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“SANS” The bed Sans laid in shook violently and he woke up slowly, rubbing his eyes. His brother, Papyrus kept shaking his mattress as the small skeleton came to his senses.

“Bro… what time is it?” Sans’ blurry eyes looked to the red glowing clock on his bedside table and he could barely make out the time, luckily Papyrus was there to save the day.

“It is 6 am-”
“Why the fuck would you wake me up at 6 am? I don’t have class until 10 today.” Sans grumbled and turned away from his brother, who had stopped shaking the bed. He grabbed his shaken off covers and pulled them back up to his cheeks, smiling a little that they were still warm. They comforted him and nearly put him back to sleep immediately, if not for the squacky voice in his ear.

“Oh dear brother, you’re coming with me to Undyne’s football practice.” Once again, Sans was ripped from the heaven that was his warm, safe bed. Papyrus took the smaller skeleton in his arms easily, plopping him down on the chilly hardwood floor.

“HEY!!” The ground unpleasantly prickled at his feet as he was placed down. “You know I don’t need to go everywhere you go.” He sighed and grabbed his fuzzy housecoat, shrugging it on and going to make coffee. 

“But… I thought you liked to watch Undyne practice, and I thought you liked to cheer me on when she let me practice with her… I want to be on the football team with her… I would be so cool…” Papyrus looked off into the distance with a smile on his bony face, thinking about being a star football player, the whole school cheering him on as he won. Sans tried to get his brother’s attention after a minute, waving his hand in front of the dazed look, calling his name, even getting up in his face, well as close as he could. Papyrus was significantly taller. 

“Paps.. Papyrus hello-” Sans was about to give up when his brother stopped imagining fame and came back to the real world.

“Yes Sans, what is it?”

“I just… well about what you were saying. Of course I love to cheer you on, but… you know I don’t like to wake up early and… doesn’t Undyne also have practice in the afternoon? I’ll go to that one and cheer ya on, is that a deal”

Papyrus’ eyes looked sad, despite his brother being 100% reasonable with his offer.

“Oh come o-”

"DON’T YOU WANT TO SUPPORT ME SANS?” His brother said loudly, appearing angry and sad. Sans sighed and put a hand over his face at his brother’s outburst. 

“Yes Paps… you know I always want to support you-” Sans started but was interrupted by his upset younger brother.
“YOU’RE JUST LAZY AND WANT TO SLEEP INSTEAD OF COMING WITH ME. FINE! I WON'T INVITE YOU ANYMORE AND THEN YOU WILL FEEL LEFT OUT!” Papyrus solved his own dilemma and walked out, going to meet Undyne on the campus field. 

Sans sighed and made his coffee, sitting at the small round table in their dorm and sipping it, wondering if his brother really was upset with him, or if he was just mad he didn't get his way. The sun slipped through their blinds and shone on him, he sighed and walked over, closing them. He rubbed his eyes and went to the fridge to grab some food to go with his coffee, there wasn’t anything good. All that the blinding light revealed were 3 tubs of Papyrus-made spaghetti, Undyne tried to teach him but somehow it still managed to be nearly inedible. There was an empty carton of eggs and Sans was about to be frustrated with Papyrus when he realized he was the one who last used the eggs. All that was left was a spoiled carton of milk that made him recoil, closing the door, leaving it to get more spoiled.

He brushed his teeth, put on deodorant then put on the same thing he always wore. A white shirt, old tennis shorts, and his signature blue hoodie with the grey hood. Sometimes he wore sweatpants instead of his shorts, when it was colder. He also had copious amounts of band t shirts that he cycled through. Soon, the short skeleton made it out the door, backpack slugged on as an afterthought. There was more weed in the bag than there was his school papers. 

Sans walked slowly as he grabbed one of his pre-rolled joints, stopping for a moment to light it. He inhaled and smiled, the familiar feeling of smoking his favorite plant. Slowly, he made his way to Muffet’s bakery, the need for a sweet morning treat was high. Pun intended. Sans inhaled and exhaled slowly, feeling the smoke exit his lungs. He smiled, sauntering into the bakery. At the ring of the bell Muffet looked over and a wide smile came across her face.

“Sansy~!!” She said sweetly. “My favorite customer, how have you been darling?” As Sans sat at a booth she was already bringing over his favorite.

“Mmm, pretty good.” He looked over the food with hungry eyes, ((pun intended)) already reddened by the weed. Muffet sat across from him in the booth and looked at his eyes, raising her eyebrow.

“Are you high again?” 

“You know me Muffy-” Sans giggled as playful anger filled Muffet’s face.

“Don’t call me Muffy or else I won’t give you a free donut today!!” She waved one long finger in his face.

