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“HEY GUYS! STOP IT!” Zero screamed as they were carried in the air by their annoying siblings towards the spare room in his bunker turned into the prank room by the other zeros.
This wasn’t the first time they'd done this, one of their favorite pranks is lock Zero in the spare room for an hour or two either to do something annoying outside or just to make Zero mad.
They made it to the door, unlocked it, threw Zero in, and then locked it and snickered outside the door.
He just laid there in a heap, deciding that he wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of seeing him mad.
That was, until he heard a shocked noise from a corner.
He looked up to meet their eyes, and they were the eyes he dreamed about every night.
It was Fifteen.
“Oh- oh math! I’m so sorry! I can’t believe the Zeros took you here-” He frantically apologized while getting up before Fifteen silenced them with a flick of her wrist.
“Nah, it’s not your fault,” she seemed more chill about this than Zero expected, “It’s not your fault, after all.”
“Oh, um, thanks,” Zero replied, “You seem nicer than people say when you're bothered- like you beat Nine up that one time!”
“Well, it’s not really your fault, you didn’t want to bother me. Plus, you’re probably the most tolerable one around here,” Fifteen said, leaving Zero a bit flustered.
“Ah, that makes sense I suppose,” Zero said, totally keeping his cool, for which they congratulated themselves for before asking, “How did they even manage to get you here? You seem pretty hardy, not the type to be bossed or carried around like that,” Zero asked them.
“I got more taxes than I can feasibly pay-y’know how I have no job and live off the land mostly and all?- well, I went outside of my house to cuss out the government and life itself when the Zeros scooped me up when I wasn’t looking and I had forgotten to bring my gun or my knife out with me.”
“Well, that seems fair. That seems a lot less dumb than how they got me.”
“How’d they get you?”
“I was playing animal crossing for the gamecube and wasn’t paying attention and they just grabbed me- straight out of my own room! And they deleted my save file!”
“That’s rough, buddy,” Fifteen responded Zukoly.
“OH ZERO!” one of the voices outside said in a song-singy voice, “DON’T ‘YA HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL FiFtEeN?”
“Tell me what?” Fifteen asked at their exclamation.
“Uhm, it’s nothing, really!” Zero could feel their face getting red while they lied to his teeth FIfteen.
FIfteen was just genuinely confused. The last time they spoke Fifteen had just let them inside to protect them from Fourteen and gave them some deer steak.
“No really, it’s nothing at all!”
“Oh ZeRo YoU kNoW iT iSn’T!” Another Zero called out to them.
“Oh, shut up!” Zero told them
“Zero? Are you okay?” Fifteen noticed their agitation and red face, “I know it’s not fun to be locked in a room, trust me, I was in here for like 15 minutes before they got you, but you aren’t looking too good.”
“I-” Zero said before getting cut off by their sibling again.
“ZeRo, TeLl HeR wHaT yOu ThInK oF hEr!”
“oh no,” Zero mumbled while hearing the others giggle through the door.
“Why? What do you think of me?” Fifteen innocently asked.
“I- well- uhm, it’s a bit… embarrassing..” Zero avoidantly responded.
"it's okay. As long as it gets us out of this room."
"Well, I-I- I like you, Fifteen!" Zero said, embarrassed. Fifteen stared at them dumbfounded before realization dawned on their face at what they meant and then they blushed and gave him a little smirk.
"I have an idea that.. let's just say, leaves you, me, and our captors happy, whatta ya say?"
"What is it?" Zero asked before Fifteen approached from the corner on which they were leaning on before getting very close to Zero's face rendering them enamored and surprised. Their mouth was even doing the wiggly line thing, you know the one? Yeah, that one.
Fifteen took their hand, held it up while leaning a bit down to their level and whispered, "May I?" to which Zero could only nod excitedly, too flustered to make out a coherent sentence. Fifteen then used their other hand to grab Zero's back and pull them in for a long, passionate kiss, which lasted a good 30-40 seconds before Zero forgot how to breathe through his nose. The kiss left a prominent red smudge around the two lips' (Fifteen apparently wears lipstick the exact same color as their skin tone. Neat.)
"I-wow," Zero responded to their first kiss, their first kiss taken by their crush to be exact. He was ecstatic.
"That was your first kiss, huh?" Fifteen softly asked them.
"mhm," He responded.
"I'm not surprised, no one else in the playground is good enough for that, but we may need to work on your kissing skills," Fifteen chuckled.
"Oh, uhm, sorry," Zero embarrassedly apologized.
"No, it's okay," Fifteen said before kissing them on the cheek, to which he only became more smitten and blushed somehow harder (They have to be redder than Fifteen at this point.)
They continued kissing Zero all over his face until the door clicked open and they stopped before the Zeros piled in.
"Hey guys, how was being beaten up by your crush like, Zero- oh," one of the Zeros asked before truly laying eyes on the scene unfolding. Fifteen picked up the star-struck grey number in their arms in a princess carry.
"Wait where are you taking him! We didn't even get to laugh at them!" Another Zero called out to the retreating Fifteen.
"I'm taking my boyfriend to my cabin," Fifteen angrily responded, "I'll be back to teach you your lesson about all of this later."
"Wait," Zero timidly asked, "BOYFRIEND!?"
"Yeah- I mean of course not if you don't want to, but yeah," Zero looked up mesmerized.
"So.. is that a yes?"
"YES YES YES!"
And then they went to the cabin and lived happily ever after and got married or something.
Also fifteen burned down the government and no longer has to pay taxes, how wonderous.