Bare With Me - [MHA Boys/OC x Female Reader]

Chapter 45 - A Detour To Disaster

After the exam, you were back at the dorms, as usual—except now, you were licensed! If you saw any trouble going on outside of campus, you finally would be able to intervene without getting punished and whatnot. Which was a blessing in your eyes after the many times one of your classmates had gotten in trouble for using their quirk outside of campus.

Aizawa explained to everyone that there was a week off of break after today as some sort of refresher for all of the hard work everyone had been doing lately. You were slightly happy about it but also weren't in some ways. You'd practically distanced yourself from the majority of your close friends that you couldn't just ask them to hang out after all of that time. It was bound to be awkward, and you didn't want to deal with that. Though of course, you still couldn't get Jude off of your mind.

Maybe this was how it was supposed to be. Maybe you weren't supposed to be talking to Jude, let alone be in a relationship with him. If the two of you couldn't even talk this out, how were you going to be in a relationship?

You began packing some of your bags, deciding that you were going to be staying at your apartment rather than your dorm room for the week off. You zipped up your duffel bag and purse, gazing around your dorm room to make sure you had everything for the week.

You weren't sure what you were going to do for this break. Usually, you'd had plans with your friends or Jude, but here you were. Not exactly speaking to any of them. You did talk to Ochako and Vienna during the exam, though—but that was about exam stuff. It wasn't like they were suddenly your close friends.

You'd also spoken to Sero and Yaoyorozu, but even then your conversations with them were purely about the exam and nothing more. Something about feeling lonely despite not being alone occupied your mind. You started to feel how you first felt when you'd come to U.A.; isolated and lonely.

But you'd always been lonely before coming here, so why was it so hard to deal with now? Was it because you'd grown attached and close to the friends you'd made? Everyone made you feel safe at some point, and you considered them your 'family'.

But things have changed. You pushed them all away. But was that a bad thing? In a way, yes. But it also made you realize a lot of things. You didn't actually like being alone, but something about it felt comforting. You were never meant to be an overly-social person, anyway.

At this moment, you realized that the only person you were even remotely talking to was Bakugo. But was he even your friend? You didn't know. But you knew the two of you had some sort of unspoken connection, whether he'd ever admit that or not. At least you didn't have to pretend when you were with Bakugo, he was real and raw. Despite being judgmental.

You threw your bags over your shoulder and began heading outside your dorm room. You impulsively wrote down your phone number on a crumbled-up piece of paper and slid it under Bakugo's dorm room before leaving. Since he was the only person you were talking to at the moment, you decided to see if he'd text you over break.

If not, you wouldn't be that butthurt about it, but since you'd been running into him so much, why not?

You sped down the stairs after sliding the piece of paper under his door, hoping to get out of there before he could open the door and see you. You didn't even pay attention to anyone in the common area and immediately left. You felt the breeze fly against your bare skin, feeling rejuvenating.

You were sore from the exam, but at least now you had your license. You realized that all of that hard work was worth it despite sacrificing your social life. You enjoyed the walk home, especially the mist in the air. It seemed gloomy all around, but you for once enjoyed the gloom.