jacket like the one from a biker, that was filled with pins of different heavy metal bands, and had a message sewed on the back that said: "Music is my drug" in a cool typography.

He then took the old backpack he used in the other highschool in the Big City before come New Home, empty the bag, and placed inside a clean notebook, a pencilcase with pencils and drawing tools, and a sketchbook in case he wanted to draw something during the breaktime between classes.

With everything ready, he took his phone and the earphones before leave his room, and after leave it, he closed the door from his bedroom and went downstairs to find his parents eating their breakfast. They greeted their as he entered in the kitchen. His mother looked a bit annoyed by his jacket, as always she does, and asked them to take another jacket. His father told her that he could go if he wanted with that jacket to school, after all, he liked the jacket too due to his music taste. His mother went convinced by his father words, and they kissed. Marcus finded their mutual affection quite cute, and he was glad for have a parents like them. They never had a serious discussion about something.

He then watched the time on his phone, it was 8:20 A.M., "The perfect time to leave home and arrive the highschool", so after taking an apple from the fruit platter and stored it in his backpack, he waved his parents and left home way to his new highschool as he placed his earphones on his ears to hear some motivational drug until reach his objetive.

Every monster who walked next to Marcus greeted him and wished a good morning, seemed like the news spreaded around the city like wildfire, and everyone knew what he did for monster kid, Marcus greeted back every monster that talked to him and kept his way. He felt very motivated for all the monsters being nice to him, the feeling of be cared by everyone around him added to the music from his phone filled him with determination, to the point that he started to dance when no one were around except for someone familiar that he didn´t noticed.

He was in front Frisk´s house and the girl was just leaving her house to go to the highschool when she saw him. After close the door, she contempled him between amazed and laughing, thinking: "OH MY GOD MARCUS! WHAT THE HELL!? THIS IS HILAROUS!"

She then decided to surprise him jumping on her back, and indeed, he got surprised, screaming and trying to look what trapped him. When he saw Frisk behind him and put out of his ears his earphones he was about to greet Frsik, but he realized that he had being dancing in front of her. He blushed hardly and yelled: "OH NO! DON´T TELL ME YOU HAVE SEE ME DANCING!"

She nodded while laughing and he covered his face with both hands, yelling: "OH GOD WHY! HOW EMBARRASING!"

Frisk punched him softly on the arm, and told him: "Don´t be upset Marky! You´re a great dancer! Ha ha ha!"

Marcus looked at her brightened up, and yelled with a smile in his face: "Oh! Really I am a great dancer!?"

Frisk giggled, and said in a burlesque but funny voice tone while sticking out her tongue: "NOPE!"

Marcus looked at her with a funny angry face and told her: "OH, NOW YOU´RE GONNA SEE! COME HERE!"

Frisk started to run trying to escape from his friend in direction to the highschool, but she wasn´t able to run much until Marcus reached her and trapped her with his arm hugging her, yelling "NO ONE CAN ESCAPE FROM MY BEAR HUG! HA!", and then he proceeded to tickle her in the belly, making her beg for mercy and laughed until her face was full red and some tears emerged from her eyes: "PLEASE! AH HA HA! MARCUS! STOP! HA HA HA!"

Marcus freed her from his bear hug and she talked to him while trying to recove some ir: "God... (Cough) (Cough) That was... Pretty funny... Ha ha ha!... (Cof) (Cof)"

Marcus placed a hand on her shoulder, and told her smiling: "Indeed it was, he heh..."

Frisk looked at him, and her face turned from a happy face to a sad one after see the black and the big bruse around his face, she said sadly: "I´m sorry Marcus, for what those bullies did to you. I wanted to help you, but I wasn´t able, I´m just weak and worthless, and because of that, your face is now like this"

Marcus got surprised by Frisk´s sadness and tried to comfort her approaching to her and taking her from her shoulders and putting the girl face to face with him, saying with a confident voice: "Hey... Hey, come here... It´s not your fault, okay? It was mine for don´t be able to talk with jerks like Joe, I messed it up. You´re not worthless or weak, don´t hurt yourself like this! You are special, Frisk, you are an affectionate and kind person, and everyone around love you! And useless? Please, you had changed my life in just two days, giving me more than i never had in my life before come here! You are the most helpful person i´ve met!"

