I Am Here For You (IzuOcha)

Chapter 3: I Will Be There For You

Ochaco POV

I followed Deku off the train and watched him walk down the street. I felt bad for watching him like this but if I confronted him now, he would either run away or just tell be to go back to the dorms. Knowing him not out of anger, but out of worry.

After a little bit of walking, keeping a good distance behind Deku as to ensure I wouldn't get caught, I finally saw him disappear down some stairs to his destination. I walked up to a the railing and looked around, though I knew what it was from the sound of waves a little further back. A beach, a clean one at that. Deku had brought up a beach on a few occasions during our conversations, and came back late one night recently saying that he went on a run at the beach, even with his bandages. Didn't he say he cleaned a beach before? Is this the same one?

I quietly walked closer to the railing that separated the beach and the city street and peered over it, trying to locate that familiar mess of green hair I admired so much. I squinted my eyes to try and see Deku at all, the darkness of the night was not helping. I looked up to see a cloud covering the moon, the only light source on the beach. One singular cloud. Thanks cloud.

I sigh as I go back to trying to see Deku somewhere on in the sand when I saw a shadowed figure sitting in the sand a little next to the peer with a little roof over the end of it. After squinting as hard as possible, I could make out the messy spikes of hair that belong to Deku. I found the same stairs against the wall that Deku had walked down and stopped at the base of the stairs. I was never a fan of getting sand in my shoes. Especially my uniform shoes.

I reached down and took off my shoes and set them on the last stair before reaching the beach. Then I realized I was also had on tights. I scrunched my face up in frustration. I didn't have very many pairs of tights and getting sand out of tights is a chore. A large one. But that would be really embarrassing to let Deku see, wouldn't it? I mean I wear shorts around the dorms and I have my skirt so what's the difference?

I sat there for a second contemplating my decision, realizing I was just stalling. What am I supposed to say when I walk over there? What was I gonna say if I went to his room tonight? Oh boy I clearly didn't think that one through enough.

I shook my head and smacked my hands on my cheeks. What was I doing here, maybe Deku just needs some time alone. He's not doing anything reckless. He came here alone for a reason. I feel the frown growing on my lips and I can't help but feel disappointed. Once again Ochaco, you couldn't follow your heart. There was no way I could do this. Deku is strong. He always knows what to do. He doesn't need me to give him a push. I'd just be interrupting him. I was supposed to push these feelings down, what am I doing?

I reach to grab my shoes to put them back on when suddenly a white light starts to shine. I look up to see the moon shining in the sky, I then look out towards the sea. The water was now reflecting the white light of the moon. The waves, reflecting the stars, and the moons light, most of the waves looking a deep navy blue, smeared with white streaks of light. Such a sight, Deku sure knows how to pick places to-

And then I saw him. Hands in his face, not looking at the seas beauty. From where I was, Deku was still pretty hard to make out, but the white light was shining on him now making him a bit easier to see now. And Deku... was hurting.

That's what I had come to do. I was supposed to be Dekus friend. His best friend. The reason I planned to visit him in his dorm, the reason I followed him, and the reason I was looking at him now. All was to be there for him, to listen to what my feelings had told me to do. I reach down to take my tights off and fold them next to my shoes. I leave my backpack I had taken with me to the agency on a higher step and I slowly walk across the sand to towards Deku.