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Chapter 5: Victory Dance
"Humm… are you feeling okay Undyne?"- Frisked asked full of concern, as Sans carefully put her down.
"What?!"- Undyne turned to see that both of her friends were worriedly looking at her.
"Do-don't worry, she is fi-fine! We were ju-just passing b-by"- Alphys hurried to say.
"Yeah! That's it" - Undyne quickly replied recovering her composure- "It seems that you two were too distracted to notice"
The monster smiled mischievously at the confused couple, Alphys on the other side, blushed deeply.
"oh yes, your sweater!"- Sans remembered, completely unaware of the looks Alphys and Undyne were giving them. He picked it up and quickly shook as much of its dirtiness as he could before handing it to Frisk.
"Thank you, Sans!"
"Hey Sans, don't you think it is a bit late for Frisk to go home alone? You should be more of a gentleman and go with her!"- Undyne said, slightly nudging Alphys.
"uuh.. i always accompany her home"
Undyne quickly clasped her hand against Alphys mouth, she knew the scientist too well to know what she was going to do. Although it was muffled, a clear "Aaaaaawwwww" made its way out Alphys's mouth, ignoring Undyne's webbed hand.
"What Alphys is trying to say is that what you do is something very nice!"- Undyne immediately explained as she dissimulated her sudden action giving the dinosaur a tight hug, what, obviously made her blush even worse.
"ok…if you say so.."- Sans looked at the weird acting couple in front of him- "are you sure that you two are ok? you screamed something like ship it, or something like that, what was it?"
Now it was Alphys's turn to save Undyne
"Oh, no-nothing! I have to deliver a ve-very important pa-package, and Undyne offered to d-do the shipping for me. She got a b-bit too enthusiastic, but y-you know how sh-she is"
"Yes!"- Undyne agreed, quickly catching up with the idea- "Wait…what do you mean by you know how she is?"
"Oh..w-well… I-I meant…I w-was trying to s-say…uuhh…"- Aplhys face flushed with embarrassment as she desperately tried to find the words she was looking for.
"What she was trying to say is that you are absolutely great at all what you do and that your excitement about it is something so strong that even we can feel it!"- Frisk said to help her stuttering friend.
"Y-yes! That's it!"
Undyne looked from Frisk to Alphys a few times before answering:
"Oh! Cool then! I thought you were saying something like I overreacted or so!"
Frisk and Alphys shot each other an accomplice look and decided to stay in silence. Noticing the awkward silence gap Undyne hurried to ask:
"Hey, by the way, just to make a normal, random question...Are you two going to Muffet's party this Saturday?"
"Yes, we are"- Frisk felt a bit relieved because of the change in the topic.
"I assume th-that you are going to-together, aren't you?"- Alphys inquired as she playfully smiled at them.
"Uhh…actually somebody else asked me and I agreed to go with him"
Frisk looked as how their friends' smiles suddenly dropped. It was like somebody had just thrown a bucket of cold water at them. They looked…disappointed…but why? She thought that maybe Sans didn't like Nick very much when they first met, but Alphys and Undyne didn't even know him! How could they not like him then?
"Are you going? - She promptly asked to break the uncomfortable silence.
"Undyne says that she doesn't really like parties, so I think that…"-Alphys's words were suddenly cut short.
"WE ARE GOING"- Undyne stated.
"W-what? B-but I thought you said th-that…"
"I CHANGED MY MIND, we have to do some VERY IMPORTANT THINGS at the party, don't you remember?"
"Ve-very important?"
Undyne gave Frisk and Sans a quick glance before looking back at Alphys, the dinosaur quickly understood what she meant. A shipping plan was going to take action.
"Sorry but we have to leave punks! We have something very important to talk about! See you at the party!"
Without waiting for a reply the fish-woman placed Alphys down her arm and deliberately run away down the street, directly to their house.
