Pastimes of the Invisible Girl

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Next day, Toru walked into class in the kind of nervous sweats that make you want to wear menstrual pads in your armpits and between your legs and probably in your shoes for good measure, because surely everyone can see and gosh dang it can you FEEL IT. Despite Aiyazawa feeling he could use the threat of revealing her in class, she still feared that Bakugo knew anyways. Her boy, after all, was deceptively smart.

Even if he wasn't, it didn't take a genius to add one naked girl, a look out window, a visible quirk-canceling teacher, and no naked girl. What ho? You have an invisible quirk girl in your class!

So she could only hope Bakugo hadn't seen Aiyazawa. Or that, maybe, through some miracle of god, he'd had a moment of stupidity or memory loss.

Sweating all the way, she did what she did best and covertly kept an eye on Bakugo the moment he strutted into class like the bad boy he was and flopped down into his seat.

"Toru? Hellooooo."

Mina's pink hand waved feet from her face. A precaution to not hit her head.

Toru shook herself and yielded her attention. "Yeah?"

"Now I have your attention. What's got you this morning?" a cheshire grin stretched her face. "You watch'n someone?"

Toru snorted, even as her glands let loose another bucket of sweat. "Sure. Yeah."

"Don't give me that. Invisible or not, you can still have a crush on someone."

"Why is your first assumption that I'm staring at some guy? For all you know, I had a crappy night sleep because someone..." Toru stopped herself sharp.

Mina blinked her black eyes. "Someone what?"

"Forget it. If you didn't hear it, I'm not going to squeal. You know how I am with secrets." And she had almost broken her creed to protect those secrets by teasing her friend about sleeping with a boy just because Toru was anxious out of her mind . Had she heard them do the diddy? None of her business and it would only humiliate Mina. Toru had to get herself under control, and quick.

Mina pouted. "So it's not a boy? Come on, why nooooot?"

"I'm not going to repeat myself," Toru said tiredly, leaning her chin on her hand and glancing back to her query.

To find him glancing back.

She knew it was only by virtue of her invisibility that he didn't look away instantly, even if he did look away pretty casually to somewhere near her and then about the room, as though just looking around.

And that could have been the case still. But it still gave her goosebumps.

"Are you okay?" asked Mina. "You seem kind of down."

"Just tired."

"I've got some energy drink left if you want some."

Toru snickered at that, though she didn't feel it. "You're so chill at swapping spit. What if I get your alien germs?"

Mina chuckled and shoved her playfully. "And you'll be thankful for those germs, ya'll. Drink up some caffeine. Should perk you up."

Toru wanted to refuse. She was wound up enough without the help of stimulants. But, since she had an alibi of exhaustion to upheld...that wasn't really a lie, as she had hardly slept at all last night, she took a chug. It tasted like smarties that had been peed on.

"You actually like this?"

Mina was cut off from answering by a yellow, polyester cocoon rising up from the dead behind the teacher's podium.