JIROU POV

"Do you think I'm a freak?"

This was the question just asked to me by a guy I barely knew. For a moment time seemed to stand still as I stared into his faded green eyes. I knew what my answer was but I was so caught off guard that I couldn't bring herself to answer. "Where the hell did that come from?"

"It's alright if you do… I'm not exactly what you would call normal." He gave a small chuckle trying to hide the pain.

I just stared at him with wide eyes trying to put my thoughts together.

"I mean it's been two months sense I ran out of here with no explanation. It would only make sense for you."

"Shut up."

Everything went quite as time stood still again.

"I'm sorry Jir.."

"I said shut up damn it." I stood up and grabbed him by his shirt and stared into his. They were still faded almost as if they had no life. "Why the hell would I think you're a freak?"

Midoriya just sat there staring into her onyx eyes unable to speak.

"I don't give a fuck about of your 'normal' I don't know if you noticed but nothing is 'normal' in this world. And sure you may have ran away for almost no reason two months ago but that doesn't mean I think you're a freak. For God's sake I spent every day of those two months looking and hoping to find you to apologize. Now you tell me, would I do that if I thought you were a freak?"

Midoriya hung his head after my rant and just sadly shook his head no. I let go of his shirt and sat back down across from him.

"Now I'm going to ask you a question and I want to know the truth but if you're not comfortable answering you don't have to."

He slowly nodded yes but still kept his head down.

"Why did you run that day? I know my dad was yelling but still I think there was more to it than that."

Midoriya kept his head down as he took a few deep breaths to try and calm himself. He didn't want to lie to her but he couldn't tell her everything. As he took his last deep breath a voice interrupted.

"Is it alright if I talk?"

Midoriya instantly tensed up again.

"Dad what are you doing here?" I turned towards my dad in shock but quickly shifted my focus back to Midoriya. "Oh God how is he going to react? He's already tensed up again. If he runs I'm chasing after him. I'm not gonna let him get away again."

Midoriya sat there frozen not moving at all as if he had turned into a statue. He gripped his wrist tightly and flinched as the man began to speak again.

"Look I wanted to apologize for what happened. I know it was uncalled for and I didn't give you a chance to explain, but Kyoka is my world and I'll do whatever to protect her. That being said I shouldn't make assumptions about one of my daughters friends. I understand I messed up but don't hold that against my daughter." Jirous dad sat down at another stool. "I don't know if you're interested or not but there's an event here tomorrow night. You should come. It will be fun. Our family will be here so you'll know at least one person. Shoni told me you make music. I think you'd enjoy it." He stood up again and put his hand on his daughter's head and walked out.

"Hey I'm so sorry about that. I didn't know he was gonna be here." I sat there staring at him still not moving.

"Can I ask you another question?" His voice came out soft and shaky.

"Yeah."

"Did you mean all that you said earlier?"

"Of course I did, why would I lie to you?" I leaned forward a little, noticing him start to relax a little more.

"Did your dad mean everything he said?" His voice began to shake more.

"Yeah he wears his heart on his sleeve. He means well and is a great guy, just a bit of a dumb ass. But yeah he meant it all." I leaned back again starting to relax.

He took another deep breath as he sat up again still holding his wrist tightly. He gave a slight smile.

"I'm glad he's seemed to relax again but his smile doesn't fit. Why does it seem so forced?" I stood up and reached my hand out to take the guitar from him. "Come on let's go somewhere else. The vibe here has been killed."

He handed me the guitar as he started to stand up. "Don't you have to head on home?"

"Nah." I put the guitar up. "When my dad put his hand on my head that was his way of saying have fun and don't stay out too late."

"Oh.. ok."

"Hey you don't have to if you don't want to. But I think we should atleast have one time we see each other end when we decide to." I gave a small giggle trying to lighten the mood again.

"Y.. yeah I have time before I need to get home."

"Well let's get going we don't have all night." I began to walk towards the door with Midoriya behind me.

IZUKU POV

"Shit how did I end up here?" We were back at the park that we first met. Back on that same hill sitting on the same bench. No words were said between us. We just sat there looking over the park watching people go by. "Why did she bring me out here?"

"It's funny how we're back here again." She leaned back and stretched against the back of the bench.

"H… how so?" I sat there staring out over the park.

She shrugged a little. "I don't know it just is to me. I mean we've run into each other three times now and it's always been in the same places."

"I think it's more coincidence than funny."

"Maybe but still it is to me."

"Whatever you say." I leaned back and took a deep breath. "What is she even talking about that makes no sense to me."

"So I know this is odd but you never answered my question earlier before my dad interrupted us…. again." She turned towards me and sat crossed legged so she could see me.

