The tall skeleton appears right in front of your face as you exit the kitchen. The kitchen door swinging shut behind you as you look up into the skeleton's black sockets. He has a very large smile upon his face as he beams, "GREETING HUMAN! MY BROTHER AND I ARE HERE TO DINE UPON YOUR WIDE VARIETY OF HUMAN DELICACIES!" Your eyes were wide as you almost stumbled back into the wall from the loud excitement from him. This monster seemed very forward and energetic. A smile formed on your face as you giggled softly. "Alright! Well, we are still open for another hour so why don't you two pick a table or booth to sit at and I'll bring out some menus!" The larger skeleton practically glowed with happiness as he proudly made his way back to the shorter skeleton. "I APPROVE OF THE WINDOW SEATED BOOTH OVER HERE TO THE LEFT! THAT WAY WE CAN LOOK AT THE STARS AS WE ENJOY OUR MEALS! NYEH HEHEHE!" You could hear his loud exciting proposal almost anywhere in the dinner. You made your way to the register and grabbed two menus and your pad to take their order.
Making your way to the booth they were sitting at, both across from one another, you placed their menus on the table in front of them. You noticed the shorter skeleton almost falling asleep in the booth with a smug grin on his face. Letting out a very quiet chuckle to yourself, you flipped over the pad to an new order sheet, plucked a pen from behind your ear, and gave them your attention. "Alrighty, what can I get you gentlemen to drink to start off with?" You noticed a little bit of a wider smile form on the shorter skeleton's face from the word of gentlemen. "I don't really think we are gentle-men, pretty boney myself." The taller skeleton seemed to let out a groan and glared at his brother, "I AM TERRIBLY SORRY FOR MY BROTHERS TERRIBLE BEHAVIOR, HE HAS AN INCREDIBLE BAD CASE OF SHARING BAD PUNS ANYWHERE HE GOES!" You chuckled to yourself even more so at the pun and the brother's reaction. "Oh it's quite alright, sir. I found it a bit humorous myself, and he has a point there." A snort and a snicker came from the shorter brother as he started to roll in the booth, that's when you realized what you said and started to giggle. "YOU'RE SUCH A BAD INFLUENCE! YOU NOW HAVE THE HUMAN WAITRESS SAYING PUNS!" "What can I say? I'm made of 'funny-bones'" You had to calm down now because your pad was up to your mouth, trying to muffle the laughter you wanted to let escape.
Shaking the giggles out with a few shakes of your head, you drew your attention back to the brothers. The taller skeleton had scanned the whole menu and turned to you, "I THE GREAT PAPYRUS WOULD LOVE TO ORDER A PLATE OF YOUR FINEST SPAGHETTI!" You scribbled it down on the pad with a smile, "and anything to drink with that, sir?" "A GLASS OF MILK WOULD BE JUST FINE! THE GREAT PAPYRUS NEEDS TO KEEP HIS BONES STRONG!" Oh this skeleton was flat out adorable. He made you think of a little brother, easily annoyed by his brother but very straight forward with how he enjoyed things, and always saying it with a great big smile. "Gotcha! Alright, and for you, 'bonely-man'" you said letting the nickname slip off your lips with a snicker. The shorter skeleton looked at you with pin sized white pupils in his sockets. He started to chuckle, looking over the menu for almost two seconds before turning his attention to you, "an order of fries and two bottles of ketchup, please kiddo?" What in the world could he need two bottles of ketchup for a normal order of fries? Oh well, everyone has their own tastes. You finished filling out the order, "anything to drink with yours?" "Nah, I'm good. The ketchup will be 'dine' for me." Shaking your head again with a laugh as you placed the pen back behind your ear. You took their menus with you to place back up at the counter. "I'll bring your food out when it's ready! Won't be long!" you said as you headed into the kitchen to give the order to Max.
In the kitchen is an open window where you can just hand the order paper to the chef and they place the food in the pick-up window. You were right on the other side of it filling up a glass with milk, and you could hear the two chatter away. "I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL PARTAKE IN THE HUMAN JOB TRAINING EVENTS TOMORROW MORNING! UNDYNE SAID I SHALL DO MY VERY BEST,…or she will kick my butt." "Or lack of butt…ha-ha." "I WILL NOT LET YOUR PUNS RUIN MY MOOD! I SHALL AWAKEN WITH THE SUN AND BE READY FOR ANYTHING THEY CAN THROW AT ME!" You have noticed quite a few monsters having jobs alongside humans. It made you smile that this 'Papyrus' was so determined to do well for his job training, whatever that may be. "YOU NEED TO FIND YOURSELF A JOB AS WELL! IT'S NOT HEALTHY FOR YOU TO BE SO LAZY AND SIT AROUND THE HOUSE ALL DAY!" "Hey, being a 'couch-potato' is work. Gotta shift a lot on the couch to find the right spot, and sleeping. Oh boy let me tell ya, that's a work out all on its own, bro." Papyrus had groaned angerly and placed his hands over his eyes, mumbling something under his breath. These two were for sure brothers, and entertaining.
