Worth Saving

6. Sleepless

" I wanna be wrapped in your arms, skin against skin, hands intertwined, the sound of your heartbeat drowning out all the voices in my head" ~ Unknown

Izuku woke up with the sound of the blondes song still playing in his mind as he drug himself from bed to get ready for work.

He didn't sleep much again, the mess at the bar and the fight with Raiden when he got home working on his anxiety.

Emerald eyes fall on the couch as he steps from his room quietly trying everything he can not to wake the sleeping beast on his couch that refused to leave last night no matter how many times he shouted for him to.

His eyes go cold as he stares down at the sleeping male that literally makes his skin crawl and his heart sink.

As he makes his way to the door after grabbing his bag he hears a voice that makes bile rise in his throat.

" Don't think I didn't notice you and that blonde guy last night. Who the hell was he? You never answered me last night" , Raiden said from the couch.

Izuku didn't turn around.

" He's a friend of Sho's", he answered in a dead voice.

Raiden scoffed as he stood up slamming the door closed as the greenett opened it.

" Yeah right. I saw you, I saw the way you looked at that guy. You're completely insane if you think a guy like that would ever want you. No way in hell you're good enough to pull someone like that. I put up with you being clumsy and stupid, and you saw him, no fucking way you look good enough for him either. I'm sure he feels sorry for you because you're Shoto's awkward friend. Face it Izuku, I'm all you fucking got"

Tears burned emerald eyes but he refused to let them fall. He swallowed the lump in his throat looking straight ahead at the closed white door.

" I have to go, I'll be late"

Raiden stepped back.

" Yeah, whatever, just remember what I said"

With that Izuku pulled the door open and swiftly ran down the stairs out onto the the sidewalk in front of his building where he finally let tears go.

As he began to move his to work he thought about what Raiden said.

His chest aches as thoughts twist in an unsteady mind.

It's true. It has to be, there's no way that Katsuki could actually want him, not really. It probably was exactly that, that he just took pity on Shoto's messed up friend, because what could Izuku possibly offer a guy like Katsuki? Nothing.

Izuku wasn't the only one who had had a trouble sleeping the night before.

Katsuki had barely gotten any sleep himself. He had been worried about the greenett all night, checking his phone throughout the night just in case.

He has a double shift at the firehouse today meaning he'll be there late.

It's late afternoon now, the blonde firefighter has been more quiet than usual and a bicolored eyed male knows why.

Shoto sees Katsuki leaning on the side of a firetruck, arms crossed sun glasses over tried crimson eyes.

He steps up beside the blonde.

" Slow day"

Katsuki only cuts his eyes over making no move.

" Yeah"

" You hear from Midoriya today?"

Katsuki shakes his head, eyes planted down the street right twards a filimair apartment building.