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Sans held out his hand for yours once he was close enough. You smiled and without hesitation took his hand. The feeling of him using his so-called “short cut” has gotten pretty normal at this point of staying with the skeleton Brothers. The hot humid air of Hotland and Waterfall mixing disappears in an instant to the more cool feeling of the air of just Waterfall. You look around and you are indeed in a place that you have never been to, and the scenery in front of you can explain why.
In front of you was a vista of Waterfall, with the glimmering stones above you. At the back of the shelf of the small cave you stand in is a pool of water that looks like it might be gently steaming from some kind of heat. Though the thing that caught your attention was a thick picnic blanket laying on the hard stone. Along with a picnic basket. You look at him a bit confused. “Whats all this?” you asked him.
“i thought we could hang out and unwind from doing the tests on your soul. It had to have been at least a little nerve racking right?” he asks as he goes and sits on the blanket. You turn your head to the side in thought as you think about it for a moment. At the time of the test you were a little nervous but now that it's over you’ve already calmed down. But the gesture was nice.
“We hang out every day, we live together, remember?” you ask him with a laugh in your voice. But nonetheless, you go and sit next to your house mate.
“yeah but this is different, who else do you know that has a private pool heated by steam from the cooler magma down in Hotland?” He asks you. A very smug grin was on his face.
“Oh? Alright then, that is different” you say with more laughter in your voice. Not that you didn’t mind hanging out with Sans anywhere. He always made it a point to introduce you until you were comfortable doing it yourself. Which was very sweet of him.
“you hungry?” He asked you as he pulled over the picnic basket.
“Yeah I could eat.” You tell him. He opened the picnic basket and inside it were wrapped single Cinnamon Bunnies.
“how about a cinnamon bun, or maybe you're eyeing up a cinnamon bun? Or maybe this! It’s a cinnamon bun.” He dumps out the picnic basket shaking out all the cinnamon buns.
“Omg Sans!” You yell at him in shock and utter delight because of the ridiculous amount of pastries! You laugh out loud as he finally shakes out the last one. The absolute joy you had on your face while you were laughing caused sans cheeks to glow.
He doesn’t remember when it happened, though he really doesn’t care. But if he had to pin point it he would say it was the time of peace in the house before the mass terminations of monsters. He saw who you really were with little to no worries and everyone allowed as much freedom as you could give them even with the collars.
You grab one of the unknown number of cinnamon bunnies and open it for something to eat. You hummed with the taste of the sweet cinnamon-y baked good. You looked up admiring the glowing stones, and how they almost twinkle. Since being down here they always are there and are relaxing to look at. You could hear the rustling of plastic as you assume sans is putting the cinnamon buns away back into the basket.
Sans let (y/n) eat and look at the stones in the roof of this section of the underground. He wasn't really sure how to bring up the topic of what he needs to tell her. He wasn’t even sure if with her past if she would want anything more than what they are now, pretty much best friends. He didn’t know if he really wanted to risk possibly changing that, hopefully for the better and not the worse. Even when everything in his soul tells him to try. He took a deep breath deciding on just saying it just to get it over with. Like ripping off a band-aid as humans say.
You’re still staring at the roof of the cavern the underground is situated in at the glinting stones lost in a bit of thought. “hey, (y/n)?” you hum in reply letting him know you're listening but gonna keep looking at the stones. “i’m kinda in love with you” your breath stops and you can feel the pounding of your heart in your chest so much it hurts. But you think back, after he started to be more like his old self like papyrus told you one morning, he helped you through a lot of things maybe even at one point where he didn't want to. Then with the time you spent with him he was who you would go to for comfort. It all made sense now.
It's taken you to just now to realize that maybe; just maybe you’ve been in love with sans and for a while. You cover your face as it goes bright red. “Uh yeah, me too but with you. It took you saying something for me to realize it myself” you tell him.
“wait so you're in love with me too?” he asks, you just nod hands still covering your face. You feel cool bones on your wrist as sans gently moves your hand away. You look at him, he has soft edges to his face as he smiles at you. “would you like to be my girlfriend?” Sans asks you, “you can even determine the pace of the relationship. we’ll take it at your speed i don’t mind at all” he finishes.
“Does that mean you're my verta-bea now?” you ask him with a smile on your face. Your attempt at a play on words got him laughing so hard it sounded like he couldn’t breathe. Once he calmed down he took the hand he was still holding and bumped your knuckles with his teeth in a mock of when someone would kiss the back of your hand.
“You bet it does sweetheart, you bet it does”