Frisk and Sans stayed there for a few seconds, even when their friends could not be seen any more, they stood unmoving. They were used to their friends' weird acts; after all they didn't have a single normal friend. But they had never seen something like this before. After exchanging a last worried look, the couple started walking to Frisk's house.
At first they walked in silence, but by the point they were reaching the girl's house they were lively talking and joking. When they stood in front of the house gateway Sans shot Frisk a pleading smile. She sighed and put down the hand she was going to knock the door with. She gestured exaggeratedly to the door, giving him her approval. The skeleton profoundly bowed at her in a very old fashion way, to show her his gratitude.
The girl giggled at his display and gave him space to do his magic. The skeleton decidedly knocked the door twice with his bony knuckles. They waited in complete silence until soft steps could be heard at the other side of the door.
"Who's there?"- Toriel's sweet voice asked
"boo"
"Boo who?"- Toriel's voice was already tinted with laugher as she heard Sans' voice.
"don't cry it's just a joke!"
Toriel's laughter roared behind the door, and after a few seconds she opened it.
"Hello mi child, hello Sans! Thank you for coming with Frisk, you know it makes me feel more secure."
"don't worry tori, you know that it doesn't bother me at all"- The skeleton said as he winked at Frisk.
"Wait...Frisk what happened to your sweater? It seems like someone literally threw it to a very dirty floor!"
The teen could see Sans stiffen by her side and hurried to dismiss her mother's thoughts.
"I layed down in a very dirty park bench; sorry I didn't notice until it was too late!"
"Oh, never mind honey! Here, I will clean in immediately. I know how much you love that sweater, the sooner we wash those stains, the better. They won't leave marks, I promise!"
Frisk gifted her a very warm and grateful smile as she handed her mother her stained sweater. Suddenly the girl remembered that she wanted to ask her mother something.
"Mum, did you know that Muffet is giving a party this Saturday?"
"Yes, mi child, everybody is talking about it"
"Well… today I met a teen more or less my age called Nick and he invited me to go, can I?"
Toriel looked at Frisk for a few seconds; she knew that her child could take care of herself, but she didn't like the idea so much.
"Okay, but… can you promise me that you are going to be careful?"
"Yes mum! I promise!"- Frisk said giving her a broad smile- "Are you going to the party too?"
"Uhh..yes, I am"- Toriel said in a low voice, a nearly indiscernible blush tinting her face…but it was enough for Frisk to notice.
The girl silently raised an eyebrow as she looked at her Goat mom, a mischievous smile slowly curling her lips. Sans quickly caught up their looks and knew that there was something they wanted to talk about in private. Well, Frisk wanted, Toriel seemed to want to flee to wash her child's sweater.
"oh look at the time"! - Sans said as he looked at an imaginary watch on his wrist- "i should be heading home or papyrus would start to worry! see you on saturday!"
He smiled at Frisk as he left. The girl gave him a smile that said "I owe you one" while Toriel's glace looked more like "This won't remain like this, I swear revenge". After the soft "click" of the door being closed Frisk asked her question without sweet coating it at all:
"You are going to the party with Asgore, aren't you?"
Toriel stared at the tiny human for a few seconds, her eyes were full of determination, there was no way of running away.
"Yes, I am"- She sighed.
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" -Frisk broke out as her face lit up with happiness and she started making some kind of "Victory Dance", which included wiggling her hips, walking like a chicken, jumping up and down and moving her arms like they were made of jelly.
"No, no, I know what you are thinking! Don't make assumptions!"- Toriel said trying to stop her child's weird dancing, without succeeding, of course.
"We are just going as friends, that's all! Frisk come on! Are you even listening?"
The teen was now standing at the top of Toriel's sofa, her hands were outstretched by her sides and she was spinning around like a helicopter, sound included and all.
"Frisk I know you really would like me to go back to Asgore but…"
Before she could finish her sentence Frisk jumped down form the sofa and started dancing around her, she looked like she was dancing some kind of an improvised conga as she cheerfully sang: "Yay yay yay yay- yay-YAY! Yay yay yay yay-yay -YAY!"
