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[ Sugar how you get so fly? ]

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T u e s d a y :   December 12th

Unfortunately, it was one of those days where Momo is unable to concentrate and today is crucial because currently, her class is reviewing the materials they’ve learned for an upcoming test that is on Thursday and she really do appreciate her teacher thoroughly explaining each problem the student had difficulties with because they have helped her and her peers out tremendously. Since she felt that it was not enough to completely understand the materials, Momo decides to go over the review they went through today after class.

However, there is a certain classmate of hers boggling her mind. She believes it started a few weeks ago when her mind has been acting quite strange. Momo began gazing at Todoroki more than usual. It only took her a few days for her to be fully aware of her action, but she is still unsure as to why she is behaving like this.

A moment where she finally came to a realization of her action was when she was eating her lunch with her friends at the cafeteria and was staring at the certain boy with heterochromia eyes while the girls were gossiping with one of another.

The boy took a spoonful of his chicken curry and was looking at Midoriya who seemed to be explaining something enthusiastically while using hand motions to emphasize his point.

Due to Momo not engaging in the discussion, the girls decided to ask Momo her opinion on she think is the most attractive boy in their class, but not long after, they realized she was staring intently at something in the distance--which explained why she was silent. They all followed her gaze and when they saw who she was looking at, they simultaneously shoot her a quizzical look but soon, their lips curved into a smirk.

Still oblivious to her surroundings and her action, Momo continues to stare at the boy with soft eyes. As for Todoroki, he has been sensing that someone is staring at him and subconsciously, he roamed his eyes the premise of the cafeteria while listening to Midoriya go on a tangent as to how he plans on studying for their upcoming test.

His eyes came in contact with a pair of obsidian cat-shaped eyes, not long after, the contact came to cease. Momo whipped her head away and gasped quietly when she realized the girls were looking at her with shit-eating grins.

Mina hunches over the lunch table, “O.M.G. Does our vice class president has her eyes set on pretty boy of class 1-A~?” she couldn’t help but snicker.

Completely flabbergasted by what Mina said, Momo’s mouth dropped open and before she could protest, the girls began bombarding her with quick-to-judge questions.

“When did you develop feelings for him?”
“How long have you been crushing on him?”
“Does he know you that you like him?”

In the end, Momo wasn’t able to convince all of her friends that she does not like Todoroki that way and that she was simply contemplating about their upcoming test. But deep deep down she knew very well she was not thinking of their test.

The class was finished today and for some reason, Momo was feeling quite exhausted. During the last ten minutes of class, she felt her eyelids threatening to fall, but before she allows herself to fall asleep in the middle of class, she pats her cheeks to wake her up and surprisingly, that helped her from dozing off.

Momo picked up her school bag that was placed near her desk and placed it on top of the wooden surface. She lets out a weary yawn into her hand and resumes placing her materials into her bag.

‘Should I take a power nap before I study?’ she thought to herself.

A nap sounded so blissful to Momo right now, but she knows she should be studying for this test. Momo decided to go against it and just power through the day studying, then go to bed at a reasonable time, than opposed to taking a nap and staying up very late.

It was only one pm and for her to grind through the day, she needed at least a cup of coffee. It is somewhat late to be sipping caffeine, but it seems to be the only option that will guarantee her to stay awake for the duration of her study.

Momo soon then maneuver her arm through the handles of her school bag and hooked it around her right shoulder. She then rises from her seat and pushes the wooden chair in its designated spot. Without looking up, she bumps into someone’s chest and in an instinct, she looks up and was faced with a set of heterochromia eyes.

His mouth was slightly gaped open and before he could apologize, Momo apologized frantically and quickly removed herself from the situation by pacing herself out the classroom. Before she exited herself out of the room, the boy caught a glimpse of her rose-colored cheeks.

Not thinking much of it, he soon left the empty classroom and made his way to the dormitory.

It’s about 8 pm and currently, the students from class I-A are in their dormitory.

In one of the many dorms, Jirou is currently laying on her stomach with her chin resting in her palm while her elbow is propped up.on Momo’s bed, skimming through a Vogue magazine, while Momo is sitting on her vanity stool, combing through her long tangled black locks.

The girls were taking a break from studying and decided to continue tomorrow since they have already studied a couple of hours. Previously, the other girls; Ochaco, Tsuyu, Mina, and Tooyu was in it too, but they decided to go back to their dorm to rest up after frying their brain from the long study session.

Jirou lets out a yawn and felt the tears brimming along her waterlines. No doubt about it, she was tired and was planning on leaving soon.
“When you sleeping, Momo?”
Momo quietly hummed to herself and said, “Mmm, probably in an hour or so.”
If Jirou wasn’t feeling exhausted, she would gladly chill with her friend, but right now, she is about ready to knock out on her friend’s bed.

“Aight, I would chill with you a bit longer, but I’ma call it a night." Before Jirou could finish her sentence, she quietly yawns into her palm, “I'm so tired right now, I can hardly stay awake.” Jirou lifts herself from the comforter and stretches out her arms.

Momo shoots her a smile, “That’s okay, please go rest, Jirou.”

Jirou nods and shoots her back a smile, she grabs her magazine and struts her way out the door. She tells her goodnight and softly shut the door behind her. Before Momo is enveloped by silence, her stomach decided to let out a loud ferocious growl and this caused her to feel quite embarrassed of herself.

She didn’t have much of an appetite today because she was very invested in her study. Other than the meal she had for lunch at school, she only consumed small snacks such as a granola bar and a bowl of fruits, with a side of water and coffee. Knowing it is past dinner, she decided to give in and eat a small meal.

Momo soon slips into her white fluffy slippers and exited her room, heading towards the dormitory kitchen.

Expecting to see a few of her classmates lazing around at the lounge area and in the kitchen, but to her surprise, there was only one classmate in of hers seated at one of the tables in the kitchen silently eating chicken noodle soup. Her breath hitched and she immediately stopped in her tracks, he was simply wearing a white v-neck paired with black basketball shorts.

Out of everyone she could have encountered, it was the one and only, Shouto Todoroki.

He seems to not notice her presence and was fixated on the white bowl in front of him. For a moment, Momo debated whether she should just head back to her room, since still felt quite embarrassed as to what happened during lunch, but before she could come to a solid conclusion, her stomach lets out a more vicious growl and that reverberated throughout the area.

Almost instantaneous, Momo’s eyes widen and was simply utterly shocked as to what she heard. She could feel her face becoming very warm and instantly placed her palm on top of her tummy. Knowing damn well Todoroki heard it, he whipped his head up and shockingly stared at Momo with slightly wide eye.

