Spring. How wonderful it is. The flowers with their beauty, exposing themselves for the first time in half a year. A brilliant time to gather bunches of their brethren. But if you do, will the flowers not grow sad and wilt at their loss.

Sky looked out his window into the garden. The fresh spring air blowing into his room. He watched as Mitch and Ty got to work tending to the flower beds, weeding out the unwanted dandelions and thistles. Those would go into another flower bed, specifically for those weeds. Mitch was adamant on keeping all plants that grew in the garden. He wouldn't let anything be thrown out unless it was dead and then he would bury it in its flowerbed and use it as compost to grow more of its kind. Sky smiled as Ty tried to pull a weed out and fell back onto the lawn when it came free. Mitch rushed over to see if Ty was okay and Sky's smile faltered as Mitch leaned over Ty to check for injuries. Sky huffed, his face souring as he saw Ty blush as Mitch fell onto him. Sky frowned as the two laughed, and closed his window quietly.

Mitch laughed as he stood up, offering Ty a hand. Ty took his hand and Mitch pulled him to his feet. Songbird flew over and landed on Ty's shoulder, offering Mitch a small, uprooted, but intact, dandelion.

"Thank you, Songbird. I'll take it to the others", Mitch said, taking the dandelion from Songbird's beak and walking away to plant it.

Ty smiled and looked back up at the house. He saw a faint shadow and his eyes immediately drew to it. He stared at Sky, the other man looking out through the kitchen window. Ty smiled at Sky and waved. Sky gave him a small smile and a little wave back. Ty grinned and turned around to start weeding again.

"He really does work hard. Doesn't he?", Sky asked as Mitch sat down next to him that night.

"Yeah, Ty's really something isn't he?", Mitch said, sipping on a mug of tea. He sighed as he felt the tea warm his insides.

Sky looked up at Mitch and felt his stomach clench. His mind flitting back to the incident that made him come down to the kitchen. The fall. He couldn't stop from giving Mitch a withering glare. Mitch looked up and startled slightly.

"What's wrong?", Mitch asked.

Sky tried to stop glaring but found that he couldn't, his mind continually supplying him with images of Ty and Mitch. He couldn't take it anymore. Sky stood up with his glass and slammed it down onto the table, his face shadowed. Mitch's eyes widened and he reared back. Sky looked at Mitch and stared, with empty eyes and a heavy heart. Mitch shook with fear. Sky sneered and walked away from Mitch and up to his bedroom.

"Wonder what's wrong with him?"

Ty sighed as he stretched. His body ached from all the work he had done. He smiled as Songbird flew towards him. Ty put his arm out and let Songbird land on the makeshift perch. He entered the house just as a loud bang sounded from the kitchen. Ty ran towards the sound but stopped when Sky exited the kitchen and began to walk up the stairs. Ty stood there and watched as Sky disappeared up the stairs. He walked towards the kitchen and peered inside. He held back a laugh at the expression on Mitch's face.

"What happened with Sky?", Ty asked, a large smile on his face as Songbird made his way up to Ty's shoulder and sat there.

"I'm not sure. He said you were a hard worker, then I said how well you did today and he goes all crazy on me! Silent treatment and glares galore!", Mitch said, "What did I say to make him so mad?!"

Ty chuckled.

"Oh, ha ha. Yeah. Very funny Ty. Yeah, I can see how my pain and suffering could amuse you", Mitch said his head dropping to meet the table.

At this Ty couldn't help but burst out laughing. He knew Mitch didn't mean anything he had just said. Mitch smiled into the table, he couldn't help it. Ty's laugh was as infectious as one of Sky's megawatt smiles. Even thinking about one made Mitch smile.

After Ty had laughed away the pain he was in, he said a small goodbye to Mitch and turned to the stairs. He was scared of what he was about to do, but he had to face Sky for the good of the whole group. No one else could and he was Sky's best friend, surely he would listen to Ty. Ty walked up the stairs and deposited Songbird in his room before he walked to Sky's bedroom door. He took a deep breath and knocked on the old door. He could hear a little bit of shuffling inside. A quiet "come in" came from the other side.

Sky was on his bed looking out at the garden again as Ty entered. Ty shut the door behind him and walked towards the bed.

"So…How are you feeling?", Ty asked.

Sky hummed a little bit, a signal that he was doing well.

"Uh, so what was up with you and Mitch? He do something to upset you?"

Another hum.

Ty sighed and looked at the floor, then he looked at Sky.

"Could you please tell me what it was. Maybe it can be resolved."

Sky looked up from the window and searched Ty's eye. Sky sighed.

