Icy? Or hot? ~TodoBaku~

Chapter 13: not everything needs a reaction

Mashirao Ojiro

Just my fucking luck, huh?

To be fair, I had been completely truthful with Todoroki. I had invited both Shoji and Tokoyami, and we had all agreed to meet at the Italian restaurant near my house. Inviting him out for just the two of us was an option, but I didn't want to lie, plus I chickened out of doing it in the first place. But I guess it doesn't matter so much now. He's got a date tonight. I hope I didn't come across rude at the end of our conversation, but it was quite a hard pill to swallow when I found out I'd missed my chance.

Hell, I didn't even know Todoroki's sexuality, let alone if he liked me. Ok, calm down, there still might be time. Just be there for him as a friend when he needs you, and it might work out, right?

Still, I was kicking myself about being too scared to repeat myself on the day we met when he misheard me asking him on a date. Stupid anxiety, fuck off forever! Staring at the conversation I had just had with Todoroki, I wondered how to process it. The best thing for me to do is probably sleep, since it's nearly 1am, but there's no way I can do that now. So, I decided on the next best thing.

Number neighbours are always fun, right?

Hey there number neighbour 👋
so listen, it's 12:53am where I am
right now, and I've just found out
that my crush is going on a date
later, and my world is falling
apart. You probably won't reply to
this, but thanks for listening...?

I sent the message, before turning my phone off and placing it face-down, waiting for my ringer to go off. And sure enough, around three minutes later..

Holy shit bro, that sucks!
But look on the bright side:
now, you have the best period of
your life, when you aren't tied
down by any kind of feelings!
And once you want those feelings
back from someone, you can pick
anyone you please. Oh, and by the
way, I call everyone bro, so sorry
if I'm talking to a girl..

I smiled a little at the cheesy message and dorky apology at the end, then replied.

It's ok, I'm a guy. And thanks for
the message, it really helps.
Cheesy as fuck, but that's maybe
what I needed.

Well, it just so happens that your
number neighbour is a social
psychology student, so feel free to
talk to me anytime, private and
confidential. It would actually
help me out a bunch as well...

That's really good to know,
thank you. What should I
call you, by the way? I'm
Mashirao Ojiro, but
whatever is fine.

That's no problem bro. I'm
Eijiro Kirishima, but just
call me Kiri :)

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Now, before you all freak the fuck out, I wanted to say:

This pairing will not feature heavily in this story. The most attention it will receive beyond here is reference about Kirishima from Ojiro to others, possibly a short segment about them meeting for the first time, then maybe Kiri can show up once or twice with Kaminari and talk about Ojiro or something. It will NOT impact the story in any significant way.

Now, where were we?
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Well, Kiri, it's was nice to speak
with you. You seem like a pretty
cool guy.