Wtf- A Kiribaku story

Do you even care?

As soon as I walk into the classroom for first period, Kirishima bounds over to me.

"Bakugo! The admirer left another note for me! And this time, it came with chocolates!" He holds up the box, which I had covered with Pinky's stickers recklessly the night before. 

I give him a small smile. "You're really excited about this, aren't you?"

He points to the chocolates. "Yeah. But look! I think that-"

"Take your seats." Mr. Aizawa emerges from his sleeping bag. "Today's lessons will..."

Kirishima gives me a whispered "I'll tell you later," before rushing to his desk and sitting down. I take my seat as well, making sure to do the routine flipping of the bird to Deku as I do so. Too bad Kiri sits behind my row, otherwise I would get to stare at him all during class. Guess I'll have to wait until lunch.

*****

Earphones and Pikachu are at it again with their lovey-dovey shit, but I've started to become immune to it at this point. After all, I would be a hypocrite to think that it's all bad, especially since I've been staring at Kiri for about ten seconds now. Oh shit. I quickly look down at my food, hoping that no one noticed my spacing out.

"So, anything new about your secret admirer?" Tape Face asks casually as he eats today's lunch menu.

Everyone looks at Kiri, now curious about what he has to say. I internally hold my breath, knowing that this could make or break me at this moment. 

He lights up. "Actually, yeah! They left me a note saying how much they admire me, and I also got chocolates!" He pauses before holding up the heart shaped box for effect.

"Ooooh, pretty!" Earphones exclaims.

"Hold up, are those pride stickers?" Pikachu asks stupidly. Earphones smacks him on the side of the head lightly.

"Obviously you dummy!" She says. 

"Ohhh, does that mean it's a dude that likes you?" Tape Face asks. Everyone turns to Kiri except me. I'm too busy trying to avoid my blush by staring very ferociously at my food tray.

"I think so. Why else would they put stickers like that on the chocolates?" Kiri pokes me. "I was gonna ask Bakugo this morning what he thought, but the more I thought about it the more it made me realize that it was kind of obvious that it was a dude."

I look up, hoping my face is back to its normal color. "Well yeah, Shitty Hair. What kind of stupid question is that?"

He laughs. "Whatever, Bakugo. I managed to figure it out."

Pinky speaks up. "So, since we're pretty sure it is a dude, how do you feel about it? Do you even care?"

Kiri pauses before speaking. "Honestly, I don't care. Love is love, right? Or like is like? It's never really mattered, as long as we can make each other happy that's cool." He gives a thumbs up. "That still raises the question though, who is it from?"

"Well, since it doesn't have a postage stamp, it has to be from someone at our school who could have put it in your mailbox directly!" Earphones realizes.

"Yeah, there's lots of people who have seen you at the sports festival and on TV, so it could really be anyone at our school," Pikachu adds.

"Yeah, that really narrows it down," I say sarcastically. "It's not like there are tons of students here or anything."

Kirishima looks almost disappointed, and I instantly feel bad. "It's still not impossible though!" I say, and Kiri looks at me gratefully.

"Yeah..." Pinky says so quietly that I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one who noticed. I narrow my eyes at her. What's that supposed to mean?  I'll have to ask her later.

*****

"Bakugo, I'm sorry." I had found Pinky at the track, and now we're walking laps together. 

I look closely at her, studying her face. "What the fuck do you mean?"

She looks around nervously, then lowers her voice. "It's just that.. I feel... I've been lying to you. I thought that if I helped you, it would help me..." She trails off and looks at the ground sadly.

Then it dawns on me. "You like him too, don't you?"

She nods. "I thought that if I could somehow slow down your confession to him, it could buy me some time to confess also. That's why I removed your name. That's why I told you to wait. So, I'm sorry to say that it pains me to keep helping you. I just wish there was a way for both of us to get what we want, but there's not. There's two of us, and one of him."

I stop. "What are you getting at?" I glare at her. "What the FUCK are you saying, huh?"

"I'm SAYING, that I don't want to help you anymore!" She stomps her foot, trying to look menacing, but in all honesty she looks more like a toddler. "The love expert wants to help herself, not YOU!" She turns and tries to walk away but I grab her arm.

"I don't like what you're saying, Pinky." I spit her nickname.

"My name is Mina Ashido! And don't worry, I won't get in your way. I'll just be sulking by myself. Alone. Maybe do a self pamper day. You go get your man!" She laughs sadly before twisting her way out of my grip and racing away. I watch as she runs towards the dorm rooms. The horrible part is that I can't tell if she was being serious or not. 

If this is all true, then I have nothing to worry about. She doesn't seem like the type of person to sabotage me anyway. But, she did just confess to trying to slow me down, and she did just race to the dorms, almost afraid that I would get there before her. If she says something to Kiri...

"FUCK!" I yell, startling some general studies students on the opposite side of the track. I turn around and head to the dorms, not giving a shit about their whispers. I've made up my mind. 

I'm going to tell Kirishima.