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It was just a normal day...or as normal a day in the life of a pro hero could get. The day wasn’t special, the date wasn’t any special date, and it was a normal day until Present Mic was teaching Class 1A english, in the middle of the period, Mic’s phone went off, some American pop song being his ringtone and rolls his eyes, realising he forgot to turn his phone to vibrate, he apologised to the class and pulls out his phone to turn it off but see’s a text from his boyfriend of nearly 15 years on his screen, he stares at it for a few seconds with a soft smile before opening it to see what it said.
Sho-Chan❤️💕💗💞❤️💕🖤❤️❤️❣️💕💓
‘Date night tonight, be ready for 6pm and please wear something nice, not that you don’t look nice, but you get my idea. It’s a special day darling❤️🌹💐🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼’
he reads it and felt his face heat up slightly, texting back a quick ‘ok cutie! Love you, see you later babe!!’ Followed by and bunch of hearts on the end, Shota leaves hizashi on read and hizashi put his phone away, thinking to himself with an in-love-smile on his face for a minute before tuning back to the class, completely forgetting about what the lesson was.
”who was that sensei?! Your smiling and in Loooovveee~“ Ashido teased, mic letting out a small laugh
”I am in love, I will admit that, just got a text from them saying date night and to be ready for 6pm...said it was a special day but I can’t think why, god I hope I didn’t forget our aniversary...wait that’s in two months so it can’t be that” he was now trying to think why the day was special
”YOUR MARRIED?!” Multiple voices from the class came and knocked mic from his thoughs
”no no, we aren’t married. We have been dating for nearly 15 years and out 15 anniversary is in 2 months” he replied and reassured the class “and now I’ve forgot the lesson...oh well, I’ll just give you a free period...and since you are all so eager yes you may ask questions” mic smiles and sits on the desk, taking of his directional speaker and placing it next to himself. Rubbing his neck and making a mental note to get the padding on the speaker replaced
”how long have you and your partner known eachother??”
“Nearly 16 years, oh such memories, highschool sweathearts we were” he smiles and then laughs at memory of the mess he made asking Aizawa out
”what’s funny?”
”oh nothing, just the total mess I made asking them out, they didn’t even realise we were dating for a month until they asked me to be their boyfriend, to which I told them what was going on. God the mess that was” he smiles and composes himself but can’t help letting out small laughs
”is your partner male or female? Or do they go by something else? You keep saying ‘they’ is it for privacy??”
”its a guy, I’m so used to referring to sh-my partner as ‘they’ for privacy. Go ask nemuri-midnight, she will tell you I’m a big raging bisexual, if she decides to show you photo’s of our UA days you will definitely be able to tell”
“We’re they in your year at UA?? And how did you meet??”
”well listener, they were in the same year as me, but they were in general studies, but got transferred to the hero course after winning the sports festival. First time we met he kicked my ass and nearly killed me if it wasn’t for the fact I had to run out of bounds so I could breath, but he doesn’t know that, and ever since then I was head over heals in love”
”so you fell in love after nearly being killed?”
”well essentially yes but there was more to it than that, those black eyes and the dark hair that was so soft when I touched it when I grabbed his hair”
”is your partner a pro hero mic-sensei? You said he was transferred to the hero course”
”oh yes he is, despises the media though so they stay out of it, and I think there had only been once I mentioned any sort of lover to the news, well I had no choice considering the amount of fake accounts on dating apps pretending to be me, I had to make an announcement on my radio show I had a partner and never even owned a dating app in the first place”
the questions kept coming, he answered them all the best he could without giving away anything personal, the bell was going to go in 5 minutes and the students started packing up. Mic thought to himself about the date and got considerably nervous
”girls? Mind if I come round you your guy’s dorms after school and you guys can help me get ready? I want to try something new I could really use some help. And anyone else is free to join in too” mic asked just as the bell went, the girls agreeing and went to lunch. Mic takes a deep breath then goes to lunch himself.
he walked back to the dorms with the girls, going to his own dorm at the teachers dorms, which were more like mini apartments, and took a shower, thoroughly washing and drying his hair till it was silky smooth, putting on some leggings and a hoodie, putting the outfit he was planing to wear in a bag and heading off to the 1A dorms
he gets to the dorms and Ashido takes him up to her room. Most of the girls were there aswell as Aoyama, Bakugo, Midoriya, and some other boys. Mina sits him on the bed
”so mic-sensei-“
”just call me Yamada when in not in costume” he says, butting in without trying to seem rude
she nods and smiles “ok Yamada-San! So you said you wanted to try something different. So let’s see what your gonna wear!!”
