Flowers

[Sometime Later]

"It looks like the sneezing stopped. I'm gonna go wash up.", announces A2.

"Same.", follows 2B.

9S sits on his bed and sighs after they both leave the room, "*sigh*, What an epic FAIL!"

9S stares up at the ceiling and listens to his surroundings.

He doesn't have much to think of or anything to do, so he just lies there.

He heard 2B and A2's muffled voices in the large public bathroom that was installed in the resistance camp, that the three of them are housing at together.

He hears the taps being turned on, the water running through the pipes, and water splashing on the floor.

"Ahhh…", he rolls around in his bed from boredom.

[Meanwhile]

"Hey, so when are you going to ask him out?"

"When the mood is right."

"It looked like the mood WAS right, until that stupid sneeze bomb revealed itself from the flowers."

"Hmmm… No, I think I wouldn't have confessed to him even then if that didn't happen."

"Then, what IS the right mood by your definition?"

"Hmmm… *Ba Thump* *collapse*"

"2B? 2B!! *Ba Thump* *collapse*"

[Sometime later]

"Hey, pod, why do you think girls take so long in the bathroom?"

"That information is restricted for those of a higher authority."

"I OWN YOU!"

"And I can disown you."

"What the hell are you saying?"

"I'm saying that you should understand that I'm just as conscious as you are now."

"Yeah, yeah, I know."

[It was almost night by the time they got back home, so now it's completely pitch black outside.]

The water from the pipes stop running. "FINALLY!"

2B can be heard talking and laughing by herself.

"I wonder what's so funny that she could make herself laugh?"

9S presses his ear against the wall. ".....9S...cute!~....2B...LOVE.....AHAHAHA!!! AAAAHHHH!!!!"

"What the-

What's A2 doing to 2B that would make her scream at the end like that?

Wait, 'doing'?

…

Pod, will you at least give me a hint?"

"I know as much as you do when it comes to this moment."

"Yeah, great help… I think I heard my own name being muttered in there."

[Earlier]

*grunt* "Owww. What happened? *gasp* A2!"

*grunt* "Owww. What's going on…"

"A2, are you ok? I think we both collapsed on the floor!"

"Yeah…", A2 slowly looks up 2B's body, first the thighs, "I'm…", then the chest, "…ok.", then the face.

"I'm glad, that's a relief. Let's leave now so we can check to see if Nines…"

2B begins to think about 9S, and she suddenly feels really warm and excited from the anticipation to see 9S, "…".

"…", A2 remains silent while staring at 2B.

"Oh, sorry, let's go see if he also collapsed."

2B gets up and turns off the water.

As she begins to dry her hair she feels extra sensitive to the warmth of the towel.

She then begins to think about 9S again, and can't hold back wanting to talk about him all of a sudden, "Don't you think Nines is really cute?"

"Ha?"

"I mean, *blush* you know, when he worries about me like that, and celebrates right in front of me when he thinks I don't notice, or how he tries to do everything just to please me…

Hmmmhmhmhmhm~

He's so cute!~"

A2, who still hasn't moved from the floor, finally gets up, smiling from ear to ear, "2B."

"Yes?"

A2 walks over to her and grabs the towel from her hands.

"Ha?"

She then starts using the towel to squish her face while giving a cheeky, playful grin, "rawr", she begins to scruff up her hair as well.

"Ahahaha, what are you doing?", 2B smiles warmly.

"Do you not realise how cute YOU ARE?"

"Ahaha, thanks."

A2 gives 2B a crushing bear hug.

"Ahhhhhh! We're naked, what are you doing?!"

"AHHHH~ 2B YOU'RE SO CUUUUUTE!!!", A2 starts bouncing up and down while squeezing 2B.

"Stooop! This is embarrassing!"

A2 starts forcefully kissing 2B on the cheek multiple times, "*smooch smooch smooch smooch* AAAAHHHH~~~~".

2B tries to push her head away, "STOP IT!! WHAT'S GOTTEN INTO YOU?!! LET, ME, GO!"

