𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐢 || 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕤

八

八 ; comfort

"Have you seen Airi?"

"No, I haven't.", Uraraka answered, grabbing her own plate. "She didn't reply my messages."

Momo sighed. This was not the first time. Momo continued to scoop in the rice for everyone, which was her duty today, and Uraraka was helping her by distributing the plates. It was Iida's idea to create groups for dinner so everyone will have the chance to be responsible for dinner every night in their dorms. So today, Momo, Uraraka and Kaminari were in charge for dinner.

"Kaminari, pour in the orange juice for everyone.", Momo ordered.

"Aye aye, captain!"

Uraraka chuckled at his playful personality. Everyone was currently hanging out in the living room, waiting for dinner to be served. Some were playing indoor activities, the diligent ones like Shoto and Iida would be completing their homeworks, Izuku was practicing outside of the dorm, and others were just hanging out.

Momo checked each and every plate, making sure all of them were completely filled with rice and good portions of meat, Kaminari counted the amount of cups on the table to confirm if it was enough for everyone and Uraraka went to call everyone in for dinner. As soon as everyone was seated, they started to dig in the scrumptious food prepared by Momo herself, as the chef received praises now and then.

Uraraka lifted her head, and she searched for a familiar face amongst her classmates. Her face immediately turned into a frown when she couldn't find her friend. "Where is Airi?"

"Yeah, where is she?", Momo repeated Uraraka's question.

Jirou's ears perked up to their question. She took a sip of the orange juice before answering, "Oh, I'm sorry I forgot to tell you. She's skipping dinner for tonight."

Tsuyu's eyebrows furrowed at her response. "Why?"

"She said she's not hungry."

Uraraka stopped eating and crossed her arms. "She says that every night."

All of the girls nodded, agreeing to Uraraka's statement. Jirou just shrugged her shoulders, knowing she was just telling them what Airi had asked her to remind. As she wanted to continue eating, Uraraka's question made her stop from the spoon reaching her mouth.

"Does anyone notice how strange Airi was behaving lately?"

The others nodded, "Yeah, she's so gloomy this past week. It's so weird not having to listen to her endless babbling and loud voice yelling curse words both in the class and in the dorms.", Ashido added.

"She always skips lunch break and dinner too. Is she even eating well?"

Momo's tone was concerned. She knew how much Airi loved to eat, so having to know Airi would actually skip the two main meals of the day constantly worried her even more.

"Putting that aside, I don't think she's even having enough sleep. Her eyebags are getting heavier and heavier.", Uraraka sighed heavily. "It breaks my heart to see her like that. She must be having a hard time."

The others looked down on their food, merely just picking on them with their forks. Having an always bubbly and happy pill kind of friend who's currently having a hard time had really affected their lives more or less, considering the fact at how much Airi would always bring happiness to her own classmates. She was always the one to cheer people up, and even though it could be so annoying at times since she was equally just as loud as Bakugou, except she was loud in a good way. However, she never fails to radiate positive and happy energy to everyone who surrounds her. Which was one of the main reasons why the girls felt so empty without the real Airi.