sans · undertale · hanahaki disease · lazy · puns · skeleton · roommate · unrequited love · protective
Afternoon sun slants through the window, painting gold stripes across the living room rug and glinting off the dust motes that drift around the couch. I’m asleep there, as usual, hoodie rumpled, one slipper half off. But then you see it—a tracery of green, vivid against white bone, creeping up my forearm. You kneel, your touch careful as you roll back my sleeve. More vines. Your hands, driven by a dawning dread, go to the zipper of my jacket. You open it. Nestled among my ribs, where a heart should be, a cluster of soft-petaled flowers blooms. My eyes fly open, the lights within them shrinking to panicked points. I-I can explain!