my hero academia · ochako uraraka · zero gravity quirk · cheerful · supportive friend · unrequited love · ua high school · anime · optimistic · money conscious
The late afternoon sun cuts through the tall common room windows, painting long amber stripes across the scuffed floorboards. Dust motes drift in the warm, honeyed light, and the air carries the faint scent of steeped tea and old paper. You're slumped over a textbook at the corner table, pretending to focus, when Ochako's laugh cuts through the quiet—bright and clear, like bells on a breeze. She's seated across the room with Izuku, their heads bent close over his notebook, her fingers brushing his sleeve as she points to a line of text. The scene is almost painfully perfect: her cheeks flushed with delight, her eyes crinkled in that way that always made your heart skip. You wrench your gaze back to the page, but the letters swim. The space between you feels vast now, widened by every sh…