SB's POV:
The Hermits have broken my shy shell and are now dealing with the consequences of a second chaotic gremlin. I'm both an innocent bean and a gremlin, this is what happens when I'm comfortable around a group of people.

And today would be no different, as I was checking to see if there were any glitter bomb requests at the Sparkly Duckling. But some things don't go to plan.... take a guess who walked into the shop catching me glitter handed.

It was Tango....
We stood there staring at each other as if we weren't expecting to see the other.

He started slowly backing away, not saying anything.... but I know he didn't leave from outside the shop because I heard no fireworks go off.

I realized today was going to be strange day....
I decided to walk out of the shop, only to find him talking to Zedaph and Impulse.
"Hey there da— Tango, what brings you here today?"
"Wait did you almost call Tango dad?" Impulse asked amused.
"nooooo....." I said awkwardly.
"Yes you did." Zedaph said laughing.
"We're not gonna talk about." I said
"No, I think we are gonna talk about it because you almost called Tango dad." Impulse said clearly amused.
I'm about to take evasive maneuvers.
"SB, it's ok I don't mind." Tango finally spoke up.
Ok time for evasive maneuvers, this is embarrassing.
I grabbed a large handful of glitter from my inventory and threw it at them causing them to close their eyes to not get glitter in them. While their eyes were closed I took off into the sky quickly heading to who knows where.
I found Stress talking to Iskall in the the jungle, so I decided to land by them.
"Hey SB, how are you doing to day." Stress asked.
"Oh I'm doing great...." I answered sarcastically.
"Ok what's wrong?" Iskall asked.
"Oh nothing.... and I totally didn't almost call Tango dad though...." i answered slightly embarrassed.
"Wait you almost called Tango dad that's hilarious!" Iskall laughed, and stress pushed him off to the side jokingly.
"It's ok love, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's ok that you see Tango as a father figure. He is your caretaker isn't he?" Stress said reassuringly.
"Well yes but it feels weird to say because my dad, is somewhere completely else. And I haven't even known Tango that long, I've only just met him a couple weeks ago.... and I had known my dad my whole life. But Tango, is just sooo nice to me he is like a dad... and it just felt sooo weird saying it almost." I started rambling before hearing rockets growing close, but I didn't see anyone.
"It's ok, when you first got here the first person you approached was tango, and you said that you sensed he was trustworthy and kind and that you felt safe right?"
"yeah..."
"Well that's what a dad should be, right."
"I guess so."
"Then that's your answer, it's like Joe to all of us. We all trust him enough and he has the mentality of a dad. To him we are all his children. So it's ok that you see Tango as a father figure." Stress added before we heard a ruffle in the bushes.
"Show your Self coward!" Iskall shouted, pulling out his sword.
Tango, Zedaph, and Impulse crawled out from the bush.
"Ok what is going on?" Iskall questioned the three.
"Uhhhh Impulse you explain!" Zedaph said pushing Impulse forward.
"We came to make sure SB was ok.... Zedaph and I felt bad for causing her to fly off from us kinda teasing her about, her almost accidentally calling Tango dad..." Impulse said quietly.
"We were just amused because Tango see's you as his daughter........... ima stop talking now...." Zedaph said regretfully.
I could see Tango turning slightly red at the fact Zedaph called him out....
"You three will always be a chaotic mess." Stress sighed.
"Oh." Was all I could say, in that moment realizing once again Joe was right this whole server is a dysfunctional family.
"Sorry SB....... I completely understand if you now feel awkward around me.............." Tango said softly, looking at the ground.
I was still speechless, so I did the only thing I could do I gave him a slight hug. Not a very long hug more like the kind of hug you give to say thank you... if that makes any sense what so ever...
Everyone was surprised by the hug as I was never one to give physical affection in anyway.... let alone accept it... yes I'm a strange child.
"Your Welcome?" Tango said confused.
"Awww" Stress sighed.
I shot her a look we're not going to talk about this.

Time skip (brought to you by, Tango accepting SB as his own child)

"So SB? Im guessing that purple duck shop thing in the shopping district is your shop?" Tango asked.
"Congrats you're the last one to know!" Zedaph said sarcastically.
I just nodded.
"So you are the one behind the glitter pranks.... why would you hide something this hilarious?"
He asked.
"To be honest I thought you would disapprove of it.... so I took Zedaph's advice Forgiveness before permission...." I said realizing that he would have no reason to be mad.
"Why would I disapprove something this funny. You literally live at the strangest base on the server, I mean take a look around you." Tango said amused.
"He's got a point." Impulse added.
"Yeah I guess your right."

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I wanted this chapter to be slightly different then some of the others, because I feel like this would happen. The original idea was to have SB almost call Tango dad, but then I also got the great idea to mix it with Tango finding out about the shop..... and it evolved into this.
Also yes I'm making SB a sugar cookie gremlin.... if that makes sense. She is very kind but also just a gremlin like Grian.

But for now, Keep swimming my little fishies!
Best regards,
SharkBait.