"Gaige!"

"What?!" Gaige proclaimed innocently, looking towards Maya with an incredulous look. "Don't tell me you don't want to know as well."

Maya looked uncertainly at the table, fiddling with the crumpled napkin in her hand. "Well…"

"Ah-HA!" Gaige raised her hand in triumph before pointing it at the Siren. "I knew it!"

"At least I don't bluntly ask about it," Maya argued, eyes narrowing.

Enough is enough. Athena cleared her throat, blush creeping down the back of her neck as she sat awkwardly in the booth seat. Maya and Gaige looked at her, one with a sympathetic look and the other with an intrusive, eager expression.

"Why do you want to know?" Athena finally asked after a few seconds. "What reason do you have for wanting to know why…" She felt her cheeks heat up even more. "What it's like to kiss Zer0?"

Gaige leaned back in her seat, devious smile on her face. "Because it's fun seeing you all flustered like this."

Maya glared at Gaige for a second before returning her gaze back towards Athena's, eyes brimming with sympathy. "Plus, if you think about it, it's better than talking about what we normally talk about."

"And that is…?"

"Guns, missions, and movies," Gaige interjected before Maya could respond.

Athena shuffled in her sheet, tapping her fingers against the hardwood table. She bit her lip and gnawed on it insistently. Inhaling deeply, she looked around the building. There were drunk patrons at the bar counter, desperately trying to get another bottle from Moxxi, gamblers at the slot machines trying to win the jackpot, and people mingling at the other tables, chatting.

"It's nice," Athena said as she turned back to the table's other two occupants. "Zer0 is a, uh… better kisser than I thought he would be."

Gaige leaned forward, gesturing with her hand for Athena to continue. "Aaaand?"

"What more do you want?"

"Well, I mean what's he like? Are his lips soft? Rough? Does he kiss slowly or quickly?" Gaige raised an eyebrow cheekily. "Is he bite-y? Does he lick your li-"

"Gaige!" Maya chastised her once more.

"What?!" Gaige yells again, raising her hands up in mock defense towards the older woman. "I'm just askin'!"

"What kind of questions are those? 'Is he bite-y?'? 'Are his lips soft?'?"

"I'm just askin' what every other girl at my school used to ask." Gaige smiled. "I didn't even get to the juicy questions!"

"I don't think I want to know what the 'juicy' questions are," Athena admitted, forcing herself to not stutter.

"But those are the best ones," Gaige whined.

"No."

Gaige huffed and looked off to the side in fake anger. "You bore." She glanced back towards Athena. "Are you at least going to answer the questions?"

Athena rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly. "U-um…"

"Gaige, don't force her if she doesn't want to answer," Maya said.

"I'm just curious," the redhead argued.

"You're being very intrusive to her personal life."

"Yeah, wel-"

"I'm right here, guys," Athena interrupted.

The two looked away from each other and back towards the woman sitting across from them.

"Yeah, sorry about that. We tend to get a little carried away," Gaige apologized.

"It's fi-"

Before Athena could continue, the sound of her ECHO device beeping caught her attention. She unclipped it from her belt and turned it on, looking through the messages. Her eyes narrowed and jaw hardened as she turned it off and sighed, running a hand through her hair. "Sorry, guys. I gotta go." Athena reached into her back pocket and placed a twenty dollar bill on the table. "Duty calls."

"We understand," Maya said, nodding.

Athena smiled at them before making her way out of the booth. Before she made her way to the door, she stopped and turned around.

"Zer0's lips are soft and warm."

She quickly walked away before they noticed the quickly forming blush on her face. As soon as she got outside, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked down at her ECHO device.

"Thank you, Z."

She heard the deep chuckle on the other end of the call, and smiled in anticipation. Yeah, a very good kisser.

(A/N): Happy New Year! I should have said this before, but if you'd like to request a short story, go ahead and send me it. I'll try the best I can with the idea/s given! Beta'd by CGAdam. Thanks for reading!