No one said anything and this made Momo feel very uncomfortable, knowing she can’t endure this any longer, she decides to say something.

Momo frantically blinked and sheepishly smiles at him, “H-Hey, Todoroki.”
She silently cursed herself for giving in her hunger and should’ve just went to bed.
Todoroki’s face soon was washed away with his signature blank look, “There’s some leftover chicken noodle soup in the fridge that Koda made a while ago.”

Immediately, she nods and thanks him, she quickly pace herself to the fridge and grabs the handle to open it, soon after, she was presented with a large steel pot sitting in front of her, eagerly, she places her hands on both handles of the pot, slowly pulling it out and placing it on top of the counter.

Without hesitation, she removes the translucent lid of the pot and the smell of chicken as well various of vegetables filled up her nostril, delighted with the smell, she grabs a small white ceramic bowl from the cabinet and takes a ladle out of from the small cabinet in front of her.  

Momo then scoops out a couple of ladle-full of soup into her bowl, satisfied with the amount, she places the ladle into the sink and places the lid back to its designated spot, then soon setting the pot back into the fridge.

After it was done reheating in the microwave, Momo made her way to where Todoroki was sitting and plopped herself in the seat in front of him. He looked up at her for a moment, not expecting to see her and soon after he resumes looking down at his food and began eating silently.

The area was lacking with lights, with only a few light bulbs turned on, thus creating a shadow on the right side of Todoroki’s face, while the other is vaguely glowing due moon shining through the tall vast window panels and perfectly towering that side of Todoroki. His eyes are what caught Momo’s attention the most, with how the lighting is, his sapphire iris twinkled a bit, replicating to polished turquoise gem, despite the other not shining as brightly, it still created an illusion that they are illuminating.

Through the embarrassingly amount of “gazes” she has done through the month, she finds Todoroki incredibly gorgeous.

“Yaoyorozu.”
The unexpected voice broke her train of thoughts and she sees Todoroki directly looking at her.
Soon she felt the familiar warmth engulfing her face, “Y-Yes?” she answers a bit too hurriedly.
“Is something the matter?"
He noticed that she had been staring at him intently and presumably thought there was something wrong and decided to shoot her a question.

“I-It’s nothing, I’ve been just...Thinking about our upcoming test." Momo let’s out a quiet nervous laugh.
She felt rather embarrassed to tell him such a thing and that is best to keep to herself.

“Considering you’ve been acing all the test we’ve had so far. I am sure you will do quite well on this test too, Yaoyorozu.”                                                   
With what he said, it threw Momo off a bit, but she couldn’t help but bashfully smile, “Thank you, Todoroki.”

“Is he trying to comfort me?” she thought to herself.

Moments after, they sat in silence and began eating their chicken noodle soup again, Momo hears a quiet, “ ahh ” in front of her and peers through her lashes to look at Todoroki placing their glass of water and is leaning back in his seat with his forearms resting above the chairs while gazing out the window to his left. He was not doing anything seductive but simply drinking his water. She found the way his posture while drinking his beverage was quite a sight to see.

After Todoroki finished drinking his water, he noticed something and raised a brow at Momo, “Aren’t you cold Yaoyozoru?”

She was currently wearing a red spaghetti tank top and black drawstring shorts. Initially, she was feeling rather cold, but after seeing that sight of him drinking water, she was far from feeling cold.

Momo sheepishly smiles, “Actually...I’m feeling quite hot right now.”
Todoroki shoots her a bewildered look and stares at her flushed face.

[ You got me lifted shifted higher than a ceiling. ]

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[  Like some kind of heroine  ]

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W e d n e s d a y: December 13th

The class was over for today and the girls decided to go grab a bite to eat at their local fast-food burger joint, Corner diner, and to their surprise, their beloved Momo has never had any sort of fast food in her sixteen years she has been on earth.

It was Mina and Jirou that suggested the idea because since they been eating food in their dormitory, they never really went out to go out to eat because there was already food at their place. But today was a different case, one, they wanted Momo to try it out--since she had never been to a fast-food restaurant, and two, they were all craving something delicious in high calories.

“Say, girls, what’re you plan on getting at Corner’s?” asked Mina.

Tsuyu placed her right index finger on her chin, “I’m not quite sure yet. It’s been a while since I’ve eaten there.”

“I plan on getting one of their specialty burgers--I heard they’re selling burgers with Rilakkuma's face for a limited time!” exclaimed Tooru whose arms in the air emphasizing how excited she is.

Ochako smiles brightly to the girls, “I might just order my usual.”

“Since it been a while I went to Corner, I am probably just going to get a milkshake with my cheeseburger." Jirou twirled her earbuds with her left index finger while tapping away on her phone.

Momo tilts her head, “What about you, Mina?”
“I’m probably going to get their famous double stacker burger.” Mina shoots a grin to the girls.

After hearing the girl's meal they have in mind, Momo felt more anticipated.

The walk from U-A to the restaurant only took about ten minutes and Momo was feeling quite excited about experiencing her time there with her friends. Upon entering the place, the doorbell shook the small bell, signaling that someone has entered the premise.

The aroma is what got Momo the most, the smell of fresh meat patties grilling and potatoes frying made the entire restaurant smelled scrumptious. Momo noticed how minimalistic and clean the place was, considering this restaurant was known to serve greasy food, but yet delicious meals.

The walls were pure white glossy brick tiles with few red ones placed sporadically within the walls, as for the seats, their cushions were cherry red with its support colored white. The tiles were white, but with the number of people walking on top of them, the color was slightly washed out and making it a very light cream color.

“Hey girls, let’s sit on those tables that are near Midoriya, Iida, and Todoroki’s!”
Mina pointed at the table where the boys were sitting and there was him, munching a few golden fries.

The girls didn’t have a problem sitting near them, so they followed Mina.
“Yoohoo~!” The sound of Mina’s voice caused the boys to whipped their head towards where the voice was projecting from.

Ochaco waves towards the boys and smiles, “Hey guys.”

Iida gives a stern wave and smiles, “Afternoon!”
Midoriya wipes the sauce off his mouth with a white napkin and quickly swallows his food, “H-Hey guys!”
“Hey,” said Todoroki with his signature stoic expression.

Without her knowledge, the girls quickly gathered to their seat and left one seat open, the one that was near Todoroki. As oblivious Momo can be, she simply thought it was a coincidence, but the girls had a different idea in mind.

