Thanks Vivi, Schwarzwald The Reader and WispInABottle for letting me know my formatting was in HTML. Hopefully, this time it's improved. This is a fun learning curve!

Disclaimer: Yuji and Iris are my Ocs. Anything you recognize from MHA belongs to MHA. This is only written for fun. Feel free to share constructive criticism so that I can improve!

Chapter 2: Just trying to figure stuff out

It took about ten minutes for the nurse to come back. I was curious to know who saved me. Would they be cool? Debonair? As the nurse slide open, Yuji stood up and faced the door immediately. As the patient in bed, I just sat there. I'm supposed to be recovering anyways.

I wasn't expecting to see a guy dressing in black with long blond hair spiked upwards wearing headphones. This was a hero? Guy looked like he should be in a biker gang.

"Present Mic! It is such an honor!" Yuji went forward to try to shake the blond guy's hand. I wonder If they had some lessons on how to pick names because Present Mic was a unique one.

"Hello! Stopping by to check up on our local recovering patient. " Present Mic shook Yuji's hands and then came closer.

"How are you feeling?" He asked while watching me. I had to consider my options. Do I go full on bluntness? What if the Iris before I came was a shy person? What was her personality? Would he be able to tell there's something weird with me? Thank goodness everyone thinks I just have memory issues.

"The main question is how do you feel?" Conversation tactic 101. Thank goodness for years of awkwardness. If don't know what to say, just repeat the question back at the person to move the conversation along.

"She's lost her memory." Yuji interrupted. I stared my new bug-eyed boss then to this hero who saved me.

"Yup! Totally zero memory. I don't even know what today is! Or where I am!" Guess I should use this time to see what I can learn. "Maybe if you told me what happened…I might remember something?"

Present Mic looked surprised at the news of loss of memory but then looked around the room before sitting down. "I guess I can give a few minutes till I have to go to work. Any specific questions you were curious about for the incident? I only arrived near the end. I only have time for three questions. Then I have to go back to school for classes." This guy does look too old for class. Wonder what he's doing. Maybe he means college class? But that's a question for another time. Since I have three questions, I have to make it count.

"Okay." I sit up in the bed pulling the pillow up behind me to lean against the bed board. "First question, what day and time did the event happen?"

Present Mic rubbed his chin thinking. "March 25th between 1 pm to 1:23 pm."

Sometimes you hear some stuff that just sounds weird or surprising. I hit a tree in my past life at 1:23 pm on March 25th. It's one of those funny things I remember because my clock was behind my steering wheel when I swerved. If I'm here waking up as Iris…where's Iris?

"Question two, what happened?"

"From what I gathered a villain with a bushy tail tried to mug you while you were getting some paper cups at a supply store for the tea shop. They got away but we'll find them."

Bushy tail? Can squirrels be villains here? This might be weird but also lame. This also gave me a new reason to avoid squirrels. Forcing people into accidents and trying to mug them? I sense divine intervention somewhere here.

Present Mic looked up at the clock on the wall. "You have one last question then I have to go."

"My last question is can I ask more questions later?"

"Sure. I come often enough to the tea shop anyways for my throat. We'll be seeing a lot of each other."

"We do appreciate your patronage Present Mic! A loyal hero and a loyal customer. Please do come as often as you want! The next tea is on me!" Yuji was on full fanboy mode as he was trying to get Present Mic's autograph.

"Deal! Guess my lack of memory means I'll just have to make some new memories." Or come up with a plan on how to learn more of Iris so I can see why I ended up here.

Present Mic left. Apparently, he was an English Teacher at some school near the tea shop. So, he often came to get some tea, so his throat isn't dry. I should probably make a check list on learning who I'm supposed to be, so I won't get a lot of questions.

I was released from the hospital after a few days. They gave up on me gaining my memories back. The police couldn't take a statement from me either. All I knew of the incident was from Present Mic who didn't return to visit. Yuji brought me to my apartment which was located above of the tea shop. Thankfully, the entrance to it was a stairway in the back. He said I could have a week off to recover.

As I stood at the entrance of my new apartment, all I could is stare. Obviously, I could already feel my eyes twitch. Whoever Iris was, already had questionable tastes. I was used to organized chaos. Books everywhere. Some notebooks and pens on random tables. This was like living in a Pepto-Bismol bottle. For anyone who said, there's no such thing as too much pink, obviously never met this lady. The curtains were neon pink lace style. This studio apartment had pastel pink walls with fuchsia pink hearts all along the wall. I found a picture frame and walked closer already dreading what I would see. Picking up the picture frame, there's a photo of a lady with the Japanese Lolita elegant dress with teddy bears over it. I'm all for wearing what you feel confident in, but I already knew this was not my style. I love cute stuff as anyone else. But I also like seeing different colors and not feeling like there's something wrong with my eyes from 50 shades of pink.

I moved further in the apartment and found a book sticking out from under a bed. You have got to be kidding me. She lived alone and still hid her diary? I picked it up and noticed a cheap lock on it. Well…I did say I needed to do some research on this life. Maybe I can learn more about her from this…and maybe I can say I got a new personality since I got hit in my head while I try to redecorate some of this place.