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Chapter 2

The first day of the new school year began at last.

Ochako's alarm went off promptly at 7:00 am, giving her time to quickly shower and dress in her uniform, then run down to the dorm kitchen area, where Aizawa-sensei had kindly arranged for a hearty breakfast to be set out for his students. Active heroes— even heroes in training— had to take in an incredible amount of calories to keep their energy up and their muscle mass thick, so there was the usual staples of rice, fish, miso soup, and toast, as well as more caloric items such as eggs, bacon, and sausage.

Ochako's mouth watered at the absolute feast in front of her. 

A few other students from class 3-A were already digging in. Mina, Tsuyu, and Toru sat together chatting excitedly, presumably about what might be going on in school that day.

Deku and Iida were also conversing over their plates and looked up as she entered the room.

"Uraraka-chan! Come eat! Look at all this food!" Deku exclaimed with a wide, wholesome smile.

Ochako felt her cheeks heat a little at his attention and returned his with a warm smile of her own. "It looks so good! I love eggs!"

I love eggs? Wow, she thought to herself.

She approached the table and sat with her dearest friends since first year. Piling food on her plate, she started up a little conversation, "Phew, moving everything into a new dorm yesterday was fun wasn't it?" Her sarcasm extremely obvious.

In reality, moving hundreds, maybe even thousands of students into new rooms all in one day had to have been a logistical nightmare for the school. It hadn't necessarily been crowded yesterday, but everyone was so busy going from place to place, her classmates were constantly in each other's way.

Once again, as with the past two years since they'd started housing students on UA property, each class had its own dormitory. The first floor held their living space, including bathrooms, laundry, and a kitchenette. Then, each floor after the first held eight rooms in all, one side of the building having 4 rooms for boys, the other side, 4 rooms for girls. And it continued like that upward. Ochako wasn't sure if it might've just been easier to keep their old rooms each year and just change the names on the outside of the buildings. But the staff at UA had decided on how the dorms would work and if this was the best policy, she would go along with it.

They had been greeted by Aizawa-sensei (still their homeroom teacher) in the common living area that day and had been given their room assignments. They seemed to enjoy mixing the students up every year so it wasn't common for the same people to share the same floor from one year to the next. Since there were so few girls in their classes, like always, they never had to have a next door neighbor, thus never had to deal with thin wall issues. Not that UA would ever skimp on any kind of quality but sometimes people, especially type A personalities like most people in class 3-A, were just generally loud and energetic people.

Ochako felt fortunate that she got to share a floor (the second floor to be exact) with Mina, probably her closest female friend in her class. Although to be fair, Mina was probably close with everyone. 

She'd gotten the room closest to the elevator once again. The occupant of this room always had to deal with a little bit of sound when the elevator was in use but by this time, having been placed next to the elevator for the past two years, it was more of a soothing background noise for her and she would've been more irritated to have been placed away from it.

"Yeah," Deku answered her, a halfhearted smile on his lips. He seemed troubled.

Ochako noticed and thought back on their confrontation with Bakugo, wondering if he was still feeling bad about it.