A week had passed since the monsters moved above ground. Everyone adjusted to the house they lived in. While the house was well stocked when they moved in, the sheer amount of people living in the same house caused their basic supplies to run low. They would need to shop for food soon and Toriel figured that this day was as good as any. She had classes to attend, however.

Toriel walked down a flight of stairs and knocked on Frisk's door. "Frisk? Are you in there?"

The door opened to reveal a sleepy-looking child. She looked dazed. "Mmhm?"

"Frisk, you've lived up there before. Is there any possible way that you can gather a few monsters and head to the store? I would go but I have classes today," Toriel explained.

"Yeah Mom. I'll get some people to head to the store with me." She rubbed her eyes. One of them still looked bruised from where she was punched.

Toriel smiled. "Thank you Frisk. I'll text a list to you, so keep a close watch over your phone."

Frisk nodded. "Have fun, Mom."

"Say, when do your classes start? You do go to school as well, right," Toriel asked.

Frisk nodded. "Yeah, I just haven't been there for the classes." Frisk rubbed her neck. "I sorta fell down into the Underground."

"Well, we will definitely have to put you back on school."

Frisk yawned. "I don't really like school though."

Toriel sighed. "It's important to go Frisk."

"I know..."

Toriel smiled. "But, maybe we can wait for a couple of days before registering you into the school system." She rubbed Frisk's head

"Thanks," Frisk muttered. She shut the door.

Toriel looked at the clock. She had to leave. She quickly walked out the door and left.

"So, the queen isn't here," Papyrus asked. He frowned. "Shoot! Now she can't eat any of my freshly made food!"

Frisk smiled. "It's okay Papy. She'll come back. She just had to go to school," Frisk explained.

"School, huh? Why does she need to go back," Papyrus asked.

"She wants to become a teacher. On the surface, you need to go to school to do that."

Papyrus smiled. "So the queen's getting a job! Wowie! How great for her!" Papyrus glanced at the sleeping form of his brother, who was laying down using a couple of chairs. "Sans hasn't found a job yet. Knowing him though, he might not get one."

"What about you? Are you going to get a job?"

Papyrus scoffed. "I already have a job! I am the mascot of all the monsters! Plus, I am also your cool friend!"

Frisk smiled. "Yeah! I suppose you're right!"

Sans began to stir. His eye sockets slowly opened. He yawned and stretched in his chair. "so kid, why'd you call us?"

Frisk smiled. "We're going shopping!"

"Shopping? For what? Are we getting spaghetti," Papyrus asked. He smile widened.

"Not so fast, Papyrus. Mom texted me a list." Frisk held up her phone.

"Oh..."

"She told me to take a couple of monsters with me, so I chose you two," Frisk cheered.

Papyrus' face lit up. "You chose us? Wowie!"

"thank ya kid. means a lot to me." Sans smiled at her. He patted her on the head. "so how do we get there?"

"Shouldn't you know where it is, Sans," Papyrus asked.

Sans looked confused. "what do you mean?"

"I already know that we made it up here before, Sans."

Sans shrugged. "i never went to the store though. frisk reset before a week even passed." Sans looked at a now guilty-looking Frisk. "relax kiddo. all of that is behind us now. i don't have a bone to pick with ya."

"Sans," Papyrus yelled.

Sans grinned. "anyway, since frisk knows where the store is, she leads the way."

Frisk gave Sans and Papyrus a thumbs up.

"I passed by it like three times trying to find Ebott City Town Hall," Frisk informed.

"Then let's go," Papyrus cheered.

They got to the store with little trouble. Frisk did have to check a map on her phone once, but she wasn't lost.

The trio walked to the front door. The doors automatically opened, causing Papyrus to marvel at the door.

"Wowie! It moved on its own, and without the use of a puzzle or a button," Papyrus exclaimed.

"That's an automatic door. You just step towards it and it opens," Frisk explained.

"humans make some convenient technology."

