Overtale part 10

"I'm home!" you shouted as you closed the door behind you, dropping your backpack on the floor as usual.


"Welcome back, my child" Toriel greeted you with a warm hug and a kiss on your head, she had left school earlier than you today since she had finished her classes early.


"Zup Friz" Sans said across the table, eating a bag of potato chips while pronouncing the words, his manners as beautiful as ever.


Papyrus was not missing your comeback either "HUMAN, I'M GLAD YOU'RE BACK! I HAD GOOD NEWS TO ASK!" ... "Ask?" Sans turned around to see him with an amused grin, "YES! WELL... IT'S MORE ASKING THAN GOOD NEWS ACTUALLY" he narrowed his eyes.


You giggled "Sure pap, what do you need?"


"BUT NOT RIGHT NOW! I NEED TO MAKE SURE THINGS WILL TURN OUT WELL FIRST!" Papyrus said as he left upstairs to his room with a cellphone on hands.


You were so confused, but it was Papyrus after all so you didn't question him.


After telling everyone how was your day and how easy today's test was even though you didn't study at all, you rushed to your bedroom to say hi to your favorite flower.


It had been the same routine for 3 weeks and things were going pretty well for you and him, Flowey had been behaving surprisingly well in the family, being polite to Toriel and... Trying his best not to insult Sans every now and then and get mad at his terrible puns, Papyrus was easily Flowey's entertainment most of the time when Frisk wasn't home, Flowey had gotten interested on him again now that they were all on the surface and had a bunch of new things to interact with, it was honestly fun for everyone to have Papyrus around and see him react to things like human TV shows and talk about the city all the time whenever he visited Undyne and Alphys’ apartment (which was Metatton's place, gifted to him by humans as a representative monster celebrity, he allowed Alphys and Undyne to stay since he was constantly on tour encouraging his monster fans and winning the heart of human population, he could always stay on MTT resort to rest anyway, it wasn't like the underground was abandoned; monsters would come in and out pretty often and MTT resort was ready to offer its services, even to occasional humans that visited the place).


You slammed the door open and saw him there by the window's ledge, looking outside "Hi Flowey!"


He looked at you and raised an eyebrow "You're later than usual today" you walked close to him, "worried?" you asked as you rested your arms on the ledge and looked outside with him, you could understand why he liked the view, the patterns would always change with every sunset.


"Pfft, not a chance" he flailed a little "but you know, it gets boring to be here all day! I'm not a houseplant Frisk!  You promised me a bunch of stuff and I haven't seen as much as you described, heck you even stopped showing me interesting stuff ever since I moved here"


You narrowed your eyes at him "liar, I even got you toys, and you get to eat mom's tasty pie, and hey you're here looking at the patterns again, and you can always come with Papyrus and me at night to play connect the dots with the stars, you liked that a lot the first week!"


"That's all old news, I had never before seen so many shiny dots in the sky, it was impressive at first but now there's nothing new about that" he complained even further. You sighed and commented "well you should probably try to count the stars next time, did you know nobody has ever managed to count them all?" you said in a challenging tone, which got his attention.


"Really? Huh, well maybe I'll be the first one" he smirked. You were holding a giggle, he was so naive sometimes.


"Frisk! Flowey! Dinner will be ready soon!" Toriel announced outside. "Coming!" you said out loud as you grabbed the floweypot (that's how you called it now) and leaded outside.


It smelled like tonight's menu included baked potatoes and steak, Toriel didn't like meat but she knew humans needed it and certain skeletons liked it, so she was willing to cook it for everyone.


After dinner was ready, you all settled the table and ate in family, you talked about many things as usual, Flowey would usually just listen unless he was mentioned.


Frisk couldn't understand how could Flowey even eat something or if it was even good for him since he was a flower... But Sans and Papyrus were skeletons and needed to eat too, so you didn't try to make much sense of it, maybe monsters had a way of turning food into magical energy? It was so weird, in any case you only gave him food you considered to be healthy for plants, veggies sounded like a good idea... Until you thought of it as some sort of plant cannibalism...


...You would rather just water him but he seemed curious about the taste in food so you let him be, he still needed to be watered throughout the day anyway, and he had already gotten sick from eating too much junk once, so you tried to keep him controlled in the food area.


"Hey pap, so what was that you wanted to ask earlier?" you asked after finishing your meal, he looked disappointed "OH, SORRY ABOUT THAT, I SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT YOU HANGING BUT I STILL CAN'T ASK YOU, UNDYNE DIDN'T PICK UP MY CALL SO I COULDN'T ASK HER FIRST! AND IF SHE DOESN'T TELL ME IT'S OKAY THEN I CAN'T TELL YOU YET!"


"Um, that's okay but I'm really curious!" you smiled.


A while after, everyone except Flowey had finished their meal. "What's wrong Flowey? You don't like it?" Toriel asked. "No" he said with an annoyed expression and cheeks full of food "this tastes really dull, can't I have sweets instead?" he forced himself to swallow and made a disgusted face afterwards.


"You'll have your sweets if you finish your meal first, as usual" You scolded him a little.




