Putting Things Aside

                                    

                                          
Waking up slowly, the first thing that Mina had seen the next morning was Izuku sleeping next to her, with his right arm loosely wrapped around her waist. She had needed to blink a few times before the blurred image had become clear, and she was able to make out the details of his face. He still was totally unconscious, lightly breathing. She had been able to feel his breath gently against her skin
                          
Simply put, she hadn't remembered falling asleep, at all. One minute, she had been awake, kicking the crap out of the Izuku during their video game session, and the next, she was waking up like this, with just a gap that apparently classified as sleep between the two of them.
                          
She had taken note that Izuku must have been the one to place her like this, and lay next to her like this. That had made her smile, at least just a little bit. She did remember that she had offered that he could sleep next to her if he wanted. He'd evidentially wanted to do just that, so he just did, once she was totally out of it. When she thought about it, no one had even brought up the subject of setting up a futon or sleeping bag for Izuku in her room the previous night – Not even Izuku had. It had just been decided by her family that he was going to be sharing her bed with her.
                          
And Izuku apparently hadn't complained.
                          
Mina had then moved a bit closer to Izuku, letting herself get level with his face. Since he was a couple of inches taller than her, Mina had been slightly more around his chest than his face, though this had only taken a couple of seconds to correct, and movement that hadn't seemed to bother Izuku in the least.
                          
She hadn't really gotten to see him sleeping peacefully like this before. They'd shared a bed in the past, sure, but the first time, she had fallen asleep long before him. The second time, he had basically rolled over and fallen asleep on her chest – Which she still found amusing – And concealed his face. So that had been the first time that she'd gotten to see his sleeping the way he had been then.
                          
He was a peaceful sleeper, she had noted. She had no idea if she was a particularly peaceful sleeper, but she did know that she was a heavy one. When she was knocked out, it took a lot to get her to wake up, otherwise, her body would have just totally ignored anything that happened around her, cancelled it out, and let her remain asleep. She did know that she turned in her sleep. Had that ever woken him up? Or was he as heavy a sleeper as she was?
                          
Those questions had taken a back wall as Mina came more and more to terms with what all of this meant for her plans that night. She'd failed, to put it simply.
                          
It hadn't been a particularly elaborate plan, but it was one that she felt would have gone down reasonably well. To put it simply, her plan had been to spend as much time with Izuku as possible before he'd gotten sleepy, watching films, playing video games, or even just talking, until Izuku mentioned that he'd want to go to sleep. And then, Mina would have asked him.
                          
Did he actually love her?
                          
Her reasoning for why she had wanted to wait until he was sleepy was simple. Manipulative as it might have sounded, it would have hopefully made him be more honest with how he felt. She wasn't sure if that was wrong of her or not, but the fact that she felt she had to do that at all was pretty messed up in itself, as far as she was concerned. All she wanted was some closure in this particular head-racking question. That wasn't wrong, was it?
                          
An alternative to that would have been to simply set a romantic tone – Not particularly difficult for Mina. Back in middle school, she had managed to help set a romantic mood between two people who had considered one another to be rivals, one with a face like a Mako shark, and another with rocks as opposed to fingers with just a series of instructions for the shark dude to follow. If she could manage that, then she could manage to set a tone between her and her awkward nerd of an adorable boyfriend.