Frisk smiled. "Well, for a lot of us, pushing doors open is a chore."

Papyrus immediately frowned. "This invention was made to help people be lazy? How awful!"

Frisk pat Papyrus on the back. "At least we still walk inside."

"speaking of, i think we should probably start. we're in people's way," Sans said. He gestured to the forming line behind them. All of them were taking pictures of the trio.

A loud arrangement of beeps sounded. The people waiting in line were posting the pictures on various social media accounts.

"Oh! Sorry humans! We did not mean to get in your way," Papyrus exclaimed. He picked Frisk and Sans up and ran inside the store. Once inside, Papyrus set the two down on the ground. "So what are we getting?"

Frisk scrolled through the messages on her phone. Alphys unintentionally spammed her messages with status updates. She finally found the shopping list and smiled. "First thing on the list is... flour."

"ah. she's going to be baking? cool. she does make good pie," Sans said.

"But it isn't spaghetti!"

"Well, we don't always have to have spaghetti," Frisk offered. "We can have other foods."

Papyrus looked shocked and appalled at the statement.

"relax papyrus. it isn't grillbys. no grease will be found in it," Sans promised.

Papyrus sighed. "Thank goodness!" Papyrus looked at Sans. "Wait, is that why you don't practically LIVE at Grillbys anymore? Did you finally see the light about how awful grease is?"

"grillbys is closed, papyrus. 'bsides, she's always on a roll when it comes to cooking."

"SANS! You're going to become a bad influence this way," Papyrus exclaimed.

"Oh? Now orange you sure of this fact," Frisk asked Papyrus. She smirked at the skeleton.

"NYEH!" Papyrus let out a cry of disbelief. "Not you too!"

Sans gave a mischievous smile. "water you talking about? she's been carropted the entire time."

People were once again taking pictures and videos of the trio, chuckling to themselves as they filmed.

Frisk glanced over. She noticed people filming them. Frisk smiled into the cameras. The people immediately put away their phones, in fear that they would be destroyed by magic.

"move along humans. nothin' t'see here. just a couple of skeletons joking around with the human who freed us," Sans explained.

"I wouldn't call it joking! It's more like torturing Papyrus," Papyrus screamed. "Truly, this is the WORST outcome!" Papyrus looked around warily. "Well uh, besides us dying, of course," he quietly added. Nobody caught the last statement. A moment passed. Papyrus once again picked Sans and Frisk up. "TO THE FLOUR!"

Papyrus ran down the aisles, frantically searching for the flour. Papyrus ended up in the garden section in front of a potted flower.

"Is this the kind of flour you were looking for," Papyrus asked.

Sans and Frisk shook their heads. "Nope! Mom wants the powdered kind."

"the kind you bake with."

"Although, that reminds me, I should probably find a pot."

Papyrus and Sans gave her a wary glance. "why?"

Frisk looked to the ground. "Although I don't like Flowey, he should be able to come here too," Frisk muttered.

Sans frowned. "kid, the flower's evil. who knows what would happen if he were to come here," Sans scolded.

"He's not evil. He has no soul." Frisk sighed. "Can you help me with something?"

Sans raised a bone brow. "what?"

"Promise to keep it a secret from Mom and Asgore."

"kiddo, what are you talking about?"

Frisk gave Sans a stern look. "Promise me! You don't like breaking promises."

Sans sighed. "i promise I will not talk about whatever this mysterious thing is. now what is it?"

"I also promise," Papyrus shouted.

"Well, what if I told you that Flowey wasn't always a flower?"

Sans started to chuckle. "so was he always named flowey?"

Frisk didn't look amused. "Asriel. His name was Asriel. He was mom and Asgore's son," Frisk explained.

"ah. so now he's a sonflower? i know, bad time. so what do you want me to do about it?"

"Can you help him? Maybe Mom won't be sad about her child. Maybe with Asriel, Mom won't be so mad at Asgore," Frisk offered.

