✰keep your cool!

✰Chapter One: What The Sludge?

As Jun sits in class and listens to their sensei drone on about things that absolutely no one cares about, they wonder if it would be rude for them to slam their head down on their desk.

They decide that yes, that would be rude and settle for just leaving the room.

"Sensei, may I use the restroom?" Jun interrupts their instructor uncaringly, audibly bored, and they barely wait for a response before getting up and heading off to wander around the halls.

They don't actually need to use the bathroom; they just hate ninety-nine percent of their class and want to escape. A perfectly valid decision, if you ask them.

As Jun passes by Izuku's desk, they briefly make eye contact with him before checking the clock-- ten minutes until school lets out. They can make it back to the classroom before then.

Actually, no, they can't. Jun might just send their school principal to the shadow realm if they have to deal with him dropping hundreds of paperclips in the hall and then forcing them to help pick them all up. Seriously, why is Jun always close by when that sad excuse of a principal spontaneously loses all sense of balance and hand-eye coordination? And why is he always holding an open jar filled with hundreds of paperclips?

Jun scoffs, fiddling with a blue paperclip they'd snagged when the principal's back was turned. It's the small kinds of revenge.

Then they snicker as they remember a video Izuku had sent them at one in the morning. It was titled Can I Put My Balls In Yo Jaws, Slowed + Reverb, and the years of bullying must have made something in Jun's head crack because the title alone had almost made them cry. They'd sent Izuku no less than four keysmashes before they could even click on the video.

Jun forces themself to stop giggling hysterically as they step back into their classroom three minutes after the bell rang. They walk to their seat to grab their bag, but freeze as they pass Izuku's desk.

Bakugou, in all his dick-headed glory, stands there holding Izuku's notebook, which is now covered in dark scorch marks that obscure its original design. Izuku sress with dull eyes as Bakugou smirks and tosses the notebook over his shoulder, where it sails right towards an open window.

Jun uses their Quirk to run to the other side of the room and catch the notebook before they can even think.

Gently holding the object (which is still hot to the touch), they calmly walk over to their desk, pluck their backpack from their chair, and sling it over one shoulder. Jun ignores Bakugou's snarling and the other two bullies' awkward heckling as they come to stand beside Izuku, who is faintly shaking and staring down at his hands.

"Still have this extra fighting your battles for you, shitty Deku?" Bakugou's annoyingly loud voice makes Jun want to throat-punch him, but they figure they can wait for that. Patience is a virtue and all that. For now, they'll just satisfy themself by pissing him off with words.

"I don't see much of a battle here, you bag of dicks, just an idiot and his massive ego." Jun looks at Bakugou head-on with a completely unbothered expression, which they know irritates him to no end.

Just as they expected, Bakugou becomes even angrier than before, which shouldn't be possible, and screeches, "The fuck did you just say--?"

To shut him up, Jun points nonchalantly to their shirt pocket, where a teensy weensy camera they'd ordered online is clipped to the fabric. It works instantly-- he doesn't become any less angry, but at least he isn't making their ears bleed anymore.

"I'm getting close to changing my mind," they sing-song, which to an outsider might not mean anything, but everyone in the room knows that it's a threat, and it means everything to Bakugou.