Falling For Freckles

28. Night Out

It's been two weeks since Izuku lost Katsuki's ring, and still anytime the greenett goes to work he searches for it.

Currently that's exactly what he's doing, on the floor in the back of the shop where he last saw the thing he still reaches for all the time feeling his heart still sink when he realizes it's no longer there.

Emerald eyes look intensely under each and every shelf hoping that maybe magically his boyfriend's ring might suddenly appear.

Speaking of the firey quarterback he had just made his way through the double glass doors of the shop after his classes in search of his little shit.

He sees a sleep deprived purple haired male instead flipping boredly through a magazine at the counter.

Katsuki furrows a brow knowing that's normally where Izuku is perched when he walks in.

" Yo, Insomniac, where's Freckles?"

Shinso lifts his head his eyes shifting to the back of the store with a sigh as he answers the blonde.

" Where he is every time he comes in. Looking for your ring exactly where he last saw it."

Katsuki sighed heavily. He knows Izuku is still upset about the ring, but he didn't know he still looked for it all the time.

He feels his heart ache. He has seen the way the greenett often reaches for his ring still, he knows it had become like a security blanket almost, soothing him when his anxiety started to act up. It was his way of having the blonde with him at all times, or at least part of him a reminder of his firey strong quarterback but now it was missing and it was showing on an anxious greenett.

The blonde had offered several times to get a new one but Izuku always said the same thing that it just wouldn't be the same.

Katsuki clicked his tongue as he pocketed his hands walking to the back of the shop.

Ruby eyes landed on a greenett on the floor moving things from the bottom shelf.

The blonde stood beside him.

" Oi Freckles, come out of there and say hi to your boyfriend." , he smirked.

Izuku quickly pulled himself from the back of the shelving looking into ruby eyes with a smile.

" Hi Kacchan! I was just....."

He was cut off by the blonde.

" I know what you're doing. You're still looking for my ring, but you got the real me standing right here. Come up here and lay it on me Deku " , he smiled.

Izuku stood feeling the blonde grab his waist right away pulling him close.

The quarterback bent down as the greenett stood on tiptoes, lips meeting in a gentle kiss.

Katsuki rested his forehead on the others when they pulled away.

He moved a large thumb over a soft cheek.

" Deku, I wish you would stop obsessing over this. I know it upset you, I fucking get it, but it's bothering the hell out of me that you're practically torturing yourself looking for the damn thing. Please just let me replace it" , he said with concern in ruby eyes.

Izuku bit his cheek emerald eyes not quite meeting a firey gaze.

" I know, I'm sorry Kacchan, but I can't help it. It's just so strange how it disappeared. And I don't want you to replace it... it... it just wouldn't be the same" , he said softly.

Katsuki frowned.

" How about if I wear it for awhile before I give it to you? Then it's still something that was mine"