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The shrilling sound of your phone's loud alarm ringing was what rudely awakened you from your peaceful slumber. You let out a weary groan and hugged your soft pillow close to you while simultaneously pulling your blankets up over your head, hoping to drown out the dreadful sound.
Why did you have that thing on again? And why on earth did you have your ring tone set as the most annoying sound? Did you accidentally turn it on ag-
Oh, yeah that's right.
The party. The one Papyrus invited you to. The same exact one that's today.
You uncovered yourself from your warm blankets and drowsily unlocked your phone before proceeding to dismiss your alarm clock. It was 5:32 p.m at the moment and the party started at six. Why exactly were you asleep at five? Partly because of your night owl tendencies and partly because you just really enjoy sleeping.
You absentmindedly let out a long yawn, stretching your arms far out before they let out a satisfying pop. You reluctantly managed to drag yourself out of your warm blanket burrito and shivered once your feet made contact with the icy cold floor. You were starting to have second thoughts about going, just so you could sleep more if you were being honest with yourself, but you decided to make through with your plans. You didn't want your rad skeletal friend to be disappointed after all. Not happening. You made your way to your closet, almost tripping over your own feet along the way, and picked out a simple outfit. Casual and comfortable but nice. Nothing too flashy.
You were still a bit hazy minded from just waking up but nothing an energy drink couldn't fix. You hummed a random tune (some music from Overwatch, if you recalled correctly) as you sauntered towards the living room and shot Papyrus a quick text, telling him you were ready whenever he was.
You lounged idly on your couch for a few minutes, playing a few random games on your phone. You downloaded them a while back out of pure boredom and never bothered to get rid of them. Even though your phone's storage space was suffering.
You hear your door bell ring and you pounced off your couch to go greet your one and only skeleton friendo.
"Yooo, Paps, my man." You open your door all the way with a wide grin.
"GREETINGS HUMAN FRIEND!!" Papyrus beamed down at you. Aw.
"Whatcha got there?" You questioned, gesturing towards the white cloth he was in his arms.
"YOU SEE HUMAN, I, GRAND CRAFTSMAN (SKELETON?) PAPYRUS, HAVE SUCESSFULLY MADE THOSE MATCHING SHIRTS FOR US!"
"Oh, really?" You blinked in surprise, having completely forgotten about them.
"BEHOLD!!" The white t-shirt was shoved into your hands. Curiously, you held it out. Written by black sharpie across the front in bold letters was "I AM MEMELORD" Was this what you think it was..? You take a moment to glance over at Papyrus's own shirt. It was. His shirt had "IF LOST, RETURN TO MEMELORD" engraved on it in the same black sharpie.
You couldn't help but snort. That was honestly kind of adorable. Man, you loved this dude.
"I love it, gonna treasure it for the rest of my life." You informed him in a serious manner. You shrugged the t-shirt on what you were already wearing and as you expected, it fit but was a little baggy on you.
The taller skeleton looks flattered and placed his hands on his hips as if he was a full fledged superhero, non existent cape flowing behind him.
"OF COURSE!! I WENT ALL OUT - ONLY THE BEST FOR MY DEAR HUMAN FRIEND. SPEAKING OF WHICH, WATCH THIS!!"
Papyrus was bouncing on his feet and showed you his phone. You squinted and leaned in closer to get a better view of the screen.
It appeared to be a video of an old animated show, starting with three black bears walking into a room together in front of a table. The biggest bear was the last to walk in and with an enraged expression and a thick Italian accent, he pointed down to the bowl of... something set on the table.
"Somebody toucha my spaghett!"
Oh. That's where that new phrase you've been hearing recently came from. Papyrus looked elated at your confused expression.
"Well, Paps, my dude. You have discovered a new meme before I. You have done excellently thus far, dear pupil." You wistfully told him and Papyrus listened to your words attentively.
"IT WAS NO DIFFICULT FEAT, HUMAN!! ALL I HAD TO DO WAS USE THE GRAND NET PERSISTENTLY AND BE AWARE OF ANY CHANGES IN THE NEWEST MEMES." He informed you.
"WE BETTER GET GOING, HUMAN FRIEND!! WE NEED TO ARRIVE AT EXACTLY 5:55 PM SO WE CAN SHOW THAT WE ARE WELL MANNERED BY NOT ARRIVING TOO LATE AND NOT TOO EARLY. THE ARRIVING TIME OF A GUEST IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MOST PEOPLE THINK, YOU KNOW!"
