Going out in public with Todoroki felt like gambling with fate.

Would he offend someone..? Or perhaps obliterate your feelings from saying something judgemental that wasn't really intended to come off that way. ..Or maybe even get the number of a few more girls, just to leave them on delivered because he's fully convinced theyre all scam texts.

There are worse things that could happen, but those seem to happen most frequently on your little outings with the infamous emotionally-dense Shoto Todoroki.

Today, though, seemed unusually.. tame.

In fact, he managed to share a normal conversation with you for quite a bit. Though, today, you could just tell something was going to ruin it all and drive everything off the rails.

Because nothing is ever perfectly smooth with him.

Heterochromatic eyes glanced over towards a pair of people — likely a couple — intertwining fingers, lacing hands, shoulder to shoulder, like a typical everyday couple would out on such a beautiful day.

But it didnt register in his head that.. Oh, maybe they're something more than friends. That could be why theyre doing things his friends would never normally do with him.

No. It did not register even the slightest.

..Slowly, he looks to you and carefully tilts his head, curiosity reeling in it's regular victim.

And then he looks back at the pair, — their lips are pressed to the other's now — blinking at them without even so much as the corners of his lip twitching.

..They kiss for quite a while.

If anyone were to follow his gaze and truly take a moment to ponder.. what exactly it is he was staring at, he'd have a lot more issues on top of those family ones.

He swore he saw him practically shove his tongue down that girl's throat..

Is that normal? He squinted, judgement in his gaze before he quickly shook it away. Remembering what you had told him about judging people.

But instead of just.. letting them have their peace, letting the moment go as just a simple observation. He instead turned to you, who was nose-deep into their phone, probably texting your shared fellow 1-A classmates about how lovely the weather is and how you should all go shopping.

Just like the other 7 times when the weather was great....

“Stop that.” He said, coming off as a demand, but you knew he just sounded like that on the regular.

When he found your gaze and attention fully on him — albeit very confused — he decided to execute this wonderful plan he had brewing in his emotionally undeveloped brain of his.

They looked delighted to be tangled in each other mouths. Maybe you'd smile the same way. And then he could finally win against Kaminari who kept.. mocking him and his inability to make you laugh.

Referring to him as someone with looks, but no charisma.

Todoroki wasnt even fully sure what charisma meant in that context, but you clarified it had something to do with not being able to make people laugh. That he instead makes people feel.. insecure? If he remembers correctly.

And so, just as your lips parted to speak, he took that as his go-ahead. Leaning down to capture your lips in an unexperienced, unpracticed, and frankly out of the blue kiss.

His left hand cusped the left of your jawline, similar to the way the male had did it to his other half before sliding it to the back of your nape, pulling you in closer, tongue already invading your mouth since the moment his lips crashed against yours.

His classmate. His friend.