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"He's just so...perfect." Jimmy says.
Jimmy and Tango are laying on Tango's bed, staring up at the ceiling as Jimmy talks about his crush, Scott Major.
Jimmy is laying horizontally across the bed, well Tango is laying vertical, his head on the foot of his bed, and his feet on Jimmy's chest, using his best friend as a human footrest.
Tango has had a crush on his best friend since the beginning of middle school (maybe even longer. It took the whole summer before for him to admit it to himself).
Tango final built up the courage to ask Jimmy out their freshman year, but Jimmy started talking about Scott nonstop.
Tango kept his mouth closed.
Truth be told, Tango wouldn't mind dating Scott ether.
The cyanett is nice and looks good (which is always a plus for Tango).
It's their senior year, and the senior dance is in two weeks.
"I want to go to the dance with him, but I'm to scared to ask him." Jimmy says.
Tango turns his head to took at Jimmy.
Jimmy has his one arm thrown over his warm brown eyes, face red.
Tango's heart longs for Jimmy's.
He wishes he could embrace his best friend, press his lips to his rancher, be all Jimmy needs, give him everything.
"What if we went together?" Tango asks.
The three seconds of silence almost kills Tango.
"S-so we don't have to go alone." Tango quickly says, "But only if Scott does not asks you to go."
"I would love to go with you Tango." Jimmy says.
Tango won't deny it, his heart fluttered in his chest.
-♡-
Jimmy has been staring at the back of Scott's head.
The blue haired man sits directly in front of the blond in his history class.
It's safe to say, Jimmy would be failing history if Tango did not give him notes and they study together (it's not his fault he sucks at history and Scott sits in front of him in that class).
The bell rings, releasing the students from the class.
"Don't forget you're homework is due next Monday!" The teacher shouts as the kids leave.
Jimmy makes a beeline for his locker, just two more periods and he is done for the day.
Maybe him and Tango can play minecraft later.
Jimmy opens his locker, putting his English and history books back, and garbing his science book, he has to finish that science paper for Mr. Xisuma's class. Good thing he has a study period first then his class.
Jimmy shuts his locker and see-
"Scott?"
"Hi Jimmy." Scott says to him.
"H-hi." Jimmy says, he can feel his cheeks heating up.
"I know it's short notice with the dance tomorrow night and all, but my parents and I were going to be doing something that night, now we aren't, so I'm free now-"
Jimmy feels like he is going to be sick.
Is Scott, the boy he has been pining over for years going to ask him to the dance?
"-So, would you like to go to the dance with me?" Scott asks.
Jimmy is going to die of happiness.
"YES!" Jimmy squeaks, "I-i would love to go with you Sc-Scott." Jimmy says, face beet red.
"Wonderful." Scott says, standing up on his tipy toes to press as kiss to Jimmy's cheek, "I'll pick you up at your place." Scott says before walking down the hall, his blue hair bouncing with his steps.
The realization hits Jimmy in full force.
He is suppose to go with Tango.
His best friend. The blond boy he has come to realize those fluttery feeling in his chest whenever their hands brushed together, that longing to be held at night by him, where a love not quite platonic, more romantic.
A crush on his best friend.
And a crush on the guy who just asked him out.
Jimmy goes to the office, telling them he does not feel well (it's kinda true, I feels sick with the wight of his feelings).
The let him go home, telling the study hall monitor and Mr. Xisuma he wont be coming there today.
He gets into his car, driving home.
When he drives past Tango's house (only one house over from his), his heart sizes in his chest.
He pulls into his driveway, running inside right into his room, where he buries himself in a bunch of big fluffy blankets, frustrated tears slowly slide down his cheeks.
Frustrated on how his heart can't seem to make up it's mind.
Why are feeling so hard?
-♡-
Scott pulls up his car in front of Jimmy's house.
Him and Cleo would come over sometimes when they needed to pick Pearl up for a hangout, but now Scott's their for her little brother, the one Pearl would make fun of him for liking, the one who brings a smile to Scott's face when he thinks about him, Jimmy.
Scar's car is parked in front of Scott's engine running.
Scar is inside, singing along to some song (a Disney one if Scott remembers correctly), no Mumbo or Grian in the car with him.
The brown haired high school senior must be waiting for Pearl's twin, one of his boy friends.
Scott steps out of his car, grabbing the bouquet of flowers he bought Jimmy (a quick text to Pearl told him red poppies are Jimmy's favorite).
He walks up to the door and knocks.
"Hey Scott." someone says behind the blue haired teen.
Scott turns around and sees Tango.
Gods is he hot.
The blond teen has a bouquet of flowers in his hands, Scott can only wonder who they are for.
-♡-
Tango walks down the street, air-pods in his ears as his favorite song plays through them.
The blond can't keep the smile off his face as he walks to his best friend's house, a bouquet or red poppies (Jimmy's favorite) in his hand.
When he walks from his house, past Gem's family's, and he is at Jimmy's.
The two have been close since they where young, six to be exact, when Tango moved in and his parents told him to go play with the neighborhood kids.
Of course he want to the house where everyone was playing in the front yard, the house with four kids around the same age, two sets of fraternal twins, all playing tag.
There were about twelve of them, what were the chances Jimmy would run into Tango well the kids all played, knocking him on the sidewalk.
The taller kid had freaked out, panicking, trying to see if Tango was okay.
