POV Ochako Uraraka

I was sitting on my bed, in my dorm, staring at the sheets. It was silent. I could almost hear my own blood flow. When I got out of my 'trance' I noticed I'd been rubbing my foot slowly for the past time. It was probably my own brain trying to comfort me.

I needed to tell Deku, but for some reason it was hard. It was really hard to me. Even though I knew almost certainly that he would accept it and help me with it. I took a deep breath and got up. I've had my alone time. I needed to get myself together. So I walked up to the door and opened it, looking left and right before stepping out of my room and closing the door behind me.

"Ochako?".

I flinch and put my hand on my chest because of it. Then I look at the person who startled me like that.

"Oh Ashido!", I say reliefed. Her black-yellow eyes are staring at me surprised.

"What are you doing out this late?", she asks.

I look back at her and frown. This late? What does she mean? It's not late at all! Right?

"It's almost 10 in the evening!", Ashido clarifies.

It's hard for me to hide my surprised face. That late already? I didn't even notice that time passed that quickly.

"O-oh.. I eh.. I promised something to..someone..", I explained hesitantly. I was making up the words as I said them. For some reason I felt that if I told Mina I was going to go to Deku's room to tell him something, that she would either ask what I was going to tell him or accuse me of liking him again, which would result in my face turning into a tomato.

Too late. The very thought of being accused of that already made me flustered. I sighed and swallowed. Mina stared at me for a few more seconds.

"Well alright! I'll let you be! I'm going to my room now! Have a good night!", she says, winking at me. Then she heads towards her own room, as cheery as always. I let out a huge sigh and stayed put for a moment before I snuck over to Deku's room. In front of his door, I stopped.

Suddenly I wasn't even sure if it was his room anymore. I swallowed and then lifted my hand to knock his door. It took me a lot of effort and courage to do it, but I did it. And my entire head was hoping he was there and that he would open the door.

When the doorknob moved and the door opened for the slightest bit my heart jumped and I looked up.

"Uraraka?", Deku says surprised. But a good way of being surprised. He smiled a little.

"I uhm.. Can I get in?", I asked softly, fidgeting and tapping my feet on the ground.

Deku looked at me for a moment and then nodded, stepping aside and opening the door wider for me to get in.

"Yeah of course! Get in!", he quickly said. He did keep his voice down, in case anyone was already asleep. I slowly entered his room and he closed the door behind me.

"I suppose you wanted to tell me.. about what happened..?", he carefully asked me. I turned around to look at him.

All I could focus on was what he looked like. He wore his comfortable clothes and still his muscles were so visible in it that I couldn't get my eyes off of them. I couldn't even feel my face getting flustered again, until his eyes met mine. He was blushing too and from that moment I couldn't get away from his gaze. We just stared at each other. We just stared.