Chapter 6

Plantern decided to spend the night with her nocturnal plant-friends, Sea-Shroom and Hypno-shroom. She informed Repeater earlier that she won't be sleeping with him in their room, much to his dismay but he eventually let Plantern hang out with her friends.

The moon was sparkling bright during the night, high up the sky, and fully-revealed to the face of Suburbia. Plantern shed some light on a specific part of the poolside, whilst conversing with her friends. There were no other plants in the backyard, none on the front lawn, and none on the roof. Crazy Dave and Dr. Andy were asleep, as the rest of the plants were.

Sea-Shroom was concerned about Plantern not having a relationship, so did Hypno-shroom. Plantern attempted to turn down this topic, but her friends had washed her along with the subject.

"So, Plantern, you already had a lot of friends- including us. You set root here a week ago and made a lot of friends here, but it seems that you don't have a relationship with another plant." Sea-Shroom asked.

"He's right!" implied Hypno-shroom. "You don't seem to have a crush on a plant? Or you haven't told us that you already have a boyfriend?"

"What?! No, no, no, I don't have a crush nor a boyfriend. Only the Tree of Wisdom knows when. I'm only here in Suburbia to fend away fog and smog, like what I do in NPC." Plantern annoyingly replied.

"Why don't I ask the Tree of Wisdom if you already have a crush? Aww, if I find out you have one, I call dibs." Hypno-Shroom giggled, and Sea-Shroom was air-laughing.

"Argh, okay I will say it. I have a crush here." Plantern facepalmed.

Sea-Shroom and Hypno-Shroom got excited at what she recently said. Sea-Shroom was stammering while trying to ask Plantern more questions, while Hypno-Shroom grinned and was so awestruck at the situation.

"Ooh, I'm beginning to like this." Sea-Shroom replied. "Can you tell us who's your crush? We promise, only the three of us in this wretched swimming pool will know, we won't tell your secret."

"You guys know Repeater, right? Since I've set root here, I've been with Repeater. He's my roommate. But that's not the reason why I like him. He's funny, friendly, but fierce as a mad scientist." Plantern blushed and her light had lit up brighter than normal. "Also, I don't think he'll ever be my crush anymore. He's way more than my crush, and in two days, three I don't know, I'm..."

"You're gonna?" Sea-Shroom and Hypno-Shroom simultaneously asked.

"I'm...I'm going to tell him how I feel..." Plantern's blushes were incredibly visible, and there was total silence for a few seconds.

Hypno-Shroom's jaw dropped while Sea-Shroom's nozzle got limp after hearing what Plantern recently said. The both of them wanted to shout in excitement but they did not want to disturb the rest of the plants and Crazy Dave, sleeping. "Oh my, Plantern, have fun. Repeater's a cool boy-plant to hang out with, but he's mostly busy with personal life and does not hang around much with us nowadays. He's earned a high reputation here in Suburbia, even if he lost his parents, he's still staying strong and enjoying the lawn."

"While you decide on doing that, me and Hypno-Shroom and all the other plants will stay away from you guys, we'd just give you privacy." Sea-Shroom implied.

"Oh my mod, what have I done, I'm not really ready to confess to Repeater...what gives...I should give it a try." Plantern thought.

It was 11 in the evening and Hypno-Shroom and Sea-Shroom decided to head back to their daytime-simulated room and sleep. Plantern remained on the backyard, observing the night sky for ten minutes. That is until, Repeater woke up and decided to check on his roomie.

"Oh, hi Plantern. You look beautiful when you put your bioluminescent light into work at night..." Repeater said, still yawning.

Plantern blushed so hard that Repeater took her blushing into consideration that she possibly has a crush on him. "W-What are you doing here, Repeater? I was wrong, me and my friends just hung out for an hour or less and I admit, I am feeling sleepy."

"I was watching you and the other Shrooms having a conversation." replied Repeater.

Plantern thought, "Oh dang, did he hear what we just talked about? Does he know already?"

"I didn't hear what you guys were talking about, and it seems that you were having a good time with them." Repeater replied, negating Plantern's thought.

"Nope, nothing, just uh...n-nighttime life..." Plantern chuckled and Repeater was stuck in his sight of Plantern blushing hard.

"Well, can we go to sleep? Can't believe I just woke up to see you." Repeater, followed by Plantern, went back in the house and upstairs to their room. "Oh, and by the way, can I sleep with you on your bed? Crazy Dave told me that my bed was years old and I needed a new bed, so he said that I should sleep with you..." Repeater started blushing as Plantern moved to one side of her bed and Repeater occupied the other. His blushing had gotten harder due to the both of them using a single blanket, and a single pillow. The same had occurred for Plantern.