 

"That one looks like Vulkin!" you said eagerly as you pointed towards the dark sky, sitting on the moist grass. "REALLY?" Papyrus narrowed his eyes at the constellation "I WAS THINKING IT LOOKED MORE LIKE SPAGHETTI..."


"It looks like a deformed, dying monster to me" Flowey said with a serious expression, you facepalmed a little, it was the fifth time he'd say something like that.


"Nah that's definitely a hot dog" Sans said as he... Ate a hot dog, he had a new stash of those now, aside from ketchup bottles, Sans had improved his laziness and motivation a lot ever since they got to the surface but his gluttony was getting worse, human food amazed him even if he was still loyal to Grillby's food, still trying to find a place on the surface...


... But thinking about now, experiencing a new age like this, taking a break from being an ambassador and from all of your worries, focusing on how things had turned out for everyone in the end and resuming your life to simple moments like these... you couldn't help but love your friends, your new life, all as it surrounded you... You loved it the way it was. Life was definitely great now, specially with Sans, Pap, goatmom... Flowey, even though you knew his behavior was unpredictable and he couldn't really relate to your feelings, most of your problems... You were glad you could give him something at least.


Ever since he started living with you, Alphys had visited you only once and she was speechless when she saw him, you couldn't tell her yet, ask her yet to help him, but you knew you would and you needed to... Though it would have to wait.


You were enjoying this new life like you had never done before, the things you went through to save everyone and fight for everyone's freedom... It was worth it.


"Welp, It's late you two, we should head back home" Sans got up. "BUT SANS I WANTED TO STAY LONGER, YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THIS BECAUSE YOU DON'T WATCH AS MUCH EDUCATIONAL TV AS I DO, BUT DID YOU KNOW STARS MOVE AND NEW AND BRIGHTER ONES APPEAR DURING THE NIGHT??? I DON'T WANT TO MISS IT, YOU ON THE OTHER HAND ARE TOO LAZY NOT TO FALL ASLEEP” Papyrus frowned.


"Sorry bro, but Frisk has a bedtime and Tori would get mad at me for not being a responsible big uncle here" he winked "she would skin me alive" he shrugged.


If Flowey could facepalm, that's what he would have done. Papyrus frowned even further, "OKAY WE'LL GO BACK HOME IF THAT'S WHAT TAKES US TO STOP YOUR TERRIBLE PUNS, BUT THIS FRIDAY WE WILL BE STAYING UP LATE FOR IT. HUMAN!" Papyrus offered you his bony hand to get up, you accepted.






"Boy... I'm tired" you let your weight fall on your comfy bed "today was such a long but great d-" you were interrupted "Argh FRISK!" Flowey shouted at you from near the window, frustrated "you made me lose count of them! Just shut up and go to sleep!"


You blinked at him "woah there, I'm sorry, you'll have the whole night to yourself anyway, that if you're strong enough to stay awake until you count every star haha!" you tried not to be loud. "I WILL" he huffed.


You got comfortable and ready to sleep... At night, you liked to think about your day and the things in your life... You thought about those kids that kept messing with you at school, but also about all of those monster kids that liked you and considered you their hero and idol. You thought about how mom had prepared her special butterscotch pie today and gave you a slice for lunch, you also thought about how Papyrus was excited about getting his driver license soon...


Sometimes you also thought about other things, like how Sans and Toriel were so perfect together, but they wouldn't just date, you were living together because Toriel didn't want to be so lonely, all of her time in the ruins had made her miss being surrounded by loving people, so she allowed the skelebros to stay. You also thought of how hard it was for you to convince them to let Flowey sleep in your bedroom at first... The idea of having a flower with murderous tendencies stay at your bedroom during the night wasn't relieving for Toriel, but you managed to convince her and Sans that it was for the best, since you were responsible about it and he would probably make terrible messes if left alone all night in the living room.


"Hey Frisk?" he interrupted your train of thoughts, "hmm?" you sat up. "Do you think you could bring me to your school sometime? I'm a bit tired of spending the whole day in the house doing nothing interesting when there's no one home"


You gave it a thought "well... You have been behaving quite well... I'm actually proud! I think it would be nice to have you come sometime so you can see newer things"


"Good" he gave you a smug smile "there will be so many human souls to take a look at..." "Flowey no! As soon as I see you trying to do anything funny, I'm going to LOAD and leave you at home" you crossed your arms. "You can't take a joke? Seriously Frisk!" ... "Though getting a few human souls doesn't sound like a bad idea..." he muttered loud enough.


You sighed, "well, two out of two times you got human souls I won" you tried a different approach "there are many other games, Flowey" you said, he then rolled his eyes and sighed "I wouldn't trust me if I was you!" he singed.


"I'm going to tell mom about it" you smiled "I'm sure she'd let you come if you promise to behave, but..." you yawned "let's go to sleep now, I'm toooo tired..." you let your back sink on your bed and covered yourself in sheets "you can try and count the stars while then, hehe"


Long day, short story: life was good. But even if things were going wonderfully for now, life on the surface had just begun for you and your family and you'd have so much to take care of, but what could possibly go wrong...?


" 'Night, I love you Flowey" You said, like every night ever since he stayed in your bedroom.


"I don't" He replied, as usual.


...you didn't know, but you wouldn't give it any thoughts now.