Branch's perspective
Branch had never felt so humiliated in all his life. He wanted to go into his bunker and stay there until all of his supplies ran out. Unfortunately, he couldn't do that until he and Poppy got a little help. And by help he meant scissors, but Poppy trusted her friends too much.
Poppy dragged him into her pod and grabbed a kazoo before loudly blowing into it, Branch's sensitive ears craved death.
"What was that?" Branch questioned, rubbing his ears in pain, "I thought we were going to get your friends?"
Before Poppy could reply, the sound of nine kazoos echoed through the pod.
"They're on their way" Poppy grinned.
Branch looked at Poppy's kazoo, then in the direction of where the other kazoos came from, "wait, so that's some kind of signal?"
"Yep!" Poppy said proudly, "Fuzbert's idea."
"Couldn't you get a quieter signal?" Branch frowned, now knowing why he heard so many kazoos a few times a week. The noise echoed throughout the village and out in to the forest far enough for it to be heard in the top levels of the bunker.
"Like what?" Poppy wondered.
"I don't know, torches maybe? I could teach you Morse code" Branch offered, "its silent and the chances of the light getting outside the village is slim to none."
"What's mores code?" Poppy asked, her face full of curiosity. The pink troll was always interested when it came to new things.
"Morse code" Branch corrected, "it's hard to explain so I'll just show you."
Poppy watched curiously as Branch tapped on the wall a few times before turning back to her and waiting expectantly.
"...wait, that was it?" Poppy blinked.
Branch groaned when he realised he'd have to explain it, "its like a pattern, tapping it in a certain way can mean 'a' and tapping in a different way means 'b', basically you have to spell words out using patterns."
Poppy looked at him blankly.
Branch waved his hand in defeat, "I'll try and explain it later."
The frantic knocking at the front of the pod told them that the snack pack had arrived, and Poppy quickly went to answer it. Branch awkwardly tried to stay out of view while also staying close to Poppy.
"Hey guys!" Poppy happily greeted them.
"Poppy, is there an emergency?" Satin was the first to speak up.
"Uh, kinda" Poppy's eyes flicked to Branch, her amusement showing, "it'd be best if you come inside."
Poppy let the snack pack in, standing in a way that blocked their view from Branch, allowing Branch to have a few more seconds to prepare himself for the embarrassment.
"So what's up?" Cooper asked, making himself comfortable on the floor.
"So, Branch and I had a date a few minutes ago" Poppy began, the snack pack's mood instantly changed as they geared up to start questioning her, but Poppy continued before they could ask anything, "aaaand we had a bit of...an accident."
With that, Poppy stepped to the side to reveal Branch and their tangled up hair.
Everyone in the snack pack besides Creek, Suki and Guy Diamond tried to muffle their laughter. Only Branch noticed Creek's face darken, but he was quickly distracted by Suki and Guy Diamond's loud choking laughs.
"Oh my god" Suki wheezed.
"Let me guess, you actually did kiss in the tree" Guy Diamond choked out.
Branch's face glowed bright purple.
Poppy was blushing too, but she looked between Branch and Guy Diamond, confused, "how did you guys know we were in a tree?"
"How do you think he knew to bring a lot of fairy bread?" Suki grinned.
"He came to my pod to ask what kind of food you liked, we managed to get a fair few secrets out of him while he was there" Guy Diamond explained before noticing Branch's warning glare, "don't worry Branch, we promised we wouldn't say anything, didn't we?"
"Yep!" Suki affirmed.
"This counts as saying things" Branch pointed out.
"Whoops" Guy Diamond and Suki covered their mouths, both of their eyes glinting in amusement.
"So you're friends now?" Poppy blinked in surprise.
Guy Diamond and Suki nodded, Branch remained silent.
"Oh my gosh!" Poppy squealed, bouncing over and hugging Branch, "you didn't even agree to be my friend before I became your girlfriend-"
Branch glowed bright purple and raised a finger in an attempt to point out they hadn't become official, but Poppy continued.
