The Lockeroom: Chapter Two

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I grab my bag and follow Kacchan to his dorm. "You're the first person to come into my dorm. You're lucky I like you." I smile, "Come on we both know you more than like me." He rolls his eyes as he walks in. Kacchans room was both surprising and not surprising. It was clean and well kept, with an Allmight figurine on his desk. He had three plants, which was surprising to me. A punching bag, and other than that it was pretty much plain and dark except for the few things he had on his wall. I kinda liked it. "I didn't know you had a green thumb." I say as I walk to his plant, which seemed thriving and well taken care of. "There's a lot you don't know about me. Keeping this fucker alive keeps me from doing dumb shit like blowing my room up. Which has happened multiple times."

The walls were pretty much bare like I said earlier, but there were ash stains, and I found two holes in the walls. The kind that happens when you punch the wall too hard. I looked closely at the wall, and the furniture. Slight ash marks were on pretty much everything. Meaning he wasn't lying, he has blown or almost blown up his room before. "So why'd you decide to follow me." He said as he placed his bag on his bed and unzipped it. "Uh because Kacchan seemed bothered, and well I needed to get away from the chatter for a sec too." He looked at me as he pulled some clothes out of his bag and began putting them away. "You? Tired of socializing? I would've never guessed you'd have that issue. You've always been a social butterfly, even to those you hate or treat you badly."

I sit in his desk chair, watching him put his stuff away. "Yeah well, It becomes quite annoying never getting a chance alone. I love those guys I do, but it sometimes gets overwhelming. But I don't want to be rude or sound ungrateful cause I really am it just-" Kacchan walks over to me and kisses me, quieting my ramble. He pulls away, his arms on either side of me on the arm rests of the chair as he leans over me. "Hey, it's okay I get it. No ones judging you here. You're not ungrateful sounding just cause you want some space for yourself." I smile. "Thank you Kacchan." He nods and stands up, ruffling my hair again. "I have a question, why are you always in your room? It can't be just because you're tired all the time can it?" I look up at him, "I am tired all the time, I overwork my body so much I can't catch up sometimes. I also can't handle everyone. They annoy me. Except for shitty hair, dunce face, office supply elbow guy, and raccoon eyes. And well.. Of course you. You can never tell them this and if you do I'll kill you. But I like when Kiri, Denki, Mina, and Sero follow me. It makes me feel like I.. Have friends." He turns away in embarrassment. "They are your friends. They care about you. But.. You make it seem like this is the first time this has happened for you.. From my point of view, it always seemed like there was always someone with Kacchan, following him, were those not friends?"

He scoffed, "You see any of them here now?.. The truth is, everyone followed me, because they were scared of if they didn't. Which is a valid reason, but I didn't actually have someone who cared about me. They survived the year and were gone. Then someone else came along trying to stick around me. I might've had a bunch of people surrounding me throughout my life but I still always felt alone. But hey, that's how life goes. You be a dick, life's gonna be a dick right back at you. I consider it karma." I had never seen Kacchan so calm and quiet. It all started making sense now.. When no one's there for you, you realize you're the only one who has your back. So what's the point of others? "Well now you have me. And Kiri, and Kami, Sero, and Mina! And I knew you knew their names!!" He rolls his eyes, "Yeah but don't tell them." I giggle. "You're just a big scary bear with the heart of a stuffed plushie!" He looks at me, appalled. "Eh??" I laugh.