What Went Wrong?

Epilouge

Asriel and I lay on the flowery ground and stare up at the white fluffy clouds. We're both chatting about random things, from how odd a rolly-pully bug looks to how cold the water is in the creek over by the canyon. All my cares have been pushed a side and the only thing I have to focus on is not hurting my brothers feelings by saying something morbid or weird.

"Hey, Chara! Look at that cloud!" He told me pointing up at the sky, "It kinda looks like our heart shaped lockets!" I smile, close my eyes, and soak up more sunlight.

After a long silence, Asriel sits up and stares down at me. I open up one eye and look up at him and the sit up and give him a questioning look.

"Chara, did I ever tell you exactly why I let those humans kill me so long ago?" He asks me suddenly. Well, that's one way to start a conversation.

"Well... no, I don't think so. I just remember my huge temper tantrum I threw and me screaming at you to run... and you didn't... you know I felt like I was the one murdering you... it hurt me so bad." I replied and looked down into the dirt.

Asriel sighed and closed his eyes, "Ya... I know it hurt you. Remember we could feel each other's feeling. But I think now is a good time to tell you why I stopped you from killing those humans..."

After another long pause I got impatient and huffed, "Ugh! Go on! Don't start a conversation like that and then leave it! I hate cliffhangers..."

Asriel opened his eyes to roll them and then closed them again, "Drama queen..." he mumbled.

I grabbed his arm roughly and stared him down threateningly, "What did you say, you little punk?!"

He laughed and pushed me away yelling, "Hehe, nothing nothing!! Heh, well guess back to being serious..." he took a deep breath in and stated, "Your plan wouldn't have work out for us in the long run. See, if you would have taken the six human souls, in my body. Then the humans would associate monsters as psychopaths and murders. And if you would have broken that barrier, the monster race would have streamed out onto the surface and the humans would have flipped out on us for killing them and... well I'm sure you get the just of what I'm trying to say..."

I looked down, how did I not see my fatal flaw in the plan... if Asriel would have never spotted it... I would have been held responsible for everyone's deaths. That would have been even more torture than watch my own brother die a gruesome death. "Asriel... thank you for giving your life for the greater good... I'm sorry I killed you... it's all my fault for manipulating you in the first place." I bow my head in shame.

He sighs and lifts my head up again with his fingers and looks me dead in the eyes and says with confidence, "You need to stop blaming yourself for everything! Remember we never grow up after death... we are both just kids... no need to throw shade at each other for the mistakes we have made in the past... best to forgive and move on." I feel my face turn red like a tomato and realize how much blame I've put on myself over the years.

I nod and whisper, "No more, it's all my fault shit. We live openly and without blame from now and forever. The entire real world might now be able to live in harmony, but I know we can."

Asriel smiles at me and I smile back. Suddenly I jump up and without really thinking, bap Asriel in the nose. He jumps up himself in surprise and looks at me confused. Then I scream, "HA! YOU'RE IT!!!" And run off towards the canyon, through a extraordinarily long field of Buttercups.

It takes him a minute to process what's going on, but soon enough he screams back, "W-WAIT NO FAIR! HEHEHE! YOU GOT A HEAD START AND THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE!" And he takes off running after me.

I look back at him and see delight cross his face. Our heaven is always sunny and we never get tired, only sleeping if we absolutely want too. We can never get physically hurt here either! While I run away from Asriel, I begin to wonder if this is the REAL Asriel or just a figment of my heaven... maybe everyone lives in their own individual heaven or if everything you see is actually real... is life itself even real? Was I actually dead or was I just having the longest, most realistic, and best dream of my life... did I actually freeze to death in that huge blizzard hundreds of years ago and I imagined all of the Underground, and Frisk, and... is my brother even real in the first place?

NO!
STOP!
THINKING!
STOP IT NOW!!!
NO MORE OVERTHINKING!!!
YOU'RE IN HEAVEN...
give
yourself
a
break...
forever.
Don't Alter Your Good Memories.
live
in
the
moment
and
don't
let
others
live
it
for
you
BE A LEADER NOT A FOLLOWER, BE YOUR OWN YOU AND DON'T LET LIFE DRAG YOU DOWN... NO MATTER HOW HORRIBLE THINGS MIGHT BE. NEVER GIVE UP...
never.