It was early in the morning, and everyone was getting ready to leave onto the bus for their big exam. I was going with Grandma since we were required to attend for their extravagant checkup like I've been doing with class A and B. Packing the things I needed to bring with me, I shut and lock my door before heading down to the elevator where it was packed. "Oh, there's too much of you guys in the elevator." I stepped back from entering the elevator. A bunch of the students were shoulder to shoulder with each other that's how close they were. "I'll wait for the next one." I decided not to be cramped with a bunch of people in the elevator, so I waited for the next one to be empty or somewhat empty filled with not a lot of people.
"Oi, you,"
"Oh…" I didn't have much to say to him. "Goodmorning, Bakugou." my lips couldn't give him a morning smile because it wanted to frown. Having nothing else to say to him, I looked the opposite way from him. I shouldn't even thinking about love since I'm young. I need to live my high school life first before finding love.
He was grumbling loudly, couldn't stand this silence between us as we waited for the elevator to arrive. "Ughhhh…! Harada!" Bakugou yelled my name, trying to get my attention.
"Is there something you need?" I didn't take a small glance at him. I know I was being really petty not looking at him, but I just couldn't at this very moment. My current state was a sad potato.
"Why do you do this to me?" he grumbled again, having an internal conflict with himself just like me, but I'm well composed than him. "It's just…. Ugh!"
"Well, I'm learning to let go, and you should too. It's better for the both of us." I coldly replied.
Everyone was outside to head into their bus. "Harada, are you coming with us?" Kirishima asked, noticing how far away I was from them.
"Oh no, I'm going with Recovery Girl since we have the same duties to do when we arrive there."
"Oh, alright… See you there!" Kirishima waved.
"Yep, you too." I kept my eyes on Kirishima for a few seconds to see him quickly turning to Bakugou and whispering something in his ear. My heart throbbed. "I need to stop…" I scolded myself. I cried out my feelings last night to remind myself that I can do better than to weep over someone that wouldn't work. I needed to move on. Throw my old heart away to replace it with a newer and better improved heart.
On the road, Grandma noticed my quietness lingering in the air. "What's wrong, Rina?"
"There's nothing wrong," I stared out at the scenery outside, in hopes to have my mind cleared and opened.
"Your father had relationship problems too." I know Grandma's heart wanted to make sure that I was content no matter what, but there are times where I can't talk about it because it's still newly opened.
"Not now, Grams. I have no motivation to even speak out about it. I wanna leave it in the past." I shut my eyes and groaned.
There was a hint of seriousness in her sweet voice, "Don't tell me it's that boy Bakugou Katsuki." I felt my heart leaped when she said his name. My chest felt weighed and it wasn't a good feeling. She knew this whole time in the car.
"Nnnghh…" I didn't know how to reply back to her.
"So it is him." I wasn't sure what she was feeling when she said that. "That boy, he kept on visiting me whenever I was present in the school."
"R-really? But I thought you were rarely there." I swear I hear new things everyday at school ground or by staffs/teachers.
"I still had to attend to get some money right? I was there till morning to noon before I left to visit you. But when I was there, every morning he'd come in to ask about you. I thought it was because you were in his class all the time, but no, I remembered Nina telling me that you had a thing with that boy." Grams chuckled, making my stomach turn. I was ready to kill Auntie Nina for telling Grams this. "There was no doubt that he still cared for you. After all when I confronted him, it seemed like he blamed himself for letting you down. He told me that he wasn't fast enough like Iida to bring you to safety, he couldn't create anything to keep you warm or stop the bleeding like Yaoyorozu can. He was comparing himself to his own classmates because he knew they could save you better than he could."
Goddamn Bakugou, he made my heart wrench in sadness. He wasn't even truthful yesterday. He was partially telling me the truth. If he could've been completely honest then maybe the things that happened yesterday wouldn't have existed, but I guess we both can be stubborn at times. "He felt guilty about it, but he never told me that," I replied quietly, as the guilt spread throughout my chest. "Gosh I feel bad now…"
"What did you say to him? There must be something you said to him that caused you to be so quiet."
"I told him that I'd forget what we had in the past because he told me that one day he wished we were back together and the next day we weren't, and also I hurt him. So I believed it was better to let go than to hold on." More heavy guilt sunk my chest to the ground.
"Oh geez, you are just like your father… You both can give up so easily, you both can get real impulsive at times." Grandma sighed heavily. "You know what I told your father, I told him that it's his life and people's words are just opinions that may or may not affect his future. And if he wanted to change something, he'll need to man up and do it on his own because I won't be babying him forever until he can finally do something on his own." Grandma was lecturing me in the van until we arrived to our destination.
After arriving earlier than the rest of the people, we had to set up our tents and equipments. We both split up the piles of papers that were given to us in order to checkup the students from all schools. We had two tents to make it quicker and easier for everyone to go through, but we both knew it was going to be hell when they come inside our tents.
"When are they arriving?" I asked Grams.
"Now," when Grams said that, buses rolled in one by one as it parked for the students from other schools to come out.
"I'm going to greet my students," I emphasized 'my students' to tick Grams off because she didn't want me to sound so mature and grown before her eyes. "I'll see you at the tents!" Skipping excitedly down to their bus, I had Grams' words locked in mind. It never left my head from the van.
It got scarier when loads of students started to come out from their buses. The empty lot was now filled with many, many students ready for their exam. I felt like a mice running through tall grasses to find my way out. Chatters rose and I had to turn my head everywhere to look out where I was going. I felt so unsafe and small.
"Oh, watch out there!" I heard a soft and gentle voice coming out from a male that I accidentally bumped into.
"I'm sorry!" I turned to whoever I bumped into.
"It's fine. It's crowded here anyways, so I don't blame you." It was male student from a different school who looked like an older version of Midoriya, maybe because he has curly hair just like Midoriya. "Oh, I see you're from U.A.!" he pointed at the logo of my scrubs.
"Haha, yeah I am. I'm not competing with you guys, I'm just here as Recovery Girl's assistance." I smiled at the dude.
"Ketsubutsu Academy. The name's Shindou!" he swooped in for a firm handshake.
I felt somewhat awkward and taken back from the Shindou dude. He was so friendly and straightforward. "Harada Rina," I told him my name, and he still kept shaking my hand even after our name exchange.
"I'm glad to compete against U.A.," Shindou grinned brightly like the sun. I could tell that he was excited by the glow from his teeth and skin.
"Hey!" a growl came out from the 'hey', and a heavy arm wrapped around my shoulder to pull me away from Shindou. "Why're you stiffening up?" he whispered in my ear.
"You surprised me, Mr. Explosion." I rolled my head to look at Bakugou whose face was close to mine.
Bakugou's face flushed red and he backed away from me. "Tch!" he turned around, about to leave me, but I didn't want him to go so I grabbed a hold onto his shirt.
"Wait…!" Bakugou stopped, having an annoyed posture on his body when I called him out. He turned his head back to look over at me, wanting me to hurry up with anything I needed to blurt out to him. "Please don't think too much what I said this morning. Good luck though!" I contently smiled, really hoping he'll do good. Only time can tell what the future holds between me and him.