“You guys mind watching our bags while we go order?” asked Ochaco who eyed at the boys near that’s near their table.
The boys said, “Sure” in unison and soon after, the girls excitedly made their way to the front counter to order their meal.

About five minutes passed by, the girls approached their table with a white tray in hand that held their order. Momo gently placed her tray on the table and almost simultaneously, the girls sat in their seat.

Momo slowly reveals her double cheeseburger and before biting into it, she lifts her head up to see if her friends unwrapped theirs. To her surprise, the girls were looking at her and this caused her to look at them confusingly.

“We’re all waiting to see your reaction, Momo.”

Momo bashfully smiles, “Here goes.”

Before she took a bite, she looks at her burger briefly, the buns were toasted and between them was two freshly cooked juicy meat patties, with chopped lettuces and two melted cheese overlapping the patties, their signature sauce was somewhat oozing out. The sight of it looked heavenly, Momo bites in the burger and pulls her face away from it. She had a huge smile on her face and the girls couldn’t help smile as well.

“It’s good, isn't it?” Jirou placed her chin into her palm whose arm is propped up against the table.

Before answering, Momo swallows her food and lets out an exhale.

“It's...It’s delicious!”

Without noticing, Momo was slightly hopping in her seat in gleam and everyone found that quite adorable, especially, Todoroki who was staring at her with his hand is covering his mouth with his arm supporting him up on top of the table.

Pleased with her answer, everyone happily returned eating their burger and chatting it up about a variety of things, Momo stayed silent due to focusing her heavenly delicious burger, but also listened in the conversation, only beaming in a few times.

After half an hour, everyone is done with their meal, however, decides to rest a bit before heading back to the dorms to study for their upcoming test.

Momo gazed to her right and sees Todoroki talking amongst his classmates and friends.
In the corner of Todoroki’s eye, he notices that Momo is looking at his direction and turns to her, assuming she needed to tell him something.
Once again, this causes her to break eye contact with him and looks at, Tsuyu at first, she did not notice Momo was looking at her, until looking up from her finished meal and came in eye contact with her. Tsuyu taps at the corner of her lips and Momo were unsure as to what she was addressing.

“Yaoyozoru.”
Momo moves her head towards where the voice came from and it was from Todoroki himself, whose arms are crossed while leaning on top of the table.
“There’s some sauce near your lips.”

Completely embarrassed by what he said, Momo quickly grabs a napkin and wipes around her mouth, then looks back to him for confirmation.
“It’s still there,” says Todoroki. He proceeded to tap where it is and Momo quickly dabs on the incorrect spot on accident. She looks at him once again with determination if she has removed it.

Todoroki shakes his head and before she could go back at it again, he moves to the end of his seat on the left and uses the pad of his thumb to wipe away the sauce from the corner of her lips, but during the process, he ran his thumb softly on top of her lips.

“It’s gone now.” he looks at her with a nonchalant blank look.
While looking with wide eyes, Momo let’s out a, “thank you” in a very soft voice. She was completely flustered by his unexpected action and not long after, her face grew into a shade of red. To much of everyone surprise, this caused them to hang their mouth slightly. 

“Is something the matter, Yaoyozoru?” said the clueless Todoroki.  
The question only brought Momo to blush more.

 No one brought up what happened while they made their way to their dormitory.

That is until they broke up into their small groups to do other tasks and hell broke loose. Now, once again, Momo was bombarded with questions by her friends.

They were gathered in her room, sitting on her bed discussing whatever that came to mind.
But it was mainly concerning what happened at the restaurant with her and Todoroki.

“What was that all about?” Jirou looked at her with a smirk.
“What even happened?” questioned Tsuyu and Tooru.

But a question that stuck out the most to her was, “Did you like it?”

Which was questioned by, Mina Ashido.

This caused Momo to blush profusely, she nibbled on her bottom lip before answering.
“I-I didn’t necessarily mind it…”

Simply thinking about it made her blush and she didn’t want to continue pondering on about it since she has a feeling it’s going to keep her up at night.
The girls just smiled and giggled. Deciding that this was enough and not continue on talking about it with their dear raven-haired friend.

“Say, Ochaco, I saw you staring at Midoriya across the table a couple of time. Mind enlightening us about that?” Tsuyu looked at her with a smug expression.
Not expecting to hear that, let alone having anyone notice, she laughs nervously and scratches the nape of her neck.

"Uhh...Well, you see."

 After a couple of hours, the girls decided to call it a night and go to bed, since they were feeling quite tired and wanted to get some sleep for their test tomorrow.
It was 10:14 pm and Momo needed some water to quench her thirst.

Upon arriving the lounge area, she spots a familiar red and white-haired classmate, but instead of sipping on his soup the other day, he was in the kitchen fixated in his textbook with books surrounding him. His hair looked somewhat disheveled and he had a frown painted on his face.

With the best of her abilities, Momo walked quietly to the kitchen, “Hello Todoroki.”
She smiles at him and makes her way to the fridge.
“Hello, Yaoyozoru.”
His voice was soft but yet stern, a type of tone where you could tell someone is incredibly concentrating on something.

Momo opens the top cabinets and pulls out a clean clay mug, closing it along the way, she proceeds to push the mug on the button that dispenses water out from the fridge dual ice maker. Before taking a seat in front of Todoroki, she peers over his shoulder to see what is troubling him and it seem to be substitution problem with two math equations--something they’ve learned quite a while ago.

“Do you need any help, Todoroki?” she asked him softly.
This caused him to jolt in his seat, not expecting to hear her voice much closer to him.
“I won’t mind helping you.”

Turning his head towards her, he notices that she has a mug in hand and is already decked out in her sleepwear; white tank top and red plaid drawstring shorts, paired with some fluffy white slippers

Hesitantly, he answered, “Yeah, but are you sure?”
Considering she’s dressed as if she was about to go to sleep soon, he did not want to pull her away from her slumber.

“Of course! I am always willing to help my friends and peers!” her voice was laced with determination.
Momo’s eyes twinkled in which followed along a huge smile.

A little over an hour passes by and the two sits in silence. Momo had her entire body facing Todoroki with her arm pressed up against the wooden table with her palm holding her head up, while the other fiddles with the hem of her shorts.

Without much thought, she stares at the pretty boy in front of her. He was currently wearing a black turtleneck and black joggers, pairing it with some navy slippers. The way the sweater hugs his body, she couldn't help but stare at his chest and during the duration of her staring in a way that a classmate should not be looking at their peer, Momo felt quite scandalous and stops herself from ogling at him any longer. 

