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“When’s class ending again?” Touya questioned his best friend, Shigaraki, in a whisper without looking up at him. He was resting his chin on his left hand and was busy lazily sketching flames with his pencil on his notebook with his other free hand.
The sun was already setting, giving the classroom a gold finish. Touya scanned through the class looking at everyone’s expressions, each of them either yawning or resting their head on the table. One of the students was also asleep and audibly snoring.
Shigaraki checked his watch and replied “Just 10 more minutes.” Touya rolled his eyes and groaned silently.
Already on the verge of almost falling asleep, Touya covered his head with his favourite hood, it had blue flames on it which gave him an edgy look. He allowed himself to shut his eyes close for a minute in order to regain some strength.
He nearly dosed off to sleep when suddenly, a voice disrupted his slumber, followed by mutters from other students.
He raised his head to see who the voice belonged to and saw Takami Keigo. The schools popular jock, as cliche as it sounds. His arms were folded on top his chest which made his muscles flex. His infamous red football jersey. The jersery had wings embroidered on the back along with his popular name that everyone knew him as, “Hawks” splayed on top of the wings.
“Sensei!!” Takami annouced, sounding very smug. “Please, can we stop the lesson right here? We’re all really bored.” He finished.
Touya rolled his eyes but was internally grateful for Takami as he was loved by everyone, the teachers included, which gave him a free pass for acting like an asshole.
The teacher was just about to speak up when the bell rang and everyone was already on their way out the doors, refusing to listen to the teacher.
Shigaraki and Touya used the back door of the classroom to exit, to be met by their other friends, Toga and Jin. They had some sort of tradition to meet outside the others class if their class ended earlier than the others to regroup and leave the school together, to spend some hours in their usual hangout spot.
As soon as they stepped out of class, Jin being the sweetheart asked, “How was class today boys?”
Touya just groaned loudly and rubbed his hands over his face as Shigaraki replied,
“Don’t ask bro”
“Come on it can’t be that bad?” Toga chimed in.
Touya perked his head up with an annoyed and tired expression,
“Define “bad”?” He replied.
Jin and Toga just laughed at their friends’ exhaustion as they left.
* * *
“Wait so you’re trying to tell me that she straight up rejected you!?” Keigo questioned his best friend, Kamui. He knew Kamui was a handsome guy so hearing he got rejected sounded very unbelievable. His eyes were wide with shock and disbelief.
They were infront of a gas station near their school. It was a designated hangout spot for almost every student from their school. Kamui was seated on the back of his red truck while Keigo was standing by the edge of the car. He was leaning sideways against the car with an elbow rested on the truck.
They were sipping on their respectful drinks, busy conversing with eachother, Keigo still in disbelief and asking Kamui questions related to his rejection. They were so deep in conversation that he literally jumped when a voice from behind yelled out, “WATCH OUT!”.
Keigo didn’t have time to react when a person just bumped into him from behind causing him, and the stranger to fall to the ground.
Keigo hissed in pain as he hit the ground,
“Watch where you’re going dumbas-!” As he noticed the person on the floor below him. Piercing blue eyes looking right back him, it was like his train of thought vanished when he stopped in between his sentence, his anger fading as he let out a small “whoa..” eyes still trained on the person below him.
Keigo snapped back to reality as Kamui quickly helped him up from the ground and Shigaraki went to Touya’s side to help his friend.
The both of them brushed off the dust from their clothes as Touya quickly said,
“Im sorry dude, i was going too fast and couldn’t stop.”
Keigo felt completely mesmerised as Touya spoke, trying to remember how he knows him, only to be brought back to reality by Kamui again, “He’s apologising, Keigo” he said.
Keigo felt heat reach his cheeks and he stuttered and nervously replied, “OH! Yeah, its totally fine, no worries here haha” as he rubbed the back of his neck in a flustered manner.
Touya simply nodded and got back on his skateboard and drove off.
Both the boys watched as the group left on their skateboards when Kamui turned to Keigo, “What was that all about?”
Keigo replied almost instantly, “Huh? What are you talking about?”
“Don’t bullshit me right now, I’m your best friend you know? I know when you get flustered and rub your neck.”
“Shut up, that was nothing.” Keigo replied,refusing to meet his best friends eyes, “I was just wondering where i know him from, he seemed familiar.”
“Dude that’s Todoroki Touya. He goes to our school!” Kamui exclaimed and continued, “I have English Literature with him!”.
“Wait? He’s Touya Todoroki?” Keigo questioned, this was the second time he stood in disbelief with his eyes wide. “Why didnt i recognise him? We used to be friends!!” Keigo almost shouted in excitement. He was the easily excitable kind of guy.
“Huh? You were friends with Touya? Could’ve never guessed, he barely talks in any of his classes and he takes History with us, Keigo.” Kamui stated as a matter-of-fact.
“He does? Why have I never seen him before? Or talked to him?!?!” Keigo had enough of all the shocks for today.
“He sits at the very end of class and leaves from the back door as soon as class dismisses, I'm really surprised you never noticed, that’s a very bitch move considering that you’re saying you used to be friends.” Kamui told him, He was never shy to be straightforward with Keigo, thats one of the reasons they’re best friends because they never lie to eachother, no matter what.
At this, Keigo tries to remember what must have happened as to why they stopped talking altogether only to be reminded that it was his fault, he started avoiding Touya as soon as highschool started. He wouldn’t even call it avoiding, more like they just grew apart.
It really was a bitch move. Keigo thought and instantly regretted it. A snapping of fingers knocked him out of his trance.
“Keigo? You okay over there dude?” Kamui asked, his brows pinched in concern.
“No, no, its nothing, i’m just gonna talk to Touya at school tomorrow and see how it goes, no big deal” Keigo replied, his hands waving left to right in order to make his friend calm down.
Kamui calmed down and the conversation ended right there. They sat in Kamui’s truck and rode off.
* * *
“Yo, Touya you really bumped into Keigo out of all people, you looked pissed!” Jin teased him, he was chuckling and tearing up.
“Shut up, for all i care, that asshole deserved it. Plus, i apologised so theres no big deal.” Touya snapped back, he wouldnt admit it out loud but he was really annoyed by the incident.
“Come on guys, back off, lets skate now that we’re finally here!” Toga squealed, she really was a lifesaver.
“Yeah, yeah, come on lets skate.” Jin replied immediately, he could never turn down Toga. Her, being the only girl and also the youngest, the three boys automatically respected her and thought of her as a younger sister.
* * *
Keigo reached home and instantly collapsed on his bed, surrounded with a thousand thoughts as he drifted off to sleep.
God i really hope he doesn't hate me.