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It was a normal day in Hometown. Birds were chirping, the wind was blowing, and Kris Dreemurr was attempting to sleep in on a Monday morning. “Kris wake up you’re gonna be late for school!” Kris’ mother Toriel yelled up the stairs. After sitting up the words sunk in and Kris scrambled to get ready so they wouldn’t be marked absent, again.
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After arriving at the school Kris jumped out of the car and bolted into the building, making it to the classroom just before the bell rang. “I’m not late!” They exclaimed before sitting down and looking around the room, Susie was missing, but that was hardly unusual. What was very unusual was that Ralsei was also missing, they never missed school, so something was immediately off. “O- Ok class, I j- just finished taking attendance, and we seem to be missing Susie and Ralsei.” Kris was pulled out of their thoughts by Ms. Alphys and took out their notebook to copy down notes that were written on the board. Ralsei is probably just sick, it's no big deal, right? Kris didn’t entertain that thought.
As the day dragged on Kris started to get worried as Susie hadn’t shown up either. Yeah she normally wasn’t on time but she rarely missed this much of school. They glanced at the clock, 40 minutes until the class broke for lunch, they could text their friends and make sure that everything was fine, and they were worrying for nothing.
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Ralsei woke up late. There was no way around it, he slept through his alarm and was now scrambling to get ready for school. As soon as he finished shoving a piece of buttered toast into his mouth he was out the door running to school. He was in such a hurry that he barely noticed the sniffling coming from a nearby bush- wait, bushes don’t make those sounds. Was this a prank Kris set up? He thought as he slowly crept towards the bush, parting it to see a small human child wearing a slightly oversized blue hoodie with 2 horizontal purple stripes on it. They were still sniffling, with tear tracks on her face. The two stared at each other for a bit.
“The hell is so intriguing about this bush?” Susie’s voice caused Ralsei to jump and for the child to flinch back violently. “Susie! You can’t just scare people like that.” The goat monster exclaimed, much to the amusement of the dragoness. “Again, why are you staring at a lame ass bush?” “Susie! Language!” “Answer the question dumbass!” As the two bickered, Susie was about to say something that would prompt Ralsei to scold her for her language when she noticed the human child. “Uhhhhhh, hello? What's your name?” She asked, getting no response back.
Susie’s attempts to get the child to speak went on for another few minutes before she opted to just sit there next to the bush. “Susie, we should really be heading to school.” “Nope, I’m not moving until we figure out what the hell is going on.” “But education is important Susie.” Ralsei tried to reason, despite knowing it probably wouldn’t work. He was about to try again to get Susie to get to class as they were now very late for class when a new voice spoke up, “Hey! What are you two doing here?!”
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It was now lunch time and Kris couldn’t take it anymore, they needed to figure out what was going on. After eating their food they quickly stood up and bolted out of the cafeteria, ignoring the confused looks from their fellow classmates. They made their way out of the school, carefully ensuring that their mom Toriel didn’t notice, and onto the street leading towards Ralsei’s house. After a bit of running Kris eventually hears Susie and Ralsei arguing with someone, though they were still too far away to tell who it was or what was being said. Moving closer and hiding behind a tree to not be spotted, Kris’ eyes widen at what is going on.
Standing in front of a bush was Susie and Ralsei as expected, but across from them stood a small human child, probably around 12 years old, wearing a lime green long sleeve shirt with a horizontal stripe going across it that was cream in color, not that different from Kris’ signature sweater. Diverting their attention to look at the bush, Kris notices another human child, a few years younger than the first, hiding behind some leaves and drawing in the dirt with a stick. The first had reddish-brown hair, while the second human had brown hair that was the same color as Kris’
“Hey, what are you doing behind that tree!”
Kris is pulled out of their thoughts by the older human noticing them, as well as directly calling them out. “Uhhh. I’m, just enjoying, I like standing behind trees?” Their response was not thought through at all, as evident by the unamused look they are given by the child. “Ok fine, you got me. I was worried about Susie and Ralsei, as they never showed up to school today.” “See Susie, I told you school was important.” Ralsei said, which was immediately followed by Susie’s “Since when did YOU care about school Kris?!?!” This led into another round of bickering that lasted all of 20 seconds before attention was brought back to the two humans, one of which had climbed out of the bush to stand next to the other.
“Uhh, what are your names?” Susie asked in an attempt to get an answer to the question from earlier that the children had yet to answer. “Oh! My name is Frisk!” The younger one in the blue hoodie exclaimed with a small smile. “Frisk! I told you not to give out your name to strangers willy nilly!” The slightly older human scolded. “Well too bad Chara! They will know both of our names whether you want them to or not.” The one in the lime shirt, now known as Chara, sighed, followed by general silence.
“Ok so Frisk, Chara, do you have anywhere to go? Surely your parents must be worried sick.” Ralsei was the first to speak up, breaking the awkwardness that had begun to creep in. Frisk and Chara quickly shared a look before Frisk slowly looked downwards to stare at the sidewalk. “Don’t worry, we will make sure that you two are safe and sound.” This was followed by Frisk looking up again, wiping their face with the sleeve of their hoodie. “It seems like you got this Ralsei, I’m just going to head back to class before my mom catches me out of school. Also so she doesn’t adopt those two or something” Kris said, not voicing the 2nd part.
“Kris! What are you doing here outside of class? School is important, you know.”
Goddamit.