WARNING: BELOW CONTENT IS SUGGESTIVE WITH SUICICDE!
PROCEED WITH CAUTION!
THERE IS NO DEATH IN THIS CHAPTER!

"Sato!" I called out from ahead of him on the bus, "Do you think you can make some cupcakes when we get back to the school?"

"Hell yeah!" Mina cheered, "VICTORY CUPCAKES!" Everyone was cheering to that point, except Todoroki and Bakugou, both of who had quiet and tired looks on their faces. They were deep in thought about something, both things I could tell were not the exam we had just taken.

"Uh, yeah, I can try," He said, his face getting completely red. I gave him back a full smile and slipped back into my seat.

"You seem much more relaxed than you were before the test," Jiro said, "Then before... ever actually."

"I am... it feels... good..." I gave her a smile and turned to look out the window, "Any good music for the ride back?" Her face turned red and she showed me her new song. Yeah... these were my friends... family.

I sat in the kitchen until Sato was done making the cupcakes, and then I took one and headed outside. Though my bridge with Bakugou was mending and the others were people I'd love to spend today with... there was someone else who I wanted to spend it with even more. Someone I hadn't seen in a while...

"Hello?" I asked while knocking on the door with my foot, "Are you there?"

"Nana?" A tired voice said as they headed down the hall, it was Present Mic. I was surprised to hear him sound so exhausted... though I suppose I'm not the only one who had a long day. "Who ya looking for?"

"All Might," I told him, "I come bringing a cupcake." I held up the chocolate and red frosted sweet that Sato didn't know I walked away with. "Do you know where he is?"

"He goes out for a jog every night, but he should be back soon," He replied, "Want me to wait with you?"

"It's okay," I said and gave him a smile, "I'll wait outside for him."

"Alrighty then, Little Lady!" He gave me a bright smile back as I headed past him. A calming voice saying to Present Mic, "I told you it'd be a good surprise." I didn't look back, I just kept smiling and blunged forward.

I waited outside in front of the Staff Dorm for several hours before I spotted All Might walking with Bakugou and Midoyria, they could barely see me as I sat out front in a dimly lit area, but Bakugou had looked over at just the right time and pointed me out to the others. All Might was the only one to walk over to me though.

"What are you doing out here?" He asked, "It's late." His voice sounded tried and heavy, as if there was something he needed to say but just couldn't get out.

"Present Mic knows I'm out here," I said, "I was waiting for you." I pointed to the cupcake that I had covered up so nothing would get to it while I sat out on the lawn. "I wanted to have my cupcake with you today... I always had it with someone..." He looked at me, no smile, no emotion, nothing at all, you couldn't even see the blue of his eyes anymore.

"Did you just bring one?" He asked and motioned for Bakugou and Midoryia to join us.

"Sato made a lot... there might be some left over at our building..." Bakugou's eyes ripped through my body as we talked, as if he had to say something he couldn't. Midoryia was carrying the same weight which is what told me something had happened between the three of them. I stood up with the cupcake and gave a small, half-smile. "It's a bad time, I can tell... I'll see you tomorrow." I went to leave, but All Might grabbed my arm, finally smiling on something that reminded me of her. It's not a real smile.

"Happy Birthday, Nana," He said to me before letting me head off once more. Though his smile was fake and held back by something, his words were real, that's what made me smile on my way back to the dorms.

The walk back was cold and my body felt heavier than before, tears trickled in my eyes for reasons I couldn't understand, and in that moment... I felt like running again. Which is exactly what I did.

I dropped my cupcake in the grass and ran back to the dorms, letting the tears fall as my breath swayed between heavy and cold. There was this blank piece of me that began to shutter and climb and divide inside of me, I wasn't breaking back to who I once was... but something inside of me now felt... hollow. Like yesterday, when All Might and Grand Torino both gave me worried looks of distant memories... They're expectations were broken... and so were mine.

I dropped on my bed in my room, closing the door so quietly that no one could hear it. Down the hall Momo and Tsu slept peacefully and the dorm filled with the rest of this quiet and empty feeling. I buried my face in my pillow and closed my eyes, she once said to me that when the clock hits 12:00 on both days, a day is over. Right now, the clock on my desk was reading 11:30 and all I wanted was for today to end so I could sleep.

11:47.

Knock... Knock... Knock........

The last knock on my door drifted off into silence, as if the person knocking had given up halfway through it, still, I muffled a sound and the door creaked open. I could smell a sweet scent carrying in and another that smelled of lemon and tar with enough dirt behind it to mask the sweet smell of food.

"What the hell were you thinking dropping a god damn cupcake on your birthday?" The voice asked as they shut the door behind them and headed towards me. It was the same heavy steps I had felt earlier, the same steps that had saved my life time and time again... the same ones that always made me feel better... feel safer.

