*So first of all I have to apologize for two things- the short length of this chapter and the long wait for it.*

Emi awoke several hours after Aizawa left her place. Groggily, she reached out to cuddle with him only to be greeted with nothing more than an imprint on the bed. At first, she thought she either dreamed of the night before or she was extremely drunk but none of that added up.

She had no telltale signs of a hangover, she woke up feeling fine in fact! And the memories of what happened last night were too vivid, too real for it to be a dream. The biggest evidence that Aizawa did spend the night with was the scent lingering in the room. It was a mixture black coffee and the same vanilla cologne he always wore whenever he wasn't out on patrol. That smell always gave her some degree of comfort because that meant that Shota was near her.

But right now, all that comforting smell gave her were feelings of anxiety. Did she do something wrong? Was she too direct with him? A bevy of emotions ran through her head from confusion, grief, sadness, and finally rage.

Her best friend whom she thought felt the same for her as she felt for him just left after a night of sex. How could Shota do such a thing? Have all those years of being such close friends that turned into something more meant nothing to him? Just how much did she really know the man who left her after having a "night of fun"?

Despite her anger, Emi felt tears streaming down her cheeks. She wanted to remain furious but a large part of her was simply crushed at the turn of events. She needed to talk about what just happened with someone. Someone she could vent to who had nothing to do with what just happened.

She texted Hizashi.

Nemuri didn't know why anyone would knock at her door at around nine in the morning on a Saturday. She wanted to open the door and give the person who was interrupting her morning a piece of her mind. She could barely contain her shock when she opened the door to an extremely neurotic Aizawa.

"Uh...Shota! This is a surprise…"

"Yeah...I know, can I come in? I need to talk with someone because I think I fucked up."

"I'm surprised you came to me and not Hizashi…"

"Yeah...I don't think he's gonna like what I have to say…"

Nemuri raised an eyebrow "That sounds ominous…"

Aizawa sighed as he plopped down on Nemuri's couch. "Did Hizashi tell you about Emi's boyfriend?"

Nemuri scrambled to remember her boyfriend's plan to get Emi and Shota together "Oh yes! That former convict that she recently got back together with. What happened?"

"Well...the bastard ditched Emi and moved to America. I think she got really drunk yesterday and called me to talk to her. After I visited her things got heated and we...we slept together. I took advantage of her after she went through all of that so I left her house as soon as I woke up. I just couldn't believe I treated someone I cared about so terribly. I just don't know what to do now so I came to you. And the worst part was that I smelled alcohol on her breath. She got drunk to cope with that fucker leaving; I knew that and still slept with her. I'm a piece of shit"

Nemuri's eyes widened in horror. Yesterday she had her dinner with Emi where she deconstructed her feelings for Shota. She must have taken those words to heart and called him to tell her how she felt. That was also the day Emi's cousin flew back to America. Shota didn't know the truth and it might have cost his entire relationship with Emi.

And it was all her and Hizashi's fault.

"I'm so sorry but I really need to use the bathroom right now!"

Aizawa was shaken out from his self-pitying session "Huh? Oh yeah go ahead."

As soon as she went to the bathroom, Nemuri called Hizashi to inform him what just happened.

A call that Hizashi couldn't take at the moment because he was too busy comforting Emi.

"I just can't believe he would just ditch me after what happened! If he felt like he made the wrong decision, he would have talked to me after last night but he just left! Does he know how it feels to have feelings for someone for so long only to have that same person just use you for sex?! I thought I knew Shota but it turns out he's not the man I thought he was..."

Hizashi could only wordlessly offer her a shoulder to cry on. His "master plan" had backfired in a way that he could never imagine. Not only did he fuck up but he just ruined Emi and Shota's relationship with each other. He hoped that this entire plot would end with the two of them finally confessing their long-held feelings for each other and for Shota to begrudgingly acknowledge that he had a point and that the sad sack should have asked Emi out years earlier.

Now he would be lucky if Aizawa doesn't cut his tongue out in vengeance.