"-and you made two friends by yourself! This is amazing!" Poppy gave Branch an excited kiss on the lips before turning back to Guy Diamond and Suki, ignoring Branch's embarrassed squeak, "you two have to tell me everything!"
"Not everything" Branch attempted to say warningly, but his bright purple blush dulled anything threatening.
"Wouldn't you want to get your hair untangled first?" Creek asked, obviously disliking the sight of his crush's hair being tangled with Branch's.
Branch noticed Creek's expression and couldn't help but smugly tangle his hair with Poppy's a little more. The purple troll fumed.
"Right! Its such a mess!" Satin and Chenille instantly sat Branch and Poppy down and started to work on their hair while the snack pack sat down to make conversation and Creek left.
"So tell us how it went!" Suki prodded excitedly.
Branch blushed and let Poppy explain it.
"Okay so remember how he gave me a sketch of a poppy flower on our first date? Well on this one he actually gave me real poppy flowers! From forever away! There's a purple one, a yellow one and a red one, and-" Poppy froze, "Branch I left the flowers at the tree! What if something happens to them?!"
"Don't worry" Branch reassured, flinching when one of the twins gave an especially hard tug at his hair, "I have to go back to get my stuff anyway, I'll drop the flowers off on my way to the bunker."
The snack pack cooed at that, making Branch blush while Poppy sighed in relief before continuing her retelling of the date, "okay, so he gave me the flowers, then I saw some pillows set up for us and asked where he'd gotten them, because they're really cute, they have little trees on them, and apparently he made them! So I asked-"
Branch snorted at that, she'd stared him directly in the eye and demanded. Apparently the snack pack understood that without him even correcting her.
"-him to make me some and he agreed! Then we sat down and watched the sunset, we were high enough to see it right up until it was gone completely!" the snack pack let out awed 'wow's and Poppy nodded in agreement, "and then we ate, like Suki said, there was a lot of fairy bread, and we started to talk and he told me about-"
Poppy and Branch both froze, remembering how Branch had told her about his grandmother, Rosiepuff. Branch hadn't said anything specific about how she'd died, but he didn't want Poppy mentioning her to the snack pack. He hadn't even meant to tell her, but she'd started talking about her mother, Lilly, and Branch was suddenly telling her about Rosiepuff's cooking and the kind of songs she'd sung.
"-about the kind of trees we built our pods in! Yeah!" Poppy corrected herself, the snack pack looked at her in confusion but she quickly continued before they could ask about her obvious lie, "anyway! After a little while of talking about...trees, he kissed me!"
While grateful that she'd dodged the topic of Rosiepuff, he really wished she hadn't jumped straight to the kiss.
Satin and Chenille popped their heads around to see Poppy's face, "how long was the kiss?"
Poppy looked up, trying to remember. Branch covered his face in embarrassment.
"I lost track after the first minute" Poppy finally gave in.
"Over a minute?" Satin grinned.
"Hey Branch!" Guy Diamond spoke up, Branch hated him so much right now, "you're good at keeping track of time, how long was it?"
Branch refused to take his hands away from his bright purple face, "...nine minutes and thirty-four seconds."
"Wow" The entire snack pack said together.
"Poppy, that's not a kiss" Chenille said to her friend.
"That's a full blown make out session" Satin giggled.
Branch wanted to die. Why did they have to focus on the kiss of all things.
"Yeah, I kinda lost focus after he started using his hands" Poppy blushed.
The girls in the group started giggling while the males all smirked at Branch.
"I knew you could do it!" Guy Diamond cheered.
Branch would happily call a bergen over, walk into it's hands, and ask to be eaten. He silently begged Poppy to stop talking.
"I guess we know why its so tangled now" Suki laughed, "you know trolls normally tie their hair up when things get to second base or higher."
"Okay, that's enough, Branch looks like he's about to try and strangle himself with his own hair" Guy Diamond helpfully pointed out.
The twins giggled and went back to untangling Branch and Poppy's hair.
After a few more minutes Branch was free and he ran out of the pod so fast he'd almost tripped.