“OHH Come on!” Pixel shouted at the end of another game which ultimately was finished with score 16-3 for Blaze.

“Another one?” Blaze stated blankly.

Pixel sighed and flinched as she once again noticed something that was bugging her since their first one on one game.

“Hey KillGen, mind if I ask you something?”

Blaze cocked his eyebrow “Sure, what is it?” He wrote back while sending her invite for next game.

“I couldn’t help but notice that unlike most players you are ummm, how to put it, not reacting too much?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well on our first few games whenever you spoke through your mic you always sounded, well I guess emotionless is best word, even when I shot you down. I mean sure not all players are reacting with shouting and stuff but.”

Blaze sighed and waited few seconds for game to start, as always they had a minute of warmup.

“Recently I can sometimes notice your voice crack or rise but it’s still pretty much blank.”

“I guess it’s just how I am.” Blaze half-lied.

“It fine then I guess, it just got me worried a bit I guess.”

“You got worried over that? Seriously?”

“Well duhh, after all you sounded like you didn’t have any fun playing.”

Blaze flinched at her words, she hit the spot right there, it wasn’t that he didn’t have fun playing against her, it was the opposite, he didn’t have any fun playing video games for a long time which is what caused his emotionless behavior to emerge.

Playing against her was fun, but he simply got used to keeping calm and blank demeanour when facing his screen, he only showed some emotions when talking with Sunny.

And recently he put his emotionless mask away when talking with this girl he met by accident in school, it was another thing that he didn’t understand.

“Well you don’t have to worry about me having fun, by the way you got any plans for the weekend?”

Pixel pondered for a moment, tomorrow was Friday so after school what awaited her were two beautiful days of freedom and most likely playing.

“No, not really, I guess I’ll just…” Pixel was cut short by her phone ringing.

“Emm, wait a moment my friend is calling.”

“Sure go on I’ll just wait on spawn.”

Pixel nodded to herself and answered the call “Yeah Icy what is it?”

Few moments earlier.

“No way, so you and Echo?” Sunny asked Icy while still keeping his gaze at the flashing screen of Street Fighter in front of him.

“Don’t get the wrong idea, I just sorta like her, I don’t even know if it’s mutual.”

“Wow this must be serious, I mean our cool and usually collected Icy acting this shy?” He said and cursed under his nose as Night delivered another final blow.

“Yeah it scares me a bit, I’m starting to sound like Night.”

Night opened his mouth to throw some counter, but after few of thinking he had to agree with Icy on this one, ultimately just sighing in defeat.

“Hey so Night also have hots for someone? Now you made me curious.” Sunny stated and stared at Night, he wanted to look somewhere else but Sunny’s gaze kept his eyes in place, it was terrifying experience, it almost felt like Ms. Fluttershy’s stare.

“All right, all right! I’ll tell you just stop that.” Sunny smiled proud with his victory while Icy simply grinned knowing perfectly well what his friend just went through.

“It’s Pixel.” Night stated quietly while blushing a bit.

Sunny pondered for a moment “Ohh that Pixel! The one we talked about… last… time…”

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, DING.

“Ohhh man I’m sorry for what I said about her back then.” Sunny said to which Night only responded with a nod.

“I really don’t know what to do, I even tried to ask her out but she always chooses to play some game instead.” Sunny frowned while Icy stared in the sky pondering if Night really asked her out or if he just thought that he did.

“That sounds awfully familiar man, I would love to give you some advice, but I’m having similar problem with my friend and I don’t really know what to do either.”

Both boys sighed in defeat and frowned keeping their gazes at the floor, Icy didn’t really know how to react to this so after few moments he simply followed suit and kept his stare on the ground.

“Actually I have an idea.”

All boys looked up and immediately turned towards the source of the voice.

“Cloudy? What are you doing here?”

“Oh I was on my way towards mine mother’s bakery, and then I saw you guys talking and couldn’t help but eavesdrop, good thing I did.”

Ignoring their friend confession they all nodded for her to continue.

“Soo, Icy wants to hang out with Echo, Night with Pixel, and Sunny with this gaming-guy-who-never-leaves-his-house right?”

They all nodded simultaneously.

“So I think the perfect place to ask them out will be arcade!”

Boys eyes went wide and they all turned around, it’s true the place that they were at right now was pretty much perfect, Night remember old times when it was Pixel who invited him to places like this one.

“I don’t think this will work on Blaze though, he’s really stubborn.”

“Then you have to beat his stubbornness with your assertiveness!” Cloudy said and tapped him on the shoulder.

Sunny pondered for a few moments, he then smiled and nodded.

“Yeah I’ll get him out of his house if he likes it or not, so this Saturday?”

“Yeah sure why not.” Icy simply stated, Sunny walked away and waved towards his friends as he swiftly disappeared around the corner.

“So only things left to do are inviting the girls, Night let’s get Pixel first shall we?”

Night gulped and smiled sheepishly. “Ummm no thanks, can’t we invite Echo first?”

Icy sighed “Come on Night man up! I thought you asked her out few times already.”

“W-Well maybe I wouldn’t call it “asking out”.”

Icy face palmed and sighed “I knew it.”

“You what now?”

“Never mind, fine I’ll call her, just give me a sec.”

“All right boys, I’ll be going then, see you later!” She said and happily trotted away.

Pixel’s room, present

“Arcade on Saturday? Me you, Night, Echo and your two friends I don’t know yet?” Pixel wanted to decline at first but something stopped her, she thought about it for a moment and got to a conclusion that she actually didn’t hang out with her friends since forever.

“Sound pretty good actually, sure I’ll be there.” She said and stopped the call.

“Hey sorry for wait, also it turns out I’ll have some plans for the weekend, well not really, I’m just meeting with friends on Saturday for few hours, we can play after that.”

Blaze felt slightly disappointed at first, but he quickly shrugged it off.

“Okay then, can we start?”

“Of course we ca….”

“Pixel sweetie did you see my mousta… oh hey is this the new CS?” Button asked excited as he walked into her room.

“Yeah it’s pretty cool.”

Her father walked up to her and looked on the screen.

“You’re playing one on one?”

“Well yeah, it’s a long story.”

“Emm Pix? Are you here? Can we start already, first round is almost over and we didn’t even move.”

“Oh yeah sure just give me a second I’m talking with my father.”

Blaze grunted and sighed in defeat.

“So who are you playin against? Is he, or she good?”

Pixel chuckled nervously “Yeah he is, umm good, very good I would say, so good I didn’t win even one game against him.”

Button could pretend he didn’t hear his daughter last words instead he whistled in admiration.

“Ok I won’t bother you then, have fun sweetie.” He said and walked out of her room.

‘So he’s so good that my daughter doesn’t stand a chance?’ Button smiled widely with excitement.

“You just wait KillGen13, you’re going down, there is nothing you can do to..”

“Button? Are you talking to yourself again?”

He blushed and smiled sheepishly “Emm, sorry Sweetie.”

Sweetie Belle looked at him with a cocked eyebrow for a few seconds before putting on an honest and adorable smile. “You’re lucky you’re cute.” She said and walked back into kitchen leaving blushing Button in the hallway.

“We dated, we got married, we have child and this is still supper effective.” Button said and sighed in defeat as he followed love of his life into the kitchen.

Author's Notes:

IF you are wondering about Blaze calling Pixel "Pix", her nick is Pix64, I ain't sure if I stated that somewhere in the story before, and when I am posting it I'm simply too tired(read:Too lazy) at the moment to check.