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"Hey Builder, can you take care of my husband for a few months? My parents want me to visit them but they won't let John go too..."

That was the first thing Builderman, aka Roblox himself, take on when he finally have his 6 months vacation. It wouldn't be that bad because it's a favor from a retired admin, her husband, is also a retired admin and his best friend. But only if the former Shedletsky, the god of swords Telamon hadn't have a special relationship with Builderman himself before marrying Brighteyes.

"Uh, are you sure about that, Brighteyes? You know even though Shed and I are currently 'best friends', we did have a relationship before he was married to you. You can ask someone else-" his words was quickly interrupted by her as she looks at Builderman, almost pleading.

"C'mon Builder, I know all of that things, that's why I asked you in the first place, I'm the one who broke your relationship after all, it's my fault. John said that he miss you sometimes, and he acts strangely these weeks too! Can't you just accept this favor for your former worker?"

"Acting strangely, you say? In that case i'll have to do it, but how do I even take care of him? Like what ways and how?" Builderman says, thinking.

"Well, you can live in our house with him, here's the key, i'm sure Shed and you can handle sleeping together, I don't mind you two being lovey-dovey again to be honest." she gives him the key and smirks mischieviously at him.

"I-uh, signs alright, thank you for your 'permission', I guess...? Wait, Brighteyes??" she runs faster than a motorcycle and out of Builderman's sight, he notice she's not heading to her and Shedletsky house thus that means she's heading to the airport.

Signing out loud for the second time, Builderman takes his car and head to his best friend's house, it's not that long before he arrive at the place. Parking his car outside of the house, Builderman knocks on the door twice. After quite a while, the door opens, revealing a chicken- a dark, sadden and seemingly angry looking face appears peeking through the small gap, but the expression of the curly hair man change right after he saw Builderman.

"Gasp Buildsy! Why are you suddenly visiting me? Ah, you just got your 6 months vacation didn't you? How nice of you to visit me as the first thing you do after recieving the break! I'm so emotional-" he says as he wipes off fake, crocodile tears.

"Shut up, Shed. I'm only here because Brighteyes told me to take care of you, we're living together until she comes back fron her visit." Builderman rolls his eyes and step inside the cozy house.

"You're living with me for 4 months? Yay! Oh Telamon, i'm so grateful." Shedletsky smiles at him and stepped back for Builder to comes in.

Stepping inside the place, Builderman can't help but notice a faint scent of fried chicken on the thin air, turning back to look at Shedletsky, he ask.

"So, where do I sleep? Surely you guys have a guest room, right? But I don't mind sleeping on the counch-"

"Heh You're sleeping with me, just like before, no?~" the shorter man leans closer, obviously trying to tease him again with that seducti- mischevious voice of his.

"No." He replied flatly, Builderman wasn't going to fail for that fortunately and push the other away with his right hand. "I'm sleeping on the counch then." he continues

"Aw, why not..?~" Shedletsky still tries to get Builderman to sleep with him while stumbling back from the push. "Didn't we had a relationship back then? Like just after we found Roblox?"

"You have a wife now, Shed. I respect her so our relationship is excluded, somehow she doesn't mind our relationship that much but no, we'll stop at the best friends, nothing more or less." Builderman said, crossed arms.

"Fine... You already know the house, right? I guess you don't need a tour anymore, it's still early noon, why don't we go outside and to the forest for a picnic?" The retired admin suggested, his eyes turns to look at the kitchen.

"Sure, just make sure to pack food, it's about lunch time too, ya know?"

"Aight aight, Buildsy make sure to get the blanket!" Shedletsky excitingly walks to the kitchen.

Builderman just nods and begin to find a blanket in the house, he make a beeline to the storage room, as he looks around the clothes area he founds a red blanket that can fit 2 people. Satisfied, he picks the blanket up and put it into his inventory then go outside of the house. The grey hair man leans on his car, waiting for his partner to come out, internally he's praying that the brown hair man will add other food into the basket, knowing him, he would just put only fried chicken.

After a few more moments, he founds himself lost in thought and snapped out of it when he hears the door open. He turns to look at the shorter man who's holding a basket smiling at him.

"All done? I've got the blanket, you said we'll go to a forest something to have a picnic?"

"Yup! You remember the place where I lead you years ago? The place where there's a pond and flowers, very romantic-"

"Ok, just behind our HQ, hop in."

"Grumbles Ugh, you're too serious..." Shedletsky complains but goes inside the guests seat.

Builderman drives them both to the Roblox headquarters, stopping his car at the HQ's garage and hop out of the car then follows a small path to the forest. Shedletsky follows closely behind, he can feel a few eyes on them but decided not to tell the taller person in front of him, he doesn't want to ruin the comfortable silence between them.

As they walk deeper into the forest, the two founders of Roblox spots a pond with flowers surrounding it, the place looks exactly like they left it years ago. Without saying anything, Builderman pulls out the red blanket from his inventory and put it in front of the pond while Shedletsky just watches with a hint of nostalgia in his gaze.

"Put the basket down, Shed, i've finished straightening the blanket" he says, looking at the curly hair man.