Todoroki yawns quietly, “Yaoyorozu, you can go to bed if you want.”

The tiredness in his voice sounding somewhat husky perked Momo’s ears up. She has never heard his tired voice, so obviously, this piqued her interest to continue staying with him to listen to his alluring voice.

“It’s fine, I want to help you, Todoroki.”
“...That’s generous of you, but you should also be concerned for yourself too.”

Being persistent, Momo looked at him, “Please let me help you.”
The response caused Todoroki to turn his head to her.
“I have a feeling you are aware that I no longer need any help right now, so why is it that you want to stay?”

This caused the girl to giggle and she decides to break it to him, “Truthfully, I enjoy your presence, Todoroki.”
Shocked by her response, he raised a brow at her, “Is that so?”

Not expecting an answer-back, he resumes skimming through his textbook.
“Yes.” he heard a soft voice to his right.

Closing his book and pushing that away from him,
“Considering I have been studying for a few hours straight, I think I’m going to take a break.”

To Momo surprise, she did not expect to have a full blown on conversation with Todoroki at 12 am in their dormitory kitchen.

Not only he was very engaging in their talk and as well very entertaining. His tired voice was rather something very nice to listen to. It was so raw, but yet soothing. It was as if his guard fell down a bit and he didn't really have an ounce of hesitation when he spoke.

Momo tilted her head and looks at him, "Todoroki, do you have any plans for our upcoming holiday break?" 
He rubs the back of his neck and leans into his seat, "I plan on visiting my mother more frequently, but besides that, I don't really have any other plans."
"How about you, Yaoyozoru?" 

Suddenly, she was feeling quite cold and to subdue the chilliness, she simply rubs her arms and thinks for a moment, "I don't actually, my parents are on going on a trip together during this break and I plan on staying here during the duration of our break."

Todoroki notices her action and debates momentarily about using his fire quirk, "Are you cold?" He sees a few goosebumps arising from her arms and looks up into her eyes.
Momo bashfully smiles at him, "Yes, but I'm not feeling too cold." 

"Let me generate some heat for you." 
Before she knew it, he ushered her to move into his seat, as he sat on her previous seat, just so the heat is directed at her. Considering there is still some space between them, Todoroki decides to pull her seat near him, so that their arms are pretty much in contact. This caught Momo by surprised and this caused her to straighten up in her seat. She could feel the wool of his sweater and the heat that is radiating off from him, due to how comfortable she felt, she timidly leans towards arm a bit and nibbles on the bottom of her lip.

"Is this better?" 
"Y-Yes." 

“It's rather late, we should call it a night,” said Todoroki, he yawns tiredly into his palm and slowly lifts himself up from his seat.

Momo gasp quietly and agrees that they should go to sleep. Considering they have a test in the morning, she wants to get as much as she can so that she won't be tired while taking her test.

“My apologies for keeping you up, Yaoyozoru.”
She looks at him and chuckles, “It’s fine, Todoroki, I had a nice time talking with you.”

Todoroki simply nods in response and gather his supplies, as well with the help of Momo. He holds the majority of his materials while she carried a few things pens and notebooks. They made their way to their floor while walking in complete silence. 

When upon arriving at Todoroki’s room, he asks Momo if she could unlock his door for him and without hesitation, she happily does it for him. Before entering his room, Momo gave him the remaining materials to him and thanks her for holding his things. 

“Be sure to get plenty of rest because it is good to get a good amount of sleep for tests! Also, make sure to eat a healthy breakfast to help boost your brainpower. Plus remember to bring the correct supplies, so you won’t be deducted from it!”

Due to her unexpected outburst of reminders, this amused Todoroki and this caused him to break from his usual blank expression, he couldn’t help resist but crack a small smile and accidentally slipping out a quiet “heh” slips through his lips. This view caught Momo by surprise. 

“Thank you, Yaoyozoru,” he said softly while looking at her eyes.
She smiles brightly at him, “You’re welcome, Todoroki.”

He bids, Momo a goodnight and she replies back a goodnight as well. As he was closing the door behind him, she could have sworn she saw him still smiling. 
With such a small action coming from Todoroki, it caused her heart to skip.

[  Recently fixated only on you  ]

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[ I never get to talking like this (no)

only to myself in private (I swear) ]

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T H U R S D A Y : December 14th : 1:37am

As if she did not have already engulfed her face into her pillow, she delves in deeper into the abyss of her white pillow and lets out a groan.

“UGGGHHHHH” 
The raven-haired girl flails her legs like a toddler throwing a tantrum but soon stopped her obnoxious behavior. “Why did I do that? I already feel self-conscious around him.”

Before Momo fell into a deep slumber, her brain decided that it was a good choice to resurface the recent event that happened prior to them heading to bed. Leaning against his arm to garner more heat from him--thus causing her to be wide awake...

She props her chin up onto the pillow, “He must now think I’m throwing myself towards him and that I am a very strange person.”

She facepalms herself for expressing her bad manners towards, Todoroki.

Ever since the U.A. Sports Festival, she feels utterly humiliated towards herself, to the point it is almost self-loathing and completely depreciated, questioning if she is fit to be a hero. However, after redeeming she has the capabilities to what takes to be a hero, it has helped her self-esteem and confidence tremendously.

But after what happened, it feels as though those efforts were completely pummeled due to her lack of awareness. It may seem to be an exaggeration to others, but that is how embarrassed Momo feels at this moment and sometimes, she over-analyzes on things that her peers may perceive to be trivial.

It seemed to be that after the few encounters she has had with Todoroki, she has been over analyzing almost every single interactions they have had from the past few days. It is not her nature for her to behave like this, however, it seems to be that it is only him that is making her act this way.

She knows exactly why she is acting like this.

With her lack of self-confidence, Momo held Todoroki on a high pedestal, when it came to dangerous moments, he’s rational most of the time and is able to think on his feet without a second thought. In addition, he is very industrious when it comes to honing his quirk and studies. All in all, she has the utmost respect towards him and in a way, she feels the need to hold herself in higher standards.

Not long after contemplating, Momo faceplants into her pillow and sighs softly.

‘I need to sleep before I pull an all-nighter.’ she thoughts to herself.

 
T H U R S D A Y: December 14 : 7:15am

Momo places her school bag on the hook that is implanted on the side of her desk and sits in her chair. Soon after she retrieves a hairbrush from her bag and began brushing her black locks. She decided to tie her hair into a half ponytail since she is currently lacking the energy to style her hair in her usual up tie. Regardless, she wants to hold a presentable appearance.