"Shit I hoped she forgot that." I took a deep breath and scooted off the bench so I was shitting on the ground. "Do you really want to know?"

"Of course." She shifted so she was leaning her back against the arm rest.

"Well it's pretty obvious I'm socially awkward. More often than not I'm a stuttering mess. Plus I'm not good with confrontation. I panicked and ran. It's as simple as that." I brought my knees to my chest and wrapped my arms around them tightly. "Hopefully that's good enough for her."

"Is that it?"

"Yeah."

"I'm not buying it."

"Wh… what why not?" I turned to her in shock. "Damn am I that easy to read."

"Call it a sixth sense or just part of my quirk." She raised her jacks in the air and pointed to them. "I've seen you look at them from time to time and I'm guessing you're curious about them."

I gave a slight nod as I turned away from her.

"Well for better or worse my quirk heightens my hearing. Because of that I've become extremely perceptive and can pick up on things most wouldn't. It's honestly annoying sometimes because I can always tell when people are lying. As you can imagine people don't like that and it causes a moral dilemma of me calling them out or pretending like I don't know." She shifted and sat on the ground next to me. "Honestly I've been trying to get a read on you each time we saw each other because I had this feeling that something was wrong. But I could never get a read on you."

I could feel my breathing getting faster. "Of course the one person that doesn't write me off instantly can read people like a book. Just my luck." I felt a hand placed on my shoulder.

"Dude calm down it's ok I'm not gonna ask for all your secrets, not who I am. I just wanted to be honest with you and I want you to be honest with yourself."

"Honest with myself that's a laugh. There's no way I wouldn't be sent back to therapy or worse if I was honest with myself." I turned my head towards her "Not to sound rude, why do you even care?"

She laughed to herself for a moment "You know I've been asking myself that for awhile now. Ever since you ran I kept asking myself why I care if this guy that's not even a friend is alright. But that turned out to be the answer. I guess I did consider you as a friend even though we didn't know each other. We do share an interest in music. Plus you let me pick your brain on how you find inspiration. By the way, that was really helpful and has been working for me too." She gave me a smile as her jacks perked up a little. "Also I don't think I'd go around giving guitar lessons to a guy I just met so yeah I do consider you a friend."

I couldn't help but let out a small smile after hearing that. It may have been the first real smile in a long time. "I could live in this moment forever. I guess today was a good day." As if on cue my phone began to ring. I looked at it and saw it was aunti Mitsuki. "Sorry I have to take this."

"It's all good don't worry." She gave me a nod.

"Hello…. I'm at the park…. I'm just hanging out with a friend I didn't know you were coming over today…. No it's not like that at all…. Yeah I'll be safe and let you know later….. What no, I can't do that tomorrow. I have plans already, sorry….. Yeah. I guess you could say that…. No it's actually been alright lately…. No…. No ….. Yeah I understand and I will be…. Alright bye."

Things were quiet after I hung up the phone. No words were said. We just sat there listening to the breeze.

"So, was that your parents wondering where you were?" She turned towards me again

"No… a family friend." I brought my knees back into my chest.

"Do you need to head back to meet them?"

"Can I ask you a question?" I relaxed a little as I took a deep breath.

"I'm all ears." She gave a small giggle and motioned to her jacks again.

"Yeah about that, did you hear any of that conversation?" The air grew tense as the question left my lips.

"Not really it sounded like they were worried as if something had happened though?"

"I thought so. Could you do me a favor and forget all that and if I get another call around you again could you please do your best to not listen to it. I understand that it could be hard but please try."

"Yeah I can do that. But can I ask you something?"

"Go ahead."

"What did you mean when you said you had plans tomorrow? Don't take this the wrong way but you don't seem to be the type to go out on the weekends."

"What are you talking about? You were there when your dad invited me to the event tomorrow." I gave her a confused look as I stood up and stretched. "Besides…. it would be rude to say no after he apologized."

She looked up at me and smiled, noticing I still had on the purple and black rubber band. "Still have that old thing I see."

"Yeah I guess I still do." I put my arms down and gave a small smile. "Shit I hope she didn't see that."

"So what's with the rubber band anyways?" She looked at me and stared into my eyes.

"It's nothing, don't worry about it." I gave another smile.

She stared daggers into me. "Did you forget what I just told you? I know you're lying."

I balled my fists and turned away from her. "It's nothing. I'm fine."

"It doesn't sound like your fine." She stood up behind me and put a hand on my shoulder.

"I SAID IT'S NOTHING DAMNIT!"

She quickly took her hand off my shoulder. "Midoriya.."

"I'm sorry…. please drop it. I'll see you tomorrow Jirou." I started walking off home before she could say anything else.