C L I C H É 0 2
lost with you
❝how on earth do these 'cliches' work?❞
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F E B R U A R Y 2 1
(tuesday)
➵ the cliche of
walking home together
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"WAIT HE THOUGHT I LIKED YOU?" the loud blonde cackled in laughter as he watched his embarrassed friend bury her head in her hands. he fastened his pace trying to overtake the embarrassed girl before stopping her on her tracks. a smirk overcame his features before he teasingly looked at the poor (h/c) haired girl. out of all the students she could walk to school with, it just had to be a certain annoying blonde.
denki kaminari was a tease at heart, so he just had to tease her with her failed love life. he didn't mean to dive into his best friend's love life mainly because that was uncharted territory for him. he only wanted to copy her homework when he barged into her dorm room. never would he have expected to see (y/n) slowly holding back tears bundled up in her comfort blankets.
that's when he heard it all. the failed confession and the big misunderstanding she found herself in.
"just how much did you mess up your confession?" he nudged at the (h/c) haired girl who ended up slapping his arm before walking ahead of him. "i don't know either! i was the most straight forward as i can be" she heaved a sigh before the male patted her on the back in attempt to comfort her.
"well, that's shoto todoroki for you. he may be the best in combat and intelligence but when it comes to things like these, he's as clueless as me when i short circuit"
"that's why he's asking for help. he's exploring his weaknesses" she recalled the way his face would contort into a look of confusion whenever she tried her hardest to explain to him what love was.
"you know you can always say no right? he gave you a choice" denki stretched out his arms trying to loosen his shoulders. (y/n) looked at him with a small smile before stuffing her hands into her pockets.
"i know. rejection or not, i'd still chose to help him. it takes a lot to face and admit your weaknesses. let alone ask help regarding it. so i have to give todoroki some credit" she voiced out her thoughts. honestly, she finds it touching that the icyhot male could lower down his cold demeanor whenever he was with her.
if this was really the type of relationship destined for her, then so be it.
"fair enough, but i'm suddenly curious. what did you tell him when he thought you liked me?" a playful smirk tugged on the corners of lips causing the girl to stop on her tracks before shuddering. "of course i said no!" she furiously shook her head. an idea popped up in her mind before side hugging the electricity manipulator causing him to back away from her hold.
"why? do you like me, denki?" she teased the blonde who in return gave her a gagging face.
"if i did like you, i wouldn't be sitting here watching you fangirl over todoroki. i would've already a move on you to make you mine" he teasingly tossed her a playful wink causing the girl to push him out of the way in response. "such a tease" she rolled her eyes at the remark of the hero.
"hm? now that you mention it. why didn't i fall for you instead?" she tapped her finger against her chin trying to recall all the first time they met. how the energetic blonde would throw a teasing pick up line here and there to get her to notice him. why didn't she fall in love with the cheeky blonde instead of the cold peppermint.
"because i'm way too handsome, fun, talented, playful, energetic and everything else but better?" he smirked at himself.
"oh right, i remember now! it's because you're a dumbass" she deadpanned as she watched kaminari's smirk fall from his lips. he quickly ran up to her tugging onto her bag like a lost child.
"you hurt me (y/n)"
"good. now hurry up or aizawa will lecture us to death if we're late"
***
"what's this?" he eyed the book before taking it from her hands and flipping through the different pages. he looked back at the girl who shuffled on her seat as she flashed him a sweet smile.
"it's my favorite romance novel. i thought that it would be a really good basis for teaching you what love is" she explained as she watched his gaze dance from her book to her face.
"that's really... thoughtful of you" he clutched the book against his chest. a foreign sensation spreading within him. the feeling of gratitude for the (h/c) haired girl for agreeing to help him with his novel. she was really such a kind person for agreeing to help him out of the blue.
"it's no problem at all. i'm glad to help as much i can" she tried to hide the frown that threatened to creep up onto her face. the feeling of dreaded sadness whenever he looks back at her with his cold eyes. those eyes that hold nothing but the idea of friendship whenever he looks at her. the way he looks at her much like how he looks at the other students.
nothing special at all.
"so would you help me practice?" he asked her as he browsed through the novel given to him by the girl. she cocked an eyebrow at the icyhot student who gestured over to the book.
"practice with what exactly?" she asked seeming as if she were still lost in the words of the male. "well, i read online that the best way to relay your feelings on paper when you're writing is when you experience it first hand. so would you mind if i practice on you?" he repeated once again but the girl seemed to be even more confused when he explained it.
"todoroki, you know that we're talking about love right?" she tried to get confirmation if she was hearing his words correctly. cause it seemed as if he was asking her if he could do all those sweet things and cliches to her.
"yeah can i practice on you?"
"w-what? i'm still a bit lost" he sighed in annoyance before sitting up from his chair. he fixed his posture before looking at her straight in the eyes. "let me reword it for you" he took deep breath seeming as if he was having a hard time explaining his thoughts to the clueless (h/c) haired girl.
"(l/n), can i love you?"