After untangling a few knots in her hair, she places the brush in the bag and hears the classroom door slide open. Without thinking, she looks up and sees Todoroki at the entrance. This perks Momo to sit upright in her seat and her lips form a smile, she greets him a ‘good morning’ while watching him make way to his seat.  

He looks at her briefly and there was a moment of silence, soon he replied back, “Good morning, Yaoyozoru.” When upon seated, Todoroki continued looking at Momo and this caused her to feel a bit self-conscious and fiddles with the hem of her grey pleated skirt while looking everywhere in the room except him.

“Is something the matter, Todoroki…?”
“You hair is different today.”

She was not sure if he meant the good kind of different or the complete opposite meaning. Considering its Todoroki, she doesn’t know what he is thinking and this is making her feel a bit self-conscious.

“I wanted to try something different since I didn’t exactly have the time to style my hair this morning…” She shyly chuckles.
He nods in affirmation and averts his eyes from her.

Feeling relieved, she lets out a soft sigh and stops fiddling with her skirt. To push those pessimistic thoughts away whether he found her appearance strange or not, she decides to bring up the topic of their test.

“Are you ready for the test, Todoroki?”
“I believe so, I stayed up a bit after we said our goodnights and studied for about an hour.”
‘How diligent of you’ Momo thought to herself.

Planting his elbow on top of his desk and resting his chin on the palm of his hand, while maintaining eye contact with her.

“What about you?”
With his lax demeanor, it threw Momo off for a moment, “I... think I will do okay.”
“I think?” He furrows his brows together, “Have some more faith with yourself, Yaoyorozu.”

Ever since spending some time with Midoriya, Todoroki believes his optimistic demeanor has rubbed him onto his speech--not necessarily a negative thing, but something he caught on over the time they’ve spent together.

“I believe you should not underestimate your own intelligence.”

Hearing this from Todoroki caused Momo to stared at him with wide eyes, however, soon enough, she couldn’t help but shoot him a smile due to his shocking-encouraging words, “Thank you, I will try, Todoroki.”

He merely nods and breaks eye contact from her, as for her, she continued to look at him in a daze.

 
T H U R S D A Y : December 14th : 3:00PM

With testing out the way, UA’s students have officially started their two and a half-weeks Christmas holiday. The H-1 girls, Mina, Tsuyu, Ochaco, Toru, and Jiro, decided to head to a cafe for their success of the last day, but Momo decided to head up early for the day and get some sleep, due to the lack of hours she had last night.

Before heading back to the dorm, Momo decided to head to a convenience store to pick up some snacks she has been longing for weeks but hasn’t purchased them due to her busy schedule for the past month.

On her way to her FamilyMart, she felt a few water droplets cascading down her cheeks and noticed the raindrops gradually increase, within the span of three minutes, heavy downfall began hailing down. The concrete that was once dry with no watermarks is now soaking wet and glistening, the smell of the earthy-smell that rain would produce soon washed over the street and swirled their way into Momo’s nostrils.

Without hesitation, Momo unbuttons a few grey buttons of her school uniform and unveils a transparent vinyl umbrella from her upper chest. Propping the umbrella up to the cloudy sky, she no longer feels the raindrops against her skin. Upon resuming her way to the store, she gleams and praises herself silently for learning how to craft an umbrella.

The walk there didn’t take long, it took about eight minutes and before entering the sliding glass door, Momo saw a reflection of herself from the glass and noticed how disheveled her hair looked. It was extremely frizzy and was more poofy than usual. Grimacing at her appearance, she tries her best to flatten it out with the palm of her hand, but unfortunately, no avail.

Not paying attention to her surroundings, on the opposite side of the glass, Todoroki comes into view and before he passes by Momo, he notices her and stops in his tracks in front of her. She notices as well and this causes her to halt her action.

Without making it awkward, she bashfully smiles at him and mouths “hello” to him. He looks at her for a brief moment then turned his head away from her, pointing with his index finger at her. Puzzled by his action, her eyes followed where the direction where he was pointing at and her eyes landed on her very exposed cleavage. Gasping to herself, Momo quickly buttons the top of her grey suit.

‘Way to go to embarrassed yourself ’, she thought to herself.

After buttoning her outfit, her trembling finger, Momo reaches to the glass and taps softly, which gets Todoroki’s attention. She mouths him, “thank you” and he nods.

For a moment, Momo thought of just turning back and head back to the dorm, due to how embarrassed she is, however needing her snacks was her priority. Attempting to confidently strut her way into the convenience store, upon entering, the typical coffee-convenience store aroma washes over her and warmingly embrace her.

The cashier greets her and she smiles at them, replying back with a “hello”.

In hindsight, she catches Todoroki looking at the small pink box in his hand, slowly approaching from behind to see what he’s holding, to her surprise, it was a band-aid container with black cat paw designs plastered all over the cardboard box.

“That’s cute.” slips out of Momo’s lips.

Quickly covering her mouth, in hopes, he didn’t hear that she goes in the direction where they held her beloved snacks. After eating quite healthy, she believes it wouldn’t hurt to delve into some sugary and savory snacks. Which consists of a variety of consumables, such as yogurt and potato chips--with very low self-control when it comes to snacks, she was able to garner an armful of snacks that will only take one round trip to reach the cash register.

Ever since her classmates introduced her to convenience store snacks, it was love at first sight. It is not that she consumes all of these herself, she enjoys sharing these high-calories with her peers.

Momo skips delightfully her way to check out and after purchasing her goodies, she gathers the plastic bags and holds them with one hand, while the other is gripping onto the umbrella. Before, leaving the store, she sees Todoroki at the counter near the entrance struggling to wrap the familiar cat paw print bandage on his left pinky.

She walks towards him and he notices her presence.

“Oh hello, Yaoyorozu…”
Still attempting to wrap the bandage on his injured finger. Momo had to bite her bottom lip from giggling at the amusing sight.
“T-Todoroki, let me help you.” Her voice was laced with an amusing tone mixed along with a giggle.

She places her things on top of the wooden counter and opens her palm, addressing him to place his hand on top of them, affirming to her action, he places his large hand into hers. Gently holding onto the back of his hand, with her fingers wrapped around his and the tips of her fingertips softly touching his palm. Utilizing her other hand to unwrap the crinkled bandage from his skin.

With no struggle, Momo slowly but cautiously wraps the bandage around his pinky that had a quite long cut on the pad of his pinky. After wrapping the injured finger, she gently rubs with some force on the surface band-aid in an up-and-down motion to secure the bandage and stops, holding his hand gently within hers.

