𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐇 || ᵇ.ᵏᵃᵗˢᵘᵏⁱ

XXVII

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"Your house is fucking huge," Bakugou said as they settled down in Aeri's room. "It looks more like a hotel."

"My mom picked it," Aeri smiled. "Moons love extravagance."

"I can tell."

Bakugou took a moment to look around Aeri's bedroom. Three out of four walls were white but the accent wall was painted a dark sage green. Her double bed was pushed up against it, perfectly made with an unnecessary amount of pillows and plushies and her sheets were white with little 4-leaf clovers on them. There was a desk underneath her window with stacks of books covering the surface and the space between the door to her walk-in closet and the door to her en-suite bathroom was taken up by a vanity with a few products scattered across the top from where she forgot to put them away this morning. Bakugou assumed that the drawers down the sides were filled with more makeup, skincare products and perfumes.

The room looked so neat yet so lived in and homely at the same time. It smelled faintly like the perfume Bakugou smelt on her every day—like pomegranate and lotus flowers. He could never admit how much he liked the scent and to be surrounded by it in this room was deeply calming to him.

Aeri bent down by her desk and pulled two bottles of water out from the mini-fridge. She handed one to Bakugou and settled down in the space on the floor opposite him. He thanked her quietly and began pulling out his workbooks. Aeri did the same.

"What do you want to go over first?" She asked, stacking her notebooks next to her.

"Chemistry cus' you're bad at it." He replied bluntly, slapping his chemistry textbook on the hardwood floor.

"I'm not bad at it," Aeri frowned. She took her textbook out of the stack and Bakugou noticed all the title pages were tabbed for easy access.

"I can hear you fucking grumbling all through the lessons, why else would you be doing that if you weren't bad at it?" He raised a challenging eyebrow.

"Because it's boring and I don't like it." Aeri glared at him playfully, flicking her book open to the first subject that would be included in the exam. "Isotopes first," She smiled, clicking the end of her pen.

"I bet I can answer the practice questions faster than you," Bakugou smirked.

"Just because you answer them fast doesn't mean they'll be right," Aeri replied, sipping her water.

"It does when you're me."

Aeri chuckled. "Shouldn't be so cocky, Katsuki." He rolled his eyes and started writing. Aeri joined him a moment later, not wanting to fall behind.

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"Aeri," A familiar deep voice called from her doorway. She looked up from her math textbook and turned to see Jinyoung standing there in a dress shirt and slacks, his white hair perfectly styled. "Why is there a boy in your bedroom?"

"A boy?" Another voice called softly from down the hall, Hyoseop jogged over and peered into the room. He had Aeri's cat cradled in his arms.

"Aeri has a boy over?" It was Hyunjin this time. He was still sick and hadn't been in school when Aeri brought Bakugou back. "Oh my god, that's just Bakugou, it's fine you two."

"Why are you all gathered here?" Jungwon walked out of his bedroom opposite Aeri's. "I thought you two were in Korea?"

Bakugou looked at Aeri, confused. He had no idea what was being said right now.