Keeping that poker face
"FRISK MARIA VERONICA SANCHEZ WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!" Gaster yelled as he entered the detention room. Frisk was sitting at the desk. Sans was behind him and looked at his father.
"uhh...did you just use her full name..?" Sans asked. Gaster just frowned.
"I honestly don't even know what she did this time..." The teacher, more exactly her history teacher was standing there. Gerson. The turtle.
"TELL ME! How..." The old monster started. Frisk sunk down in her chair.
"HOW IS SHE SO SMART??" Sans and Gaster looked dumbfound.
"She has such memory and not to mention quite the intelligence and skill...she just doesn't know how to use them...LIKE POKER!" Gaster's face fell.
"You called me here....to tell me....she's smart? I thought it was something serious..?" Sans looked even more confused.
"It is. Frisk. Would you mind shuffling this deck..?" Frisk sighed and took the deck of cards. Her hand moved with a precision she learned back when she was on the Surface before her family died. Sans sockets widened.
"what the..?" Gerson frowned.
"Frisk. Do the thing where you shuffle a pocker deck." Frisk scoffed and started moving her hands, not even looking at the deck. Gerson took the deck.
"Frisk. First card...?" Frisk didn't even flinch.
"Ace of spades." Gerson put the card down only to show it was the ace of spades. Frisk knew what she knew because she always had to live to really high expectations with her parents. They thought her things that even some college students didn't know and tricks to keep her memory sharp.
"Second card." Gaster said norrowing his sockets.
"King of hearts." Gerson put down the card. Sans took the cards from the turtle monster and went to a fruther card.
"The twentyth card...?" Frisk didn't flinch as she looked away from the skeleton and mumbled 'nine of diamonds'. Sans immediately took out the card and frowned even more.
"when did you...?" Gaster then frowned even more.
"So...all this time...you've never give your best in a test..? have you ever studied before any of the test you've taken..?" Frisk fidgeted in her seat.
"umm...no..?" She was sweating bullets. Gaster gave her a paper with some guestions and a pen.
"Start." Gaster said. Sans looked at his father.
"dad..wai--" But Frisk took the pen. This time however, to everyone's surprise she took it in her left hand. They all thought she was right handed. She started writing at a huge speed. Gaster's sockets widened as after only 5 minutes she was flipping the page. When she finished the test she lingered on the test a bit more before taking the pen off. She clicked it and gave the paper to the older skeleton. Gaster's sockets went blank. Gerson took his glasses off.
"I be damned..." The turtle monster said. Gaster looked at her and frowned.
"Why..?" Sans was reading the text as well and was as dumbfound as her teachers.
"I'm sorry... i didn't...want to be a freak..and--" Gaster and Gerson started smiling as Sans has clocks in his eyes from excitement.
"Frisk! A freak..? You have photographic memory and have the knowledge of someone in college! You're at the same level with Sans if not even more!" Sans shrugged. Frisk looked hopeful at the skeleton man.
"Oh Frisk...I wish i knew sooner! Well then...Now i have to ask. Why is this a bad thing..?"
"She has been making money off of teachers the whole day by playing poker with them." Gaster froze.
"Excuse me what now..?" Sans snorted. The scientist gave Sans a look and he shut up. The two got out of the classroom to discuss further.
"veronica..? really..?" Frisk norrowed here eyes at Sans.
"What about you, Gilbert?" Sans frowned and pointed his finger at her.
"watch it frisky.." Frisk stuck out her tongue and he did the same with his blue magical one. She pinched his tongue and he whined.
"that hurt!" She laughed. Sans looked at her hands as she was playing with the cards.
"how much you bet i can beat you at a card game chosen by me....also..how much money we taking about..?"
"First: bet you can't. Second..? about 50 G." Sans spurted.
"50 G?!" He said and they could hear his father say the same thing at Gerson. SHE was screwed.
"i say we playyy macaou" Frisk snickered and shrugged.
"but first show me how to shuffle the cards like that..?"
