~20 minutes earlier~
It had been at least five minutes after the two boybands that were Kismet and Brozone had finished wrapping up their very first concert together, and some of the group either went their separate ways or stayed to chat with each other some more.
Right now, the Rainbow haired troll who was one of the members of Kismet was standing with two of his bandmates, Hype and Trickee, as they would chat about how much fun they had during the performance just now.
"Yeah man, it was off the CHAIN! Shoot we GOTTA convince Branch to let us do this again sometime!" Trickee jumped excitedly with energetic pumps of fists into the air.
"Nahhh for real though!" Hype would reply to his friend with shared enthusiasm.
The two trolls would then look over to their friend, who seemed to be somewhat out of it for whatever reason.
As if.. he was daydreaming?
"Soooo– Boom! What'd you think about it?" Hype asked him, clapping his hands together.
The Rainbow haired troll said nothing as he was staring off into nothing with a small smile, before slowly turning to look over at his two friends who were staring at him back.
"Yeah what's up?"
"..we were asking what you thought of the performance-"
"OHHH! OH it was amazing! I mean performing with you guys is always awesome but THIS was an experience!"
"RIIIIIGHT?! TOO good to forget! I'm gonna write about this in a random book I have under my bed for no actual reason!"
"And I mean did you see Floyd?" Boom would turn his body to look behind him to gesture to the now rescued band member, who was talking with his older brother Bruce.
Noticing this from a little ways away, the dark Magenta and White swirled hair troll fully turned his gaze towards him after looking away a few times from being unsure, shyly waving over at him with a timid smile.
Smiling wider, Boom waved back over then turned back around.
"He was great! I mean EVERYTHING was great! His vocaaals and his choreographic styleeee and– woah, did I mention his EARRING?! Most adorable thing I've ever seen.. OH and his vocals too!"
Hype and Trickee just stood there in silence, slowly looking over at each other before turning back to their unaware friend.
Boom stared back at the both of them expecting some kind of responses back, not understanding why he wasn't getting anyway.
"What? You guys all good?" He asked genuinely, "Didn't you like it too?"
"No Boom, not that, it just.. it sounds like you–"
"Huh?"
"Well, it just kinda sounds li–"
"Wait.. what were we talking about?"
Once again the two trolls just stared over at him in silence, blinking a few times here and there.
"..yeah nevermind–"
A small pause was thrown into the conversation when the Aquamarine troll turned his attention to something, or some people, nearby.
"That's him and Ablaze right over there talkin, let's go bother em!"
Right then and there he left the spot he was in to go join or interrupt the two in whatever conversation they were having.
"Yeah alriiiight!"
Trickee would get ready to follow behind, but not before turning to his other friend.
"Come on Boom!"
For a second the troll wouldn't respond as he'd just stare at his friend, blinking a few times with a small smile before looking around a bit.
"Come where? Are we leaving?"
Trickee would then halt all his excitement and stood steady on his feet, staring over at him with a now expressionless face.
"No, we're– going to convince Branch to–"
"OHHHH yeah!" He immediately interrupted the orange troll as he remembered, "yeah, yeah right behind you man!"
Trickee would then smile again at his clueless friend despite the sudden confusion, being used to that behavior from him by now.
"Ooookay then!"
Turning back around he eventually caught up to his three other friends.
Boom stood there in his same spot for a bit before he would eventually take some steps forward, mumbling to himself as he scratched the back of his head.
"..convincing of what.."
As Boom was getting ready to follow though, he'd stop when he felt a few light taps on his shoulder from behind.
Stopping in his tracks, he would turn around to see who it was only to find–
"Hey Boo– OH– Sorry! I-I'm so sorry! Oh- oh god okay uh-"
Right now at this very moment, Floyd would be standing literally just a few centimeters away from bumping his nose with Boom's and quite obviously flipping out in the process, not knowing whether to back away to give him what he believed his very much needed space, or just to stay where he was since he also felt that if he backed away the glittery troll would get the idea that he didn't like being close to him– NEAR him.
To his extreme luck though, Boom didn't seem all that phased by this accident and instead just responded with one of the warmest smiles the Brozone member had ever seen.. and ever admired.
"What are you sorry for?" He asked in a soft and very much genuine tone, still holding the smile.
Poor Floyd was left unresponsive for a few seconds, starting to also forget why he was even sorry in the first place just by taking in everything in front of him.
His smile, his eyes, his warm voice, his sincerity..