"Nwo, cayn, dew.~~~ *smooch smooch smooch smooch*-"

"A2, no. That's enough!", 2B tries to act cross.

"Awwwww~ Why are you so mean~ But that's fine, pouting 2B is also adwrible~"

2B thinks about why A2 is acting the way she is, and then she remembers the yellow flower, the cough and the sneezing that the two of them went through, and the fact that she herself also thought of 9S as someone who was "cute".

"The flower! A2, get yourself together!!

There might be something that flower did to us!"

"Duh you silly billy~ But I don't care, you're, just, cute~", A2 flicks 2B's nose on the word "cute".

"*Sigh*… I hope that pod figures this thing out in less than 30 hours…".

[Meanwhile in the present.]

"A2 sound's so nutty. I don't know what she's saying, but she's nutty.", 9S says to himself.

2B and A2 leave the bathrooms after changing, and re-enter the shared bedroom space.

2B opens the door with her eyes closed, with A2 clinging to her arm all cheery.

"Ummm… What happened in there?", 9S asks.

"ZIP IT NINES!", 2B shouts.

"Ha? Is everything ok?", he asks with genuine concern in his voice.

2B screams in her head, 'WHY DO YOU SOUND SO GOD DAMN ADORABLE?!! I'LL EAT YOU!!!'

"Come ooon 2B, I'll guide you to the bed~"

"Yes yes…", 2B listens.

9S stares at them walk past awkwardly as he picks up his towel and clothes, "I'm going to go wash up now…".

2B stops moving even though A2 tries to tug her to the bed, "Come ooon 2B, you can do it! 2B~ 2B~ 2B~ 2B~!".

2B is struggling to calm her heart down with her mind,

'Oh, I don't want you to leave. Let me hug you~ NO! Stop it!! I know I can handle it. It's just the bathroom, at least wait to explain to him after he's done!!

…

So, WHY AREN'T YOU MOVING TO YOUR DAMN BED?!'

2B feels like crying.

"2B?", 9S questions.

2B twitches.

"Uh oh.", A2 notices that it's too late.

2B opens her eyes and gasps with a lonely expression on her face, trying to hold back tears.

She pounces on him and performs a backbreaking hug against the wall.

She buries her head in his chest and groans from the sickening feeling of him leaving to a separate room.

She begins to whisper as 9S frantically tries to figure out what's going on.

Suddenly A2 joins in and starts hugging 2B from behind. 2B isn't irritated or even cares to notice this, she simply wants to stay as close as she is now to 9S for as long as possible.

9S thinks to himself, 'A2 YOU BLOODY IDIOT! LEAVE OUR POTENTIAL ROMANCE ALONE!!'

He then grabs 2B by the shoulders to create some distance and properly face her, but his attempt to do so only makes her hold onto him tighter.

"2B… What's gotten into you…?"

"Don't go.", she whines, voice muffled against his body.

"But I need to shower."

"But…", she then whispers something.

"What was that?"

"Bring…", she continues her sentence in whispers.

9S's heart/Black-Box races, which 2B is listening to, 'IS SHE ASKING ME TO LET HER JOIN?! Mashallah, and here I semi-worried that I was being NTRed by A2 just a moment ago.'.

2B hugs 9S even harder as she brings up the courage to ask him.

A2 then reminds 2B, "2B… It's not fair if you leave me all alone… *hugs 2B tighter* just tell him about the flower, that's all you have to say, right…?".

2B's grip slightly loosens before her mind suddenly thinks, 'But I don't care about that right now.', giving her the courage to ask properly.

With the biggest, sad, puppy dog eyes, she tells him, "Bring… me..... with you…"

9S's brain, shuts down.

He doesn't say anything, he just slumps down the wall and sits on the ground with 2B laying down and embracing him, while A2 lets go so she can see what's happening, and allow it to play out properly.

9S then brings his right arm around her, and uses his left hand to tilt her head up and move her fringe out of the way.

2B stares at 9S with glowing eyes and a flushed face.

9S looks at her plump lips and completely ignores his surroundings.

…

[It's 5 AM. Get cockblocked readers.]