Frisk nodded, and hugged him, saying: "Thank you, Marcus.", he hugged her back, and told her: "Don´t be sad, always wear a smile."

Watching the time in his phone, it was 8:35 A.M., so Marcus told her: "It´s 8:35 A.M., we should hurry up or we won´t arrive at time for the first class. Let´s not worry anymore about this, okay?"

She nodded and they were back on their way to the highschool. Curiously, Marcus asked her whichy was her group, and she told her she was in the group D. Giving a quick look on the school programm his mother gave him the late night with his student enrollment, he smiled and said: Well, it looks like I´m on the same class than you." She looked happy knowing that he was on her class.

It passed 15 minutes and they finally arrived. Looking at his phone, it was 8:50 A.M.. A lot of monsters were on the zone near to the entrance chatting and laughing, it was a good feeling. Some monsters looked at the two humans, a part of them greeted them, and they greeted back, and some others started to whisper excited about them two. Marcus wondered if they were thinking and speculating about them two being a lovely couple, and making fantasies with them, a though thta made Marcus giggled a bit.

Suddently monster kid were pproaching them from the back, and said: "Yo! Marcus!"

Marcus looked at him, and replied as Frisk greeted him: "Hey, monster kid! What´s up?"

Monster kid looked at them happy, like if he were an old friend, and tol him: "Not much, the same rutine as always, I just wanted to thank you for what you did yesterday! And... If you can, pls, don´t call me Monster Kid anymore, since I´ve growed, my parents decided to change my name a bit so the people can call me using a normal name. You can call me Mike!"

Marcus understood it, no one would want to be called "Monster kid" if they were an adult, sounded childish.

He nodded and Mike looked happy, then he said: "Well guys, we should go inside now, it´s about to start the class."

They nodded and followed Mike to the inside of the highschool with the rest of the monsters that were out the building after hear the schoolbell. When they went in through the big entrance of the highschool, they passed some corridors with differents classrooms for each subject imparted during different grades.

They were in the 1º year of the baccalaureate, so they had to go upstairs. On the upper floor, they passed one corridor, and finally reached their class. Marcus were registered on the bachelor of science, so most part of his subjects were destinated to the scientific world. In the first hour, they had Physics.

It was strange to be in a class full of monsters, but staying close to Frisk in the same class made him feel self-confident. Taking three seats on the second row of desks, they sitted toguether and Marcus left his backpack under his desk. A group of monsters then approached Marcus and one of them who resembled a bunny, talked to him: "Hey, you are Marcus, right? Whe heard about you saving monster kid on the news."

Marcus looked surprised at that monster for a moment, and replied: "Ah yes, I am. I didn´t do much, but in the end it was worth."

The monster looked at him annoying and yelled: "That you didn´t do nothing!? You protected a monsters from the humans when you are one of them, even if your life depended of it! You are awesome Marcus! We though Frisk was the only one kind human with the monsters!"

Marcus felt happy watching the proud faces of the monsters around him, and replied with a smile: "Well, you know, times change, and the people must accept it. When I talk about the people, I refer to humans and monsters on the whole, because we all are the same, our race or physical aspect doesn´t and musn´t limit us from being as important as any person, no matter what. And sorry for dissapoint you, but I´m not an awesome person, I just did what I did thanks to Frisk and others, with their support I couldn´t have resisted that fight... he he." Frisk seemed proud of Marcus for his words, and noticed that he was trembling a bit for all the attention hewas reciving, after all, he never was very popular, and he wasn´t use to receive much attention, she was able to understand him better than no one, so she place a hand on his shoulder confident and he felt more relieved and

Another monster from the group that resembled a Dog yelled: "How can you say you aren´t awesome!? You fought alone against twelve people! I would have escaped like a coward in a situation like that!