Papyrus lectured you about the importance of arriving at a certain time to different parties as you both ambled along the sidewalk and towards his car. His car was pretty nice, you noted. It was bright red convertible that was clearly well taken care of and loved. As you walked closer to the car, you noticed one thing in particular that made you freeze in your place.
Sans.
In the passenger seat.
Of course he would be coming along for the ride, why wouldn't he? You were silly to think otherwise. You let out a deep breath, trying to relax your rising anxiousness. Thankfully, Papyrus didn't notice and he opened the back car door for you. The one behind the drivers seat. You gave him a genuine smile and told him thanks as you sat down in the leather seat.
"'sup." Sans greeted, not even looking up from the pun book he was reading.
"Hi." You mentally facepalmed. That... was so awkward sounding. You didn't even know where to begin on why there was so many ways why that was cringe. Why didn't you just say "Sup" back? You force down the steadily rising embarrassment as Papyrus started the car. Instead, you tried to focus on the fairly nice, smooth black leather seats you were currently sitting on along with the freshly washed windows and of course, the cool dude driving.
"BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELT, DEAR FRIEND!! SAFETY ALWAYS COMES FIRST!"
"Got it. Thanks bud." You fastened your seat belt as you say this and lean back into your seat while he pulls out of the driveway.
Yikes.
This was high key awkward. You wish Paps would turn on the radio or something. You would ask him yourself but you felt as if that would be sort of rude. You've always dreaded car rides with your friends' family. It was always super awkward and you had no idea what to talk about. Especially since you kinda wanted to make a good impression on Sans. Since you're pretty sure he has the idea that you're tainting his brother and all. Not because of any other reason.
Anyways. You slunk down in your seat, tapping your fingers on your thigh and glanced out the window. You weren't nervous at all. It'd be silly to be nervous.
Okay, maybe you were a bit nervous. You resolved to tune in on the skelebro's conversation instead of ruminating.
"SANS, PLEASE PUT YOUR FEET OFF OF THE DASHBOARD! IT'S UNSANITARY!"
"heh. sorry, paps. i know that drives you crazy."
Cue enraged yelling from Papyrus.
You couldn't help but snort at the display. You would never be able to understand Papyrus's boiling hatred for puns. It was kind of funny, really.
A few brief seconds passed by and you couldn't shake off the strange feeling of being watched. You glanced up in time to meet the gaze of a certain punny skeleton. Oh. You quickly broke eye contact with him, directing your attention to the window 'Wow! Would you just look at that fantastic weather we're having today?' Still, despite your efforts you felt your cheeks heat up in embarrassment. Big yikes.
You figured that you wouldn't arrive for at least a few more minutes but the car came to a complete stop as it parked and Papyrus ushered both and you and Sans inside of the rather immense and extravagant looking house.
Woah. There were a lot of people here. Both monsters and humans.
"AARON, PLEASE TELL ME I'M HEARING WRONG AND YOU'RE NOT MAKING HORSE PUNS AGAIN!" Papyrus stomped off to go lecture said muscular seahorse monster.
"bet his puns are mag-neigh-ficent." The slightly shorter skeleton from beside you quips and you let out a snort.
Wait.
You froze at the sudden realization. Papyrus just left you alone here. With Sans. Okay, maybe this wouldn't be so bad. You could do this. You forcefully pushed down your nervousness and glanced over at him with a small grin.
"But they're Papyrus's worse nightmare."
You noticed in awe that his eyelights shone a little brighter and his grin became more relaxed after you said that. Huh. That was neat.
"can't blame him for trying, horse puns are a great way to pick a gallop."
"He should quit foaling around though."
"maybe he was barn with it." Sans chuckled. You liked that sound, you decided.
In horror, you've realized that you have ran out of horse puns. You quickly raked through your mind for some more but paused once you noticed that, shit, this is the most relaxed you've seen Sans been around you. Maybe people who enjoyed puns had some secret truce for others who cherished puns too. You decide to leave it at that. You don't think your acquaintanceship was at the 'more than puns' level yet.
"Well, I'm just gonna gallop out of here and go... uh, somewhere." So smooth. Smoother than smooth. The smoothest.
