Author's note: Sorry for taking so long! College has most of my time taken up, so I can't update any of my stories as often. And that's my priority, since I need to get a better job soon- at the end of his school year, the boyfriend is joining me at my house.

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Splendont woke up to sunlight filtering in through his window. A quick peek to his alarm clock sent him panicking. 10 am? How could it be 10 am? Didn't his alarm go off? And then it hit him; it was the weekend. He laughed at himself, panicking over nothing. Splendont quickly pulled on clean clothes for the day and headed towards the living room.

As he made breakfast for himself, his cell phone rang for a text message. Splendont absentmindedly picked it up and opened up the message. It was from Splendid.

Hey dude, the message read. You want to hang out?

If you don't mind coming with me and my friends, Splendont texted back. I had plans with them.

Ok, where you're going?

Just the mall.

Ok, see you there :^)

That's really cute of him to use that…, Splendont mused.

He paused for a minute.

Cute?

Splendid shrugged it off and started to eat his cereal. A bowl later, he was chugging down a protein shake and heading out the door to his car.

Splendid was waiting on a bench when the red head got here. The blue-haired male was talking to a familiar group of people. One member of the group, a green-haired male, seemed to sense Splendont's approach and looked up. He gave a quick wave. Smiling, Splendont joined them.

"So, I see you guys met Splendid. Splendid, this is Flippy, Flaky, Nutty, Sniffles, Lammy, Pickles, Petunia, and Handy."

"I know. We've been here for ten minutes already," Splendid said with a grin.

"Oh."

"Come on guys," a green and yellow haired male voiced up. "Let's go in! I wanna hit that bakery before the donuts start getting cold."

"Calm down, Nutty. They won't disappear that quickly," the light blue haired male next to him said reassuringly.

"I know… I just can't control myself."

The male adjusted his glasses and kissed Nutty on the forehead.

"That's what makes you cute."

Splendont faked a gag alongside Flippy and several other members of the group. Splendid just looked at them in slight shock with a slight blush to his cheeks.

"That's Nutty and Sniffles, the resident sappy couple of the group," Splendont explained.

"Oh."

"Sorry if this is weird for you," Sniffles apologized.

"No, it's just… nice to see people open about it. Where I come from, it's kinda frowned on…"

"We just learned not to care, me and Sniffs," Nutty spoke up. "We got plenty of hate, but why care when you're with someone you love, right?"

"True… true."

"Well guys, let's go on in," Splendont said.

The mall was busy, with people rushing about. Nutty and Sniffles broke off from the group and headed towards the food court. Lammy and Pickles went with Flaky and Petunia towards the clothing stores, while the rest of them went towards the store with the video games.

Splendont and Flippy started up a demo of a football game. After about ten minutes, Flippy laid down the controller in defeat.

"How do you do that? I'm normally beast at those games."

"Fast reaction time," Splendont said with a smirk.

Splendid silently picked up the controller.

"My turn," he spoke up.

Splendont shrugged and started the game again. For the first few minutes, the game progressed pretty normally. But slowly, Splendid started getting an advantage over the red head, and 10 minutes later he had lost by a large margin. Splendid was smirking as they moved on to another store.

"Fast reaction time," he explained to a stunned Splendont, in a perfect imitation of the red head.

Splendont couldn't help but laugh at that.

Handy and Flippy split off to head towards the bathroom, leaving Splendid and Splendont alone together.

"So, where to?" Splendont asked.

"Maybe the food court? Kinda want to get a pretzel."

"Sounds good."

Nutty and Sniffles had already left by the time they got there. Splendid went to the line with both his and Splendont's money to get their pretzels. Meanwhile, Splendont waited at a table for his friend to get back. For some reason, Splendont found himself staring at his waiting friend.

He has nice ass… wait, why am I staring? And why did I just think that?

With some force of will, Splendid tore himself away. He didn't show his confusion, and to distract himself, he started running his finger around the edge of the table. Splendid came back a few minutes later with two hot pretzels, unaware of what his friend had just thought.

"Here's yours, and some cheese to."

"Thanks."

They talked and ate. Slowly Splendid starting opening up to his red headed friend. He was born and raised in a small town where everyone knew everyone else's business. Had no friends growing up and was very sheltered, but always snuck out when he could.

"How did you get by with no friends? That sounds like torture," Splendont asked in surprise.

"I got by… but I felt weird because of it. Like I was so strange for it. Never even dated."

"Never? Sheesh, dude. Was there nobody you liked?"

"No… just didn't feel safe."

"Didn't feel safe…?"

Suddenly it clicked into place.

"Oh, you're… oh, now I see," Splendont said.

"Yep, I'm gay. Or a fag, or a homo, or whatever other slurs people wanted to call me."

"Tsk, yeah, I understand why you would want to hide it. If you want to keep it a secret, it's okay with me. I won't tell a soul."

"Meh, its fine if your friends know. I mean, you all are okay with Nutty and Sniffles, so I doubt anything could go wrong with that."

"I'll leave it to you. Not my place."

"Thanks… so you going to finish your cheese?"

Splendont laughed.

"No, you can have it."

They finished up a few minutes later and went to search for their friends.

It was sunset by the time they left the mall. Splendont took Splendid home in his car so that the blue haired male wouldn't have to walk all the way. They talked in the car, about teachers and their fellow students, and life in general, until finally Splendont pulled it into park in front of Splendid's house.

"Here we go," Splendont commented.

"Thanks, dude," Splendid said.

"No prob. See ya later."

"See ya."

Splendid slid out of his seat and onto the ground outside. He started walking, but then paused after a couple feet before turning around.

"Can I admit something to you?" He asked.

"Uh, sure."

He took a breath.

"I like you, okay?"

He turned back around and continued walking, leaving Splendont there in stunned silence.