"There, i'm eating first, I skipped breakfast, hehe. insert Roblox sounds: nom nom nom." the curly hair man put down the basket of food and sits down next to the messy hair man then get a fried chicken leg inside the basket, taking a bite.

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"Hey Buildsy, remember that time I tweet something about your driving skills on Twitter?" Shedletsky asked, chewing on the fried chicken leg.

"You mean the 'driving with Builderman is scary, I think we hit 3 people' one? What about that one?" Builderman replied, opening the basket and finds a sandwich (not including the fried chicken legs).

"Yep, that one, you already know, can you drive a little slower? You drive too fast and it's quite frightening."

"You can get scared too? Never knows a god could also get scared, alright, i'll try to drive slower next time." his mouth form a faint smile as he glance over at the former god.

The two sit in comfortable silence besides each other, deciding to enjoy the peaceful surroundings and the other's presence. The grey hair man, sensing his stomach rumbling, get a sandwich in the basket and take a bite out of it. After a moment of peace, the brown hair man finally finished his (last) fried chicken leg and narrow his eyes over at the person next to him, asking.

"You love me." it was more like a statement rather than a question, knowing that himself, he can't help but be embarrassed and flutters his wings slightly.

There was a small moment of silence before Builderman answer the 'question'. "I've always love you."

An akward silence, they both notice the people hiding from them and speaks up. "I know you're there."

The figure slowly appears behind the tree, they were Dusekkar, another admin from their headquarters. "Sorry to interrupt your date..." he apologizes, straching his hair.

"It's not a date, ya don't need to worry." The messy hair man reassures, although there were a visible hint of embarrassment on his face.

"Yeah, it's just a picnic between us besties, no need to apologize, Matt." The curly hair also reassures, grinning.

"Signs Right, Clockwork and Doom saw you guys sneaking into this forest behind the HQ, they got curious and started making random theories, the most ridiculous thing is that they force me to go after you instead of going themselves..." the man looks annoyed, poor him.

"Is that so, i'll cut off their saleries by half, you can go back now Dusekkar." Builderman gulp down the last piece of the sandwich and stands up.

"Yes, we'll go back home now, the picnic is over anyway." Shedletsky follows him, grab the basket and standing up.

"Chuckles Alright, see you guys." Dusekkar gives them a small wave and leave.

Builderman fold the red blanket and put it in his inventory, taking a last look at the scenery, he finds himself staring at the shorter man besides him.

"What chu staring that intensely at, Buildsy? Oh Telamon, I can feel myself melting~" the shorter man unfortunately noticed that and tease him, how adorabl- annoying of him.

"Shut up, Shed." the taller man replied, he turns around and follows the path of the forest, not bothering to look back because he knows the other will always follow behind him.

They hop into Builderman's car and he drives them back to Shedletsky's house, this time he drives more slowly in order to not scare the other person. They arrived to the place, the brown hair man, still holding the basket, unlock the door and goes into the cozy house. The grey hair man put the blanket back into its original place in the storage room and decided to take a nap on the counch.

He wakes up due to the sunlight flashing over his face, letting out a groan, he looks at his watch and is surprise to see it's only 3:08 pm. He hears a sound coming from a certain brown hair's room, curious mixing with worry, Builderman decided to go and check.

The door of his room was open, the sight in front of him was...shocking, to say the least. A creature, no a person, wearing a black robe with yellow lines, golden large wings spread out gracefully, the robe is hiding their face but Builderman knows who they are, the original version of Shedletsky, the god of swords, the creator of SFOTH, Telamon.

The god turns around, his eyes glowing in the dark room, those white pupils, he is not Shedletsky anymore, which means he can lose control and destroy robloxia. He saw Builderman, the CEO of the Roblox HQ frozen in place, his mind raising ways to turn Telamon back into the friendly Shedletsky.

"Oh? You look familiar, but Telamon doesn't remember you, who might you be?" the god summoned a sword, an illumina, thankfully it's only one illumina. The god though, step closer to the grey hair man and pin the blade next to his neck.

It was quite a moment with Telamon leaning too close to Builderman to observe him more closely, he take in the grey messy hair, the hint of calmness in Builderman's eyes, the red long-neck sweater and the cyan blue scarf.

"That scarf... Wait, Telamon knows you, you are-" he didn't finished his sentence, not expecting the other person to lower his sword and pulls him into a deep kiss.

The shorter man didn't protest because he regconize the taller man, seeing that, the grey hair person take the opportunity to kiss him deeper by pinning the brown hair person to a wall. Telamon melt into his lover's arms, the action hurt his pride as a god but he can't help it, his mind was spinning and he was starting to get dizzy.

Builder broke the kiss, flustered, though he still keeps his arms around the god. Telamon on the other hand drifts off to sleep and turns back to the friendly Shedletsky. Builder picks him up and lay him down the bed, he looks around the room and found a cyan blue scarf identical to the one he is wearing. He remembers losing the scarf and bought another one, glancing back at the sleeping Shedletsky, he smiles.

"So you're the one who stole it, huh? You could've just tell me if you want one."

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