Happy Pride month!! Woohoo! This is actually my first time celebrating pride month cause my parents kind of sheltered me from anything lgbtq+ and I got into oneshots in August of 2020. Got into hermitcraft in like late June and it took sometime to get used to y'know, different genders and sexualities and stuff. It really didn't take too long though! Wow, it feels like it's been forever yet such a short time :3 oh god I'm getting emotional- I sHOULD BE SAVING THIS FOR MY ACTUAL HERMITVERSARY- 

Anyways, this is a combination of a request and a special. @Bluebanana25 requested something Tangaph, @OXBlackWhiteXO mentioned that matchmaker ZIT boys would be a good head cannon and of course it's pride month! It's a 4+1 sort of thing: 4 times the ZIT trio played matchmakers and the one time two of the members were shoved together by the third.

Woo, onto the story!

"HAPPY PRIDE MONTH IMPY!!" Tango yelled, tackling the brown-haired male with a hug. 

"Oomph- happy pride, Tango!" Impulse chuckled in reply. Zedaph popped up next to them. 

"What should we do to celebrate this year? Pins? Singing? Flags?"

Impulse hummed excitedly and gasped out, "All of the above AND we get the ships together!" 

"yEs!1!1" 

The trio was practically vibrating; this was guaranteed to be both fun and chaotic.

"Tango, get the music! We have planning to do!!" 

1.

"Hey, Cub!" Tango had a rather cheeky smile on his face and Cub narrowed his eyes in suspicion. 

"Hi Tango." 

"So..." The blond male tried to casually lean on a nearby tree and nearly fell over. "I heard you have a crush on a certain someone."

Cub felt his heart speed up and he swallowed thickly. He tried not to show it, but his red cheeks betrayed him. "Crush? On who?"

"Oh, just a green eyed, brown haired, very nice boy that happens to be here on Hermitcraft." Tango winked and Cub's jaw dropped.

"How- wHo told you tHat-"

"Doesn't matter! Besides, you just confirmed it." Tango grinned evilly. "I won't tell him, but you have to tell him yourself." Tango's right hand was in his pocket and he seemed to be pressing something. 

"And why would I do that?" Cub scoffed. "Obviously, I won't." 

"I'll make a deal with you," Tango offered, "If Scar comes to this spot within the next five minutes, you have to confess. If he doesn't, you don't have to and I won't tell anyone that you like him." 

"Deal, but you can't leave and you can't use your communicator."

"Deal!" Tango shrugged and pulled out his communicator so it was in sight. "Now, we wait."

Meanwhile, Impulse and Zed were busy talking to Jellie. Zedaph tied Scar's pride flag around her neck as Impulse made a deal.

"Jellie~! I'll give you this fish if you go to Cub in the shopping district right now!" Jellie was a only cat, but she was very smart. She quickly caught on due to Impulse's gestures too. 

"Meow!" 

"I take that as a yes." Impulse gave her the fish and she ran off. 

"I feel like that cat is smarter than me." Zedaph pouted as Impulse snickered at the complaint.

-

"Oh, I just can't wait to hang up my pride flag! Everything is ready I just need to find it..." Scar said excitedly. He spotted the flag on top of Larry the Snail. "How'd it get all the way up there? Ah, it's fine, lemme just-" He reached up for it and yanked on the corner.

Jellie, who was cleverly hiding herself under the flag, startled as if she was napping under it before. She made a big show of yowling, pretending to accidentally catch herself in the flag, and tumbling off of Larry. She then ran off into the forest and disappeared, much to Scar's horror. 

"JELLIE!! Oh no oh no oh no, I can't look for her using my elytra! The forest is too thick to see anything, she's bound to get lost! And she has the pride flag Cub got me! Come back Jellie!!" Scar yelled. He sprinted after her.

Jellie ran to the nearest nether portal and leaped in, waiting so Scar would hear the noises. She meowed innocently as Scar burst out from the forest. 

"Jellie, sto-" She teleported to the nether before he could even finish the command. "JELLIEEEE!!"

Impulse was waiting in the nether, and once he heard her meows he chuckled. "Wow, she really is a smart cat. Come here, Jellie! I'll escort you to the shopping district." 

The little cat padded out in front of him, the pride flag still tied around her. She had almost a smug look, as if she knew what she was doing. "Meow!"

-

"30 seconds left, Tango. Looks like he won't be coming." Cub sighed in relief. 