“There you go,” she whispers softly with a smile.
“Thank you,”  he responds back to the same level of volume.

She looks up from his bandaged pinky and sees that his cheeks were slightly tinted red. Not once she thought the most stoic boy she knows would have soft rosy cheeks looking directly at her in the eyes.

 
They both decided to head back to the dorm together and not ever thinking the shoujo moment Momo has read would come to life. With her under the transparent vinyl with Todoroki holding her plastic bags and the handle of the umbrella to keep them secure from the rain, practically shoulder to shoulder due to the proximity.

She felt a bit guilty for him to hold her snacks, but he insisted that he held it for her and to top it off, hold the umbrella for the both of them as they made their way to their dorm.

Chatting away about the test they had hours ago, bringing up questions they had a difficult time answering, as well inputting their input on how they went about it and end up with the solution they had for it. After that topic died out, Momo mentions about the earthy-smell that the rain produced.

“You smell pretty, Yaoyorozu.”
She whips her head to Todoroki and blushes furiously, “H-Huh?” she questions in disbelief.
“I’ve been smelling something sweet like peach aroma oozing from you and I was trying to pinpoint as to where it was coming from.”

Todoroki looked at her with a straight face as if what he said was nothing. Momo looks at him in shock and couldn’t hold the eye contact any longer, by detaching herself and looking towards her left. Not sure if she is capable to let out a coherent sentence at the moment, she struggles to say, “...T-Thank you, Todoroki.”

First time being complimented by a boy, let alone, Todoroki. Momo was genuinely surprised to hear this from him, considering he is one to keep things to himself and only will say things that needed to be said. So hearing this from him, it caused her to blush profusely.

[ but ooo you make me ooze subconscious  (yeah)

boy you know how to wreak havoc in my mind  ]

Chapter Text

[ The look in your eyes when you look at me. 
They are speaking to me ]

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 S U N D A Y : December 17th : 6:40pm

Today, Momo feels very ecstatic, not because she ate her favorite sweets, but she's going on a semi-shopping spree with the girls and for her, this is her first time experiencing the typical things that teenagers her age would usually do. She feels eternally blessed that she has wonderful friends to hang out with.

The girls decided to dress a bit more than their casual go-to-go outfits for the fun of it, not anything too flashy or dramatic, but something they feel more good about themselves. Surprisingly, none of the girls rejected the idea and felt it was nice of a change since they often don’t dress up unless there is an important event they are attending to. So when Mina came up with this idea, the girls were quite excited about dressing up.

Jirou decided to wear her black bomber jacket with a simple black striped tee underneath, paired with ¾ length black leggings and finishing the look with black Chuck Taylors. She typically doesn’t wear her bomber, since it was one of the few nice quality clothes she owns and it felt acceptable for this kind of circumstance, in addition, she felt a complete badass rocking em’. Not only she believes so, but the girls as well. In exact Mina words, “Girl, that outfit is killer!”

Tooru was decked in her white slim-fit turtleneck in which a thin tan suede v-neck dress that was placed on over if it weren’t for the cold weather, she would have worn it without the turtleneck. But knowing the sweater isn’t sufficient to endure the cold, she decides to wear a white loose knitted jacket. Then ending it with white thigh highs and some light brown slip on. Debating which bag to choose from, a white small backpack or some white shoulder purse, the girls ended up choosing the backpack to complete her very cute look. Ochaco couldn’t help but take multiple photos of her due to the very simple but yet cute outfit.

Tsuyu wore an oversize white pocket-tee with a soft plush forest green long cardigan, with the right corner of her t-shirt somewhat tucked in black jean shorts, not wanting to feel the cold breeze on her legs, she decided to go with some black tights and black runners. Jirou offered her to wear a beanie that matched the color of her cardigan to complete the look, to Tsuyu surprised, she really liked it.

The most noticeable thing the girls noticed about Ochaco's outfit was her choice of sneakers, it was Nike air uptempo, but instead of having it said “air” across the shoes, it said, “Ochaco” with peachy colored outlining the text and the girls decided to simply call her shoes “Ochaco uptempo”. Ochaco decided to wear an oversize salmon colored-hoodie with a black denim jacket draped over it and underneath the layers of clothes was a white tee, as for her legs, she decided to wear knee slit black skinny jeans. However, had the hem of her pants rolled up a bit to see her ankles. Tsuyu decided to make a light-hearted comment, “Showing your ankles? how lewd, Ochaco. Ribbit” This caused the girls to burst out laughing, Ochaco couldn’t help but blush, however, she ended up happily laughing along with the girls.

Mina being her bold-spunky-self, she decided to wear a low v-neck crop top with long black sleeves and ripped washed-out pink denim jeans, but underneath them were black fishnets. Pairing it with black high-tops sneakers and a pink windbreaker. Since the bottom of her abdomen was revealing, the girls couldn’t help but point out how much of a cute stomach that Mina has and none of them thought she could have gone any pinker.

Being Momo, the girls knew she is one to place comfort over style, however she always looked astounding to whatever she was wearing. Rocking her red Canada Goose parka with white faux fur, underneath the hefty jacket was a white sweater paired with a soft sweater vest that has three black stripes around the collar, evenly spaced out from one of another. Then wearing a red pleated skirt and some black tights with some black thick-heeled ankle boots. She felt like putting her hair into a half pony-tail, however using a red bow to tie her hair. The girls couldn’t help but gawk at their gorgeous friend and this caused Momo’s cheeks to redden.

Since Ochaco wanted to capture this moment with her friends, she announced to everyone that they should take a group selfie. No one protested and thought that was a great idea, not long after, everyone pose but yet stayed close to one of another, so everyone was included in the picture. They took multiple photos, however each of them varied, few of them captured the girls making silly faces, posing very confidently, holding each other’s waist, and posing in their natural/signature pose. Regardless that the photo shoot took about twenty minutes, the girls’ laughter filled the room and if one were to step into the area, they could immediately feel the positive vibes that is circulating the room.

In the midst of chatting, Tooru checked her phone to see what time it was and to her surprise, it was seven pm, they had only a few hours before it reaches their curfew time (which was ten pm).

“Hey guys, we should get going, it’s seven pm!” Announces Tooru.

This caught the girls attention and they immediately carried their conversation out of Ochaco’s room as they made their way to the exit of the dormitory. Along the way, some of the guys were out of their room relaxing in the lounge area and perked up in their seat as they were somewhat watching their classmates until they were out of sight. Obviously, apart from them, Mineta was hardcore staring, while salivating, this caused Jirou to make a disgusted expression, whispering herself, “Revolting” and had no issue slapping him in the face with her ear jacks.

