I get it now

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Todoroki's POV:

Midoriya and I walked home trying desperately to form some sort of small talk to fill the uncomfortable silence that waded through the air. I grit my teeth as my brain wandered to all the shit in my life, I imagined the scars and bruises sprinkling my body with pain and anger. I was sucked back into my current reality when Midoriya stopped and looked up at me smiling, "so tell me, why did you even come here?" Midoriya asked looking up at me, his eyes twinkling from the sunshine, "what?" I asked getting offended, his face panicked, "Oh no no no no I'm sorry I didn't mean for it to be rude I think it's cool you're here I was just wondering why you wanted to do this whole exchange thing-" I could tell he was worried about my feelings even though he clearly didn't want me here, so my body relaxed knowing he was probably a really good person. "It's okay Midoriya. I guess I just needed to get away," I told him, probably obviously holding back a lot, "Oh, okay! That seems like something I'd do. I hope you end up having fun, I know you're kind of having a shit trip so far," he said scratching the back of his head and looking down at his feet. "No, it's okay." Usually, I would be pissed off if I was put into such a shit situation, with a shit house, and Bakugo, and this tiny awkward person I'm being forced to spend my time with, but I'd choose this over Enji and my house in a heartbeat. 

"Oh, okay, that's good. Hey, at least all the girls are crazy for you, the boys too even. You know it's funny they're all calling you a bad boy," Midoriya told me. "Oh, that's understandable." I said then turned and continued towards the apartment, "what? So you're saying you're a bad boy, or that you think they should be crazy about you?" he asked following behind me. "I guess I'm whatever people perceive of me right? Why is it up to me if they've already taken one glance and decided who I was," I said, it spilled out of my mouth making the conversation negative, why do I always do this? I shut myself up and kept walking, a little later I heard the footsteps behind me come to a stop. "I get it now," he said and I turned around shocked. "Get what?" I asked him, "it's kind of funny actually, but you're right, people do decide who you are based on your surface. I actually did the same thing, from now on I want to figure out who you decide you are," he said flashing me a huge shining smile. His words took me by surprise, I didn't know what to do except stand there and stare at him. "Oh," I said finally, he smiled up at me again, "if you don't mind me telling you this-" he stated, "I don't," I said almost too quickly to even realize I was speaking. "Oh, okay. Well, I used to come across your photos and think that you had everything, and how people towered over you based on your image, and your fortune, it made me so angry. I decided that I hated you, but you aren't like that are you?" 

A/N: This chapter was really short I apologize, I just didn't think I needed to add more to this, and I felt like this was a cute and important moment for the two of them. Anyways, I really hope you're enjoying this so far, if you have any good scene ideas feel free to leave them in the comments and I'll probably use them because I'm an uncreative bitch:) 

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