That just made Gerard laugh even more, despite the pain in his ribs from all the scrapes and tight squeezes. "Yeah, go for it. Stress brings people together, right? We'll be level 2 friends by the end of this. Maybe even level 3, who knows."

He was joking, mostly to indulge Papyrus because it was funny, but underneath it all he was secretly... kind of happy. He's never been able to have friends before coming here.