Feeling the need to protect her friends from a pervert, she walked with her arms blocking the girls as if she was a bodyguard escorting out them out.

“Oi! Be safe, guys!” Yelled iida from the distance.
The girls shouted back, “Thank you!”

The girls finally made it out from the dormitory and were heading straight to the mall, which was surprisingly a twenty-minute walk there. As the girls converse with one of another, Momo was too distracted to be in the conversation, as her eyes were watching the tiny stars twinkled in the dark violet skies, it was as if someone poured a bucket full of stars into the night sky, because there were so many of them projecting above them, some varied from the others. There were those that illuminated brighter and there were those that were quite larger. Smiling to herself, she looks away and listens into the girls' discussion.

“Just out of curiosity, what is a big sign that you guys know your period is about to start?” Tsuyu asked out in the blue. This caused the girls to think for a moment and when a thought came to mind, they shared it amongst the group.

“Honestly, when I began to think Kirishima is a bit cuter than usual.” Mina sighed to herself and Jirou couldn’t help but whistle at that response, “Wow, how specific.”
Pouting slightly, “It’s like, out of all the dudes, it’s really just him.”

Tooru couldn’t help but giggle, “As for me, I would say I feel a bit more emotional than usual, especially over trivial things.”
“I would sometimes misplace my gloves in my room and whilst I was trying to find them, I would get a bit frustrated be teary-eyed.”

Ochaco fiddles with her fingers, “I can relate to that a lot, Tooru.”

“This one time, I was feeling a bit insecure about this scratch on my forehead, so I had to a put a bandage and I thought I looked pretty ridiculous. However, Deku noticed and said that I, mind you, these were his exact words, “you still look cute”. I couldn’t help but tear up from that statement.” She stuffs her face into her palms due to embarrassment. 

“That is so cute! I am surprised you and Deku isn’t dating yet!” exclaimed the giddy Tooru
“W-Wha do ya’ mean? He and I are good friends.”
“Pfft, that’s what they all say, girl.” Mina looked at her with a smug expression.

“Plus...I-I don’t think..that he is interested in me that way.”
“Have you seen the way he acts around you, Ochaco?” Jirou gave that look like “you better know what I am talking about”

“Guuuuysss, stop it.” Ochaco pouted while blushing furiously
The girls couldn’t help but giggle at her reaction. Momo genuinely enjoyed being with them and feels very grateful for having them in her life.

“We’re just stating some obvious indicters, Ochaco.” Tsuyu smiling at her.
“Tsu, plleeasee.” whined the brown haired cutie.

The girls made it to the mall and decided to hit up a good handful of stores, most of the time they spent window shopping, considering they’re high school students with limited fund, with the exception of Momo. However, she felt that it is important to purchase things if they are necessary...or if it is something she absolutely desires. Regardless, the girls had a very enjoyable time spending with one of another.

One of the shops they stopped by, upon entering, there were an array of tech items, arranging from phones, laptops and then headphones. The girls were scattered around the premise of the place, simply messing around with the displayed merchandise . While Momo, Jirou, and Tsu was in the headphone sections of the store, Momo decided to put on these headphones that were said to be, “sound-proof” and looked at the girls that accompany her, their mouths were moving, however the music that is playing in the electronic accessory and the padding of it, nullified their voices. Obviously not being able to hear what they were saying, she tried to decipher what they were by reading their lips.

Unable to do so, Momo was not entirely aware of her surroundings, asking quite loudly, “Excuse me, guys?” and “what are you saying?”. Jirou and Tsu noticing the unwanted attention that was brought by Momo’s unexpected booming voice, they kept shaking their hands and looking at her with worried wide eyes, trying to tell her to stop talking for a moment. Looking at her peripheral views, she saw what they meant and quickly but cautiously took off the headphones with flushed cheeks, soon after apologized to the people for her behavior. However, she ended up laughing at the situation after her apology.

After a couple of hours walking around the mall, it became quite a difficult task to continue on, so the girls decided to sit on the edge of the in-door fountain while sipping a cup of water that they’ve asked politely at one of the smoothies booths.

“Aaaghhh, I’m so exhausted. I haven’t had this much fun in quite a while.” said the tired Mina.
“It honestly felt like we’ve only been here for thirty minutes.” chirped in Tooru.

The girls silently agreed and continue sipping their water.

“Say, guys, you wanna head back to the dorms after we’re done resting up?” Jirou leans forward a bit to have a clear view of the girls to her right.
Almost in unison, the girls agreed, considering their curfew is in an hour, so that is plenty of time to head back without being late.

Ochaco sighed happily, “I am so glad that our break is actually a break. I've been needing to rest my limbs from all the training, Aizawa put us through.”
Momo nods in agreement, “There was hardly any breather, however, I greatly appreciate the excessive training, I feel as though I’ve honed my crafting skills and on-the-spot thinking.”

The girls soon talked about the things they have learned from training and chip in some ideas/ pieces of advice to one of another. Mina was about to interject, however, she felt a vibrate in her back pocket. Sliding her hand behind, Mina pulls out her phone from her back pocket and notices she has received a Snapchat message under the name, “zarusoba ”, for a moment she wasn’t sure who it was, but soon realized it was from Todoroki  

This shocked her because it's very uncommon for him to send messages, heck this was the first for her to receive one from him!

Very curious, Mina opened the messaged with no hesitation and soon became puzzled, he commented the picture of Momo genuinely laughing cheerfully with the letter, “h”. Again, she was surprised, since he wasn’t one to look at people’s story, let alone use the app at all.

Quickly, Mina typed, “Huh?” Before sending it, Todoroki sent a message before her finger hovered over the “enter” button.
“Ignore that message, my finger slipped.”

Scratching the nape of her neck with furrowed brows due to confusion, Mina quickly deleted her previous message, while typing, she quietly said “Ookaaayy…” into the text box, then clicked the enter button.

Not thinking much of it, she placed her phone back into her pocket. Then continue talking to her friends about their training.

S U N D A Y : December 17th : 9:50pm

The girls made it back to the dorm safely, with ten minutes remaining before it is past curfew. They’ve decided to head back to their rooms to sleep, however, there was one certain raven-haired girl that needed a glass of water to quench her thirst.

Yawning tiredly in her hand, her mind slips into the thought of Todoroki. She didn’t see him for since Thursday and was quite curious as to where he vanished to, as well when he will be returning, however, most importantly, she hopes he is doing well.

