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Mina had one, simple, easy wish. All she wanted was to feel her heart beat fast and gaze into someone's eyes. In other words, she wanted to fall in love. And that is what she prayed for right as the temple bells stopped tolling, along with all the health and prosperity stuff. She bought her omamori for the next year, and burned her old one in the hopes the luck gives her the love she so deeply craves. Oh, how she wished to fall in love and feel the emotional high. Oh, how she wanted for her heart to ribs to ache when her heart beat out of her chest while gentle kisses touched her lips.
She wanted to be in real, healthy, love this time. But that's not likely, is it? Still, she wanted to taste the mint toothpaste on someone's tongue during early mornings and warm cuddles while watching Disney movies. Another chance at what she loved above all else, but this time it wouldn't sour and make every kiss taste like stale liquor until she couldn't stand it, every text message an ask because they were drunk and alone and who else to pick them up but their little girlfriend? She wouldn't let it. Just one small problem: how do you go about finding someone when you associate romance with a horrible ex that hurt you beyond words and belittled you until your voice was but a raindrop in a lighting storm? She didn't quite know how to be in love.
Kirishima wanted to be in love. It wasn't really anyone's fault he was always friend zoned, but it still hurt. He wanted to be like a soda can, fizzing until he exploded with some kinda dramatic declaration of love. He wanted his little visions to have a name and face, to feel the bitter sting of jealousy when someone else got close to them. He wanted to want for someone and all the feelings and sensations that came with it.
He wanted to be entrenched in such deep love for a person and for them to look at him the same way, but he was kinda the definition of "My boy friend. No, not like we're dating, like he's my friend who's a boy." He wanted a cleanse of water to wash his boring dating past and start something new. He wanted to look at someone and buffer and have his whole being turn bitter when she was with someone else. He wished he could know how to hold close what he pushed away in fear. He so desperately craved love, but all he knew how to do is friends. He wished there was an instruction manual that could tell him how to gain the love he craves more then any sugar.
They both knew their feelings were not needed, but how beautiful it is to want for wanting, no? How deeply and wholly they felt the pain of pining for the bitter sting of love.
It had gone beyond a simple wish, it had grown into a bone deep ache overtaking their mind and hearts. How tiring it is to hold these dreams alone and never see the flower of love bloom?
Kirishima wanted to feel his face flush around someone pretty and then try to get their number, charm someone with his dumb awkwardness. And this is what he wished for as temple bell's chimes ceased. As he walked away, he tripped over a bump in the ground. Luckily, a pink girl caught him. As she did, she noticed how muscular he was, and how kind his eyes looked. His hair was a distinct red, and he felt familiar. His clumsiness was endearing, in a way. She figured now was her best chance to get her wish and thanked God.
"Hey, it's not polite to fall for a girl without knowing her name." She started with a smirk, helping him up as they both trembled from the fast heart beats and anticipation of their desires. Gosh, how beautiful and refreshing feeling this way felt, like a meadow born anew after a wildfire. And then she placed him.
"Well let us correct that. I'm Ejirou Kirishima. And you are...?" He asked, heart chugging like a train.
"Mina Ashido. Did you happed to be in 1-A at UA?" She asks, sorry for not recognizing him earlier.
"I thought you were familiar! We also went to the same middle school, right?" Kirishima places her as well, feeling bad for not recognizing someone with bright pink skin.
"Yeah, we did." An awkward moment of silence, the kind between two people feeling things toward each other that can't be described, people who previously knew each other but couldn't place each other quickly enough upon meeting somehow.
"I always liked you." Kirishima spits out.
"I thought I was the only one." Mina laughs in a cute and awkward way that makes Kirishima's heart flutter.
Looks like they've both achieved their resolutions very early this year.
They start talking, realizing feelings between them that now cloud the air like dew in the morning. They keep any gifts from each other and store them, pictures of them kissing on shelves. They could never love anyone else like this. When Mina's Ex reaches out to her, Kirishima is there with a nifty reply of "I don't miss you in the slightest" and emotional comfort. And he's right, she'd never miss loving him, she just missed the feeling of love, which she has now.
They both wanted to fall for someone. Even though love hurt them. And they both got what they wanted, especially when they feel in love all over again on a day with a white dress and rings.