Jimmy had taken Tango inside where the taller blond's mom had cleaned and put a band-aid on Tango's scraped knee.
The two of them ended up sitting on the porch in the old swinging bench, talking.
They were inseparable since, Jimmy's family would even take Tango with them sometimes on family trips (of course Tango's parent's paid them for food and stuff).
Now Tango is walking up the same sidewalk he fell on all those years ago (he still has a faint scar on his knee), he pulls out his earbuds, pausing his music and his eyes land on Scott, standing on the Solidarity family's porch.
"Hey Scott." Tango says.
Scott turns to him.
Tango's red eyes land on Scott's sky blue.
"Hi Tango." Scott says, and now Tango sees the bouquet of flowers in his hands, red poppies, "what are you doing here?"
Tango walks up the steps onto the porch.
"I'm here for Jimmy."
"So am I."
The door opens.
-♡-
Pearl hears someone knock on the door.
She sighs, knowing none of her siblings will answer the door.
Jimmy is cowering in his room for some reason.
Grian is doing gods know what (though he never answers the door. Even when he knows it's his boyfriends).
Lizzie is getting ready for the dance.
"I got to get that." Pearl says to her best friend, Gem.
She putts her Uno cards in her sweatshirt pocket, not trusting Gem not to look at them.
"Don't cheat well I'm gone." Pearl says.
"I won't."
She will.
Pearl walks out of her room and down the hall.
The front door opens up into the lounge room.
Now Pearl knows what Grian is doing.
Grian is on one of the two couches in the lounge room, making out with Mumbo.
"Guys." Pearl says.
Her twin and Mumbo break apart long enough for Grian to see Pearl, role his eyes, then pull Mumbo back in for a kiss.
Pearl sighs, walking up to the door, looking through the door viewer.
She sees Scott and Tango.
Talking.
'Oh this will be good.' Pearl think.
She walks up to her little brother's bedroom door, opening it a crack.
"Timmy, someone is at the door for you." She says.
"Who?" Jimmy asks, popping his head out from under a blanket.
Pearl walks away without another word.
"Who was it?" Gem asks.
"Scott, and Tango." Pearl says, shutting her door.
"Oh that will be good." Gem says, picking her cards back up.
"Yup." Pearl says, sitting back down on the floor with Gem, "now lets shuffle the deck up a bit."
"No!" Gem squeaks.
Pearl raises and eyebrow.
"Fine." Gem says, "I looked at them."
"figured."
-♡-
Jimmy crawls out of his bed.
'Why can't she just tell me?' Jimmy thinks.
He walks down the hall, through the sitting room.
Past his brother and one of his two boyfriend making out.
To the door.
He opens it.
"-Am I." Jimmy hear Scott say as he opens the door.
Scott and Tango are standing on the porch of his house.
His heart flutters in his chest.
Good thing he took a shower today even though he did not go to school.
"Jimmy?" Both boys says.
"I-I can explain." Jimmy says, face red, "I wanted to go with you Scott." Jimmy says, looking at Scott, "but I never thought you would go with me, so Tango asked if we could go together." Jimmy says looking at Tango, "but Scott asked me to go yesterday, and I was so happy I said yes." Jimmy rambles, "I panicked, and went home. That's why I was not at school today." he continues, "I really want to go with both of you, but I-I..."
Jimmy's eyes move to looking at his bare feet.
"hmm." Scott hums, and Jimmy looks up, "I would not mind shearing Jimmy here with Tango, if Tango here is good with shearing him." he says, "though Jimmy would have to be okay with shearing Tango with me."
Tango looks from Jimmy to Scott and back, face turning red, "I-I-uh can do that."
"Perfect we can take my car." Scott says.
"I." Jimmy looks down at his clothes, "need to change."
"No problem petal." Scott says, "We can wait."
Jimmy moves, letting Scott and Tango in with a red face.
"Excuse me." Scar says, walking in after Tango.
The brunet walks up to Grian and Mumbo, and pulls them apart, "We can do that later tonight."
Mumbo and Grian follow Scar out to his car, faces beet red.
Tango and Scott sit down on the other couch, as Jimmy runs off to get changed.
Jimmy comes back in dress pants, dress shirt and a tie.
"Wow." Scott says standing up, "You look so hot in that."
Jimmy's cheeks flush as Scott kisses his cheek.
No one has ever called him hot aloud before.
The three boys walk out to Scott's car right as Joel parks his to come pick up Lizzie.
-♡-
Jimmy has so much fun that night.
They go to the school dance and dance around.
They get a group photo, all three of them. A tallest to shortest one too.
Jimmy can't remember the last time he has this much fun.
Scar spins Grian, and Grian trips, landing on his butt.
Mumbo snaps a photo.
Jimmy get the ravenet to send it to him, and he sends it to the sibling group chat.
Once people start to leave, Jimmy, Tango, and Scott, pile into Scott's car.
Scott dives up to wolf's peek well Jimmy and Tango cuddle in the back seat.
The pullover, the view of the town below beautiful in the night.
When Scott finds out Tango and Jimmy have both not had their first kisses, he knows he has to change that.
He starts with Tango, then moves to Jimmy.
It's more amazing then Jimmy ever thought it would be.
The night is spent with Tango and Scott taking turns kissing Jimmy silly.
Once they are all yawning and sleepy, they decide to go to Tango's place since he is the only one without a sibling (or 3).
They all pile onto Tango's bed, snuggling together.