Tango was fidgeting, but he had a confident look on his face. "Don't jinx yourself, Cub."

Just then, Jellie came running and leapt into Cub's arms. "Jellie? Wha-"

A panting Scar followed after. His eyes lit up as he said, "Oh, sweet baby Jellie, I thought I lost you! Don't ever run into the nether again." He gingerly took her (and the pride flag) from Cub's arms. 

Tango pointed at the timer, which still had 15 seconds left,  smiled at Cub, and began to walk away. "I'll leave you two to it, good luck Cubby!"

Cub sighed and rubbed his forehead. "...dang it."

2.

Zedaph smiled brightly at Ren, holding a large box in his arms. "Ren, hi!"

"Hi Zedaph!" Ren replied cheerfully. "That's an awfully big box ya got there." 

Zedaph said, "It has some special items!" He set the box down and opened it up, revealing many different pins. "Go ahead, take a few."

"Aww, dude! That's so nice of you, thanks bro!!" Ren hunted through the box and picked out a pan pin and a polyamorous pin. "You've got everything in here, wow."

Zedaph nodded happily. "I hope I didn't miss any. I better get going, pins to distribute and such. Bye!"

"Bye dude!"

-

"I've lugged around a giant, heavy box full of pins all day, this better be worth it." Zedaph sighed.  "I even pricked myself quite bad once!" 

"Don't worry Zedaph, it's for the ships." Impulse said at the same time as Tango yelped, "How bad?!" 

"U-uh I mean it doesn't matter it's for the ships! Yeah." Tango quickly corrected himself. Impulse snorted at Tango's flustered expression. 

"It's not that bad, thanks for the concern though." Zedaph said sweetly and Tango started babbling. 

"Concern what concern no I don't care about you wait no not like that I care about you but not in that way why would you ever think it's that way no I'd never care about you that way hahahah wait no I don't mean that-" He just got more and more flustered with every word he spoke. Zedaph blinked at him in confusion.

"As hilarious as this is, we need to go check up on how the plan is going." Impulse reminded them and Tango quickly shut up. "Right, so since we've distributed all the pins, we can now get Rendoubledoc to meet up and see that they're all poly! We then give them a little push and, hopefully, they'll ask each other out. What could possibly go wrong?"

"Right, what could possibly go wrong." Tango mumbled. 

-

Bdubs had been messaged by some random person to meet in Aque town at sunset. Shrugging, he decided to go.

"Ren? Whatcha doing here?" Bdubs asked curiously. His eyes immediately flitted to the poly pin Ren was wearing.

Ren shrugged. "Dunno, was messaged by an unknown person. You?" He noticed that Bdubs was also wearing a poly pin.

"Huh... I was too. Ah, it's probably nothing!" He said cheerfully. 

Doc soon came to the spot as well, staring at them. There was a poly pin on his coat that the other too automatically saw.

"Lemme guess, you were messaged by an unknown person too?" Bdubs asked with a sigh. 

"Yep." He popped the 'p'. 

The notorious ZIT boys sauntered past the trio with joyful and excited expressions. Impulse smiled and pointed at the pins as he said, "Oh wow, you three are finally together?"

"N-" Doc started but was quickly interrupted by Zedaph. 

"Thank goodness! I was starting to think you three would back down on what you said." 

"Don't be silly, Zed! Why wouldn't they, it was so dang obvious." Tango reasoned. "Congrats, you guys! That's great, I'm so glad you managed to sort your feelings out." 

Ren, Doc, and Bdubs all had eyes as wide as saucers and their mouths hung open. "Wait, obvious... feelings?!" Ren was first to talk.

Impulse pretended to be shocked at this. "Wait, are you guys not together yet? Oh no, we thought you all said you'd be confessing to your crushes for pride month! I must've confused it with someone else, whoops. Sorry for the misunderstanding!!" This was the nail on the coffin as the three boys slowly turned to look at each other, cheeks aflame. The ZIT boys innocently walked away with smirks on their faces.

3. (I'm sorry, I've been watching too many old Team Canada CTMs)

Etho admired the shifting surroundings outside the window. He enjoyed the cold air and windy roads that led to Pause's place. Beef was settled right next to him on the bus seat, shivering slightly despite his thick coat. Obviously, he'd gotten used to the hot desert he lived in instead of the cold Canada he was from. 

