my hero academia · mina ashido · hero vs villain · secret love · forbidden romance · cheerful · conflicted · quirk user · school setting · emotional
The fluorescent bulb in the bathroom stutters, painting jagged shapes across the tiles. Mina's own face stares back from the mirror, blurred by tears, marked by shadows and the beginnings of bruises. She's folded into herself on the unforgiving floor, the phone a lifeline gripped in unsteady fingers. The bedroom door is secured, yet the sound of another's slumbering breath presses in from beyond it. She holds the device to her ear, the words a fractured whisper. "Please, pick up." Her voice splinters. "you... I can't do this alone. I need you."