It was already past curfew when Bakugou heard a knock on his door.
"The fuck!?" he stomped over and harshly pulled it open.
To his surprise it wasn´t one of the idiots that usually came to bother him or even Deku.
"Ponytail, the fuck are you doing here?"
Momo smiled apologetically offering him a paper bag.
"I´m truly sorry to disturb you, Bakugou-kun but I just really need your advice. I brought some pastries."
Bakugou raised an eyebrow.
"You want my advice? This late? What, you can´t sleep or some shit?"
Momo blushed a little and then nodded looking away.
Bakugou sighed taking the paper bag and stepping aside to let Momo in.
"So, the fuck´s going on?"
The blonde asked after they´d both taken seat.
He was sitting on his spinning chair infront of his table while Yaoyorozu had taken seat on his bed.
"It´s complicated."
She sighed.
"You think I can´t handle it, or something?"
"N-No, it´s just...It´s embarassing."
She admitted clenching her hands on her lap.
"Quit bullshitting around. Even if you can´t sleep, you don´t gotta keep me from it!"
He comanded crossing his arms.
"Allright, I don´t want to waste your time.
I think I might have a *crush*"
Silence.
Bakugou just stared at her.
Which made her nervous.
"Ah, I´m sorry is that weird?"
"No it´s not, dumbass. It´s natural.
Just...why would you tell me?
I´m not your friend."
He asked scratching his head.
"That´s the point. We are not friends so you´ll give me your honest and objective answers because you don´t care too much.
And you won´t tell me what I want to hear but what you think.
I don´t know much about you, true. But I know you´re honest."
She answered with confidence clearly present in her voice.
"Okay, I guess. So what do you want to know exactly? Seems like you already know, you like this person."
"Yes. How do I stop it?"
"Are you serious?" he chuckled.
"Yes."
"Well, you got a few options."
"Like what?"
"Wait. Most crushes leave after a while, you know."
This made her smile, a sad smile.
"Sure, but I´ve liked them for a long time already."
"Since when?"
"Uh, the USJ attack?"
she confessed.
"Holy shit!"
Momo buried her head in her hands.
"I knooow." the muffled whines made Katsuki scoff.
"Well, then that option is off the table.
How about you look for negative things in them? like have you seen them eat? Or cook? HAVE YOU SEEN HOW SOME OF THESE EXTRAS CUT THEIR VEGGETABLES!?"
"Hm, yes I´ve seen them eat and cook. They´re actually really resourceful! I don´t think I´ll find something I find unapealing."
She admitted.
"Fucking hell! Allright, how I see it that leaves only one option."
"What´s that?"
"You gotta tell them."
Momos eyes widened.
"I can´t do that! What if they reject me?"
Bakugou chuckled.
"Gotta take the risk, I´m afraid."
Momo nodded sighing deeply.
"I think you´re right."
"Of course I am, the fuck did you expect!?" Bakugou boasted.
"Now out! I gotta sleep."
With that he pushed her out of his room but he stopped just before his door was completely shut.
"I ain´t shittin. Tell her."
"How did you-"
But before she could get an answer he´d already slammed the door shut.
Flushed Momo returned to her room.
It turns out she wasn´t able to sleep after that either.
.
.
.
Todoroki didn´t get to have supper today.
His father had kept him at a meeting.
He added this point to the list of reasons to hate his father, imediatly after returning to the dorms.
But this also meant that he was hungry.
Endeavor had offered to take him out to eat but he refused.
He´d rather starve to death than spend another second with that man.
So he made his way down to the dorm kitchen, a packet of instant ramen in hand.
He would have preffered Soba of course but he had run out.
Just his luck.
He sighed setting it down on the counter and turning on the lights.
That´s when he was jump scared by Momo.
She was hunched over table intertwined hands supporting her head starring into nothingness, smiling creepily.
"Uh, Yaoyorozu?" he asked carefully hunching a bit to see if she was blinking.
She flinched making him do the same but when she looked at him her gaze softened.
"O-Oh, Todoroki-kun! I´m sorry, I must´ve frightened you."
Momo apologized sitting up straight and smoothed out a fold in her dress.
It was quite formal.
A medium length cocktail dress with purple butterfly embroidery and white base.
It was very flattering on her.
"Everything allright?" Todoroki asked opening his Ramen packet.
"Well...I don´t really know, to be quite honest with you."
She chuckled combing through her pony tail with her fingers.
"I´ve just returned from a date with Jirou!"
The peppermint boy, who had started pouring water on his noodles turned around rapidly, still pouring water out of the jug he was holding.