"My hands are so cold. Why is Pause's place in the middle of nowhere?" Beef complained, leaning a bit on Etho. "You have a mask, you can stay warm."

"And you have a beard, Beefers." Etho retorted. He was grateful for the mask, though, because it hid his light blush quite well. "Besides, its worth the travel to go see Pause. We haven't visited in such a long time, and he wanted to celebrate our gayness for pride month."

"But does he have to live on practically a mountain? The altitude is so high here that it's freezing despite it being June. June, Etho."

"And you're Canadian. Canadian, Beef." The dark-haired male groaned as Etho snickered. Despite this, he comfortably leaned on him and gently took Beef's hands in his own. "Are your cold hands warmer now, old man?"

Beef opted to ignore the old man bit and nodded. "Much better."

One hour of jokes, naps, and games later, they finally reached... well wherever Pause lived. It really was in the middle of nowhere. Etho went to pick up his bag, but Beef grabbed it first. Etho opened his mouth, but Beef stopped him before he could say a word. 

"We still have to walk about a mile, Etho." Beef slung both Etho's bag and his own around his shoulders and got off t he bus.

"So? I can carry my stuff!" Etho said after they'd left the bus. 

Beef arched an eyebrow. "So you don't want me to carry your bag for you."

Etho thought for a moment, then relented and motioned for him to lead the way. He felt bad that Beef had carry everything for a mile. In fact, he wished they didn't even have to walk the mile, but the road to Pause's house had been blocked off by an electric pole falling over. It was just their luck. Etho was startled out of his thoughts by a tug on his arm, and he realized he never let go of Beef's hand. Beef pointed out some animal tracks on the ground.

"What animal do you think made that?"

"I don't know, and let's keep it that way."

-

Ping!

"Who could that be?" Pause mumbled as he checked his messages. "Beef and Etho already messaged me, saying the bus had arrived."

It was something from an unknown number, which Pause would normally ignore, but the name in the message caught his eye. "ImpulseSV? Isn't he that guy from Hermitcraft?" 

The message asked if he was free for a call. He shrugged and typed a yes, and a call came in from the same number.

"Hello? Is this PauseUnpause?" A cheerful voice sounded out.

"Um... yes? Is there something wrong in Hermitcraft?"

"Oh, no definitely not. I just wanted to talk to you about your friends Etho and Beef. You're aware of the fact that they're-" 

"Oblivious buffoons!" Another voice yelled out, and Impulse shushed whoever it was. "Sorry about that, but yes, are you aware of that?"

"Of course I am." Pause snorted. "They're absolute idiots when it comes to each other."

"Would you like to do something about it? As in give them a tiny little push, if you know what I mean?"

Pause nodded vigorously, then realized that Impulse couldn't see him. "Please, they're my best friends and they're driving me nuts."

"Perfect! Do you want any ideas on how to get them together? I can message a few."

"Uh, sure."

"Alright then, thanks in advance and good luck!" With a little bzzt, the call ended. Pause took a glance at what Impulse sent him, and smiled widely. 

"Oh, he's a genius."

-

"Oh, and did you hear about Cub and Scar and Ren, Doc, and Bdubs? I'm mildly suspicious about how they all got together at around the same time, but I'm sure it's probably nothing." Beef chatted.

"I dunno, that seems kinda weird..." Etho hummed. "Hey wait, is that Pause?"

A red and brown blob in the distance was jumping up and down and waving wildly. "I think it is! PAUSEY POO!!" Beef yelled excitedly, taking off. 

"BEEEEEEEFFF!!!" Pause screamed and ran towards them. "ETHOO!"

The three tackled each other in a massive hug; it had been such a long time since they'd been together. "I missed you guys!"

"We missed you too!"

"No I didn't." Etho said bluntly. They all stared at each other for a beat before erupting into laughter. 

"Oh no- eThO-" Beef wheezed.

Etho managed a, "I-I'm serious!", but it wasn't very believable as he kept laughing in the middle of it. 

"God, just come on." Pause chuckled. He led the way to his nice-sized house and patted his pockets for the keys. 

"Breach?" Etho piped up hopefully after two seconds of Pause searching for his keys. 

"Etho this is my house, oH MY GODD!!" Pause screamed as Etho placed a block of TNT outside the door. Beef had a similar reaction and jumped back. "WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET THAT FROM??" 