"I saw him fall on you in the garden", Sky said softly, his voice just above a whisper.

"Oh. Yeah, that was embarrassing. But what was wrong with it?", Ty asked.

Sky sighed again, a blush coming to his cheeks as he looked back at the window.

"It made me angry."

"Why?", Ty asked.

"I don't know. It just did", Sky said, his voice low. Like he was tired.

Ty watched Sky carefully.

"Could you elaborate on that a little?"

"I just told you I couldn't!", Sky yelled.

Ty chuckled and Sky puffed out his cheeks.

"Do you think you could, I don't know, apologise to Mitch. It was an accident after all. It's not like he planned to trip and fall on me."

"Yeah, I know. It still makes me mad, though. I mean, I know that he didn't mean it, but it doesn't make this easier."

Sky sighed and continued.

"I'll apologise tomorrow morning. I'll get him some roses from the garden. He likes roses right?"

Ty felt his heart constrict. His hidden eye twitched slightly, his smile faltering.

"Yeah, I'm sure he'll love that", Ty said. His tone low, and dangerous.

Any one of his other friends would be able to see that they were in dangerous waters when Ty's tone dropped like this. But Sky, even though they were best friends, was also Ty's most oblivious friend. The only one unable to tell when Ty got like this that he was treading on thin ice. He usually relied on other people to tell him when Ty was really angry. But when it was just the two of them, he was as oblivious to Ty's anger as he was happy-go-lucky.

Sky jumped off his bed.

"Then it's settled. I'll figure out which roses I'll get Mitch tomorrow. Thanks for the talk Ty."

"No problem", Ty got out, his jaw clamped firmly together and eyes flashing.

Sky smiled and opened his door. Ty shuffled off the bed and out the door, his hands curled into fists, nails biting skin, braced against them hard enough to draw a small amount of blood.

When Ty got to his bedroom. He opened the door with his foot, to avoid aggravating his injured hands. Ty cradled his hands as he walked over to his desk. He sat down and began to wipe the blood off with a tissue. He was just about to log into his laptop when his door opened. Ty looked at it, seeing nothing. He got up and reached towards the handle. As he was about to touch it a yell came from downstairs. The shouting grew louder and then it stopped. Ty took a step towards the stairs but stopped when he heard crying. He moved towards the wall as Seto ran past him, towards his room. Tears streaming down his face as he ran.

Ty, being the good friend he was, ran after Seto and faced Seto's door. He knocked quietly and heard the sniffling cease. Ty knocked again and heard Seto get up off his bed. The door opened and Seto launched himself onto Ty, his arms wrapping around Ty's shoulders. Ty walked into Seto's room and dragged both of them onto the bed.

"What's wrong? What happened?", Ty asked, his voice soft and gentle.

Seto sniffed and wiped some tears away.

"I-I found Brice and Mitch in the kitchen. They were arguing about me. Then when Brice defended me Mitch accused him of being in love with me. But B-Brice denied it", Seto choked out.

"Oh, Seto…", Ty whispered, "I sort of know how you feel."

Seto looked up at Ty.

"R-really?"

"Y-yeah. I kind of, like, really like Sky", Ty whispered, looking down at the quilt.

Seto smiled wide, his tears stopping as he smiled widely at Ty.

"Yes!"

Ty looked up at Seto, startled slightly at the sudden happiness.

"W-what?"

"I knew it. Ah, you two are so perfect together!"

Ty scratched his head and stared at Seto.

"Pardon?"

Seto squealed.

"You and he would be perfect together. Ah! It's too much!"

Ty watched as Seto fell back. Then startled back as Seto suddenly appeared in front of his face.

"Wait, you said you knew how I felt."

"I said I sort of knew how you felt", Ty corrected.

"Whatever, same thing. But that means Sky rejected you."

"Uh, no", Ty said, but Seto wasn't listening.

"Where is he? I'll make him see sense."

"S-Seto, you don't need to. Please just sit down and we'll do this together!", Ty yelped as Seto got up off the bed and dragged Ty with him.

Seto looked down at Ty.

"You haven't even told him. Have you?", Seto questioned.

"Uh, no?", Ty whispered, scared.

Seto sighed and face palmed.

"But, you said you knew how I felt. How do you know how I feel?"

"Well, Sky's getting roses for Mitch as an apology for being mean to him."

"Oh…", Seto said, "Well, when are you going to fess up?"

Ty looked at Seto and moved away from him.

"Are you crazy! I can't tell him that! If I do…"

Seto looked at Ty and smiled softly.

"You think he'll reject you?"

Ty looked down at the floor.

"Oh, Ty…", Seto said as he embraced Ty, "It'll be okay."