End of them, Beginning for us || BNHA

Shoto's Avoiding Me

'Ah, that was a nice shower. I don't feel sweaty any more.' I stretched in the bathroom and grabbed my clothes to change. 'Hm...I have to clean the next room.' I walk past to see Hikari giggling to herself. "Oh, hi Hikari, how are you doing now?"

"I'm doing great!!" She cheered. "There has been some progress!"

"Hikari what the heck do you mean by that?"

"You'll see." She wiggles her eyebrows and winks. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

"What are you doing?"

"Don't worry about it, Broccoli-kun."

"B-Broccoli-kun?"

Giggling again ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯, she zips around the room several times and exits through the ceiling.

'What was that?' I walked over to the room with the most boxes and started cleaning again. I cleared out a couple of boxes. 'Oh, yeah, these were Mom's favorite fairy lights.' I pulled out a string of lights. 'They seem a bit old-fashion, but I think they would look nice in the back garden.' I got with the lights and headed towards the back garden. Looking around, I spot a garden trellis. 'There.' I hang the lights up over and across the wood.

I was heading back to the house when I spot Shoto sitting on the ground next to the pond, watching the koi fish. "Oh, hello, Shoto, do you need anything?"

Turning to me, Shoto looked at me for a second and then he blushed, turning away to stare at the pond again. "...nothing..."

"What? Is there something wrong?"

"..."

"Are you sure you're okay? Your face is a bit red. Are you angry about something?"

"No." He answered very softly.

"Then..."

Shoto suddenly zips into the wall and collides with it. He falls downs and rubs his head. "..."

"Shoto, are you okay?"

"Fine." He fades his body and floats through the wall.

I stand there, watching him leave. 'He is angry at me!!! What did I do? Ohnohonoohnoohno whatdid-i-do '

"Why are you flapping your hands back and forth?"

"Do you need something?"

I look over to see Mai and Ume staring at me on the roof. "Oh, hi, Mai, Ume, how are you guys?"

"We're great, just--"

"The usual"

"Exploring the house"

"Looking around"

"Seeing the happy ghost going crazy."

"Ume, that's rude."

"But it's true."

"She's not going crazy."

Ume rolled her eyes. "So why were you waving your arms like a maniac?"

"Ume!!"

"What? He was..."

"O-Oh... uh, well..." I stuttered. 'How am I supposed to explain this?'

Mai sat there calmly and Ume gave me an extremely bored look. Mai said in a soft tone: "Just tell us, we won't judge."

"I will." Ume said. She pointed at Mai. "She won't."

"Uh..." I took a deep breath. "WellShoutohasbeenignoringme,andIdon'tknowwhat'sgoingonandhedidn'tsayanything."

Both of the twins looked confused. "Um, what?"

"Oh, well, Shouto has been ignoring me..." I stared at the ground.

"Why is he ignoring you?" Mai asked.

"I don't know...his face looks kind of red and he kind of ran into the wall earlier. Um..."

"Oooo...maybe he likes you."

'What-' My heart skips a beat.

"Well, if he does, he has no taste, like who in this world would like you?"

"Ume, don't say that. That's mean."

"Hmph!"

I watched them argue. 'Ume's right. Why would Shoto like me? Mai must be too hopeful. He must be angry with me. There is no way he could have f-feelings for me.'

I walk away from the twins and head over to my room to do more cleaning and unpacking. 'All my clothes are unpacked.' I started folding my clothes, putting away clothes and then Hitoshi floats in.

"Oh, hello, Hitoshi, how are you doing?"

"I need to ask me a favor."

"What do you want me to do?"

"I want to convince Shoto to not practice possessing things for a week."

"But Shoto doesn't want to talk to me."

"Why is that?" Hitoshi raised an eyebrow. "He was stuck like glue to you for the last couple of days while he was here."

"He was avoiding me earlier. He is probably angry with me."

"Why would you say that?"

"His face was all red and when I went to talk to him, he just left me standing there..."

Hitoshi sighed. He had a slightly annoyed expression on his face. "Wait here." He floated out of the room. A few minutes passed and he came back, dragging Shoto, who looked very upset and his face slightly pink. He pushed Shoto towards me and pointed at me and him. "You two... go and make up. I'm leaving."

He left and Shoto stood there, awkwardly. I felt sweat flowing down my face. 'What am I supposed to say?'