Etho giggled and got rid of the TNT. "I'm just kidding!"

"Well don't kid." Beef placed a hand on his heart and glared at the amused ninja. 

Pause got out his keys and opened up the door. He led them both up to one room. 

"You can both put your stuff right hyah."

"Right hyah." Etho repeated. 

"Wait, wait, I thought you said you had two rooms?" 

"Yeah, well, the other bed broke. We'll just have to make do with what's hyah. If you want, Beef, I can room with Etho inste-"

"No no I'll stay with Etho." Beef said immediately, a hint of jealousy leaking into his voice. He placed both bags on the floor near the bed. 

"Great! Let's go eat dinner, you guys are probably hungry."

-

After a long, happy dinner full of funny coming out stories, (it was pride month, after all), Beef and Etho were faced with the dilemma of how they were going to sleep.

Beef comfortably got on to the bed and patted the pillow next to him. "It's fine, Etho, we're best friends after all."

"I guess." He said slowly and climbed in as well. It was a small bed and they had to squeeze shoulder to shoulder to fit. Beef awkwardly turned around and reached over Etho to turn off the light. Quickly, he flopped back to his side of the bed. 

"Goodnight, Beef." Etho mumbled softly.

"Goodnight, Etho."

The night passed in peaceful slumber and sweet dreams. The birds chirped and warm sunlight streamed in past the curtains. Pink and orange quickly gave way to bright blue in the sky, and only gentle white clouds were to be seen.

Etho fluttered his eyes open, feeling warmer and more rested than he'd felt in years. Slowly, he lifted his gaze up, and-

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-" Beef's eyes shot open at Etho's screams, and he began screaming as well. They were caught in quite a position, Etho resting on top of Beef's chest and Beef having his arms wrapped around the other. A pile of flailing limbs, they tangled themselves in the blanket and tumbled off the bed. Once on the floor, their screams continued as they were pinned together on top of each other. 

Pause ran into the room and promptly burst into laughter. Etho struggled from where he was underneath Beef. The only reason he wasn't completely squished was because Beef had managed to hold himself above Etho. Not much better, especially since Etho wasn't wearing his mask. "Don't stand there and laugh, help us!"

Pause held up his phone with a devilish smile. "Hm."

"Pause don't you dare." Beef threatened, cheeks aflame. Click.

"pAUSE!! DELETE THAT RIGHT NOW." 

"You can't make me, you're not my mom!" Pause declared and scuttled away. 

Beef tried once more to get off of Etho and nearly collapsed and smashed their faces together. Luckily, or unluckily, he stopped himself a centimeter away. 

Etho was speechless, cheeks bright red and eyes wide. The blue eyed butcher rolled onto his side and finally untangled himself from Etho, taking off in the direction Pause went. The white haired hermit laid there in shock, completely stick still. Slowly, he began to process what just happened and he too ran after Pause.

-

One chaotic morning later, the boys had finally settled down for breakfast. Pause had agreed to delete the picture after threats from the other two. Little did they know, he'd already sent it to Impulse, resulting in an ecstatic response from the brunette. If all went well, the picture should be pasted all over the server once the Canadians went back, and that alone was more than enough to satisfy Pause. 

"So, what are we doing today?" Beef asked as he piled more bacon on Etho's plate. 

Pause shrugged and said, "We can wander around outside, I guess."

Etho stared his plate of mostly bacon down. "Bacon for days!"

"Bacon foh dayz!!" Beef affirmed with a laugh.

"I still don't get that." Pause chuckled.

"Only the cool kids understand." Beef declared with a noise of agreement from Etho. 

Pause jokingly gasped out, "How dare you? I'm revoking your bacon privileges."

Etho grabbed his plate and made a run for it. "They are not yours to revoke!!"

After they'd finished eating, and Etho returned, they all pulled on their heavy coats and went to the very cold outdoors. Pause began marching in a direction with purpose in his step. Etho and Beef followed him and the trio seemed to climb in altitude because it just got even colder and icier. Snow fell onto the ground and made a satisfying crunch when stepped in. 

Etho said hesitantly, "Pause, do you know where we're going?" 

"Of course not, I said we're going to wander around." Pause said this as he realized he didn't bring a compass. Or like, any navigational tool. And his phone didn't have reception, so it was practically useless.

"Wait, so we're lost?!" Beef yelped.

There was a moment of silence before Etho exclaimed, "Lost foh dayz!"

