#chaptery forty three

“What did you just say?” Startled, Minori jumped in her spot as she turned around to face the voice. Bakugo stared at her with a tantalizing smirk on his face, eyes clouded with mischief as he confidently walked toward her. She stood still as if she were in a trance, like prey caught by its predator. “You like me?”

Minori’s eyes widened in shock at his question, too speechless to utter a word, her lips fell into a surprise’ o.’

“All of a sudden, you turned around and tried to run to your room. I followed, asking if you were alright, but it seemed like you were in your own little world.” Reaching out, he grabs a strand of stark white hair, twirling it around his finger. Minori’s breath hitches at his actions, and most importantly, his following words, “the walls are pretty thin, you know?” Bakugo’s eyes were fixed on Minori’s with a hint of confidence, playfulness, and a weird expression she had never seen before. 

The next moment, the air surrounding the room seemed to electrify as Bakugo moved his large hands from her hair to gently hold her cheeks. Slowly, his smirk fell, sparking electricity between the two. Minori’s heart stuttered at his heavy-lidded gaze. His crimson orbs flickered between the grey of her eyes and her full lips, causing her to shut her mouth and swallow roughly.

“Say it again,” Bakugo announced huskily and full of want and need, breaking the silence as the electrical conducts buzz around them. 

Flustered, Minori glanced away from his addictively red eyes, repeating the exact words she thought she told herself in private. A breathless chuckle escaped Bakugo’s lips, fanning her face in reaction to Minori’s confession. “I like you too,” he admitted leaning closer to her quivering lips. Hearing that her feelings were reciprocated, Minori visibly relaxed under his hands before closing the distance. 

“Minori! Minori! Oi, dumbass!”

Jolting awake and chest heaving, the said girl jumps from her bed, finally noticing the thunderous banging coming from the door. Creaking the door slightly open, she peeks out to find none other than Bakugo Katsuki. 

“You’re 15 minutes late for training, idiot,” he huffed, brows furrowing as he picks up on her odd behavior. His analytical vermillion eyes force goosebumps to rise over Minori’s skin, reminding her how just a second ago she confessed and was kissing the same boy that stood in front of her. “Why the fuck are you breathing so heavy like you just ran a marathon?”

“Hey, you know I’m actually feeling too hot– not too hot,” she squeaked, “to train right now.” Dismissing his question, she exited her room without sparring the male a glance and knocked on her floormates door. 

“Okay,” he drawls, the tone of his voice obviously confused. 

“Right, so I’m going to rest today,” she said as she continued to bang onto the door like a madman. 

“Right. Are you sure you’re good?”

“Of course I am! Why does it look like I’m not? Because I am.”

“Okay, calm down. You’re acting like Deku. I’ll see you later when you’re not being weird.”

“Yup!” she shouted, unintentionally too loud and just in time for the door to finally open. Forcing her way in, she pulls the Pinkette back into her room before slamming her friend’s door shut. 

“Um, hello? A ‘how are you today?’ would be nice before you started manhandling me!” Mina sassed, narrowing her eyes at her curly, white-haired friend. 

“Mina, we have a problem,” Minori responds, shaking the roots of her hair to calm the nerves to cool down before she inflicts a self-induced stroke. 

“What’s up? Is it your mom?” Mina asked, pulling Minori along to sit on her bed. 

“No, it’s Bakugo.”

“Did he do something? Do I need to bully him because you don’t even have to ask? I already do.”

“No, Mina I,” she sighs, “I like him.” 

“Forreal.” Minori nods. “Oh my god, finally! I’ve been waiting forever for you to finally tell me.”

“Wait, what?” 

“Yeah, I’m surprised it took so long.”

“Well, that’s because I just realized last night.”

“Seriously?” Mina asked, straight-faced. “You’re not as smart as I thought you were.” 

“Yes. Wait, since when did you think I had feelings for him?”

“Literally since our training trip. You know, before the whole kidnapping and all that. I swear you two were going to kiss during dinner once. But anyway,” she waves her hand dismissively before continuing, “why are your feelings a problem again?”

“Um, I don’t know, maybe because I’m currently waiting for the impending doom of my mother!” Minori expressed, dumbfounded.   

“I still see no problem,” she admitted, shrugging her shoulders. “What’s a little romance before something terrible. It’ll make you two closer after, at least that’s what I’ve learned from the shojo mangas I’ve read. 

“Mina, this isn’t a shojo. It’s my life.”

“Unnecessary specifics, if I might add. Listen girly, I say stop shying away and give your man a big fat smooch, and no, your dreams don’t count.”

“Of course, dreams don’t count. I’m not an idiot.”

“Oh, she smirks, “so you’ve been dreaming about him already, huh?”

“It doesn’t matter whether or not I have Mina,” Minori responded, biting out as the corner of her lips pull downwards in a frown to cover for her flusteredness from being caught. 

“I say kiss him!”

“Mina, I’m serious.”

“So am I! Don’t wait on him to make a move, you should!”

“I’d rather not get rejected and be embarrassed for the rest of my life, thank you very much.”

“Do you seriously think he would reject you?”

“He already has.” Mina’s eyebrows shot upwards, waiting for the girl to continue. “My mentor mistook us as a couple, and Bakugo went off saying he’d never date someone like me.”

“Ugh, he’s so stupid! But I don’t believe it. He’s the same one who joined us to go to the mall with him when we were already going. Like, he’s a fucking idiot. 

“I don’t know–” 

“I do! Listen, if you make a move, I promise you he won’t pull away.”

“I’m not going to, Mina.” Assuming that that was the end of the conversation, Minori made a move to spend the rest of the day in her room, depressed over the idea of Bakugo rejecting her for real. Unexpectedly, though, Mina grasped onto Minori’s wrist, pulling her back to sit back on the bed. Getting close and personal, Mina looked at her friend with a surprisingly scarily serious face. 

“Bestie, you’re going to make a move because you’re not just going to bang on my door waking me up from my sleep just to tell me you realize your feelings for Bakugo and then not do anything about it. That’s what we’re not going to do.” Mesmerized by Mina’s sudden assertiveness and slightly scared from her unusual behavior, Minori nodded in agreement, getting whiplash as her friend beamed. “Great! So let’s go over some of my collections and figure which confession is your style.”

A/N: HAHAHAHA *evil laugh* BE HONEST WHO THOUGHT THAT MINORI AND BAKUGO WERE ACTUALLY CONFESSING TO ONE ANOTHER OR DID ALREADY ASSUME IT WAS A DREAM??? 

Anyways, we’re all caught up. The next chapter will be up sometime during the week of May 17, so stay tuned!

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