Yamada takes a deep breath and nods, he was nervous and trying to hide it but failing miserably, mina grabbing his arm and drags him to the bathroom, pushing him inside and giving him his clothes and closing the door. He stared at the door for a few seconds before hesitantly getting changed.
”t-this is stupid, Shota’s gonna hate it, he’ll leave me if he see’s me in a skirt” he was talking to himself, but the students in the room were basically silent while waiting for him so had heard it. Mina knocking on the door”
”you ready Yamada-San? And I’m sure your date won’t hate it!!”
Yamada slowly opens the door, stepping back so only mina can see him. Looking away and embarrassed. Only for mina to pull him out and into the middle of the room. Fixing the skirt and top so they would sit right. He looked down at the ground as everyone looks at his outfit. A dark pink, magenta like flowing skirt that came half way down his thighs, students were sitting so he had to hold the skirt down so they couldn’t see up it by accident, he also had on a loose lilac/light purple top which was tucked into the skirt, it didn’t have shoulders but only had 2 straps on each side holding it up, having loose sleeves that were flowy (A/N: I’m bad at describing, but please look at this Instagram DTIYS by @0._chiivi_.0 for the top that I am trying to describe. OH and please go give Chiivi’s account lots of love too!! While your there!!)
”i-its stupid I know. You don’t have to tell me” Yamada said and frowned and more quietly, something the students of UA rarely saw
”you look amazing Yamada-San!! We’re just speechless that’s all!” Mina reassured him, he looks at her and see’s her smiling, looking at everyone else in the room who smiles and nods, he sits back on the bed and smiles and tears up
”thank you listeners...do my hair and makup?” Yamada said with a smile, trying to stop himself from crying but failed a little, having to wipe a few tears away and apologising
”sensei why are you crying? Is something wrong?”
”no I’m ok honestly! I’m just happy I guess, I would never have had the guts to wear this, Sho doesn’t even know about this, and I guess I was just scared I would be told negative things, not the compliments and acceptance you lot gave me. So tears of reliefs I guess” he explained and had relaxed significantly, the students smile and nod, the girls getting out makeup, he took his glasses off. Which were his normal ones and not his present mic ones, and sat them on his lap, letting the students do his hair and makeup
“you said your lover’s name was Shota, we were quiet enough we heard you talking to yourself in the bathroom. But when Aizawa-sensei introduced himself, didn’t he call himself Shota Aizawa?” Midoriya asked and they all turn to Yamada for an answer with eager eyes, even bakugo
yamada lets out a small chuckle “yes I’m dating your homeroom teacher, he’s such a softie for you all, like seriously, he doesn’t even call you his students anymore and just straight up his kids, it’s amazing” he smiles softly then mischievously “ok so who wants to see photos of Shota from UA?”
a laptop was handed to him where he connected up his phone, finding the high school photo’s and scrolling through them. Showing them the video of him getting his ass kicked at the sports festival, then explaining why he had to run out of bounds, about how Aizawa’s quirk stopped Yamada from breathing, since Yamada’s lungs are part of his quirk and essentially mutated for him to take in more air, Aizawa using his quirk stops Yamada’s lungs from working, then stoping him from breathing.
”girls, can you cover up my neck with the foundation too? I have a faint scar over my neck I can’t stand, and really don’t want to be showing” he points out the edges of a large scar that wraps all the way around his neck and was fading. The girls do as asked and cover it, Yamada telling them he was in a villain fight years back and had ended up in hospital for a while and wasn’t even sure if he would be able to talk again. When they moved his hair to get to the back of his neck they pause
”Yamada-San is that a tattoo??”
