For once Cross had gone out to collect the letters for the morning. He'd had a particularly good night of sleeping -probably Nightmare feeling merciful after that Uno- and felt like doing something productive.

So he was rather confused when there was a box of at least 24 bottles of whiskey. The type of whiskey that would probably kill anyone who tried to drink it all.

By then the only other person awake at the time, Nightmare, was equally as confused when Cross set the crate of alcohol on the table. "...you have zero alcohol tolerance. You know that, right?" Nightmare asked slowly.

"Oh I know, I just hope this isn't something I'm supposed to somehow drink." Cross shrugged and set the letters on top of it. "And what's that smell?"

"Microwaved waffles. I can't cook and I'm hungry."

Cross snickered at that and opened the top letter that said 'for Cross' on it. "Hmm..." it didn't take long for him to have a blank look on his face. "I dare Cross to drink hardcore whiskey until he passes out. Punishment: Wear maid dresses for a week. Asked by HoneySketch."

"You won't make it passed two bottles." Nightmare smirked slightly and leaned against the chair he was sitting in. "I need to see this."

"Well, guess I won't be eating breakfast then or else I'll just throw it up." Cross opened the crate and popped open a bottle, hesitating for a moment before starting to drink.

It didn't take long until Cross was drunk out of his mind.

Nightmare had to support him with his tentacles as Cross somehow managed to finish off a single bottle, starting to giggle nonsense after just one shot's worth. His eyes fluttered closed only to open again as he started to quickly slip into unconsciousness. "Ehehehehaaa...!"

"Go to sleep, Cross."

"But I just woke up...!" he giggled, reaching for another bottle before passing out surprisingly quickly without warning.

Nightmare pulled Cross into his lap before he could fall and sighed, picking him up and carrying the younger upstairs to sleep. The poor guy couldn't handle alcohol at all, always sleeping off the hangover whenever Horror managed to get him drunk.

Nightmare soon set Cross in his bed, pulling the blankets over him before leaving to let him sleep. He went back downstairs to see the other letters, wondering how many there were going to be today.

A quick sift through the letters showed that there were four more. One of them was for Nightmare, who immediately opened it out of curiosity.

'Question for Nightmare. Knowing he will be punished it he doesn't, if Cross got a dare to kiss you, would you let him do it? Asked by Paege_of_Death.'

"What's that?"

Nightmare jumped and nearly impaled Dream by pure reflex when his twin snuck up behind him. He gave Dream an annoyed look. "A question for me." he said, automatically bitter at being around Dream.

"What does it say?"

"I'm not telling you of all people, however the answer to the ask is yes." Nightmare smirked at Dream's curious and confused expression. It was rather pleasing to mess with him despite him internally screaming at the realization of what he just confirmed to himself.

"Aww...." Dream whined at that but didn't press any farther, instead looking at the remaining letters. "....why is there a box of beer?"

"In short Cross is now in a drunk sleep. Don't bother him." Nightmare said flatly. "I'm going to check on him later, tell the others that none of them are allowed in there since he needs his sleep."

Dream blinked in confusion but nodded. He took another letter and opened it. It was the third out of the five total  letters. "I have a question for everybody. What do you guys like to do on your free time inside the house?  And I have a dare for any reader of this letter: As soon as you read this, you are not allowed to speak, communicate in any way, shape, or form, or have physical contact with anyone(for 10 hours). If you try to show this to anyone else, they will be forced to follow the same rules. Asked by Sansy-ton33."

Dream blinked and process what he'd just to himself. He let out a silent sigh and set the note aside, walking away and already accepting how the rest of his day was going to turn out.

Nightmare snickered at Dream's acceptance of the dare and watched as his twin walked upstairs to do whatever. He walked by Halluciv, who seemed better and was in his corrupted form now. Nightmare never did figure out why he'd been in his passive form yesterday, or why his aura felt so restricted. Eh, he's never felt the aura of a being like himself(Dream doesn't count) so he blamed it on being a weaker form.

"Hey." Nightmare greeted, putting the note back into the envelope and balling it up to toss out later. "Basically this card is evil, so don't read it. It just asked what we like to do in our free time here."

