Chapter 31

The next day around noon, a text reached me, as indicated by the sound of an explosion coming from my phone.

Old hag: So, the company we work for and those Chinese ching chong fucks had communicational faults and were generally incompetent... Now we have to stay in Hong Kong another two weeks if we wanna keep our jobs.I'm really sorry, but I guess we'll miss your birthday.

You: You've already annoyed me the last 17 of them So stay the fuck away

Old hag: I'm glad you're not mad. But I'm still gonna whoop your ass once we're back

You: Yeah, fuck off

Old hag: Fuck off further.Still love you little shit of an offspring

My fingers typed a message by themselves and I caught them just before they could send it. And still did. Hey, it might just be the last damn message of me ever reaching my mother.

You: Just saying it once

Love you asshole of a mom too

"Who are you texting?" Mr. My-butt's-gonna-be-fine sat down next to me. I only glanced at him quickly. "The old hag." Deku shifted forwards to see what I wrote. I made it easy for the both of us and handed him my phone.

Deku chuckled lightly. "Hm, your mom…" I straightened up. "Do whatever with me, but if you hurt my parents… I will rip your fucking face apart. Don't risk it." He tossed my phone onto my bed over his shoulder. "Calm down. I'd go far to hurt you, but your mom's awesome and I don't have a single problem with her."

He snickered. "Her only mistake was you, but she couldn't have known. I really wonder how a woman like her could create something like you. And it can't come from your father." I exhaled heavily. "Did you fall out of bed again?"

"I probably would've if you hadn't held onto me like it would save your life. But no, I'm actually in a pretty good mood." Deku gave me a wide, sadistic grin. It was… somewhat nice to look at. I was contemplating if I could just lunge at him and kiss him to death, but he suddenly jumped up.

"I want ice cream!" "What." I blinked a few times, processing the change of mood. Deku grinned even wider. "We should celebrate having two more weeks all alone." And his psychopathy was back. Although by now, his words seemed more tempting than frightening to me.

Infatuating little brat.

Half an hour later, Deku and I sat on a bench in the park, both eating ice cream. Deku had chocolate, I had cinnamon. Yes, they made cinnamon ice cream in the shop I bought our ice cream in. Not only was it the closest to spicy, but now it also reminded me of Deku. Someone explain why he smelled like cinnamon.

Suddenly, I halted. "So you actually bite your ice cream." Deku looked up. "Always have, always will." Damn. I didn't even have fucking words for that. For a while, we just sat in silence, eating. Even when we both finished, none of us talked.

And wordlessly it happened when Deku suddenly turned my face to him and smashed his lips on mine. Then he backed off a tiny bit. "Look behind us, at the park gate." I glared over my shoulder and caught a quick glance of tomato red hair vanishing.

I sighed. "Maybe it wasn't your best fucking move to do that just now." He dropped his head to the side. "Why exactly? Did you guess it too? Or are you just scared people will make fun of you?" "I'll kill them if they make fun of me. But what the fuck am I supposed to guess?"

Now it was Dekus turn to sigh. "Of course you didn't. You're way too fucking dense. All I'm saying is that your relationship with Nosy-shima reminds me a bit of ours. And you're me." Then he jumped up. "Come on, I don't wanna sit here all day. The world is way too annoying."

When I finally went after him, Deku was already far away.

-/-

This can't be true. We can't have lost him to him to his own enemy.

Now, there's no way to get to the secrets they- especially Midoriya- are hiding.

I'm scared. For him. Myself. All of us.

I'm sure…

That strange boy is out to get us.