The monster that resembled a bunny talked again: "Yeah... well, that vandals had been arming scandal and provoking fear since they discovered New Home two years ago, and we were never able to do anything against because of the non-agression treaty tax monsters to humans, but thanks to what you did, now that jerks won´t come back to New Home in a long time, or maybe never. Because of the incident, now there are human police cars patrolling the 24 hours of the day New Home, and they promised to help and protect the monsters in whatever they need. I didn´t know the human police were that polite and kind, they like monsters as you and Frisk."

Marcus nodded at said glad: "It´s nice to hear that. I hope the people in the future can see that the monsters had changed, that they´re not like their ancestors in the past."

A little monster that resembled a big mouse, told them: "Wow, you have many injuries. Does they hurt? The monsters doesn´t get injured like this when they get hitted."

The dog monster punched him after end his question in the arm, and told them: "Hey! don´t be rude!"

Marcus ask the dog monster to calm down and giggled a bit, and he answered the mouse monster: "Indeed, my injuries hurt a bit, but I´m ok. And about the difference of bruises in the human body and the monster body, as you will know,a human body is very different to a monster body, since the monsters are mostly made of magic, the human body is composed by numerous chemical elements, like blood, flesh, cells, bones, etc. The reconstruction of a damaged part in a human body depends of how healthy the human is, being equal to the speed the cells in his body can work to repair the injured part. But this is just a summary of how it works, in the human science documents & books about the anatomy you can know more about it."

The monsters who listened his explanation seemed convinced, and then the teacher came into the class, at the time he reached his seat in the teacher´s desk, the rest of students went to their seats and the lesson started. Marcus liked physics a bit, he was able to memorize well all the equations and resolve the problems, but it wasn´t his favourite subject. Instead, his favourite subject was the biography. He always found amazing how different was the function of a body between different species.

It passed the hour and the lesson ended, everyone took a break of five minutes before the second hour as Marcus chatted with Frisk, Mike and other monsters about the problems they did in the Physics lesson and how they resolved them. On the second hour Marcus did Maths, his worst enemy, although Frisk was really good with maths. He looked at her impressed after see how easy she resolved the problems.

Again, they took another break of five minutes, but they used it to move to another classroom, the laboratory. There they did chemistry, Marcus liked that subject the same as physics, and didn´t had much troubles resolving the problems.

The lesson passed the hour and there were a break of at least 30 minutes, which everyone used to eat something or chill out before start the next 3 lessons. Marcus pulled his apple out of his backpack and ate it quickly, as Frisk ate a turkey sandwich with vegetables and a bottle of water, and monster kid a tupperware filled with what it looked like a pasta salad.

After ending the last bite of apple, Marcus took the sketchbook he stored in his backpack that morning, and taking a pencil from his pencilcase, tried to draw Frisk hyper realistic discreetly while she were talking with monster kid happily, he loved her smile. Some monsters observed amazed how marcus was drawing her, but they were silent to not disturb them or make him notify their presence. After some minutes of highlighting details and shade the face, he ended it.

Thinking out loud by accident, he said: "I´ve made a good one this time!", and a crowd of monster started to yell amazed and praise him about his drawing as when he noticed lately that he had been observed by his classmates during all the drawing process. All the noise called the attention of Frisk and Mike, and curiously the girl asked to Marcus what was happening. He, being shy, said: "Nothing! Hehe!"

One of the monsters encouraged them to show her the hyper realistic portrait he did, and defeated, he showed it to her. She gasped amazed, and said: "Oh my god! This is awesome Marcus!"

The boy, blushing a bit, said: "Well, if you want it, it´s yours. A personal gift from me."

Frisk smiled and kissed his cheek as she took the drawing, and said: "Thank you! I will put it on my wall!"

Marcus blushed hard for the kiss and his face turned red. The people around started to laugh and some of the classmates yelled: "KISS HER BACK!". Frisk and Mike giggled after see Marcus´s face turn red from the embarasement and the girl blushed a bit as she observed the drawing analyzing all the beauty details of it.

