First kisses were always the most nerve-wracking and for the ball of puns, music, sunshine and anxiousness that is Thomas Sanders, things were no different.

His nerves were practically all over the place, the butterflies in his stomach gave him no break but the lips were already near his and-Oh this was nice.

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Anxiety  woke up feeling odd and tingley. It was beyond weird but what was even more so was the fact that he couldn’t remember falling asleep in the first place. Blinking, he sat up and yawned, rubbing his eyes to rid himself of sleep before grumbling as he got out of bed and went to wash his face.

He looked up at the mirror and almost screamed.  His hair was Pink! Why was it Pink? He gripped the strands hoping that this was one of Pranks tricks but no, there was no dye, no paint, his hair was Pink.  He ran into his room to see it was also pink, his hoodie, headphones, everything. Well, except for his shoes and his black skinny jeans, but still Pink!

He now knew why he felt so odd, the tingly and jittery feeling could be nothing else. Thomas was in love.

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It always made him feel weird and wary-not shy-whenever his host had a crush, he was worried that Thomas might get hurt again but he was also worried that he'd ruin the one shot of truly making his host happy-

He frowned when he felt himself being summoned, he didn't want to be seen like this.

"Hello Anx-what in the world?!"

Thomas' out burst caused the youngest side to bite his lip, obviously uncomfortable. Morality frowned.

"Thomas! Apologize to Anxiety"

The host jumped at the tone of voice The Parental was using, rarely was it ever directed at him.

"I-uh...sorry? I didn't expect, uh, that"

The father didn't say anything about the poorly given apology, instead he moved to the youngest and brought him in for a hug.

To everyone's surprise, Anxiety leaned to it. But he then quickly moved to hide behind Morality, still clutching onto the elder's side.

Logic was visibly confused at the occurrence, the youngest's appearant shyness was quite shocking.

"Anxiety are you alright?"

The younger didn't respond.

Thomas tried this time.

"Anx? You ok?"

The now pink trait just squeezed even more by Morality's side.

"Is this because of the kiss?" Piped Prince, looking oddly pensive for once.

Anxiety nodded but since no one could really see him, Dad answered instead.

"Yep! It's adorable when you think about it"

"You know, that kinda makes sense" remarked Princey chuckling.

Thomas and Logic were completely confused.

So Patton decided to explain, with the help of the Royal of course.

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"So you're telling me he's all shy like that because I have a crush?"

"That's right Kiddo, it's also why me and Princey over there are all glowy"

"You know, I'm surprised you didn't notice that Thomas", commented said Prince.

"I did notice, I just thought I stayed up too late again"

"While you do stay up late majority of the time Thomas, I highly doubt that would be the cause of you seeing those two glow, besides hallucinations don't occur until after a week of no sleep whatsoever-"

Thomas cut Logan off.

"You know this how?"

"I was researching if it was possible for insomnia to actually kill a person, turns out that answer is yes, there's a specific type of insomnia that causes victims to-"

"That's dark even for me"

Everyone paused to see the Pink Anxiety take a step from behind Morality. He still remained rather close the the father but atleast the others could see him now.

"Hey Anxiety, feeling better?"

The now pink trait didn't respond to the host, instead he bit his lip.

Thomas frowned, he didn't like seeing anyone upset, especially his sides.

"Hey, I'm sorry for before, I was just surprised is all, it looks good on you though"

"But it's Pink", mumbled the now pastel emo.

"And what's wrong with pink?"

Everyone turned to face Princey.

The Royal arched his brow, "well?"

Surprisingly Logic answered first.

"Nothing, nothing at all, Pink is just a color-"

"Yep! And it's a swell one at that", exclaimed Dad, "see kiddo, no one's gonna make fun of you"

And really the father was right, no one would have made fun of, the now Pink, Anxiety, he just looked so...so small.  No one really saw him like this before, so it was actually a bit worrisome to see the snarky trait be this shy and subdued.

Slowly the Pink one stepped out from behind Morality. He was still bitting lips and now wringing his hands but hey, progress.

"There ya go kiddo, see its all good"

Dad flashed him a smile and so did the others.

"So you feeling better now?" Asked Thomas again.

"Y-yeah...I guess"

"Alright then, let's get to work!"

But before anyone could, Joan popped in.

They locked eyes with Anxiety for spilt second before the trait bolted, heading up the stairs and sinking into the mindscape.

"Hey wait! Anxiety come back man, pink looks good on you!"

When he didn't respond Joan turned to the others. "What's up with him?"

Thomas scratched the back of his neck and shrugged.

"Eh, he's just...shy today"

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Requested by:Woooooowe

AN:// hey guys sorry if this one is not up to par and sorry for not writting much. I got this nasty flu. I didn't know that the flu and a cold were different so yeah... my first flu and it's kicking my behind, the fever is really messing with me.

I have no clue when the next Innerworks chap is coming out so bear with me y'all.