"..well I- I just.. I didn't mean to get so- close, is all.." He finally answered in a nearly quiet voice, still being very much captivated in the sight before him.
And Boom just shrugged, still holding that same, comforting smile.
"It was an accident."
And though it was, he also just felt.. a certain sense of comfort having him be so close to him like that. They had only just met today, so it was sort of weird, but he didn't need to know him for a long time to be able to know that he wanted to keep him around.
He admired not just his talent, but his kind and soft spoken personality as well.
For a minute after he said what he said, the two of them would have a short stare off with another, holding different smiles of their own for a good one to two minutes.
"Uhhh so ANYWAYS hum.." Floyd cleared his throat, moving his huge bang out of his face gently and trailing the same hand he used to do so to the back of his neck slowly.
"I wanted to.. well um. ask you.. if uhhhh.."
The more Boom would stare at him with those innocent eyes that were just full of so much life, the harder it would get for the emo troll to get even one sentence out.
"If youuuu maaaybe possiblyyy wanted tooooo.. toooo uhhh–"
"Hey so I was supposed to go do– something with my friends, I guess convince one of my other friends to do something.. uh.. I dunno I don't remember but– do you wanna maybe go get a drink or something? I'm kind of thirsty anyways."
And with that, Floyd went completely silent. He stood there slightly wide eyed as his brain went in circles under the realization that this man just snatched the words that weren't even fully processed, let alone registered in his mind.
"What's wrong?"
The lack of a response didn't click for Boom until seconds later, and he realized with seeing Floyd's slightly shocked expression just why he didn't get one.
"..OH WAIT– OH I'M SORRY– you were gonna say something, what is it?!"
Floyd would continue to be unresponsive until he began to smile ever so slowly, chuckling softly as he moved his bang out of his face once again.
"Actually, that was.. what I was gonna ask you."
Boom stood there lost for a second, but it didn't take him long at all to completely understand what he meant, and as soon as he did a smile of his own began to form.
"Soooo..?" Floyd put his hands behind his back and took two steps closer to him, nudging his shoulder gently with his own, "can I get an answer then?"
"..you know I'd really, really like to say yes, but.. I need you to ask me the question."
Floyd, despite being a little confused at first, had no problem with this and gently reiterated to him the question.
"Ahaa, okay.. um– do you.. wanna go get a drink with me?"
"YES!" Boom would say excitedly with a wide smile, having to laugh a little,
"I didn't forget by the way if that's what you're thinking, I just wanted to hear you say it."
Floyd had to let out a laugh of himself now, shaking his head gently.
"Right, right, of course."
Boom calmed himself down after a bit and exhaled through his nose softly, speaking in his soft voice again.
"I'd like that a lot."
~Present~
"So.. you got some uh.. pretty neat skills out there, heh–"
Right now, the once kidnapped troll with a mixture of white swirls in his magenta colored hair, was sitting across from his younger brother's friend and bandmate, Boom, and was currently trying to make more conversation with him after asking if he wanted to sit down and have a drink with him, which to his excitement he happily agreed.
Knowing that his older brother is the manager he decided to take Boom up to him to request their drinks, and to their luck he courteously made the decision to give them both whatever drinks they wanted on the house.
Floyd ordered a strawberry-raspberry flavored beverage, while Boom ordered mango with a hint of banana.
Of course this was also followed by some behind the scenes brotherly teasing.
"Yeah, yeah you really do."
Boom nonchalantly responded to his compliment towards him, playing with the straw in his drink a bit before taking a sip.
"..I‐ do?"
The sparkly troll's ear would flicker hearing his confusion and looked up at him, noticing a look that seemed slightly more surprised than confused.
Kindly, he just offered him a smile in return and nodded in response.
"I thought you were great, like– REALLY great."
And with that, Floyd didn't know if he would be able to control anymore of the flustered feelings he felt coming on, clearing his throat every few seconds.
"I.. I appreciate that a lot, Boom– way more than you think, but– I was actually talking about you." He smiled sheepishly while chuckling softly, now playing with his own straw, eyeing it and his interest back and forth.
Boom would then begin to just stare at him, as if he was studying his facial features– only in all actuality he was genuinely trying to process the words that Floyd had passed onto him into his brain, moving his straw around in his fingers and mouth here and there.
"..oh, OHHHH!"
The Rainbow haired troll nearly fell out of his seat laughing, having to catch himself by holding onto the small table they were sitting at as he realized his mistake.
