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Mina waits at least an hour for Kirishima to make some progress before she skips her way downstairs to the common area. She was nearly glued to her message inbox, hoping for any news from Kirishima confirming a romantic dinner confession. Or honestly, better yet, MAYBE a frantic text from Tetsutetsu to meet for a romantic confession of her own. Being that third-wheel to the study date stirred up some gooey emotions and made Mina feel some annoying pining for iron-boy. She wants her romantic study date too! Although, her and Tetsutetsu are probably more suited for video games or a make-out session than studying. Soon enough…
Mina exits the elevators as quietly as possible, hoping to hear any sort of commotion or congratulations from the common area. Because, though hers and Kirishima’s announcement this morning was totally underwhelming, she’d expect a party to break out any minute for the slow burn pop-rocks couple-not-couple.
On the couches, Kaminari, Jirou, and Uraraka are lounging together, probably waiting to use the kitchen after the explosive blond kicked them out, as per usual. She can hear Kirishima laugh all the way from the elevators, which is a good sign!
Before Mina completely turns the corner, Jirou calls out from where she’s perched on the couch, “Mina, get over here.”
Oh! Maybe they’ve heard of an update! Mina vaults herself over the couch.
“Hey guys!”
She lands next to Kaminari, who zeros in on her, “What do you and Kirishima think you’re doing?”
Mina laughs, tongue in cheek, “Whaaat? We’re daaaattting!”
Jirou rolls her eyes, “And what a lovely beard you make for the king gay and his gremlin.” Mina can’t help but snort at that.
Kaminari sits up straighter and crosses his arms, “Mina. Kirishima and Bakugou are my two best bros.” Mina prepares to interject at that, but Kaminari continues, “You’re a bro too, but this is a different kind of bro code. Because I don’t know what’s going on, but those two are clearly in love and I can’t let you mess that up”.
Mina just freezes and blinks for a second. What? She glances around at the sudden seriousness she feels radiating off Kaminari, of all people.
She shakes her head and immediately tries to clarify, “No no! Of course they are in love! That’s why Kirishima and I are fake dating!”
Jirou starts “Oh come on, seriously? That’s really dumb”
Mina “Oh come on guys!!! We’re just playing! Trying to get Bakugou jealous enough to realize his feelings for Kirishima and confess!”
Kaminari looks like he thinks for a second, “It sort of makes sense to me, but then again I’m not the best judge. Besides, I thought you were into the other Kirishima but straight and with an iron quirk?”
Ugh, Mina hates it when Kaminari teases and calls him that, “Ha ha so funny… this is supposed to work on Tetsutetsu too! And it totally seems to be working because he got all jealous at lunch earlier.”
Mina pokes fun at the frown Kaminari gives, “Aww Kami you just mad because Kiri didn’t pick you to fake date.”
“Am not!” Though he pauses for a second, “Though, I wonder why he would pick you?”
Mina throws a pillow at him.
Uraraka, who’s been quiet this whole time, shifts in her seat and Mina looks over. “Uraraka! You don’t think this is a bad idea either, right?”
“Umm,” Uraraka starts, “I don’t know Mina, you’re playing with feelings here… sure maybe everything works out as you say you plan and everything ends great.. but sounds like someone might get hurt.” A loud ring of laughter followed by classic Baku-style fussing is heard from the kitchen.
Uraraka continues, “Especially on Bakugou’s end, I think he’s probably more likely to misunderstand all of this.”
They might be right, but this is just a fun game? Harmless!
Mina huffs, “Guys, you are all taking this way to seriously omg!!
Just then a cheer is heard from the kitchen and everyone turns to see what could be going on…
“Jirou! Listen in on them! See if they’ve confessed!” Mina is nearly jumping in her seat! What a perfect time for the confession, considering all the grilling she’s been getting from her friends.
Jirou counters, “I’m not doing that! Privacy for our friends! I want to stay away from this fake dating crap until it’s over and pop-rocks are together.” She then plugs her ear jacks in her ears, clearly done with this.
