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Hitoshi Shinso was enjoying a cuppa joe on a lazy saturday morning when his phone buzzed.
KAMINARI: hey my man
He rolled his eyes. He was too emotionally exhausted for an Actual Conversation right now, let alone one with This Fucken Guy. The boy groaned when his phone suddenly buzzed several times in quick succession with follow-up texts.
KAMINARI: so uh
KAMINARI: do u think u could do me a solid
KAMINARI: like a small one. kinda
KAMINARI: i mean itd b a huge favor but rly easy for u to do
KAMINARI: bc like. it would involve ur quirk
KAMINARI: n ud like totally b my hero for this pls
He sighed. The sooner he replied, the sooner Sparky would stop texting him
SHINSO: maybe. what is it
KAMINARI: BRO [sparkle heart emoji]
Shinso stood awkwardly in the doorway of the campus gym with Kaminari. Not too far away, the boys spotted Jiro lifting some weights.
He couldn’t believe he’d agreed to this. Kaminari had been right, this was gonna be really easy for him, but that didn’t make it any less annoying. Or…awkward. The boy was bracing himself for the uncomfortable failure that he was quite sure his friend’s plan would end in.
“You sure you wanna do this?” Shinso asked.
“Hell yeah, bro,” said Kaminari. “I’m too nervous to do it on my own!” And with that, he was under Shinso’s control.
“If you say so.” He sighed. “Go ask her out.”
With a glazed look in his eyes, Kaminari made his way across the gym to the weight lifting area. Oh yeah. Hell yeah. Finally! Oh my god, this is terrifying.
“Hey Jiro,” he said. The girl put her weights down.
“Hey Kaminari,” she said, taking her earphone jack out of her phone. “What’s—“
“WANNA GO OUT?”
The silence was deafening. Jiro raised an eyebrow, confused. Kaminari was sweating, and screaming on the inside. It was quiet for like a solid 20 seconds, which isn’t super long technically but is totally a long time to stare in silence.
“Kaminari,” she started slowly. “I’m real fuckin gay.”
That was enough of a shockwave to pull him from the Mind Control.
“Wha..?”
“I thought—I thought you knew?” she continued, almost feeling kinda bad. But not too bad, because she was super fuckin open about it, but kinda bad because poor Denki really is that fuckin dumb huh. Poor guy.
“Gay?”
“Big gay. I’m a huge lesbian.” She grimaced. “Sorry, bro—“
“UNDERSTANDABLE, HAVE A NICE DAY!” He turned around and walked away at an awkwardly fast pace.
“Gay?” Shinso asked as the other boy passed by.
“Big gay,” he said.
Shinso had met Jiro literally once and even he knew the she was gay, but he put his hand on Kaminari’s shoulder to comfort him nevertheless.
“That’s rough, buddy.”