"Pick up order, _!" "Thanks Max!" you smiled at the chef as he just waved you off a bit as if his way to say 'no big deal.' You picked up the glass of milk and put it on the tray with the plates of food, and then reached over to a shelf and grabbed two bottles of ketchup. The tray being carefully carried on your right arm, you exited the kitchen and headed over to the only guests in the diner. "Dinner is served, boys!" You exclaimed this with a smile, taking the glass of milk from the tray with your left hand and placing it on the table in front of the tall skeleton. "Alright, we have a glass of milk and a plate of spaghetti for you, Papyrus." He looked up at you with a very happy grin, seemed almost as if he were sparkling with how thankful he was. "THANK YOU, HUMAN WAITRESS!" "Oh! I'm sorry, how rude of me, my name is _!" "OH WELL THANK YOU, HUMAN _!" Papyrus turned his attention down to his plate and then seemed a bit taken back. You were just setting down the plate of fries and bottles of ketchup to the shorter brother, receiving a wink and a thumbs up as a 'thanks' when, "EXCUSE ME, HUMAN AMBER? BUT, I ORDERED THE SPAGHETTI!" You looked at his plate and had a bit of a confused look on your face now. "That is spaghetti, darlin'." "WHAT KIND OF SPAGHETTI IS THIS THAT HAS THESE THREE, ROUND, BALLS COVERED IN TOMATO SAUCE?" "Oh! Those are meatballs. They are always served on top of our spaghetti. Have you never had them before? If you would like I can take it back and get you a fresh plate without them…" "NONSENSE! I THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE AND TASTE THIS NEW SPAGHETTI!"
A smile appeared on your lips as you watched him take his fork in hand. The fork had stabbed one of the meatballs, a stray noodle dragging along with it as Papyrus brought it up to his face. He looked at it for a moment, studying it slightly before he parted his teeth and placed the fork full of food in his mouth. "So bro? What you thinkin'?" You and the shorter skeleton both looked at Papyrus with patience as he chewed up the food. The look that then formed on his face next, it almost made you squeal. His eye sockets grew wider, his smile seemed the happiest it could, almost his jaw falling off with how happy he seemed. He sprung from his seat and before you knew it, you were picked up and being spun around with a VERY happy skeleton. "OH MY GOD! HUMAN _! THAT WAS THE MOST DELICOUS TASTING SPAGHETTI I HAVE EVER CONSUMED! I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR DELIVERING SUCH A SCRUMPTICOUS DISH!" You laughed as he let you back to your feet and returned to his seat. "No problem! I'm so happy you liked it! I hope you enjoy the rest!" "INDEED I SHALL!" Papyrus began to happily swirl noodles onto his fork and shove them into his mouth, letting out pleased hums as he consumed his meal. The shorter skeleton then caught your attention as you saw him pop open the cap from one of the bottles of ketchup, and brought it to his mouth, chugging it down. He brought it down from his teeth, letting out a chuckle. "Thanks for the beverage, kiddo." You had that look of confusion on your face again as you had never seen someone drink ketchup straight from the bottle. You yourself love ketchup, but never have you just drank straight from a condiments bottle. "Hahaha! Not a problem, you both enjoy your meals and I'll be back with the bill! Enjoy!"
"You boys have a good rest of your night and a safe trip home! Thank you so much for coming! Hope to see you again!" you said as the two were heading to the door, bill all paid. "NO NO! THANK YOU, HUMAN _! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS NEW INVENTION OF MEATBALLS WITH ME! I AM SO EAGER TO TRY THIS OUT FOR MYSELF!" You giggled to yourself as you were taking their empty plates, and empty ketchup bottles from the table. The two waved at you as they headed out into the night. You looked up at the clock as it had read 5 minutes til 10:00PM. "Ready to head out when you are, Max!" Max had been cleaning up the kitchen after the skeleton brothers' food was prepared. You had already wiped down their table and took dishes to the back. Untying your apron, hanging it on the hook next to Meghan's, you went to the back room to grab your coat and keys to lock up. You flipped the lights off and headed to the door with Max as you pulled your jacket on. You fumbled with the keys as you finally found the key to lock the main door, turning it with a 'click'.
Knowing the place was locked up tight, you placed the keys in your pocket and looked over to Max. "Have a nice night Max! I'll see you this weekend!" "Day off work I take it?," he said placing a smoke between his lips and lighting it. "Yup! These night shifts are kicking my butt, but it's nice to have a day off every now and then." "Got any big plans then?" "Tomorrow is my dad's birthday so I'm gonna visit him, that's about it." "Well, enjoy, have a nice night." He said it so, plain. No emotion or even a hint of a smile on his face. It's alright though, Max isn't a bad guy, just likes to keep to himself and has been at the diner for a long time. "Good night Max!" Approaching your apartment, you stopped and thought for a moment. Your dad's birthday was tomorrow and you haven't even gotten him a card or anything. "It's not too late, I could stop at the store before calling it a night." You walked to the side of the street to your car and hoped in, heading to the super center a couple of blocks away.