“Okay okay, alright.” He giggled more, digging into the food the spider gave to him.

“I should make you work here part time, then you can get paid, or I could just pay you in food.” She winked.

“I don’t think that would be up to labor code.” He teased.

“Perhaps not, but you wouldn’t tell anyone, would you Sansy~?”

“Of course not!” Their banter continued on for 20 minutes before Sans had to leave. 

He figured he’d catch the end of Undyne’s practice to see if he could make it up to Papyrus. He used the walk to the field to sober up a bit before having to talk to his bro. As he approached the field he could see Undyne and Papyrus practicing that silly little ball game.

“Hey! Undyne! Papyrus!” Sans waved as he called their names. Papyrus looked his way like an excited puppy.

“SANS!!!!” He yelped and dropped the ball, running over to his big brother. “YOU SHOWED UP!”

“Heh, yeah I did, I figured since I was already up… you know.” Undyne walked up as Sans spoke.

“Well well well, is it not the big brother who’s laziness caused his little baby brother to cry to his best friend.” Her strong arms were crossed, fully expressing her dissatisfaction with him. However, it seemed as though Papyrus had forgiven him for the ordeal already.

“Oh don’t fuss Undyne, Sans just wanted his beauty sleep.”
Undyne chuckled. “It doesn't seem to be working, you should come practice with us, take my gym membership and try that, maybe it’ll help if you're concerned with your looks. You know what-” Undyne looked Sans up and down. “You look like you’ve put on a-”
“Undyne!” Papyrus interjected. “I promise you don’t need to be mad at Sans anymore, he came here just to see me!” He hugged his smaller brother tightly. Sans kinda regretted coming to see them.

“Okay buddy…” Sans liked the hug but not in front of Undyne. He could feel her ruthless eyes judging him. “Paps…” He chuckled uneasily as the hug continued, finally Papyrus let go.

“I’ll see you at lunch brother! I must leave to attend my class at nine!” Papyrus slid off screen and changed out of his gym clothes in an instant. He waved bye to Undyne and left her with his brother. Sans stood there with his hands in his pockets, not wanting to be left alone with Undyne.

“So…” Sans rocked on his heels, Undyne looked at him and sighed.

“Don’t be such a dick to your brother. He just wants your support.” She said and left him to get her football and change. Sans nodded silently and walked away from the field, going to a big willow tree on top of a pretty high hill. Alphys, his friend, already sat under it, watching a video on her phone.

“Hey” Sans said softly.

“Sans!” She smiled and paused the video, he looked over and it appeared to be an anime.

“Haven’t finished that season yet? That’s not like you Alphys.” He said as he sat down beside her.

“W-well if you weren’t aware… f-final exams are coming up for this semester! I-I need to be prepared.”
“Alph… they’re two months away-”
“EEK! I barely have ANY time!!” She slammed her phone down on the grass and ripped out her science textbooks, opening them to reveal highlighted, written on, well loved papers. 

“That's plenty of time! I haven’t even thought about them yet.” He tried to reassure his nervous lizard friend.

“B-but I just, I have to- I have- I’ll fail- and then I-”
“Alphys.” Sans put a hand over hers and rubbed it gently. “Alphys it’s going to be okay, you’re going to do amazing. You’re the smartest person I know! You study so hard every night, try not to think about the scary things. You’re gonna be okay.”

That calmed the anxious Alphys right down, she smiled and took a breath and nodded, inhaling the cool fall air. Wind blew soft willow branches around them, making the yellowed leaves fly in the air angelically, slowly falling to the ground around them. The sun peeked through the clouds, warming them from the cool wind.

“Thank you Sans… what would I do without you?” She pushed her glasses up and closed the textbooks again, putting them back into her side bag. He chuckled.

“You’d have Undyne to help.” A blush immediately went across Alphys’ cheeks at the mere mention of her crush.

“Y-yeah!! Undyne! She- she’s off practice now, where d-do you think she is?” 

“Shes-” Undyne popped into view, coming up the hill. “Well, she’s right there.”
“Hey punk!” She said as she saw Sans. “Hey Alphys~” 

“U-UNDYNE!! HI!! H-HOW WAS PRACTICE??” Alphys asked, stars in her eyes. Undyne sat beside the short lizard and told her about the practice they had, nothing about what Sans had done to Papyrus. Sans checked the time and stood up, it was almost time for his class. 

“See you two at lunch?” They nodded and he left down the hill, just catching the last snippet of their conversation, Undyne saying, 

“We should roll him down this hill and see how much speed he can get.” Followed by Alphys’ giggling.

(AN// It needs more detail (and a title) but this is the first draft, tell me what you think!))