When the whole family arrived back at their colony, they made sure the rats were not misbehaving in any way. Thankfully, they were socializing peacefully even when Django was not present. Git must have done a great job. "Well, I'm proud of you," Django said as he walked up to Git.

"Thank you for the compliment," Git said.

"Any reports?" Django asked.

"Nothing serious, and nothing special," Git replied. "Everyone was just hanging out and minding their own businesses. Since it was not time to gather food yet, there were no chaos with working."

"Well, that's nice to hear!" Desiree said.

"So did you do anything else while watching over the clan?" Django asked.

"Well, I did talk to my friends also," Git replied honestly.

"Oh? What did you guys talk about?" Desiree asked.

"Because they asked about how it feels like to be attracted to male rat, I told them about my experiences and how I feel about being in a relationship with Remy," Git said. "They seemed to be very interested."

"So can we get the exact story?" Desiree asked. Git narrated the story about his conversation with his friends:

"So, Git, how does it feel like to be attracted to another male rat?" a young rat named Nino asked curiously.

"You seem very interested in this topic," Git said.

"Yeah, tell us everything about it!" another young rat named Dominique demanded.

"Well then," Git started as he cleared his throat. "The thing is, it's just like being attracted to opposite gender. Only thing that is different is that some rats, maybe it's only us, but in Remy's situation, he was really scared when he realized that he had a thing for me, he was really scared. He was scared that he would be abandoned by his family, by the whole rat clan, get abused by someone else, you know, a lot of things related to non acceptance that puts them in fear. Even when we started to be in a relationship, it was still not easy. Not just him, but in fact, I was afraid also. We were afraid of being abandoned by everyone else. But thankfully, many or all of you guys were pretty open minded about it. So we don't have to worry anything about that anymore."

"Can you also tell us about what happened during the relationship?" another young rat, named Raphaël requested.

"Yea tell us!" Dominique demanded.

"Oh man, this is gonna be interesting!" Nino sounded very enthusiastically.

"Why are you guys so interested in the story about our relationship?" Git urged.

"Come on, please tell us!" Nino begged.

Git rolled his eyes. "Oh, all right," He sighed. "Well, we went out, travelled, and had dinner together numerous times. And we're always there for each other when any of us need help. We share happiness, sorrow, pain, fear, anger, disgust, well every emotion ever existed."

"Aww, so cute!" Raphaël put his hands on his cheek.

"Tell us more about travelling!" Nino wanted to know more.

"We visited Eiffel Tower, Champs-Elysées, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, and Palais Garnier. We're gonna visit more." Even though it seemed like Git was annoyed to tell a story, but he was still open to tell them.

"Wow, were they all good places to visit?" Nino really got into his journey.

"You bet," Git said as he shut his eyelids softly and reflected on his adventures that he had with Remy. "None of the places disappointed us."

"Why didn't you invite us?" Dominique grilled him.

"Why would I invite you guys on my date with my significant one?" Git replied with his voice filled with sarcasm and sass.

"Geez, sorry for asking," Dominique came with much more mellow reply.

"Dominique, you should stop trying to taunt him," Nino said. "You know how strong Git is. He'll turn your teeth into popcorn!"

"I'm not that aggressive," Git replied, trying to stay modest.

"Well, that is true," Raphaël agreed. "Especially after he got into a relationship with Remy, his personality became much softer."

********

"So that's what happened," Git concluded.

"Well, I'm glad that so many people are interested rather than denying too much!" Desiree exclaimed with relief.

"By the way, Desiree," Django asked, "since when did you support same-sex love?"

"Since I was a kid." Desiree replied. "I wasn't sure why, but it happened."

"Well, what are you three up to?" Remy joined the conversation.

"Well," Django started, "Git was talking about what happened while we were gone."

"He might've found new friends for you," Desiree said.

"Uh-oh," Remy said under his breath. But Git heard him say that.

"Remy, you should meet them," Git said.

"Uh, no thanks. I'm fine," Remy politely rejected. But Git insisted.

"Come on," Git grabbed him by his hand and led to his friends.

"Help..." Remy whispered to his parents.

"Have fun!" They whispered back as they smiled and waved. Remy groaned.

"Come on, Remy, it'll be fun, I promise," Git soothed him as he dragged him to his friends. "Well, here we are. Nino, Dominique, Raphaël, as you know, this is Remy."

"Hi..." Remy greeted shyly.

"Hello," Nino, Dominique, and Raphaël greeted back.

"Honestly, you guys are so~ cute together!" Nino interjected excitedly as he saw Remy and Git holding each other's hand.

"Oh, we-well," Remy said, "Oof!" He yelped as Git pulled him to his side.

"Awwwwwww..." Raphaël teased.

Remy struggled to break free. "Remy, we all know you like it," Dominique insulted.

Remy's cheek burned up as he stopped struggling. Git smiled slyly. "Remy it's fine, they're just teasing. They want to be friends with you. Give them a chance." Remy was never good at making friends. He nervously looked up at Git, who winked and nodded his head.

"Well, then Remy," Nino approached friendly, "what can you say about yourself besides you're the chief's son, you're good at cooking, and you're in a relationship with Git?"

"Umm... well..." Remy stuttered, "that's pretty much... everything..."

"What about knitting? You seem to be good at that," Raphaël said.

"Yea, you knit one for him for Christmas!" Dominique added.

"How do you two know?" Remy asked as he tilted his head with a very confused face.

"Those two were the ones who sneaked on us on our Christmas day and ruined our moments," Git snitched making them feeling even more guilty.

"Aw come on, at least we didn't provoke you guys about your relationship!" Raphaël said. He didn't want any more trouble.