"Mexican secret." Sans frowned and she snorted.
"Here, i'll teach you." And she gave him the cards and took his hands in hers.
The two were playing cards in the living room and Gaster was watching them play macaou. How good could Frisk possibly be..? Sans did say how he lost every time but right now he just topped a chain of taking cards with both of the jokers and Frisk had so many cards it was hard to hold them all.
"heh. i'm so gonna win this!!" However Frisk started making pairs. 4 and 4 and 4 more and soon enough she was at 2 cards and Sans was at 3. He decided to go with red heart. He put the card down and waited. Frisk pretended to pull when she smirked.
"Nah, you lost." Frisk then put down the two cards she had left which were 2 cards of 6. Gaster gaped at the sight.
"How did you even lost that?!" Gaster asked. Sans let his head fall on the table. Papyrus then entered the house alongside their friends.
"NYEH HEH HEH!!" He announced Undyne, Alphys, Mk, Toriel and Asgore stepping in behind him, Gorgette there too since the prince came. Frisk was shuffling the deck for another round as Papyrus walked in and she immediately dropped the cards. Gaster looked at Frisk and frowned.
"That's it! You said you beat every teacher eh..? I bet on G's you can't beat me." Frisk and Sans looked at eachother and the young skeletons eyes glimmered.
"frisky you NEED to say yes to this! he will give you G! GASTER! GIVING G!!" Frisk took on a determined look and picked the cards up and looked directly in the older skeleton's eye-lights.
"YOU got yourself a deal...Mr.Gaster." She flipped through the cards and Gaster and everyone gathered around the table in surprise.
"WOAH!! FRISK! You're taking Gaster on?!" Mk said wagging their tail. Sans smiled at her. She took on a smug look as she leaned in her chair and took out a bag of 50 G.
"50 G says i CAN beat you...." Undyne looked at Frisk dumbfound and adjusted her goggles.
"HOLD UP! Where did she get all that G?!" Gaster smirked and took out a bag as well.
"You've got a deal, Miss Sanchez." Toriel looked at Frisk depserately.
"Are you sure it's a good idea...? What are you guys even playing..?" Frisk and Gaster looked at each other before Gaster nooded and Frisk with one swift moved spread the cards on the table.
"Poker." She said with a smirk. Alphys looked at her in disbelief.
"F-Frisk-chan...T-the probability to beat him is close to 0!!" Frisk looked at Alphys and smiled smugly again.
"BUT anything bigger than 0 is possible!" Asgore looked at Frisk and put his fist in front of her.
"I know you can do it, Frisk." She fist-bumped him and Gorgette rolled her eyes, a bit annoyed. The others all got excited. Sans picked Papyrus up and Papyrus was now looking at her with stars in his eyes.
"HUMAN FRISK! PLEASE DO WIN!" Frisk gave him a thumbs up as she flipped the cards with one hand and gathered them with the other. She shot the deck from one hand to the other and began to shuffle.
"Can you even play poker with two players..?" Gorgette asked. Almost all the kids around the table shot her a look for that. Frisk smiled as she was shuffling the deck again and told Gaster to cut it in two. He did and gave them back.
"Of course. It's called heads-up." Sans looked at Frisk in surprise. Frisk then took out another bag from her inventory and started counting some chips. She looked at him and asked:
"200 or 300..?" The kids were watching in awe and Gaster was taken aback at the mature approach.
"200." She nodded and started counting them. Sans looked at his father confused.
"what's she doing now..?"
"Something i didn't expect her to do...Actually prepare the game." Sans smile brightened as he realized Frisk was serious about winning. Man she was so cool! His best friend was awesome!
"Yo! I can't believe she's actually doing this! Yo! She's awesome!!" Sans norrowed his eyes at MK as Frisk finished counting. Gaster was sweating a bit.
"Not backing out, are you now..?" Gaster norrawed his sockets and scoffed.
