It had been a month since Frisk turned Deja down, and Deja wasn't taking it too well. She had been slowly coming to school less and less, and sometimes even skipping parts of the day.
"She okay?" Frisk asked.
"Not sure." Chara said. "I couldn't get her to answer."
"How about you, Rara?" Frisk asked.
"I don't even know why she's upset." Rara said, sighing. "You guys never told me."
"She found out Frisk ain't into her." Chara said
"It can't be just that, I mean, a whole month of slowly getting worse just because of that? There has to be more." Rara said, looking like she was thinking hard, it being adorable with her neko stuff on.
"God, if I wasn't taken.' Chara said. "I'd make out with you right now. That's adorable."
Rara blushed a little bit, before smirking and pawing at Chara, letting out a little nya.
Frisk giggled, patting Rara on the head.
"You wanna come over after school?" She asked. "I'm sure we could have some fun."
"We should probably make sure our friend is okay first, she hasn't come in for a week." Rara said, pointedly ignoring her own blush.
"Yeah." Chara said. "Then, I'll have to introduce you to my good friend, Jack Daniels."
"That's some kinda alcohol, isn't it?" Rara deadpanned, crossing her arms.
"Yep." Charas aid. "I see you're already acquainted.'
"I… haven't really tried any before… but we can worry about that later, let's go find out where Deja is." Rara said.
"Right.' Chara said. "Let's go."
They ditched school, since they didn't really care, going to where Deja lived and knocking at the door. Her mother came and answered it after a minuet. "Yes?" Dejas mother asked.
"We're looking for Deja." Chara said.
"She's not here, she's at her 'special place'." Her mother said, stepping back inside and closing the door.
"Welp.' Charas sid. "To the woods we go."
"You know where that it is?" Rara asked.
"Yep." Chara said. The three went to the tree house, looking up at it.
"So, how do we get in?" Rara asked.
"Open the door." Chara said, turning the knob. The knob rustled, but didn't open, revealing the door to be of the locked variety.
"It's locked." Chara said. "Dammit.'
"Try knocking?" Rara suggested.
Chara knocked, waiting for an answer. The sound of the door unlocking was heard after a few minutes, but not the sound of someone coming to do so.
They went inside, no si sign of Deja anywhere.
"Deja!" Frisk called. "You in here?"
There was the sound of something opening in house, but Deja did not appear.
They followed the sound of the opening thing, finding a open hatch in the living room of the tree house.
"This is a treehouse… how does it have a basement?" Rara asked as she looked down the hatch.
"No clue." Chara said. "Imma jump down."
"Don't jump down, we don't know how far it goes, you could get hurt." Rara said, the concerned look on her face almost irresistible because of her neko gear.
"So damn cute." Chara said. "You are definitely coming over when this is done."
Rara blushed at the compliment, before sliding down the ladder in the hatch. When all three got down there, it looked like a mad scientist's lab, random projects from varying fields of science everywhere.
"What is this place?" Frisk asked.
"My lab." A depressed sounding voice said from somewhere in it.
"Deja?" Frik called out. "Where are you?"
"Over here." The depressed voice called, the voice leading them to where Deja sat on a stool, some random machinery on the table in front of her that she wasn't working with at the moment.
"Are you okay?" Frisk asked, walking up to her. Deja didn't answer, simply looking at Frisk, revealing that she looked terrible, as if she wasn't taking care of herself, it not helped that she was currently slumped depressedly.
"Hey.' Frisk said, taking her into a hug. "What's wrong?"
"It's mostly I'm still not taking what happened last month all too well." Deja whispered so only Frisk heard, not accepting or denying the hug.
"Listen.' Frisk said quietly. "I may not feel… that way about you, but I do care about you a lot. PLease don't do this. Let's be friends still."
"I'm still your friend… I'm just… not handling the put down well, so I tried to distract myself with this stuff." Deja said, still sounding depressed.
"It's alright.' Frisk said. "How about we go get some food? Just the two of us."
