Your eyes widened and you stumbled back in surprise. Ink? As in your best friend?! Your crush? Even though your memories weren't letting you remember him or even what he looked like you were sure that you two were friends. Right? 

"Ink?!" You managed to squeak. Error snickered.

"Yeah. The one skeleton you trusted with your life, stabbed you in the back with that stupid paintbrush of his." Nightmare sneered. You slid to the ground in surprise. Head spinning you tried to remember that night. Wasn't Ink on the phone with you? Suddenly that memory was beginning to fuzz. Nightmare seemed to find your conflict humorous. 

"But wasn't he m-" Pain stabbed your SOUL

"He was playing you. All monsters are the same. They'll pretend to be friends with you and then they'll kill your loved ones." Nightmare exploded. 

Error took the opportunity to leave the kitchen before he got caught in the crossfire.

Tears welled in your eyes at Nightmare's sudden outburst and you looked down at your feet. He crouched down to your level. A black skeletal hand grabbed your chin and softly lifted it so that you were looking at him again.

"I'm sorry, I just need you to understand that. The only one you should trust is me." He said softer than his previous tone. 

"W-what about the others?" You asked thinking of Error, Killer, and Horror. The latter had caused you pain but you trusted them a bit.

"Not even the others." Nightmare said plainly. You lowered your eyes not able to meet Nightmare's gaze.

"Okay." You whispered. 

"Okay." He repeated and stood upright again, leaving you alone on the ground. 

~~~~~~~~Time Skip~~~~~~~~

"Ya!" You jabbed your knife at the training dummy. It'd been just yesterday that Nightmare had told you that Ink killed your parents, and you were starting to believe him. Today you thought training would get your mind off of the many things intruding your thoughts. It didn't work.

Gulping down water and walking to your room after a grueling training session by Dust and Cross, two other skeletons living there you tried to arrange your thoughts so they made sense. Once you reached your door your mind was still a mess of thoughts. Inside your room you tossed your knife and jacket to the side haphazardly, and you looked in your mirror for the first time since getting there. 

Your h/c hair was pulled back into a ponytail and slicked back with sweat. Your gray t-shirt had sweat stains on it and you wore a pair of black shorts. Looking back up at your own face you noticed that your e/c eyes looked dimmer and more fierce than before. But you shrugged it off. You wandered over to your gray bed and flopped down on it. As you lay you welcomed all the thoughts and questions buzzing in your mind.

Why would Ink kill your parents? You two had been so close it seemed. Why were your memories so blurred and fogged away? Was Nightmare protecting you from the pain of remembering that night, and everything that came before? Was that what the tentacle was for? To protect you, to protect your SOUL?

You groaned and clutched your head with curled hands. All these questions buzzed too loud within your head. Making sense of it all seemed close to impossible. Sitting up you sighed. You just had to trust Nightmare. Cause you knew one thing for certain now.

Ink killed your parents.

Your hands curled into fists. If Ink decided to show himself to you again you'd try your hardest to dust that backstabbing murder. Your eyes landed in your knife across the room and you got up to pick it up. Your reflection in the blade scowled back at you. Your dim e/c eyes took on a shade of black for a second, startling you and the knife clanked to the ground. Running over to your mirror you looked at your eyes. They were still a dim shade of e/c. Did you imagine your eyes turning black? You rubbed your face. You were tired and imagining things. Turning in your heel you put the knife away and headed toward the bathroom to take a shower.

(Okay yes this chapter is short, sorry. But the next two chapters are longer and more action-filled I guess. It's split into two chapter so it'll be coming in a bit, I'm still working on the second part.)