A week passed, Chia was working. Frisk was almost done with their run, just going back to all the places they have been, checking up on things, doing things they didn't do yet. It was pretty dead today at Grillby's. The bros were not there, both at work. Grillby was holding Buttercup, caring for her, feeding her lettuce.

Sans teleported in, sat at the bar

Sans: Heya, Edge Grillbz

Grillby: *grumble* Do not call me that.

Sans: Seems just as dead as me today, huh?

Chia: well, you're not dead. You're a living, breathing skeleton,never died, were just born that way.

Sans: *shrug* that's true. Hey, shot of ketchup. Put it on Edgy me's tab. I'm sure he won't mind.

Grillby: Jesus fucking Christ, fucking Sanses do this shit, don't they?

Sans: Underswap me doesn't. Ink doesn't. Swapfell doesn't-

Grillby: okay! I get it! Few sanses are actually respectful!

Chia rubbed grillby's back, he sighed, calmed himself.

Sans was given his ketchup. Chia blushed, watching him. She was still trying to debate on asking him out. Him and Chia talked for a bit, he told her some puns, which made her chuckle.

The doors came open, Raspberry, Thorn came in. Thorn sat in the seat beside Sans.

Thorn: yo, Grillbz, your recommended on the rocks. And a deluxe shake for my bro.

He put gold on the table. Grillby took it, gave them their drinks. Raspberry sat on the other side of Thorn, began drinking his shake.

Sans: hey, swapfell Paps, how old is your Sans?

Thorn: I'm 23, he's 16.

Chia: wait what? He does not look 16..

Raspberry: *looks up* its the height, isn't it? Yeah, I get that a lot. How about you? You 15?

Chia: oh no, no, no, I'm 24

Thorn: huh..a year older than me.. *looks at Sans* how about you?

Sans: Edge me and I are the same age. 26.

Raspberry: mweh. *notices something on Sans' hand*..a ring..you're married?

Chia felt pain in her heart there. She couldn't believe she never noticed that ring. She felt dumb.

Sans: yup. I'm married to my Grillbz. Ink created our daughter, Luicinda. She's only 2 years old.

Thorn: oh? Can I see?

Sans: sure.

He pulled out a picture of a skeleton baby, she had fire hair, sans' eyes.

Raspberry: awe! How cute!

Chia smiled weakly, nodding.

Chia: yeah, she's really cute.

Sans stood up

Sans: welp. Break is over. Better head back before my Paps gets upset.

Thorn: 'kay. Later, bud.

Sans left. Raspberry was still drinking his shake. When the swapfell bros left, it was almost closing time. Red showed up, sat at the bar.

Red: mustard.

Chia: I got it..

She gave him a bottle of mustard, gave it to him. He began to drink it.

Red*tired sigh* damn, what a day. The kid is checking up on everyone before going back to the King. My kid okay, Grillbz?

Grillby: she's asleep. I fed her already.

Red: cool.

Chia: *sigh* welp. Sans is married. Can't believe I never noticed his wedding ring

Red: wait. You liked him? Pfft. That's great.

Chia: *weakly nods, shrugs* I'm used to it. I've been rejected, cheated on, broken up with so many times..I've grown used to it.

Red: how many times?

Chia: I wasn't the wisest when it came to that as a teenager, so a lot.

Red finished off his mustard

Red: maybe a date will make you feel better.

Chia: a date?

Red: just as friends wise. Nothing romantic.

Chia: s-sure..

The bar closed, chia changed out of her work clothes, changed into a black wool coat, blue jeans, gray winter boots, a white shirt. Red had been waiting on the porch. He stood when she came out.

Red: c'mon..follow me..

He began walking, she followed behind Red as he walked with his hands in his pockets. They got to waterfall. Chia, never had left Snowdin ever since meeting the bros, had never seen any place past The Ruins and Snowdin,was looking around as she walked behind him still. She held arms. Red noticed when he looked to see her still behind him.

Red: yo, chia-latte, you cold?

Chia: naahh. I just do this. Its quite comfty.

Red smiled softly, rolled his eyes before continuing to walk. He lead her to a field of echo flowers. Chia thought they were freaking beautiful, looking at them.

Chia: pretty.

Red: you like them, huh?

Chia: yup.

Red: hey, I got a joke for ya.

Chia: hm?

Red: did you hear about the guy that got hit in the head with a can of soda?

Chia: no?

