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Aeri and Bakugou arrived at the dorms early Sunday afternoon and thankfully, it was still quiet. No one usually returned from their parents' houses until Sunday evening and those who stayed at the dorms hadn't left their rooms to see Aeri.
Bakugou was grateful for that, he didn't want to have to deal with everyone overwhelming Aeri with attention before they'd even gotten her settled back into her dorm.
"It's dusty in here," Aeri's nose scrunched up as she walked into the dorm and cracked open the balcony doors to air the room out. "You don't have to help, babe, I can do it," she said as Bakugou began to unzip the first suitcase, pulling out the freshly washed bedsheets.
"And what am I gonna do all damn day while you set up the room, huh?" Bakugou asked, quirking an eyebrow.
"I don't know, train? Hang out with your friends?" Aeri suggested. "You'll be bored in here."
"You left for a month. You think I want to hang out with those dipshits when I could be with you? I don't care if we were watchin' paint dry, I want to spend time with you," Bakugou said assertively, standing to his full height and stepping towards her. 
He grabbed her waist and pulled her flush against him. "I'd hang out with you over them any day." He leant down and slotted his lips over hers, running his tongue over her bottom lip.
"You're so aggressively sweet," Aeri panted once they pulled away. "It's hot."
"You're hot." Bakugou sent a sharp slap to her ass and then casually walked back to the suitcase as if he didn't just steal the breath from her lungs. "Let's get this done already. I'll set up the bed, you get dustin'."
"M'kay, do you want music on?" 
"Yeah, put whatever on."
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"Finally," Aeri whined as she flopped down onto the bed. Bakugou sighed and dropped down next to her. "That was a lot more work than anticipated."
"Your brothers practically stripped the whole fuckin' place when you were in the hospital. I don't think they were plannin' on letting you back."
"They were, they just didn't know how long I'd be there." Aeri rolled onto her stomach and rested her chin on Bakugou's bicep, pressing occasional kisses to the muscle. "I'm back now anyway, it doesn't matter anymore."
Bakugou hummed and pulled Aeri on top of him. "Everything's back to normal tomorrow, are you ready?"
"Yeah, I'm excited. I wonder what the sports festival will be like this year? Hopefully there's no more giant robots."
"The other classes are talking about how they're probably gonna make it harder this year 'cause you've raised the stakes. It was too easy for our class but it was a walk in the park for you and your brother." Bakugou's hands started wandering, absentmindedly palming at her ass and thighs. There was nothing sexual about his touches despite the suggestive area.
Aeri clicked her tongue. "They can't blame us for that, we've trained a lot longer than most people, it's not like we haven't worked hard so we could get to the point where we find things like that easy."
"I know, babe, but you know how the other classes are, they fuckin' complain and then they don't put in any damn work to change the position they're in," Bakugou said.
"Are we training tomorrow morning? Or are you going with Kiri?"
"Nah, I train with him at lunch, we can go tomorrow morning." Bakugou gripped her thighs and pulled them up so her legs straddled his hips. Then he rolled them over, hovering above her with his hips between her legs. Aeri smiled and linked her arms around his neck.
"I like where this is going..." she said cheekily. Bakugou rolled his eyes but lowered his face to hers; their lips were mere centimetres away when the door burst open and a chorus of greetings from her classmates began before falling flat when they saw the position the couple were in.
"Did you guys lose the ability to knock whilst I was gone or what?" Aeri asked lightheartedly, her head poking out from above Bakugou's shoulder.
"You two should not be doing such inappropriate things on school grounds!" Iida yelled, his face turning red.
"Relax, Iida, we're fully clothed." Aeri nudged her boyfriend off of her and swung her legs over the side of the bed, standing up to show the class rep that she was not, in fact, naked. "To be fair, we probably wouldn't have been if you'd burst in twenty minutes later..." she muttered. Only Jirou heard it and the girl snickered quietly to herself.
"I hate you all," Bakugou said, oddly calmly. He was embarrassed and angry and it looked as if the two emotions were battling in his mind to be the one to show on his face.
"Sorry! Should we come back?" Kirishima rubbed the back of his neck bashfully.
"What do you expect them to do, jump back into bed after that?" Mina rolled her eyes. "Sorry to be a cockblock, Bakugou, but I haven't seen my best friend in a month and you got to see her yesterday so I'm stealing her."
Bakugou didn't answer, his face stuck in a grimace as he stared at his classmates in the doorway. 
"C'mon, let's go to the common room and forget this ever happened." Aeri clapped her hands and began to walk towards the door.
"Why didn't you lock it?" Todoroki questioned quietly.
"Why didn't you knock?" Aeri fired back rhetorically.
"Touché."
"Is Jungwon not here?" Kirishima asked as he dragged Bakugou along to the common room with the rest of the class.
"Did he not tell you? He's staying a while longer." Aeri frowned.
"He hasn't been answering my texts for the past few days, is he busy?"
"He's been sorting a lot of stuff out with Jiho to be fair, he didn't even wake up to say goodbye to me yesterday so I wouldn't take it to heart."
"How did you cause a solar eclipse?" The question exploded from Midoriya as if he'd been trying his hardest to hold himself back from asking.
"I didn't, It was Dalnim. I don't really know how it worked." Aeri shrugged. Deku looked like he was about to tear his own hair out. "How's your quirk, by the way?"
"It's coming back! It's not all there yet but I used it in training the other day." Midoriya smiled.
"Good, you'll be ready to fight me then?"
"Fight you? For what?" He stuttered.
"To train for the sports festival..."
"Oh right...yeah! I'll be ready to fight you."
"Perfect."
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