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A smile tugs at the corners of my lips as i look down at my friends sleeping on the floor of the living room. well besides jirou who is curled tightly into a ball on the couch, a small blanket tucked up to her chin.
her arm hangs out from under the blanket and off the side of the couch, her hand loosely grasping tightly onto a hand belonging to a certain yellow headed boy.
kaminari is laying close to the couch, his body facing jirou's as he quietly snores with every inhale. sero is splayed out like a starfish with one of his arms propped under his head, a faint line of droll spilling from his open mouth.
my eyes land on my red headed best friend. his features looking peaceful as his hair falls around his face. i feel my lips tighten into a line as my stomach twists like it did last night. after the tournament was over, he had ignored me the rest of the night.
"the hell are you lookin at?" my body nearly melts at the close proximity of his body heat. i look over my shoulder to find bakugou using his free hand to rub his eyes as his other hand is buried deep in his sweatpants pocket.
"they must have fallen asleep after the movie."
he grumbles as he turns away from the living room and towards the kitchen. i turn back to look at my friends. i pull my phone out from the hoodie pocket and snap a picture of jirou and kaminari holding hands. something i'll definitely be showing jirou later.
i make my way into the kitchen to find bakugou leaning his back against the counter next to the coffee machine, his eyes half closed. i quietly lean my body against the island in the center of the kitchen area, careful not to make any loud noises to disrupt his half-slumbering state.
i watch his head slightly fall forwards before jerking up, then falling slowly once more. i can't help but watch him in a peaceful state, something that has become more familiar to me recently.
my cheeks flush remembering the moment we shared last night and my heartbeat stutters.
we stayed like that for a while, how much time went by i'm still not sure. but bakugou was the first to let go as he muttered to himself about getting to bed, and how i should try too. i smiled at the sentiment, but knew that it wasn't the whispers that was going to keep me awake.
"what do you want," i'm pulled from recalling the memory and am met with his ruby colored eyes, staring me down from over his shoulder.
i don't say a word as i turn towards the living room, feeling embarrassment heat the tips of my ears. his snicker echoes through my very bones and i can't help but turn towards him again, memorizing the sound.
"who's makin coffee so early," i flip my attention towards the voice, watching as eiji looks between bakugou and i. his brows twitch into themselves when his eyes linger on me and giving me, what feels like, a forced half smile. my stomach twists again as he passes by me with a low 'good morning' and right past bakugou.
guilt. that's what this gut wrenching feeling was.
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"can i talk to you guys about something?" i pull at my fingers in my lap, trying not to interrupt the conversation the girls were having.
"of course koko! what's up?" mina questions, not looking up from jirou's nails she was painting on the other side of the room. momo, ochako and tsu all turn their attention towards me as well awaiting for me to go on.
"well-"
"is it about bakugou?" momo asks with a glimmer in her eyes, the other girls leaning forward.
"well actually kind of. but i need your advice on something to do with him and eiji."
"ah the young love tri-" ochako smacks a hand over mina's mouth, muffling the rest of her sentence leaving me confused.
"go on miyamoto!" tsu scootches closer against the plush bedding of momo's king sized bed. i squeeze lord explosion junior against my chest, trying to collect the right words.
"you guys know how if someone touches my skin, they'll get burned because of the heat my body emits?" they all hum and nod their heads. "well, while we were at the training camp, before the league, i was about to fall over and hit the ground while we were training and bakugou came up and grabbed my arm."
"but?" ochako questions.
"but, i didn't burn him." they all gasp, crowding around me with bright smiles on their faces. they drop soon after they find that i'm not smiling like they are.
"the thing is, there was so much going on that i haven't been able to tell eiji. and the other night when we were playing games, bakugou grabbed my hand and eiji saw. ever since then, he's been acting really weird and i don't really know what to do. it's my fault and i should have told him earlier but-"
"konomi, you are not at fault for this." momo places a hand on my head, pulling my attention away from my fingers and to the girls surrounding me, genuine smiles gracing their faces.
"yeah koko it isn't you're fault you haven't been able to tell him! you've had a lot of things going on and he should understand that." mina says.
"i feel like he's angry with me though, we've never really been in a fight before so this is all new territory for me. i don't want this to ruin our friendship or anything like that," my voice trails off thinking of the worst case scenario.
"kirishima would never let something like this come in the way of your guys' friendship! you two have been best friends since like, forever." jirou chimes in, waving her hands on the air.
"jirou and mina are right konomi. i feel like you should talk to him about it though, especially if you're this worried about it." ochako says sweetly, they have a point.
before i can even reach for my phone to message eiji, it chimes.
"eiji says he wants to talk now."
*a/n*
this is no april fools joke...i finally uploaded a chapter! plan on more in the coming days/weeks! thank you all for being so patient with me :)
