The Edge Of Everything

(WARNING! This story includes minor adults themes such as thoughts on suicide, depression, minor swearing, abuse such as bullying, etc. If you are not okay with theses kinds of things then please try one of my other upbeat stories. This story will have some things based more on 'accurate' to real life situations. It also has some things based on my real life experiences as well. You have been warned. Thank you. - Cupz)

Chapter 1: Daybreak

Chara's vibrant red eyes blinked slowly adjusting to the sunlight coming from her window. The bright yellow light shown into Chara's room through the closed curtain making her room look like it had flower print on the walls. She rubbed the sleep from her tired eyes and stretched her arms and legs beneath the light green covers.

Her short, messy red-brown hair was all knotted up and looked like she hadn't brushed it in days. She turned to her window again before falling back onto the bed wanting to go to sleep. She hated mornings. She hated doing the same thing everyday.

Wake up, get dressed, go to school, come home, do homework, go to bed. Same thing everyday. She was tired of it all. Sometimes she just wanted something to be different. She wanted something to change. But it never did.

Chara yawned and tried to go back to sleep but a rapid knocking on her white door, covered in yellow flower stickers, woke her right up. She rolled over to the door and stared at it. There was no movement from the other side. She closed her eyes again but the knocking came again also.

"Whaaaat?" She groaned putting her face into the pillow her head was resting on.

"Chara. It is time to get my child." A muffled motherly voice came from the other side.

"I'm uh…" Chara said thinking really fast "Sick!" and she coughed to try and trick her mother that she really was sick.

Toriel turned the handle on the door and slowly opened it to see her pink cheeked daughter lying in bed tucked in nicely. She walked over to her and put her paw on her forehead to see if she had a fever.

"I am sorry my child. It appears you do not have a fever." She said taking her paw off and looking back at Chara pleasantly.

"Di-did I say I was sick? I meant I FELT sick...yeah…" Chara then held her stomach and made a squinting face as if she was in pain.

The motherly goat monster just shook her head at the human girl and walked out the door saying

"Try again tomorrow."

And closed it on the way out.

Chara exhaled and took the covers off of her so she could get out of bed. She put her feet on the carpet and walked over to her dresser and looked in the mirror to see her reflection.

"Pale skin. Red eyes. Pink cheeks. Yep. Still look like a freak!" she said as she took her hairbrush and proceed to brush out all those nasty knots in her hair.

She brushed her bangs that looked like they had a bad cutting job and her the rest of her hair looked that way also. She kind of liked it that way. She didn't really want to change it. She had done it herself and she was disappointed of how her parents reacted. Yes, she wasn't allowed to cut her own hair, but Chara didn't really care about breaking one rule. She already got in trouble and there was no going back now.

She then went to her closet and picked out a light green and yellow striped long sleeve shirt and brown overalls. She took off her yellow and green pajamas that had tea cups on them and put on her respected clothing.

She headed over to her bed tableside and picked up her golden locket on a golden chain that her brother gave her. She unclipped it and put it around her neck securing it at the back.

Turning back in the mirror, she placed a yellow flower hair pin near the top of her head to finish off her look. She checked herself one more time to make sure her hair looked okay for public viewing and walked out her room door and down the staircase to the kitchen where her older brother, Asriel, was already up and ready for action. He had on a plain green short sleeve shirt and black pants.

Asriel turned to Chara as she came and sat down next to him at the table.

"Howdy, Chara! Ready for another day at school?" Asriel asked her excitedly wagging his little goat tail.

"You mean Hell?" Chara said in turn smiling a little at her brother who didn't seem to appreciate the joke.

"Chara, my child, what have I said about your use of language?" Toriel asked Chara giving her her cereal with milk.

"Not use it?" Chara began eating the cereal making loud crunching noises as she chewed.

Toriel sighed and went back to making lunches for her children. As she was doing that, Asgore came down the stairs looking a little angry but he didn't say anything.

"Morning dad!" Asriel said hoping to cheer him up.