Floyd obviously couldn't help but to laugh as well, feeling a sort of warm feeling spread throughout his face the more he heard his new friend laugh.
"See," Boom finished his laughter before clearing his throat a few times, "I don't know how it happens but my brain likes to mix up the words that someone says to me, like if you were to tell me it was a nice day outside today–"
"You'd confuse it with night?"
Boom paused again, just staring at him with not a single thought behind his eyes with a half agape mouth, until he immediately shook his head.
"..nuh uh, I would say that i– wait.. what'd I say again?"
Just then, the two would burst into laughter once more. Boom could laugh at himself and his pure authentic confusion anytime, but anytime it'd make someone else laugh he felt very much accomplished or happy with himself, and in this case.. he felt like his world just got ten times brighter.
"Sorryyyy," He chuckled out, shrugging a little with a side smile as he shuffled a bit in his seat.
Floyd just smiled over at him, hitting him with his own little shrug back.
"What are you sorry for?" He repeated in a soft voice what Boom had said when he accidentally got too close to his face, "no big deal."
Catching this, surprisingly, the troll sitting across from him had to smile, putting a hand behind his ear as he felt a warm feeling of his own erupt behind it.
It was quiet for a little while after that, but the air was nonetheless filled with the strong emotion of warm appreciation and flusteredness.
"..I mean it though." Boom would suddenly say after said silence, not saying anything else as he just took another sip of his beverage, a small smile holding his expression as he looked over to the side.
Floyd was about to ask what he meant by that until he remembered what he said earlier, feeling the strongest urge to pull his bang down in front of his entire face from the explosion of emotions he was experiencing at that very moment.
He actually did end up doing it, but it must have been without realizing since it took a minute for him to react or respond when Boom started asking him if he was okay.
"Yeah? I'm fine, why are you- OH–"
Immediately he moved his hair out of his face, but that only made him want to hide it once more remembering that his entire face was blowing up with heatwaves.
In defeat he just sat there, slouching as he very shyly kept his gaze away from Boom's, scratching the back of his head.
Despite being a little confused and worried by all this, Boom still couldn't help but to smile, chuckling lightly.
"You know it's just me, right? Well, I mean, I dunno I'm gonna assume that's what's getting you all messed up unless it's your drink which I doubt- but why be nervous around me? Of all trolls?? Heck, I don't even know what I'm saying half the time!"
Hearing all this, Floyd obviously couldn't help the butterflies he felt start to fly around the inside of his stomach and chest. It was like it all just kept getting worse!
Of course he didn't show that though, or tried not to at least.
"I'm not nervous!" Floyd suddenly blurted out, trying to subtly fan his face, "W-Where'd you get THAT idea?"
He also avoided all eye contact so he wouldn't fall over and die.
"Well– I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree but– wait– is it- Christmas tree or is it just tree.. I dunno– anyway, it's like.. you're moving around a lot, you keep looking away from me and uhh.. you're reeallyy.. hot?"
Floyd was extremely shocked he didn't just pass away right then and there after that last part.
"HOT?! You think I'm HOT?!"
He shouted out as he stared dead at Boom, grabbing onto his chair as if he was holding on for dear life and suddenly not caring if him fanning his face was noticeable as he sped up the process.
This would grab the attention of a few trolls around as they heard the sudden outburst, seeming either confused or concerned.
Boom, of course was confused as well but just continued to reiterate his point.. that is until he–
"Well, yeah, from what I'm looking at you're really–" then he stopped, finally catching onto what was going on,
"oh, oh, OHHHHH no- THAT is NOT WHAT I MEANT, UHH– YOU'RE NOT HOT– WELL NO, YOU ARE– BUT, I JUST MEAN LIKE– HOT, HOT– LIKE, YOUR FACE– GUGH, I MEAN- YOU'RE BURNING, LIKE– THE SUN! YOU'RE EXPLODING!! PSSHHH-PSSSHHOOWW!!"
Feeling his own face grow hot from embarrassment, he tried to fight it off by mimicking what he was trying to say with exaggerated hand gestures.
Floyd, by this point, was somewhat calmed down and just watched serenely as Boom finished his little tangent and was making silly explosion noises along with his exaggerated gestures.
His heart began to flutter again, but just not in the chaotic way it was earlier, and he genuinely felt at ease again. It was like by just watching him be himself he immediately felt better.
Seeing him be flustered as well though, he couldn't help but to chuckle lightly, moving his hair out of the way as he did so.