“hm? Oh yeah” he quickly apologised and takes his top off. Showing a cherry blossom tree on the full of his back, each main branch tattooed on to make out a name “each main branch has someone who means a lot to me’s name on it. My mothers are there, Shota and nemuri, well Midnight and you guys know her, an old friend me, Shota and nemuri lost, and just other special people in my life” there was a branch that said 1A and the year on it, he smiles and put his top back on and fixed it
he let the girls do the rest of his make up and do his hair. Showing them funny photo’s and video’s on his phone, ones of him or Aizawa high of pain killers in the hospital. A snap of Aizawa clinging to Yamada still asleep, Yamada making a pained face with the caption ‘nemuri help me!! A bitch good peee!!!!!’ Only to have nemuri’s laughing response.
by the end, he had beautiful make up on, nothing to heavy but elegant looking, his hair in a side french braid going round the back of his head and coming down over his shoulder, the sections at the front of his face had been curled and the braid wasn’t to tight but at the same time wasn’t falling apart. He smiles and unplugs his phone, thanking them repeat before going to wait for Shota in the common room
”woah, for once I’m ready before he is”
hizashi only had to wait for 20-ish minutes for Shota to come downstairs, hizashi talking away with the class. Hizashi looking over at Shota who was coming down the stair, blushing and mouth hanging open slightly. It wasn’t every day he saw Shota freshly shaved, tight dark blue jeans which curved around his thighs and ass perfectly, a shirt which wasn’t even fully buttoned up at the top and wrapping around his arms and waist to show his muscular body, his hair straightened perfectly and having a side parting with the top having a little fluffy volume, his hair being fully straightened causing it to go down to his mid back.
“You ready hi...z...” Shota trailed off as he raised his head and saw hizashi. Almost stopping in his tracks just as he was about to walk over, gazing at hizashi, the class looking between each-other and the two adults
”meh you look better without make up” Shota said with a huff/laugh as he walks over
”Hay!! I put effort in to look nice ok?!!” Hizashi said and pouts
“you mean the girls of my class did the work” before hizashi could reply, Shota kneels down, taking hizashi’s hand and gently kissing his ring finger which caused hizashi to let out a small squeak “well we should get going before we miss the sunset, and I wouldn’t want to keep the photographer I hired for tonight waiting” Shota helps hizashi stand up and leads him to the door
”you got a photographer sho?”
”yes I did zashi, just for our special day”
”am I forgetting something? Our anniversary isn’t for another 2 months”
”oh don’t worry darling, it’s a special day, you just don’t know why yet” hizashi nods and leans into Shota as they walk out, Shota quickly and sneakily putting a small box in his pocket just as they leave, which sent 1A ecstatic, screaming things like ‘dadMic’ and things of the such
Hizashi and Shota walk side by side for a while, Shota starting to get nervous which made hizashi nervous, the sun was starting to set, Shota leading hizashi to a beautiful field of flowers and kissed hizashi’s head, picking a flower and placing it in hizashi’s hair, hearing a snap of a camera as a photo of that moment was taken, a guy with a quirk that allows him to take a photo of anything in his sight from the perfect angle at the blink of an eye, even if he didn’t move or it was far away and barely in his line of sight, and the photo’s always came out like they had been perfectly edited. The guy wasn’t seen easily by the pair so it was perfect
”hizashi I didn’t say anything back at the dorms, I was just so speechless, but you look incredible, amazing, so beautiful, I just didn’t know what to say” Shota put a hand oh hizashi’s cheek gently and smiles and face red embarrassed. Hizashi letting out a small giggle
”oh Shota, I love you so much, even if you are hopeless with words” hizashi smiles and kissed his nose.
Shota ended up putting flowers in hizashi’s hair as much as he could, Hizashi loving Shota’s straight and long hair and putting flowers in it too when he could, they danced around in the flowers and watched the sun set. This went on for ages, the pair having fun and smiling, acting like teenagers that didn’t give a care in the world for the outside world, as if they didn’t have villain attacks or pro hero business to worry about, like they were every day people that didn’t get hoarded by the media any time they left their house, well Shota was an underground hero, mostly unknown to the world and hizashi wasn’t that recognisable out his hero costume, but none of that mattered right now, right now they were Hizashi Yamada and Shota Aizawa, not Present Mic and Eraserhead.
Just as the sun was at the perfect angle. Shota looks at hizashi and takes hizashi’s hands in his own, hizashi’s more delicate hands in his bigger hands. He looks at him and gently kissed him
“hizashi, you don’t know why tonight was special yet, but I do. Hizashi you mean the world to me, we were dumb teens and I didn’t even know we were dating for the first month of our relationship, you fell in love because I kicked your ass at the sports festival. We have known each other for nearly 16 years and dated for nearly 15. You have been there for me when I’ve needed you the most and I’ve been there for you.