Marcus had to leave his seat and get away to the croud as he apologized while leaving to go to the school bathroom. He washed his face with cold water. Smiling hardly, he was thinking: "Oh my god, she kissed me! Well, no wait, it was a kiss in the cheek, does that count as a kiss?... Obviously is not what I expected for my first kiss from her, but is better than nothing. If I keep like this soon I will be more than friends with her heheheheh! Keep strong, buddy! But I hope she hadn´t discovered my secret love for her... Wow dude, how can a girl turn me crazy in just 2 days? Is something mad, but I love it! Also, who cannot turn crazy with a hot girl like she? Heh..."

He went back to the classroom and everyone were no more making a crowd near to his desk, he sitted back next to Frisk and Mike, and the second asked him: "Yo, Are ya better? Your face was really red before, like a tomato."

Marcus answered like nothing happened: "Yeah, yeah, don´t worry, it was nothing. I´m not used to be asalted for crowds of people like this, he..."

Frisk, in a burlesque tone, said hitting softly him on the arm with her elbow:"Or you got surprised by a girl kissing you in front of many people"

Marcus blushed again and yelled: "T-That´s not true!", he covered his face with his hands and tried to hide hir embarasement whil Frisk and Mike laughed watching him turn from pale to red.

On the next 3 hours they did geography, history and biography. When the school bell rang, everyone took their things and back packs, and waving each other and the professot, left the classroom to go home. Marcus felt really hungry, so he checked his phone to see the hour, it was 3:15 P.M., "Tomorrow I bring more food than an apple with me to the highschool..." Though after sigh.

Mike, Frisk and Marcus left the school, and due that Mike lived in the opposite direction to both humans, he waved at them with his tiny arm and left the place, falling to the ground after some steps like usually happened. The teens giggled a bit for the scene, and went home.

During the way home, Frisk asked Marcus ifhe was ok, and he answered: "Uh... yeah, I´m fine, don´t worry. Is just I´m hungry."

She nodded, and they kept walking. There was an awkward silence between them two. Frisk started to have suspicions about Marcus´s secret love for her due to what happened that morning and the drawing, and Marcus felt disturbed for the perpetued thinking that what she would answer to him if he asked her to be his girlfriend, he though it would be better to not do any step and let the things get its own course.

Trying to reduce the tension, Marcus asked the girl which was her taste in music, she understood what he was trying and proceeded to talk, this could help to calm the situation: "Oh... well... What I like most is the rock music, but I like the metal a bit too." Marcus nodded as she told him about her music taste, he was glad of know she liked the rock and metal like him, and he proposed: "Maybe you should come one of those days to my home again, so I can show you a part of my music collection." He winked at her, and she blushed a bit while nodding, and replied: "Sure! I would love to!"

Now the situation was calmer, and both teens smiled each other, but suddently they heard running steps behind them. The looked behind them, and both saw a monster woman that resembled a humanoid fish and had a patch in her right eye, also, she weard a tracksuit blue and white, and had an impossing appereance that scared Marcus a bit and for a moment he though she were about to run towards him and beat him right there, but it wasn´t the case.

She approached the humans and trapped Frisk in a tight bear hug when she reached her, rising her a bit from the ground and yelling: "Sup, punk!? I missed you!"

After end her greet, she freed her, and Frisk said smiling and a bit hurt by the embrace: "I too missed you, Undyne! How is Alphys?"

Undyne, with a big smile, said: "She is right now working, but is fine! We had a great weekend on the anime festival! Oh, by the way, who´s the human with you?"

Frisk was about to talk but Undyne prefaced her sharply and said: "Don´t tell me! You are Marcus, right? The human that saved monster kid yesterday from those jerks that come often to New Home!"

Marcus nodded and reached his hand to give her a handshake while he replied to his question: "Yes, it´s me. It´s a pleasure to meet you, Undyne, but how do you know that? By the social networks?"

Undyne shaked her hand with him, causing him a bit of pain in it due to her strenght as she answered him: "Yeah, mostly. Alphys showed me all the news and posts about what happened yesterday, people talked about it everywhere in the good way! The people refered to you as a hero for almost give your life for a monster, surely you must be a great person!"

