What's It Like Outside? [An II Fanfiction]

Epilogue

Trigger Warnings: None

WITH OST

Lightbulb let out a loud yawn as she sat up, stretching out her limbs and rubbing her eyes. She looked over at Paintbrush, who was laying in bed next to her, scrolling through their phone with their other arm laid across the bed where Lightbulb's head just was.

"You're up early." Lightbulb observed.

"You're up late." Paintbrush corrected her, sitting up and putting their phone down on the bedside table. They pointed to the alarm clock, which read 10:16 AM.

"Oh- why didn't you wake me up?" Lightbulb got up, grabbing her cane which was leaning against the bed. She grabbed her bandanna from the nightstand and quickly tied it around her neck, not caring how neat it was.

Paintbrush took off their night cap and set it on the nightstand, standing up as well. "You've been going to bed so late recently, I wanted you to get some sleep in" They answered, putting some food in Baxter's tank as they watched the crab also wake up.

Lightbulb looked over at Fan and saw he was still asleep. She walked over to him and turned him on his back, skittering her fingers on his 'stomach' area. "Fan! wake up!"

Fan almost instantly woke up in a fit of laughter. "Okay! Okay! I'm up!" He exclaimed, waving his arm around.

Lightbulb stopped and pulled him out of bed. "C'mon, we gotta get breakfast!"

Fan stumbled to his feet and Lightbulb let go of his arm. "How do you have so much energy this early?" He asked, rubbing his eyes.

Lightbulb shrugged. "Actually slept last night, I guess."

Fan gave a small hum in response. "I haven't really been able to." He thoughtlessly opened a drawer on his bedside table and noticed his old polka-dot bowtie inside. He picked it up and put it on. "Y'know what I think Imma start wearing this more" He said tiredly.

"Yeah, looks pretty good on you" Paintbrush commented, lightly nudging his arm with their elbow.

Fan smiled. "Thank you!"

"Mhm so breakfast." Lightbulb reminded them.

"Right right, you're in desperate need of those Pop-Tarts." Paintbrush said jokingly, walking over to the door.

"Hey, they're really good!" Lightbulb followed Paintbrush out of the room, Fan doing the same.

"Ok to be fair I've never actually had the strawberry ones so I wouldn't know." Paintbrush admitted. They looked over at Fan, who seemed to barely be keeping himself awake. "Hey, what time did you go to sleep last night?"

"Uh- like.. 4 or 5? I think?" Fan responded, rubbing his eyes again.

"Damn, I'd say something about that but I haven't been sleeping much earlier." Lightbulb said.