Flirting
"I like your… hair."
The words befuddled Athena enough to look up from her book and stare at Zer0 from across the table. That same adorable, lovable lopsided grin was plastered on his face. What tipped her off, however, was his eyes. They refused to look at her own, focusing instead on the circles he was tracing over the table's wood. An eyebrow raised and a small smile formed on her face as she closed the book. "Thank you. I like your…" she paused, unable to find the proper item on him to compliment. "Teeth."
Athena mentally smacked herself on the forehead.
Zer0 looked up at her and the grin turned into a smirk for a second. "Yeah? I like your eyes."
"I like your ears."
True, but not the best thing to confess to liking.
"I really enjoy your lips."
It took a moment to sink in, but she finally rolled her eyes, opened her book, and looked down on the pages. "Well, you can have them after you stop throwing up."
What he grumbled was almost inaudible, but she could just barely make out the words "food poisoning" and "unfair".
Dinner
Athena looked down at the black rock on her plate, confused. She picked it up and looked across the table and towards Zer0. "Uh… what is this?"
"It's tonight's dinner." A proud smile formed on his face.
"This is…" she trailed off for a few moments as she rolled 'dinner' around in the palm of her hand. "This is dinner?"
He nodded and picked up his own plate, full of the same hard, black 'rocks'.
Athena watched him for a few more seconds, then proceeded to drop the rock onto the plate.
"Pizza is on the top shelf," Zer0 called out as she passed him and into the kitchen.
(A/N): A reminder that one can give suggestions for any short story they'd like written. Simply drop a message in my inbox. Anyways, thank you for reading and this was beta'd by CGAdam.