Marcus laughted a bit as they stopped the handshake, and said: "He heh... I´m not that great, but thanks for the compliment Undyne."

Undyne kept talking after him: "So, in the news I heard you fighted alone against 12 people, is that right?", Marcus nodded as she yelled: "Hah! You must have balls of steel, and also I heard you never fought them back and resisted until the police intervened, right?", Marcus nodded again as she started to yelled excited with a face that scared Marcus more than before: "Oh, why not!? You should have beaten up those assholes! If I were you, I would have kicked their asses hard. I WOULD SHOW THEM THE TRUE MEANING OF TERROR! FUHUHUHUHUHU!"

Marcus, trembling a bit after be almost hitted by an excited punch from Undyne launched into the air furiously, said: "Indeed you would do it, I´m sure you´re pretty strong!"

Undyne, laughed and told them: "Yeah. Well, I have to leave now, so don´t get in trouble, ya hear me? Oh, and other thing."

Undyne had the same face than before, thing that scared Marcus and Frisk, and said: "You two better go to class full of energy tomorrow, because you will have to do an endurance test in physical education! Fuhuhuhuhuhu!"

Then she left the place running like she was doing before find them. And Marcus realized Undyne´s words: "Oh, wait... Is she the physiocal education teacher?" Frisk nodded, and scared for the test, she said: "Her physical education lessons are worse than the training you receive in the army, you end so tired you can´t move your body."

Marcus nodded convinced by her words and said: "It must be terrible if you say it like that, now I´m scared as hell, haha!"

Frisk looked at him, he seemed worried about the test of the next day, and giggled. She then told him to not worry about it, that she had exxagerated a bit. Marcus nodded and they retook their way home.

When they reached Frisk´s home, Marcus accompanied her to the porch stairs and, pulling out her keys, she opened the door. Before go inside, she looked at Marcus while he told her "he will text her later" and left the place waving with the hand and smiling.

She went upstairs to her room quickly without go to the kitchen where it was the food his mother left prepared for she got home from school. She was starting to feel something weird inside her, a warm feeling that was deeper when she took Marcus´s drawing of her and observed it. Smiling, she took it and adhered it on a cork board from one of the walls of the room, placing it next to many photos stucked with pins on the cork board. Looking at the drawing now stuck on the cork board, though: "What´s happening to me...? It could be that I like Marcus? He´s a really nice boy, funny, interesting and also a bit attractive... But am I good enough to him? Would he get upset if I´m not what he expected? No... he couldn't think something like that, he´s not a jerk like other boys, I´m sure... But I´ve met him just two days ago, and I´m starting to feel things for him... Maybe I should let the things follow its own course, will be the best for both.", she then lay down on her bed, which was quite bigger than her, and looked at the ceiling, trying to avoid of her mind the worries and think on how organize her afternoon to do her homework.

Meanwhile, Marcus arrived his home after 10 minutes of walking, and found his parents eating the lunch. His parents had readed the school program and they knew the time the classes start and end, so they weren´t worried about Marcus arriving home at that hour for the lunch.

The boy greeted his parents as he went upstairs to leave his backpack and back down to walk Valor, who greeted him happy barking and jumping qafter see his owner, and they left home. They went back home before time because the day was very cloudy and could rain at any moment. When he let Valor get inside the house.

Marcus went to the kitchen and finally was able to eat his lunch, he looked at the time, it was 4:30 p.m., "Damn it! Is really late!". He ended his lunch passed 20 minutes, and he looked at his phone to check any messages, there was one: From Papyrus to Marcus, but resulted that the message was written instead for the short skelebro, and the text said: "Sup buddy? I was just askin´myself if ya had any free time to come Grillby´s with me, I wanted to talk with ya´bout some things."

Marcus accepted the invitation and after read it, Sans texted him for meet him at 5 p.m. there.

At 4:40 p.m., Marcus said good bye to his parents and, taking a black umbrella, left his home. After 15 minutes of walking, he reached his destination.