I wake up every morning and get to see you, and remember how lucky I am to have you. Every moment without you or every phone call I get I’m worried that something might happen to you or I’m being called to let know I’ve lost you. And I never want to lose you, that’s my worst fear, losing the light to my day, the reason I get up in the morning, the reason I love to get home from patrol at night and get to be taken into your arms and fall asleep being held by the love of my life.
Hizashi I can’t go a day without you, when one of us is away on a mission it’s the longest days for me, my time without you is the worst, you bring the light into my life and you are the reason for everything I do. Hizashi I love you, we have spent the last 15 years dating each other...and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. So Hizashi,” he reaches into his pocket and takes out the small box, as he lets go of hizashi’s hands and gets down onto one knee and opens the box
”Hizashi Yamada, will you make me the happiest person to ever live and do me the honour of promising to be there for each other through everything life throws at us? Hizashi Yamada, will you marry me?” Shota says the whole thing as lovingly as he can and clearly means all of it
Hizashi tears up and starts rapidly nodding and saying ‘yes!’ Over and over, Shota smiling and taking hizashi’s hand and slipping the beautiful and engraved diamond ring onto hizashi’s ring finger, standing up after and pulling Hizashi into a hug and a kiss, the blond wrapping his arms around his fiancé’s neck as they kiss, the dark haired male picking his new fiancé up by the waist at the same time and holding him close -as if Hizashi wasn’t already taller than Shota-, gently leaning their foreheads against each other afterwards and both with big smiles. The pair staying close and staying like this for a while and just enjoying the moment, hizashi being the first to talk
”did you really think I would say no you big goof ball?“
”Hay, proposing is a big deal ok? Even if we have been together for 15 years I was still nervous, I wanted tonight to be perfect that’s all” Shota replied with, nuzzling into hizashi at the same time
”well tonight has definitely been perfect for sure, this is the best night of my life. Only thing that can top this now is our wedding day. The day I officially become Hizashi Yamada-Aizawa” hizashi says softly with gets a hum of approval from Shota. They stay like this for a while, they kept a hold of each other and hizashi couldn’t help but admire the ring and every individual tiny diamond that on it, and the ‘the reason I get up every morning, the light and sunshine of my life’ which was engraved on the inside of the ring, still readable despite it being tiny writing, it was clearly handmade and very expensive.
they pair went to dinner afterward in a very expensive and luxury 5-star restaurant while the photographer got all the photo’s printed out and sent to the pair digitally too, they had completely forgotten about the photographer until a video of the proposal popped up on their phones, as well as extra ones incase they wanted to display them. The pair ate dinner and hizashi stayed close to Shota happily the full time. By the end the photographer had gave them a photo album with all the photo’s inside, as well as all the photo’s being sent to both the pro heroes phones too, the photographer left and the pair sat looking through the photo album with a smile
the pair walked back to the dorms with a smile, hizashi leaning into Shota and Shota holding Hizashi close while also carrying the photo album. As soon as they entered to building all eyes of the 20 students were on them. It was at least 11 at night, and all 20, even bakugo, were up wanting to know what happened, the adults looked at each other then sat down on the space on the couch that had been made for them, hizashi staying snuggled into Shota’s side, both careful not to damage the flowers in their hair.
The class wanted the details, so Shota connected his phone up to the TV in the common room and started going through all the photo’s from that evening, and they photo’s were all top quality. Letting them see the video that had been taken of the proposal and they class were completely shocked at how different their usually grumpy homeroom teacher was, but they knew it was a special time for the pair.
Afterwards, Shota makes them all go to bed as hizashi and Shota go up to Shota’s dorm room/mini apartment at the top of the building, hizashi having been giving make up remover by the girls before heading upstairs to get changed into hoodies and sweatpants, hizashi taking the make up off and putting the flowers the pair had in their hair in a bowl. Hizashi wearing one of Shota’s oversized hoodies, it was long enough to the point he didn’t even need sweatpants so after Shota put on a hoodie and sweatpants, the pair climb into bed together, Shota big-spooning hizashi and holding the blond close as they just relax and enjoy each others company.
