Mirror ||ShinKami||

Chapter 5

The meeting with the social worker went as anticipated. Jayda and I were both on our best behavior, and Mrs And Mr Sakai were as nice as ever to us as we all answered questions. Once the social worker left, Mrs Sakai turned to us, told us we did well, and gave us permission to eat a meal and sit at the table while doing so, and said that she would pick up a toy for Jayda, which I could see her eyes sparkle at. Mr Sakai said that he wouldn't beat me tonight.

Jayda and I both slept great tonight. We both had full stomaches, neither of us got beat, and we both studied well.

Once morning came around, I didn't have to bother hiding any new bruises! It was great! I only needed to cover up the ones from the days before. Once I was ready and Jayda checked my obvious ones for any spots I might've missed, we left for school. I dropped her off at hers and ran off to mine as quickly as I could.

I wasn't even late this time! Yes! Mina looked at me. "Oh wow! Denki, you aren't late!"

"I know right! Its great." I said as I sat down, having an actually smile on my face that I didn't have for maybe 2 or 3 months. The social worker didn't come by often, as he didn't feel the need to.

"You look a lot happier, Kaminari." Sero noted.

"Yeah, I guess I caught the happy disease or something." I joked. Most of the Bakusquad laughed, except for, of course, Bakugo. He simply let out a small "tch".

"So, Kaminari, you wanna tutor me today during lunch, or were busy?" Mina asked.

"Yeah sure! I would be happy to." I replied.

"Wait wait, I need to make sure my hearing isn't going out, did you just ask if Kaminari would tutor you?" He questioned Mina in a jokingly way, but it still hurt, I felt my smile fracture for a second, but I quickly put it back on, hoping nobody saw.

"Aw c'mon, Sero, I'm not dumb! I am top of the class in English, after all." I said proudly. He chuckled.

"Right, sorry Kaminari, I keep forgetting."

"Thats cool man." It wasn't okay. It hurt. Just to know that my friends really didn't have that much hope in me. Maybe they were joking? Yeah. That's probably it. They joke all the time...was it?

Mr Aizawa walked into the classroom. "Everyone settle down. I dont feel like teaching today so this can be just like a study session. I dont care. I'm going to sleep." He said as he collapsed in his caterpillar sleeping bag.

I shrugged and took out my textbooks, I took out my math one first and attempted to study that. In truth, math literally made no sense to me. No matter how hard I tried I legitimately couldn't comprehend anything, that didn't stop me from still trying though.

After awhile, I decided to try and write some problems on a piece of paper and try and solve them that way while reading the instructions, that should work, right? I tried it out. I sorta got it the first time. I smiled to myself. I tried again and again until I slowly started to get it. Maybe I actually would get ahead in my classes now!

No, I would probably forget everything the next day. No! I needed to remember this! I knew I could! Jayda could! If Jayda could, then so could I!

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Goddammit how did she do it?! I just needed to keep at it until it was practially second nature! That should work, right? Maybe that's how I'm so good at English? Because it's practially second nature?

I smiled to myself as I decided to test out my theory and start doing problems over and over again.

Eventually the bell rang, and I was feeling pretty confident with myself! I packed my textbooks and papers into my backpack and started walking out with the Bakusquad until I felt a hand on my shoulder. I flinched as it touched me, until I realized it was only Shinsou.