Katsuki's POV:

I see a wig and put it on without Shoto noticing. Then I grab a crop top and place it over my clothes. I call Shoto and start flipping my hair like a girl. We both start laughing hard. In the middle of laughing, I hear, "Bakugo? Todoroki?" It sounds familiar, so I look up. It's Kirishima. Crap. He had a piercing in his hand, but it was now on the floor and he had this look of pure shock on his face. I definitely did too. I forgot that he was going to get his piercing today. How could I forget? I'm such a screw up. I see Shoto look at me and then back at Kirishima. I take off the wig quickly and stand up straight.

"Tch what's up Shitty Hair!?" I yell. He just looks at me. "Um why are you two hanging out together? And laughing together? I thought you hated each other. I'm so confused. What's going on?" I don't know what to say. I'll just be my rude old self. "What's it to you Boulder? This is none of your goddamn business!" I hate yelling. Shoto doesn't know what to do either. He's just as surprised as I am. "Just tell me what's up Bakugo," Kirishima says. I look over to Shoto to see if he approves of me telling Kirishima about us. He just nods. I turn around to look at Kirishima and take a deep breath. Shoto gets closer to me and I say, "We're on a date."

I blush and look away in embarrassment. Will he judge us? Does he care? Will he tell everyone? When I look back up at him quickly, I see that he has this big smirk plastered on his face. "I knew you were going on a date! I just didn't know it would be the the person you hate the second most. Since Midoriya is first. This is so great!" Me and Shoto look at each other. He's just as confused as I am. "So you don't hate us now?" He shakes his head no. "Of course not, why would I? You're still the same old Bakugo I know. My best friend." He smiles widely and I smile back. I look at Shoto and he's smiling too.

I sigh in relief and Shoto picks up Kirishima's piercing. "Here you go," Shoto says. "Oh thanks bro." He takes it and says, "I came to get a tongue piercing. I finally decided." I nod in approval. "Okay cool dumbass." He sighs sadly and then we just stand there for a while. "Oh yeah I'll leave you guys to your date. I totally forgot. I won't tell anyone about this until you decide when you guys want to come out, you know? It wouldn't be very manly of me to just expose you guys." He waves and leaves. I look at Shoto and he sighs with a smile. "I'm surprised you told him. That's great." I nod. "Yeah I know. I just hated keeping this from him. I'm already hiding so much. I know this was risky, but I just had to tell him."

We keep looking at band shirts and Shoto decides to get us matching band shirts. I only agreed because when I said no his face looked completely defeated. It made me feel guilty, so I complied. I hated that he made me feel like this. Anyways, we got matching My Chemical Romance shirts. I know, so original and no one has heard of this band. Note the sarcasm. We got the one of the Danger Days album. They were on sale, buy one get one free, so it's basically like he didn't really buy it. So win-win. He got me and him matching bracelets too though. They were pretty damn great if you ask me. They were thin and made out of brown leather.

"I'll pay for the stuff. You have to save up to buy groceries remember?" I nod. "Yeah I know but I hate that I don't have that much money so that I can buy us matching stuff," I say. He just nods. "I get it, but for now, I get to spoil you all I want." I look at him as I blush. "Tch don't day stuff like that. You know I get all flustered you jerk!" He laughs as we head to the cash register. We out the stuff down and he pays. "I'm paying you back just so you know." He shakes his head no. Then he perks up and says, "I know. How about hugs? Or cuddles. If you're not comfortable, then you can be big spoon." The lady gives us our change and I don't know what to say. "I um. Wha-huh?"

He laughs and I start laughing too. We walk out of the store and look around to see if there's any people that we know. We see that the coast is clear and head out. I think about the cuddles and being held is something that I really need sometimes. "Okay, I'll give you cuddles but I want to be little spoon. I'll be big spoon sometimes, but um yeah." He smiles at me brightly. "Really? Oh that's so great. You trust me Katsuki?" I look him straight in the eyes and nod. "Of course I do Shoto. You're just an amazing person and I trust you a lot. You still don't know a lot about me, but I will tell you about it. Okay?"

He nods eagerly and quickly replies, "You don't have to tell me. I'm so SOOOOOO happy that you trust me." He throws his hands out wide as he yells 'so.' It makes me laugh a bit. "What time is it?" I check the time and see that it's already 9:30. I gasp. Oh no. Oh no I'm so fucked. I'm going to die. Shoto just looks at me curiously. "What? What time is it?" I look at him and grab his arm as I run toward where we entered. "It's 9:30 and I have to be home by ten or I'm so dead!" We're running and dodging anyone that gets in our way. "Um I can call my parents to come pick us up. They're shopping at a store near the mall."

