Ray's POV - A week later

I walk with Katsu towards Hot Topic, he's holding my hand and he's on his phone while I window shop on the way there.

"Isn't that boy from the sports festival?" A hag whispers nearby.

"Yeah, he was so vile and too rough. He's got the makings of a villain." Another woman whispers.

"It's a wonder he's still in U.A. with how he's presented everywhere."

"He's atrocious and his personality is the worst."

I listen to the ladies as Katsu gets more fed up. Katsu worries me as his hand starts to warm up, he's pissed off.

I look at the ceiling for a moment of the mall, wondering what the best course of action is.

Do I tell the hags off? Do I distract my boyfriend? Do I drown someone? Should I choose violence?

"Fuck this shit." Katsu grumbles and storms off, leaving me here.

I watch him worried and then I pull out my phone. I text him, telling him to just go back to the dorms and cool off, take a shower or something, and I'll bring home dinner. I send the text and I put my phone back in my pocket.

"I choose violence." I say to myself and I turn towards the ladies, and I walk over calmly as they continue talking shit about my boyfriend. "Shut up." I say to them loud and clear.

The two ladies look at me surprised. "Your the student hero, Cascade." One of the ladies says to me surprised.

I scowl at the two. "Stop talking shit about Katsu, your lucky I'm getting over my anger issues, otherwise I'd beat it out of you. Your just fucking jealous of my boyfriend and his amazing quirk and his astounding abilities shown on TV. Your nothing but extras and you running your mouths when you shouldn't be, really pisses me off. Because your mothers should have taught you better than to talk shit near the person your talking shit about. Leave my boyfriend alone your intolerant shits. Because he's doing his damn best to be a hero and extras like you, make it really fucking hard for him. So shut your traps and keep your nasty opinions to yourself." I say to the two ladies and they're just in shock.

I tch and I continue what I was doing, which was going to Hot Topic.

I find some Band T-Shirts that I really like and I pay and leave. I then head to Game Stop and I pick up a few games I had preordered and I pay for those and I leave.

I then leave the mall while looking through instagram on my phone, when I sense somebody following me.

I look behind me and there's just regular people. I looking around, suddenly feeling threatened and I don't see anyone odd.

I shrug off the feeling and I order Katsu's favorite for dinner from his favorite restaurant as I walk towards another plaza.

Once I get to the restaurant, I pay for the food and the counter lady hands me my food with a smile.

"Have a nice day." She says to me with a smile.

"You as well." I say to her with a smile.

I take the food and I leave.

I get that feeling that I'm being followed again and I look around, genuinely worried since I don't like this feeling. Then that's when I see Dabi, he's watching me and I silently wonder why he's watching me.

"Ray! Over here!" I hear Inferno yell and I see her and Endeavor on patrol.

I walk over to them and Inferno grins.

"You look adorable today Ray, that sweater looks really soft." Inferno says to me with a grin.

"Hello to you as well." I say to her amused.

"Ray." Endeavor says to me.

"Hello Endeavor." I say to him.

"Your so cute." Inferno says as he hugs me around my shoulders, rubbing her face against my head.

"And I also have hot food, so be careful." I say to her. "Not to mention I waited months for these games." I say as I gently push her off me.

Inferno grins at me and then looks around. "Where's your boyfriend? I thought you said you two had a date planned today?" Inferno asks me.

"Some skanks were talking shit about him, he got pissed off and left to cool down before his quirk accidentally hurt me. I texted him, telling him to go back to the dorms to cool off and I'd bring us home dinner once I was done shopping." I say to her and she nods surprised. "I might have also told those skanks off, rudely." I say as I think about that. "They deserved it though." I say with a shrug.

"You didn't hurt them, right?" Endeavor asks me.

"I probably hurt their feelings." I say to Endeavor.

"But did you hurt them?" Endeavor asks me.

"No. I did not. I was more worried than I was pissed off." I say to Endeavor and he nods, looking slightly relieved.

"Your becoming such a good person." Inferno cries as she watches me.

I stare at her and I inch away. "You and my brother keep saying that. I've always been a good person, I'm just angry." I say to her and she laughs at that.

After a few more minutes of talking, the two continue their patrol and I head towards the train station.

I need a nap.

I stand in the train on the way back and then I head up the mountain towards the school and I head to the dorms.

I head to my dorm house and as I'm getting inside, I hear arguing between Katsu and my Father.

I walk in to the common area and I stand next to Mina whose watching, worried. "What's going on?" I ask her quietly.

"Aizawa-Sensei is trying to lecture Bakugou on leaving Ray alone in public and he's arguing, saying that she can handle herself." Mina whispers back, not looking to see it's me she's talking about.

I watch the two, worried and I step between them, effectively quieting everything. "Chill out." I say to the two.

"Oh thank god Mom is home." Denki says relieved.

I look between the two, just worried. "Don't argue about me, it's weird on my end. Seriously. I can handle myself dad, besides, I ran into Endeavor and Inferno who were on patrol anyways. And I have my license so even if I was attacked, I'd be able to fight. And Katsu, please chill out. I told you to come back to the dorms, to chill out after what happened earlier, I know your pissed off, but it's not gonna help you to be constantly pissed off and arguing with everyone right now." I say to the two, just worried.