Hizashi ended up posting some of the photo’s on social media,especially the photo of Shota putting the ring on hizashi and the photo of Shota holding Hizashi and the pair sharing a kiss right after the proposal, as well as a close up of the ring he took them and their after they had lay down in bed, and with a nice but warning-full caption too. And not a single photo he was posting let the viewer see what each of them looked like, he made sure of tha before uploading them.
’today I have the pleasure to announce my partner of nearly 15 years became my fiancé(e) tonight, they proposed with a beautiful ring and I wouldn’t change my fiancé(e) for the world, they mean everything to me and I’m glad I get to spend my life with them, they are the love of my life, the reason I enjoy waking up in the morning and is what keeps me motivated to work late nights at the radio station, knowing they are listening, knowing I will be able to go home to kisses and cuddles. I wouldn’t change them for anyone in the world. Being a pro-hero is hard, we have the media all over us which makes me posting this so much harder that I hoped it would be. But I wanted the world to know, and to see how the media responds. Pro-heroes don't share personal things because of villains. If a villain found out about a heroes partner the villain might kidnap them to get to the pro, we have our lives and sometimes the media doesn’t understand that. I will not be answering questions on my fiancé(e) and that is final. Now my fiancé(e) is another pro, but very few, if any at all, will know who they are as they are an underground hero and stay out the way of the media which I respect and sometimes envy too, so if a villain see’s this and somehow finds out who my fiancé(e) is, don’t bother coming for either of us, because they can and will beat the living daylight out of you. well now I’m going to go back to cuddling with my new fiancé(e) and no social media until tomorrow, I hope you all have a wonderful day/night, and stay safe listeners and remember to smile!!
-a very very very [ok we get the idea] very very [they get the idea, your happy] very very very [STOP IT!] very very happy present mic!!❤️❤️🌺🌺🌸🌸’
with that, hizashi posts it and turns notifications off, putting on some quiet music and putting his phone down and turning to face Shota before curling into him again
they pair stayed cuddled up for a while before Shota spoke first
”hizashi can we have a quick talk?”
Hizashi nods and leans back to look at Shota, giving him a quick peck on the lips “sure what’s up?”
”the outfit you were weari-“
”oh...” hizashi said before Shota finished
”I didn’t finish. You looked beautiful and I wanted to make sure I’m not making you uncomfortable. I couldn’t help but wonder if you would be my wife instead of my husband, and that’s ok too. I just didn’t know, and if you want me to call you a name that isn’t hizashi that’s fine too, you are my fiancé and I love you so much, just please tell me what to call and refer to you as ok?”
hizashi stared at Shota wide eyed and smiles, hugging Shota tightly and mumbling a quiet thank you “I honestly thought you would leave me if you saw me in a skirt or a dress, it’s why I’ve kept it hidden for so long. But thank you for respecting me. Oh and hizashi is ok, I don’t like the idea of going be a different name ya dig? And I think I’m what you call Gender-fluid, some days I feel like a guy, sometime a girl, sometimes neither or both ya know? I’ll try tell you how I’m feeling each morning”
Shota nods and kissed hizashi’s head “thank you zashi. Not just now, I’m enjoying cuddling to much, but later we can make you some bracelets with that Kandi stuff the students use, one pink for she/her, one blue for he/him, one purple for they/them, and white for no pronouns, and you can wear them all at the same time or maybe only one or two. How does that sound?”
hizashi smiles and nods, Shota sending a quick message to the students that if any of them are up or wake up early, asking if they can make those bracelets, getting a thumbs up from a few students before putting his phone down.
(A/N: I actualy use this!! I didn’t make a she/her one though since I don’t use those, I mainly stick to white and blue, and since I go by like 3 names, I also have bracelets with the 3 names on them too!!, I also decided to use letter beads to put the pronouns on them too, but you could use just coloured bands to be more discrete, but make sure your friends know what they all mean!!)
The next morning, hizashi was glad he dropped his hero costume off at the dorms since he was planning on staying with Shota that night. Getting up and going downstairs to the kitchen to get some coffee, not having wanted to leave Shota’s cuddles, walking downstairs bare foot and into the kitchen, he grabs 2 mugs and makes coffee, leaning against the counter and admiring the ring with a smile, humming a soft tune to himself while he waited for the coffee.
