I'm just gonna' say it.
I was as disappointed as you all are when I found out that Cheerimac's being put on ice canon-wise.
But it's just a crush. They're not married, they haven't had kids. At the end of it, they just said they liked one another. It could break off at any point, might make a fairly pivotal Aesop 'No reason why we can't still be friends' sort of thing.