•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 111: L

It was a whirlwind of emotions.

At first, I was just trying to get on Katsuki's nerves. Trail my sopping wet, long hair on his clean bed to get a reaction out of him.

But when he turned around and faced me, I could feel his warm breath on my skin.

I felt a lump in my throat, and I screamed at myself to move away.

But I couldn't.

And he didn't either.

It was then that I became aware of just how piercing his gaze could be.

I watched the thoughts swim in his brain, eyes foggy as they allowed me a peek into his busy head.

I had never known this man, typically so quick to anger, to be utterly silenced by overwhelming thought.

"Blasty...?" I mumbled, trying desperately to get something out of him.

"I-" He stammered and the uncertainty in his voice shook me to my bones.

It terrified me, what thoughts could possibly have reduced him to such a state?

"I lo-"

-

Before my eyes, I see it all die.

The quiet nights spent together in each others' beds, the guise of friendship under which we operated, the carefully constructed distance that had allowed me enough privacy to maintain all of my conflicting lives.

It all came crashing down.

I felt a mass in my stomach that made me want to vomit.

I didn't want to reject him.

I would be lying to myself to do so.

Lying to him.

Lying to them.

Yet I would have to.

Such an intimate relationship would leave no room for space in which to hide my past as a villain, or even my forced reintroduction to the LOV.

And that was a side of me I prayed they would never know.

So when Katsuki turned away and murmured a soft excuse, I felt a wave of relief.

Then came the guilt.

It was an endless cycle as my relief made way for more guilt, further weighing on that stone in my gut.

A sudden loud thud spurred me from my disheveled headspace. 

I look up to see Katsuki at Shoto's throat, pressing the latter against the wall painfully.

"Katsuki!" I staggered off the bed and towards the pair.

My thoughts were a mess.

I had no idea what was happening, but it couldn't be good.

"What the hell are you guys doing?!" I yelled as I hurried to get between them.

It was an unprecedented amount of aggression from both of them, Shoto glaring back defiantly at his aggressor.

I tried to push them away from each other but the force was overwhelming. 

"What is wrong with-?!" "GET OUT!"

I felt like I had been slapped with cold water.

A shiver runs down my spine.

'He's just throwing a fit again, he doesn't-'