conclusions

chapter 18

Denki's POV

Shinso probably hates me after that. Why else would he shove me off in the way he did!? Clearly he doesn't like me and I need to stop pretending he will.

But I can't lose hope.

Maybe he is my soulmate! The clue for this week will definitely help determine it. I feel like I can guess pretty soon. 

Some time later

"Hey.. Denki?" I look up at Shinso. "It's 11:58." My jaw drops. "Already!? Well let's go!" I grab his wrist. After our incident we played it off cool like nothing happened... But I can never forget that. He hates me. The love of my life officially hates me. 

It's already midnight by the time we're down there so I run to get the letter. I look at the extremely messy handwriting and am suddenly curious.

I show Shinso the messy handwriting and he looks a bit concerned. "That's weird. Were the other ones like that?" I shake my head. "Well, let's go so you can open it." 

Shinso's POV                                   
Denki's room

I hope I'm okay.

When we enter the room Denki tears it open gently and a gentle smile can be seen on my face. Throughout the time he's reading the letter the smile stays because he gets so happy. When he looks up at me his eyes are teary. He hands me the envelope and I said:

Denki,                                               I'm really tired. I haven't been able to get more than two hours of sleep a night for a few weeks now so I need to go back to taking my pills. At night your sleepy face is adorable and the way you cuddle up to me each night is to die for. You're so perfect.                          
I was thinking about our old Minecraft server a few days ago. We'd play for hours a week and never get bored of it. Maybe in our free time we can make another one. We'll probably have time. Once Tokoyami told me Hawks wanted the world to be a place where heroes have more spare time than they know what to do with, and he did pretty good at fulfilling that.                           Love you lots  :)

"But what's the clue?" he looks at me confused. "You guys must've had a Minecraft server at some point." I watch his eyes change from confused to focused. "Are you trying to figure out who it is?" he nods. 

I sigh and crawl into his bed, too tired to deal with his stupidity. "What's wrong?" he sits down next to me. "I'm gonna try to sleep. I think I might be able to for an hour or two tonight." He goes to shut off the light then gets cozy in his bed beside me. "Denki.." I whisper after a few minutes. "Yeah?" he whispers half asleep. "We could always do the dare if you still want to." 

He shifts over to me and rests his head against my shoulder. I wrap my arm around him and manage to fall asleep for a few hours.

When I wake up it's about 3:00 and Denki's head is on my chest. His right arm is wrapped around me and I hug him tightly. A few seconds later he tenses up and his eyes slowly open. He gasps and backs away. "I'm s-so sorry! I-I don't know-" I cut him off. "We were just doing the dare and fell asleep in the process. It's fine."

He nods and scoots over still flustered. I face the wall and my mind is filled with scenarios of us. For example us walking through the cherry blossom tree forest, hand-in-hand. I wish that could become a reality sooner rather than later.

Friday morning, 7:00 

I got a whole hour of sleep last night. It was hard to fall asleep without Denki and I really missed his presence. 

I started to get dressed and then someone knocked on my door. I was tying my tie while I went to open the door. When I did Denki was knelt down before me with a banana as if to give a king his crown. It was on a small pillow and it seemed as if the banana was his gift to me. "What's this for?" He looks up. "I heard bananas energize you more than coffee in the mornings." I take it gratefully. "Thank you, Denki." I smile and nods. Denki then happily skips away.

Nothing has happened between us since Wednesday night. The last time something did was when we cuddled that night since anything like that is awkward for us now. I'm still shocked about our kiss.

Denki's POV                                    
Lunchtime

As I was walking to the cafeteria I pulled Mina aside. "What now?" she jokes. "I kinda think Shinso's my soulmate." I say bluntly. "Then ask him! Just send a letter asking." "But what if I'm wrong?" Mina gives me an 'are you serious' look. "I think he is too. Just go for it! You'll be so happy if he is!" 

We walk over to our usual table. Today Shinso wanted to sit with Tokoyami, Jiro and Todoroki which is of course fine with us. He can sit with whoever he wants.. I just sort of missed him and I think they could tell. 

I glance over at Shinso and notice his somewhat happy expression. I take a sip of my chocolate milk. "You're a school girl in love with her senpai." Sero says and shakes his head. I spit out the milk and start cracking up. "The bad thing is you're right!" I yell and get strange glances from the entire room. "You have milk all over your fucking face, Pikachu. Go clean yourself up, it's fucking disgusting." Not wanting to get yelled at I follow Bakugo's instructions.

I run to the bathroom and use a paper towel to clean my face. Just as I'm about to leave Shinso walks in. "What were you guys doing?" I laugh. "Oh, Sero said something that made me laugh and I spit out my chocolate milk and started laughing harder." I awkwardly look around. "What did he say?" I panic. He can't know! "Uhhh.." He gives me a stern look. "He said I'm a school girl in love with her senpai!" I say running out of the room hoping he was unable to hear the rest. Shortly after I reenter the cafeteria he walks past me. I sigh of relief as he turns around and smiles at me.

"Did you guys make out in the bathroom!?" Mina yells loud enough for everyone to hear. Everyone turns their heads in our direction. "Shut up Mina!" I scream. "I'm so tired of you guys messing with me like that! Shinso's not my boyfriend and probably never will be so stop making me feel worse than I already do! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE HIM!?" I yell. I couldn't hold it in.

But what I forgot was that every single person in the room heard that, especially Shinso.

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