March 30, 201X

I sat on top of the mountain I had been coming to since my sister ran away and hummed our song to myself. I stared at the stars wondering if I'd ever see her again and if I did if it would be under happy circumstances. My low humming slowly turned into quiet singing.

"The sun goes down, the stars come out..." I shifted my body into a more comfortable sitting position. "And all that counts is here and now..."

Memories of me with my sister started flashing through my mind as tears came to my eyes, "My universe will never be the same..."

"I'm glad you came, I'm glad you came..."

My sister and I riding a sled down our street with our neighbors dog tied to it came to mind. The snow was thick and yet the dog was running through it with ease. I was screaming for our dad to come get the dog to stop, while my sister was cheering happily and holding on to my back saying, "Faster! Faster!"

"You cast a spell on me, spell on me..."

Then I noticed the dog was running right towards the road, my shouts for dad grew louder. "Dad! Daddy! HELP!"

Our dad burst out of the house calling my name, "Gray! Grayson! Where are you?!?"

"DAD!" I called out to him.

Dad saw us and realized the danger we were in right away. A car was driving down the road. He ran towards us his boots crunching the snow beneath his feet. He reached us right before the dog was able to run into the street and the car drove past us the driver honking the horn.

"You hit me like the sky fell on me, fell on me..."

Dad was so disappointed with me. He told me I had been foolish and that I was lucky that he got to us when he did. He grounded me for a month and told me to go to my room until him and mom had to go out for dinner. I nodded my head melancholy and went off to my room.

"And I decided you look well on me, well on me..."

I sat in my room for hours just looking out my window. Around the time that Mom and Dad had to go out for dinner it started to snow. As it got closer to the time they were supposed to leave it looked like a blizzard outside.

Soon someone knocked on my door and walked inside, "It's time for us to go, Grayson." It was my mom.

"Do you have to go now?" I asked her. "It's snowing really bad outside."

My mom smiled and hugged me, "Yes, it is snowing pretty hard out now. But we'll be alright." She drew away from me and kissed me on the forehead. "Can you promise me something, Grayson?" She asked me.

"Yeah, Mom." I said to her. "Anything."

My Mom smiled at me and said, "Will you promise to take care of Frisk when we're gone?"

I nodded my head and hugged her. "Of course, Mom."

"So let's go somewhere no one else can see, you and me!"

My little sister, Frisk, and I sat on the couch eating a ice-cream sundae we had made after mom and dad left watching a movie. It was a good movie. It was about some dog who can play soccer. Air Bud, I think it was called. We had almost finished both the sundae and the movie and were waiting for mom and dad to come home.

"Turn the lights out now, now I'll take you by the hand...

We were waiting for hours and it had begun to become late in the night. We were both getting scared, especially Frisk. She had started to cry so I took her hand and gave her my coat, "Here..." I said to her. "take my coat."

She stared at it for a moment then looked up to me, "But this is your favorite coat..." She said as she wrapped it around herself.

I smiled at her and said, "Yes, but it helps me to feel less scared and I think you need it more than me now..." I hugged her. "It'll fill you with determination, remember?"

"Hand you another drink, drink it if you can..."

I had given Frisk my coat once before when she was being bullied by some kids a few grades above her. I had scared the bullies away and she had thanked me. But I had done this several times before and I felt that it was time for her to fight her own battles. I had told her that I was going to pretend to bully her and I wanted her to insult me. That I would be fine no matter what she said to me, I just wanted her to stick up to me. She told me that she couldn't that even if I wasn't her brother she couldn't because she would be too scared to. I got on my knees and looked her in the eye and said, "Here, take my coat. It'll fill you with strength and determination like it does for me."

She was different from that moment on. She was more brave. She was no longer my shy little sister who needed me everywhere she went. She was now independent. And I couldn't be her knight in shining armor anymore.

"Can you spend a little time..."

It was the day after mom and dad left for dinner together and never came back when we learned about why. Some man called us to inform us that our parents had died in a car crash and we would have a foster parent move in with us until social services found either a family member willing to take care of us or a family to adopt us. Frisk and I had spent hours with each other consoling one another as we cried into each other's shoulders. No winter coat could fill us determination no matter how much we wished they could and from that moment on I made the decision to keep the last promise I made mom no matter what.

"Time's slipping away, away from us, so stay..."

