•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 134: You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch

By the time we returned to the rest of the class, they were enveloped in fervent discussion.

Too distracted to notice our hands in each others' before we separated to join the group.

"Bakugou!" Kirishima called.

"Are you going back to Best Jeanist?"

I tilted my head, elbowing a nearby Denki for an explanation.

"The school announced that hero internships would come back, but now everyone has to do one!" he spoke excitedly but a chill washed over me.

'The school isn't one to impose things like that... did the government have a part to play in this...?'

I frown, crossing my arms as I blankly watched Mina take the opportunity to toss a Santa hat onto a distracted Katsuki.

'Are they trying to mobilize students now? Is the villain situation that bad...?'

"I'll think about it," Blasty finally replied, ripping the jolly red hat off his head.

My eyes lock onto his slight change in expression, a carefully maintained look of indifference that was just off enough for me to know something was up.

It had been apparent, to me and Shoto at least, that Best Jeanist's disappearance had affected Katsuki quite a bit, no matter how much he seemed to despise his mentor.

"But you had a lot of other people scouting you after the sports festival! You came in first after all! You can go anywhere you want!" Kirishima reassured the boy.

As Katsuki grumbled his moody reply, Mina handed me a pair of red Santa pants and nodded.

We leapt up to wrap the unsuspecting blonde in garish Christmas garb.

Unfortunately...

"TOUCH ME AND YOU DIE!" he yelled, knocking me and Pinky aside.

"C'mon, give in to peer pressure already!" Mina whined and I nodded.

"Yeah! Don't be such a Scrouge!" I stuck out my tongue.

Even Shoto dogpiled onto him, nodding in agreement while dressed in his own Santa costume.

"We could match, Katsuki."

"SHUT IT, YOU ALL LOOK RIDICULOUS!" he screeched.

I sigh, flopping back onto the sofa in defeat.

"You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch."

"What about you, Ryo? Still going with Hawks?" Sero piped up.

I shrugged.

'I haven't heard from him in weeks... hell if I know.'

Tokoyami frowned before he spoke, "He called me the other day, he said the agency would be undergoing some changes and that they couldn't take me back on for my internship."

"What?" I gaped, almost leaping from the sofa.

"But Hawks was finally approving of you...!"

Tokoyami looked disappointed as he averted his eyes to the floor.

I balled my hands into fists.

'First he ghosts, now this?!'

The group's conversation shifts away from work but my mind was still turning.

That's when my phone buzzed in my pocket.