Equilibrium (Todoroki x OC)

Chapter 16

Yami's POV

I thought the day of the USJ attack would be the last I would see Todoroki before school resumed again.

We were given the rest of the week to recover. I thought it was a well needed break considering what our class had gone through, plus I would imagine that the faculty needed some time to get some things together.

It was a solid few days off of school.

Todoroki visited me again after he returned from the police station to make sure I was holding up. Especially after my awakening from the nightmare I had... or whatever that experience was called.

I was glad to see him without being in a state of panic and worry. It made me feel calm and at ease.

—

"How's your head?" The boy asked as he stood at the side of my bed. I held a glass of water in my hands, taking a small sip.

"A little better. I'm sorry you had to see me in that state-"

"You don't need to apologize, Mei. You don't owe me one."

Silence.

"Yeah. Guess you're right." I looked right back up at him, but it was no poker face expression. It wasn't that at all.

Todoroki's heterochromic eyes glinted from the sunlight glistening through the window where the curtains were wide open. His eyes looked like they glowed, but with slight worry.

He was no boy of showing his emotions, so seeing the slightest bit of expression surprised me a little. His eyes looked like they lit up. I began to pay more attention to the scar that covered the left side of his eye.

These were the same pair of eyes of a friend. And they were the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen in my life.

But it wasn't just his eyes, it was everything about him. Somewhere beyond his cold facade, was someone who cared but was too scared to show it. There was so much I wanted to know about him that his mysteriousness pulled me in like a magnet that I couldn't escape the grasp of. He captured me with his stoic personality, something I would never think would ever happen. I could get lost in the endless maze of his beauty, and I wish I could take a photo of him right now, but alas.

I would look like a creep admiring his face for so long.

"Mei? Is there something on my face? You've been staring at it for a while."

He snapped me out of my thoughts. I shook my head trying to gather the right words to speak to him. I looked away and coughed in embarrassment, quickly meeting his gaze again after some composure.

"Oh! I just thought your complexion looked admirable in the light from the sunset." I couldn't lie, because that wasn't who I was when it came to my feelings. It was the truth, but hopefully since he knew my sarcastic personality, he would brush it off easily and not pay much attention to it.

On the inside, my stomach was making somersaults. Sometimes I wish I could easily not be upfront.

"Oh." Was the first thing he said. "Thank you. I could say the same for you when you face the window." He looked back at the scenery out from the window, his figure not moving.

I could feel my eyes soften. "Thank you, Todoroki."

I looked down back at my glass of water, swirling the cup around and watching the water dance on the inside.

"Thank you for everything you've done for me."

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It was the weekend and I was at a modeling shoot with Keigo. He thought it would be a good distraction from the events that unfolded a few days ago.