Sans sighed. "i want to help ya and tori kid, but i don't know where to begin. it isn't as if his soul is floating around somewhere."

"A soul? Well, I have seen an extra monster soul floating around in Alphys' old lab," Papyrus said. "It was when I was helping Dad."

Frisk looked at Sans with pleading eyes. "It would make Mom really happy, and you wouldn't ever have to deal with Flowey again."

Sans sighed. "fine kid. i'll try my best. now, was this the reason you chose us over undyne and alphys?"

Frisk shook her head. "Undyne would have destroyed half the store, Alphys would have filled the cart with anime," Frisk began. "Mettaton would have created a new show with various store clerks and customers." Frisk shuddered. "Gaster was busy, I don't think Mom wanted me to take Asgore, and I don't really know the other monsters well enough. You guys were the best choice!"

Sans nodded. "i get it. so i guess you need to put a pot in the cart." Sans paused. "did we we even get a cart."

Frisk and Papyrus shook their heads. Papyrus set Frisk and Sans on the ground.

Sans waved his arms. "i got it." He disappeared in a blue flash. Suddenly, he was back with a cart. "now that i've been here, i can use my shortcuts."

Frisk grinned and grabbed a flowerpot.

"might wanna take some gloves too. you'll get your hands all dirty."

"Yes! Since our money is made from real gold, we are, as the humans say, loaded," Papyrus exclaimed.

Frisk and Sans stared at him.

"Never say that again. It sounds odd coming from you," Frisk insisted.

Papyrus nodded. "Noted!"

"so now time to get some baking flour." Sans climbed into the cart and rested his head on the front of the cart.

"Sans, what are you doing," Papyrus questioned.

"i don't really feel like walking right now."

Papyrus groaned. "Fine, but only because I know that you'll work with the human later!"

Sans grinned. "i'll help put things in the cart. frisk, give me the phone."

Frisk gave Sans the phone.

"papyrus, you push the cart and frisk, you get the money ready. i'll levitate things into the cart."

The three of them nodded. Now equipped with jobs, the skeleton duo sped off. Papyrus pushed the cart while Sans levitated items into the cart. Various customers quickly stepped out of the way as the two raced through the aisles. Some were taking videos of the two.

Within a couple of minutes, the two had collected nearly everything on the list, aside from snails, which were not sold there. Papyrus brought the cart to a screeching halt near the check-out stations. Papyrus had beads of sweat running down his face and he looked winded. Sans was buried underneath the various products on the list. Only his hand was visible, and only from the side.

"couldn't find the snails. that's a shame, i suppose," Sans said. He handed the phone back to Frisk.

Papyrus, still panting, gestured for Frisk to push the cart. "My legs feel like noodles. I'm going to go sit down," Papyrus muttered. He walked away to a nearby bench.

Frisk smiled. She pushed the cart to a check-out station.

"Hello there," the man behind the station greeted. He was a dark-skinned man in his early twenties, from the looks of him. "My, my. That's quite a lot of stuff."

Frisk nodded. "I'm buying things for my family," she cheered. She took a bag of sugar from the cart and placed it on the station. Before she could take anything else out, the man stopped her.

"No no. Please, allow me to help. " He began to take various objects out of the cart. "So, I see there are a lot of baking ingredients here. Are you going to bake something?"

Frisk shook her head. "No, but Mom is!" Frisk smiled.

The man smiled back and looked down at the cart. Sans was now barely visible. He was asleep.

"Oh and you're getting a flower? How sweet."

"Yeah! My friendly flower friend needs a home," Frisk cheered. She found it ironic that she called Flowey her, "Friendly flower friend," but she couldn't tell the man that he was a murderous buttercup.

The man smiled. "And you've got a tiny skeleton in your cart."

Sans muttered something and rolled over.

The man froze. "D-Did that skeleton move?"

Frisk nodded. "Yeah."

