Mutual Attraction

Chap 15

Ochako's POV:

 I skipped back to my room as fast as I could, thankfully dodging Mr. Aizawa, but because of the previous whatever that was my head must have been dazed because I didn't notice the lack of construction warning tape on everyone's door. 

When I walked into my room I nearly screamed upon seeing my pink alien best friend sitting on my bed glaring at me while eating an eggo waffle. "Mina! What-" "Oh no no missy! I get to ask the questions here! NOW TELL ME WHERE YOU WERE LAST NIGHT!" I blushed while putting down my stuff and hopping onto my bed with her, I gave her a 'I'm sorry' kind of look and scratched the back of my neck, "Well, you see, I , uh, well-" "SPIT IT OUT!" "Ok fine! I spent the night with Bakugou!" it all came out in a rush as I hid my red face behind a pillow. It was silence for a few moments which is extremely odd since she almost ALWAYS has something to say so I peek at her from behind my pillow, her face blank.

"Uh, Mina?" She blinks a few times then is about to say something, then stops, now confusion is spread across her eyes, she moves again, stops, now finally curiosity, "So, you're telling me that you spent the night with boom boom boy?" I look up at the ceiling letting guilt wash over me, "Ya I did, and- and it was nice." More silence but her voice started to climb octaves as she starts to actually process my words and recover from lack of her own, "You're telling me that you spent most of yesterday, all night, and all morning with Blasty McSplode!" "ya" "YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT YOU SLEPT IN THE SAME ROOM AS KING EXPLOSION MURDER?!" "in the same bed actually" "AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Mina! Keep it down alright, it just sort of happened and you were sick so..." "Ok spill bitch!" 

The next half hour was spent going through how I got into this mess and recounting the play by play of this morning. Mina was wide eyed laying on her back soaking everything in, "He kissed you?" I roll my eyes and bite into an eggo, "You are kind of missing the point you know, I was in the middle of telling him about Toro when it happened." She grinned and wiggled her eyebrows at me, "But he still kissed you..." I blushed again and squirmed where I sat, "Mina don't tease me about that stuff. Ya he kissed me and ya it was an amazing kiss and ya I would kill to wake up in his arms again but he probably did all that just to shut me up or something." The pink queen sat up on her elbows and kicked me with one of her pink feet. "Earth to Ocho! I seriously doubt that he would do all that if he didn't like you at least a little." I shook my head a little, "but I was crying all over him, he was probably just trying to find the off switch." 

A pillow thudded me in the chest, I looked up at the thrower, "Stop that" "Stop what?" "Stop the whole, 'no body loves me' bit, its not true and you know it!" I sigh and nod my head like a toddler, "ya I know, but I don't want to assume that he does." "Do you?" looking up at her questioning gaze my eyebrows scrunch together, "well, I don't really know, I know it felt good to be held and kissed and I know it was really nice to play video games again and to be able to tell him about what happened but I don't know if I just like the feeling of it all or if I like him. I mean he's aggressive and rude and has bad manners but he also can be really sweet and gentle and caring and - and I just don't know!" my face was back in the pillow, my best friend gently pulled my shield away, "That's ok, at least we have a base line." "huh?" she laughed, "Well you don't fall in love in just one night silly! This stuff takes time, but now you have some sort of inkling of romance and if you keep an eye on it you can see in time if it fizzles out or deepens into something... more" she seductively wiggled her eyebrows at me again making me squirm, again.

 After recovering for the billionth time I decided to flip the teasing directions, "Ok, ok, that makes sense... but what about you and Kirishima?" pink turned to red as she sucked in her breath and stared at me as if I just walked in on her murdering someone, "How? Who? What do you mean?" I slyly smile at her, "Oh you know what I mean..." "uh, we-we're just friends..." I poke a little further, "Oh come on Mina! I'm your best friend, you can tell me anything!" she finally started breathing again then squared up her shoulders before telling me quickly, "Alright, fine! Kirishima confessed that he's liked me since middle school and now we are secretly dating! eek!" I just laugh at her and toss another pillow at her, "That's fine Mina! you don't have to be embarrassed silly. So just tell me how it happened!"

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Bakugou's POV:

"So just tell me how it happened!" Fucking shitty hair spit out as he dodged another one of my punches, "I'm gonna rip that fucking smirk right off your stupid fucking face!" I lunge at him while he blatantly laughed in my face, that slimey mother fucker slipped right through my hands and jumped onto the bed only to launch off and tackle me to the floor, activating his hardening quirk and pinning me down. I was seething with anger that this dick weed got the upper hand but he just laughed some more and relayed all that he managed to get out of me, "So you caught some feels for Uraraka and you guys played some video games, so what?! And from what I heard next door she stayed over night because there was no way Uraraka would have come all the way back over here just to cry to your grumpy ass! So tell me blasty, does she call you 'King explosion murder' in her sleep or is it 'my hero!'?" 

THAT'S IT! I launch myself backwards hard and smash him into the floor, giving me enough time to break from his hold and pin him, one knee on his chest and my hands at his face point blank. "Woah woah! I was just joking Bakubro! Come on!" I am breathing heavy and my face is warm, "Listen Shitty Hair! You ought to keep your fucking nose out of my fucking business or I'll blast your ass back to seventh grade!" another smirk and another sly remark from this joke I call a friend, "ooo Bakubro your insult game is on point!" I roll my eyes but let him up but not before giving him a swift kick to the ass, he just laughs and gets up, wiping imaginary dirt off him, "Woof that was close! Hey- wait are you ok?" 

I had sat back down on the edge of my bed that now feels way to big and held my head in my hands. Hair for brains sits next to me, quiet for once, and waits for me to speak. It took a couple of minutes to decipher what I was thinking and feeling, all I could say was that I was feeling too damn much and the whole thinking thing was in overdrive. "So do you want to talk about it? I mean for real?" I know he had a point, "I don't know." he responds gently, "You don't know if you want to talk or you don't know how to talk about it." Shit how does he know this stuff? "I mean I don't know what to do with all of fucking - (motioning to my chest) this shit." a quiet chuckle is heard besides me, "Dude you've got it bad don't you?" 

I grip the hair at the base of my skull and let the words vomit out, "I don't fucking know what I've got! All I fucking know is that it's hard to breath around her and my face gets all hot and my head gets filled with static and its fucking distracting as hell! I wish I could just ignore her and focus on being number one but at the same time all I want to do is protect her, especially now that I know about her brother and the headaches, she's so fucking strong to have to deal with all of that shit all the time and I hate how fucking weak it makes me feel!" a hand is placed on my shoulder, I uncurl myself from the tense position I didn't realize I had gotten into and let this best friend of mine console me, I know its what I need but damn it makes me feel like a child, "Dude, all of that is totally normal and its super manly to want to protect your woman and let her go first in stuff!" I give him this 'are you fucking stupid' kind of look but then think about it for a second, "but she's not my woman... the only reason she hung out with me or told me all of that shit was cause I remind her of her brother." "Na Man! I'm sure-" "No, its fine, get out." The shift from open to close was sharp and I know it hit shitty hair hard but I didn't care and I was tired. "But Baku-" "I said GET OUT!!!" I yelled at him and he jumped up and ran to the door. Before he closed the door behind him, he looked back at my defeated state and simply said, "if you want to talk you know where to find me dude." 

And finally I got what I deserved, isolation.

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