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SHPLOOM! There was a huge explosion, and everyone knows who the cause of it was.

"HONEYDEW!" Lalna shouted to the dwarf on the floor above him, "YOU BETTER FIX THAT BEFORE XEPHOS FINDS OUT!"

"Umm, that wasn't me!" Honeydew said flying down to Lalna.

"What? Then who?" Lalna questioned.

"IT WAS US GUYS SORRY!" Called Sips from two floors above, "WE WERE JUST" He cut himself off, concentrating on flying down to where Lalna and Honeydew were. "Uh, just a minor explosion, a creeper. I think Sjin wants to be left alone up there for a while though." Sips continued rubbing his neck.

"What's wrong with him?" Honeydew and Lalna asked in unison.

"I have no clue." As Sips said this Xephos came into the factory with an angry look on his face.

"What was that explosion?!" Xephos yelled, "It better has not blown up our machines!"

"Look Xeph," Lalna was trying to say, "Sjin is up there fixing that, a creeper y'know."

"Sjin did that?" Xephos said looking confused, Sjin had never been careless enough to let a creeper blow something up, "I'll go check on him"

"Yeah," Sips muttered only loud enough for Xephos to hear, "you do that Xephin"

Xephos ignored that comment and flew up to Sjin. What could be bothering the elf? Xephos got to the floor and landed gently.

"S-Sjin?" Xephos said quietly.

Sjin turned around; Xephos could see he had been crying. No one else would be able to tell. That was a strange gift he had. "What do you want?" Sjin said with no emotion, he was crying because he thought what he was thinking could never happen. Him and Xephos together.

"Are you okay?" Xephos asked walking up to the elf.

"Y-yeah" Sjin said looking away "I'm j-just working on these, you know, machines."

"Sjin?" Xephos asked, "Really what's wrong? You can tell me."

Sjin sighed knowing he couldn't keep anything from the spaceman, but he had to try. "It's nothing really!" He lied hoping it would work, "The explosion just startled me."

Xephos exhaled and asked "Now I'm not going to ask again Sjin!"

"Really Xeph! I'm FINE!" Sjin pushed Xephos out of the way and ran out of the building. He just wanted to go home and think.

Xephos ran after him but Sips stopped him. "Xephos, not yet." Sips seemed very calm and it was scary.

Sips walked out of the building, "See you later guys."

Sips walked towards SipsCo he knew Sjin would be there. When he got there Sjin was in his room crying.

"Sjin? What the hell?" Sips said, "You ran out of there like a baby!"

"S-sorry S-Sips" Sjin managed to get out. "I just wanted to go home"

"Sjin," Sips said, "What's wrong?"

"I-it's... X-Xeph-os-s" Sjin started but couldn't go on.

"What about him?" Sips said

"He's mad at me for blowing up part of the building!" Sjin said. "I heard him! I was thinking about him and..." His voice trailed off.

"Oh Sjin, he was just checking on the factory! C'mon lets go talk to him."

"N-NO!" Sjin yelled "I can't"

"C'mon we're going now, you need this." Sips said as he pulled Sjin over to Honeydew Inc. knowing Sjin did want to go. Sips and Sjin had been friends forever and Sips only wanted Sjin to be happy no matter what. That's why he was dragging his buddy by the arm to Honeydew Inc.

By the time they got over to the Jaffa factory, it was dark, really dark. The whole place was dark and they could hear snoring from the dorms.

"Sips they're asleep!" Sjin whispered, "We should just go home."

Sips looked at him and said, "Nah, you're going in there!" with that he opened the door and shoved his best friend in the door, quietly following him.

Xephos was a wake reading when he heard whispers outside. He just assumed it was some mobs. His blue eyes shone enough light to read but not enough to wake up Lalna or Honeydew. He turned when he heard the door open and saw Sjin standing there with Sips right behind him. Sips waved him over, Xephos got up and the trio walked outside to the beer garden.

"What are you doing here?" Xephos whispered.

"Well Sjin here couldn't sleep." Sips lied.

"Oh. Well why did you come here?" Xephos said looking over at Sjin who was trying to hide the blush creeping across his face. "Is this about earlier?"

Sjin nodded a little and looked at Sips. Sips just smirked and walked away. Xephos was a little confused why Sips had left.

"Sjin are you okay?" Xephos whispered.

"Yeah, it's just" Sjin started, "I feel bad about exploding the floor earlier; I was thinking and didn't notice the creeper."

"Oh, yeah that's fine." Xephos said, "What were you thinking about that got you so distracted?"

Sjin just stood there for a moment then said, "You."

Sjin looked into the spaceman's glowing eyes. He had always thought they were beautiful. Xephos was looking at the elf.

"D-do you like me?" Xephos dared to say.

"Uh..." Sjin said thinking about if he should say or not. "Yeah."

Sjin was expecting Xephos to walk away or for him to send Sjin away, but that never happened. Instead Xephos held Sjin's head and said "I like you too." And he kissed Sjin.

Sjin was so happy he kissed Xephos back. Xephos pulled away just as Lalna Sips and Honeydew walk around the corner.

"I knew it!" Lalna exclaimed.

"Gah I lost 5 Jaffa's!" Honeydew said jokingly.

Sjin and Xephos hugged glad to be together.

At long last! They both thought.

Credit to confusedsan on tumblr