Mina gets up off the couch, “Fine! I’ll just go see for myself.”
As Mina starts to walk away, Uraraka speaks up, “Mina, really, please just go tell Kirishima to confess if he hasn’t already. Everything is great between them”
Ugh. This is annoying. Mina will show them, this plan will be successful soon anyways and she can rub it in their faces.
She makes her way into the kitchen where Bakugou just sat down across from Kirishima, just ready to eat. Perfect timing.
Mina slides her way into the seat next to an unassuming Kirishima and pushes their chairs together, “Hey Kirishima~! What have you two been up to?” She gives a pointed look and wiggles her eyebrows at a suddenly flustered Kirishima.
“Oh Mina! Uh nothing!” he gives a sheepish smile. Hmph guess Kirishima didn’t make any moves yet… dammit.
Mina teases, “Sooo two best bros chilling in the kitchen?”
“Uh yup! We---“
“What do you want raccoon eyes?” Bakugou interrupts, grumbling between bites.
Mina brushes off the dumb nickname “Hmmm just came to see my ~boyfriend~ and was wondering what all the commotion was about it here?” She side eyes Kirishima, who shifts nervously in his seat.
Bakugou scowls, “None of your business” and continues eating.
Kirishima explains, “I was just showing Bakugou some of the memes we were sharing earlier!” Kirishima turns to Bakugou, “The one with the cat is sooo Sero, right?”
Bakugou just shrugs. He probably liked it, if Kirishima was really laughing that hard just a few minutes ago.
Mina giggles, “I know the one you’re talking about! It’s a laugh riot!”
Kirishima “Yeah! Man, I love the one you sent with the snowman!”…
As Kirishima begins to ramble, Mina hears quietly Bakugou pout, “they weren’t even that funny”.
Aw he’s probably a little jealous >:) perfect. Mina can just feel the annoyance radiating from Bakugou since she ruined their little dinner date.
But with Kirishima continuing to talk, it seems like at this rate right now, the confession opening passed a while ago and memes really don’t set the mood. And it’s probably time to get Kirishima back on track to make Bakugou jealous enough to confess…
Mina looks at Kirishima’s food and gets an idea.
“Hey Kirishima,” Kirishima turns to look at her, “y’know you’re supposed to give food to the person you’re dating, right?”
Kirishima freezes, mouth drops open, and stares wide eyed at Mina, “Huh?”, which is followed by an even louder “HAH??” from the simmering blond across the table. Mina does everything she can to keep a straight face.
Mina “Yeah! Boyfriends share food when they are dating!”
Mina didn’t expect the tension that set over the table. Kirishima was trying to recover from his near death experience of choking on his food, but wasn’t good at covering it up. Bakugou was giving his own bowl of food murder eyes, but that didn’t hide the red blush spreading over his cheeks and ears.
Without looking over at Mina, Kirishima begins to slide his bowl of food over. There is clearly a forced, fake smile on face.
“Oh right” he says quietly, “We share food.”
An eruption takes place across the table. The bowl that nearly made it in front of Mina was halted by a near exploding hand and chopsticks somehow still intact.
“I think the fuck not” Bakugou growls out. The glare Bakugou pins Mina with is really uncalled for, but Mina clearly has set off the trigger. Oops?
Mina has no idea what to do. This was not supposed to happen like this. What is Bakugou getting so angry about? She was just trying to point out that these idiots were already doing couples things...
Mina feels Kirishima shift in his seat. “It’s ok Bakugou!” Kirishima forcefully tries to lift the tension “It’s so good! Mina should try some!”
“I MADE THIS FOR YOU, SHITTY HAIR!” Oh. Mina doesn’t even have to look over at Kirishima’s face to know that he is struck by this.
Bakugou, realizing what he just said, can’t even look up anymore. With awkward sweaty hands, he shoves his own half eaten bowl in front of Kirishima. Mina hears a quiet “Just fucking eat”.
An end to dinner as Bakugou storms out. The rest of the food, plenty made for a few more Kirishima sized servings, sits in a pot on the stove. Crap.