Noticing this, Boom would put the little show he was putting on for him on hold and sit back in his chair once again, starting to smile over at him and even letting out a laugh of his own.
"Feeling better?" He had to ask, speaking in his soft voice again as he leaned close into the table.
Floyd nodded slowly, leaning into the table as well and took the straw in his drink to play with, not taking his eyes off of him this time as he smiled back.
"Thanks to you."
Boom let out a light snort as he could practically feel how close Floyd was to him now, the air getting warm once again.
"Yeah.. sorry about– that."
He continued speaking in his soft voice and made a remark about the previous situation, grabbing onto his own straw now.
Floyd just shrugged though, letting out a snort of his own and looked down at his straw for a bit.
"I already forgot, and.. I started catching onto what you actually meant soon enough. It's kinda my fault for assuming and losing my mind."
"Nahh," Boom shook his head a little, "I should've worded it better. I have a problem with that too."
Floyd looked back up at him after hearing him get slightly quieter, and saw that his smile was smaller than before.
He didn't feel.. bad, did he?
"You know, it's.. okay."
Very gently, he'd remove his hand from his straw to put it over top of his.
Boom stopped playing with his straw and immediately froze, taking his gaze off of it as he would slowly turn his attention toward the dark magenta haired troll.
From that moment on, it was just the two of them staring into each other's eyes, and they truly didn't realize just how close they really were until this very instant.
Boom would slowly remove his hand that Floyd was holding off of his straw and place it back on the table, his fingers easing their way into his gentle hold and returning the gesture with a light squeeze.
Floyd would only turn his gaze away from his when he felt his fingers lock with his into a warm embrace, looking down at them intertwined with one another. His infatuation would do the same and just watch as the colors blended with one another.
And just with the gesture, just by seeing it, the heatwave feeling was probably much stronger than before, but instead this time.. he didn't want it to end.
Neither of them did.
After looking at their hands for a bit and giving Boom's a light squeeze of his own, he'd began to look up slowly and stared at him once again, his ears slightly drooped with a warm, heartfelt smile beginning to form on his face.
Boom's ear would twitch slightly as he felt his eyes peer back up at him, and ever so slowly he'd look up and do the same.
And just like that, it was back to staring again.
Nothing else mattered, nothing else was there.
Only the warm presence that one brought the other in this very moment.
"..Floyd.."
Boom would start in one of the most quiet voices, caressing his hand in a more protective hold.
But Floyd heard it as if it was the loudest sound in the entire world, and he didn't want it any other way.
"..yeah..?"
He replied in a voice that was just as quiet, feeling the urge to scoot much closer.
Just as he was thinking of doing it, Boom would eventually move closer himself, gently rubbing his thumb on his hand.
He didn't say anything for a bit after that and just watched his thumb move over top of his hand, which gave Floyd the courage to slowly move closer himself, feeling his face practically explode as their noses were quite literally touching.
And the best part.. was knowing that he meant to get close to him this time.
"What is it..?" He mumbled in the softest voice, giving his hand the lightest tug to try and grab his attention again.
Boom still didn't look up, but he did start to speak again, licking his lips before they'd begin to tremble in the slowest way possible.
"I.. Uhm, well I.."
Once again, he'd turn his gaze towards him after realizing he couldn't express all the feelings he was feeling verbally. It didn't matter much though, because there was one big thing he needed him to know that was better spoken through action than words.
He wanted to get closer.
They were both so close already, but the feeling of the other person's warm breath over top of his would feed the desire of inching in just a few centimeters more.
Eventually, Boom would turn his gaze towards something else just a few looks away from Floyd's eyes, licking his lips again as he started to move in once more, not stopping this time.
Floyd's breath started getting caught in his throat very quickly as he noticed exactly what he was doing, but not once did he pull or run away.
He began moving in too.
Seconds that felt like eons were continuously passing by, and time would only get much slower as they'd hoped it would as they got closer..
And closer..
And closer..
And clo–
"HEY YOU TWOOOO!"
"WOAH–"
Boom exclaimed in shock as he nearly fell out of his seat again and instinctively slammed his hand on the table, his drink nearly tipping over.
Meanwhile, Floyd was obviously a huge mess.
"GAAAAH NO NO I WASN'T ABOUT TO– DO– ANYTHING– NO– I WASN'T!!"
He covered his face with both of his hands, immediately missing the feeling of his one hand being connected with Boom's.