Upon entering the lounge area, Momo halted dead in her tracks with wide eyes,
‘Speak of the devil’, she thought to herself.

On the one-seater cream colored couch, there was him sitting in a lax posture with his legs wide apart while, utilizing his heels to help him sit up in his seat, while somewhat sinking into the cushion of his back, by laying his left forearm on top of the couch whilst his hand was dangling on the edge and the other hand is holding onto his phone. Even though his right side was facing her, by looking at his expression, it seems that he was transfixed to whatever is on the digital screen, furrowed brows and squinted eyes, as if he was trying to comprehend something.

Realizing she has been gazing him for a while, Momo forcefully removes herself from the trance and decides to have a small chat with him. She then walks towards Todoroki’s direction and naturally, she felt her lips curl up into a smile.

“Hey,” she said softly, however loud enough for him to hear.
It was quite subtle, but she noticed him slightly jolted in his seat. He moves his head where the voice came from and the words, “Yaoyorozu ” slips out his mouth velvety. Due to being surprised by her presence he did not notice.

She seats herself comfortable adjacent to him and pulls her legs up to overlap her right thigh over the other.  “What’re you doing here by yourself?” she asked.

“I just felt like relaxing in the lounge area,” he answered.
“I was planning to eat a quick meal, however, I feel as though it’s quite late for that.”

Momo nods her head in agreement and decides to shoot him a question she has been holding in since yesterday,
“Todoroki, If I may ask, where did you go for the past few days?”  

Daring to look at him, he was looking directly into her eyes while his phone was tugged away in his black fleece sweatpants pocket.
“I decided to spend some time with my mother and stay home for a bit.”

‘ Ah. ’ Momo thought, she knew a bit of his relationship he has with his parents from overhearing Midoriya talking to Todoroki about his family. Out of respect, she felt that she shouldn’t pry into his business that is concerning something personal and will only do so when it is presented to her by him.

Genuinely wanting to hear his time with his mother, she shoots him a bright smile, “You mind telling me how it went?”
Shocked by her curiosity, he looks away and it took him a moment to say, “It went fine, I...”

The unexpected pause caused Momo to tilt her head, however, she stayed quiet, anticipating what he is about to say. Watching his face, his lips soon formed into a gentle smile, causing her heart race to beat a bit abnormally. It was rare for him to see him smile and when it does happen--it is absolutely captivating.

“I feel that each visit, her smile feels warmer.” His smile was still much present, however, his expression seems soft , as if he was in a daze.
Scratching the nape of his neck, “For quite some time, I thought mother wasn’t particularly fond of me, hell, I thought she even despised me.”

“To my surprise, that doesn’t seem the case at all, it was her who was afraid that I despised her because of her action. However, I never had any hard feelings against her and I guess that’s what helped reconcile our relationship.”

Pushing the strands of hair fanning across his temple, he pushes them back revealing more of his scar, “To recover the time we’ve lost, I want to make every visit memorable for my mother and I.”

Exhaling and inhaling longingly, as if his words took away his breath, “I hope mother enjoys my visits like I do with her.”

Momo has always listened to him talk, however this time, she was completely astonished as to what he is said, since it is rare to hear him talk about a matter so earnestly especially something regarding quite personal, specifically about his mother. Considering these types of conversation doesn’t occur often, she genuinely hope he continues talking about the things he is passionate about with her, the way he spoke about it made him radiate tremendous happiness and that has seeped out to her, also feeling the same energy he is feeling.

When he is happy, she feels happy as well, simple as that.

Gazing at him with gentle eyes, “Of course she does, dummy.”
Completely in disbelief to what she said, she covers her mouth in hopes it alleviates her from saying anything.

“What makes you say that, Yaoyorozu?”
Todoroki looked at her with genuine curiosity, whilst feeling a bit impatient for her awaited response.

Swallowing thickly, “Who wouldn't?” Answering in the same questioning tone as him.
Raising a brow towards her, “Are you implying that you feel that way with me?"

Suddenly feeling a surge of confidence course through her body, she leans towards him by hoisting her upper body against the arm-rest.
“What if I am?” she whispered daringly.

Catching his eyes widened a moment, his mouth twitched into a smirk,
“That hasn’t really answered my previous question, Yaoyorozu.” Feeling a bit teased from her responses.

Biting down the smile that was trying to make its way to Momo’s lips, “You mean you simply do not feel satisfied with that answer?” she asked rhetorically.

This caused Todoroki to scoff, however, his smirk never seemed to faltered from his gorgeous face, “Wow, since when did you become sassy?”

The bantering caused the two to laugh quietly together, not wanting to disrupt their sleeping classmates in the facility.
After their laughter came to a ceased, Todoroki was the first to say something.

He was also interested in how her day went, “I saw that you hung out with the girls at the mall, tell me how did that go.” Before she questioned him when he saw them, he lifted himself from the furniture and made his way to sit on the end of the couch that Momo was sitting comfortably in. This stirred up another question as to why he moved closer, but she decided not to press about it.

She raised a brow at him, “How did you know?”
“Ashido posted a picture of you guys hanging out at the mall on her Snapchat story,” he said bluntly.

Even more flabbergasted, this caused the gates of questions to break open, “Y-You have a Snapchat? What picture did she post?”

He merely nods for her first question and pulls out his phone from his pocket, impulsively, she scoots closer to him to see the picture, however, this meant their thighs will be pressed up against each other and her right arm was pressed against his left arm, whilst slightly leaning towards him. Todoroki noticed how close she was but didn’t bother to move an inch away from her.

He pulls up Mina’s story and shows her the picture of the group at the mall posing with silly accessories, then taps his screen to show the other pictures she has taken and as soon his finger taps the screen once more, his screen was engulfed with Momo’s laughing face beaming with clear indication that she was having a good time with her friends. This caused Momo to take a closer inspection of the picture, feeling a bit self-conscious about the way she was grinning.

No one said a word as they were viewing the pictures, however, Todoroki decided to break the silence, “You look quite lovely in this picture, Yaoyorozu.” Stating as if it was a fact.

Momo head shot up and once again, his eyes were on her. He had his stupid blank face, not aware how that compliment made her feel.
They continued to gaze at each other as she replied back with a quiet, “thank you”.

Due to the close proximity, Momo can clearly smell the clean fragrance of the shampoo he used oozing from him, it felt quite tantalizing, it was as if his smell was making stay put in the position she was in.

Todoroki merely blinks and for a moment, she swears he leaned in a bit closer to her face,
“Mind telling me how your day went?”

[ Everything about you is perfect ]