I seriously almost cried tears of joy while writing this. Tree Bros are honestly great and this fanfic was amazing to write.

Connor really never thought he would live to high school graduation.

But hey, there he was, with Evan, Jared, Alana, and Zoe, and 4 out of the 5 had graduated. Zoe of course, had only finished junior year of high school, but she still was a pretty crucial part of the group as Alana's girlfriend.

Connor still laughed at the irony that his parents had a gay son and a pansexual daughter. At least one of their kids likes girls.

In the months that had passed, Connor had made up with his dad, at least for the most part. He was accepted as his son again, and that was something, although their relationship had always been rocky.

Jared was still single. He liked it that way, though. Their little group was more than enough for him, especially once he and Connor had reached a peace.

Life was good. Life was great. And Connor had plans. Maybe it was too soon, but it just felt right.

***

They celebrated at A La Mode the day after graduation. Their parents, of course, had insisted that they stay home for a while to live their best high school graduate lives and have existential crises. But tonight, they were determined to have fun.

The whole group, aside from Evan, kept glancing at Connor, Jared especially making suggestive facial expressions every time. They knew about his plan. Evan was just confused, but he had ice cream and friends, so he took no note of it. Jared was just being Jared, like always.

They went to the orchard after getting ice cream. There were so many memories there, both good and bad. Connor figured it was only reasonable. "I bet Connor is excited for this," Jared said. He put a hand over his mouth.

"Jared, no!" Zoe said, laughing.

"Shut up!" Connor shouted.

"W-what's going on?" Evan asked, looking between all of them. Jared looked guilty, Alana and Zoe were holding back laughter, and Connor just looked nervous.

"I was... I was going to wait, but... but I guess now is as good a time as any, isn't it?" Connor said, stumbling over his words. Jared shot him an encouraging smile.

"Awww, let me get my phone!" Zoe said, letting go of Alana's hand and getting her phone's camera out.

"Quit it, Zoe," Connor said. He was laughing a little now too. "I was planning on doing this in a more romantic spot, not beside a random lamppost, but Jared had to say something."

"Don't blame me, you trusted me with your secret." Jared was smiling anyways. It seemed like all of them were, except for the confused Evan.

"What's going on?" Evan asked again. Nobody responded.

"Hurry up, Connor, my battery is almost dead."

"Can you guys shut the fuck up? This is kind of a monumental occasion in my life, you know?" Connor said, turning to the three of them. Jared looked like he was about to start jumping up and down with his excitement.

"Connor, what the heck are you doing?" Evan asked for the third time.

Connor turned back to Evan and sighed, running a hand through his hair. "Sorry, M- Hansen. Hansen is what I meant to say." Evan bit his lip. "I've loved you for like... forever, it feels like, and-and you know that. And this is by no means a rush to do anything, it can happen in a year, or I can wait for 20. But I've wanted to do this since we started dating and since we're adults and we're out of high school I feel like it'd be a good time."

"Calm down," Evan said, still a little confused.

"Evan, I love you. A lot." Evan noticed that Zoe was recording. That gave him another clue. He tried not to hope for it. He didn't want to be disappointed. "And I know that you know that, or I at least hope you do. I know I'm not perfect, but is anybody? Heh. I didn't exactly prepare a speech, I'm just rambling, fuck me."

"Evan can do that later!" Jared said from behind Connor. Alana elbowed him. "Sorry."

"A-anyways." Connor got down on a knee and put a hand in his pocket.

Everything clicked in Evan's mind. "Connor... Connor, oh my god." He felt tears in his eyes.

"God knows I need a cute little TreeBoy in my life, so here goes everything. Will you marry me, Evan?" Evan nodded, too happy to say anything without inevitably crying.

"Don't cry," Connor said laughing and standing up. "Damn getting on one knee like that really fucking hurts." Evan was crying, happily of course. Connor hugged his boyfriend – no, fiancée. "You're so fucking gorgeous, Ev."

"Oh my fucking god, Evan gets to be my brother," Zoe said. Both boys kind of forgot about the others.

"Brother-in-law," Alana corrected.

"Jealous," Jared said. "Why can't I be part of the fam?"

"Jared gets to be an honorary family member!" Evan said, wiping off tears.

"Yes!"

"Oh my god," Connor said.

"I got all of Evan's crying on camera, too!" Zoe said.

"Wha – Zoe!" There was laughter from all of them. Evan suddenly looked away from the group. "Hey, guys." Everyone focused on him. "Wanna go climb a tree?"

The End

This fanfiction was amazing to write and thanks for the people who read and commented because I've never finished writing anything before and you guys encouraged me a lot.

I already have plans for the next one (not to mention the Stepbrothers AU is about to get some love lol) so... yeah.

Bye <3

~ Sea