"I… don't want to get my hopes up." Deja said, hesitation in her depressed voice.
"Well" Frisk said. "Friends can go out to eat together too."
"I know, but… " Deja trailed off, sighing. "I'd still get them up anyway."
"Listen." Frisk said. "How about we just go as friends and talk and go from there as that?"
"Fine." Deja says, sighing.
"Good." she said, patting her head.
The four left, Deja locking everything behind her and her and Frisk going to a fast food place, Deja waiting in a booth while Frisk got food.
"I hope you're hungry.' she said, walking over with food and placing it down in front of them.
Deja picked at her food as if she wasn't hungry, though her stomach's growling revealed that she was.
"Go on." Frisk said. "Eat, alright? I know you're hungry."
Deja barely ate anything, as if she couldn't bring herself to eat more than a small portion of her food.
"Come on, Deja." Frisk said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Please eat. For me."
Deja sighed, reluctantly filling her stomach, not looking at Frisk at all.
"Thank you." She said, patting Deja on the head.
Deja seemed to flinch away from the contact, a barely noticeable blush on her face before it shifted back to sad.
"Deja." Frisk said, moving next to her. "Please don't be sad."
"I can't help it." Deja mumbled, sniffling a little. "I'm just… sad, constantly ever since…" She trailed of, not wanting to say it.
"PLease don't feel that way." Frisk said, hugging her. "It makes me feel bad. Worse than you. I'm so sorry I don't feel that way for you, but please don't hate yourself over it. Hate me if you have to, but don't hate yourself."
"I couldn't hate you." Deja mumbled, hugging back with a quiet sob. "I'm just… having trouble getting over it."
"It's alright.' Frisk said, rubbing her back gently. "If you want to talk about it or anything, you can tell me. I promise I'll listen."
"We tried talking already." Deja said, referring to shortly after the put down happened.
"I know." Frisk said, sighing. "But, I want you to know I'll always be there for you."
"...kinda like a big sister?" Deja asked, looking up at Frisk with an almost irresistible adorable look on her face.
"Oh, god, that's adorable." She said, blushing. "Don't let Chara see that face. She get's a little… predatory with super cute things. But, yes, I could be like that with you."
"What do you mean 'predatory'?" Deja asked, the look shifting to a equally or more so adorable confusion filled one.
"Don't worry about it." Frisk said,waving it off.
"Okay… sissy." Deja said, sounding a little better already.
Frisk blushed, holding Deja and kissing her forehead. Deja blushed a little as well, resting her head on Frisks shoulder.
"Can we go back to my treehouse, sissy?" Deja asked, a cute look on her face.
"Sure." Frisk said, giggling.
"Um… w-would you m-mind carrying me?" Deja asked, face red in embarrassment.
"Sure." Frisk said, giggling at her face. "Bridal style? Chara loves that one."
"L-like you'd c-c-carry your little sibling." Deja requested, red face lessening a little.
"Okay." Frisk said, picking her up bridal style and carrying her out of the restaurant.
This made Deja blush return ten fold, Deja hiding her face in Frisks shoulder as she was carried to her tree house. Frisk somehow managed to carry Deja inside, Chara seeing the two, Rara having gone home.
"I'm jealous." She said, putting on mock hurt.
"Don't worry." Frisk said, giggling. "I'll make it up to you."
The adorable confused look was back on Dejas face as she looked between the two, wondering what they meant, her sensing a deeper meaning but not quite getting it.
"You better." Chara said.
"When have I not?" Frisk said, pouting. Chara shrugged.
"You okay, kid?" She asked Deja. Deja nodded, turning to Chara, the almost irresistible confused look still on her face, Chara seeing it.
"What?" She asked. "The hell is with that adorable look? Jeez, kid."
Deja just shook her head, deciding it didn't really matter to her right now.
"Alright then." Chara said.
"So, what do you two wanna do?" Deja asked, a adorable look still on her face.
"I think I have an idea." Chara said, thinking, a smirk on her face.