When he went inside the local, everyone there greeted him, and some of the monsters talked to him, presenting their respects, and making him know he was a local hero for what he did yesterday. He felt glad knowing that now the monsters would watch him with good eyes.

When Marcus looked at the bar, he found Sans waiting for him, with his perpetual smile that Marcus liked.

He then walked into him, greeted Sans and took the seat the skeleton saved for him, and with a smile, the boy asked: "Well, what did you want to talk about, Sans?"

Sans looked at him with the same face of someone who wants to show you a surprise, and said: "I want to give you something for what you did yesterday, not only for monster kid, but for all the monsters. I´m proud of you.". After end his phrase he called Grillby and told him to bring them the "special one". "Special one? What´s that?", the boy though.

Passed some seconds, Grillby went back to them with an enormous hamburger that had differents ingredients and seemed to be really delicious. As the time Grillby placed the hamburger in front of him, Marcus smiled full of joy, and yelled to sans: "Dude, are you serious!? You didn´t have to! Thank you!"

Sans winked at him and before start eating, the skeleton said: "Bone appetit.", Marcus giggled and take his first bite from the hamburger. He felt like he was in the heavens in every munch he gave to the meat of the inside mixed with a special sauce and some vegetables.

Marcus said after swallow the bite he had in his mouth: "If I get one of these for safe a monter, I´m ready to give my life for every monster from New Home."

Sans giggled, and decided to talk to them seriously about the thing he wanted him to know about: "So, Marcus… About what you did… I think you should have fought the bullies back instead of refuse to fight."

Marcus looked at Sans annoyed, and replied: "Look, Sans, I had this conversation with my father yesterday, he told me exactly the same, and I tell you that fight is never the solution, there´re always another ways to solve things. But what happened yesterday, I fucked the situation pretty hard… I could have resolved it without provoke Joe… but he harassed you and touched Frisk… I can´t allow someone to do that to my friends, specially now that I have true friends like you."

Sans seemed pleased with the teen´s words, and keep trying to convince Marcus: "I know, pal. Live in a pacifist way surely is a beautiful thing, but sometimes will appear someone who won´t accept your mercy and will try to kill you. Please, if a situation like that appear, fight, don´t refuse, or you will die! ya understand? I just don´t want to lose a great person like you or Frisk like this."

Marcus understood and hugged the skeleton, who hugged back, and thanked him for his worrying and his words. Sans then told him: "C´mon bud, eat your food, or it will get cold."

The boy nodded and kept eating his hamburger, and Sans ordered a bottle of ketchup. When he started to drink the bottle, Marcus laughed a bit, and the skeleton, curious about why his friend was laughing, he asked him.

Marcus answered: "Oh it´s nothing. I didn´t knew you drink ketchup. I find it funny because I drank ketchup too in the past, a few times, but I had to stop it."

Sans was curious about his history and encouraged them to keep telling him about it:"Well, the ketchp is my favourite contiment and I had the habit to take the bottle of ketchup from my fridge and drink it, but one day my parents saw me doing that, and since then they don´t buy ketchup anymore."

Sans giggled, and said: "Oh, it must have been bad get ketch-ed-up by your parents doing that."

Marcus nodded, and Sans gave him his bottle of ketchup and said: "Well, if you wanna experience again the old habit, you can now." The boy took the bottle and started to drink. After swallow a quarter of the bottle, he yelled: "God, I missed do that…"

After end their food and pay the tab, they left Grillby´s saying goodbye to all, and due to the rain that started to fall down, they decided to go Sans´s home. When they arrived and came inside, they found Papyrus on the kitchen trying to make some spaghetti as always, when he saw his brother and the human, and he yelled at his brother: "SANS! YOU´RE FINALLY HERE! I TOLD YOU THIS MORNING TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM! AND YOU HAVEN´T YET!"

Sans put a funny face, and said: "Well bro, It´s CLEAN I´m too lazy to do something."

His brother threw into the air the wooden spoon he had in his hand to stir the spaghetti, and yelled annoyed: "SSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNSSSSSSSS!"

