"What are you doing?"
Nightmare looked up from his book
"Reading, obviously you dumbass"
Cross walked over and kind of jumped into the beanie beside Nightmare.
"What are you reading?"
"The history of monsters" Nightmare stated simply. The skeleton monster was in passive which meant he was much shorter than the rest of the gang, also meaning that he was being teased a lot. That doesn't mean he's not scary when he's mad tho. The once terrifying octopus squeaked when Cross picked him up and sat him on his lap.
"Is this another way of teasing me?" Nightmare frowned, clearly unhappy. Cross shook his head side to side and kissed the shorter one the top of the head. The shorter blushed a violet color all over his face and pouted, turning away to look in another direction.
"Your so cute"
"Shut the fuck up, I'm not."
"That's what you say all the time"
Nightmare had no goop due to a recent hiking trip and Nightmare tripped and fell into some pool of muddy water, making him having to take a shower. He's been a bit grumpy and like this ever since the incident.
Cross put his skull on Nightmare's shoulder and looked at the book he was reading. He was on chapter 34.
"The humans have got it all wrong. We aren't uncultured beasts which will prowl at night and eat children." Frowned Nightmare while he leaned into Cross' chest. Cross scanned the book and flipped the page.
"Hey wha-"
Cross flipped and flipped through the pages skimming the text.
"Yeah humans are dumb"
Nightmare turned around and look Cross with a confused face.
"I thought you were illiterate?"
"Wow mean"
"No, I wasn't trying to insult you, you just never read any books so I thought you didn't know how to read."
Cross grinned.
"I learned to read wingdings"
"Uh cool but this isn't wingdings, this is english" Nightmare said raising a brow.
Cross simply shrugged and played with his scarf. Nightmare scoffed and went back to reading.
" Where's killer and dust?" Nightmare questioned, eyes not leaving the page. As if on que, a loud crash from the kitchen was heard, and screaming followed soon after. The two on the beanie didn't even flinch. Because once you live with a bunch of idiots, you get used to their ruckus.

"Well, cuddle time is over" Nightmare stated, putting his book down and trying to stand up, trying to shake Cross off. He succeeded and dusted himself off then stretched, cracking his bones before walking into the kitchen looking annoyed. Cross could only watch from the beanie and muffle his laughter when Nightmare walked back out, dragging Dust and Killer by their hoods and scolding them. The two looked at Cross with pleading eyes only to get flipped off by the Oreo himself. Horror and Error watched with amused expressions from the stairwell.