"alright, but don't go horsing around." This guy was an absolute legend. You shot Sans some radtastical finger guns and made your way through the vast crowd.
In all honesty, you weren't sure where you were headed.
Maybe it was a bad idea to go off on your own at a party at a stranger's house. You had no idea where you were. You should've just stayed with Sans and talked things out. Become declared best friends with him too and wear matching shirts with both him and Papyrus. You highly doubt that was going to happen anytime soon.
So. You settled yourself in a dining chair by a table that was occupied by a few monsters and two other humans. Sitting beside you, was a small, sandy yellow dinosaur-like monster wearing a polka dot dress with round glasses. She didn't seem much too invested in what the others were talking about.
You pulled out your phone from your pocket and unlocked your screen, checking your notifications. There was a cursed game invitation sent by someone from high school that you couldn't recall anything about. You glanced up at the yellow monster next to you to say "Hey, game invitations, right?" or something smooth like that but she seemed distracted by something. You followed her gaze. What was she even -
Oh.
Yeah.
That.
That was still very much a thing. A thing that you still did not want anyone to know about. A dangerous thing. A life-changing secret.
"Is... Is that a Mew Mew Kissy Cutie charm..?"
Shit. Abort, abort. Nobody needed to know that you actually loved anime unironically. You still had a (practically non existent) reputation to keep up. Quick, make up a good excuse.
"I, uh, - actually this belongs to my distant, younger cousin who's from Algeria, you wouldn't know them, and I'm -"
"Oh my stars!! I-I-I love Mew Mew Kissy Cutie!"
" - totally a fan of it as well! It's very endearing and has an amazing plot."
To say you're greatly intrigued would be an understatement, you haven't met a lot of people that didn't think Mew Mew Kissy Cutie was over hyped weeaboo garbage. You could understand that with Mew Mew Kissy Cutie 2 though, that was a disgrace to the entire series and completely abolished Mew Mew's whole character arc.
"I-I-I'm Alphys! It's so n-nice to meet you!" She introdruced herself with a cheerful smile.
"HEY ALHPYS - BABE!!" You heard an eerily familiar voice shout out and both you and Alphys turn your heads towards the direction of it. "WATCH THIS!!"
Oh god, it's Undyne. And oh god, she's surplexing a round table that has five monsters piled on top of it.
Actually, that's pretty cool.
“Um, a-a-are you recording this?” Alphys hesitantly spoke up from beside you.
“Hell yeah.” You answered, your eyes entirely focused on your phone’s screen as it recorded.
Undyne was succeeding at surplexing the table but you start hearing a strange creaking noise. The table abruptly breaks under the pressure of the five monsters and they all start to fall onto Undyne. You could hear various gasps and suddenly the jammin music stops but-! She catches them! All five of them! Everyone claps and shouts in victory and the music starts yet again. You decide that was a good place to stop recording.
Wait a second. Babe?
"Y-You're doing amazing, s-sweetie!" Alphys yells (which was more or so just slightly louder than her usual voice but somehow Undyne still caught it)
Alphys turns to you and must have seen something etched across your expression. You weren't sure what that something was. You were feeling a lot of emotions right now.
"D-D-Don't worry!! U-Undyne can be a bit, um, erratic at times b-b-but she's harmless!" Alphys reassures you.
"Tell that to my poor door," You mumbled, mostly to yourself.
"H-Have you two m-" She paused in the middle of her question and her eyes flickered down to your shirt. You were beyond confused and didn't have the slightest of ideas where she was going with this.
"W-Wait! You're-" She was quickly cut off by a pair of blue, scaly arms wrapping around her waist from behind and she was then picked up from her seat and attacked with a series of kisses all over her face by Undyne. Uh oh. PDA. You had no idea what to do except for sit there awkwardly and idly wonder what Alphys was gonna tell you.
"AW, BABE!! You're adorable!!" Undyne squealed, a sound you never expected to hear from such an intimidating lady, as she pulled Alphys closer. Alphys hid her growing red face behind her hands and giggled.
Maybe if you try to slip unnoticed into the background, they wouldn't notice. You sat up and take a small step back, planning on quietly sneaking off to go find Papyrus but -
"HEY, IT'S YOU!! The strange human! Trying to sneak off, eh?"
"U-Undyne!"
"What? I didn't mean it in a bad way! I've never met a human like them before!"
This was going to be a long night.