"Frisk, it's not that I am giving him a second chance or…"
"You you you can't -fool-me! I know-know you a-areee"- The girl sang as her dancing intensity increased.
"I am not! It's just a party! - Toriel said trying to look as serious as possible with the tiny human dancing around her. The girl kept wiggling around, she stopped form time to time to jump and say: "HEY!" and kept dancing.
"You could have said no-oh! But you told him-ye-es!"
"Because I didn't want to make him feel bad!"- The monster argued.
"That ha-hadn't stopped you! Be-be-be-befo-oreee!"- At this point Frisk had grabbed a huge fruit-dish, with a heap of fruit in it, of course, and secured it to the top of her head. Toriel thought about what the girl had just said for a few seconds. It was true, Asgore had asked her many times to do simple things like those before: to go to the park, to drink some tea, to go to the theatre, and she had refused.
Every time she had seen Asgore's sad expression but it hadn't stopped her. She was sure of her decision. Did something change this time? Maybe seeing how persevering and caring Asgore had been all this time… she had watched him take of Frisk on many occasions, how much he seemed to care about her, the fact that they got very attached and very quickly, how much the teen loved spending time with him, helping him with the gardening, even the fact that Frisk started calling him "Dad". Could she really have changed his mind about him?
By the point Toriel looked down at the teen, she was not wearing the fruit-dish alone, she had already added some more items to her Victory Costume: an extremely flashy red dress, full of ruffles and sparkling multi-coloured sequins, a pair of cowboy waders, spurs included, yellow rubber gloves and she had a maraca in each and. The girl was happily shaking them at the rhythm of her Victory Dance and Victory Singing.
"Where did you get all those things?"- Goat Mom asked, she couldn't understand how she didn't notice when the girl dressed herself, and she was putting her every effort in not laughing.
"Tru-tru-tru-tru-trust me! You don't want to kno-ow!"- The girl kept singing as she looked up at her mom, her face was all daubed with very colourful lines. Toriel quickly noticed that the lines were drawn with the marker's her child used to draw.
"Weren't those permanent, my child? - She asked holding back her laughter.
Frisk's dancing and singing stopped suddenly. To be more specific, the girl froze, right when she was going to jump to say "HEY!", her mouth open. Her posture, with her legs flexed and her arms folded by her side were the evidence that she had been going to jump. The teen slowly turned to look at her mother.
"The ones that were in the second drawer of my desk?"
"Yes, I'm sure those were the permanent ones"
Frisk frowned a bit, the information slowly sinking in. After a few seconds of consideration, weighing her options and thinking what she could do to solve her situation she finally resigned.
"I will think of that later! For now it's worth it!"- The girl assured, resuming her dancing.
Toriel looked down at the carefree dancing human again and couldn't supress her laughter anymore. With a defeated sigh she threw up her hands and joined her child's weird dancing. The girl looked up at her with a mix of confusion and amusement.
"You know what is said, honey, if you can't beat them, join them!"- Toriel said as she took another fruit-dish and placed it on her head.
Both of them kept dancing and laughing for what could have been minutes or even hours. Well, it's like many people say, one thing is being crazy… but other completely different is finding someone that's as crazy as you are, that doesn't mind to do weird things with you, even in public; that's friendship, that's happiness. Good times and crazy friends make the best memories, my children.
Okay, I know this chapter doesn't contribute to the plot so much, but I wanted to dedicate a full chapter to the party. That's why I decided to put these ideas in this chapter. Now that's done I can focus entirely in our party and all that entails (*wink- wink*).
But I'm afraid to tell you that I'm going on vacation with my family and I won't be able to update till , more or less, the 15th of January. Sorry to make you wait! And thank you for all your support, favs, follows and reviews! I don't know why but not all the reviews are showing. I hope it gets fixed soon! But don't worry I read all your reviews by e-mail!
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