Upon entering the store, you grabbed yourself a cart and pushed it towards your destination. You went to the greeting card aisle and browsed the 'Birthday' cards for a short while until you stumbled upon the perfect one. Grabbing it's envelope with a giggle, still laughing at it, you placed it in the cart. "Hmmm…might as well grab a few other things while I'm here," you thought to yourself. You made your way around the almost 'ghostly-empty' store, being really late at night. You had grabbed a few new hair ties to wear to work, a few green and black ones to go with your uniform, a loaf of bread, a bag of bagels and some strawberry cream cheese spread. You then made your way over by the juice aisle, browsing the shelves as you made your way down. "There you are!," you exclaimed reaching up and grabbing a jug of V8 tomato juice and a bottle of the newer V8 juices with other fruits mixed in. "That about does it, I think." You turned the corner and started to make your way around to head up the other aisle to check out. When you turned the corner, must've turned too quick for you banged into someone else's cart. "Oh crap! I'm sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going!," you quickly apologized. "Hehe, it's alright, kiddo. No harm done."
The other cart driver caught in the crash was the shorter skeleton brother. "Late night shopping too, I see?," he asked with a chuckle pointing to your cart. "Yeah! Might as well while out and about!" You then noticed the inside of his cart was full of spaghetti noodles, tomato sauce, and a few things of hamburger to, what you assume, were for Papyrus to make his own version of spaghetti and meatballs. "I see Papyrus likes his spaghetti, hm?" "Oh yeah, he loves it 'noodles' and 'noodles'. Gave me a nice list of things to grab while he went home to get some sleep before work tomorrow." You giggled softly at the noodle pun, "What a nice brother you are to him, …uhm…." You then tried to remember his name, realizing you never were introduced to either of them, just caught Papyrus saying his own name. "I'm sorry, I never got properly introduced to you." "Hehe, yeah, well…" he holds out a hand to you, "Name's Sans." He had that smile on his face again, like it never left. You reached your hand out and smiled back, "I'm Amber, pleased to meet y-…" Taking his hand in yours, you heard that childish noise of a whoopee cushion. Sans started laughing hard and pulled his hand from yours, holding up the pranking weapon. "The old whoopee cushion in the hand trick. Never gets old!" You couldn't help but blush from being embarrassed but got over it rather quickly and laughed along with him. "That was pretty…'humorous', but 'tibia' honest, you should try a hand buzzer." Sans hunched over his cart, laughing at your bad puns next to his. "Oh man! Dude, that was good! Yeah! I can see how a buzzer might make introductions a bit more, 'shocking'" You both were shooting puns back and forth with one another. You wiped a tear from your cheek and caught your breath. The shorter skeleton was almost on the floor rolling with laughter. He finally collected himself and stood up.
You then noticed his cart had a few bottles of ketchup hiding under the spaghetti ingredients. You giggled and questioned, "So, I take it you like ketchup?" Sans looked in his cart and chuckled, letting his shoulders shrug slightly. "Hehehe, what can I say?" You waited for him to finish but when he didn't you questioned, "What 'can' you say?" "A LOT actually! It's just really good." You laughed and looked into your cart, seeing your V8 juice, Sans noticing as well. "I gotta agree with you, tomatoes are 'guddo'" "oh that was so cheesy! Hahah!" The laughter battle started again and you even let a snort slip from your nose, but laughed at it again. "Hey, Sans, why did the tomato go on a date with the prune?" "Let me here it!" "Because he couldn't find a 'date'!" You barely got the punchline out without laughing through the whole thing. Sans threw his head back and was just laughing his ribs started hurting. "God damn, kid. I got one for ya…." You collected yourself and awaited, leaning against your cart slightly. "Why did the tomato blush?" "Hmmm, why?" "Because it saw the salad 'dressing'!" You covered your mouth and started laughing til the tears formed again. "Oh please, no more! I'm gonna bust a gut!" "No come on, I got one more! What did the sergeant tomato say to the slacker soldier tomato?" You rolled your eyes with a little laugh, "You better 'ketch-up!" Sides aching from laughter and smiles plastered to your face, you both collected yourself realizing the time. "Well, it was nice to 'meat' you officially, Sans, maybe see you again and 'ketchup'?" you cracked out the pun and received a great reward of Sans giving you a thumbs up with a chuckle. "I'm sure we'll be back in the diner soon. See ya around kiddo!" "See you!"
You saw Sans head to the check out as you made your way to grab one more thing and a gift for your dad for tomorrow. By the time you got to the check-out yourself, Sans had already left the store. You replayed the whole evening in your head and smiled as you paid for your items. Your groceries in bags on your arm, and the cart pushed back into the cart rally, you headed out to your car. What fun adventures were around the corner? Would Papyrus' spaghetti turn out? Would the skeleton brothers ever come back to the diner? So many things ran around in your head, but all you could really say to yourself was it had been a good night, and you really hoped to meet them both again.
