Midnight Snack [SeroRoki]

•Brownies•

This story takes place in Class 1A's third year (they would technically be class 3A now and 18 now)

-Narrated-
In the 3A dorms it was 11:30 pm on February 12th, a Friday, there were not a lot of people still up but Shoto Todoroki was, he stayed up late most nights because of his extremely bad insomnia. He had crazy night terrors most nights he had gone to sleep early, the root of these night terrors being because of the trauma his father put him through when he was young. Although his father was starting to better himself and was apologizing endlessly, nothing could take away the trauma from the years of abuse when he was a child.

Shoto read at night, usually reading stories with a lot of angst so he could reassure himself he could feel something even with how gut-wrenching some of the stories were. He needed to know he could feel the emotion that he was not allowed to feel when he was younger, sadness.

Shoto read that night and suddenly he heard his stomach growling, he stopped reading to look at his stomach. "Why am I hungry..?" Shoto said with a groan. The boy decided to go back to reading and two minutes later his stomach growled again but louder, he threw the book to the end of his bed and then checked the time "11:58 pm." Shoto groaned again and set his phone down, laying back down and looking up at the ceiling, thirty seconds later his stomach growled again but even louder. "Dammit" was all he said as he threw his blankets back while getting up.

Shoto walks out of his room and to the elevator. As he pressed the button for the elevator he started thinking about soba and how good it would be right then. The door finally opens and he rushes on not realizing how hungry he had actually been quickly pressing the first floor button. On the way down he starts to get a little impatient but the door finally opens. He walks out a little fast but he slows down once he gets closer to the kitchen.

Suddenly Shoto stops in his tracks. He's met by one of his classmates. The dark haired boy whose room is right next to his. Sero and Todoroki's eyes meet and they stare at each other for what seemed like hours.

The silence was finally broken by the pretty dark haired boy "What's up..?" a slight smile appeared on the dark haired boy's face. Shoto gets a funny feeling when he sees how pretty the dark haired boy's slight smile was but he ignores it. "I um.. I Want Soba." Shoto said while the other boy looked at him for a second. Then the dark haired boy starts softly chuckling, Shoto in turn gets embarrassed and flustered. "Well I know you want Soba but I made some Ramen if you want any so you don't have to prepare anything, if you want some of this instead." The dark haired boy said, beaming with a slight rosyness to his cheeks. Shoto says with a slight smile and rosy cheeks "Sure.. Thank you Sero."

Sero sees how pretty Todoroki is when he starts eating and stares at him for a minute. Hanta has a nagging question but decides not to ask. Shoto noticed Hanta staring and stopped eating for a second. "Um, are you okay..?" Shoto asks quietly, trying to avoid eye contact by looking at his ramen. Hanta gets confused, "I mean.. Yeah? Why are you asking?" Hanta says. Shoto finally looks up into Hanta's eyes "You're staring." Shoto says a little meaner than he intended to sound as Hanta reverts his eyes to his ramen bowl. "Sorry I didn't realize I was," Hanta said gulping. "Oh no you're all good I just thought something was wrong" Shoto said feeling bad because he felt like he had said that a little harshly. "No.. Thank you for asking though" Hanta said, still looking down slightly smiling with rosy cheeks. They sat in silence for a couple of minutes eating  every so often staring at each other while also trying to avoid eye contact.

Eventually Shoto decides to break the silence. "So why are you up so late?" Shoto asks, starting to look at Hanta, and Hanta looking back at him. "Well if I tell you, you can't tell anyone," Hanta says half-joking. Shoto feels himself getting a little flustered but still managing to reply. "I won't" he says with a straight face but eyes slightly glowing.

"Okay then. I have.. I have these brownies that I like to eat only at night. I like the after effects  feeling better at night." Hanta says looking away because he was scared about what Shoto might say. Shoto, a little confused, says "After effects..?" Hanta looks back at Shoto. "Yeah they have weed in them" he says very casually. Shoto finally understands "Oh- I didn't realize you.. Well that's cool, what.. What does it feel like?"

Hanta was taken aback because that was definitely not the response he was expecting. "I mean- I personally feel at peace and I feel like I can be more.. Myself" That last word hit himself hard, he never really thought about the fact that was how he felt. Shoto had a blank expression on his face but he still had more to ask, the most important one first, "Do you have anymore?"

Hanta Looked at Shoto with a blank expression before he realized what he was asking. "Oh- I actually had my last one tonight but we can make more if you want to, but I will tell you it might not be guaranteed you'll feel like how I explained." Hanta said seriously. "That's okay," Shoto said grinning.

Hanta was still taken aback so he decided maybe it was time for bed. "Hey I'm going to my room, you want to walk with me back to your room?" Hanta said standing up and looking at Shoto with a slight smile. Shoto looked at Hanta and smiled. "Yeah," Shoto said while getting up.Hanta and Shoto put the dishes in the sink and went back upstairs to their rooms and said goodnight.

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Hello just wanted to say if you've made it this far and you don't like the way this story is going  it's probably not for you and that's okay thank you even if you decide to stop reading here. If you continue reading thank you as well- 🫶🏼🫶🏼