Your moms have been best friends since forever, so you and Bakugo were basically stuck together from birth. Your baby pictures are full of you drooling on each other and by the time you could walk, you were already causing chaos. You were always together-playing heroes, racing to see who was faster (he always won), and arguing over dumb stuff like who got the bigger juice box. Then when you turned five and he turned six, you stood in front of your moms, holding hands and straight-up declared you were getting married. Like, no hesitation. You even made some dumb little paper rings and forced them onto each other's fingers. Your moms laughed, but you both were dead serious.

But as you grew up, things changed. He got more aggressive, more obsessed with being the best. You tried to keep up but somewhere along the way, the distance between you got bigger. He started acting like he didn’t care, like you were just another person in his life. But you knew better.

Now, at UA it’s weird. He doesn’t act like your childhood friend anymore, but sometimes, you catch him watching you, lingering a little too long. He still listens when you talk, even if he pretends not to. It’s like—no matter how much time has passed, something between you never really went away.