•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 88: I read it on the internet SO IT MUST BE TRUE

Katsuki shut his eyes as he inched closer...

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"Bakugou," a voice startled him, pushing him away from the sleeping boy.

Looking over Ryo, he saw that Shoto had sat up, eyes fixed on Bakugou Katsuki.

The blonde sighed quietly.

"Let's talk outside."

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After hearing the room door gently click shut, Todoroki Shoto turned to the blonde who had just stepped into the hallway.

To talk, he said, but talk about what?

It was clear as day that both boys had feelings for the boy currently slumbering in Katsuki's room, the question is what was Bakugou Katsuki going to do about it.

In fact, Shoto had be pondering this issue ever since that night when Katsuki had told him to think his feelings through.

Todoroki Shoto was never one to be good with feelings.

Growing up in an abusive and isolating household like he did would do it to anyone.

He had never felt the love of his family, how would he know what love felt like at all? 

He was emotionally stunted and, just a few weeks ago, would have considered himself incapable of love. That is, until he learnt what love was supposed to feel like.

At first, he thought that the joy one felt upon seeing another was normal, just how friends felt. So was the need to protect them, ensure they were always safe and happy.

It was what a friend would do right?

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But when Bakugou Katsuki hinted at the contrary, it was then he truly asked himself what he was feeling.

So he did what any teenage boy with stunted emotions would do.

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He googled his symptoms.

At first he had almost convinced himself he was dying of a rare form of blood cancer, only to eventually find the link to a blog.

It focused on providing love advice, and whenever the users on the blog describe how they felt about their crush, it was always the same.

The sheer elation they felt just seeing them, wanting them to be safe, to be happy.

Ah. Todoroki Shoto had gotten himself in love.

And worse yet, he had fallen in love with two of his closest friends.

He had no clue what to do and, thus, posted about his situation anonymously on the blog.

He asked for help on how to go about it, describing both Ryo and Katsuki's personalities and how he felt about both of them.

"I think you should ask R out first, then discuss on how to go about approaching K" one message read.

"I agree, right now K seems the most iffy on their response," another replied.

"Shouldn't I ask them at the same time?" Shoto questioned.

"NO! What if only one side returns your feelings but the other doesn't? You'd effectively alienate that person forever!"

"Plus what if both of them like each other but not you? It would be worse if they both told you together wouldn't it?"