***
"i expected better from you, (l/n)"
(y/n) lowered her head in embarrassment the moment her homeroom teacher's tired eyes glared at her direction. she lowly stared at her feet afraid to return the gaze that eraserhead was giving her.
she ended up being told to stay after class because of the sudden outbursts she had throughout the lesson. it wasn't her fault that todoroki wasn't careful with his words. it wasn't her fault that he accidentally made her squeal with the way he sincerely asked her if he could love her.
not her fault at all. but why was she the one told to stay after class just to get another lecture from her homeroom teacher.
"as a punishment, you'll be helping the student representatives with their paper work and tasks for the rest of the week" his dark eyes flashed a hue of red causing her to slightly step back from her teacher. no one could dare defy aizawa when he's sleep deprived, and it just so happened that the day she disrupted his lesson was the same day he was in a bad mood. talk about bad luck.
"any complaints?"
"no sir..." she tightly clutched onto her bag before shuffling out of the classroom. that was just great. not only was she flooded with piles of homework but now she was also tasked to go and help the class representatives with their duties. just how bad can her week get?
"(l/n)" she stumbled back the moment she felt a tug on the strap of her bag. looking behind her, she saw todoroki holding tightly onto the strap as he showed her the familiar novel she had let him borrow during classes.
"y-you're still here" she was surprised seeing the half cold and half hot male in school. she knew that he usually goes back to their dorms the moment the final class was dismissed. unless of course midoriya or the others requested him not to.
"yeah, i waited for you" he told her honestly. she felt her breath hitch at his comment before she looked away the moment she felt the heat rise up to her cheeks. "you told me that i could practice. so i thought we could walk back to the dorms together?" she held back another squeal coming from her throat by trying to fake a series of coughs.
"where did you get that idea from?" she chuckled before he held the book in front of her showcasing a few page markers. "i read the book a bit and book marked the scenes that the main character described as 'cute' or 'heartwarming'. one of them was walking home with the love interest" he flipped through the book seeming as if he had already memorized the first few pages of the chapter.
"o-oh... um... if that's the case. let's go then?" she gestured over to the direction of the school gate before he silently nodded his head trailing behind her. she took small glances at him trying hard not to laugh out loud at how the male intensely looked at her seeming as if he were analyzing what was happening as they walk back.
what exactly was so heartwarming and cute when they're basically just walking? todoroki couldn't understand what made that scenario heartwarming or cute. isn't it basically the same as walking alongside your parents or teachers? what's so special about it?
a series of vibrations erupted from her pocket before fishing out her mobile device. quickly sliding on the notification she groaned in response before furiously replying to the string of messages of the blonde.
'(y/n)!!! favor please! can you drop by the shop near the convince store we go to? i need you to get something for meeeee'
'(y/nnnnn) pleasee!!'
'if you do i'll treat you in our next hang out!'
'i know you can't resist me, so thank you (y/n)! you know i love you so much bby♡ lmao jk'
"denki just texted me. you can go back to the dorms todoroki. i'll take a turn here" she rolled her eyes at the string of spam messages sent to her by her best friend asking her to drop by somewhere. the moment she had finally gotten a somewhat sweet moment with todoroki, kaminari just had to ask her for a favor.
"where are you going?" he asked her, his gaze dancing between the silhouette of their dorms and the small (e/c) eyed girl.
"kaminari asked me to drop by somewhere to get something. i'm not all too familiar with the area though so i'm not sure where i'm going. but i can manage" she sent him a thumbs up before waving goodbye to the male.
she turned the corner and began walking to the area that her best friend asked her to go to. her (e/c) eyes were fixated on the screen of her phone, that she had failed to notice the fast scooter approaching her way.
"miss watch out!" the driver of the scooter yelled in alarm. she felt a hand tightly grasp onto her wrist before pulling her into a warm embrace. she looked up only for her eyes to see shoto todoroki tightly holding onto her as his gaze intensely watched the scooter drive away.
why did that feel like everything was in slow motion? the way he effortlessly tugged onto her wrist and catching her waist the moment the scooter was about to hit her. the way the gush of wind made his hair fall back on his forehead effortlessly. the way the bright rays of the sun made his eyes sparkle with the way his gaze slowly met hers.
curse todoroki and his unexplainable attractive face.
is this the part where the love interest asks if the girl is okay? if she had gotten hurt? if it was okay with her when he holds onto her like that. or maybe he was the type who would scold her for being so careless and stupid to not notice the scooter approaching her direction. perhaps both?
"if you wanted to die, you should've just said so. i would've joined you"
what?
"TODOROKI NO! WHAT THE HECK?" she felt her soul escape her body the moment those words left his mouth. she pushed his embrace away, trying to make space between her and the confused peppermint haired male.
shoto todoroki wasn't the cliche love interest she had expected him to be.
"besides, what are you doing following me? i thought you were gonna go back to the dorms"
"our walk home isn't done yet, and i still don't understand what's so great about it. so i'm gonna stick around for a bit"
***
honestly, (y/n) didn't expect a lot of things to happen. it was just walking back to dorms. what interesting thing could happen? usually, every scenario like this in her books would end with them walking back to the dorms together hand in hand as they talk about themselves while the other silently listens with a smile.
that's what she thought would happen, but then again this was the unpredictable shoto todoroki.
"it's this way"
"todoroki... you've been saying that for the past fifteen minutes"
she had read countless of books with the cliche of walking home together. but never had she read a story where the couple accidentally gets lost on their way back to their dorms.