It was late night and you were on your laptop working on school work. Homework is always a drag. The last test you took need up being a 32%. Ugh, depressing. It's quiet in your house. The only continuous sound is the clock ticking, tormenting and reminding you it's 11pm. You sigh, might as well take a break before you go to bed. Not the best decision but it's nice to yanno, clear your head.

You close the current browser windows and click the heart icon of the game undertale. It had been a little while since you're played the soon addictive game. You smile at the familiarity you get at the polite characters and the melody of the beloved soundtrack drifting out of your headphones. You've just arrived in outside of snowdin. You were trying to do the true ending again after restarting the whole game over. You were curious which dialogues you would get if you did pacifist the first time around.

You play a little, all the while having frisk expertly do a Papyrus's puzzles you already knew the answers too. When you notice a certain skeleton wasn't in the place he usually is.

You pause and look at the game confused. Was this just another example of Toby Fox's cleverness or was it a glitch in the game? So now a new self determinating mission came to you: Find out where Sans is.

You backtrack and go forward again but the little skeleton is nowhere to be found. And it's nearly midnight so you get frustrated and close the game. When an idea came to you. You decide to reload the last save.

Once you reloaded the save point, and not too far off from it was Sans, expectedly back where he was supposed to be. You have frisk walk up to him and interact. Sans's eye sockets are dark and cold as he addresses the player…you.

*you must think you're awfully clever huh?

You're not sure how to take that. In fact, you're just happy the game didn't glitch. It surprises you considering it was a true reset and you didn't even have that many interactions with Papyrus yet. Nonetheless you yawn and press on.

*you keep playing this game. reseting.

*why do you want me to be around anyway?

Even more to your surprise there was an option listing:

You keep things interesting. or no reason.

You put the first option and Sans frets to say anything at first before his eyes go back.

*…

*right. i guess so. Well, i guess i just wondered how it would be like if it were your life being reset.

And at a blink of an eye, everything seemed to change. You breath questioningly, even muttering under your breath, "what the hell?" Your eyes scan the computer screen in disbelief, it was actually 11pm again. You immediately open up the game again. Full curiosity in effect as you talk to Sans again. Once again, different dialogue. You're shocked at what he says next.

*that's right i figured it out, took awhile but even after 3 resets the flower decided to help out.

You bit your lip nervously.

*i guess you could say you're pretty sucked into the game now huh?

*anyway I want to hear what you want to say about this. go ahead. speak.

You waited for a text box to appear but found nothing. So you interacted again. Sans's eyes going dark as he repeated:

* .

You whisper a "..what?"

and the dialogue changed without your own queue. Sans lifted his arms and winked.

*what was that? couldn't hear ya.

You slumped back in your seat blinking full of confusion. "This is too weird.."

*heh heh heh