Pretending

~Chapter Eight~

Lunch was awkward, people were quietly sitting, only a few were talking, some weren't even at lunch. As expected Ojiro was of the people who skipped lunch, presumably eating in his dorm, sulking like the weakling he is. 

I don't understand how they think they can be heroes when as soon as someone dies they stop functioning, people die, get over it. 

Deciding it'd be best to spend the rest of lunch in my dorm I get up, excusing myself and going to my dorm. Nobody questioned it, probably because they heard my response to Bakugou earlier. They think i'm trying to stay strong for them by showing sadness in private. 

Once in my dorm I go to my bed, logging onto my laptop and messaging Venom. 

~Texting~

Lightning: Hey V, everyone's grieving over the girl, it's hilarious! Barely any people miss the grape though.

Venom: Nice! What'd you do to the grape though?

Lightning: I drew a cross on his cheek, cut off his dick and stabbed him in the heart!!

Venom: Oh dang, that'd hurt, great job! 

Lightning: What'd you do to Invisabitch? 

Venom: Well you see... I was in pain on the ground pretending to have been stabbed, she was me and rushed over for some reason so I poked her with the needle and choked her!

Lightning: Damn, wish I could've seen it.. Anyway, could you tell the others we have a meeting on Wednesday. Bring the new girl with you, I want to meet her. (It's Monday)

Venom: 'kay, I've to go now, bye.

Lightning: Yeah okay. Have a wonderfully horrible day! 

Venom: Will do!

~End Texting~

After school I got extremely bored, deciding to take a walk outside.

As I walk down the street I see a small area where nobody is around, only a young girl, she appears to around three or four. Why's she alone? I look around before approaching her. When she see's me she runs and hugs my leg.

"Hey little one, what's wrong..? Where's you parents?" I asked her, not seeing any adults around.

"T-they left m-me out here b-by myself... Mummy said m-my quirk w-was bad.." She chokes. Anger boils in my chest, how could they do that to a child?

"How old are you?" I whisper, hugging the small girl.

"Four" She whimpers, holding up five fingers, I gently push one down, smiling at her.

"Wow, What's your quirk?" She shows me a small smile, it's only then I notice the small bags under her eyes. 

"The doctor told us last week, it's called D-dream catcher. I can take peoples worst nightmares and make them real, I can also make good d-dreams. I need to touch someone to do i-it though..  The doctor says because of it I h-have Insomnia.. I don't know what it means t-though. I need at least five hours o-of sleep for it to work good." She says, yawning.

"Okay then, that's a cool quirk! What's your name and where do your parents live?" She yawns again, leaning against my legs almost falling asleep.

"O-opal.. My parents live over th....there..." Opal falls asleep, I scoop her up and into my arms, carefully I walk over to the house, trying not to wake her. 

Knocking on the door I pull her closer to my chest, afraid what they'll do when they see her. 

"What do you wan-" A young-ish lady with pastel pink hair opens the door. Her face twists to disgust as she see's Opal. 

"Greetings, may I come in. I want to talk about Opal." I glare at her. She shakes her head and begins to close the door, to which I cram my foot between the door and door frame. "That wasn't a question." I say, opening the door and walking in. I set Opal on the couch and walk over to her Mother. 

"G-get out! I'll get my husband, he's in the other room!" She stutters, scared. 

"Get him." I glare at her once more, she runs off the retrieve for husband. When he enters, I can clearly see the fear in their eyes. "Hello. Now, why did I find your Daughter standing outside by herself?" 

"Because she's a monster! She has a villains quirk!" Her father yells, stepping close to me. 

I've had enough of their shenanigans. Using my quirk I sprint over to the Husband, stabbing him dead. I twist my head to the Wife, she has a look of horror plastered on her ugly face. I walk over to her, spinning my knife in my blood stained hand. 

She doesn't move, frozen in fear. I put my gloved hand on her throat and squeeze, pushing her to the ground as she suffocates. As I do this I draw a small lightning bolt on her cheek, smiling as I do so. She stops moving and I get up, grabbing Opal and walking to the bedroom. I lay her on the bed and walk into the bathroom attached, quickly washing the blood off me. 

Grabbing Opal again I walk out, heading to our hideout. She's still sleeping as I walk in. Venom and Jasmine are the only ones here. Jasmine notices Opal first and her eyes light up, we all love children.

"Oh she's so cute! What's her name and why do you have a child?" She asks, walking towards us. 

"Her name's Opal, she's four and I have her because I found her standing in the middle of a road, her parents had kicked her out because she has this quirk called Dream Catcher, she can make peoples nightmares come true just by touching them. Because of this quirk she has severe Insomnia. I payed her parents a little visit then came here. " Venom is standing next to us now, looking at Opal.

"So she's staying here? I'll go set up a room for her!" Jasmine cheers, going into one of our many spare rooms. 

"This child, she looks so fragile." Venom says, still looking at her. "May I hold her?" 

Nodding I carefully give Opal to the man, he holds her close to him, walks over to the couch and sits down. 

"If you want I can take care of her, your still young, you don't need to worry." He offered, running his fingers through her hair.

"You seem happy. I haven't seen you like this before, it's nice." I say, laughing as his face heats up, embarrassed. 

"Oh shut up! I love looking after children, reminds me of them..." Venom says, teary eyes as he remembers his younger siblings. 

"V, it's fine. You guys had a good reason to run, he's doing fine remember? I'm 'friends' with him." I try to soothe him. He has severe Ptsd because of his childhood, his Father had found out about him being quirkless and had abused him because of it while his brother had been praised, that was until his Father decided he wasn't good enough either and had three more kids, two of which were deemed inferior. They had run away when they were sixteen, that was eight years ago. 

"Y-yeah I guess your right.. you should get back now. We've got this covered." He says. I get up, say a quick goodbye and head back to school. 

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