Marcus giggled, and Papyrus noticed his presence: "OH, HELLO HUMAN! ARE YOU OK SINCE… WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? EXCUSE ME, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, IF MY QUESTION IS INAPPROPIATE!"

Marcus denied, and said: "Don´t worry Papyrus, it´s ok. My injuries still hurting a bit, but I´m pretty fine. I´ve been with Sans talking on Grillby´s and thanks to him now I´m in a better mood."

Papyrus looked happy for know his new human friend was better, and yelled at his brother: "I´M GLAD TO HEAR THAT! AT LEAST MY LAZY BROTHER HAS DONE SOMETHING NICE TODAY FOR YOU INSTEAD OF BE ON THE COUCH AND WATCH THE TV THE WHOLE DAY! NYE HEH HEH HEH!"

Sans still wanted to annoy his brother, so he kept making puns: "Hey paps, don´t you mean WASH the TV? He heh."

Papyrus groaned again and yelled: "OH MY GOD SANS! I´M DONE WITH YOUR PUNS!"

Sans giggled and kept saying up: "Papyrus, don't you mean: I´m BONE with your puns?"

Marcus saw his opportunity and said: "That pun was Sans-tastic."

The human teen and Sans started to laugh while Papyrus started to yell to the air: "NO! NOT THE OTHER HUMAN! FIRST FRISK AND NOW MARCUS! I'M DEFINITELY DONE!"

Marcus passed the afternoon with the skelebros in their house due to the weather, so they decided to play some video games. Papyrus took his PlayStation 3 and connected it to his plasma TV in the living room, 3 controlers for each one and a cathalogue of various games to play with 2 or more people. Marcus chose Little Big Planet, a game that he knew Papyrus liked to play a lot, due to all the gameplays and videotutorials he recorded for his channel on VideoTube, also he was very good creating dungeons and puzzles, to the point that the puzzles most times were almost impossible to be completed.

Marcus heard about the puzzles the monsters made in the underground to capture humans when they were trapped there, and he wondered, by watching how hard his puzzles were in the game, if he built a puzzle like that before on the underground.

It passed the hours, and suddently stopped raining. The teen watched the hour, it was 8:05 p.m., so he decided to not stay more longer there. Hugging them and thanking them for the fun time, he said goodbye and left the skeleton´s house to walk back home.

During his way home, he passed in front of Frisk´s house. He stopped for a moment and thought on call her to the door and excuse him with any silly argument, with the objective of see Frisk again, but he though again and said to himself that would be better wait until tomorrow, he would see her on the morning. So he went back home.

When he arrived home, it was 9:00 p.m., his parents greeted him from the living room, they were watching an old western film. They decided to start preparing the dinner, so Marcus took Valor and got him for a walk of around 20 minutes. When they went back, Valor went to his doghouse to rest and Marcus went inside home to dinner with his parents. During the dinner, they asked him how had been his day & if he had fun. Marcus had a very close connection with his parents, so he didn´t had any problem on talk to them about his life. His parents seemed to be happier knowing that his social life was getting better on New Home than in the Big City. Due to his lack of friends there, his parents always knew how alone he was, and gave him all the support he needed. They were glad about Sans and Papyrus, and they liked Frisk a lot. Talking about he, his mother mentioned how cute could be a couple formed by Frisk and he, and watch them kiss, his father agreed the idea. Marcus blushed and, covering his face with his hands, yelled: "MOM PLEASE! HOW EMBARRASSING!", his parents started to laugh loudly at their son´s reaction, and his father said that if something should arise between them two, they would consider Frisk another member of the family. Marcus knew that his parents wanted the better for him, but that situation was really embarrassing for him.

After the dinner, Marcus washed the dishes, and went upstairs to his room when he ended, closing the door after him. He took off his clothes, turned off the lights, and lay down on his bed. He closed his eyes and started to think about how nice and beautiful was Frisk. He was desperate for get her love. "Keep strong budy, she will love you soon, I´m sure… God… I need you so hard Frisk… I need you in my life…" The boy thought before everything turned dark.