SMILING FRIENDS ONESHOTS

The Beach 😌

(This story is after the whole series, Zoey is still dating charlie, credit to @spilledcalcium for art)

After Rotten died at the beach a few miles away from the smiling friends office, pim didn't really want to go back to that beach. So, they opted to go to one a few more miles away. This one had a huge bar with it, and even surfing lessons.

"This is gonna be great Charlie! I love the beach." Pim chirped happily, getting out of the car and grabbing the little towels for him and Glep. A normal one (for critters that are tall like Charlie or Alan) would be too big for him and especially huge for glep, so he just got to carry the smaller ones. Charlie had one hand wrapped around the cooler handle while the other carried some floaties for everyone. Alan carried a speaker incase if everyone wanted to listen to music or something. Once everything was set down, they got to goofing around. Pim found his way to the bar.

"Happy hour? Awesome, I can get some drinks for everyone." He said, sitting (after fighting with the chair for a good minute ish) he got a simple beer, nothing too crazy and took a sip. Pim liked the drink a lot, even though it was just a beer.

Now, don't think pim has a drinking problem. He doesn't, he just likes to have things that taste good. Of course, the beer tasted so good he ordered another. Then another. He quickly stacked up bottles of the sweet fermented drink, now on his 5th? 6th? He's not sure. Charlie approached him.

"Hey man, you ok? You've been here for like 30 minutes." Charlie asked, then seeing the bottles around him. Pim turned a bit in the chair, getting more than a bit tipsy. He had tolerance, it's not like he passes out after the 4th drink, but he was a bit impaired. "Oh- hey Charlie. What's up?" He said, a bit of a drunk smile on his face. "You've been here for 30 minutes man. You okay?" He asked again. Pim put down the bottle, blinking a bit to sober himself up a little more. "Yeah, I'm okay. I was gonna get everybody some drinks but I got caught up drinking this. You wanna try some?" Pim asked, holding out the half finished drink, a bit wobbly, before Charlie took the bottle and tried it. "This is actually pretty good. What is this?" Pim shrugged. Charlie turned over the bottle, seeing it was a pretty expensive brand.

"Woah, dude, this is really expensive." Pim worried for a second, but rembering the sign. "Don't worry Charlie, it's happy hour." Charlie looked up at the sign, the sign clearly saying "happy hour is in 3 hours".

Charlie looked back at pim. "You know it's starting in 3 hours right?" Pim furrowed his brows, looking up at the sign. He made a horrible mistake. "Charlie that says 3 hours. I thought it said it's for 3 hours." Charlie rubbed the bridge of his nose, angrily. "Oh pim. Pim." Pim saw charlies anger and tried to calm it. "Oh gosh Charlie I swear I missed that." Charlie sighed. "Hey uh bartender how much is 6 of this brand?" The bartender looked at the brand. "Oh, that's 9 each." The bartender said while cleaning out a glass. Pim looked shocked, doing the math quickly in his tipsy mind. Although it was 54 dollars, tip was still in the question. "About 62 dollars including standard tip." Pim shakily held out his card. "I'm done for today. You can take the 15%." Pim looked away as the bartender processed the payment, practically shaming himself for giving in.

After a few hours of trying to forget his mistake consisting of fun in the water, making sand castles with Glep, splashing around with Alan for a bit, they all got back into the car and drove back to the office.

"You really have to get your eyes checked pim."
"Yeah I know."