A New Chapter (BNHAxReader)

Chapter 22: A little help seriously helps

The next day there was no school in memory of Jin. Those of us who were a part of the school faculty had to go in still and have a meeting about how to prevent it from happening again to other students. I hated every second of it since it made me think of my past experiences. When the meeting was over, the homeroom teachers had to then check up on their students, while a few other teachers and I were dismissed. As soon as I got home, I practically went back to bed right away. I could sense that Chi was concerned that I was having a relapse and would probably start to shut people out again, along with sleeping all day without doing or eating anything.

Towards four in the afternoon, I was woken up by Chi. I had my head covered by the blanket so it would be darker and more of a fit brightness to sleep. I slowly pulled down the blanket and squinted at him. He pushed up his glasses and smiled warmly as he said, "There's some company here waiting for you in the living room."

I mumbled, "Who is it?"

"Yamada and Aizawa." he replied.

I nodded my head as I stretched, "Tell them I'll be down in a minute."

"Sure thing." he said before placing a kiss on my forehead and leaving to go relay the message.

I unwillingly got out of bed and snapped my fingers after a sigh, instantly changing out of shorts and a tank top into black sweatpants and a dark grey hoodie with orange drawstrings. I glanced to the mirror and messed with my hair a little, making it a little more presentable even though I didn't quite care since they have seen me in worse shape. After that I left my bedroom and went down to the living room. I quickly slapped on a sloppy smile as I walked in. Honestly, it was harder than I thought to smile. I was so tired that it made my chest hurt. They were waiting on the couch for me in their everyday clothes, talking to Chi who was leaning against the chair to the left of the sofa, which was also the chair that I sat on. Once I sat down, I noticed that Melody made herself comfy on Aizawa's lap, purring loudly as he pet her.

Once Chi noticed that I arrived, he excused himself so he could go an continue his work. As he walked out, Aizawa was going to say something but Yamada cut him off without realizing, "Since we had to check up on our students, we figured we better check up on you as well."

Aizawa slowly glared at him before asking, "Anyways, how are you doing?"

I smiled a sloppy smile, "I'm doing great."

"Are you sure?" he asked in a skeptical tone, "Cause I think if someone is doing great, they don't sleep almost all day and get woken up by someone at four in the afternoon."

"I'm just...a little tired." I said, trying to convince them that I was alright.

He sighed as he crossed his arms before hitting the nail on the head with his comment, "Tired of life, huh?"

"What? N-no, not at all." I said, sticking to my lie. "I just haven't been sleeping all that great lately."

He gave me a stern look and said in a matching tone as he stopped petting Melody, "Y/N..."

"There's no need to hide it, especially from us. We've noticed that these past few weeks that you haven't been cheerful as you are sometimes when things are going good. Actually, we think it's come to the point that you are starting to procrastinate doing mainstream things." Yamada said in a concerned tone. I didn't know what to say after that, especially admit that things are in fact getting to that point ever so slowly.

Aizawa nodded his head in agreement before adding, "Just remember that if you need anyone to talk to and you are a bit afraid to talk to Chikao, you can always come to us."

Yamada cut him off again, which Aizawa glared at him again as he spoke, "Yeah, just because you don't live with us anymore doesn't mean that you can't talk to us. You're like our daughter and always will be. So no matter how old you will be or the circumstances that you or we will be in, we'll still hear you out. So please, let us still help you since we know that you aren't talking to Chikao when you need to be."