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Y/N felt her entire body freeze as she noticed the hand on her shoulder. She knew the feeling of that hand. She knew exactly who that was. She knew that this was Shouta. Shouta was standing right behind her, after she had said that she was only using him to win a bet. He had definitely heard it. If he hadn't heard it then she was incredibly lucky, but the expressions on her friends' faces told her that he had heard every single word. And of course it had all been a lie, but if she told him that now, he wouldn't ever believe her. She had made her point very clear.

Y/N wanted to turn around and make up some sort of bullshit about why she had said what she had said and what was really going on and that he had probably misunderstood something. Anything to save whatever relationship they were having. But it wasn't going to be this easy. There was really nothing she could say to come back from this, not after he had heard what she had just said. What was it again? I'm not into him. I don't have a crush on my homeroom teacher. Other than a good fuck and some fun and a means to winning this bet, Shouta Aizawa means nothing to me.

Yeah, that shit must have hurt. And Y/N was an idiot. She could see that now, loud and clear. A whole fucking idiot. That was probably why she had been lying around doing nothing for such a long time and why she didn't seem to be able to get anything done. That's why she was failing so badly once she set foot into U.A. Because she was a dumb idiot that couldn't do anything right. She hadn't been thinking about any consequences of this. Even just fake signing up for this school was dumb as fuck, and so was trying to cause trouble on purpose just to get expelled and trying to seduce her teacher. He was probably feeling guilty as hell for falling for a student.

Y/N couldn't even describe how much she hated herself right now. She remembered that her mother had called her selfish at one point when it was clear that she wasn't just taking a week or two off to relax after high school - and she was kind of right. Everything that she had done ever since she left the house to meet up with her friends back home had been selfish as hell. Signing up as a fake student had been selfish. Disrupting class like she had done was selfish. Trying to get with her teacher, no matter the consequences, had been selfish. Lying to her friends about how she really felt had been selfish. And so had been lying to Shouta.

"I think we should better leave..." Yamji muttered and got up quickly, together with Akiko and Kumiko. Y/N wasn't even sure whether she should be grateful for it or whether she should be mad that they were leaving her alone. She didn't want them to be around when Shouta was going to be mad at her, that much was true. But at the same time she also didn't want to be alone in all this. Either way this was going to go down, she'd be miserable. Her friends quickly and quietly said their goodbyes and the next thing she saw was Shouta's face, as he sat down opposite her.

Y/N didn't even know what to do or say. She had no idea. She just wanted to get out of here and not talk to Shouta ever again. She didn't want to have this conversation, she much preferred suffering all on her own instead. But Shouta was here and he didn't look like he was just going to let her go. And he was right not to, he was probably the one that was suffering the most here. Whatever he had to tell her, Y/N deserved to hear it, no matter how harsh it would be. After all, she had done this to herself and she wasn't going to get out of this so easily.

"So this was all for a bet, huh?" was the first thing that Shouta said to her. Y/N felt her throat closing up. She didn't really know what exactly it was, but somehow his voice sounded so much colder than usual. She never would have imagined him to sound so hurt over all this. But of course he was hurt.

"Shouta, please, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, I can explain this..."

"No. I don't want to hear it. I don't care about your explanation. You were using me, weren't you?" he wanted to know.

"Y-yes... no, it's not really like that, I... It's complicated." Y/N answered. She didn't even know what she was going to tell him anymore. That it was all for a bet at first, but then she actually did start caring for him? That she didn't mean any of it and just didn't want to admit it to her friends?

"How complicated can it be?" Shouta asked.

"It... It was all a bet. I'm finished with high school, I have my diploma, but I just... I was kind of burnt out afterwards and they were trying to get me out of the house, trying to get me to do something, so... that's how I ended up at U.A. I know, it's messed up, but I just... I don't know. I didn't see it until now. I'm so sorry." she replied, hanging her head low in shame. If she had ever thought that she wanted to die, she had no idea what it felt like to really want to die.

"Do you have any idea how much trouble you could have gotten me in with your little antics? Nevermind that I actually cared about you and was wondering what the hell was wrong with me. But do you have any idea how much damage you could have done with this?" Shouta said.

"I know... I know and I'm sorry, I just... I would have left after this semester, I swear..."

"That doesn't make it any better! That doesn't make a single thing any better. If anyone had found out about this, I could have gotten fired, I could have lost my hero licence and I would never have been able to do either of my jobs ever again. Were you even thinking of that?" he asked. Y/N felt numb. She felt hot tears running down her cheeks, but she felt like everything else was far away.

"I wasn't thinking at all. I'm sorry." she said quietly.

"I can't believe that I was risking pretty much everything because of you and then you were only using me for some stupid, childish bet. I can't believe that. I don't even know what to say to you anymore. I just..."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Okay? What else do you want me to do? I'm sorry that I did that and I shouldn't have done it, but I can't take it back. If I could, I would, but I can't do that. I'm sorry. And what I said earlier wasn't true. I do care about you and I do like you. I swear, I literally have a huge crush on you, but I just... I didn't want to admit it to my friends, because I was kind of embarrassed. I'm sorry about that. Please, Shouta..."

He was shaking his head and he looked more sad than Y/N had ever seen him. It was breaking her heart to see him like this. She had never thought that he'd be this upset about it all. She knew she would be upset if the roles were reversed, but Shouta had always seemed so above everything else.

"I don't want to hear it. I don't care anymore. Whatever it was that was between us, it's over. We won't be seeing each other anymore and you better stay away from me." he told her and got up from his chair. Y/N stood up as well, it was almost like a reflex at this point. She wasn't sure what he was going to do. She didn't know what was going to happen the next day or the next two weeks.

"But... But Shouta, what about school?" she wanted to know. It was a pretty stupid question, she was aware of that, but it was the one thing that was on her mind. Was she still going to school or not? Shouta looked at her and laughed out loud, shaking his head in disbelief as if it was clear what his answer would be.

"I guess I'm doing you one last favour with that one. You're expelled."