ɪ ʜᴀᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜ. || 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘉𝘢𝘬𝘶

Smiling || Chapter Fourteen

The next Monday
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"Guys..." Kendo whispered across the cafeteria lunch table. "Guys... Shinsos smiling."

Monoma looked at her confused, "So?"

"The fuck you mean so? He's smiling. As in not a smirk or a wicked grin or a mocking turn of his lips. It's a genuine, natural smile."

TetsuTetsu glanced over, looking at the purple haired boy for a few short moments, "Holy shit you're right."

"What's gotten into him!?" Monoma asked, whisper-shouting and acting like Hitoshi couldn't hear them, "Is he sick?"

"I'm right here dumbasses." Shinso finally interrupted, "Stop acting like I'm not and just ask me."

The three exchanged a few looks, glancing between eachother. Eventually, TetsuTetsu spoke, "Bro you're freaking me out, what's happened?"

Shinso purposely smiled wider, "I think I have a boyfriend."

"For real?" Kendo asked, just to check. Upon receiving a nod in response the questions began flooding in, "Who? Kaminari?"

"Why would I be with Denki?!" He questioned, head pulling back slightly as his eyebrows furrowed with disgust. That was never going to happen!

Neito shrugged, "He seems pretty into you."

"Okay one, no and two - Kami is not into me. We're just friends and if you asked him, he'd tell you the same thing." Hitoshi explained, highly confident in his incredibly wrong answer.

"Bold of you to assume I'd ever speak to a class 1-A loser." The blonde scoffed.

TetsuTetsu laughed slightly, "Tanaka?" He paused, waiting for an answer but all he got was an even more disgusted look from Shinso, "Right... girl..." He correct himself, "My bad."

"Who is it then?" Monoma asked. The blonde was becoming impatient with the conversation, really not wanting to play the guessing game much longer.

Shinso turned further into the table, "Bakugo."

TetsuTetsu began choking on his lunch while Kendo spat out her drink. Neito however, simply stared. His eyes were full of horror as he tried to calculate the possibility of that being a lie. "Please tell me you're joking." He eventually said.

"I thought the same thing..." Hitoshi mumbled, "But no, I'm so serious right now."

"Holy shit! And you're telling people?" Kendo asked with a wide grin growing across her face.

Suddenly his heart sunk, smile drooping into a frown, "Crap."

"What?"

"I didn't ask Bak-..." Hitoshi paused seeing a random student approaching them. She was only going to walk by but he didn't plan on letting anybody else know just in case, "I didn't ask him if we were telling people or not!"

"Well you're fucked, bro." TetsuTetsu stated in the least encouraging or reassuring tone known to man kind.

The purple haired boy rolled his eyes at the honesty. They were all thinking it and let's be fair, so was he. "Thanks Tetsu, Really appreciate the confidence boost." He looked at him awkwardly as though trying to convey a silent apology, "I swear on All Mights Cake Factory, if any of you even whisper a word of this to anybody-"

He was interrupted as Kendo decided to reassure him first, "Don't worry, we've kept secrets in the past, we can keep this one too!"

"Yeah Shinbro!" TetsuTetsu grinned, patting the boy on the back, "You can totally trust us!"

As much as he appreciated it, Shinsos eyes were locked on Neito who was dead silent. As he stared at a plain white wall, they finally decided to grab his attention, "Monoma?" The blondes eyes flicked to him with false confusion, acting like he hadn't listened and participated in the previous conversation, "Can you keep your mouth shut?"

He let out a groan, "Yes, Shinso. Im not going to tell anyone but uhh..." the blonde paused a second, looking between their two other friends, "Maybe keep him away from me for a while? Y'know... avoid any arguments... or I might clumsily blurt it out in a stressed scurry for an insult to throw at him."

Relief washed over Shinso as his shoulders relaxed from their tense, up-right position.

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Okay - I'm editing rn and for some reason I started using first person about 5 paragraphs back and I don't have time to edit everything so...

Shinso POV (😍😍😍)
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Suddenly, his words processed in my mind. "Insult?" I asked, "How would going on a date with me be an insult?"

"No!" He instantly defended, "No, I don't mean it like that!" I couldn't help but chuckle as I watched his brain scurrying for an explanation, trying to find some sort of excuse. "I just mean like... I don't know tell him I dated you first?"

I scoffed, "We did not date!"

"We went on two dates!" He fired back, looking between the ginger and blue haired boy.

"That's not dating! That's just going out on a date!"

Kendo interrupted the argument, "To be honest by Monomas definition all three of us have dated him..."

TetsuTetsu agreed with a nod, making Neito let out a gasp of betrayal.

I couldn't help but laugh. It was true. Monoma had "shot his shot" with all of the friend group even though it was small. I went on two with him when we first met, first one felt right second time we realised it was more of a 'chat shit and laugh together friendship' than a 'we have so much in common relationship.'

With Kendo he only went on one 'date' if you could even call it that? They came across Midoriya and a few of his friends so Neito being Neito couldn't stop himself from going over and insulting the class 1-A students. As usual, Kendo slapped him over the back of his head and they never really spoke of it since unless it was a conversation like this one.

Then there was TetsuTetsu... I actually thought that ship was going to sail. They were just on the verge of becoming official with Tetsu began hanging out with Kirishima and well...

I think you can work out why that didn't go any further.

"She has a point, Monoma!" I said between laughter.

"Whatever!" The blonde scoffed, rolling his eyes although it didn't take long before he was laughing along with us.