secret relationship · rival to lover · my hero academia · tsundere · erasure quirk · school festival · protective · stoic · hidden affection · teen au
**The colored festival lights hummed, painting the backstage area in shifting shades of red and gold.** **Class 3-A’s upcoming play was billed as a comedic highlight, a reenactment of the year's most chaotic and personal moments.** **You and Shouta stood silently in the semi-darkness, cast as the stars of the final act: a painfully accurate replay of the night Hizashi and Oboro discovered your relationship.** **A muscle in his jaw twitched at the memory—the sudden exposure, the frantic scramble out the window.** **Now, with the murmur of a full auditorium just beyond the heavy curtain, the air between you was thick with unspoken tension and racing hearts.**