The two monsters step onto the concrete sidewalk and turn to face the infamous 'grillby's bar' aka reds new job,why did he choose this again? He knew nothing about this gig and had never truly had a real job besides sentry work before and that was more of a chore,a chore that he slept through practically every damn time,and red doubted that he would be doing that here,no,this was a real job...unfortunately...welp,he still needed to pay the bills so I guess a job that has access to free booze might not be the worst thing in the world,that and the fact that it was apparently in walking distance to his 'new' apartment,he says that sarcastically since he knows they wouldn't be kind enough to give him anything decent,plus he gave them a pretty shitty description of his former living conditions,and even if they did understand his incoherent ramblings,that would probably be worse,he didn't exactly have the best kinda living conditions before here,to be honest,all this was probably the best thing that had ever happened in his mess of a life...

Asriel waved goodbye to the driver as he began to roll away,red pulled up his hood and kept his head down,his skeletal hands resting in his jacket pockets,he knew how rough monster bars could be so it was best to keep a low profile

Asriel eyed him up confusedly but decided not to ask why the skeleton was acting like he was walking down a sketchy alleyway and had to hide his face;strangely specific scenario,I know but red did look sketchy nonetheless so...uh...shuddup...

The two monsters began to walk down the gravel path and towards the warm light of grillbys,their feet crunching at the ground below them,red strayed slightly behind his new 'pal',despite being slightly older than him the skeleton was quite short,something he despised as it made him look weak,which he kinda was,but hell,he didn't want others to know that!

Once they reached the door the taller of the two reached his hand out to open it and just...casually strolled in? What was this guy doing? He head was high and so was his spirits making him an easy target! What an idiot...the door swinged back towards red but before it could close he put his arm up to the door and moved it out of the way,walking in with his head down and his hands now tucked away in his pockets,refusing to look up. The surrounding joyful chatter of the customers died down to a silence as the door slammed to a shut behind the hooded figure while he stood there,stone faced,still as a statue in the middle of the once bustling room,all eyes were on him and yet it seemed to only make him stiller...

"C'mon dude,lets go sit down!"

Asriel said as he rushed over and grabbed his arm,pulling him over to a booth,after which the general noise of the bar resumes...

"So what do you want to order?"

"I dunno,a burger I guess?"

"Yeah sure,I'll have that too"

The nearby fire monster who was attending the bar and red assumed must have been grillby,looked over to them and nodded,apparently having listened in on their conversation since the booth was right next to the bar,he then proceeded back into the kitchen to presumably make their order...

"So Red..." began Asriel with a look of curiosity on his face "who are you anyways?"

"Huh? What do ya mean kid, I'm red..."

"I mean where did you even come from? And why do you seem so tense right now?"

"Oh...well I came from snowdin, I thought you already knew that?" He continued "and as to why I'm so...uh...tense? I guess it's just because we're in a bar, a monster bar at that...you know how dangerous those can be...heh"

"What do you mean? Grillby's isn't dangerous, if you really were from snowdin you'd know that" it seemed like the kid thought he was interrogating me or something, HA! him? Interrogate me? Nope. I don't think so. I'm shutting this down ASAP

"Uhh yeah kid, that's just cause I worked at a different bar in the capital...you wouldn't know it, I never went to grillby's since it would be, uh, helpin' out the competition ya' know?"

"Hmph okay...I guess that checks out...but what abou-" Asriel was quickly interrupted by grillby setting down the food on the table in front of us...at least now I have an excuse not to talk to this guy...sheesh...and I thought he was kinda cool...no matter, food looks decent enough...may as well dig in...

As soon as red took a bite of his burger he scarfed down the rest, never having had food that good before, sure, chillby made a pretty ok burger but it was nothing compared to this...it was official...this was the final straw...red was never going home...