"Yeah! Forgive us!" Dominique demanded.

"Why are you demanding for forgiveness, you should be requesting." Git's voice was filled with intimidation.

"Enough, all of you," Remy said as he tugged Git's shoulder.

"You know, Remy, we have very similar personality," Nino said, "we would be really great together."

"Hey, he's mine," Git said as he pulled Remy to him.

"I meant as friends," Nino said sheepishly.

"Looks like someone's jealous," Dominique teased.

"I dare you to speak once more," Git threatened playfully.

"You two have very different personalities," Raphaël said.

"And your point is?" Git asked impudently.

"My point is," Raphaël started.

"How are you guys able to get along if you both have different personalities?" Dominique finished for Raphaël, who nodded in agreement.

Before Git can sass them out, Remy answered them in a very friendly manner, "Well, even though we have different personalities, different likes, different skills, we both have a way work each other out, either by talking or helping each other in some ways."

"Ooooh." "Aaaah." "Whooa." Nino, Dominique, and Raphaël breathed amazedly.

"Remy, you're so sweet," Dominique complimented. Nino and Raphaël both nodded. "And, Nino, not only he'd be your great friend, he'd be our great friend."

Remy smiled and looked at Git, who gave him a thumbs up. "Well, then," Remy started, "what do you guys usually do to entertain yourselves?"

"Well, we eat, play some catch or any other games with ball, or else we just sit and chit chat while having a drink." Dominique replied.

"Yeah, we really don't do anything that special," Raphaël admitted.

"Games with ball sound interesting," Remy was curious, "can you teach me?"

"I'll go find a small ball thing for us," Nino went to find a soft ball-like figure so that he can teach the game to them.

"Remy, you're much more confident than I thought," Git said to Remy.

"I was surprised too," Remy replied.

"By the way Remy," Raphaël asked, "why didn't you try to be friends with anyone of us? You seem like a really good guy."

"I didn't try because I was really interested in what humans do," Remy said. "I know rats are supposed to hate humans as much as they hate us, but there's something about them that I really liked. They just don't survive, they create, and it's so cool how they can invent things! I didn't want to miss out on those."

"You're enjoying now as a cook?" Dominique asked.

"You bet I am!" Remy said with a proud smile across his snout.

"I found it!" Nino exclaimed as he came back. "What should we play?"

"Let's try kickball, Remy," Dominique suggested.

"Kickball?" Remy asked.

Git kindly explained, "So the kickball is that each team try to kick the ball into the other goal. You can't kick the ball outside the court, can't run outside of the court, and you can't touch the ball with your hand."

"Oh, okay. So how should the team be?" Remy asked.

"I think we already know the answer to that," Raphaël said as Git and Remy were standing on one side, and the rest on the other.

"Are you okay with the team?" Nino asked. Remy looked up at Git. He nodded with a warm smile. Remy agreed.

The game started. The team with Raphaël, Dominique, and Nino got first serve. Git and Remy ran around to defend their goal and steal the ball. Git got a chance as he stole a ball from Dominique. He passed it to Remy. Remy was struggling a little, but then he kicked the ball as hard as he can, and he made the goal. "WHOO!" Git cheered as Remy made the first goal. He ran towards him and raised him high into the air. "Remy you did it! That was your first goal!" Remy laughed as Git spun him in joy.

"All right, love birds!" Dominique shouted at them. "The game's not over yet!"

Git and Remy chuckled as Git put him down. They ran to proceed their game. As soon as they continued the game, Remy scored, Git scored, Dominique scored, Nino scored, Git scored, Raphaël scored, Dominique score, Remy scored, Git scored twice, and then the game ended.

"Well, that was pretty fun!" Remy said as he sat down and wiped his sweat. "You know, it's very refreshing! I never knew playing like this felt so good!"

"And you won! It was your first time playing!" Git was so proud of him.

"Well, victory doesn't matter that much. The point is that we had fun!" Remy said. Git chuckled and embraced him. "Git, don't hug me, I'm really sweaty. You're gonna feel so gross when we let go."

"It's fine," he said as he withdrew from Remy. "Sweating is pretty natural."

"I gotta go take a shower when I get home," Remy wiped his sweat with a piece of clean handkerchief that he coincidentally found in the street.

"Well, you two lovebirds have awesome teamwork," Raphaël said.

"Heck yeah, we do." Git bragged confidently.

"Well, we won't lose next time!" Raphaël countered his confidence as he tried to sound even more confidently than Git, who scoffed.

"By the way Remy, I heard the word shower, what is that?" Nino asked.

"Well, it's washing myself with water," Remy replied.

"Wash yourself? Rats never do that," Dominique was creeped out by that.

"It feels good to wash yourself, especially with warm water," Remy kindly explained.

"You know, you reply so kindly everytime, we're so not used to it," Dominique replied, "you're making me sound like a jerk right now."

Remy snickered. "Well, I gotta go, it was nice playing with you."

"Sure, man." "I'm glad you enjoyed it." "Let's hang out again let's time." Dominique, Raphaël, and Nino replied.

"Well, let's go." Git held him by his hand to exit the colony. Remy exchanged good-byes with his family and Git took him home.

"Did you have fun today?" Git asked as he walked Remy back home.

"Oh yes," Remy replied joyfully, "thank you for introducing them to me. I'm glad that I made some friends today!"

"I'm glad you had fun," Git said. "They're good guys, aren't they?"

"Oh they are," Remy replied. "I can't wait to play kickball with them again."

"We can introduce some other games like stickball, broomball, and some others," Git suggested.

"Oh man I can't wait," Remy nearly squealed.