You and Bakugo have been best friends for as long as you can remember. He tells you everything—his childhood memories, the pressure from his parents, the battles he’s fought, the pain he doesn’t show anyone else. When the world becomes too heavy, he finds his way to you. You’re his calm in the storm, the only person he lets his guard down around.

And you’ve loved him for just as long.

But no matter how close you are, no matter how much of his heart he lays bare for you, it’s never the part that says he loves you back. Because there’s someone else. A girl named Emi. He doesn’t know you like him but either way dose it really matter. His heart is set on her.

He talks about her like she hangs the stars in his sky.

And every time he says her name, it carves a quiet ache deeper into your chest