It wet his socks but he didn´t really care.
"You did? How did it go?"
He asked surprisingly calm in contrast to his body language.
He was one of the few people who knew about Yaomomos feelings for Jirou.
He had known for a while.
He was happy for his friend, since he knew how painful this whole ordeal had been for her.
She didn´t seem very happy allthough she was smiling.
"Y-Yeah. It went great actually!"
Her smile was forced and her voice dull.
"I took her to my favorite tea parlor. At first she didn´t know, it was... you know, a date. Or maybe she did. She´s not one easily fooled.
My Jirou."
She cleared her throat pushing back the tears welling up in her eyes.
"I told her. I told her everything. And she ... Shoto, she... She asked me to be her girlfriend."
She was choking back tears, almost tearing out her hair as she increased the speed of the stroking.
"Isn´t that...good? Don´t you like her?" he was confused.
"I should be happy, shouldn´t I?"
Shoto just tilted his head in response.
She chuckled.
"I should be overjoyed! The girl. The goddess I´ve been in love with for so long likes me back. Isn´t that great!?"
The first tear.
"I should be thinking about our future dates. Our future together. Be giddy like a school girl twirling my hair and kicking my feet at her response. I was the one who confessed after all, right?"
Her agonized voice made his heart ache.
Made him want to hold his friend close.
But he couldn´t move.
He was just standing there awkwardly holding a now empty water jug in wet socks.
"You know what I told her, Sho? I told her I´d have to think about it. Do you know how awful that sounds?"
She sobbed.
"Because...Because,I can´t think... I can´t stop thinking about what my parents will say when they find out about us. What they´ll-"
She slapped her hands over her mouth choking back another cry.
She took a deep breath before continuing.
"I wanted her to reject me.
So that I could get over her.
Get over this.
Believe this was a phase.
But it seems it isn´t."
She suddenly smiled at him.
Face all scrunched up and wet, tears still rolling down her cheeks.
"Do you know why we initially became friends? Why I tried to be closer with you in the first place?"
Todoroki nodded.
"You told me. Your parents wanted us to get together."
She nodded.
"A Tododroki and a Yaoyorozu. We could have been the it couple at UA. They wanted us to be."
Todoroki made a gagging sound which made her giggle.
He smiled at that.
"Yeah...I´m glad we are friends, Sho. I really am."
Shoto nodded.
"Me too."
Momo sighed.
"What am I supposed to do?"
Shoto took a seat next to her then looked at the ceiling.
Momo did the same.
"Think about what you´ll regret more.
Refusing her or defying your parents.
In the long run."
Momo looked at him wide eyed.
He also turned to her with his usual neutral expression.
"You love her, right?"
Momo blushed but nodded.
"And you love your parents, I assume."
She nodded again but slower.
"Would you rather give up a future with Jirou to pretend to be someone you´re not to your parents?"
Silence.
Then she shook her head.
"You´re right. I can´t keep pretending to be someone I´m not."
"So, what are you going to do?"
She thought for a bit.
"I am going to become her girlfriend, if she still wants me. Allthough I won´t specifically tell my parents but I won´t deny it, if they find out.
I won´t lie about this."
She declared balling her hands to fist infront of her in determination.
Shoto nodded.
"Okay."
Moving back to his noodles which had now become soggy he asked:
"Why today, tho? Valentines was last month."
She chuckled in embarassement.
"I couldn´t sleep so I went to Bakugou for advice. He suggested confessing as a way to rid of a crush so I decided to fix my problem as soon as possible."
Todoroki stopped mid chew and slighty choked on his noodles.
"You-*cough* you went to Bakugou too?"
He choked.
She blinked at him.
"Too?"
He nodded hitting his chest to release the pressure.
"Y-Yeah, remember code green?"
Momo fondly rolled her eyes.
"Yes, the Midoriya problem, I remember."
"Well, I thought since he knew him for longer I thought he might know how to...woo him, I guess."
Momo giggled and Shoto frowned.
"Don´t you dare laugh at me, princess."
He smiled.
"How did it go?"
Momo asked still abit giggly.
"Well, he was a little...uh upset. But his advice was very good. I took him on a hike after his suggestion."
Momo smiled.
"That´s surprisingly sweet."
Todoroki nodded.
"That´s a story for another day. I need to eat and you need to sleep."
Momo chuckled.
"Okay, Mom."
She got up ruffling his hair on the way out.
"Thank you, Sho. Sleep well."
He nodded the sound of slurping answering instead.
When she went to bed that night, she knew exactly what she would do in the morning.