Malaverse

Chapter 3: Coffee With Ink

Dust's eye slowly opened. It was morning. Dust stretched and sat up. He looked over. Why's Red still asleep? Dust gently placed his hand on Red. "Red?" He whispered. Red didn't move. Panic flared through his soul. He started shaking Red. Red growled and pushed Dust's hands away. Dust breathed a sigh of relief. Red stretched and rolled over, off the bed. Red landed with a thud. Dust leaped off the bed. Red had fallen back to sleep on the floor. Dust gently shook Red awake. "Mmmm stooop." Red grumbled. "You're not going to sleep on the floor." Dust told him. Red sighed and sat up. Dust helped him back up on the bed. Soon Red curled up into a ball and fell back to sleep. Dust quietly left the room and headed downstairs. "Good morning Dust." Dream greeted warmly. "Morin." Dust yawned. "Is Red still sleeping?" Dream asked. Dust nodded. Dream gave Dust a concerned look. "What's wrong with him sleeping in?" Fell asked. "It's just not like him." Dream answered. Fell shrugged and went back to looking at him phone.

Red awoke to a knock on the door. The door creaked open and Ink entered the room. "Wassup?" Red asked, stretching. "Hey Red! Wanna go get some coffee together?" Ink asked. "Sure." Red yawned, "Just let me get ready first." Ink nodded and left the room. Red got off his bed and got changed (putting a hoodie on). Red left the room, and Ink was waiting for him in the hall. "Ready?" Ink asked. Red nodded. Ink grabbed Red's arm and dragged him down the stairs and out the front door. They wandered a bit before Ink let him go. "So where's this cafe?" Red asked. "In another AU." Ink answered, opening a portal. "Oh cool." Red stared down into the portal. "Let's go!" Ink leaped into the portal and Red soon followed. Red fell through the portal, and right into Ink's arms. "Why hello there." Red said, looking up at Ink. Ink giggled and placed Red on the ground. Red looked around. There was a lot of cats. "Ink, I have a front door for a reason." Sighed a short skeleton. "Oh whoops." Ink shrugged. "Anyways. Red, this is Ccino, and Ccino, this is Red." Ink introduced them. "Sup." Red greeted. Ccino gave a small wave in response. "You guys can find a place to sit and I'll be over with your menus soon." Ccino said, heading into another room. Ink grabbed Red's arm again and dragged him to a booth. Red made himself comfy in the booth. Ink sat across from him, staring out the window. Suddenly something jumped up on Red's lap. He looked down and saw a fluffy grey cat. "Oh. Hello there." Red greeted the cat. The cat purred. "Oh sorry about Molly, she's very social." Ccino apologized, picking up Molly and putting down the menus. Before Red could say anything, Ccino was already gone. Red picked up a menu and skimmed through it. "Oh cool. Expresso with vodka." Red muttered. Ink's eyes widened. "Since when was that an option?" Ink asked. "Just added." Ccino appeared next to the table. "People keep asking for it, so I gave it." Ccino said. "Oooohhhhh. I'll take one." Ink grinned. "Yeah I'll have that as well." Red said. Ccino nodded and took the menus from them. "I will never be able to understand how people can drink this early in the morning." Ccino mutterrd as he left. Ink turned to Red. "I actually have a reason I wanted to bring you here today." Ink said. "Besides showing me this new cafe?" Red asked. Ink nodded. "So, what's up?" Red watched Ink carefully, just incase. "Mine and Error's wedding will be coming up soon, and I wanted to know if you wanted to be my maid of honor?" Ink told him. Red's wings started to twitch with excitement. "Me? Maid of honor? Oh I'm sure there's much better people for that role." Red said, slightly blushing. "No there's no one better than you." Ink told him. "Well, I've never been to a wedding before, so I don't know how to be a maid of honor." Red fidgeted in his seat. "All you have to do is come dress shopping with me and help me organize the wedding." Ink told him. "Oh." Red didn't think it was that easy. "Yeah! And your gold strings will be an excellent addition to whatever dress I choose." Ink said. "Oh and I was thinking about releasing doves, but they have to be rainbow because I'm gay." Ink told him. "How about pigeons instead of doves? They look almost identical, but pigeons are much easier to color." Red informed him. "Yes! Pigeons!" Ink cheered. "Remember to do it ethically and humanely." Ccino chimed in. "Oh of course." Ink shrugged. Ccino nodded and walked away. Red and Ink continued their conversation. "And Ink, if you need someone to officially have you and Error marry, Dust was raised in a Christian AU so I bet he knows how to do it." Red told him. "Yes!" Ink shook his fists happily. Just then two cups of expresso with vodka where placed in front of them. "Enjoy." Ccino muttered. "We will!" Ink responded. Ccino walked away and Red picked up his cup. He noticed that it was a right handed cup. Red looked over at Ink's cup. It was a left handed one. Interesting. Red took a sip of his expresso. It actually tasted pretty good. I bet Dust would like it here. And Reaper too. Suddenly there was a scream. Red and Ink leaped up. They ran over to Ccino, who was being pinned down by Negative. Red grabbed Negative and threw him off. Red's vision became blurry all of a sudden and he felt wobbly. He could tell the same was happening to Ink. Negative grinned at Red. "Boss's orders." Negative said before vanishing. Red took a step forward and collapsed to the ground. Ccino ran over to try and help him. Everything was blurry. Fuck. Soon everything went dark.