Author's Note: Hello beautiful readers! I'm here with the fourth chapter of Their Story. I hope you are enjoying it so far! I'm having a blast writing it! I'm going to try to have the fifth chapter written and posted by the end of today. Anyway, enjoy!

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"That was—" Asriel began.

"Incredibly overwhelming but fun?" I finished. He grinned and nodded as we both dumped a load of dishes into the sink. I threw a bitter glare towards the living room, where a motherload of trash lay for us to pick up. If I played my cards right, (and wished upon a star), I wouldn't be forced into cleaning it up until next week. If I am extra lucky, one of the other inhabitants of the household will do the cleaning for us.

"It's kind of weird to see all of them passed out like this," Asriel commented. I looked over at Toriel, who was asleep on the armchair by the fire, holding a piece of trash and a trash bag in the other hand. Sans and Papyrus were passed out on the couch. Asgore was asleep in the bedroom, while Undyne and Alphys were wide awake partying at Ghost Klub.

"To some extent, it is, but honestly I'm not willing to waste my little bit of unsupervised time feeling weird that all of them are out. Speaking of which…" I looked over at the stack of dishes on the counter, "I think we should ditch the chores and have ourselves a bit of fun, shall we?" I said mischievously. Asriel gave me a boyish grin.

"Sounds good to me." I smiled and grabbed his arm. We both sprinted up the stairs, down the hall past our room, and climbed another flight of stairs to the attic. There, I ran to the window at the end of the attic, opened it, and climbed out of it onto the roof. When I turned around, I saw Asriel stare at me in surprise.

"Are you going to join me, or not?" I asked. He hesitated for a moment before quickly joining me outside. The cool night's breeze fanned my face as I laid down onto my back to look at the stars. Asriel did the same.

"Their beautiful," Asriel said in awe. I smiled a little.

"Oh yeah, I forgot, you guys didn't get to see the night sky when you lived in the Underground." Asriel nodded. "You know, I never really took an interest in stars until after the monsters returned to the surface. Toriel and the gang were all so in awe of them that they insisted on stargazing almost every evening for an entire year. It was then that I started to gain an interest." I looked over to see Asriel looking at me intently as I spoke. "Now, I can name almost all of the stars in the sky."

Asriel gave me a look of skepticism. "Really?"

I pretended to be offended. "How could you not believe me?"

"I bet you 20 bucks you can't name all of the stars you see right now," he challenged.

"Asriel, I said almost, not all!"

"What, too scared to try?" He asked. I sighed and shook my head at him before looking upwards to the sky.

"Alright, so that one is…" I said, beginning to point at all of the stars we could see, and naming the majority of them with ease. Some of the stars took me a little bit longer to conjure the name of, but after about 10 minutes I was finished. I looked over at Asriel in triumph.

"Now, where are my 20 bucks that I was so graciously offered?" Asriel groaned and pulled out his wallet from his pocket.

"Does monster money count?" He asked.

"Well, I guess you don't have any legitimate currency yet, so…sure, it counts," I said taking the money from his hand. "I guess I can use this at some of the places that deal exclusively with monster cash." Asriel gave me a puzzled expression.

"Oh, yeah, some businesses have opened up that insist on dealing with solely monster cash. It's been kind of controversial, but I don't think they'll be closed anytime soon," I explained. Asriel nodded.

We sat in silence for a time, drinking in the beautiful sky above us. I did start to shiver a little from the chilly air despite wearing my favorite sweater, (the purple and blue striped one); I looked over at Asriel to see that he didn't seem bothered. After about another 20 minutes I stood up to go inside; I was getting too cold. Asriel looked over at me, but didn't get up. "I think I'm going to stay out here for a bit longer." I nodded and climbed into the house through the window, being careful to leave it open.

I climbed down both flights of stairs and finished washing the dishes. The grandfather clock down the hall struck one o' clock. After I finished drying and putting away the last cup, I climbed back upstairs, and was surprised to find that Asriel wasn't sleeping in his bed. Quickly realizing what was going on, I grabbed a blanket before climbing back up to the roof.

Upon looking out the window, I saw that Asriel was fast asleep, though he did shiver slightly in his slumber. I climbed out the window and placed the blanket over him gently, as to not wake him. He immediately stopped shivering once I put the blanket on him. I walked back to the window, and glanced at him briefly before reentering the house and going to bed.

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"How did the two of you sleep last night?" Toriel asked cheerfully as she cooked pancakes for the both of us.

Asriel and I exchanged a look before he answered. "I slept…ok. It could have been better though," he answered slowly. I nodded in approval of his answer. If Toriel found out that he had slept on the roof, she would flip out.

"That's nice sweetie," Toriel answered. Asriel and I raised our eyebrows at her, though she couldn't see us. Obviously, she was a bit distracted this morning.

Undyne and Alphys both walked out of their room and sat at the table with us. It was obvious from both of their faces that they stayed out late last night, as they looked extremely tired.

"So, how was Ghost Klub last night?" I asked the two. Undyne just glared at me.

"Sorry, just trying to make conversation."

"Well, I don't feel in the mood for conversation, how about that, kid?" She retorted. I immediately held back my response, as I knew that when she said "kid" in that way, it was a warning sign that speaking any further was the equivalent of stepping on a land mine. I looked over to Alphys for help, but she was too tired to intervene.

Asriel leaned in towards me. "Are they usually like this?" He whispered, managing a fearful glance towards Undyne.

"Only when they're tired," I replied shortly.

"Hmm, it seems a bit bonely out here this morning!" Sans greeted. He plopped himself down onto the chair to my right. "The pancakes smell delicious, Toriel."

Toriel didn't answer as she hummed to herself. Sans leaned over to me. "What's up with Toriel this morning?"

I shrugged. "Sorry, I don't have a bone of an idea," I joked. Sans just chuckled and slapped me on the back.

"You'll get there someday, kiddo, but today isn't your day. It's about the delivery. If your delivery is bad, then you can't make it."

"Sans, how much do you think about this stuff?"

He pondered my question for a moment. "More than anything else." Sans laughed at my shocked expression. "I'm just kidding, kid, take it easy."

I shook my head. I looked over at the pancake that Toriel was flipping to see that it was completely burned.

"Umm, Toriel?"

"Hmm?" She replied distractedly.

"Toriel?" I tried again. She didn't respond. "Toriel!" I shouted.

"What?" She asked, snapping out of her daze. Suddenly, the pancake caught fire, and the fire alarms in the house began to go off. Everyone jumped up from the table. Papyrus ran into the kitchen from the hallway carrying a fire extinguisher, and promptly began to spray it all over the place because of his lack of control on it.

"Papyrus! You fool! Stop spraying us! Spray the fire!" Undyne screamed. Papyrus continued to fight with the force of the fire extinguisher, causing me to run up to him from behind and start helping him aim it at the flames. Papyrus suddenly lost hold of it and dropped it onto the ground. I picked it up, and began to spray the flames, with Asriel's help. Finally, after about 5 minutes, the flames were out.

Toriel stood across the kitchen from the stove, one hand over her heart, the other hand holding onto the counter. "Oh, my goodness…" she said. "How did this happen?" She asked, turning to us, and jumping back a little when she us all covered in the spray.

I stepped forward, holding out the fire extinguisher. "Maybe you shouldn't be so distracted when you're cooking a meal, goat mom."