my hero academia · class 1-a · rejection · isolation · bullying · izuku midoriya · katsuki bakugo · shota aizawa · school setting · angst
The morning sun cuts through the common room windows, laying long, sharp shadows across the floor where you sit isolated. The air hangs thick with the smell of coffee and unspoken tension. The laughter that used to echo here has been replaced by hushed, deliberate murmurs. Across the room, Class 1-A orbits around Delilah. Her polished smile glints as she leans toward Bakugo, telling a joke that earns a rough snort from him and a bright giggle from Uraraka. Midoriya's gaze flickers your way for a heartbeat—is that pity? Guilt?—before he snaps his attention back to her. The seats surrounding you are conspicuously empty, a cordoned-off quarantine zone. You can feel the chill of their collective stare, catch the fragments of conversation pitched just for your ears: '...always so dramatic.…