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"Kiri?"
He felt his heart pop out of his chest, it's already embarrassing seeing someone you know in a store, but it's more embarrassing when that person is someone you ghosted. Kirishima wanted to disappear, hide from the guilt eating his insides. Slowly he turns to the voice, and just like that yellow eyes meet crimson. He mentally curses himself for not just staying inside as mina gets closer. "Kiri..it's been so long" her voice is sad, and he winces.
"Mina I-" shit,..what does he even say? 'sorru I got insecure so I ghosted everyone and moved away.' yeah he's not saying that. He thinks if she should talk first, ..or should he say something? He hears a sigh, "kiri, we thought you died or something.." She says finally breaking the awkward silence between them. "I didn't mean for things to end that way" he muttered out, fiddling with his thumb he looks down. He would try and lighten the modd , but he actually can't form a sentence with the growing knot in his throat.
Mina bites her lip, she never liked seeing kiri cry. "I thought I did something wrong.." Kirishima interrupts her, "it's my fault, ..you didn't do anything, none of you did" his voice is shaky as he finally looks at Mina In the eyes. "I was scared, my quirk wasn't like the others..it wasn't ..good enough, I thought that dying my hair and acting like someone I wasn't would help, it didn't, if anything it made it worse, My quirk wasn't good enough to be a hero, It was iffy at best, I cant be a hero If I send fear when people look at me" by this point kirishima is crying, embarrassing he knows, but there's just something about finally saying that he kept in for so long.
"And you don't have to forgive me, be as mad at me If you want, I deserve it ..at this point" he clenches his fist, tears streaming down his face as he looks down, he doesn't even want to face her right now. "..I wish you could have told this before, kiri, I will never, ever hate you." She takes his shaky hands in hers, the warmth calming his anxiety a little, he was always embarrassed, Mina was like a comforting sister he never had, ever since they were young Mina would be there when he hurt himself.
"Your feelings are valid, ..maybe ghosting your friends wasn't the best thing to do, ..but, I'm glad your okay" her voice is soft and genuine, It's a punch in the gut to Kirishima. 'what have I done' he thinks to himself, 'I ruined everything, It will never be like it was before because of what I did.' "..Mina, ..even after everything..are we still friends?" Even though his heart knows the answer, he needs to know for himself.
Mina hugs him in a tight embrace she shakes slightly as she clings on. Kirishima hugs her back, he's sad that he brought so much pain to her, sad at what he decided to do, all because he couldn't tell anyone that..maybe being a hero wasn't right for him.
Mina pulls away from the hug, "Forward from now, you have to promise to tell me everything, good or bad Eijiro, ..I want to be there for you, as a support" She says, she holds out her pinky, as a promise to never break, Kirishima doesn't know if he could keep that promise, ..but he'll accept it for her sake..and maybe his.