THE week of homecoming started. because the student body was too big, homecoming was usually held as a group event, organized by the students.

day one of homecoming week was monday u, where everyone wore their college merch. midoriya went all out as he was always a fan of u.a university.

day two was sleeping beauty, where you wore your pjs. shigaraki just wore black pants and a black shirt as that was what he wore day and night. hoshimi took note that she needed to get him some more colorful pjs.

day three was disney day, one of hoshimi's favorite. everyone dressed up like their favorite disney character.

"what are you suppose to be?", ashido asked, as her, hoshimi, shigaraki, toga, and dabi were eating lunch together.

"I'm obviously gaston!", dabi said, flexing his nonexistent muscles.

"and I'm the queen of hearts!!", toga happily exclaimed.

shigaraki just sighed. "and I'm...hades".

toga giggled. she had made shigaraki participate just because his hair was blue.

ashido laughed as she was dressed up as mulan. she really admired mulan's courage and guts despite being repressed as a woman.

"and what are you suppose to be?", dabi asked hoshimi.

"oh! I'm actually persephone. mina told me to dress up like her", hoshimi said while slurping her ramen.

toga and ashido looked at each other, fist bumping under the table. did they purposely make shigaraki and hoshimi match? hell yeah!

day four was ohana day. shigaraki and dabi were forced to wear hawaiian shirts. hoshimi also dressed little tomi in a hawaii shirt, even though he wasn't real.

day five was mickey and minnie mouse day. obviously, almost every male was mickey and every female was minnie. it was the last day before the dance on saturday.

currently, hoshimi and shigaraki were at shigaraki and dabi's dorm. tomi was in the infant car seat while they made last minute changes to their report.

class was in an hour and they quickly finished lunch to work on the summary of the report before lunch ended.

"did you get the questions?", hoshimi asked as she was staring at her computer.

"yeah", shigaraki replied as he was furiously typing.

hoshimi sighed and leaned back on her chair. "I'm done with the summary portion".

"great. I'm done too", shigaraki said, glancing at the girl.

now was the perfect moment to ask. toga had been prepping him to ask her to the dance throughout the week, but he backed out as he didn't think it was fit.

"you okay?", hoshimi asked, sitting back up on her chair.

"yeah. just thinking about homecoming", shigaraki quietly said, glancing to see if he could catch the girl's reaction.

"homecoming?? ohhhh, the dance tomorrow", hoshimi said, checking her phone.

"y-yeah. has anyone asked you yet?", shigaraki asked nervously. according to toga, who heard from ashido, hoshimi is quite popular, since she's the campus star.

thus, that meant that she got lots of dance invitations and proposals every year.

"hmm...yeah. there's a few", hoshimi said, scrolling through her various instagram dms.

"are you going with any of them? or...maybe your friends?", shigaraki asked, starting to feel sweat form in his palms.

shigaraki has never asked a girl out before, or asking really anyone for anything. whenever he wanted something, he'd ask his adopted father for it. it usually was a new video game, not a date with some hot girl.

"mm, I stopped going after freshmen year. but mina advised me to go this year, and she was really persistent on it so I might just actually go", hoshimi said.

shigaraki didn't even know why he was going to ask the girl to go to homecoming when he himself hasn't ever gone.

"you wanna go?", hoshimi asked, looking up from her phone.

"w-what?"

this was not in shigaraki's plan. he thought he was suppose to ask her, not the other way around.

"yeah! why don't we go together this year as friends? we can probably ask dad for a day off", hoshimi offered with a smile.

"yeah sure", shigaraki replied, looking away.

now he was stressed. he needed to get a suit ready and ask toga how homecoming dances worked. did they eat before they went to the dance or did they eat at the dance? was he suppose to match her? did she even have a dress?

as if sensing shigaraki's stress, hoshimi chuckled.

"I'll be wearing a typical black dress so you don't need to stress about matching".

shigaraki just nodded as he closed his laptop and stuffed it inside. hoshimi did the same as class was about to start.

"aight! let's head out", hoshimi said as him and shigaraki walked out the dorm.

shigaraki looked at hoshimi's free hand that was by her side. he sort of wanted to hold it, but wasn't sure how she'd feel about it.

he thought back to the feeling of when they were at the football game.

"ready?", hoshimi asked as she had her hand on the door handle.

shigaraki just nodded, snapping out of his trance.

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"SO SHE ENDED UP ASKING YOU OUT INSTEAD?!", toga asked, shocked.

dabi was laughing while laying on the couch, listening to everything. shigaraki just nodded, somewhat sulking.

"told you he was too much of a pussy. pay up", dabi said to toga, grinning.

"y'all bet on it?!", shigaraki asked, surprised.

toga begrudgingly handed dabi $25. she sighed as she looked at shigaraki, disappointed.

"what?! you two shouldn't be betting on me anyways!!"

"okay okay, so do you even have a suit or tux?", toga asked.

shigaraki thought for a moment. the last time he was forced to wear a suit was when his adoptive father made him go to a funeral.

"no".

dabi started cracking up. "this dude doesn't even have a suit and the dance is tomorrow!".

"at least he has a date", toga retorted.

"it's fine. he can probably just ask one of his many hoes", shigaraki commented, smirking.

"you—"

"anyways, let's go get you a suit shiggy!", toga said as she skipped out of their dorm. shigaraki followed behind, sticking his middle finger up at dabi.

"fucking pricks", dabi mumbled as he slouched deeper into the couch.