Wednesday

Chapter 1

Todoroki startled awake, his heterochromic eyes snapping open while his body involuntarily sat up. He took deep, shuddering breaths with his head between his knees and his hands running through his hair. Once he stopped shaking, Todoroki glanced at the alarm clock next to him. 4:27 AM it read. Wednesday. He sighed and uncurled himself, returning to the position he had been in before he had been woken up, noting the thin coat of frost that coated the right side of his futon. Wednesday was steadily becoming Todoroki's least favorite day of the week. It seemed like everything happened to him during the middle of the week, whether it be spilling his water in the common area or a villain attack closing the roads he needed to walk on. This Wednesday, it seemed, was no exception. Rolling onto his left side he closed his eyes, not particularly hoping to get more shuteye, but to block out the slowly awakening world around him. He pressed his hand to his still rapidly beating heart, willing it to calm down the way it usually did after nightmares. Today it didn't because it was a Wednesday.

Letting out a soft groan he rolled off his futon and stood on wobbly legs. He walked over to the joint bathroom himself, Sero, and Satou shared. His heart still felt off, it wasn't beating as fast as it had been before, but now it seemed to be skipping beats, then rushing to catch up, which wasn't overly concerning, just uncomfortable. His slightly shaky legs and arms didn't do much to quell his concern. Todoroki glanced into the mirror, noting the dark circle underneath his right eye. He reached up to the left side of his face, brushing long fingers against the edge of his scar. It looked even more prominent due to his already pale skin being a few shades lighter. Sickly, Todoroki thought, as he stared at himself in the mirror. It wasn't often he let himself take in his appearance; he usually didn't care enough to do so anyway, but today was different. It was a Wednesday. So, he continued to peer into the mirror, gazing at his dual colored hair, noticing how the red and white strands mixed in the middle due to his prominent bedhead. Todoroki always thought of himself as less than appealing appearance wise. Being split down the middle was a look few could pull off, and if that wasn't hard enough, Todoroki couldn't recall anyone who could make a large burn scar over their eye look remotely bearable. Pretty boy is what his female and even a few of his male classmates called him. Todoroki scoffed. It was a cruel joke, but it wasn't worth his time to address. He knew what he was, and it didn't matter anyways.

The door slammed open, causing Todoroki to aggressively flinch and turn his head towards the door. Sero stood in the door frame, a towel slung over his shoulder. "Todoroki, dude, what are you doing up so early?" He asked closing the door with, thankfully, less force than he had opened it with.

How long had he been standing here? Generally, if his memory could be trusted right now, Todoroki recalled that Sero usually gets up around 6:00 AM, but that couldn't be right. That would mean the he had been standing in front of the mirror for about an hour and a half. Sero must've gotten an early start. That was it. There was no way Todoroki spent that long caught in his mind.

"Todoroki, dude, you go-"

"What time is it?" Todoroki asked, in his usual deadpanned voice.

Sero walked and stood beside him and plucked his toothbrush out of the cabinet over the sink. "Uh around 6:00, maybe a little later? 6:10 maybe." Todoroki nodded, and returned his gaze back towards the mirror, although he wasn't looking anymore. A silent minute ticked by. Sero cleared his throat, drawing Todoroki's attention to him. "You ok, man. You seem kinda off."

"I'm fine." Todoroki answered before copying Sero and pulling his toothbrush out of the cabinet over the middle sink. Sero nodded but didn't look completely convinced. This isn't what Todoroki needed. He needed Sero to be convinced, because if he wasn't, he would definitely alert others who would then either come to Todoroki directly or report him to Aizawa. It was Wednesday and he couldn't deal with that today. He would just have to try to play it off and fool Sero before he left the bathroom.