BNHA Soulmate AU

Part 4: Momojiro

Jiro's POV:

No, you dumbass, she's a girl. There's no way in hell she's you're soulmate. Stop thinking about it!

These thoughts run through my head as I lay in bed Monday night, trying to ignore my raging crush on Yaomomo. I've liked her for a while now, but I've been able to push the thought of her actually being my soulmate and ending up in a relationship with her to the back of my head. Until now, that is. With the Soulmate Dance coming up, Yaomomo is the only thing I've been able to think about for weeks now.

It's stupid, I know, there's no way in Hell that Yaomomo is actually my soulmate. I mean, even if my soulmate is a girl, why would it be Yaomomo, of all people? She's way too pretty for me, number one, and number two, she probably wants some handsome dude to be her soulmate, not... me.

Still, though, this dance is messing me up. It's giving me hope, I guess, that it's actually possible, and I hate it. I need to get my mind off of Yaomomo somehow before the dance on Saturday. The rest of my night is spent laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling, and trying to come up with a way to do that. Finally, around midnight, I come up with an idea that just might work.
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The next day, I walk into class, my plan fresh in my mind. I feel a little bad about it, but I seriously doubt that Kaminari is real invested in finding his soulmate, so I probably won't be getting in the way of anything with him. I hope, at least.

I walk in and look around the classroom for Kami, but it looks like he's not here yet, so I go to my seat and sit down. Once I'm comfortable in my seat, I wait a few minutes before I start drumming a beat on my desk impatiently.

A few seconds later, Kami and Sero walk through the door, being their usual idiot selves. For some reason, Kami stops at the door and I notice his cheeks go pink, but he brushes it off pretty quickly when Sero asks him if something's wrong. After that, they walk over to their seats and I give them a quick "hey" as a greeting.

My nerves rising, I decide that I need to just do it so I can get it over with, so I turn to Kami and say quickly, "Kami, do you wanna go to the Soulmate Dance with me?"

Both of the idiots sitting next to and behind me give me the same shocked look. I can't exactly blame them, I'm not really the type to be so super confrontational like that. Still, they both look at me for almost a solid minute without saying a word before they both shrug and Kami replies, "Uh, yeah, sure! Sounds fun!"

I smile at him and turn around. Once I'm not facing him, I can feel him staring at me. I start to worry that he might realize what I'm doing and call me out on it. Despite how dumb he is sometimes, Kaminari can actually be pretty smart with people. Like, he's really good at telling whenever one of us is feeling down, and he'll be the first to ask about it. I like that about him, don't get me wrong, but it might come to my downfall this time.

The rest of the day ticks by slower than ever. I can't think of anything other than the one person I don't wanna think about. I try to shift my thoughts to Kami, since the whole idea of my plan to ask him out was to bring my thoughts to him rather than Momo, but it just doesn't work. By the end of the day, I'm already regretting everything.

That night in my dorm, my thoughts are even more conflicted than before. I think about calling off going to the dance with Kami, but I decide that it's already low enough that I asked him out for the reason that I did, and it'd be worse to back out on it now. So, instead, I just lay in my bed, fighting with myself in my head, until I finally fall asleep in the really early morning hours.

The rest of the week after that, I can't focus on anything. Classes are a blur, any other drama going on with the dance goes in one ear and out the other. Finally, after a blur of sleepless nights and tiring school days, Saturday rolls around.