The man backed from the cart. "Oh no. I've seen enough movies to know that dead people plus society, equals apocalypse."

Papyrus walked over to the station. "Frisk, what is taking so long," Papyrus demanded. He looked at the man, who was currently sweating bullets. "Hello human!"

The man screamed at the skeleton. "W-Why are the dead walking?"

"Oh silly human! I am not dead! I am a monster!"

Frisk walked over to calm the worker down. "It's okay. They're friendly. They're just here to help me shop."

Sans stirred from sleep. "oh, must've dozed off there." He gazed at the worker. "oh hey, what's up?"

"M-Monsters are real? When did this happen?"

Frisk sighed. "They've been real the entire time. They just have been trapped underground. I helped them though!" Frisk smiled. "They helped me!"

"yeah. the kiddo tried everything in her power to help us. she's a nice human." Sans yawned and got out of the cart. "i suppose i should be helping. got the money, frisk?"

Frisk nodded and handed him some dollar bills.

The man shakily began to bag the items. Sans gave the man the money. "keep the change. we certainly don't need it." Sans levitated the items back into the cart.

"Goodbye," Frisk exclaimed. She waved at the man, who waved back shakily. Once the trio left, he sat on the ground curled up in a ball.

"I really need to start watching the news more often."

Instead of walking back, the trio took a shortcut. While Papyrus argued at first, even he couldn't deny that they had a lot of stuff to carry. They appeared in front of the house. Toriel was back from her classes. She walked outside and smiled. "I see there wasn't any problems. Did you manage to find everything on my list?"

Frisk shrugged. "We found everything except for the snails."

"they didn't have any. sorry tori."

Toriel sighed. "It's fine. Tonight I will make butterscotch-cinnamon pie."

Frisk smiled. "I haven't had that in a while!"

Toriel gave Frisk a wary glance. "What did you do with the slice I gave you yesterday?"

Frisk froze. "Oh! I forgot about that."

"Uh huh. I didn't. So who'd you give it to?"

Frisk sighed. "I made a friend in the Underground and he hasn't left yet. He gets a little lonely, so I left the piece of pie for him."

Toriel smiled. "That's sweet of you, my child, but please tell me before you do that. I could have given you another slice to take and escorted you. The Underground still is dangerous."

Frisk looked to the ground. "I know." Frisk looked up at Toriel. "Mom, can I go down there with Sans? I wanna bring my friend up here." Frisk set down the bags she was carrying and took out a flower pot.

"Oh. You made friends with that horrible flower that attacked you when you first fell down?" Toriel sighed and patted Frisk on the head. "You are a strange child, Frisk. I suppose if you go with Sans, it'll be alright."

Frisk cheered. "Yay! Can we go now?"

Toriel nodded. "Me and Papyrus will put away the groceries."

"Aw, but I wanted to go see Flowey," Papyrus whined.

Toriel pulled out her cell phone. "Undyne, can you help me put away groceries? Sans and Papyrus are helping Frisk," Toriel explained.

Papyrus' face lit up.

"Thank you Queen Toriel! Frisk will be protected by us!"

Toriel waved goodbye. The trio vanished using one of Sans' shortcuts.

Okay! Done with this chapter! Didn't quite know where I wanted to go with this, but I do want to introduce Asriel at some point. When? I don't know. Probably not soon. Who knows if Asriel's soul stayed in the same location?

I thank you all for the support that I have gotten. Next time, Flowey's coming to the surface! Are the monsters ready for such a plant and then it will be time to cook with Toriel and Sans. ^.^ Wish me luck for that. I haven't written a romance-type thing, so this is new territory for me.

Flowey also has a mouth, so I would think that he can eat pie.

It has also been a week. Although most of the humans know, there will be some who manage to avoid the news and any internet stuff. Also, I did some research to see how long bruises last, and they seem to last for about a month. Since Frisk's been eating human food, her injuries haven't been cleared up.

Anyway, bye guys!