Red grinned, bent down, picking a echo flower, another one immeditaly grew in its place. He whispered something into it before giving it to chia.

Flower: he's lucky it was a soft drink.

Chia: pfft! Oh my g-god-

She burst into heavy laughter, that made Red smile. He was happy he actually made someone laugh with his puns. When Chia laughed, her top front teeth stuck out, she'd have her mouth open for abit after laughing hard. He found that..really adorable actually.

Red: I used to tell Old Lady puns through the Ruins door all of the time. She used to love them.

Chia: wait..didn't you mention her before? …Toriel was her name?

Red: yup. She's the Queen. She's the ex wife of the King Asgore. She's been living alone for years.

Chia: do you have a crush on her?

Red: nah, I don't have any feelings like that for anyone down here. *shrug, sits in the field, lays back* just haven't ever felt those kind of feelings. Its just me I guess. But, its fine. I'm fine.

Chia wasn't sure what to say to that. He looked at her.

Red: you don't have to stand there. Just because I have sharp teeth doesn't mean I'll bite you for sitting.

Chia: oh. I wasn't sure if you were okay with that or not. Didn't want to upset you. *gets beside him, sits, takes her coat off, ties it around her waist, the bottom part of her shoulder tattoo showed.

Red: ..huh..never knew you had a tattoo.

Chia: really? I thought you saw it when you captured me when I was new.

Red shook his head. She pulled the sleeve up, letting him see the full thing. It was a detailed rose tattoo, the rose was blue, had light pink, thorns on the stem. It was pretty well done.

Chia: got it done when I was 22. When I finished work one day, I decided to just get it done at the tattoo shop. Didn't tell anyone. Just came home with it *chuckles*

Red: damn, that's pretty badass there. Heh. If I had skin, I'd end up doing that shit too. Boss would have my skull for doing that without telling him.

Chia: I also got my stomach pierced too.

Red sat up, looked surprised

Red: what? How am I just now learning this shit? Let me see this.

Chia: *blushes, shakes her head, in a goofy tone* nooo. I don't want you to see my gross ass belly.

Red: your belly is not gross. Cmon.

Chia: you never saw it though, you don't know.

Red: I bet its not as bad as you claim.

Chia: Its a blob of squish!

Red: i will get you something if you show me.

Chia: you lie though. Its not worth scarring you for life with my gross belly.

Red suddenly grabbed her shirt, pulled it up enough to see her stomach, which made her yelp. He let it go.

Red: what are you talking about? That's not a "gross belly". I found it cute.

Chia was blushing darker, shaking her head

Chia: nope.

Red: deny all you want, I say its cute. End of story. You lose.

Chia: I still say its gross.

Red: whatever.

Chia: ..your pun earlier made me think of something I saw on a old movie trailer.

Red: random change of topic.

Chia: yeah, I have a bad habit of doing that. Anyways, in the trailer, a man went to his ex's apartment. She says " what do you want?", he replies "you know why I'm here. I'm here to pick up my son.". So he goes over to a baby carrier, lifts the baby boy out, holds him for afew seconds before setting him back down, leaves, saying " I'll be back tomorrow to pick him up again"

Red could not help how hard he began laughing. Tears came to his eyes how hard he laughed, holding his stomach.

Red: Oh my god! That is just great! Holy fucking shit! I can't breathe!

Chia was laughing because how hard he was laughing. She wanted to continue to make him laugh, having fun with this.

Chia: I'm cheating here, i stole this joke from something else. What's green with wheels?

Red: the Grinch on a scooter?

Chia: oh damn it! *laughs some more* that's even better than the actual answer! It was "grass. I lied about the wheels"!

Red kept his smile, rolled his eyes. They continued to make each other laugh for awhile. They soon got up, went home. Before they got in the door, red put his hand on the door knob, looked at chia.

Red: hey, this was fun. We should hang out more often. If you want to I mean.

Chia: *nods* okay

They went in. Papyrus was sitting on the couch, holding buttercup with a arm, going through channels on TV. Red took buttercup from him, gently nuzzled her head. He got himself a mustard bottle from the kitchen, sat on the couch with papyrus

Red: watcha watchin' bro?

Papyrus: nothing yet. Nothing on again. Of fucking course.

Red gently scratched Buttercup's ear as papyrus continued his channel search. He couldn't believe how much he actually enjoyed hanging out with chia. His soul felt..warm.. He just shrugged it off, thought nothing of it.