ZL Fanfic - I Hate You, But I Love You

I Hate You but I Love You

By: petite-9669

Based on this art fav.me/d39iwj9 by Zephleit.

It was a fine warm spring day, with Sakura petals flying around the sky. Birds chirping sweetly to each other in the sky and kids in the park giving each other chocolates. It is that time of the year again.

14th of February, Valentine's Day!

The sun shone brightly through the manor's glass windows, the rays bending with perfect 90 degrees reflection. The manor may be a wondrous sight, but the occupants definitely steal the limelight.

It was 9 in the morning where they follow their regular schedule. Work for Francis, Campus for Ralf and Ein, DJ hosting for Marcus and assistant for Grau. The others are still at the manor.

At the Wolfingston Manor Gate, they were screaming fan-girls and ehem, fan-boys, hoping to see any of the Towel Boys leaving the manor for work. Unfortunately, they expected this and left way earlier.

And those that are still in the manor will stay far away from the gates.

In a small messy room, lies ZL, still sleeping. Since he is one not with a fixed schedule on Saturdays. He was supposed to wake up way later, but thanks to his alarm clock (that he forgot to switch off), he woke up 2 hours earlier.

"Hmng?" he groaned. He looked at the alarm clock and decides to stay awake and have a nice warm shower. Then he checks his e-mail (with Zeph's random invention that doubles as a computer) and found it bursting with love letters and hate mails from fan-girls' boyfriends. Ignoring and deleting most of the mail, he sighs and went to the kitchen to find Brent and Farris busily cooking.

"Good morning Brent..."

"Morning! Hey, uh... I'm so sorry, but I cleared the pantry for this big last minute catering. So you can go out and have your breakfast or check the pantry to try your luck." Brent hurriedly said.

After being constantly bullied by Skar yesterday, he accepts his fate, but checks the pantry anyway.

It was almost empty. The single thing there is a packet of potato chips. He sighs and hides in a dark corner to nibble on the chips, quietly. He uses his phone and to check with his favourite restaurant (which gives him discount as a regular) only to find out that it was closed for the day. "So does the stores nearby." the restaurant owner said.

Sighing again, he went to Aldin, outside at the manor, furiously arm wrestling with Craigmartin.

"Morning, Aldin!" ZL said, trying to stay on his regular cheerful side.

After minutes of seeing what seems like never-ending match and Aldin won.

"Grr, I'll get you next time." Craigmartin growled.

"Yeah, sure, good luck with that." Aldin taunts.

"Don't get cocky with me." Craigmartin said before running off to the obstacle course.

Aldin turned to ZL and smiled.

"Congrats, got any food? Brent cleared the pantry and I'm famished." ZL asked.

"Uh oh... I just finish my last protein shake. Sorry, ask Zeph. Maybe he got something nice for you."

"Sure, thanks Aldin."

"Don't mention it."

Minutes later, ZL popped into Zeph's lab. Zeph was busy heating something. But stop the experiment the moment he heard ZL.

"Hey bro, got any food?"

"Uh, no. My fridge's empty. Sorry." Zeph apologized.

"Never mind, I'll check the pantry again."

In the pantry, ZL was frantically finding something to eat. While someone silently close the pantry door.

"Who's there?" ZL asked, trying hard to hide his fear.

Nothing happened; ZL gave a sigh of relief and then somebody breaths heavily.

"F-f-ar-ri-ris? I-is that you? D-don't sta-stab m-me."

"Oh, come on..." the voice said and switch on the pantry light.

"Skar? Oh God, haven't you bullied me enough already? I am so sic..."

Skar lock his lips with ZL, and they weren't just kissing in a friend way, but as if Skar was madly in love with him and ZL just gave in or failed to neither respond nor react.

'Does Skar hate me because... he loves me?'

Skar stopped, looking all too perky.

"Who are you and what did you do to Skar?" ZL panics, finally able to react.

Being a damned tsundere, Skar pouts again and leaves the pantry saying that he did it for the sake of Valentine's Day. Leaving Brent and Farris staring at him and ZL in a confused manner, completely forgotten of their burning cooking...