I stop and turn around. "Would you do that for me? I really need to be home. Ugh I hate this! Why didn't I check the time! That's all I had to do!" I pull at my hair and yell at myself. He pulls my hands away and says, "Hey don't do that. Come on let's go outside and I'll call my parents on the way there okay?" I nod and look away embarrassed. I just did that in front of him. How embarrassing! He doesn't know that I harm myself and I don't want to tell him now. I'm not ready yet. I need a little more time. I follow him outside and tells me his parents will be here in 2 minutes.

He looks at me as I'm trying to avoid his stare. "Katsuki are you alright? Why are you so scared of being late? It's not really something to be that scared about. Is it because of something else?" I don't know which question to answer. "Um I don't want to talk about it now. I'll tell you. Just not now. Okay? But I will tell you." He nods and looks at me with a small smile on his face. I smile back and turn around when I see a car stop in front of us. "Okay get in we'll get you home before 10." I nod quickly and hop in. Shoto follows after and then he gives his parents my address.

His dad drives as fast as he can without breaking the law and by the time we get to my house, I see the lights on. Fuck. I check the time and see that it's 9:56. Phew. I get out and wave at Shoto. "I'll bring the snacks to school and the clothes too. I know you don't have time right now. So I'll see you tomorrow okay?" I nod and smile at him before closing the door. I stand there and wave goodbye as they drive away. Then I run to the house and carefully open the front door with my bag. As I walk in, I'm met with a punch to the face. She hit my forehead, it didn't hurt a lot, but I was caught by surprise. "It's a minute until 10, it's close enough, so now you're getting the beating of a lifetime!"

I just stumble backwards and the door closes. "Stand up straight!" I do so and wait for the punches. She punches me straight it the gut and I hunch over, covering my stomach with my arms. "Move your arms or I'll punch your face some more too!" I quickly move them and she starts going at it like crazy. Each punch feels like a stab in my lungs. Her hits get harder and harder as she continues. "This is what you get for being late!" She kicks my shin and I fall forward in pain. I haven't made any noises at all. Just harsh breathing and the noise of my body hitting the ground. She starts kicking me, her foot landing everywhere but my face.

One kick landed right on my chest and it took all the air out of me. I gasped for air and held my hands to my neck. She kept kicking and that made it much harder to breathe. When she kicked my shin again, I let out a loud shriek of pain. She stopped and went to the kitchen. I heard some shuffling as I tried to catch my breath. I curled into a ball when I saw her come back with a beer bottle. "Why were you out so late? I saw that boy in the car! Who was that?" I shudder and try to speak. When I open my mouth, I start crying. Sobs are the only thing escaping my mouth until she drinks the whole beer and throws the glass on my head.

A scream of pain leaves my mouth and then she yells at me again. "Answer my question you fag! Who the fuck was that boy?" I say, "He was just a friend. Please believe me!" She just shakes her head and kicks me harder than before. I grunt in pain from every kick she lands. She picks me up after a while and forces me to stand up. She throws a punch to my face. She hits my nose and the pain I felt was the last thing I remember.

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I wake up to the light hitting my face. I groan as I try to get up because my head is killing me and my whole body hurts. I go to grab my head, but when I touch it, I feel something hard and rough. Oh yeah, she broke a bottle on my head, so it's probably dried up blood. What's today? It's Friday. Oh no. Fuck. I try to find my phone and see that it's right next to the door. Thankfully, there's no cracks. I turn it on and see 12 missed calls from Shoto and 37 messages. It's already 4, so school should be over soon. At least I had time to rest. Mother is at work right now.

I open the messages and see things like. 'Where are you?' 'Are you okay?' 'What happened?' Just things like that. The most recent message saying, 'I'll go over after school to check on you.' I gasp and get up as fast as I can. He can't come right now. Mother gets out at 4:15 today and she'll be home by 4:30! I quickly type in my phone, 'no don't worry about it. My mom doesn't like people over when she's not here. I just overslept. Sorry for scaring you.' I walk up the stairs and get some clothes so that I can shower.

The pain throughout my body is almost unbearable and the pain in my shins makes it so that I have to limp as I walk. I grab my clothes and head to the restroom. I check my phone and see that Shoto texted me back as soon as I sent the message. 'Oh I'm glad you're okay. I thought something happened.' Can you hang out this weekend?' I don't want him so see me like this so I can't. I really like spending time with him and I don't think Mother would mind, but I don't want to explain this to him yet. 'My mom had plans, so I'm kind of busy this weekend. We can still text though.'