"Does the Extra need to slide over?" I asked while I lifted my head up from my pillow, our eyes meeting in the dark light of my room. I couldn't see his smile, and he didn't speak at all, he just pushed me with his hand. I rolled onto my back and sat up, my arm brushing the wall as he sat beside me, crossing his legs.

"There were two more left so I brought it to you," He said, his tone icy and cold as a small light sparked in my room. It was on top of the cupcake... I remember once, the Doctor had told me about it, a birthday candle, though I never had a cupcake with it before.

"Thanks," I said with a smile as I watched the flame dance shadows overs the iced sweet in his hands, "For everything..."

"I wasn't the one who made you smile," He said, his voice still cold to me as I heard something else behind it, something that hurt.

"Not the first time..." I said and stared at the cupcake as he set it down between us, "But the thought of you does now that I know what it feels like." I could feel his head snap to me, but I paid it no mind, admiring the flame that was listening to it's own music.

"What's that suppose to mean?" He asked, a small smile in his voice.

"I read a book with a dog in it called a Pomeranian..." I said, my smile growing, "There was a picture of one when it was angry and it reminded me of you." Crackles filled the room as my laugh drowned them out, a hand covering my mouth as I began to get to loud.

"Don't," He said and took my hand, pulling it away from my face. He wasn't rough or mean when he pulled my hand down, his hand gentle took my fingers and guided my hand away. He was holding mine in the darkness and refused to let go, though I didn't try to pull away. "Don't ever cover that beautiful smile." My face turned red, and I could see was too, this silence was slowly turning uncomfortable, so... I said something stupid.

"Todoroki already beat you to that compliment," I said with a small smirk, "Beautiful has been taken." He let out a small growl as I laughed again. "You are a Pomeranian." He let out a small chuckle as the hand of mine that he held turned cold. He let it go. "So I've never actually had a candle before, how does it work?" He wasn't surprised.

"You blow it out," He said, the silent pause was a way for him to think, "When you do, you make a wish, but you can't tell it to anyone, or it won't come true." I nodded in understanding. A wish... something I really, really wanted. We sat there for a minute as he let me think... I had gotten everything I could have asked for today... I was moving forward so much and though I didn't know as much, I knew a lot more than I did... but something about all of this still bothered me. It was something I was too scared to ask for, something I could never get over either. "You don't have to wish for something?"

"I just don't know how possible it is..." I confessed, "But if I wish it, I can't tell you..."

"Then tell me before you make the wish, idiot," He scoffed out under his breath and I hit him in the arm. Silence fell between us again, and it was in that silence that I decided I didn't want to have anymore secrets from Bakugou.

"My Dad," I confessed, "My Mom said that he was a Hero... she never told me a name or anything, and only ever told me that I look just like him." I let out a breath. "You're the only person I'm telling how much I want to find him... I want to ask him and tell him so much. I want to see if he knows about her, ask if he ever knew about me." Tears began to form in my eyes as the cupcake was moved aside. "I want to know why he didn't save me..." Bakugou filled the space between us and held me tight. One hand on the back of my head, the other on my back, holding me close to him as I cried into his chest, feeling as weak and useless as I did the first day we met.

"Then wish to meet him," He whispered to me, "No one will fault you if that's what you want... no one at all." He pulled back, my hand still holding his arm to keep him here.

"Will you stay?" I asked, "Even after I make my wish?" He nodded, keeping this small spacing between us as he slid the cupcake back in front of me. He had me close my eyes and blow it out, thinking only of my Dad when I did so. I tried to picture him, big and strong and small like me, with golden blonde hair and bright blue eyes. I tried to imagine his Hero costume, if it was like Bakugou's or All Might's, or even my Mom's... I wondered if it was exactly like mine.

"Nana," Bakugou snapped me out of my thoughts by wiping the frosting on my nose and mouth, a chuckle coming from his thin smile, "Don't get to distracted." I licked my lips and smiled at the taste, his face turning even more red in the darkness. "You idiot." He reached over and wiped the frosting off my nose, leaning in closer so his face was only an inch away from mine. It must've been hard for him to see if he got it all because he stayed there for a minute and watched nothing else but me.

"Are you tired from failing today?" I said and his eyes snapped down, an explosion in his hand making the cupcake go KABOOM! all over my room. We both started laughing and continued to talk until well past 12:00.

2:37 is the next time I woke up, to the boy who would always save and protect me, laying beside me. He held his arms around me as I slipped out from under the covers and fixed them so he was under them. Then, I headed over to the balcony and stood outside, watching the moon in the sky.

It looked the same as the night I was rescued, but it had a brighter glow to it. I caught my breath in my throat as I climbed onto the railing. The wind was rushing and running and pulling every which way at my oversized hoodie and leggings.

"If you jump, you will fly... not fall," The voice from the exam whispered to me. It was deep and heavy, but it was not that of a man, and it was not my own. That is why I jumped from the railing that night.

Because I knew it was her's.