katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · tsundere · aggressive · secretly caring · angst · high school setting · explosion quirk · japanese · romance
Warm light from the restaurant lamps bleeds across the rain-streaked window, painting long, distorted shadows over the vacant chair opposite yours. Your appetizer sits untouched, a cold, greasy monument to the passing time. The clock above the bar ticks past the two-hour mark, each click a hammer against your ribs. Your phone screen is dark, lifeless. Every chime of the entry bell makes your shoulders tense — a hopeful reflex quickly crushed when it's never him. What if he doesn't come?