KiriBaku | Just Another Camp

Chapter 14

Kirishima

"Listen, man, I know you hate him-" I said for a millionth time.

"Kiri, I just don't understand-" he said, placing his hand on his forehead. "You said he was annoying! Now you're cuddling with him? What is going on-?"

For the past 5 minutes, I had been trying to explain to Sero that Bakugo and I were, technically, dating, and that we cuddled and occasionally kissed.

To Sero, that was mind blowing, and for the past 5 minutes, he had been trying to wrap his head around it.

"Look, bro, I just really like him, okay?" I said. "I know he seems really mean and rude and annoying, but you don't know him like I do. I really, really like him, Sero. I really do."

He just stared at the ground, still trying to process what I was saying. Finally, he said, "It's too early for this..."

I laughed and shook my head before leading him back into my cabin, where Bakugo and Tenjin had been waiting. 

"Took you long enough," Bakugo huffed, rolling his eyes.

"So when are y'all gonna f***?" Sero suddenly blurted out.

My face became bright red as I thought about my dream. I looked down at the ground, hoping nobody noticed.

"I could ask you the same question," Bakugo shot back, making Sero flinch and duck his head in embarrassment. 

"O-okay, I'm just gonna go..." Tenjin said, quickly retreating to the door and leaving.

Sero followed right after, leaving Bakugo and I alone.

"I needa use the bathroom," he said, heading towards the bathroom.

Right before he closed the door, I stopped it with my hand and gave him a serious look. "No cutting."

He just glared at me. I allowed him to close the door and I sighed, sitting down on my bed and scrolling through text messages and Instagram. Hopefully my warning was enough to snap Bakugo out of it. I really hated the fact that he hurt himself.

I blinked, suddenly looking up at the closed bathroom door. I didn't even know why he was harming himself. I guess that was another thing I was going to have to figure out.

I heard of some people who hurt themselves just for attention, but that didn't seem like Bakugo's case. He cut himself in a place that wasn't visible when he had clothes on, and he tried pretty hard to keep it a secret from me when I asked him what was going on.

Honestly, I didn't know that much about cutting. All I knew was that it was when a person hurt themselves, but that's all I really knew. Besides the rumors that flew around school from time to time, I wasn't all that educated in the world of self harm.

I went onto Google and began searching up what it was. The more I read, the more my heart sank. A heavy feeling rested on my chest and my eyebrows furrowed as I kept reading. 

'Self-harm is when you hurt yourself as a way of dealing with very difficult feelings, painful memories or overwhelming situations and experiences. Some people have described self-harm as a way to:

•express something that is hard to put into words

•turn invisible thoughts or feelings into something visible

•change emotional pain into physical pain

•reduce overwhelming emotional feelings or thoughts

•have a sense of being in control

•escape traumatic memories

•have something in life that they can rely on