"We're not gonna be lost for days." Pause reasoned, slightly panicked.

"Denial foh dayz!"

-

They wandered around for a bit until they came to a particularly snowy hill. 

"Where even are we?" 

"If I knew that, we wouldn't have a problem, now would we?" Pause said irritably. Beef scooped up some snow and tossed a snowball at Pause.

"Hey, what's that for?!" Pause tossed snow back at Beef.

"You got us lost!" Beef retorted and tossed more snow at the native. Etho joined in by tossing snow at both of them and scampering away. 

"Come back here, you iMP!" Pause screeched a war cry and ran after the ninja. Beef snorted and ran too. Within just five minutes, snow forts had been erected and screams echoed in the once-peaceful clearing. 

Etho launched a well-aimed snowball at the base of Beef's fort and collapsed most of it. "Take that, Beefers!" 

"Dang it, Etho!" Beef ran after the other Canadian, who ran off to the edge of the clearing with a laugh. There was a small gap between the running pair.

"Now's my chance! Tossing skills, don't fail me now." Pause whispered as he got a lump of snow-ice ready. He aimed, flung the chunk, and watched as it sailed in a perfect arc, right in front of Etho. It successfully tripped him, and Beef fell over too. 

Pause snuck over to a conveniently placed bush and watched them. "Now, we wait."

Etho giggled and sat up, Beef doing the same next to him. The white-haired male's mask had fallen off at some point and lay in the ground near them. Beef leaned over and got the snow out of Etho's hair. 

"You have so much snow on you." He pulled off his snow-coated gloves and gently brushed some snow off of Etho's face, causing the latter to freeze up. His hand stopped at the other's cheek as he took in his appearance. There was still snow on Etho and his nose and cheeks were dusted with a pink color from the cold. It contrasted his pale skin quite nicely and golden sunlight made the view all the better. 

All Etho could think about was the hand cupping his cheek and the warm breath tickling his nose and the pretty blue eyes looking at him with unfiltered adoration. It was almost too much to handle all at once. They were close, painfully close, so close that just one inch separated their faces. 

Pause waited in anticipation, almost tempted to scream at them to kiss already. But he knew that if he did that, they would scramble away and they'd be back and square one, which definitely wasn't what he was doing all this work for. He'd planned a lunch date for the two back at home, and it would be a rather awkward lunch between them if he interrupted this.

Slowly, the two hermits leaned in closer and closer until their lips were finally touching and there wasn't any going back. It was gentle and sweet and so warm that even Pause could feel himself melting a bit at the romantic scene. Of course, another part of him was internally gagging at watching his best friends kiss, but that was natural for a third wheel to feel.

The lovebirds finally parted with a mix of awe and shock in their gazes. It quickly melted into pure love and joy. The silence was interrupted by Pause yelling out, "Finally, you idiots!"

"At least we're idiots together." Etho mumbled to himself with a goofy smile. Beef pressed a kiss to his forehead and he felt warmth bubbling in his stomach. 

"God, you're cheesy idiots." Pause helped them both up and handed Etho his mask. The ninja quickly stuffed it into his pocket, not daring to cover his face when he was being given such a loving look. "And hopefully you're cheesy boyfriends, too?"

"I want to be boyfriends if he wants to be boyfriends."

"Well, I want to be boyfriends." Etho nestled himself into Beef's arms and sighed happily. 

"How cute." Pause hummed and turned on his phone. With a monotone voice, he said, "Oh would you look at that? I have reception all of a sudden. How miraculous."

"So we weren't lost? You jerk!" Beef punched his arm lightly and Pause laughed. 

"Oh, no we were lost but I got reception as soon as we started the snow fight, I just didn't tell you two. Now if you'll excuse me, I must share this wonderful news with a certain Grian I've heard of!" 

"Not Grian, nooo!" Etho wailed. "The whole server is gonna know."

"Exactly." Pause scrolled to the picture he took that morning. "Maybe I'll send him this too."

"Nononono-"

"Done!" Pause cackled.

"PAUSE!"

4. 

Wels stared forlornly at a beautiful rose. It was lovely, but the flower for whom it was intended was even lovelier in his opinion. He saw everyone in Hermitcraft confessing during this pride month except for Hypno and xB, who were already together. He was happy for them, but it just reminded him of his plans to confess and his inability to do so. Sighing, he clutched the flower tightly in his fist, and brushed a finger against the petals. 

