Author's POV.

In the heart of the woods, there stood a quiet bake sale. (Y/n) and Ralsei's eyes lid up when they saw it, since the two had quite the sweet tooths. Kris, however was still in a grim mood. Ralsei's words repeating themselfs in his mind. The Lightner knew that the young prince was only trying to encourage him to confess his growing feelings for (Y/n) but unbeknownst to him, the only thing it did was awaken countless doubts, which were now clouding Kris mind.

'How could I be so stupid? Of course this wouldn't have worked out. I guess, I'm not meant to be happy, after all.' He thought, scolding himself to let it have come this far in the first place. 'How could I? I promised it to myself. No more attachments.... No more heartbreak...'

After his parents divorced and Asriel left for college, Kris felt completely alone. The townfolks were nice to him, sure. But the human knew that they just felt pity for him. That feeling was horrible. He felt like he didn't belong, like he and his decision didn't matter. And so, he distanced himself from everyone, growing into the quiet and cold teenage boy everyone knew. To prevent this kind of pain to ever happen again, he swore to himself that he would not ever let himself get attached to anyone ever again.

'Can't get your heart broken, when you never love at all...' That's the moto Kris lived by for so many years.

And here she came and threw all of that out the window. From the moment he laid his eyes on her, he felt attracted to her. It was ridiculous  how fast he had fallen but he did unknowingly. He had hoped that this could be it. His chance at a happy life... with her by his side...

Her presence alone had the ability to silents that nagging voice in his had, telling him what a bad idea this was. Even the slightest touch could set his heart racing. Her strength and bravery were so admirable to him. It amazed him how she still could keep going, even if the world was against her. Kris had silently wished for her to never leave him, to stay by his side forever. But now he realized... that this was a horrible idea.

'If I keep doing this... If I let myself fall deeper in love with her... things are only going to be harder if we part ways.' The idea of (Y/n) coming with him had crossed his mind aswell but he dismissed that thought faster than it had come.

He couldn't ask that of her. They didn't even know if darkeners could travel to the Lightners world. And even if it was possible, he would ask her to leave all of her friends, her family and her home behind, simply because he didn't want her to leave him. That would just be selfish.
And that's why he wouldn't even bring it up to her.

'Maybe if I pretend long enough, then these feelings will go away. It has worked before after all...'

"Interested in a choco diamond? All proceeds go to Rudinn Relief Funds, I guess. It's only 40G!" Kris snapped out of his thoughts with the sound of the Rudinns loud voice. (Y/n) thought for a moment, glancing back at Kris, who returned her stare confused. Then she smiled and happily bought the choco diamond. "Sure! We'll take one." She said, already digging out 40G, handing it to the Rudinn, who thanked her and wished them a nice day.

After that, (Y/n) turned on her heels to look in Kris's direction again, smiling mischievously. As she slowing marched towards him, he stiffened under her gaze, trying to keep his cool. Soon enough, the girl was standing right in front of him. Kris found himself sweating nervously, not sure what this was about. His questioning look was answered when (Y/n) softly shoved the choco diamond into his mouth. Kris froze, still highly confused, he took the candy in his hand and bit off the tip, the chocolate flavor immediately calming him a bit. "Your welcome!" (Y/n) cheered, going over to the next stand, looking at the selection.

Swollowing the piece of chocolate, he compelled himself to talk to her as calmly as he could. "How... How did you know I liked chocolate...?" He asked and the girl simply turned her head, shrugging. "I don't know. You seem like someone who likes chocolate. Call it instincts or whatever."

Kris could feel his cheeks getting warm and he raised his hand to a piece of hair, which covered his eyes. He hoped to pull his bangs down further to hide his pink cheeks, clutching the choco diamond in his hand, a crack forming in it. 'Why? Why is her impact on me becoming worse? Is it because I realized my feelings? Or maybe my heart is trying to punish me for wanting to distance myself? Either way, I have to ignore this! I have to ignore... her...' A pain shot through Kris's heart at the thought. (Y/n) had been nothing but sweet to him. It is  so unfair to suddenly act coldly towards her.

The boy watched as (Y/n) bought a hearts donut from a Hathy aswell, giving it to Ralsei afterwards. "Aww. Thank you, (Y/n)!" The little goat called, hugging his friends before eating the hearts donut.

There was a third stand there and all eyes widend when they saw who was sitting behind it. "Greetings, lady and gentleclowns. May be interest you in a Lancer cookie?" Lancer asked with a almost polite smile. "Lancer cookie?" Kris mumbled in question. "All proceeds go to kicking your ass." Susie added.

"What happened to the money I gave you earlier, Lancer?" (Y/n) asked, peaking over the counter to look at Lancer, who could barely see over it due to his hight. "Oh? We used it to buy this stand and make the Lancer cookies! Pretty smart, right?!" He exclaimed proudly. The three heroes blinked but decided not to say anything about that logic. (Y/n) hummed in thought before shrugging again. "Sure, why not?" Lancer gasped excitedly. "Yes! Susie, our first costumer!" (Y/n) handed them the money and Lancer gave you a cookie about the size of a hand palm.

She looked at it and it was a cookie in the shape of Lancer's face. It was messely drawn but you could see the effort that was put into it.

'Cute...' (Y/n) thought to herself before Susie started speaking. "He hehe, thanks... For getting cheated by us!!"

"Now we may fund our illicit plans!!" With that, the two ran from behind the counter, making a B line towards the Hathy stand, where they bought a hearts donut. "Alright, so how should we split this jelly donut?" Susie asked her little companion. Ralsei cleared his throat, catching their attention. "Of I may ask, how does a donut fit into your plan?"

"All real plans allocate for delicious treats." Lancer explained is if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Sounds like you need to go to Plan school, Dr. Toothpaste!" Susie insulted. "Hoho! Yes! Earn a second doctorate, smart genius!"

'Am I being made fun of...???' Ralsei thought, completely perplexed.

(Y/n) clenched her fists again. 'Even if they were bad insults, they were still insults. Time to rub something in their face.' The girl put an innocent smile on her face, putting her hands behind her back while rocking back and forth on her heels. "Do tell me! Wasn't it you two who gave away the 42G I gave Lancer, exactly for a reason like this, to buy a bake sale stand and cookies, then proceeded to sell these said cookies for 40G, to buy a treat that costed you 40G?" As she listed that off, Susie's smirk began to falter as she realized her mistake. Lancer on the other hand, didn't see the problem. "Yes! That was my idea! Good idea, right!? I'm so smart!" He praised himself proudly.

Kris face palmed, Ralsei gave a defeated sigh and (Y/n) chuckled and she patted the spade prince on the head. "Yes, Lancer, very smart of you. Good job!" She gave him a thumbs up and Lancer seemed to get more excited from that. Susie looked like she was rethinking all of her life choices, which made (Y/n) laugh, of course.

Kris's lips wanted to curl upwards at the sound. He could feel his facial muscles wanting to betray him but he held himself back, shaking his hand and looking away to the side with an obvious frown, which went unnoticed by the others.

'This is going to be harder than I thought...'

~To be continued~

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