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The lov hangs out in their main bar as usual, Dabi, the purple scarred smokin' hot dude with the raspy voice sitting on a stool with a bottle of wasted vodka in his hands, and a pack of cigarettes nearly falling out the large pockets of his large leather black stapled coat , Tomura shigaraki, the blue haired crusty dry dude who always somehow ends up on the news as dangerous, scratching his neck till it scars sitting in the corner with his phone in his hands, rambling his fingers on a game, and kurogiri, the purple portal man wiping the counter and re organizing the alcohol bottles on the shelf behind him. typical tidy dude. Then theres Spinner, the reptile man with the weird purple hair that does not match a good color theme to his green reptile body at all sitting a few stools away from dabi, refusing to sit next to him especially after dabi called him a offbrand ninja turtle, talking loudly to shigaraki whose across the room about some game called league of legends, and shigaraki jus saying "yea" "uh huh" to his loud descriptions of his– favorites?.. Whatever.
Not quite all the league members, as Mr Compress is still out, doing whatever. Oh! Then theres Twice, whose standing in another corner of the room, rambling to his "Two" personalities not that loudly but you can hear what hes saying when you focus to his voice.
Toga barges in through the door. "I MADE A FRIEND! OCHAKO URARAKA! SHES SO PRETTY AND MWSMERIZING AODRABLE MAGICAL AND GORGEOUS! SHE IS MY EVERYTHING! SHES FROM UA, IM FRIENDS WITH AN UPCOMING HERO! CANT WAIT TO TASTE HER BLOOD!"
She yells in excitement, all the members turning their heads her way. Dabis face giving a look of those tired parents regretting their choices when their kids do something stupid, Shigaraki whose processing her words, Twice and Spinner also. And kurogiri, keeping his poker face, not much changing in his expression.
"That... Teen girl with the brown hair..?"
Dabi says, Shigaraki chimes himself in "You do you. Just dont overshare Toga. You'll never know whether she uses you for info." And Twice joins in, "Yea Toga, dont overshare girl! What no? Don't overshare Toga, dont ever be stupid."
Toga replies, "It'll be fine, Im old enough to know whats right and wrong no? Shes so cute, I love her with my whole body! The cutest girl in the world!"
The cutest girl in the world. She'll hear those words again someday from someone.
Ochako walks back to her dorm after her walk, thank god she asked Aizawa Sensei before she went to take a walk, he would've killed her if she took a walk without permission this late too.
She sits on her bed. Questioning her choices. What feels worse, betraying your dreams for a villain, or betraying the poor girl who has never got her spot in society and was seen as nothing but a mistake? A disappointment. Fuck, if anyone ever finds out her secret, she'd be done for.
Interesting how yet the "Disgraces of society" are more accepting.
Why would a simple friendship be such a disgrace? You can always have the power to change the villain, not the monster. But why wont you? Its not that hard, people can change especially when they need help, why view them as misfit, useless and mistakes when theres always a story to what they became. What selfishness.
A simple friendship isn't supposed to feel wrong. Its supposed to be something you appreciate. Ochako feels right to be with Toga, they just met? She doesnt see through Toga, she sees whats inside her. Her tone on her mood, her shyness behind when shes all manic, her physical movements, the way her hands shook when they held hers. She can see Togas perspective in many ways, yet she'll never understand how Toga sees HER. Or how Toga sees herself. But she knows, in the end of the day, Toga never got her spot in society,viewed a monster, a lonely teen girl, her only friends middle aged men. She knows how much they matter to Toga, just like how much Ochakos family and friends matter to her, but something in Toga yearns for a girl like Ochako by her side. Toga just wants to try her best to get her, not to be possessive, poor girl doesnt know how to socialize properly, she doesnt understand what the difference between being inlove, a friendship, obsession, or yearning is. Its her first time having something like this in her hands. She tries her best. Toga barely knows Ochako but she'd already die for her, Ochakos already something important to her eyes. But will Toga ever be as important to Ochako as Ochako is to her?
The next morning, Ochako wakes up, that heavy feeling of guilt in her chest has not withered away yet. She quickly gets ready and rushes her way in class, waiting for the teacher , chattering with her friends. Sensei walks in, blabbering about some topic. Ochako zones out, which isnt what she usually does since shes always focused, but whatever not THAT unusual.
She gets lost deep in thought, constantly replaying the scene in her head. Thinking what would happen if she gave a different answer to Toga or took action? Whatever, she said yes. Its the end of it. Shes gets tense for the rest of the day, a bit too fragile then she usually is but the girls brush it off as "Shes probably tired its okay"
She kinda forgets about whatever happened last night after hanging out with Izuku and buying a few boxes of mochi wirh him, they both go down to Izukus dorm as they planned but izuku gets nervous about what she'd think about his all might obsessed dorm so they take permission from Aizawa for Izuku to go down to the girls dorm section and switch plans and go down to her dorm.
Izuku settles down on the floor with Ochako, and they set down the new flavor of mochis they bought, Strawberry banana blast, Cherry Pie, and Peach tart and... salted avocado ballsack..? Plus some extra snacks like skittles, nerds whatever. Ochakos bank account went extra bankrupt than how broke she was before but whatever makes her friends happy.
After trying out 2 flavors, her mind drives back to Toga for a moment and she just asks Izuku. "Hey izuku, have you've been every friends with anyone your mom didnt approve of?" Izuku glances at her, "No, if she doesnt like it I dont disrespect my mama, why?" Ochakos eyes droop down in guilt but she covers that look up. "Mm, nothing just got a habit of asking weird stuff." After a bit, Izuku runs in the dorm bathroom to throw up the Salty avocado ballsack flavored mochis and Ochako waits and picks up her phone, looking at the time, and she looks that she has gotten a missed call from a unknown number under the notifications section. She gets a feeling on knowing who that is. But she doesnt call back. She doesnt want to. For now..
After another hour with Izuku, he goes back to his dorm and she cleans up her dorm, still thinking of Toga. The feeling rising back in her chest but whatever.
She gets settled in for the night, comfy in her bed. She looks back in her phone before sleep, She swipes off all the past notifications. But she doesnt swipe away the Unknown Number call. She wont call back. But she wont delete it.