Friendship and a Movie Day
16: Friends.
(A/N: Fall’s coming up so I figured I’d take a quick look into Rian’s ACTUAL school life. He’d probably have friends... right?)
While he lived a very loud and exciting life at home, at school, everything was quiet and serene...
In Rian’s happiest daydreams.
With the sun barely above the horizon, you’d think that, like Rian, everyone would still be groggy and just trying to stay upright. Not so much for his two friends. Damien Hill and Rose Ivy were as loud and obnoxious and wonderful at 7am as they were every hour of the day.
For Rose, it was because of odd work hours. She actually went to bed when she got home from school, and worked from 1am to 5 am part-time at the same McDonalds as Rian on the weekends. She often had dark circles around her eyes, and appeared to be on edge most of the time, but she was also very fun-loving, and had an understanding nature which would have drawn Rian to her even if they WEREN’T cousins (distantly related). She was mostly Native American, from a local tribe, with copper skin and deep chocolate hair, but the same green and yellow eyes as Rian. She was also the same age as Rian, having been held back for some of the same reasons as him, except she had trouble with English instead of math.
Damien had no excuse, however, and was normally just chipper for the sake of being chipper. She was mostly loud, though, because she kept the volume on her PDA high during school hours so that teachers could hear her. Dami was mute due to a surgery gone wrong, and used a text-to-speech app for communication, since most people didn’t know sign language (which was also why he was so out of practice). She was a bouncy, care-free sort of person, and shared Rian’s love of gymnastics and parkour. She was as pale as snow, with green eyes and natural ginger hair that looked like fire in the right light, and very much a young Irish woman. She was still seventeen, and part of the reason the other two had managed to at least somewhat tread water in school.
Truth be told, they actually knew he was trans before he did, and were much more accepting of Rian than he ever felt he deserved. When they first saw Sans showing up at the school and heard that Rian was going to be adopted into a Monster family, they were more excited for him than they probably had right to be. They were the best friends he ever had... though he couldn’t escape the knowledge that, if his human family hadn’t died, he’d have gone to a different high school and never would have met them. Not even Rose, really, because she came from a branch of his birth mother’s family and not his dad’s or stepmother’s.
The three friends stood in line, piling breakfast onto their trays, trading small-talk with the lunch ladies, and basically going about with business as usual. That is, until they made it back to their usual table and found Sans sitting there.
Rian blushed, staring in disbelief while the other two greeted the skeleton. “H-hi Sans. What’re you...?”
The skeleton just grinned, holding up a folded-up bit of paper. “Asgore sent me. ya left your check for the field trip stuck to his fridge.”
Rose snorted, while Dami just barely held back a smile. “Seriously, cuz? It’s due today! How are the three amigops going to troll around Chicago with a third of the amigops missing?!”
Rian shrugged, shooting Sans a grateful smile. “I guess we’d just have to stop referencing Jimmy Neutron then, huh?”
“Never.”
Dami was furiously typing away on her PDA, Shooting Sans a pointed look as she let the app work “DUNKLE SANS YOU DIDN’T JUST TELEPORT IN HERE DID YOU? YOU KNOW THE SCHOOL DOESN’T LIKE THAT.”
Sans held up his hands. “now, would i do something like that?”
“Yeah, actually.”
“Yep.”
“DUNKLE P-L-Z”
Sans rolled his eyelights, holding up his visitors pass. “I’d be wounded, but it’s no skin off my teeth.”
“DUNKLE WHY.”
“because i live to embarrass you three.”
“I’m not embarrassed...”
“Rian no.”
“I mean it’s no secret...”
“Rian don’t you fuc---”
“That you’re sans skin.”
“And THERE it is!”
“H N N N N N N N N N N N N G”
Sans was just laughing gleefully as he fist-bumped Rian. “nice.”
Rian grinned. “I’ve been practicing.”
The skeleton shook his head, laughing as he stood. “i’ll be here when you guys get out of classes. you all think you can be good for eight hours?” When the teens just collectively shrugged, he grinned and handed the check to Rian. “that’s my kiddos. i’ll see you later guys.”
And suddenly, he was gone, and they were left in relative peace.
A few minutes later, they were all digging in to their meal when Dami pressed a button on her PDA.
“SO HAVE YOU GUYS QUOTATION MARK BONED QUOTATION MARK YET?”