Rockets were heard in the distance and the knight spun around to the sight of Zedaph, Impulse, and Tango all landing. "What are y'all doing here?"

"You just look so sad, we had to stop by!" Zedaph immediately said. Wels was suspicious of them, but he let them continue.

"If you don't mind us asking, why are you sad? Do you..." Impulse looked this way and that conspiratorially. "Have a crush on someone."

There was no use trying to hide it. He said unhappily, "Yes. My heart is with someone else, and it refuses to come back." 

Zedaph and Tango looked at each other with confused expressions, but Impulse seemed to get it. "Is it Jevin?"

"I'm beginning to wonder how you know all this cause that's right."

"I wouldn't worry about it." The brunette chuckled. "I've heard singing helps, why don't you sing out your feelings?" 

At this, Zedaph quickly brought out a speaker from nowhere and it began playing 'I won't say I'm in love.' While Wels was distracted, Tango quickly messaged Jevin. 

Tango: come to [coordinates]

iJevin: ok...

"I don't know about this." Wels hummed.

"Just try it!" Impulse insisted, 

"Well, alright." He began singing. "If there's a prize for rotten judgement, I guess I've already won that. No man is worth the aggravation! That's ancient history, been there, done that."

"Who'd you think you're kidding?! Jev's the earth and heaven to you. Try to keep it hidden? Welsie, we can see right through you." The ZIT trio burst into song.

"Oh noooooooo!"

"Dude, you can't conceal it, we know how you feel and who you're thiiiinking of!" 

"Woooaaaaahh, no chance, no way, I won't say it no, no!"

"You swoon, you sigh, why deny it oh-oh?"

"It's too, cliché, I won't say I'm in love." Wels turned away and stared at the rose. 

"Shoo doo, shoo doo, oooh!" Zedaph provided the vocals.

"I thought my heart had learned its lesson!" Wels cried out, turning back towards them. "It feels so good when you start out. My head is screaming 'get a grip boy! Unless you're dying to cry your heart out.' Ohhhhh!" At this, Jevin came in to view from behind Wels. He stared in confusion at the entire scene.

"You keep on denying who you are and how you're feeling. Oh Wels, we're not buying. Hun, we saw you hit the ceiling."

"Oh noooo!"

"Face it like a grown-up. When ya gonna own up that you,"

"Got!"

"Got!"

"Got it bad!!" The ZIT trio harmonized. They subtly smiled at Jevin, who was still out of view from Wels.

"Whoaaa! No chance, no way, I won't say it, no no."

"Give up, give in, check the grin, you're in love!" Wels was in fact smiling; the singing really was helping.

"This scene won't play, I won't say I'm in love."

"You're do-ing flips, read our lips, you're in love!"

"You're way off base." Wels sang out.

"Shoo doo, shoo doo."

"I won't say it."

"He won't say it, no."

"Get of my case!"

"Sha da, sha da!"

"I won't say-y it!!"

"Wels don't be proud, it's okay you're in love."

"Woahhhh... at least out loud, I won't say I'm in looove." Wels smiled at the flower in his hand.

"Shoo doo, shoo doo, shoo doo, shoo doo, shalalalala ahhh." They finished the song, Wels still oblivious to the person behind him. 

"That worked, I do feel better!" Wels exclaimed. 

"Say, who were you singing about again? I forgot." Tango piped up.

"I already admitted that it was Jevin, remember?" Wels was very suspicious now. How would Tango forget so quickly?

"Oh, righhht. Good luck then." The trio speed-walked away to the knight's confusion. 

"Wels?" He spun around and was met with the sight of a happy looking Jevin. 

"Jev? How much did you hear?" He gulped.

The slime leaned closer with a smirk. "Enough."

+1. 

"Y'know, we've done some pretty good work." Zedaph remarked as he looked over the server with Tango and Impulse. 

"Well someone's gotta help them, right? Might as well be us!" Impulse grinned. The entire server was abuzz and lively. The trio waved to a passing Jevin who was holding a rose in his hand.

"Everyone looks so happy." Tango smiled. Impulse nudged him and he vigorously shook his head 'no'. 

Despite that, Impulse still said, "Hey Zedaph, why don't you and Tango go for a walk around?"

"Around where exactly?" Zedaph said, confused.

Impulse shoved him down a path. "Just around!" 

