"No, Banjex, we're not doing this." Bamburai sighed, as Banjex attempted to pull him out of the door.

"Bamburai, you're making it harder than it needs to be. You said you wanted to 'move on from my brother,' what the hell happened to that?" He sighed, pulling a bit harder, but being careful not to hurt him.

"THAT DOESN'T MEAN I WANNA GO TO A POPCORNTOPIA LGBT+ MEETING WITH HIM!"

"Come ON Bamburai! I already signed you two up, he agreed to it, and so did you!"

"WHEN!?"

"Yesterday, after movie night!"

"I was half asleep!" He facepalmed, holding onto the side of the door in order not to be pulled out. "That doesn't count!"

"We're-" He pulled Bamburai out, putting down into the car. "GOING!"

With reluctance, Bamburai buckled himself in, taking a brief look at Bamwind in the front seat as the car started, beginning to drive, Banjex adjusting the front mirror.

"It's not a far drive." Banjex said. "It's only 20 minutes away."

Bamburai gulped. What the hell was he going to do with 20 minutes in a car with his brother? He sighed, slumping down in his seat as he looked out the window.

"What is... LGBT anyways?" He heard his brothers voice, and immediately resisted an urge to scream.

"Oh, it stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. There's other identities, too, but these are the main ones." Banjex responded.

"Lesbian?"

"The female version of being gay."

"Oh. I- did not know women could feel this way about other women as well."

"For fucks sake, Bamwind. Why wouldn't it be equal across genders?" Bamburai interjected, the conversation making him want to reach across the car and strangle Banjex for making him go to this damn thing.

"You're right." Bamwind said anxiously. "I should've known it was equal."

The car grew silent except for Banjex's rock after that, the atmosphere thick with tension. Bamwind put his hand on the car window, anxiously waiting to arrive at this place.

After what seemed to be eternity, they arrived at an ice rink, walking up the ramp to the food court, where a group of people were sitting around a huge table, some on their phones, and some talking with others.

"HAI, BANJEX!" A man with purple clothes and hair with green tips skated over, carrying a bag of ice rink fries. "Haven't seen you in a while!"

"Sup, Banzack. I hope you don't mind that I bought some of my friends to this meeting." He motions to Bamburai and Bamwind.

Banzack looked at Bamwind, skating over and shaking his hand repeatedly.

"OOOH! ARE YOU NEW IN TOWN? I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU AROUND!"

Bamwind froze, taking a moment before responding.

"Yes. I am new here. Your name is Banzack, right?"

"Yeayea! What's your name?"

"Bamwind."

"OH MY GOD!" Banzack let go of his hand. "THAT'S SUCH A COOL NAME! GUYS! GUYS! WE GOT A NEW MEMBER AND HE HAS THE COOLEST NAME EVER!"

"Banzack, you don't have to be so loud." Bambistep walked over, keyboard in hand. "We've already got enough complaints from the managers."

"This is an important occasion, Bambistep. He's a new member!" He jumped up and down. "We haven't had a new member in forever!"

"I know, I know." He chuckled. "Just try to be more quiet next time. The meeting's starting."

They walked over to the table, taking seats before Banzack started the meeting.

"Hi! I'm Banzack, before we start, can we go and get everyone's name and pronouns! Let's start with you, Punkay."

"Punkay. He/they/xe for me, if you'd like."

"Bamburai. He/they."

"Name's Banjex. He/him."

"I'm Bambistep, he/they please."

"Hashley! She/it/ze for me!"

"I'm Wedsen, call me he/him or you die."

"What about you, Bamwind?" Banzack looked over to the newcomer. "What are your pronouns?"

"...what?" Bamwind tilted his head, confused. "I'm a man."

"...I mean, what do you refer to yourself as?"

"As a man."

"So..." Banzack hummed awkwardly. "He/him, right?"

"Yes."

After a minute of awkward silence, Bambistep awkwardly spoke up to move the meeting along.

"So... how was everyone's week?"

"Pretty good, I got to chaperone a queer prom, so yeah, that's pretty cool." Punkay said, leaning into his chair.

"Really?" Wedsen squinted at him. "When was this?"

"Sunday, I literally told you I was going to chaperone that prom."

"Whatever. My week was good. I got to hang out with my crew."

"Yeah! Remember the fireworks?" Hashley said, squeezing her hands in excitement.

"Don't mention that!"

"My week was great." Banjex interrupted, as Bamburai gave him a death stare. "I made a new friend."

"Really!?" Banzack jumped up from his seat, before being sat down by Bambistep. "Is it the newcomer?"

"Obviously." Bamburai muttered under his breath, as the excitable man looked at Bamwind.

"What brings you here?"

"I'm..." Bamwind paused, the instinct to hide himself coming back. He sat, hearing the noises of people in the ice skating rink, before looking at the voice once again. Nobody could punish him here, right? "I'm bisexual."

"THAT'S SO COOL! BAMBISTEP IS ALSO BI! YOU GUYS SHOULD BE FRIENDS!" Banzack grabbed Bambistep, shaking him for a little before he got out of his grasp.

"Banzack, not every bisexual person needs to be friends with each other." The other man said, looking annoyed.

"Why not? The Stylish Gods-"

"Enough already." Bamburai interrupted, glaring at his brother. "Sorry. My week wasn't so good. I had to go to therapy again."

"Oh, that's alright." Punkay said. "I go to therapy once a week. It really helps with the stress of being a famous baseball player."

"You're a baseball player?" Bamwind said, looking at Punkay. "What is it like?"

"It's fun! You get to do what you love, while also being paid. It's fucking cool."

"I used to teach the kids at my village how to do karate." He looked away, remembering his old village, not knowing if it was a good choice to run away. "I liked that."

"Karate? That's so freaking cool!" Hashley put her elbows on the table, leaning into it. "How'd you get to learning it yourself?"

"Erm- My village taught it to me from birth, along with my brother." He said, not used to the sudden attention.

"You didn't tell me you knew karate, Bamburai." She looked at the other brother, who's head was on the table.

"I met Bamberly at karate school." He stated, not wanting to answer any further.

"Omigosh, I want to learn karate, but I'm broke. Sad face."

"Maybe an online tutorial or some shit?" Wedsen said, looking at his phone.

"Guys."

"But my phone is dead!" She whined.

"Guys."

"Then charge it!" He stood up.

"GUYS!" Banzack yelled, standing up as well. "This was fun, but our time's up. We gotta go before they kick us out!"

"Alright, alright. Let's go." Banjex got up, the two brothers following him to the car. "That wasn't too bad, right?"

"Actually... it wasn't." Bamburai said, buckling himself in.

"Now you can say you did the therapy homework."

"I don't care about therapy homework."

"It was fun." Bamwind said.

"That's the spirit." The stoner said, as he routed the GPS to their house.