The person who would interrupt their intimate moment would be none other than Bruce, the second oldest member of Brozone.
Right now he was staring at the both of them as if he knew something was going on but didn't catch onto any of it.. somehow.
"Uhhh.. uh huh! You two don't look secretive AT all!" He replied sarcastically.
While saying that, he would watch as Floyd would still have his face covered with his hands but opened his fingers a bit to peek through, and Boom was leaned back in his seat while drinking his beverage once again, looking off to the side.
Floyd sighed as he moved his hands away from his face and reached one of them to the back of his head to scratch it, trying to put his embarrassment to the side to prepare to hear whatever his older brother was going to say.
"Did you– did you need something Bruce?" He asked, sighing.
"Well– not really, just passing something over."
"And that is?"
Bruce would then turn to Boom who was still sipping on his drink and drifted off in la la land, until he felt the muppet father's eyes were on him and would slowly turn to look at him.
"Boom, your friends were asking about you so I told them that I'd come find you since I remembered where you were, they said they're gonna get ready to leave soon."
His eyes widening a bit, Floyd would turn over to look at Boom who would slowly stop sipping and began to stare in slight disappointment.
"Oh‐ already–?" He sat up in his seat, grunting a bit as he put his drink on the table, "Well okay, where are they?"
"They're still backstage," Bruce pointed behind him with his thumb, "I can let them know that you're coming."
"Yeap! That's cool." Boom nodded with a slight smile.
Bruce nodded back and would then turn to Floyd, giving him a jokingly funny look.
The fourth oldest would take notice of this and start to feel embarrassingly flustered all over again.
"Whaaat??" He looked away from him almost immediately, gripping onto the table.
"I'll get whatever happened out of you later." He teased as he side hugged him and nudged his shoulder playfully, then turned back to the both of them.
"Gotta get back to work, I'll see y'all later!" He told them before walking away somewhere else.
"Bye!" Boom bid him goodbye as well before turning to Floyd, who still looked flustered but smiled a little when he felt his eyes on him.
"That was kinda funny," Boom chuckled a little, climbing out of his seat, "I mean he came out of nowhere!"
"Yeahh," Floyd laughed along and joined him on the sand, walking toward him, "I guess it was a little funny."
Boom just smiled at him as he turned to look over at the sunset, sighing quietly.
"Today was really, really fun." He spoke in a soft voice.
"It was.." Floyd mumbled, "I had a great time with you.. AND AND EVERYONE ELSE TOO– yeah‐"
Boom chuckled again, looking over at him again.
"I had a great time with you too Floyd.. we should do this again sometime! Or just– hangout, in general– IF you want!"
Floyd felt his heart flutter once more hearing this and turned to look at him, a smile forming across his face.
"Boom– I'd love nothing more."
Boom sighed once again and smiled back over at him.
"Great."
For a good minute they were staring at each other once again, holding each other's gazes for what they wanted to be forever.
"..WELL uh I should probably go before my friends start wondering where I am!" The glitter troll clapped his hands together.
"Oh, oh yeah, yeah, you should– heh– sorry I don't mean to keep you here–"
"Pfft, you're nottt," Boom waved him off, speaking in a softer voice again, "in fact I wish I could stay."
Floyd would blush again, except this time he had no intentions of hiding it, smiling softly as he moved his bang out of his face once more.
Boom would offer him one more smile before taking a few steps forward, taking a look back at him.
"..see you soon Floyd. I mean I‐ hope I'll see you soon‐ no you know what, I will."
Floyd raised an eyebrow playfully before chuckling.
"See you very soon, Boom."
"Heh.. bye."
Boom would start to slowly turn around and walk away toward where backstage was to meet up with his friends again, and Floyd was left standing there as he went his own way.
Sighing, the magenta haired troll would eventually climb up in his seat after watching him for some time, taking his drink in his hand and looking over to see his was still there.
After the magic that he'd experienced today, soon would indefinitely feel like forever.
"Floyd??"
Not even seconds after, suddenly, all his thoughts would be cut short as he sat up straight away hearing his favorite voice call to him, and he looked over to see him standing a few inches away.
"You can.. you can come and say bye if you want!" Boom would offer to him, shrugging as he placed a hand behind his neck to rub it.
Smiling, Floyd would climb out of his chair and make his way over to him with no hesitation, and it'd only grow bigger when he saw that he'd begun to smile as well as he waited for him.
And yes, they held hands all the way back.