𝙰𝚗𝚝𝚒 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚘

A Therapist With Shitty Mental Health

I was by no means a therapist. I actually hated when people came to me with their problems. But I could kind of relate to Dabi in a way. And I wasn't about to just tell him to go back to his room.

"Well then, tell me everything," I said. Dabi started rambling on and on. I couldn't understand a lot of what he was saying but I got parts of it. I had shitty parents but they were on another level. I tried my best not to pitty him but I couldn't seem to get that sad look out of my eyes.

"God, what am I even doing here?" Dabi sighed.

"We all eventually crack under pressure and after years of bottling up your emotions, these are just the repercussions."

"You know I don't know how I feel about us being nice to each other."

"Me either. It just doesn't feel right."

"Do you have any... I don't know advice?"

"Nope, I don't even have my own life together."

"So you just have to live with hating yourself."

"I mean I don't hate myself. I used to but I kind of focus all the hate at the world now."

"Neither of those things are healthy."

"You don't think I don't fucking know!"

"Well then what do we do now?"

"Well both of us are injured but when we heal want to go burn down our parents' houses or something?"

"Best idea you've ever had," chuckled Dabi. He started to get up from the bed but then I saw his face tense. I could tell he was in a lot of pain. Dabi just sat there for a minute and then started to get under my blanket.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"You think I want to do this. I can't fucking make it back to my room."

"You're going to have to."

"I literally almost died coming here."

"Well, you're not allowed in my bed. I literally have a girlfriend."

"Toga won't care."

"Um, yes she will. I'll have to buy her ice cream or something."

"Oh no, what a tragedy."

"The point is you need to get up," I said shoving Dabi from my bed. He tried tried to stand up but I watched as his knees buckled beneath him and he fell to the floor. 

"Dammit," he cursed. He grabbed onto my bed and tried to pull himself up. I knew he wasn't going to be able to. I had been in the same position and knew it was impossible. However, I couldn't exactly help him that well either. Both of my legs were still broken. I watched as Dabi struggled. Each attempt to thrust himself up became more desparete. I finally sighed and got out of bed. I leaned against the bed to stable myself and pulled Dabi to his feet. 

"Fine but I'm going to Toga's room," I sighed.

"I don't care," Dabi said getting into my bed. I squinted in the darkness looking around for my crutches. I finally saw them laying across the room. I fumbled around trying to get to them before finally laying my hands on there cold, metal surface.

"You owe me big time," I shot at Dabi. He mumbled something inaudible in response. I started walking to Toga's room and stopped in front of her door. It was quite awkard. Me just showing up in the middle of the night to sleep in her bed. Eventually I mustered the courage to knock on her dorm. Toga opened the door wearing a thing silk robe. I felt my heart flutter out of my chest. Even though we were dating it often felt like I was still crushing on her. 

"What do you need?" she asked. Despite how late it was, it seemed like she had plenty of energy.

"I was wondering if I could sleep with you tonight?" I replied.

"Sure! Could you not sleep?"

"No it was something else," I said, as Toga's eyes lit up.

"Did you want to cuddle!" she exclaimed. I motioned for her to quiet down and stepped into her room. That wasn't the reason I came to her room but now it didn't seem like a bad idea.

"Uh yea," I shrugged. Toga jumped into my arms. My eyes closed dazily as our lips collided. I had no idea what got Toga so excited over little things but it was nice in a way. I didn't have to worry about carrying the relasionship. Sure Toga was irresponsible so it made it hard to make decisions but she always had plenty of energy so I didn't need to compensate. I barely had enough engery to wake up so I definetly have enough to keep another person going. I tossed my crutches to the side which was dumb because I still couldn't stand without out them. Toga had to basically hold me up and help me over to her bed. She finally broke away when I was laying with the upper half of my body on her bed. I pushed myself farthe up the bed and Toga crawled in next to me. 

"I'm not really tired," I said.

"Me either," Toga agreed,"Do you want to watch a movie?"

"Sure," I replied. Toga pulled out a laptop from under the bed. I waited for her to ask what to watch but the question never came. Instead she just opened her laptop and typed something in. It was like she had a movie planned for this exact moment. She put the laptop in between us and I saw a glint of the title at the top of the scene. Demon Slayer: Mugen Train. We were going to watch the Demon Slayer movie. I had heard that it came out and had been meaning to watch it for a while but didn't know where to find it. Toga pressed play and snuggled up next to me. My body tensed up and I could feel a blush spreading across my cheeks. We were literally dating so why was I still so nervous around her? I tried to push all of my nerves away and put my arm around Toga. At first I was uncomfortable and painfully aware of every little move anyone made. However, as the movie progress I started to relax. I also started to drift closer and closer to Toga. By the time we fell asleep her head was resting against my chest.

I woke up before Toga in the morning and tried my best to get out of bed undetectete. Somehow I managed to do that and get out of the room even though I had crutches. I quietly made my way to my room. When I opened the door Dabi was still sleeping in my bed. Somethng about it didn't sit right with me. I kind of wanted to shove him out but I knew he was ingured. If Dabi was healed I wouldn't have hesitated. I walker over and kicked the bed to wake him up.

"It's got to be to early," Dabi groaned.

"Maybe to you. Last time you fell asleep it took weeks for you to wake up," I teased.

"Haha very funny," Dabi said sarcastically. He tried to get up from the bed but had to put a hand on my shoulder to steady himself. I helped him back to his room which was a painfully slow process. But we got there eventually and I was free to go back to my own room. Still I couldn't get all the stuff Dabi had said to me the night before out of my head. I had enough of my own problems so I didn't want to have to worry about his. 

"Damn, with everything that happened and I somehow ended up being a therapist," I sighed.

Sorry for not updating in a while. I explained why in an annoucement. This story will probably start updating more slowly with school and I also am trying to figure out where I am going to take the book.