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Sketch's POV
It was quiet at the tree when I got there. Just the rustle of the branches overhead. She wasn’t there. Again. But it wasn’t because she was “reeeeally late” anymore. No; that bunny from Outertale stole my Berry. The Berry I became “best friends” with. The Berry that I wanted. Blot had his Berry. So what about me?
No, this wasn’t about me. Do you know what bunnies do to berries? They eat them! Celeste might not actually eat her (but I certainly wouldn’t put it past her! You don’t know where she’s been!) but I just had this…bad feeling about her. It didn’t help that Celeste convinced BB to ditch me. And I get the feeling there’s been rumours about me spreading around because not even Palette will talk to me anymore! Oh! And they kicked me out of that group chat thing that ruined everything.
…I miss her so much. I see her walking with Celeste and her little cronies every so often and, even though she’s always smiling, I can’t help but notice she doesn’t seem…happy. I just want to run over to her, hug her, tell her it’s ok, we’ll always be friends. But I always catch Celeste glancing at me and hurrying everyone away…Heh, “glancing”. What a weird word.
I sighed and got out my camera, fiddling with it. The distant chatter and leaves rustling was all background noise to me. And then I began to take pictures. It was a little project I was working on for Dad - “The Life of the Omega Resident”. I’d forgotten to do it for a few days and wanted to catch up. I looked at the camera with a smile. A Polaroid, newly found and fixed in Undertale. It was rather big, but that didn’t matter.
Half an hour later, I had a good pile of pictures, held in place by a random stick I found so they wouldn’t fly away in the wind. I hadn’t thought of BB again for a good while – I was in the zone right now! Blot had come over to check on me a few times, Rasp occasionally tagging along, but we didn’t say much to each other.
Another hour passed and Blot came storming along, dragging Rasp by the scarf. She looked pale (for a skeleton), and Blot was fuming.
“Tell him what you told me!” he yelled, making me look up and raise an imaginary eyebrow.
“What’s going on?”
“Yeah, Rasp, what IS going on?!”
“Aight, aight, I’m telling him,” Rasp sighed, sitting down. Blot just glared at her. “It’s about BB.”
And she confessed everything. How she hated BB being around anyone other than herself, how she hated Palette, Goth and I for taking her in instead of BB joining in with Gray’s little gang. How she set everything up to separate the two of us. All because of an overprotective tendency.
“…But why are you so overprotective in the first place?” I finally choked out, knowing my one eye-light was dulling down.
“That’s none of your business or concern-“
“I think it is you brat!” Blot burst out, fuming with anger. “Ever since we met you’ve caused my family problems! You broke Gray’s glasses, you’ve insulted my parents and caused kids to disrespect their roles an’ what they do, you knocked out my teeth,” he paused here to show her the gaps that still remained, “ an’ now this. You’ve ruined all our lives an’ you don’t even have a hint of shame!-“
“You just don’t get it,” Rasp interrupted. Pale pink tears brimmed from her eye sockets. “You don’t get it, no one gets it. Not my parents, not my uncles, not you, Sketch, or any damn monster in the fuckin’ Hyperverse! I’m supposed to protect BB. I failed her…all that time ago…an’ I…I need…” she trailed off, sobbing. Sobbing. Rasp, the leader, too cool for you girl, was sobbing.
“…Rasp…What do you mean you failed?” I asked nervously. She looked at me and smiled sadly.
“That’s…BB’s story…not mine…” she told me in between her sobs.
“…It’s to do with that therapy and Underfell childhood thing…” Blot thought aloud. Rasp looked down and buried her mouth in her tattered scarf.
“Yeah…”
“…Can you give us the run-down of what went on so we can try to understand?” I asked, voice as soft as I could make it.
“…Fine…I’ll make it brief ‘cause…I don’t like rememberin’…” she nodded, looking me in the eye. “When…we were 5 years old…BB was attacked in an alley way and…they raped her.”