Asgore just walked past him and went into the pantry to get some food for his own lunch. Asriel felt a little saddened hat his father didn't reply but Chara patted him on the back to comfort him.

Through all the years the two had been together, Chara was usually the one to comfort Asriel. She would joke around and call him a crybaby since he would get upset over anything that happened in a negative way. Asriel was very much a scaredy-cat but the past 3 years did wonders to him. He had a few more friends and wasn't as scared. Chara on the other hand was the opposite. She was a loner at school having little or no friends, other than Asriel. But they were in different grades and only saw each other at recess and even then because Chara got so many detentions. Why? Well it'll come up later.

Asgore didn't say a word as he walked out the door to go to his job. He was the ambassador for monsters and since he is or...was the monster king, he thought he would be the best candidate for that role. He had done a great job so far and it wasn't all that different from being a king. He just a lot of paperwork and press conferences but the rest was pretty much the same. Listen to the people and decide what to do and how to help monsters better fit into the world of humans.

Humans were surprisingly okay with the monsters. Most of them were very friendly while others couldn't quite make the switch. It did all happen very fast but it had been three years and now and you'd think that monsters and humans would at least be okay with each other. Well they were but some still treated monsters as well, monsters.

Toriel scoffed at the way Asgore acted to and turned to her children with the lunches. Chara noticed that her parents did quite seem to have the same spark as they once did. They were very empty when the talked to each other and gave each other cold looks of hate. Chara didn't like it. She mostly understood why. Asgore did murder six innocent human children and waged war against humanity. Toriel had left him but when they got back to the surface, for the sake of the family, the got back together.

Toriel handed Asriel and Chara their lunches and told them to hurry or they'd miss the bus. Chara put her brown running shoes and grabbed her dark green backpack. As she took it re remembered that she hadn't done all her homework. My teacher is going to be so angry! Again! She thought as she and Asriel took their lunch bags and headed out the door to the bus stop.

They lived a new neighborhood built just for monsters when they surfaced and it was still under construction. They construction crew were still adding a few houses but it further down the street and didn't bother the Dreemurr household whatsoever. The house that Chara lived in was fairly big. It was a two story, grey house with a big tree out the front with a tire swing on it. The front of the house had a pretty garden filled with roses, lilies, and of course, buttercups. Chara's favourite.

It had steps and a pathway down to the sidewalk so they had a big enough lawn to play on, although the two kids rarely did, and a driveway off to the left of the house. Both Asgore and Toriel learned how to drive and got their own cars. Being royalty did have it's perks when it came to buying expensive things.

Monsters had a different currency down in the mountain and that was gold. Surprisingly, it was real gold coins and most monsters were very rich. Some didn't even have to work, but did anyway to try and get friendly with the humans.

Chara and Asriel walked down the street to the bus stop and waited for their bus. Chara turned to Asriel.

"Hey, Azzy?"

"Yeah Chara?"

"What do you think dad was so upset about?" She asked her brother with worried eyes.

"Hm..dunno. Maybe he woke up on the wrong side of the bed." Asriel replied calmly.

"The thing is...he's done that so many times this month. Something has to be wrong." Chara looked down the street to see if she could see the bus.

"Yeah I guess." Now Asriel sounded a bit worried.

"You don't think mom and dad...hate each other...right?" Chara turned back to Asriel with an even more upset face than before.

Chara always fear that. Ever since her family got to the surface, her parents never got along. Even though they said they were fine, Chara could tell something was off. She knew what was going on. Toriel still didn't forgive Asgore.

Asriel put a fuzzy paw on his little sister's shoulder. "Don't worry Chara. Parents just fight sometimes."

Chara looked away. They never fought before we came here. She thought to herself as she looked back down the street for the bus.

Chara was falling asleep at the back of the classroom. Grade 5 is sooo boring! She had doodled a few flowers on her paper a little while her teacher was talking about...some historical thing that happened. She didn't really care. She was never interested in human history anyway. It was always someone did something stupid that led to a chain of events blah blah blah. Bottom line, Chara was bored. Really bored.

