Bone of Contention (Underswap Papyrus X Reader)

Chapter 20: "Safety is Necessary"

Eventually, you had calmed down enough to eat, but you still weren't very hungry, so you had to set the bowl of ramen to the side. You weren't intending to finish it because you just couldn't think about eating right now. You picked up your phone to see at least four new texts from Austin that you hadn't heard come through due to you phone being on silent.

You took a deep breath and looked at all of them, one by one.

"Babe, I know you're home. Don't you dare ignore me!"

"Are you crying because you fell for my trick to get your number?"

"Hm, maybe you fell asleep. Well, in that case I'll leave you alone for a bit. Sleep well, babe."

And the most recent one chilled you to the bone, you knew that all it was is a big scheme to get you into his hands. You'd never trust that man with anything. This is what it read:

"Hey, babe. I know a way to make this all stop. No more of these text messages, no more stalking, no more harassment. But to fulfill that, you have to meet me in the alley beside your apartment."

You weren't in any way going to ever step foot near that creep again, so you quickly went to his settings in your contacts and blocked his number. You hoped that his texts would stop now, but just in case, you put your phone onto 'Do Not Disturb Mode' so that if he wrote you again, it wouldn't bother you.

But as the hours passed, you couldn't help but feel anxious. You felt like at any moment, Austin would burst in through your door somehow. And that thought only made you tense up more.

You had been sitting on your couch for around five hours, wrapped up in a blanket and trying to stay calm. You had been drawing Mrs. Agatha's cat while listening to your favorite band to relax when you got bored and decided to draw something a bit more challenging, a portrait. But not of a human, of a skeleton, rather, of Papyrus.

His lanky physique would be fun to draw someday, but for now you just wanted to focus on his skull. You gritted you teeth realizing you didn't have a picture of him anywhere and you sighed. You grabbed your phone and searched up 'Papyrus Skeleton' into the search bar of your browser and pressed enter. After waiting a few seconds for it to load, the search came up and the first result was a profile on some social media website called "Undernet". You'd never heard of this website so, you were kinda worried, but you clicked on it anyways. It loaded slowly and it appeared to be a Facebook for monsters, except fancier and not as annoyingly filled with politics.

His profile was filled with puns, jokes, and pictures with Sans and his friends. You couldn't help but chuckle when you saw a picture of the child from the chocolate shop sitting on top of Papyrus' shoulders. They were laughing gleefully and a happy smile was plastered on Papyrus' skull.

The next picture was of him wearing a Santa hat holding a string with mistletoe attached to it in his left hand. It had been his profile picture around the Holidays and he had a light orange blush on his skull. You clicked on the picture and saw that it had a description. It read the following, "would ya smooch a skeleton? probably not. happy holidays, guys.". You smiled at the picture and felt a blush come on your face from looking at him, you'd be lying if your brain wasn't screaming "Yes!" in reply to the first sentence. You felt kinda weird for thinking that, but he just kinda looked cute in the picture.

Was it normal to think a skeleton looked cute? Well, Sans was cute, like kitten cute...but as you scrolled through the pictures of Papyrus on his page, you couldn't help but think he looked awfully... Hot.

You blushed brightly and put your phone away quickly. Well, that's enough thoughts for today!

You flipped the page of your sketchbook and began with a circular outline. You were going for a more realistic drawing, but you'd never drawn a skeleton before so you're not exactly sure how well it would turn out. Well, at least you'd have time to practice with it. Wait, why are you drawing Papyrus exactly?