Annaka

I stand up straight, both Alphys's and Sans's faces astonished.

I giggle. "This is normal for me." I hold up the blue bone. "I mean, the portal to the underground opened at midnight as I kept twirling the bone."

Alphys's eyes widen. "Midnight?!" Alphys walks to another door and opens it.

"Hey! Where are you going?" I say.

"Oh..um..I-I'll be r-right back," Alphys says. She walks into the room and closes the door behind her.

Silence.

"so..um..that was strange," Sans says, breaking the silence.

I nod. "Yeah..." My voice trails off and the silence continues.

"kid what's it like on the surface?" Sans asks, breaking the silence.

I look over at him. "Different from down here, that's for sure," I reply.

Sans looks up at me. "do you think if the barrier is broken, we would fit in somewhere?"

I smile at Sans. "Of course. Everyone would love you!"

Sans looks down again. "what about papyrus? i mean, just because when he was young...he...um..."

I look at Sans and stop smiling. "What? What's wrong?"

Sans looks up at me. "he was bullied when he was young," he replies.

"O-oh...I-I'm sorry," I say, looking down.

"i-it's ok. that was in the past." Sans sticks his hands in his pockets.

I clear my throat. "Hmm...I wonder when Alphys is gonna come back." I stare at the door Alphys walked into.

"yeah," Sans says, his head now facing downwards with one eye closed.

Just then, Alphys walks back in. "H-hey A-annaka. Can I-I see y-your b-bone?" Alphys asks.

"Sure but what are you doing in there?" I ask, extending the blue bone to her.

"N-nothing. I-I'll be out i-in a m-moment." And with that, Alphys walks back in the room.

I sit down on the floor while Sans is still staring at the ground with one eye closed.

"where have you landed?"

I look up at Sans. "What?"

"where have you landed when you come to the underground?" Sans asks.

"Snowdin." I fiddle with my fingers. "Why?"

Sans shrugs. "just wondering."

I start to consider what he asked. Why would he ask that? What's his interest in it? I'd expect Alphys to have an interest, not Sans.

Alphys walks back in with the bone in her hand. She hands it back to Annaka. "I-I might n-need some m-more time to f-figure this out."

"What? Figure what out?" I ask.

Sans lifts his head and looks at Alphys.

"I-I'll explain l-later," Alphys says. "But first, c-can you s-show me h-how you m-make the p-portal?"

I shrug. "Sure. I should be going anyways."

I twirl the bone the same way I did at midnight. In less than a minute, the portal opens.

I wave to Alphys and Sans, clutch the bone tight, and step into the portal.

...

I jolt my head up. Back in my room.

I look at the clock. 8:30. I get out of bed, hearing noise from somewhere in my room. I look around to find my phone buzzing on my desk. I pick it up and realize someone is calling me. I answer.

I yawn. "Hello?"

"Hey Annaka," Elizabeth says. "Want to come hang with us?"

I rub my eyes. "Um...I-I don't think so. It...um...has been a long night. I-I'll call if I can come."

"Oh, ok. See you later," Elizabeth says.

Before I have a chance to say anything more, she hangs up and my room is silent once more.

Should I have said yes?

Kennedy

Elizabeth turns the phone off. "No luck," she reports after hanging up with Annaka.

All of the girls(except for Annaka)sit in my room some on the floor, chairs, bed.

"But she seemed like she was making up a reason of why she couldn't go," Elizabeth adds.

Lily sits in a chair with a notebook on her lap. She pushes her glasses farther up on her nose. "How so?" she asks, taking out a pen.

"Well she was stammering and saying um a lot...and...oh also taking long breaks between words."

"Hmm." Lily writes everything down and bites on the end of her pen.

I sit on the floor next to Elizabeth. Everyone watches Lily as she's deep in thought. She snaps out of it and looks at everyone.

"Stop! Your making me nervous!" Lily exclaims.

"Fine, fine," I say. I turn to everyone else. "Got any other ideas, anyone?"

Everyone stays silent, all of us deep in thought.

"Ooh Oooh I got a great idea!" Kealani exclaims, jumping up from the bed.

Everyone turns their attention to Kealani. "Maybe we could try inviting Annaka over for a sleepover or something. Then we, somehow, make her tell us what's going on."

"Great idea!" Nya exclaims, holding her hand out for a high five. Kealani happily high fives her with a rather loud smack. "Ouch," Nya whispers to herself.

"Well who's house are we gonna have it at?" Lily asks, starting to jot more stuff down on her notebook

"We can have it at mine," Juliana volunteers.

"Great! When will we have this?" Lily asks.

"How about Friday?" Mimi offers.

"Ok, Friday it is at Juliana's house. We'll invite Annaka tomorrow," Lily says, closing her notebook. "Now if you'll excuse, I'll be leaving. I'm very busy." And with that, Lily walks out of the room.

After an hour or so, everyone was gone from my room except for me. I sit on my bed, hoping this plan will work. I look over at a picture of our whole friend group including Annaka smiling and laughing next to Mimi.

Hopefully.

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