"You wish." The kids were silent as they watched Frisk. She had the best poker face they've seen when she wanted and she now was moving naturally. Cards were really her element. Gorgette looked at Frisk and asked.
"How do you know you can win against the scientist??" Frisk shrugged.
"It's not science to play cards. Yes some games require brain...but a lot require strategy, luck...And a good good amount of bluffing. In poker it's plenty of that!" Gaster froze. She knew the game too well. Sans started jumping up and down a bit.
"you're so gonna lose old man!!" Gaster gave his son a stern look as he did that. The game was now beginning.
Everyone was waiting with their souls on the line. Frisk had an unreadable face on. Gaster was sweating bullets. Frisk concentrated her stare on him. She almost smirked when she realized something: He's totally got a straight flush or Four of a kind. They have been going at this for some time. Gaster didn't have enough chips to bet on that type of win. She knew. She sighed as Gaster pushed his chips forward and didn't lose composure. Frisk picked the chips carefully. It was apperently bearly a 10G bet. Inetresting. She waited. Gaster then started laughing as the showdown came. Undyne looked confused.
"Is that good orrrr..." She asked that question every time. Sans grabbed the table tight as he looked at Frisk. She was like a statue. Gaster thought that meant she lost. Her face darkened a bit.
"It is. A straight flush,Undyne. Is one of the highest ranks." He was about to pick the chips when she stopped his hand.
"Sorry Mr.Gaster but..." Frisk smirked.
"I believe i won." She picked two cards from her hand.
"What...?" Gaster said looking at her with wide eyes.
"A big slick." She picked two more cards and Gaster's eye-lights shrunk.
"A Maverick. And." Frisk had one more card left and Gaster frowned.
"You must be bluffing...you can't-..." He said smirking. Sweat was dripping. She shrugged and let the card fall.
"And a ten. I do believe that's a royal flush." Gaster stopped dead as his chips were taken by her. The kids looked at her as she played with some chips between her fingers. Gaster let his head fall in his arms. The kids waited, until Undyne lost patcience.
"SO?? DID SHE WIN?!" Gaster looked at the girl from across the table in disbelief.
"She just beat me..." Frisk chuckled as she threw the chip up and caught it.
"Pleasure playing with ya, G." She took the bags of G's. Everyone was silent for a second before all the kids started cheering.
"SHE JUST WON!! YOU GO FRISK!!"Undyne screamed. Toriel said clapping. Asgore threw his fist up and Gorgette was just watching, clapping, plesently surprised by her win. Papyrus got so excited he threw himself from next to Sans in her lap. Undyne grabbed Alphys and gave her a bear hug as MK started wagging his tail excitedly. Sans started cheering as well, throwing his fist up as he jumped up and down.
"NYEH HEH HEH!! I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT!!" Papyrus said as she gave Papyrus a noogie.
"YO FRISK THAT WAS SO COOL!!" Mk said wagging his tail.
"Good job Frisk!!" Asgore said approvingly nodding.
"WOO!! NICE GOING PUNK!!" Undyne said giving a hard pat on the back.
"N-nice F-Frisk-Chan!" And as the kids started mocking Gaster they all were circling around him like vultures apart from one kid: Sans. He came next to Frisk and she smiled.
"man! you're really really good you know..? you got this game down to the bone huh..?" Frisk snickered.
"I see someone doesn't miss their funny bone. Thanks!" She looked at the bag of G then at Sans as he was leaving towards the kitchen where the scene was.
"Hey, Sans..?" He turned around and woke up with a bag of G thrown at him. Frisk smiled at him, blushing a bit.
"I saw you eyeing that new telescope...i think that should cover it. We're a team right..?" Sans started dumbfound at the money then at the human. His smile turned to a more genuine one and he hugged Frisk.
"man you're so awesome!" He said. She laughed.
"No duhh! I am your best friend for a reason, dummy! Come on! I wanna rub it in Gaster's face! Heheheh!!" She said darting towards the kitchen. He looked at the bag of G as his cheeks were now dusted light blue. She really was awesome...