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Bakugou POV:

I sit down in the chair at the ramen restaurant, across from Ochako. I order a spicy dish and she doesn't.

"C'mon, cheeks. Try a bite."

She shakes her head no, "Katsuki, I can't handle your hellish level of spice and you know it."

"What ??? Pfft come on, it's not even that spicy..."

"I watched you dump a ton of extra spicy hot sauce on there... I wouldn't take a bite if you paid me to..."

I smirk and pull out my wallet, "Everyone has a price. How much?"

She laughs, "Come on, what a joke. You can't pay me to take a bite." I look back at her, completely serious.

Her eyes widen as she realizes that I'm not joking.

"Name a price, Angel."

She furrows her eyebrows, "I don't want to make you pay..."

I look back at her, "Just choose a number."

She sighs, "$50"

I nod and pull out five 10 dollar bills and slap them onto the table.

I push the bowl towards her, "Eat up, princess." She scoffs and nervously picks up the chopsticks, picking up a bite.

She puts it to her mouth to take a bite, but I stop her, "Wait!"

I quickly get up and run to the counter, "Can I have a cup of water?"

I run back to the table, being careful not to spill the water. I set the cup down in front of Ochako, "Here, you're gonna need it."

I give her a shit-eating grin. She nervously takes a bite. Closing her eyes and chewing slowly, she prepares for the extreme spice. But after a moment, she opens her eyes, obviously confused.

"Wait..." she swallows and points at the bowl, "This isn't as spicy as I expected..." I move my head down and look at her eye level.

"Angel, that wasn't hot sauce." I pick up the bottle and show the label to her, "It's Umami sauce."

She looks at me, dumbfounded, "You knew that I was gonna be able to handle it, you jerk!" she lightly punches my arm.

Her face quickly forms into a look of regret,

"I don't actually want you to pay me $50."

"I won't if you don't want me to, Cheeks." I pick up the money off the table and put it back in my wallet.

She smiles and we sit together for a moment, just staring at each other. Ochako breaks the silence with a question, "Hey Katsuki, why do you still call me those nicknames? We aren't dating anymore."

I stir the broth with my chopstick and look up at her, "Angel, we weren't dating in the first place."

"I know, but-" she sighs, "Don't you think it's a little weird that you keep calling me 'Angel' even after we stopped 'dating'?"

I look into her eyes, "Well I'm just stating the obvious, Angel."

Her face flushes pink, "W-What do you mean?" She asks.

"You know damn well what I mean, Angel-Face."

She shoves some of her ramen into her mouth, trying to deflect the conversation.

"Anyway... How's that nerd treatin' ya?"

She finishes chewing and swallows, "He's pretty good. A little clingy but definitely different from you."

"Oh yeah? How so?"

"Well, first of all, he's not violent in everything he does." she makes a mocking face at me.

I scoff and lean back in my chair. Looking up at the ceiling, I say, "He probably sucks ass at kissing, doesn't he?"

Her face turns bright red, "I- Well I don't really know... I mean- I don't really have anything to compare it to so I guess-... maybe?"

I look at her and stand up, leaning over the table. Our faces inches apart, "Would you like another example of what a good kiss is like?"

Her face turns a darker shade of red. "Well, that- would- uh... B-be rude- to... Deku.." I scoff and lean back. Shortly after, the waitress comes back and takes our empty dishes. I pay the bill and we leave.

We start walking through the park, talking about class, and just making small talk.

As we walk through the park, I hear a woman behind us, "Umm... Excuse me?"

We turn around, "You're the couple who fought that villain in this park a while back, right?" We slightly look at each other,

"Yeah," I respond.

Ochako tries to respond, "Well, we're actually not a cou-"

"What's it to ya?" I cut her off and wrap my arm around Ochako's waist. She quietly gasps and looks up at me, but I ignore her stare and continue to look ahead.

"Well, you saved the life of my son, so I just wanted to thank you." she bows down and Ochako notices a small boy hiding behind the woman.

She kneels in front of him, "Hey, are you okay?" He ignores her and grabs onto his mom's skirt.

I scoff and stomp over to him, "Hey, you brat!" I grab his arm and pull him out from behind his mom, "Look at my girlfriend when she's talking to you!"

His eyes quickly become glassy and Ochako slaps the back of my head, "Don't pull him like that, Katsuki!"

She squats down to comfort the boy, who runs into her arms. He cries, "Thank you for saving me, hero."

He shoves his face into her chest, causing both of our faces to blush. I scoff and usher the kid out of her arms, "Alright, you brat. That's enough."

Suddenly, the boy jumps into my arms, "Thank you too!"

I freeze, not knowing what to do. I look at Ochako, mortified. She just laughs at me and goes to talk to the woman.

The kid pulls on the strings of my hoodie, plays with my hair, and steals a present that had the bracelets I was gonna give to Ochako out of my pocket.

"Hey what the hell, kid!? Give that back, it's mine!" I chase after the boy, and pick him up, quickly yanking it out of his hands and shoving it into my pocket before Ochako notices.

"I'm so sorry, he's a little thief sometimes." his mom apologizes and picks him up.

Ochako intertwines our fingers and waves to the mom, "Bye!"

"Bye, Ochako!" She waves back and we go the opposite way from her.

Ochako starts to let go of my hand, but I don't want her to, so I keep holding on and pretend like I'm not paying attention.

I accidentally let my face express my heartbroken state, which Ochako picks up on. She decides to not let go of my hand and we walk into the forested area of the park.

She pulls me into a small clearing that I didn't know was there, as it was blocked by a curtain of vines and not visible from the path.

"What are you doing?" I ask. I quickly notice a blanket on the ground and a small picnic basket. My cheeks blush pink as Ochako says, "Surprise!!"

"I- What the fuck is going on??" She pulls me down onto the blanket and opens the picnic basket, "When we were still 'dating', we got presents for each other... But we never got to give them to each other. So... I thought that today would be perfect!"

She pulls out a box, wrapped in orange wrapping paper with a black ribbon and bow.

I look at her with a "what the fuck is this?" look. 

"Just open it!"

I scoff and rip off the paper, revealing a white box. I open the lid and see a black apron. I pull it out and hold it out in front of me. It has the design of the explosion ear-pieces I have on my hero costume. The pattern lines the bottom and above the is an embroidered text box that says "DIE!"

I blush and look away from her. F-Fuck.

"Do you like it?"

"I- uh... Y- Yeah," I timidly respond.

I pull the small, white, and black checkered box out of my pocket and hand it to her. She takes it and looks at me for a second, "Wait..."

I look back at her, "What?"

"How did you have this prepared when you didn't know I was doing this?"

"Well... I was just planning on giving it to you today anyway, so..."

"Oh..." She lifts off the lid, revealing two beaded bracelets. One was almost entirely white marble, but one bead was a porous, black, volcano rock. The other bracelet was the opposite; Almost all black volcano rock with one white marble bead.

Her face lights up, "Oh my god, Katsuki these are so cute!!!!" she squeals.

She puts on the mostly white one and I put on the black one.

I look at her, the beams of sunlight peeking through the cracks in the canopy of trees light up her face. F-Fuck, she's- She looks like an angel...

A/N: Ok so I need to address a few things... My fingie is pretty much healed now... This Chapter is not edited yet so expect changes later today. And... Ummm... OH YEAH! *ahem*
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(Also for the original ~100 people to read this chapter, yes I did unpublish it and change it. Sorry. :/)

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