'Yeah that's true. Anyways, how was yesterday? Did you like it?' Of course I did, it was the best day of my life. I couldn't tell him that exactly though, so I just put, 'Of course! It was so fun. Will there be another?' After about 30 seconds, I see that he responded. 'Yes I hope so!' I smile at that and then tell him that I have to shower. He just says, 'okay I'll text you later then.'

When I put my phone down, I see my face in the mirror. My nose is puffy and there's dried blood in my hair. It makes it look stiff and gross. When I take off my shirt, I see how purple my body is. I turn around to see my back and of course it's the same as my chest. I take off my pants and see the bruises all over my legs and my shins have a yellowish color around the purple bruises. I wince as I walk towards the shower to turn it on. And when I reach to turn it on, my chest feels like it's going to burst. The pain is so bad, but I just need to shower. Just try to finish before Mother gets home. I know that won't happen because it's already past 4:15.

As I slowly get in after talking off my underwear. The water is warm and when it hits my skin, the pain overpowers how great the shower was supposed to feel. The water is hitting all the bruises and I try to hurry and finish. After about 10 minutes, I decide that I've had enough pain. I turn off the water and when I step out, I see that the blood had come off after scrubbing painfully for 2 minutes. I put on my clothes after drying myself slowly, and grab a Ziploc bag and put ice in it. I try getting up the stairs quickly, but that fails, so I just go slow. When I close my room door, I grab my phone and lay down on my bed. I lay down on my back and put the bag of ice on my face and text Shoto.

'Hey I'm out of the shower now. I'm pretty bored at the moment. How was training today?' As I wait for a response, I go to YouTube. I don't know what to watch, so I just go to my watch later and see which video looks the most interesting. I find some music that I wanted to check out to see if I should download. Just stuff that came out on my recommended. I don't get a notification for a while. About 10 songs later, he texted me back. It's not like I was anxiously waiting for his text back. Psh nooo...

He texted me 'training was the same as usual. It had a twist to it. A lot of people were worried that you didn't show up. They became more worried when you didn't call in.' Oh that's true. I'm supposed to call in. I just reply with, 'Oh yeah but it's no big deal. I'll just tell them that I overslept.' He takes a while to respond. 'So I'm thinking about where we should go on our next date. I've been looking at when the carnival is coming, and it turns out that it will come at the end of November. You want to go?' I think about it for a while. It'll be a lot of money, but I can save up. Maybe pick up some cans and stuff. Yeah, maybe that'll work.

I reply, 'Yes that sounds great Shoto. I can wait!' I hear the door open aggressively downstairs and jump up. Oh no Mother is here. I pretend to be asleep so that maybe she'll just leave me alone if she comes in. I hear the stomping up the staircase and immediately get under the covers even though my bruises are a fucking pain. I hear the door swing open and hit the wall. After a few seconds, I hear the door slam shut and then hear footsteps going down the hallway and then down stairs. Crap this was going to be one long and excruciating weekend.

I plug in my earbuds and decide to listen to some music. I should sleep since I'm really tired too. I check my notifications one last time and see that Shoto texted me again. I open it and read the message. 'Okay awesome! I can't wait either.' I should tell him that I'm going to sleep since he'll probably be worrying if I don't respond again. I decide to say, 'I'm going back to sleep. I'm really tired. I might be getting sick or something. Hopefully not, but wish me luck. I'll message you when I wake up okay?' I only wait a few seconds before getting a reply. 'Okay Katsuki. I really hope you don't get sick. Sweet dreams.'

I smile at the text and out my 'soft music' playlist so that I can sleep. Any other playlist, and I'd be dancing and singing to the music. I plug my phone in to charge and roll over carefully. I'm on my stomach now and I put my hands under my pillow and face my head towards the wall. Putting my face right on the pillow, would hurt my nose and that would not go well. I close my eyes and then finally drift off into sleep.

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Word Count:3042 Okay so like I know I posted really late today and I'm SUPER DUPER SORRY!! Okay so right now I was looking for my fluffy cat sock because I had one and I couldn't find the other so I was like 'ahh I need to finish this chapter but I need my fluffy cat socks!' I swear I'm mature lol. I ended up not finding the other one but I got the chapter done. Ayeee. Anyways like wtf this fanfic has 11k reads! That's so exciting! Thank you guys for putting up with how late I am! Love you and I'll fix typos during the Thanksgiving break <3