We spent three months with our new foster parent in our house. The snow had started to melt, birds had started to come back and sing their sweet melodies, and flowers had started to bloom. But nothing felt the same as when mom and dad were still here. We both strived to move on with our lives. But one day I woke up and found a note from Frisk on my bedside table...

"Stay with me I can make, make you glad you came."

Frisk was gone. All that was left of her was a note which said:

Dear Grayson,

I can't live like this anymore. I just can't. Nothing is the same anymore without mom or dad. So I've run away to somewhere no one will ever be able to find me, so don't come looking for me. But...if you do come looking for me...here's a hint as to where you'll find me: Mountain. There that's it that's all you're getting. Bye, Gray.

Love, Frisk.

"The sun goes down, the stars come out..."

I slipped my coat on(even though the weather outside was no longer cold), packed my stuff up into my suitcase, and left the house I had grown up in for years behind. I was going to find Frisk. There was only one mountain in the area that I knew of and I knew that I would find her there.

"My universe will never be the same..."

I sighed as I stared at the stars. How long had I been here waiting to find her? How long has it been since I last saw her. A few days at the least. Maybe a week. A month? A year? That's what it felt like. I stared at my blue winter coat. It had a trim of animal fur around the hood. It was warm, but I didn't care. It made me feel safe, it gave me strength. It filled me with the determination I needed to move on with my quest for Frisk. And I was NEVER going to take it off.

"I'm glad you came..." I heard someone sing out from behind me.

Acting quickly I turned around and saw her standing there. Just standing there, "I'm glad you came..." I sang the next line.

"You cast a spell on me, spell on me."

And there we were singing the song back and forth with one another, staring at each other.

"You hit me like the sky fell on me, fell on me..."

It must've been a dream, but it felt so real.

"And I decided you look well on me, well on me..."

It couldn't of actually been her.

"So let's go somewhere no one else can see, you and me..."

She was gone and never coming back.

"Turn the lights out now, now I'll take you by the hand..."

Right?

"Hand you another drink, drink it if you can..."

She was walking towards me now.

"Can you spend a little time..."

She sat next to me.

"Time's slipping away, away from us, so stay…”

She took my hand in hers.

"Stay with me I can make, make you glad you came..."

She wrapped her arm around my shoulder.

"The sun goes down, the stars come out..."

Her touch felt so real, but it couldn't have been real.

"And all that counts is here and now..."

I started to cry.

"My universe will never be the same..."

She rubbed her hand up and down my back.

"I'm glad you came, I'm glad you came..."

I sobbed into her shoulder. Now it was only her singing...

"I'm glad you came, so glad you came. I'm glad you came, I'm glad you came." She hugged me and rocked me back and forth. "The sun goes down, the stars come out. And all that counts is here and now, my universe will never be the same. I'm glad you came, I'm glad you came..."

And as our song came to an end I heard her whisper to me, "I'm so glad you came looking for me, Grayson..."

"Me too..." I said to her between sobs. "Me too..."

She was real and she was there. And I was never letting her go. Not as long as I was still alive and breathing. Never again.

And as the stars twinkled in the sky above us I knew that she was never letting go either. We would stay with each other forever.

"I didn't think you would come." She said to me.

"Why wouldn't I?" I asked her. "You're my little sister."

"Well, I told you not to."

"Heh, did you think I'd listen to you? Let's put an emphasis on little sister!"

We both laughed and sat there with each other all night till the sun rose over the horizon. Brother and sister reunited.

"Hey, Frisk? Can you promise me something?" I asked her.

"Anything, Gray." She said, smiling.

"Never do that again."

"I promise, Gray. I promise..."

"Where'd you go anyways?" I asked her.

"Nowhere special." She said. "Just a place near the mountain."

"What place near the mountain?"

"It doesn't matter, Gray..."

"Whatever you say..."

"...I'll be back...."

One minute we're sitting there on the mountain alone under the stars and the next it's daytime and she's gone. Wait, who's gone? No one is here with me?

I check my watch.

March 25, 201X...

"I'll wait for Frisk to come back no matter what. I wonder if her hint was an actual hint or not. I guess I'll find out some way or another. Not that it matters anyways..." The sun started to set. "Hm, the sun's going down. The stars will be out soon. That reminds me of our song..."

"The sun goes down, the stars come out…”

This is based off the game Undertale the song is called Glad You Came by The Wanted.