Pastimes of the Invisible Girl

Valentine's

The love happenings between Midoriya and Ochaco frustrated and depressed her.

Because it was obvious that they liked each other, but while Ochaco was aware of it and actively in love with the idea, Midoriya's head didn't have room for things like girls and romance. He was all hero. While not all bad, it did a sad story make, leaving Ochako pining and Toru bored.

But, since it wasn't her secret to tell, all she could do was watch. Or avoid watching in order to avoid the temptation to start screaming.

So, when she heard her own thoughts being shouted out by Bakugo, her heart leaped, even if he was clueless of the pain that came with keeping so many secrets.

"Damn it, Pink Cheeks, just make a fucking move! It isn't like stupid Deku's gonna reject you!"

They had been in the middle of P.E. and Toru had been purposely trying to ignore the conversation going on between Deku and Ochaco in front of her. She paid plenty of attention to their now red ears, however, and couldn't help but add in her own whoop of agreement.

Mina's arm came crushing around her neck.

"Stop it!" she hissed under her breath.

"What? He said it."

"Yeah, but we'll ruin any progress we made by embarrassing them! You know how Midoriya is."

Toru snorted. "What progress?"

Mina didn't say anything to that.

But just in case Mina was right about Toru just ruining the likelihood of their relationship taking off, she was forefront of the girls who encouraged (maybe a tad bit threatened) Ochaco to make chocolates for Midoriya for Valentines day. The rest of them even made a big show of making chocolates themselves as a sort of comforting/peer pressure deal, even if Mina was the only one who had a set in stone boy to give chocolates too. Though Toru had her suspicions about Momo and Jiro. Momo had always been hyper aware of Todoroki and Jiro always got a bit too smiley when Kaminari (Pikachu, hee hee) was involved.

Hey, just because Toru kept an eye out for them didn't mean she went poking around in people's journals and stuff. She had some decency, thank you very much.

When Valentines day came, however, Ochaco froze up and no amount of subtle poking in the back would get her moving towards Midoriya's seat. Soon, her chance was over, and the yellow cocoon which was Aiyazawa had risen up from his morning coma.

"I hate Valentines," he growled, his dead-eye duck stare even worse than usual.

Toru gave a low whistle. Someone had had a bad experience.

The next chance they had was in between classes, but any chance Ochaco had to squeeze in a word to Midoriya, let alone chocolates, was taken up by classmates-particularly male classmates, as the girls wouldn't have been so oblivious- wanting to squeeze in a chat. Toru found a new hatred for the male species. Clueless idiots, all of them!

By lunch, Ochaco was the only one who had yet to deliver her chocolates. And since they were the only ones that really mattered to anyone, Kirishima's giddy grin, Todoroki's stone-faced munching, and Kaminari's on and off again blush, while amusing, meant nothing.

Toru wanted to scream. She approached Ochaco with a whole passive-aggressive lecture that was probably not the best thing to tell her best friend-

Bakugo beat her to it.

He closed in on Ms. Zero Gravity with his head hung down to his shoulders like an ogre, hands in his pockets, and a glare turned up to kill. A braver soul would have peed, but Ochaco had enough immunity to try and run instead.