Tango leaned over and hissed, "What are you doing?"

"You should be happy too, now go!" Impulse shoved him down the same path. He snuck from bush to bush and followed the two to make sure Tango didn't screw anything up. He came across some flowers and tried to signal it to Tango.

"Pssst. Tango!" He whispered from his bush.

Zedaph looked around. "What's that noise?"

"It's uh... a rattlesnake! Yeah, a rattlesnake. Oh, these parts, they're infested with 'em." Impulse facepalmed at Tango's panicked declaration. He quickly stuck his hand out to point the flowers out to Tango. 

"OH! Um, would you look at that? Wow, such pretty flowers." Tango plucked a pink one and gave it to Zed. "H-here you go. Isn't it pretty?"

"Yeah, it is! Thanks Tango." Zedaph tucked the flower behind his ear. "How does it look?"

"You look beautiful- I meAn IT looks beautiful." 

Zedaph chuckled at this. "What's up with you today, you're acting all weird."

"Nothing nothing what ever do you mean this is how I usually act mhm yes yes." He immediately blurted out. Impulse was pretty sure he was going to get a migraine from how much he was facepalming.

"Well alright."

The pair walked further down the path and Impulse continued creeping behind to give Tango tips. He popped out of one of the bushes and clasped his hands together, then pointed at Tango and Zedaph. 

"I can't!" Tango mouthed at Impulse. The brunette merely gave him a thumbs up and disappeared into the bush. Sighing, the blond turned back to Zed who was rambling about someone at the market. 

"And she was so rude! Like I don't know what her deal was, the people there were completely fine-"

Tango interrupted him by pretending to trip and fall. "Oh no."

"Need a hand?" Zedaph outstretched his hand to Tango with a smile and he took it. As Zedaph continued to ramble, Tango subtly entwined their fingers firmly. 

Impulse muttered a small, "Well that's one way to do it.", and continued following.

Sometime later, the sun rose higher and the day got hotter.

"I'm feeling kinda tired." Zedaph said finally. "And hot." 

"Why don't we take a break then?" Tango motioned towards a nearby shaded bench. 

Zedaph shrugged and sat down, Tango settling next to him. Impulse appeared from the bush on Tango's side. Zed was looking the other way, so Tango quickly leaned over towards Impulse. 

"Put your arm around him! Use the yawn technique." And with that, he was gone again. Tango glared at the bush, then turned back to Zed, who was looking at him weirdly. "Why are you glaring at a bush."

"No reason! No reason, I was just... thinking of something."

"Hm." They sat in comfortable silence until Tango yawned and stretched. Carefully, ever so carefully, he...

He accidentally bonked Zedaph on the head. "OW! Geez, what was that for?" Zed rubbed his head and pouted.

"I'm so sorry I just yawned and it- arm- hhhhh-" Impulse was having a very hard time keeping himself from screaming from frustration. 

"I can't believe you've done this." Zedaph dramatically flopped his head onto Tango's shoulder and let it stay there. Tango stared at him before wrapping an arm around his shoulders.

'Well that was easy.' He thought to himself. Impulse was wondering how Tango managed to pull that off. The blond simultaneously had the worst and best luck ever.

-

"That was nice!" Zedaph said after they returned to where they'd started. "I'll see you again on Saturday? At 7 P.M.?"

"For what?" Tango asked, internally panicking and wondering if he forgot something.

"For the second date!"

"The second whaaa-" Tango stared in disbelief.

"Well yeah, obviously this was supposed to be a date. You're not very subtle, Tango."

"Not- wha- date- Saturday-" Tango was officially broken. Zed laughed and waved as he walked away. 

"See ya then!"

Impulse patted Tango's back. "Somehow, that worked out in your favor. But he's right, you really aren't subtle."

"'You really aren't subtle', come here ya jerkbutt!"

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Whew, that's finally done! :D When I started, it was May 31st... meaning that now my Hermitversary is in less than a week -.-' Honestly, between this piece and writing Obvious, I'm pretty burnt out, so instead of writing the special I had in mind, I think I'm just gonna do a QnA. Please comment with questions and I'll answer them all on my Hermitversary! The questions don't have to be hermitcraft related and can really be anything :3 You can ask multiple questions too if you want.

Please give me questions I don't want the QnA to be like two sentences long ;-;

Also, I guess this is my last season 7 one shot? Since season 8 has started already?