Halluciv looked half-asleep as he seated himself at the table, obviously thinking that there would be food soon from the smell of microwaved waffles. "....I like to cuddle with Celly..." he said sleepily, resting his head on his arms.

"Good for you." Nightmare said sarcastically, a hint of what sounded almost like resentment. "Personally I don't really have much to do other than read and poke around this place."

Halluciv gave him a curious look but didn't say anything. "Oh." he paused awkwardly for a moment before turning. "I'll get the others down here."

Nightmare nodded and went to put the alcohol away while Halluciv did that.

Soon everyone was downstairs milling around, half-asleep, and wanting to get the questions over with so they could eat breakfast.

Nightmare repeated the question and explained why 'poor' Dream wasn't talking. Marvul found it amusing, to say the least. "I think we all have poked around here when we're bored or just play board games. X here is the only one who actually goes outside even though we don't need to exercise."

"Yes, because my light jog around the house is very annoying to you."

"No sane monster gets up at five in the morning to jog." Marvul pointed out.

"I found a few DnD games." Halluciv said, trying to derail the conversation from X's more human habits. "It's pretty fun, especially with so many people."

"Never let Nightmare be the DM." X muttered under his breath, earning a small laugh from Nightmare.

"Aw, that had been fun albeit a pain to learn."

Halluciv picked up the rest of the letters and stood beside Xcellence, opening one and reading it. "Okay, Lucy and Dream, I'm so sorry, you're gonna hate me after this but uh...Watch a horror movie in middle of the night completely alone. You can't leave or look away from it until it's done. Asked by -Smol_Incubux-."

Dream let out a whine, but stayed quiet other than that. Halluciv had a similar expression. "...I'm assuming Nightmare has to pick it out since I doubt they'd pick anything remotely 'scary'." Marvul said. Nightmare cackled to himself, obviously liking that plan.

Halluciv huffed and read out the next letter. It was the last one for the day. "I have a question for Cross. Do you have a crush, and if so, who?Question for Lucy;Why don't you like the 'other form'? Does it hurt? Asked by PearlTheCat999."

"....I'll just give this to Cross when he wakes up." Halluciv said. "And it doesn't hurt, honestly... I'm just self-conscious about it....plus it feels strange though the feeling does go away after a few minutes...."

Xcellence gave Halluciv a side-hug and pat his head. Halluciv's tentacles curled around him in return. "...probably because he looks like a child."

"Hey!" Halluciv huffed up at Xcellence. ".....that's true!"

Xcellence just smirked in amusement and pat Halluciv's head as if he was a kid. "Ah, so you finally admit that you're tiny."

Halluciv looked flustered and just stuttered out a sad excuse for an argument, trying to look offended and failing horribly.

Everyone collectively jumped in surprise when Cross practically slid down the stairs half-asleep. Nightmare walked over to him and pulled him over with his tentacles, earning a groan of protest from Cross. "My head....."

"Yeah, yeah, bad hangover." Nightmare muttered, pulling Cross into the kitchen to get him some water. "Here."

Cross started drinking the water, mumbling some form of thanks as he leaned against the other. "How long was I out....?"

"Not even an hour." Nightmare said, bringing him back to the others who were all staring at him in utter shock. "What?"

"....nothing." Marvul said, and cleared his thought. "Um, anyways. The questions you missed, ah..."

"What do you like doing in your free time here?" Nightmare said bluntly, his expression unreadable once Halluciv handed him the letter that read his other question.

"Mostly play games with Halluciv." Cross sleepily shrugged and read the letter given to him. "Who my crush is...?"

Halluciv, Marvul, and Dream had gone quiet and were staring at him like it was a damn movie and the big reveal was about to happen. Xcellence just looked mildly confused.

Cross seemed to be dozing back off and Nightmare still look absolutely unreadable. Cross mumbled something almost barely inaudible yet everyone still clearly heard as he hug Nightmare from the side. "Nighty...."

Nightmare's face lit up like a blueberry and he remained perfectly still as Cross fell asleep completely against him, as if the slightest motion would wake him up.

Dream look so happy and at the same time utterly smug at Nightmare's clueless expression, and if he could speak he'd be giggling at how priceless the moment was. Halluciv and Marvul looked like they knew all along and were greatly enjoying this. Xcellence still looked confused and not knowing why everyone was so quiet.