you picked out a light shade of pink, using a brush and gently patting it on your eyelid. taking a darker shade of pink, you patted it on the outer lids. then picking up a blending brush, you blended the two shades of pink together.

standing up, you patted down your black skin tight dress. you decided to wear a golden bracelet and hoops to match your dark outfit.

after finally being ready, you walked to the kids who were waiting for you on the couch in the "living room" of the bar.

your high heels clicked with each step you took, alerting the children of your presence.

"oh my god!! mommy!! you look so prettyyyyy!!", toga gushed. her eyes seemed to sparkle as she looked at your get up.

"woah...", dabi said, gawking at you.

"hmph", shigaraki huffed out as he turned his head to look the other way.

twice didn't comment.

"thank you guys! now, remember when chisaki comes and picks me up, eri will be playing with you guys. be nice. also kurono will be taking care of you guys while i'm gone so make sure you behave okay?", you said as you grabbed your bag from the counter.

"who even is that kurono dude?", dabi asked.

"i'm not entirely sure. but he works with chisaki and he offered to babysit you guys for a night so..."

"so you're just gonna leave us with some strange man?!", shigaraki complained.

"well—" before you could counteract that statement, you heard a cough and a sneeze.

"twice, are you okay??", you asked, walking over to him and feeling his forehead.

"mm...i think i'm—acHoO—okay...", he said.

"your forehead feels kind of hot...let's get you to bed", you said as you picked twice up and brought him into shigaraki's room.

the rest of the children waddled behind you, looking over you to see how twice was doing.

"hm...your forehead is getting hotter...how're you feeling twice? is there anything uncomfortable? maybe your throat or stomach?", you asked worriedly, going full on mother goose mode.

"m-my throat is k-kinda dry b-but other than that, i think i'm o-okay", he said as he coughed again.

"okay okay. don't worry okay? i'm gonna go make some chicken soup for you, so in the meantime, rest well okay?"

twice nodded as he watched you leave.

"toga, stay in here and take good care of him okay? if anything's wrong, just call me", you ordered.

toga replied with a quick nod and before you left, you were sure you saw a sly smile.

walking downstairs with dabi and shigaraki, you asked dabi to grab your phone and call chisaki while shigaraki looked in the cabinets for some medicine.

"hello?", dabi asked through the phone.

"yeah, it's me dabi. anyways, mommy doesn't want to go on the date with you anymore. so don't bother coming over. bye", dabi said as he quickly hung up.

"d-dabi! you could've at least said it nicely and told him why i can't show up!", you reprimanded as you took out a frozen chicken from the fridge.

"too late!", dabi quickly said as he sat on the stool, watching you defrost the chicken and cut it up into pieces.

you sighed. mentally noting on how you were going to have to call or text chisaki later and apologize for the quick change of plans.

"i found the medicine", shigaraki said, handing you a box of pills. you read the cover of the box, antidepressants. 'what the fuck?', you thought as you shook your head and put them back into the cabinet.

'must be for kurogiri', you thought. with all these villains to take care of, he must've taken some.

you boiled some water while cutting up some vegetables. since there was nothing more to do for dabi and shigaraki, they went upstairs into the bedroom, to leave you to do whatever.

while you waited for the soup to finish cooking, you decided to call chisaki and apologize for earlier.

"hello? ah yes, it's me this time", you said, smiling.

"hey. is everything alright there?", he asked.

"yes yes. i'm sorry to cancel on such short notice, but jin got sick and i didn't want to leave him while he's ill so..."

"no no, don't worry. i understand. we can always go on another date, but a child's sickness is nothing to joke about", he said.

"yes. thank you so much for understanding. again, i'm very sorry! perhaps we can go another time?"

"of course. let me know when you're free next time. i hope jin feels better. send my best regards".

"thank you! have a goodnight", you said.

"you too. goodbye".

as if on cue, the timer went off, signaling the chicken soup was ready. setting your phone down and walking to the pot, you turned the stove off and got a bowl and spoon.

taking the filled bowl upstairs, you suddenly heard giggling. 'what the heck?'

"thank god she fell for it. or else she would've really gone on the date with him", a voice said. seeming like dabi's.

"tch. i don't even know what's so good about him", shigaraki complained.

"awww but i wanted to play with eriiiii~", toga whined.

"g-guys...do you think it's okay to lie to her?? she seemed like she really wanted to go...she even dressed up and stuff...", twice timidly said.

"of course it's oka—"

"of course it's not okay", you said as you walked in. you sighed, putting the bowl of soup on the nightstand as the kids all froze up.

"i-i'm sorry for lying!! i really didn't mean to!!", twice sputtered out, bowing his head.

"i'm sorry mommy!! we shouldn't have lied but we all just didn't want you to goooo", toga said, seeming to be on the verge of tears.

"i...i'm sorry too", dabi quietly said, looking anywhere but at your eyes.

"i...i guess i am too...", shigaraki mumbled, also looking away.

you took a seat on the edge of the bed, not having the heart to scold them, you just patted twice's head.

"it's okay", you sighed. "i know you all don't want me to leave, but it's not like i won't come back. next time, just tell me".

"then if we tell you next time, will you not go??", shigaraki asked, eagerly.

"nope".

shigaraki pouted along with the others. you laughed at their sudden change of mood.

"i'm just kiddinggggg. i'll consider it okay?", you said as you chuckled at their cute pouts.

"now, at least drink the soup i made you", you said, bringing the soup and spoon up to twice, who took it happily.

"thank you!", he said. you smiled and spent your night in fancy clothing with the hooligans, telling stories and jokes.

'maybe it was okay to not go on the date'.