Deception || Aizawa x OC Fanfic

Ch. 5 - Thank You

By the time we reached, what I assumed to be, his home, I had stopped crying and had my knees pulled up to my chest. I stared out the window feeling numb. 

After he parked the car, Aizawa came around to my side  and didn't give me the option of walking. Instead he carried me inside before setting me on a bathroom counter. He left momentarily before bringing back a pair of black gym shorts and a black t-shirt along with a towel. He set them on the counter along with an unopened toothbrush and other toiletries. 

After that he shut the door and left me alone in the bathroom. 

It took me a while to finally get off of the counter and look at myself in the mirror. Nearly all my makeup was run down my cheeks. I took a long and hot shower. His shower never seemed to run out of hot water yet somehow I felt like I couldn't scrub away the filth Jerry left behind.

When I was done, more than an hour had passed. I got dressed in the clothes he left me and braided my hair into two braids. Before exiting the bathroom. It led to a bedroom that looked empty and lifeless. I assumed this was the spare room. 

I wandered out further into the house until I came into the living room. Shouta sat on the couch with a black cat in his lap, staring absentmindedly into the fireplace that was heating up the room. He looked over at me and I froze in place. 

"Thank you." I spoke softly.

"You're welcome to stay as long as you want." He told me. "I already called off tomorrow, Mic is covering me at the school. I can help you gather your things and you can stay with me as long as you need until you find a new place to stay." 

Awkwardly I sat on the opposite end of the couch. My attention was fixated in the cat that had woken up. It curiously looked at me before stalking over. I held my hand out to it before it sniffed my palm and nuzzled its face into my hand and mowed. 

"Of course my offer is still open for you to stay here. I'm really only here on the weekends, so you would have the place mostly to yourself." He continued.

"I just…" I paused as the cat crawled into my lap and curled into a ball. I continued to pet it as I continued. "Thank you. So much. I don't think I can make a decision right now, if that's okay."

"That's fine. I just want to make sure you know that you don't have to go back there, you have somewhere safe to go." 

We sat in silence for a moment as I continued to pet the purring feline in my lap. "What's the cat's name?" I asked softly. 

"Her name is Kumo."

I couldn't help but giggle. "Cloud? You named a black cat Cloud?"

He smiled softly. "I named her after a friend I lost a while ago. His name was Shirakumo. I figured Kumo, or Cloud, would be a better name than Shira, meaning White."

I nodded. "Good call." We sat in silence for a bit longer before I spoke again. "Did you only hire me because of my OnlyFans?"

He sighed and smiled at the same time. "When I hire people, I don't look into their personalities, appearance or anything. I hire the person I think fits the job the best."

"I can only imagine your surprise when I walked in then huh?" I felt my face get hot. 

"Yeah. It definitely caught me off guard. Listen, we don't have to talk about this right now. This must be a sensitive topic given what just happened." He told me. "But it won't affect your job."

I shrugged. "It's fine. This isn't the first time something like that has happened. It probably won't be the last."

He grimaced. "It will be the last if I can help it."