Chapter 5
The next morning, you're woken up by the smell of something burning. You hear clattering and shuffling in your kitchen downstairs. You pull yourself up out of your bed and exit your bedroom. As you descend the steps down to the living room, you can hear your brother singing some famous song, offkey, in the kitchen. The burning smell gets stronger the closer you get to the kitchen.
When you walk in, your brother is standing at your stove, singing to himself and dancing while cooking some eggs. From where you're standing, you can see that the eggs have a slightly burnt look going on. There's a plate of pancakes and a plate of bacon, both also burnt, sitting on the kitchen table. You're brother finally notices you standing in the kitchen.
"Hey, baby sib!" He exclaims. "About time you woke up. I made us some breakfast. Go ahead and sit. I'm almost done with the the eggs." He turns back to the stove and continues singing and dancing. You do as he says and take a seat at the table, giving yourself a better look of the pancakes and bacon. Both foods are burned almost completely black. There's only one half of each that looks eatable. While you're looking over the food on the table, your brother sits a plate in front of you and sits one on the other side of the table for himself.
He then begins to scoop half of the burnt eggs on your plate and the rest on his. He sets a fork down for you.
"I could've cooked us breakfast," you say.
"I know, but I thought that I would for a change. You always cooked us breakfast back home. I decided to return the favor."
How kind. It was quite a shame, however, that your brother wasn't the greatest of cooks.
"Well?" He says. "Go ahead and dig in!" You watch as he stabs a pancake with his fork and places it on his plate. You don't move. You just watch and wait. When he finally decides that he has enough food on his plate, he begins to eat. You can see his face scrunch up slight immediately after the first bite.
You watch as he forces himself to swallow the food. You watch him as he continues to eat until he gets to a point where he's just staring at the food on his plate, wondering why he'd pilled so much up.
"Vinny," you say, "would you like me to make us something more edible?" He nods quickly, happy that you've saved him from eating the rest. You grin a little and pick up the rest of the burnt food and throw it away. After that, you begin cooking.
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Minutes later, you and Vinny have finished eating and cleaning up. At the moment, the two of you were sitting in the living room. Vinny was currently looking for a job. Apparently, he quit his old one before moving to Ebott to live with you since it'd be too far to drive there.
"I could try getting a lifeguard job like back home," he thinks aloud. He searches for job openings as a lifeguard on his phone. That explained why he'd gotten tanned.
"You were a life guard? When?"
"Oh, that was after you moved," he says. "Got to see a lot of cute girls at the beach." He chuckles. A few seconds later, Vinny lets out an "Ah ha!".
"What?" You ask.
"They need a new lifeguard to replace the one that just quit recently here in Ebott. Cool! Well, sib, I'm off to the beach." He ruffles your hair. You grumble. "Wish me luck!" He heads out of the door and a few seconds later, you hear his car start and drive away.
You're left alone to watch TV until there's a knock at your door. You heave yourself up off of the couch and go to the door. When you open it, you're greeted by the short skeleton in the blue hoodie from the other day. Frisk is with him, too.
"heya," he says. "Y/N, right?" You nod.
"That's me. And you're...Sans, right?" He grins.
"the one and only. anyway, this may seem a bit outta nowhere, but Tori was wondering if you could watch Frisk for a bit."
Tori? Who was that?
Seeing the confusion on your face, Sans says, "Toriel. the goat lady that you met the other day. there's this meeting us adults have to go to. no kids allowed and all that. she couldn't find anyone to watch the kiddo. then Frisk suggested you. if ya can't, that's fine."
"Oh, of course I can," you say. "How long do you think this meeting is gonna take?" Sans shrugs his shoulders.
"don't know. don't worry, though. someone will come by to get them when the meeting is over."
"Sounds fine. Come on in, kiddo." Frisk rushes into your house and hugs you. "Whoa. Nice to see you, too."
"see ya later, kid. be good." Frisk gives Sans a thumbs up. He chuckles and walks off. You close the door and turn your attention to Frisk.
"So, little ambassador," you say. "Haven't seen you in a bit. Been busy?"
"Super busy. I had a lot of meetings to go to. They're all done for now though. Now, I get to see you again."
"Sounds like you missed me," you say. Frisk nods.
"I have."
"Aww, I missed you, too. Happy to see you again." You both take a seat on the couch.
"How have you been?" Frisk asks you.
"I've been good. Got a new roommate."
"Really? Who?"
"My brother. He's not here right now though. Went job hunting. Maybe you'll get to meet him if he comes back before you leave. He's a really nice guy. Kind of a goofball."
"That's just like Sans' brother, Papyrus!"
"Papyrus? Is that the tall skeleton that talks really loud?" You ask.
"Yep, that's him. He's really cool, too."
"Huh. Maybe I'll get to see him again. I wouldn't mind getting to know your other friends, too."
"Family," Frisk informs you.
"Huh?"
"They're not just my friends. They're my family, too."
"Oh, that's right. You told me that the other day. Well, I wouldn't mind getting to know your /family/." Frisk nods.
You found kind of weird that Frisk considered them family. They seemed nice though.
Better than Frisk's actual parents.
You were certain of that.