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"People has been saying that the girl who got kissed by Bakugou Katsuki was you," The female classmate explained, "is that true? What was it like?"

I uneasily looked up at her, a girl surrounded by her friends behind her, crowding around my desk. 

Apparently, they knew about that because people posted it on the internet, naming me a 'special girl' for only getting a kiss from a handsome ikemen, who has never kissed anyone and posted on the internet. 

People speculated that he might have an unknown lover without any confirmation, or he was uncomfortable with any of those events. 

But why did he suddenly kiss a person at that event? Especially only once and not others too?!

I smiled dryly, getting all of the unnecessary attention from them and thinking to myself. 'Shit. Why did Bakugou kiss me then? If you wouldn't have done that, I'd be going to school a lot easier than right now. But I'm now stuck in this situation with these Barbies and Kens...'

"Please, you're disturbing me. I'd greatly appreciate it if you all leave me alone." I forced myself to ask them to leave politely.

That classmate widened her eyes in offense, grinning irritably, "What?"

A guy popped questions with blunt curiosity in his tone, "But?! Why did he kiss you? Why would he kiss you-" 

"How the hell am I supposed to know?!" I cut him off with the tone that I had no damn idea why did Katsuki do that, I was confused just like all others and feeling a bit insulted that they were judging me without knowing how I felt the moment it happened. "I don't know what the hell he was thinking! It was my first time talking to him!"

I quickly thought of an excuse to make them talk to each other, "Maybe- maybe he just wanted to make fun of me! You know how he is, he likes to make fun of pathetic people- he was in the character!"

The classmates seemed to be taken aback, slightly convinced that I genuinely had no idea of the reason why that happened. Even I was sincere about it, they wouldn't believe me. Therefore I had to make it sound more dramatic and believable to make them believe me.

"Uh... I see. Maybe he really wanted to make fun of you. Or wanted to know how crazy his fans are?" The male classmate began, incidentally leading the crowd away from my desk. "Yeah, whatever, what's so good about that cocky dude?"

"Shut up, he's more attractive than you that you're gonna be a virgin for the rest of your life!"

As they bickered back and forth, I was thankfully left alone. 

I exhaled out the heavy breath that I have held in, thinking-ranting to myself, 'I seriously don't know why he did it!' 

The bell rang, signaling the school has come to the end. 

'Finaaally!' I secretly cheered to be able to return home after getting swarmed by these weirdos from school. I've never ever longed for the day to end in my life after that experience. I pulled my phone out to check any messages from my parents in the case.

Abruptly I was reminded of the reply he sent me yesterday. 

I couldn't help but think to myself and that comment. That question came up audible in my head. '... did he delete it?'

Feeling stupid for asking such a question myself, my face heated up for having the need for confirmation whether he had deleted it or not. 

When I browsed back on my account, scrolling down to a specific post, my eyes spotted the most recent comment, rereading it for the third time.

"stay acutie l/n"

I still haven't replied to that, I got self-conscious and flustered. His response wasn't what I expected a celebrity to say.

I stared at it intensively, still not knowing what to respond to that comment. 

'Wait... what does 'acutie' mean? It's combined with acute and cutie?' I questioned myself at the thought of a word I just read. 

I searched up any definition of the word, scrolling endlessly because most of them weren't the word I was looking for.

I kept clicking on links then leaving and repeating as I reached closer to home.

I finally found one meaning behind it, I stopped walking and read it out loud to myself. "A person who is acutely cute, i.e., intense and adorable at the same time..."

I gasped in embarrassment, my face flushing warmly.

I had to fangirl- I might be overreacting to say that I almost passed out by that praise but dammit! 'Come to think of it, it's almost impossible to not blush because it's him, he has that good looks!'

I then cooled down, clearing up my thoughts. 'It's fine, it won't matter soon. Getting super excited about a long-time talented actor from one of my favorite animes show talking to me is common amongst fans.' 

'But staying in contact is very unlikely.'