#not good at instalove but im down for awkward first meetings

[shiroichiban]

aaron z headcannons of him meeting the love of his life during Pandapocalypse 2002 please !!!

oh to meet your soulmate in the parking lot of a convenience store after you nearly get killed by a giant red panda 🥰

Aaron Z x Reader meeting after pandapocalypse 2002~

setting the scene: it's like, an hour? two hours after the pandapocalypse incident. everyone has been sent home including 4Town and a survey will be done on the damages tomorrow

just imagine 4Town chilling in like, a convenience store trying to comprehend what just happened to them

aaron z is just there with his usual expression but his mind is going through some serious gymnastics as he tries to figure out what the hell just happened (like bitch deadass witnessed a panda fight and??)

he was doing all of this thinking in front of the ice cream however and you really wanted your cookies and cream >:((

"uh... are you ok?" "!!" he whipped around and looked at you before mumbling an apology and you kinda thought this guy's getup was weird

orange just wasn't your favorite color and 4 wasn't your favorite number i guess

you grabbed your ice cream and wanted to leave but the dude was still staring into space and you felt bad leaving him there, "you wanna sit outside?" you offered and surprisingly he nodded

(god knows where the other 4Town members are honestly, jesse and robaire are probably looking at beer, tae young's checking out the crappy drugstore nail polish, and aaron t... is in the bathroom i guess)

so it was the two of you casually sitting on the plastic chairs outside the convenience store as you eat your ice cream and just look at him like 'u high r smthn bro?'

aaron z was not high he legit just witnessed a panda brawl and watched them ascend into some heavenly plane he was reflecting ok >://

then he deadass just asked you "have you ever seen a red panda fight?"

"no??" "good for you"

ok if you thought this guy was weird then, he was definitely weirder now. but your curiosity got the best of you so you went, "why do you ask?"

"the skydome got destroyed by a big one"

"a big... red panda fight??" you had thought there was an earthquake earlier or something, the only news you saw about the skydome was the fact that it was destroyed, "your shitting me right"

"i wish i was"

SIR WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN

you kinda just stare at him in disbelief and sigh, "you like cookies and cream?"

"sure."

"ok here, say 'ah'". you offered him a generous spoonful of your ice cream which he took happily

"why?" he asked in the middle of you spoon-feeding him and you just shrugged, "you need this ice cream more than me"

you ended up feeding him at least half of your container of ice cream, which made you sad but oh well you could always buy more.

once the two of you had finished your ice cream you kinda just sat there with him, staring into oblivion contemplating the meaning of life, his head was leaning on your shoulder at this point and you could tell he was tired af

it was then his bandmates came back out and told him it was time to leave

you had to jostle him with your shoulder to get his attention as you gestured to his bandmates, who were all smirking at him... concerningly

he got up and handed you a small slip of paper and some cash, "thanks for the ice cream" he mumbled and for a second you thought he looked embarrassed??

as he left the other four guys were waving back at you, especially the one with the cap which felt lightly concerning but you shrugged it off. looking down at the cash he gave you it was almost double the price of the ice cream, sweet.

scribbled on the slip of paper he gave you was... his number? you punched it into your phone and texted him 'you gave me too much money so i'll treat you to ice cream again next time k?'

the only reply you got was '<33'

teeeechnically it should end here but as you were walking home you saw a flyer for this boy band called 4Town and when you picked it up you laughed cause it literally looked just like the guy you saw

THEN YOU REMEMBER YOU NEVER EVEN GOT HIS NAME??

you being the flirting genius you are managed to get the guy's number but not his damn name

he ended up calling you later trying to apologize for the last text he sent, saying it was his bandmate that typed it and not him, you laughed it off before going, "anyways i never caught your name so?"

"it's aaron." "oh like the guy from 4Town lol" "yeah that's me" "wait seriously–"