The teacher was reading something from a handout or worksheet or something and Chara was just falling asleep to his voice. Although it was boring to listen to, Chara couldn't help but to close her eyes. Just for a few seconds. She said in her head before almost actually falling asleep on her desk.

Almost as her head touched her arms on her desk, her mind snapped itself awake and she shot upright in her chair. She looked around a little and remembered she was in class.

"Chara." The teacher called on her.

"Y-yes?" Chara said from the back of the room

"When did Jacques Cartier explore the coast of Alberta?"

"Um…"

Chara really wasn't paying attention. She had to say a year. Sounded simple enough. Right?

"1775?"

Chara said as if it were a question. She really wasn't sure and she hated that the teacher called on her. However, whatever self confidence that she had before was gone. All the kids in the class laughed as the teacher looked unimpressed at the front.

"Chara. Jacques Cartier explored the coasts of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. Not Alberta." The teacher explained in a bit of a sassy way making all the other kids laugh again.

Chara felt hurt. The kids were laughing at her. She felt embarrassed and stupid. Why did I have to fall asleep? She asked herself while trying to sink down in her chair to not be seen.

"And it was 1534. NOT 1775." The teacher said a bit angrily at her.

The teacher was about to continue when the bell rang for the end of school. Chara had a sigh of relief that she could leave. She hated this class and she hated the teacher.

She gathered her things, put them into her backpack and proceeded to walk out the door. She was the last one to leave the class but she always was. She didn't put her backpack on yet but she was about to. Before she could though, she was held back by the teacher. Literally. He had grabbed her by the back of her overalls. Chara squealed as she felt the tug backwards.

"Chara." He said sternly still holding the straps of the overalls. "Can we chat?"

Chara wasn't sure how to answer. Asriel was going to be waiting for her. She couldn't stay back.

"um...I have to...meet my-" She was stuttering she sentance but the teacher cut in.

"I don't care. You have time to talk."

Chara couldn't see his face but she could hear his loud demanding voice. It scared her. Especially because he was right in her ear speaking quietly. It sent shivers down her spine.

"I've seen your grades Chara. They aren't great. In fact...you're failing." he said again right into her ear making Chara feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Now...you could do some extra work to bring your marks up but...It would far too much for you to handle. So instead, you're going to have to live with your consequences."

Consequences? Chara thought. What consequences?

"You're just going to have to explain to your parents why you are failing my class and well...every other class as a matter of fact."

When Chara heard this she freaked out. I couldn't be failing every class right? Chara was even more scared than she was before.

"Now go meet your monster brother. I'm sure he's waiting. Right?"

It felt wrong what the teacher was doing but Chara wasn't sure why. There was silence between the two for a few seconds.

"Right?" He asked again more sternly in a low, deep voice that seemed super creepy to Chara. She couldn't take it anymore. She was getting creeped out by her teacher and it was making her feel super uncomfortable.

"Yes Mr. Segel." Chara replied so frightenedly she was shaking in fear.

The teacher let her go and pushed her forward causing her to skid and fall to the ground. She felt a burn on her knees as she got up slowly.

"Now leave...freak" He demanded in his normal voice.

Chara picked up her backpack and ran out of his classroom almost in tears.

This is why I hate school… She thought as she went to find Asriel who was probably worried about her at this point. While she was walking away she could feel someone staring her down. She didn't have to turn around to know she was being watched. She walked faster down the hallway and out the front doors to were Asriel was supposed to be.

This is why I hate school. She repeated in her head as she could feel tears coming down her face.

(Thanks for reading the first chapter. Yes I know I changed a few things from the first one but this is better. It will still have all the same elements of horrible things in it so don't worry! Just for clarification because it wasn't really said in this chapter, Chara is 10 and Asriel is 12. Chara is in grade 5 and Asriel is in grade 7. OOH! BTW I changed Frisk's gender to female as well but I'll get to that in later chapters. Please tell me what you guys thought since you've been waiting so long. Thanks a lot! -Cupz)