LOST // BAKUGO X OC

Provisional License Exam

Today was the day that class 1a would take their provisional license exam. Estelle wouldn't be joining them because she feared a spirit would track her scent. She was still being careful due to the intrusion that happened yesterday. Thankfully nobody else caught wind of the fact there was an intruder apart from the class and UA faculty.

Estelle didn't know what the right thing to do was and if she should have agreed in the first place.

'If Bakugo was here, he would have hit me again', Estelle chuckled in her mind.

Shinsou had attempted to stick around after the ordeal but was pulled away by Mr Aizawa, considering he was there when he should have run the other way. The teacher mumbled about troublesome kids for the rest of the day. Estelle found the whole thing amusing. On the other hand, the class seemed to have gotten the impression that Estelle was now their friend.

Estelle was still trying to understand the strange feelings that surrounded her. They had strolled back into the dorms and gathered around her immediately so they could all talk about her quick mastery at taking the creature down.

"You moved like you knew the thing from the back of your hand!" Ochako exclaimed within the crowd of her classmates, who were also saying their own words. Why do they have to talk over each other so much? Estelle responded since it was the only sentence she had picked up from their insistent rambling.

"That's because I do. I've fought spirits since I was a child."

The class quietened like usual whenever Estelle spoke. They never wanted to miss any of the information Estelle would give. To them, it seemed that they would never know it all. Her words caused a jolt to their hearts. First, she tells them that they like to eat her kind and now, she had fought them when she was a child?

"How is that even allowed?" Yaoyorozu asked quietly.

"I think you forget that my world is really different; this world is extremely tame compared to my own", Estelle started with a vacant expression. She was getting fatigued from all the social interaction, and it seemed like the class needed time to process. With that, Estelle proceeded to depart from the students to head for her dorm.

"Don't go yet. Hang out with us!" Ashido yelled out, causing Estelle to freeze in place.

Without turning around, Estelle stonily responded, "No, thank you, I may have agreed to stay. But that still doesn't make us friends yet. I have to get to work."

"Man, it's like taking a step forward and then two steps back", Estelle heard Kirishima mutter to Bakugo quietly on her way out.

Estelle felt a glimmer of guilt which she shot down with imaginary bullets. This was for the best. Attachments make you weak, and Estelle was not feeble. Estelle would remain how she always was. Alone.

"Tch, didn't you hear? She said 'yet'. Sounds like progress to me."

Due to her solidifying thoughts, Estelle didn't say goodbye to her fellow students as they got on the bus for their exams. She observed from the window whilst they left and felt the same glimmer of guilt when they attempted to look for her on the bus, only to find her missing. With that sight, Estelle left UA, her phone ringing as she headed outdoors.

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A few students fiddled with their things as they stewed in their nervousness about the exams about to take place. Other's wondered about Estelle and why she didn't come with them to cheer them on.