Ace of Hearts - Tenya I. x Reader

Chapter Seventeen

       You lay sprawled out on a bean bag that sat snug in the corner of your cabin. Denki was lying down, his head in your lap as he tossed a rubber ball up, catching it when it came back down. Mina sat on the window sill, her feet propped on either side of your head as she braided your hair in french braids. 

      "So Mina, Y/N?" Denki interrupted the silence. "You guys are like my gal pals right?" 

      "Yeah you could call us that." She waved her hands in an arch. "Denki's Sqaud."

        "I'm not a fan of the name." You grumbled and Mina pulled extra tightly on your braid. "we'll keep it for now." 

        Denki cleared his throat. "Well, since you guys are my squad, you guys would want to talk about relationships of a hypothetical crush perhaps?" 

       "A crush you say?" Mina inquired. 

        Denki's face flushed a dusty pink and covered his face with his hands, his eyes peaking from his fingers. "Maybe."

       "It's either a yes or a no Denki. I'm betting on yes." You said. Denki shook his head yes, face flushing a deeper shade of pink out of embarrassment. "Well who is it?" 

       "I don't, I don't wanna say." He stammered. "Pl-plus, it'll never happen anyway so it's not really important." 

         "Well it seems important to you." Mina reassured. "I won't judge you."

         You gave Denki a decent slap across the back of his head. "Don't sell yourself short Denki. maybe the person likes you back. You never know." 

        Denki uncovered his fave and seemed to ponder the thought. His lips curled and eyebrows scrunched in thought. "What if the person is not who you would expect?"

        "I could give two shits Denki, I'm not the one dating them, you are. Which means if your happy having a crush on them or dating then that is fine by me. Right Mina?"

       "Ya!" 

        "Okay fine I cave. But please," Denki said desperately, "you cannot tell a single soul. If you do I'll come into your dorms in the middle of the night and murder you."

      "Okay we pinky promise we won't usher a single breath to anybody."

       "My crush is..." Denki hid behind his hands again, face full flushed red. "Shinso." He exhaled sharply and face planted into the bean bag. "There I said it." 

        Your jaw dropped to the floor. "Shinso?"

        "I called it!" Denki wailed. "Your grossed out aren't you?"

          "No no Denki. I'm not grossed out at all. I'm just shocked it was him that's all." 

          "Ya Denki." Mina yanked a sniffling Denki from the bean bag into her arms for a tight hug. "We don't care if you like dudes. Only that you're happy." 

           "I know it's not my place and you don't owe us anything until you are ready, but what is your sexuality? Side note, what are your pronouns too if you don't mind me asking." You ruffled his hair gently as he looked up at you and Mina. 

           "I'm bisexual." His eyes wandered the room, spotting and eyeing different trinquets and furniture, too nervous to look you guys in the eyes. "I go by he/him, thanks for asking." 

         "Of course!" 

        "You never have to be afraid to tell us who you are Denki. We'll love you just the same and support you no matter what." 

        "Thanks gals." Denki smiled bashfully. "Sorry I didn't tell you guys sooner. I didn't know where you guys stood on about the community ya'know?" 

      You smacked him upside the head. "Don't apologize Denks, you have nothing to be sorry for. I couldn't hate anyone from the community, when I'm apart of it myself. Correction, I could hate them if their not nice and utterly stupid." 

       "I'm utterly stupid." Denki joked. 

       "Indeed you are." You laughed alongside him.

       Mina piped up saying, "Did I hear your a part of the community too?" 

       Shit balls. You were so caught up in the moment reassuring Denki, that it felt completely normal to add on the you were apart of the community too, in hopes of making him feel less embarssaed and alone. So caught up, that you forgot you hadn't told anybody about yourself. The only person utterly stupid in this room was you. 

       "Uh..." you stalled, "hypothetically I could be. Maybe I said it." You shrugged your shoulders. "I guess we'll never know." 

        "Are you?" Mina questioned. 

        "I just came out Y/N. I trust you both a lot. Like you said, you are not obligated to owe us an explanation, but we're here to support you and we care about you." He said caringly. 

        "Wow, Denki. I didn't know you were so poetic. But... ya I am a part of the community." You told them about being asexual and what it means. You didn't go too into depth, but you did discuss how asexuality is a spectrum, and where you fall. You explained not minding romance and kissing (and your boundaries with it). You made sure to tell them that you never wanted nor desired sex and how that deters you from finding a boyfriend. 

        Denki claimed he had never heard of this part of the LGBTQIA+ community until recently. Like a tik tok from a few weeks ago recently. He didn't complain, nor did he judge you, though he did drag that he would now inevitably have the best sex in the trio. You had no complaints about losing. 

      Mina didn't mind at all. "Thank you for trusting us Y/N. I'm sure Iida wouldn't have a problem with you being asexual." 

      You did a double take. What? Who? Escusie? "What?" You exclaimed with a  high-pitched tone. "Iida what now?" 

      "You know," Denki said, "it's obvious he like you. Like its painfully obvious I get second hand embarrassment just looking at him give you oogly heart eyes at you." Denki flung himself to the floor and hustled to his knees. He extended his arm and put his other hand gracefully on his heart. "Oh Y/N, oh Y/N, thou art so fair. I fallen so deep in love that I deny it so like my idol Adrian Agreste!" Denki exhalted like a actor in Romeo and Juliet. 

       "Not you slandering Adrian." Mina shook her head to the ceiling, asking why oh why were you and Denki her friends. 

      "Adrian slander is allowed. He is oblivious of his own feelings. How can that even happen?!" 

       "True." Mina agreed. "Iida is just like him." 

        "Guys," you chimed in. "Iida likes me?" You were unbelievably oblivious to the fact that four eyes class president like you. 

        Mina slapped her forehead. "Duh! He's practically tripping over his own heels." 

        "It's even worse that you couldn't tell. It's double worse that you haven't noticed that you like him." 

       "Oooooohhhhh." Mina gushed.

        "Oh shut it Denki I do not." You denied. Do I like him? You thought. 

                                                                             ****

       You lay wrapped and warm underneath your blankets, as frost danced over the cabin windows, lowering the room temperature. You kept thinking about what Mina and Denki said about Iida and even daring to say you had a crush on him back. 

       That was not true at all. But you still thought about it anyway.