Just as he was pouring it, students started coming to get breakfast, he looks up at them and smiles, grabbing the two cups of coffee and putting hella lot of sugar and stuff in one, drinking it on the way back up the stairs, sitting on the bed and putting Shota’s coffee down and gently nudging shota
”darling~ I brought you morning coffee” hizashi close to a sleeping Shota who wrapped his arms around hizashi’s waist, he set his coffee down too and pet Shota’s head, he was added to the 1A girls & Gays group chat on his phone. Sending a message
Parental-mic!!
’if you all wanna see a sleepy, morning cuddly Shota, come up to his dorm and be quiet, bring the rest of the class if you want too’
he out his phone back down, petting Shota’s head with one hand and drinking his coffee with the other. Soon the whole class was looking in the room and staring at a Shota who was cuddling hizashi’s waist
“z’shi...c’me back t’ b’d...cuddl’s pl’se” Shota mumbles out in a morning voice, not letting go of hizashi once, only tightening his grip
hizashi was trying not to laugh “ok give me a minute then I’ll lay down again” he looks at the students and talks quietly “someone go make me another coffee please, lots of sugar and sugary things in it too ok?? The more sugar the better. Even if it seems to be liquid diabetes” he hands the mug to iida who came and got the mug. Hizashi lay back down after convincing shots to let go for a second. Shota wraps both his legs around one of hizashi’s leg and cages it, wrapping his arms around hizashi’s torso and laying his head on hizashi’s chest and cuddling into him. The girls taking a photo which got send to hizashi immediately and he thanks them. The students leave and iida soon comes up with a replacement coffee and sat it on the table with Shota’s coffee.
Shota didn’t get up for a good half hour after that, waking up and rubbing his eyes and looking at hizashi and smiling “m’rning baby”
”morning sleepy head” hizashi cooed and pets Shota’s head “Imma get up and go make breakfast ok? Join me once you’ve had your coffee then you can have a shower or whatever after breakfast” hizashi had somehow managed to keeps Shota’s coffee warm, having moved to a more upright position to drink his coffee. Getting up despite Shota’s whines, kissing his head before taking his empty coffee mug downstairs and putting it in the dishwasher, getting some confused looks
”it’s because I’m not wearing sweatpants or anything isn’t it?” He said almost instantly and got a few nods “well Shota’s hoodies are big enough to the point I don’t see a point in wearing sweatpants underneath. Plus i am actually wearing shorts, but baggy and long hoodie soooooo” he says this as he shows the shorts before he makes himself and Shota breakfast, leaving Shota’s on the counter and sitting with the students and eating happily.
shota soon trudged downstairs and grabs breakfast and sits next to hizashi who leans close to him almost on instinct. The class give a small ‘Aww’ and continue eating. Hizashi not even looking at Shota “don’t wash your hair today, leave it straight, it’s nice like that”
”yeah no, I’m not straight so why should my hair be, plus my straight hair is reserved for you” Shota didn’t even look up but the class starts watching as hizashi put his fork down
”Shota, babe. That d-" Hizashi quickly got shut up by a hand getting smacked over his mouth with a now red-faced Shota
”hizashi you can't just say that stuff in front if the k-students" Shota replied while rolling his eyes.
”Ha, you called them your kids, look like we are parents of 20 now...sho-Chan~” hizashi says smugly but also teasingly, Shota going quiet and going back to eating with a red face. Hizashi laughs and pets Shota’s head “God I’m only with yah hun" getting a hum from him and hizashi goes back to eating, the pair finishing and Hizashi putting the dishes in the dishwasher
Shota goes upstairs and hizashi follows, seeing the bracelets on the table and picking them up as they walk up, Shota tying his hair up in a bun and hizashi doing the same as they go in for a shower together, Shota spending extra time in the shower as hizashi got out and got changed into his hero costume, somehow having time to put his hair up.
Once they were both ready to walk to the school building together, Shota noticed the pink and the purple bracelets on hizashi’s wrist and took note, reminding himself to tell the staff about it. Hizashi hums along the way with a smile and Shota listens happily, hiding his smile in his scarf. they go to the staff room where they get congratulated almost instantly, Aizawa heading off to homeroom as the bell went, getting a goodbye kiss from hizashi before he left. Hizashi sat back down and looks at the timetable on the computer of English classes and when they were. A class that were bound to ask questions about the engagement was first, “well, let the day commence” she said with a smile, and got to grading some papers she left in the office.