Chapter 21: Peaceful Night

Monoma was waiting at the door as Kukeiko exited. He was well-dressed you might say.

'Of course he'd be. We're talking about Monoma here.'

"Beautiful evening, isn't it?", said he guiding the girl over to his dorm.

It was some walking they had to reach 1-B's dorm. Kukeiko looked up at the sky, which was indeed beautiful. There were so many stars up there. She could even see the different colours they had. She held Monoma's arm as the girl was gazing upon the beauty that was above her. Monoma wasn't expecting her to get close.

"Yes indeed. This night is truly beautiful.", said she, letting go of the boy.

Her movements were smooth and gentle, like a flower's. Compared to Izuku, a boy who was always anxious and stuttered, Kukeiko was the opposite- calm, fluid, and always in control.

"Nice to see you again, Kukeiko!"

"You're well!"

"Oi, Kukeiko!"

"Sup!"

"Nice to see you again!"

"Nice to see you too, Kendo!", said Kukeiko hugging the girl.

"What are you two love birds doing here?"

"U-u- we-"

"We're going to relax. It has been pretty rough and we wanted to have some time to ourselves.", answered Kukeiko calmly as Monoma was bright red.

"You can talk to me if you're feeling scared about what happened.", whispered Kendo as the two were hugging once again.

"How do you know?", the girl whispered back.

As they distanced themselves from the hug, Kendo smiled and winked at her.

'There sure are rumors. I wonder how long will it take for it to be massive news.'

And finally into Monoma's room.

"Woah...

You have one nice dorm room!", awed Kukeiko.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?"

"Yes yes...

What are we going to watch tonight?"

"It's a secret."

"A secret?", chuckled the freckled girl.

"It'll be a secret until the title screen arrives.", she laughed.

Monoma was looking through a stash of CDs from a box and the more he was looking through them, the more he started to grumble and talk to himself.

"Are you alright?-"

"Sorry for the inconvenience! I'll come back very quickly!", said Monoma as he exited the room.

"HAVE ANY OF YOU SEEN THAT CD AROUND?!", Kukeiko would hear his mumbled voice through the shut door. His attitude made her chuckle.

'So childish.'

Behind her, at the balcony window, she heard it again. The 15 knocks, as fast as lightning. Kukeiko turned towards the knocks to see a dark figure, only for it to quickly disappear. She was able to keep her cool as she felt her heart skip a beat and chest to be heavier. Kukeiko jumped back from this surprise appearance quite fast.

"Okay Kukeiko. Keep calm. Breathe in... and out... There! You're calm!", the girl said as she smiled to herself.

"I'm back! I very much apologise for leaving you like that. Please! Make yourself at home!"

"Ah, thank you, but it's alright."

"There! It's all set!"

"I'm quite excited to see what you have chosen!"

"To say a secret, I might attach myself to you."

"Oh! So it's a horror movie, then!"

"Correct!"

Kukeiko laughed.

"Worry not! As I AM HERE!"

"You are also able to make that face?!", said Monoma while wheezing and dying of laughter.

"YES"

"STAHP! YOU LOOK HILARIOUS!!!"

"NEVER!"

For the so-known "love birds", that evening was truly what they deserved. They had fun, made jokes, laughed at one another, theorised about the movie, and even made other bad jokes off of it. That day was already a very bright one for Kukeiko. She finally got to wind down. She could feel a huge wave of relief crash onto her. She felt... happy.

But little did she know how that bright and happy day was about to end.

Monoma walked Kukeiko back to her dorm. The student was indeed tired, but still held onto his harm and stared at the sky. After saying their goodnights, Kukeiko went straight for her room, quickly got changed and fell asleep.

Finally... asleep... peace and quiet... or, so she thought. Kukeiko woke up. When? She didn't even know. It was someone knocking on her window. She was too tired to count them, and when Kukeiko is tired, she has the tendancy to act irationally. The knocking continued and it started getting on her nerves.

She threw her arms over her head and, in furstration, without a care in the world yelled:

"Shut up! I wanna sleep! Can't you fucking see?! Fuck off!"

She would be groaning and repeatedly yell "QUIET!" every other minute.

Then.. all noises stopped. Kukeiko ignored it and went back to sleep, only to hear an eerie sound. More specifically, the glass being carved. Half asleep, Kukeiko stood up, walked in front of the window and mumbled:

"I swear to God, if you don't stop whatever you're doing, I'm gonna make you mush.

YA HEAR ME?! MUSH! NOW FUCK OFF!"

FINALLY, the sounds stopped.

"That's better!", said the girl, still on a loud tone.

And with that went back to sleep. But... because of the noises that were last night, she wasn't able to get much sleep and people could see she was a little low on batteries the next day at school. Her classmates were very happy to see her back at school. It has been a week since the others saw her at school. A week was little to her, but it seemed that she was really missed.

"Midoriya-chan~~~ Did you drink with that hero dude, huh?", asked a classmate of hers in a mocking tone.

"No. Why would I do that?"

"We heard you cussing in your room in the middle of the night! We never thought of you as one to cuss Midoriya!

Tsk tsk tsk.", chimed another.

Her face turned bright red in embarassment.

"I-I-I apologise for waking you guys up!", said the girl loosing her cool.

"I was just... I..."

Everyone around her burst into laughter.

"Nah, don't worry. It's oke. It's just ironic how a cute girl like you would cuss!"

"My apologies!"

"No need for apologising."

"MY APOLOGIES!", Kukeiko insisted.

"WE JUST TOLD YOU YOU DON'T NEED TO APOLOGISE!"