Another, more desperate plan formed in his mind that involved laying the truth bare in front of both Emi and Shota. They both deserved to know the truth no matter how much it would impact either him or Nemuri.

He excused himself to the bathroom to tell Nemuri to bring Shota to the trail near Odayakana Hills. He will be there with Emi.

"Wow Hizashi...I didn't think you'd be such a bro and take me to the park to get my mind off Shota."

Hizashi rubbed the back of his neck nervously "Hey! I was your friend for a long time too!" his phone buzzed shortly afterwards, it was Nemuri no doubt with Aizawa in tow.

"You invited someone else? Cool!" Emi's face fell "Please don't tell me it's your girlfriend! We had a friendly dinner yesterday and it...it didn't really go well."

"Yeah...she wants to apologize for what happened yesterday." Hizashi neglected to tell her that Nemuri would be the least of her problems.

Nemuri arrived shortly with a confused Aizawa right behind her. When Emi and Aizawa locked eyes they both wanted to get the hell away from each other. Emi was too angry to stand the sight of him and Aizawa was too scared to confront his own actions.

"Both of you stop!" Hizashi yelled as loud as possible without the use of his quirk to get their attention. "What happened to you two was mostly my fault and I owe it to you to explain just what I did."

Nemuri continued his confessions "I took part in his scheme as well, so you could blame me too…"

Shota and Emi were so confused they briefly forgot about what happened between them last night and heard the two out.

"Emi, remember that cousin that visited you? Well, I told Shota here that he was an old flame that you got back together with. I also told him he was an ex-con that just got out of jail for drug trafficking…"

Emi's eyes widened in surprise and Shota's eye's narrowed in rage.

"What…?" Emi whimpered why Aizawa just growled in anger.

"I did it because I knew Shota had feelings for you and I thought the best way for him to confess was to get him mad at seeing you with another man. I didn't expect it to go down like this…"

"I took part in my boyfriend's plan too. I invited you to dinner Emi so I could make you confront your feelings for Shota."

"Emi...you told me that Shota left right after sleeping with you last night, right? I think Nemuri has some answers for his actions…"

Both Shota and Emi looked at Nemuri "Shota told me that he left because he felt guilty that he took advantage of you because he thought you were drunk. I don't why you were drinking but he thought you felt so bad about your non-existent boyfriend leaving that you weren't thinking straight. That's why he left you in the morning- he didn't want to hurt you any further…"

The truth was now clear to both Aizawa and Emi and the both of them couldn't be angrier. They were used as pawns for their friend's stupid matchmaking game and they were furious! They didn't care that Hizashi and Nemuri had the "best intentions" in mind, they still manipulated their emotions for each other.

Emi just left without saying a world while Aizawa sucker punched Hizashi before following her. Nemuri tended to Hizashi's busted lip while Hizashi muttered "not gonna lie- kinda deserved that"

Aizawa caught up to Emi not too long after he punched Hizashi.

"So, about that cousin who I thought was your boyfriend...that's why I left in the morning...as both Hizashi and Nemuri explained."

"I actually drank a shot of whiskey to get some "liquid confidence" and that's why you thought I was drunk…sorry about that"

"So...are we alright?"

"No, we aren't Shota…"

Aizawa flinched "What…?"

"Yeah, I get that Hizashi and Nemuri tricked you but that doesn't change the fact that you still left me! So, you thought that you fucked up and took advantage of me so you just leave instead of trying to make things right?"

"You hurt me Shota...Waking up all alone after what happened yesterday felt awful...I just can't let that go so easily. I don't think things could ever go back to the way things were after what happened. Sure, it was their fault but did they just speed up what was gonna happen eventually?"

"I...I just can't look at you the same way again, Shota. I'm sorry"

She walked away from him. In that moment Aizawa realized what he did to Emi last night. He felt crushed when she left and she actually had the courtesy to talk to him beforehand. He just left in the middle of the night.

Shota realized what he put her through.

*So...this happened.

The truth had been revealed but Emi still is mad at Aizawa*