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𝙆𝘼𝙈𝙄𝙉𝘼𝙍𝙄 𝘿𝙀𝙉𝙆𝙄

"I've never really liked all the noise life brings."

THE SAME SENTENCE HAD ECHOED IN EVERY CORNER OF DENKI'S MIND DURING THE WEEKEND. Eyes that blankly stared up at the ceiling of his bedroom as he lay on his bed. The strips of LED lights that lined the edges illuminating the room in a purple glow.

It had been a few days since the start of school when he had walked Uzumaki home and received that answer to his question. And it had been bothering him since.

Denki couldn't wrap it around his head on what she meant. What exactly did she mean when she said 'the noise that life brings'?

Sighing at the single thought, he got up to a sitting position, pulling his legs in to sit cross-legged. The calm atmosphere of his room didn't help calm his own thoughts, not even the soft lo-fi beats that played from his speaker.

Shaking away his previous thoughts, Denki instead tried to focus on all the interactions that he'd had with the girl during the week.

He could say he was making progress in getting to know her and be her friend. The whole week, he had greeted her before first periods and asked her to join him for lunch- though she had declined his offer of joining him with his friends. Then he would walk her home after school, too.

Yeah, he definitely was making progress.

Just thinking about how he was one step closer, was giving his cheeks the tint of red. A smile that he couldn't force away appeared on his lips, the fluttering in his stomach made him giddy. Denki took his pillow and pressed it to his face to suppress an embarrassed whine. "God, I feel like those in-love highschool girls from those manga Ashido reads."

Lowering the pillow onto his lap, Denki had his eyes on his phone now. It was by the small table next to his bed, he was tempted to pick it up, to at least find something to distract him from his constant thoughts of Uzumaki.

Tapping into his messaging app, the first thing he saw was the muted group chat that consisted of him and his friends.

90+ messages

And it hasn't even been long since he last opened the chat.

Denki sighed, scrolling up the countless messages from his friends, seeing an ungodly amount of memes and texts in all caps. Sometimes, even he wondered if he and his friend group shared the same brain cell.

Finally after finished scrolling through the texts, Denki typed in his own message into the chat.

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ya like jazz? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Kaminari, Kirishima and 4 others

Denki
hey
anyone wanna come over?

Eijiro
sure bro
b thr in 5

Hanta
why'd u wanna hang tho

Denki
why not
it's not like u hv anything to do

Hanta
damn don't gotta out me
but ye sure, I'll go

Denki
wbu @katsuki?

Katsuki
fuck no

Denki
so mean
(｡•́︿•̀｡)

Eijiro
how bout the girls?
you wanna join?

Mina
nah fam
me n kyo are having a girl's day with the others ʕ•ε•ʔ

Kouka
yea
wanna get away from all that testosterone sometimes
esp y'all

Hanta
oUcH

Hanta
but cmon u love us
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ノ♡~

Kyoka
ew no go away

Hanta
why do you wound me like this
( TДT)

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"Bro- WHY?! I had diamonds in my inventory!" Denki wanted to throw his phone out the window, his frustration unbearable as he saw the words 'you died' on his screen.

Sero only cackled in response from where he sat on the carpeted floor, his own eyes glued to his phone. Moving his avatar through the pile of fallen items on the ground. "Not my fault you didn't regen fast enough before that creeper blew up in your face!"

Continuing to scream at his death, Denki could only respawn and find Sero's avatar. Then he'll kill him as his form of payback.

Kirishima -who sat in a chair in Denki's room- sighed at the two of them. "We're literally playing a survival, we're supposed to survive."

The three boys had phones in their hands, all of them playing Minecraft together just like they usually do. Occasionally, even Bakugo would join but those times would include a lot of yelling.

Trying to find his way back to the ravine they were in, Denki's thoughts were invaded by Uzumaki yet again. Having his friends over was the plan to maybe talk with them about his dilemma. So he sighed, catching their attention.

"What're you sighing about now, bro?" Kirishima's eyes glanced at the slightly dejected form Denki was in, then looking back at his game.

"Y'know how I'm kinda making progress with Uzumaki, right?" He said, not even playing his game anymore as he fell back to sprawl himself across his bed. The two nodded at his question.

"Well, now I just don't know what do to anymore. Like, what can I do to make her wanna hang out with me?" Maybe he was overthinking things, having Uzumaki even tolerate him and even agree to him walking her home was already a feat in itself.

He remembered how back in first year, Denki barely saw her with anybody in school. How she mostly kept to herself rather than with anyone else, he's never seen her eating lunch with anyone before either.

"Maybe just, I don't know, ask her stuff. Like what she likes or something." The redhead hummed, receiving an incoherent grumble as his response from the blonde. Now, both Kirishima and Sero had turned off their phones too, the Minecraft survival world wasn't their priority right now.

Humming, Sero crossed his arms. "How about asking her out tomorrow? I mean, you have her number right?"

"Yeah." Denki could still feel the embarrassment of when he was asking for her number the other day. His words were all over the place, his heart was pounding so much from nerves he'd thought he would faint right in front of her.

"Then ask her! Out for lunch or something, you'll get to talk with her a bit more like that." Taking in his friend's words, Denki nodded at their advice. Some newfound courage filling his body as an idea came to his head.

Yeah. He was gonna do that, he was gonna man up and make a move.

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—hi everyone!!
sorry for not updating last week!
i honestly hate how much homework online classes are giving me ugh
its like, 10x the amount they usually give in school like wtf
and they expect me to finish it in three days the heck i-

so yea, anyways i hope you're all enjoying asphyxia so far!

-kuno.
(26 - 6 - 20)
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