Mental

Chapter 1: Excuse me, I'm sorry!

“Another day, another dollar,” Izuku mutters as he makes his way home from work. He had been working at the same dead-end job since he graduated high school. He had wanted to go to college to become a doctor, but his mother got sick, and he had to work full-time and overtime to pay for her doctor bills. Now years later, his mother was gone, and he was still working the same crappy job.

Izuku walked into his apartment building to see one of his neighbors walking off the elevator. ‘It’s him,’ Izuku thinks, taking in the stunning blonde who's looking down at his phone and walking towards the entrance. Izuku is so enraptured by him that he doesn’t notice the blonde is headed right for him until he bumps into Izuku’s shoulder causing him to drop his bag and some of his stuff to spill out on the floor.

“Hey, watch where you’re going,” yells the blonde, as Izuku rushes to pick up his stuff. He stands there watching Izuku scramble till he sees something he instantly recognizes, a small case filled with razors. Just as he was about to say something, Izuku stood up and rushed to put his bag on his shoulder.

“I am so sorry! I got lost in my head! It won’t happen again,” Izuku stutters out, looking down into the blonde's red eyes shyly. Izuku was taller than him by at least five inches. Izuku was built lean like a mixed martial artist, whereas the blonde was muscular but built more like a weightlifter type. The blonde looks into Izuku’s shy jade eyes, his red eyes filled with suspicion, mouth drawn tight, eyeing Izuku’s movements.

“Ya whatever just watch where you are going nerd,” he says, noticing Izuku’s fanboy All Might t-shirt underneath his green zip-up sweatshirt. Just as he moves to walk past Izuku, he drops a business card into Izuku’s bag.

Izuku deflates from the poor interaction and thinks he just ruined his chances with the man he had been thinking about for the past couple of years since the blonde moved into his building back when Izuku was 20. Now he was 25 and still hopelessly in love with the mysterious blonde across the hall. He doesn’t even notice when the blonde puts the card in his bag. The blonde notices the slouch of Izuku’s shoulders and rolls his eyes.

“Listen, just… don’t stand in the doorway, okay?” ‘Was he trying to make me feel better?’ Izuku thinks to himself, raising his eyebrows in surprise at the blonde. “What’s your name anyway? Aren’t you that weird neighbor across the hall,” he asks Izuku, thinking about all the times he’s seen Izuku stumble home and struggle to put his keys into the door lock. Always mutters to himself about random things. He would never admit it, but he has always found this strange neighbor intriguing and attractive, with those striking green eyes and mess of curly green hair. Not that he would ever say so.

Izuku’s eyes widened at the sudden question and description of his behavior. Before he can reply, the blonde moves them out of the doorway and to the side, still staring into Izuku’s shocked jade eyes.

“Izuku, my name is Izuku Midoriya. What is yours? If you want to tell me of course,” he quickly adds, not knowing if he should be this forward with the beautiful blonde.

“Katsuki, Katsuki Bakugou.” ‘Katsuki. Perfect just like him.’ Izuku thinks, staring at him in awe, not realizing he muttered it out loud. A cocky smirk rose to Katsuki’s face as he stared at awe-filled jade orbs, freckle-covered cheeks, and wild unkempt curly green hair. Izuku looked like a fighter to him but was nothing, but a big teddy bear Katsuki decided. ‘This guy is something for sure.’ Katsuki thinks, closing his eyes and shaking his head, the smirk still in place. He looks back up at Izuku and tries not to laugh at his stupid expression. Looking at the clock behind Izuku, Katsuki sees it was almost 8:30 p.m. and he was going to be late for work. “I have to go to work. I’ll see you around Izuku,” he says walking out the door, but not before turning back to smirk at Izuku who was watching him walk away. Izuku was completely love-struck, and you could see it written all over his face. Chuckling Katsuki turned around and headed off to work.