“Yeah, cuz. Tell us ‘bout the bone zone.”
Rian nearly screamed.
(A/N: Sorry not sorry HEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUHEUH)
17. Movie Day
By some sort of miracle, Rian and Sans both managed to get a saturday off at the same time. Like any other well-established couple, they were on the exact same wave-length when it came to how to spend the day. He was just coming in from taking the dog out when Sans met them in the hallway.
“alright kid place your bet. i have all the current sharknado movies. i bet we make it to the second one before we give up on life and throw ourselves off a building.”
“That sounds awesome! I bet we get to three though. Winner picks the next activity.”
“you’re on buddy.”
Rian made the popcorn- ever so slightly burnt, the only good way to eat it- while Sans opened up the couch-bed and got all the pillows and blankets he could find. Stella joined him once she smelled the popcorn, dragging her dog bed over from the other apartment, since she adamantly refused to sleep in any apartment unless her precious pink bed was also there. Movie days were a pretty common thing for these two, and everyone involved knew the drill. (Papyrus, who was away at culinary school, usually would have gotten the drinks.)
Everything prepared, they shut and locked the door (If Frisk came in and saw the gore Tori would probably torture them) and cuddled into the nest of blankets and pillows.
Half an hour later they were regretting every decision they had ever made that led them to this point.
“this is literally the worst.”
“Where’s the scientific accuracy? I get that it’s a B-movie but this is just... I’d rather WATCH the BEE MOVIE!”
“nah kid, a shark tornado is a very unlikely but still possible phenomenon.”
“Seriously?”
“as a heart attack.”
“That’s... mildly terrifying.”
“so’s a heart attack.”
Rian sighed. “You win.”
The skeleton chuckled, “well, i do have you in bed with me, so i’d say--” Rian swatted at him and he laughed. “alright kiddo, let’s see...”
He stood up, dislodging the blankets as he got up and stretched. His shirt rode up a bit on his backbone. Rian stared for a second, then glanced up at Sans’ face, then looked across the room as his face turned red. He hoped Sans wouldn’t notice.
He noticed.
“what’s a matter kiddo...” he started, looked down, and then broke out laughing.
“Sans please stop.”
“that’s adorable Rian!”
“Sans.”
“i can’t believe how red your face is right now!”
“This right here? This is why I don’t spend the night with you.”
“i can’t help it, that’s just... you’re so cute!”
“I’m really not.”
“That’s the face of my little sinner.”
“Sans oh my god.”
The skeleton grinned, blue tinging his cheekbones as he wiped a tear away. “i can’t help teasin’ ya kiddo. you know it’s perfectly fine, ya don’t gotta be embarrassed. ya ain’t quite used to seein’ a sexy skeleton yet.”
Rian snorted. “Yep. very sexy.”
“ya know ya want me...”
“Sans please.” Rian mumbled, a begging note in his voice.
“to take ya to the bonezone.”
“Sans no.”
“sans yes.” he chuckled, bending down and kissing the top of Rian’s head. “now i’m gonna pick a movie. try not to get too hot and bothered. it’s barely noon.”
Rian grumbled an affirmative, hiding his face in a pillow as Sans walked over to the TV setup.
Messing with his little bonefriend always put the skeleton in a good mood. So, instead of picking a torturous movie like Cannibal Holocaust or Pete’s Dragon, he looked over at his horror collection. Nothing was quite as relaxing as yelling at a human dumb enough to walk willingly into a horrorfest, he and Rian had agreed. After barely a moment’s contemplation, he slid The Grudge from his shelf, and held it up with a grin.
“ready for a bad time?”
Rian squinted, then grinned to match Sans. (They were picking up more and more of one another’s mannerisms lately) “Yes!”
A while later, they only regretted a few of their decisions as Sans held Rian and they protested in a begging toned.
“oh my god.”
“Buffy what are you DOING?”
“murder kid is obviously a murder kid!”
“RUN YOU MORON!”
“when a human makes noises like that you don’t ask questions you just get the fuck out.”
“Fuck that grandma she’s old she’s lived her life!”
Stella just thumped her tail lazily, happy to be with such an energetic family.
(A/N: I headcanon that Sans and Rian would totally be huge fans of youtubers like the Cinema Sins and Nostalgia Critic. They probably watch movies together because no one else has the patience to see one with them. Also I hope you guys liked the smutty fakeout trust me there’s more where that came from.)