#1 In My Heart

Phone Call

Bakugo POV

"It's gonna be fine babe" Sho says to me as I turn my phone back on. "Shit. I need to put it on the charger." Ei says plugging his phone in. "Guess being off for almost two days can drain batteries" Ei laughs. "It doesn't help that you barely charge yours. Mine is still at full battery" Sho says back. "Yeah. Yeah. Whatever" Ei rolls his eyes, still laughing. "I know it's gonna be fine. I guess I'm just worried. I don't know. Up until now I was with girls. So they may be confused? I don't even know what I am yet..." I say to both of them looking at my phone. I'm debating even calling her but I know I need to. I haven't talked to her in a while and there's been some changes lately that I know she's going to be upset about considering she didn't hear them from me. I press on her contact to video call her. And of course she picks up immediately.

"KATSUKI!" I hear on the other end. "Hey mom" I say back Shyly. "YOUR FATHER AND I HAVE BEEN SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU. WHY AREN'T YOU CALLING US?!" She says again. "I've been busy" I say back with an attitude. "Don't get an attitude with me, mister! You shouldn't be too busy to call your mom sometimes! Especially when I've been seeing rumors all over the news about you and two other boys. I raised you better than that. Keeping me in the dark all the time." I wince at her words. Mostly because I know she's right. "I'm sorry about that. I guess I was scared. I didn't want to tell you about it until I knew for sure." I feel like I'm going to cry. But I don't know why. "Katsuki." I hear my fathers voice. "Your mother and I are your biggest supporters. And we will always love you no matter what. You know you can talk to us about anything. Whenever you call us, we'll be here" He's always been more understanding and calm than my mom. Sometimes I think life would've been better if I got his personality instead of hers. "Thanks dad. So did you guys want to hear about it?" I question. "OF COURSE WE DO, KATSUKI!" My mom yells. "To be honest, I'm not exactly sure how it started. But I am dating both Kirishima and Todoroki." I hear my mom scream on the other end. "Well the three of you did get super close after graduation. It only makes sense you'd get romantic feelings for each other. Honestly I kind of thought you guys would start dating sooner" Dad says. I blush a little. It's nice knowing that they're supportive. "Are they there?! I wanna talk to them!" Mom says taking the phone from my dads hands. "Honey. Leave them be" Dad says laughing. "Yeah. They're here. I can go get them" I say laughing as I hand the phone to Ei and Sho. "Hey mom" they both say in unison. "You guys are being nice to my little Katsuki, right?" She questions as they both laugh. "Of course we are. Although I think you should ask him if he's nice to us" Ei responds as I glare at them. "KATSUKI! Are you being mean? Don't think I won't come there!" She yells. "HEY! I'm the nicest to them!" I yell back. "I'm so nice I accidentally turned both of them into spoiled princesses!" I say again. It's true. They're both spoiled. I see them both blush and I hear my mom giggling. "We are not spoiled princesses!" Sho says sticking his tongue out at me. "Yeah of course you're not Mr. 'I pout whenever I don't get my way'." I say back putting an arm around him. "The three of you are so cute together." Mom says back. "So when am I getting grandkids??" She suddenly questions. "I'm not getting any younger you know!" The three of us laugh. "We've already talked about it, actually. We agreed to revisit the conversation in a few years." I respond. I hear her squeal on the other end. "That's so exciting! I already can't wait!" She says back to us. The three of us start laughing again. "Hows the vacation?" My dad asks, changing the subject. "Oh. It's good. We leave on Monday but apparently Ei and Sho already have multiple more trips planned." I side eye them, still trying to figure out why they won't tell me. "They're secrets!!" Sho giggles out. "Yeah we can't tell you until we actually go. Otherwise you'll veto it" Ei responds. "Tch. Whatever" I say back. "We'll come have dinner with you guys soon, yeah?" I say to my parents. "Sounds good!" I hear my dad say. I'm pretty sure my mom is already planning out recipes or whatever. "We gotta go! Sho's pouting because we haven't been to the beach all day. But I promise I'll call more, okay?" I say to them. "Alright, Katsuki. We're looking forward to dinner with the three of you!" He says as he hangs up the phone.

"Hey! Why'd you tell them I was pouting?" Sho questions jumping on me. "Because you are!" I laugh. "Now go get ready or we're not going!" Sho immediately gets off and runs to the bathroom. "Fine. I'm getting ready!" "My cute little spoiled princess" I mutter while laughing. "We should've placed a bet on your mom bringing up grandkids!" Ei laughs. "Yeah that was inevitable. You know, this is the first relationship I've told her about" I say back. "That's because it's your only relationship. Until the three of us got together, you were into hookups and meaningless sex." Ei says, sitting next to me. "Yeah that's true" I say back, kissing his shoulder.

"I'm ready! Let's go!" Sho says already out the door. "You guys can go. I'm gonna take a nap." Ei says snuggling into the blankets. "Alright." I say giving him a kiss. "We'll come get you for dinner, yeah?" "Mhm" He whispers out.

"Sho! Wait for me!" I say running after him. "Sorry. I'm just excited. Wait. Where's Ei?!" "If you would've waited, you'd hear that he wants to take a nap so we're gonna get him for dinner." I say back. "Ugh. Fine. I guess I can just be with you." Sho laughs. "Keep it up. We'll go back to the room" I say back. He's like a little kid when he's comfortable around us. It's kind of cute. "Uh huh" Sho responds giggling down the hallway. I roll my eyes. "Hey, Sho?" I question. "What's up?" He asks slowing down and grabbing my hand. "How come you've never had a girlfriend before?" I see his eyes widen. "Well, at first I was waiting until I became emotionally stable for one. But then it just got easy to turn them down all the time. I mean I don't think it's a shocker that I've had many girls try to give me their numbers or get me to take them to my place. But it just never felt right. I couldn't even flirt with them. I think my body knew before my brain did." He responds. "What do you mean?" I question again. "I thought some of the girls were cute. So I'd try to flirt back. But I could never finish sentences and I'd get this weird feeling, like something was off. I think I was so emotionally and mentally off, that I suppressed my feelings. My true feelings. I think it took a while for my brain to catch up with my body. It actually wasn't until I kissed you for the first time, that I started being true to myself about romantic feelings." Sho responds looking at me. "What about you? Why have you never had a girlfriend. You were always hooking up with girls but I never saw you with the same girl twice." Sho questions me. "I was waiting." I respond as we continue walking. "Waiting?" He questions.

"For this." I say back looking down at our interlocking fingers. "For you. And Ei. Truth be told, I think I've always known I liked you two. I told Ei that my feelings started the same time as his, but I've liked you guys since our first mission after graduation. The three of us just worked so well together. And I thought to myself that I wouldn't mind being with you two all the time. Then we actually became really close and I kinda just fell deeper for you two. I was hoping this would be the outcome. And I'm so glad it is" I swipe some hair out of Sho's face and pull him into a kiss.

"Because I'm in love with you two"