-Foggy-

OC x OC fanfic-

Made this story for a friend’s oc and mine! 

It was a cold, rainy night at the Justice High dorms. All of the students had long finished their classes for the day and were settling in either to sleep, or to find an activity to keep them busy.

Bella, being the night owl she was, was hanging in the Common Area. As she was sitting on the kitchen counter, she looked around and saw her classmates doing various activities. She saw Chara and Cho watching movies on the couch, accompanying them was Oli and Zeph. To her left she saw Amari and Landon, very tiredly, trying to finish the English homework. To her right, she saw Cassidy making a cup of coffee. All the people currently awake were regulars to the night shift of the dorms.

Since it was the night, Bella felt awake, and she hated it. Everyone always got tired and sleepy when she finally had enough energy to do things. Bella loathed to be the one always yawning and irritated.

Bella hoped off from the kitchen counter and made her way over to Cassidy, who was now sipping her coffee and reading a magazine.

Bella plopped into the seat next to Cassidy and gave an irritated groan, she laid her head into her arms. Her words were muffled when she said, “Good night.” (Saying good night is a way of greeting for Bella).

Without even looking at her, Cassidy put her coffee down and patted her head. “Looking a little tired there Belle.”

Bella lifted her head from her arms and gave Cassidy a glare, “Yeah, tired of your shit.” Bella finished with a smirk.

“That makes two of us,” Cassidy said, still not looking at Bella, and instead reading her magazine.

Noticing how Cassidy was still focused on her magazine, Bella became curious to see what could grab Cassidy’s attention so easily. She thought Cassidy hated reading.

“Hey, what’re you reading?” Bella asked, while looking over Cassidy’s shoulder.

“It’s a magazine about romantic gestures.” Cassidy replied while grinning.

Now Bella was confused, “why would you need to learn about romantic gestures if you could just use your quirk?”

Cassidy gave Bella a look, the look of ‘wow you’re really fucking stupid’. “Because, maybe I want to find love without FORCING them to love me.”

“Oh, right...” Still looking over Cassidy’s shoulder, Bella saw one of the suggested romantic gestures’. “Giving them roses? That sounds so cheesy.”

“You clearly have never been given roses before, because that’s super romantic.” Cassidy said, rolling her eyes.

Bella stayed silent, she didn’t want to respond and give away her answer. But Cassidy noticed her friend’s silence, and that gave her enough of an answer.

Cassidy turned in her seat to face Bella, “Wait, so you’ve never been given roses?” She said with a shocked look.

Bella didn’t meet Cassidy’s eyes, she instead focused on the magazine. “I was homeschooled up till now Cass, I didn’t have ‘friends’. “ Cassidy was about to respond with another question when Bella interrupted with, “- And my parents were always busy with work.”

Cassidy’s look of shock turned to sadness. She decided Bella would rather not keep talking about the topic and turned back to the magazine. After flipping through a couple pages with Bella looking over her shoulder, Cassidy got an idea.

She turned to Bella again, “Wanna go somewhere?”

Bella raised an eyebrow with confusion, “Cass.. it’s the middle of a down-pouring school night.” She turned to Cassidy when a deadpan look, “It’d better be somewhere interesting.”

And with that approval Cassidy grabbed Bella’s arm and started to run, leading her past Landon and Amari who gave confused glances.

Standing at the front door of the dorms, they looked out at the down pour of rain. “Don’t worry,” Cassidy said as she pulled out an umbrella and opened it. “-We’ll be fine.”

The two girls then started their walk in the rain, with Cassidy leading the way. They avoided puddles in the sidewalk and getting too close the the side of the road. Cassidy still didn’t give Bella any clues to where they were headed, but Bella trusted Cassidy enough to follow her. They made conversation the entire time, quickly falling instep with each other’s strides.

Cassidy stopped in front of a building, “Wait right here.” Cassidy handed the umbrella to Bella as she walked into the store. Bella tried to read the store fronts signs but the rain made it nearly impossible, she decided to give up and wait for Cassidy to come back outside.

When Cassidy finally walked back outside she was carrying a single red rose. She stood under the umbrella with Bella and held it out to her. “I just wanted to be the first,” Cassidy said, with a smirk.

Bella stepped forward. They were both in their school uniforms. She had been speechless for one of the first times in her life. Bella had no witty comeback to retort with, and silence hung heavy. She slowly started to reach out for the rose.

“I-“ Bella stepped back, and doing so caused Cassidy to stop being protected by the umbrella. A look of shock and recognition struck Bella’s face. What was she doing? Bella looked away with shame from Cassidy and the rose, and avoiding eye contact she said, “I have to go.”

And with that, Bella hurriedly walked away from Cassidy. Leaving her in the cold rain, with a rose that’s stem became droopy from the downpour.

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Thanks to Oli for the prompt!