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Denki looked at the time on his phone and sighed loudly. It was 2:46 am and he was nowhere near tired. He'd been kept awake by his brain thinking it was a perfect time to think about what was going to happen in the future.
In attempts to clear his mind, he got up from his bed, deciding on just going down to the kitchen and getting something to eat or drink, then coming back up and trying to sleep again. But his mission was interrupted right as he opened the door.
On the floor, were three fully bloomed yellow lilies. Denki smiled to himself and picked up the ribbon-bound stems. He glanced around, straining to see in the corridor, his only light source being the lamp in his room. When he looked towards the stairwells and elevators, he caught the slightest glimpse of white hair leaving through the stair doors. Shaking his head a couple of times, he went through all the colours of his classmates' hair.
"There's no way..." Denki stutter-ran back into his room, placing the lilies in the vase that housed the flowers he got the week prior. Leaving his door wide open, he ran to the stairwell and yanked open the door. He allowed the heavy door to slam shut, completely disregarding the sleeping people on his floor. Right as he did, a door above him quietly shut. At this point, what kept him awake up until then wasn’t even an afterthought, replaced with the fact that he might just find out and confirm who's been leaving the flowers at his door. Skipping most of the stairs on his way up, he arrived on the fifth floor in a fraction of the time it would take to go up properly.
Knocking way more than necessary, Denki caught his breath, trying to go back down to proper breathing patterns by the time the door opened. But that failed, as his breathing messed up again when it did open.
"Todoroki...you've been...leaving the flowers?" Denki asked.
Shouto's face flushed red, but he managed to keep his composure, unlike the blond. "Yeah, I have been."
"Why...why me?" Denki paused, his breathing returning to normal after one final huff. "Like, I'm sure there's a lot better people in class that you could be giving those to. Like Midoriya or someone. You guys are so much closer than us. Really I'm pretty sure you two are dating."
Shouto sighed, feigning annoyance, an action that was directly betrayed by the blush that had spread up to his ears. "Kaminari. I've been giving those to you because I like you. Not Midoriya or anyone else. He and I are friends. I understand if you find it odd since we haven't talked much."
Denki was frozen in place, red-faced and wide-eyed. "Wh-really? Me? Why me?"
"Should I not have given you those? The flowers."
"No! nonono I didn't mean that! I'm just confused as to why you'd like someone like me? I'm the worst in class!"
Shouto frowned, face settling back down to normal. "I take this as you reject me?"
Denki rubbed his face, hitting his forehead Shouto's chest—it was the closest thing to him so it was justified. Out of reflex, the taller immediately out one arm on Denki's back, his other hand laced through his hair. Izuku would regularly come to Shouto to vent and do exactly what Denki was doing, so Shouto just automatically went into comfort-mode.
"I didn't mean thaaaat, Todo. I'm just—not used to people confessing to me, ya know? Like no one wanted to be the boy or girlfriend to this dumbass. Just surprised."
There was a long pause. Denki just there enjoying being held by the resident stunner, whereas Shouto was trying to process what the other was telling him.
"So you...don't reject me?" Denki shook his head.
"I needed a sec’ to calm myself and wrap my dumbass mind around the fact you like me...you give good hugs, ya know?"
"Thanks. How—how about we do something on the weekend. A cat cafe just opened a few blocks away."
"Sounds like fun. As long as I can steal your sweaters."
Shouto chuckled. "If it makes you happy, you can steal as many as you want."