the roommate contract - todomomo

twenty-four \\ "i'm not yelling, you're yelling"

Momo had forgotten how nice it was to live with a girl. The fact that the place was actually clean all the time instead of just seventy-five percent of it. The fact that you could step into the bathroom, have your foot touch something wet and know that it was just water from the sink becuase you were standing by the towel rack instead of having the fear of knowing it was a toss-up as to wehther it was water, pee, or some unidentified substance. But most importantly, the fact that there was literally not a sound in the middle of the night. She acutally got sleep.

But all good things must come to an end, and as much as Momo liked Marissa, it was still weird living with a girl that you caught fucking your roommate, even if it was only for one night. And plus, Momo did miss her own bed. She missed the view of the city in the morning and she missed coffee (becuase Marissa didn't have either coffee or tea, like what?).

One thing she didn't miss, however?

"Hey, Peaches. Where'd you go last night?" Shouto drew her attention and it took everything in her to engage him politely without giving him the silent treatment as she might've wanted to. She swallowed her anger, bearing a smile that, though one might consider it a normal smile, held malice that Shouto could see clearly behind it.

"I slept at Marissa's. Meaning I actually slept," Momo couldn't resist the chance to tear into him a little bit. None of this would've had to happen if he just bothered to look at (and more importantly follow) the rules. All of this could've been avoided, but no. Stubborn Shouto had to be stuck to his spot.

"Are we seriously doing this right now?" Shouto shut the fridge door, momentarily stopping his search for food to turn to her. She actually looked really cute becuase she was clearly wearing clthing that wasn't her own as it was not only way too small for her by also not at all her style, but Shouto forced his mind away from that and put on his best frown.

"Why? Are you worried I'll destroy you with logic and facts and then you'll be forced to accept the fact that you were being inconsiderate? Are you worried that you might actually have to apologize?" Momo crossed her arms across her chest indignantly, staring at him with a cool gaze, waiting for him to show any hint that she was winning this argument before it began. He just inhaled deeply and suppressed an eye roll.

"I'm not worried because I live here and I should be able to have sex in my own apartment," He stated calmly, doing everything in his power not to start yelling becuase when he started yelling he started making bad arguments because he had the annoying inability to think properly when he was angry.

"I can see why you think that. But you should be worried because the world, in fact, does not revolve around you and you have three roommates who also live in our apartment- I'm sorry, your apartment," She bit back, sarcasm lacing her voice and eliciting an almost laugh from Denki, who quickly silence himself when Shouto turned to glare at him.

"Nice, Peaches, sarcasm. That's classy," Momo suppressed the urge to mention to him that his entire statement had in fact been sarcastic, knowing that would only weaken her argument by making her look petty. "Look, I wouldn't complain if you guys fucked someone in your own rooms in the apartment that you live in so I don't know why you're attacking me for the fact that you guys can't get laid," He held his hands out as if to say, 'admit it, I've got a point,' but Momo wasn't having any of his shit.

"Wow, that was low and you know it," She raised an eyebrow. "I'm not mad that you can't keep your dick in your pants, Shouto Todoroki. I'm mad because you didn't mind imposing rules when I suggested the idea, and you don't mind enforcing them when they inconvenience you, but you somehow have a problem when you get called out for breaking them yourself-"

"I have a problem when they're unreasonable and stupid," He unintetnionally raised his voice, causing Momo's anger to rise despite her attempts to push it down and have a reasonable debate with arguments backed up by logic and facts.

"It's not that unreasonable to expect you to keep it in your pants after midnight! Just don't have sex after midnight! That's literally it! That's all you have to do! You literally did it for an entire week without noticing, and the only reason you're upset now is because it means you actually have to think about someone other than yourself!" Momo matched his tone.

"So now you're calling me selfish!? Fine, yeah, I'm a fucking selfish bastard, but your rule is stupid and I shouldn't have to follow something that makes no fucking sense! It's like telling me to put aluminum in the recycling instead of the trash!" He shouted at her, gesturing toward the kitchen as if that was some sort of proof of his statement.

"That's what you're supposed to do!" Momo nearly screamed in frustration upon realizing that her roommate hadn't been recycling aluminum foil. But that was a matter for a different time. This argument wasn't even about that. "You're killing my sleep schedule and the planet!"

"That's not the point!" Shouto yelled at her, breaking the last straw completely in half for Izuku, who had hated people being in arguments ever since he was a child. It was bad enough that his parents had spent his whole childhood doing it, he didn't need his roommates forcing him to relive it. And he just hated the fact that they couldn't have one quiet moment in the house. Like dear god, could everyone just follow the rules for once?

"You're yelling Shouto!" Izuku screamed over the chaos trying to calm them down but in reality, doing little more than causing Shouto's attnetion to turn to him in the way that held an icy fury. Izuku should've known better than to interrupt him in the middle of an argument.

"I'm not yelling, you're yelling!" Shouto screamed back, only able to focus his attention on one fight at a time.

"He's yelling but you're yelling louder!" Momo shouted over both of them, effectively gaining back the unwanted attnention of her dual-haired roommate and causing Denki to absolutely lose it.

"You're all yelling! Stop fucking yelling!" The blonde shrieked, flailing his arms around and closing his eyes tightly as if that would somehow quell the rising anger in both Shouto and Momo. Needless to say, it didn't, but at least it got Momo to seal her lips shut because she was nothing if not well-mannered. "God, this family is so dysfunctional!" He threw his hands up revealing the fact that he was only wearing a pink bathrobe and boxer shorts, not that that was anyone's biggest concern at the moment. "Shouto, just fucking apologize and follow the goddamn rules, or I'll draw dicks on your face when you're sleeping!"

In the moment of silence that followed, Shouto scowled at Denki like the blond had just made him an offer he had to think over, Momo rubbed her temples trying to soothe the headache that had formed thanks to all the screaming, and Izuku tried his best to slide out of the room without being noticed, which didn't actually work very well for him.

"Fucking fine! I'll follow your moronic rule," Shouto threw his hands up in frustration, remembering the last time Denki had drawn something on his face in permanent ink. "But I'm not going to apologize. So don't bother getting me to try."

And that was the last word on the subject before he aggressively grabbed his coat off the hanger and stormed out of the apartment. Momo sighed knowing that this not only left them on bad terms, but also that she would never hear the end of it. Shouto was going to relentlessly nag her about this for weeks at least, if not months. And then there was the fact that he was going to hang it over her head and try to make her feel guilty about it.

There was one consolation, though, which was that she had technically one that argument. Sure, it had taken Denki threatening to draw male genitalia on his roommate's face for it to work, but the end result was that Momo, Denki, and Izuku might actually have a semi-regular sleep schedule, and that was something that made it quite worth it.

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