COVER ART MADE BY WINNER OF MY FALL 2023 ART CONTEST: @thatanimegirl1000
"I'm not scared to die. I'm scared to live."
~The past never forgets. If anything, it always comes back.
She's ordinary, Dabi. Violet Sasaki is predictable and one of them, yo...
"Okay, so! What do you think about these? I feel like they bring out my eyes." I fake swooned at myself in the little jewelry mirror, chuckling freely as I turned around to face Dabi.
"They bring out your stupid." He followed up blandly, trying to conceal the smirk that wanted to show on his face for the obviously bad joke.
My jaw dropped in fake offense, before I blew a raspberry of amusement.
"Woww. And you say I'm the clown." I countered smugly, placing the diamond earrings in my hand back on the jewelry counter to continue searching.
Dabi kept his arms crossed as he subtly followed behind me like a little kid who was being forced to go shopping with their mother, giving his shoulders a small shrug at my words.
"At least you're self aware." He followed up casually, letting an obnoxious grin show on his face now when I turned around to lightly glare at him.
In doing so, another shelf of earrings caught my eyes in the corner, causing me to brush past the moody man and grab two more pairs of jewelry to test out.
"Oh, come on, Dabi! This is serious business. Now then, should I go with...." I started off in anticipation, looking down to the tags on the earrings to read their titles, "the Hot Girl Hoops? Or, the Sexy Studs?"
Dabi was three paces behind my chipper form, slowly making his way across the practically empty jewelry store, like a broody bull in a china shop. It's not that he was too clumsy to maneuver around the little kiosks of jewelry planted throughout the store. It's just that I don't think he's ever looked sooo out of place somewhere in his life, and it's a little funny to watch.
For a rare day, he even opted to ditch his usual all black attire, and go for a more relaxed, casual civilian look. I've gotta admit, he wears the look well. The brown beanie atop his head goes pretty good with that heavy, dark blue jacket he's sporting....
.....and, you know, that blue jacket really just brings out the blue in his eyes, but it's not as if I really noticed that.
....or, the way those grey jeans hug his thighs-he's actually got some nice lean muscles on his legs, but wearing black, baggy clothes all the time, you'd never notice.
He went for brown combat boots today instead of his usual 'let's go destroy the world' black ones. They matched his beanie and that only made his effort and outfit cuter-ah, more put together, is what I meant.
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A/N: the above pic was created by JustVrit, and I'd just like to say *Patrick Star voice* 🤤damn🤤. Okay back to the scheduled edgelord program below.
Realizing I'd been gawking, I quickly snapped my eyes away from his body and up to his face, hoping he hadn't seen me checking him out.
But, upon doing so, he'd already been looking at my gaze, raising his brows just a bit knowingly to show he might have already had the idea. My cheeks began to heat up in slight embarrassment, and I was thankful when he finally arrived at my spot and said nothing about it.
