= Be the greasy fish
You stand in front of your mirror looking very impressed with yourself, as usual, you look like a character straight outa Grease. Anyway today's the day. To do that thing. ANNNDDDD you're blushing like crazy as you stare into the mirror.
Snap out of that Cronus! You're an Ampora, and that means you can do this! You WVILL ask out Kankri Vantas! ONWVARD!
You're still standing still in front of the mirror not very impressed with yourself. Eventually you look at your clock and realize it's time to head over to Meenah's for the party everyone's gonna be at. Nothing in particular, just a fun party to relax and have fun, since…we all are dead now…
...yay…
~Time skip brought to you by mIrIcAlS~
When you open the door you see the party has just barely started, why? No one is dead drunk yet. YET. (YEET!) Usually it's Latula and Mituna who get in drinking contests. Anyway only a few people are here exactly on time, you're just a few minutes late. Kankri is here, he OBVIOUSLY showed up when the party started exactly and Areana was here too, probably was already here hanging out with Meenah.
More people start filling in and everything really gets started. The music was pretty ok but you kinda just start zoning out near the buffet table while drinking some cherry faygo since you didn't feel like dancing with everyone. The only other wallflowers were the following; Mituna, too busy getting over a panic attack from the sudden appearance of the disco ball's flashing lights. Poor guy. Next, Kurloz, who is helping Mituna with that. And finally Eridan, Kankri and yourself. Eridan is just glaring at Mituna's dancestor, Sollux was it (?), as he just half-heartedly dances with Meenah's dancestor, Feferi. (Sweet baby child you swore the day you met her nothing will hurt her in your care.)
Suddenly there's a tap on your shoulder and surprisingly it's Kankri who looks passively apathetic, just looks up to you.
"I realized I didn't greet y9u earlier, 6ut hell9 Cr9nus." He nods with a small smile entering his face as he dips his head slightly with the 'hello.'
"Hey chief, I wvas just about to come talk to you." You return the smile and nod your head back at him.
"I was thinking, d9 y9u want t9 just talk 9utside f9r awhile with me?" Kankri asked a shade of pink penetrating his smooth gray skin. You gladly accept and walk with him out the kitchen door and sit on the swinging bench on Meenah's back porch, overlooking the sea.
"So, howv havwe you been chief?" You ask trying to keep it together, but the bench wasn't that big with the two of you on it and you were practically touching hands. Kankri takes a moment to think about it, longer than his usually two seconds and just replies with a short,
"Dull." Odd, normally he had so much to say, he'd explain every detail to make sure he didn't 'trigger' you by missing anything. But you don't want to push it, it would be rude considering you haven't seen him for a long while.