Katsu tch's and goes to his room while Dad sighs heavily next to me.

And somehow, I made it worse. Great going dumb ass, this is how an argument is gonna start and your not gonna know what to do during it. Your doing great today.

"Thank you for stopping that Ray, he wasn't calming down." Dad says to me.

"It's no wonder. Some skanks were talking shit about him in the mall. That's why I told him to come back to the dorms." I say to Dad who looks at me surprised but I just head up to my room where I change and take off my make up.

I set my box of food on my coffee table and I set my utensils down and I head to Katsu's room.

I knock and I don't get an answer. I open the door and Katsu is in his bathroom. "Hey Baby, I'm leaving your food on your desk, come talk to me when your feeling better. I didn't want to upset you earlier, so I'm sorry if I did." I say to Katsu and I set his food down and I leave, closing the door behind me.

I head back to my room and I eat quietly and slowly, not really in the mood to eat, since I wanted to eat dinner with Katsu, but I pissed him off even further.

I end up just pushing my food away and I do my homework while listening to music through my headphones.

The next morning

I head to class and Katsu ignores me.

I frown slightly, but I leave it be, since I did upset him, quite a bit.

After classes are over, I have training with Shinso and Dad.

"Hey are you ok?" Shinso asks during our break.

"I'm fine." I say to Shinso with a small wave of my hand.

"You just seem off today, like, really off, your barely focusing, and your constantly in a thinking haze. I swear I've seen steam roll out of your ears." Shinso says to me.

"It's fine, I just have a few things to work out with, with Katsu, I upset him yesterday I guess." I say as I rub the back of my neck, mostly just worried.

Shinso stares at me and he takes it as is, but I don't think he bought the it's fine, part.

After training, I head back to the dorm house and I change into a pair of sweatpants and I notice Katsu took his clothes.

And instant pain goes through my stomach and chest at the thought of Katsu being that pissed off at me.

"Well, I guess I deserve it." I say softly and Eve looks at me from her cat tree.

I feel myself about to start crying because overall, I'm just frustrated and worried.

Eve jumps down and I pick her up, I hold her as I sit on my bed, petting her.

Maybe he just took his clothes so he can wash them, he might be doing laundry. That's something realistic I guess.

Or maybe he just hates me and wants his space and he's purposely distancing himself from me and he actually doesn't care and he'd rather ignore me for the rest of his life. That's also somewhat realistic.

It's ok, he's just upset, he's been upset at you before and you two always make up before the end of 48 hours.

But that's usually because of an argument, we didn't have one of those, it was date day for us and those skanks ruined it and I made it worse by telling him to chill out. Therefore I'm the issue and I should go admit that to Katsu, so he can yell at me and get it out of his system.

But I also don't want to feel worse right now because the worry of him hating me, already sucks.

But once it's over, then it's over and I know where he stands and I know right now, that he's pissed off at me, and I should rip the band-aid off and get it over with, because what's a little more pain and heartache?

I sigh softly and Eve purrs as she lays in my arms. "I'll go talk to him." I say softly and I put Eve on my bed.

I head down to Katsu's room and I knock.

"Who is it?" Katsu asks annoyed.

"Hey Katsu, I just wanted to talk to you, see how your doing. You haven't said a word to me since yesterday at the mall." I say to Katsu.

"Why do you think that is Ray?" Katsu asks pissed.

"Because your upset at me, and I know I deserve it, I'm so sorry Katsu. I was just trying to diffuse some situations, and in turn I created more. I know I'm a shitty girlfriend, but I just want you, to get your screaming at me, over and done with, so I know how you feel, because I don't want to jump to conclusions on why you took your clothes from my room, or why you've been ignoring me, or why your upset at me." I say to Katsu.

The door opens and I look up at Katsu, he looks majorly pissed off and he has me come into his room.

"You didn't fucking defend me from those extras at the mall! You didn't defend me in front of your father!" Katsu keeps yelling at me, telling me everything I've done wrong and I start to shake, about to cry since I know he's really pissed at me.

"What are you gonna do now? Huh Ray? Tell me? Are you gonna track down those extras from yesterday? Go tell off your dad? Cry? What? Apologize again?" Katsu asks me pissed.

I have a very hard time looking him in the eyes, so I take a deep breath and I look up at his eyes. "You've heard me apologize, a lot now, I don't know how to fix this Katsu, I really don't, I waited for you to leave, to tell those skanks off, I told Dad why I had you come home without me, I bought you your favorite dinner from your favorite restaurant that looks like you never touched yesterday. I apologized to you, I came to talk to you instead of waiting to see how things played out like I normally would, because I really love you Katsu, and it hurts that I don't know how to fix this. If you don't want to believe me, then that's fine, you don't have to. I never asked for you to show me love and compassion to begin with, and if you want to tear things down and break things off, then ok. I deserve it. I'm a shitty girlfriend. I don't deserve your kindness or your love, and I never have Katsu. So I'm sorry and I love you." I say to Katsu who stands there, surprised, so I just leave his room, giving him space.

I head to my room again and I sit on my bed where I just cry quietly into a pillow.
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