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Jirou sat behind the boys as they piled around the computer laughing. "Come on you fuckers, you can't use a picture of Mina, Mineta will know instantly that it isn't her, or the fucking creep will really try to talk to her. Move the fuck over let me do this." Bakugo shoves Denki out of the chair, the blonde boy falling to the floor with an uff. Jirou watches as Bakugo types in "Hot school girl" into the search engine. He quickly clicks on a couple of photos downloading them before he clicks back over to the other tap HerosMingle.com the site that heros and sidekicks use to find love. He quickly uploads the photos to the fake profile they are making. "Alright someone who can fucking write worth a damn make the profile." Bakugo stands up and looks at the others around the, Kirishima blushes lightly and Denki laughs and points to Jirou, while leaning back on two legs of his chair. "Jirou should do that she's a girl after all she can make it sound more girlish." "Jirou's a girl?" Bakugo barks out as Kirishima hits his sholder roughly Denki breaks out laughing before Jirou kicks the legs of chair she was sitting on, causign Denki to fall backwards onto the floor, also instantly stopping his laughing. Bakugo shoves Kirishima lightly then punches Jirou's sholder lightly. "I'm just fucking kidding, but way to shut buzzhead the fuck up." Kirishima helps the ego-burned Denki up again. "I was being nice and I end up getting hurt?" Denki whines while sitting back down in his chair, making sure that all four legs are sitting on the ground. "Yeah but you are the only one who laughed at it." Jirou sighs sitting down in front of the computer she looks at the "About me" section and sighs. "Okay what kind of girl would Mineta like?" "Fucking any?" Bakugo half yells. "Yeah, we know that...." Jirou stops herself and bites on her lip before typing "I'm kind of shy, looking for the right guy to help me out, I love the color purple, and I'm a little afraid of talking to most people, but I'd love a nice hero to adore." She smirks and looks back at her boys who are all giving her a big cheesy smile and thumbs up "That's perfect Jirou!" Kirishima gives her a high five. They all watch as she finishes the profile up. "Okay so what is Mineta's profile name again?" She asks looking over to Denki. "gRAPe4u" Denki Mutters out almost embarrassed to say it. "How did you get this information again Denki?" Jirou eyes him suspisiusly. "Well..Uh..I might have set up a profile when he did..." Denki looks down at the floor as Bakugo smacks the bac of his head. "So what was your name ShockHER" Denki Turns bright red still looking down at the ground while he mutters a small "Maybe." Jirou rolls her eyes as she hits match on gRAPe4u's page, she rolls her eyes and lets out a breath.
"Well now we just have to -" Almost instantly the computer makes a dinging noise as a small bubble pops up on the window
gRAPe4U: "Hello Milady, I see that you have requested to match with me. I read your profile and saw you love purple. Well, I'm as purple of a hero as you can get milady love."
Jirou almost gags, as Bakugo and Kirisimah fall over laughing and Denki's eyes bug out of his head while laughing. "Who knew that twerp could form a fucking sentence like that!" Bakugo yelps out while holding his stomach while laughing. "I mean I'm just surprised he didn't reply with a dick pic." Denki blurts out. "Oh god you guys never told me he could have sent one of those, that's it I'm OUT!" Jirou quickly stands up from the computer and Kirishima plops down quickly. "I'm sorry Jirou, But this is to funny, I understand if you are out, I personally don't want to see that either but he has to learn a lesson about how to treat girls." Kirishima gives Jirou a thumbs up before he turns back to the computer. Jirou shakes her head laughing slightly. "Alright, I have to go jam anyways, you guys have fun, let me know how it goes." Jirou leaves the boys only hearing something along the lines of "Yeah, Tell him his hair makes you want to touch it, he will love that."
She laughs shaking her head and she closes the door to Kirishima's room behind her. She sighs and walks down the hall throwing her hands into her pockets. She lets her thoughts wonder while she walks back to her room. Earlier that morning the boys and her had been binge watching CatFish, watching people online lure other people into relationships, some of them because they didn't like how they looked and were afraid to be accepted, others to get revenge or simple to prank people. The boys had instantly taken this idea and thought it would be a great way to get back at Mineta for all the shit he had pulled recently, apparently he had caused Kirishima to fall onto Bakugo or something, the two of them were just making up.
He had done that the same day that Jirou had caught him setting up a Video camera outside of Moma's room. She growled to her herself, thinking about that day, she had chased him down the hallway, she was honestly probably the reason Kirishima had been shoved into Bakugo, after all she was out to kill Mineta that day. Either way the boys had decided it was the perfect way to get back at the little pervert, catfish him, make him think a girl actually liked him, lead him on, and then ghost him. Hopefully it would teach him a lesson, either way, Jirou had agreed. Things had been tense between her and Momo ever since that day. Jirou hadn't been able to tell her that the reason she was so mad was because she had a crush on the other girl. Jirou pushed open the door to her bedroom closing it behind her, she fell onto her bed and sighed, remembering what had happened. "Jirou! Why are you so mad, yes what he did was wrong but Mr. Aizawa is going to take care of it, he already took Mineta in. Why can't you just calm down!" Jirou had clutched her fists in her jacket as they walked together. Momo grabbed her shoulder and twisted Jirou around. "Jirou look at me what is going on!"
Jirou had bit her lip and looked at Momo's shoes, not even a single bit of dirt on them, she couldn't stand how perfect the other girl was. She didn't understand how the other girl didn't realize that Mineta needed a beat down for what he did, that whatever Mr. Aizawa was going to do wasn't enough. She felt a hand on her chin, as Momo brought Jirou's gaze up to meet her own. "Jirou?" Jirou's heart had swelled looking into the other girls eyes, right then and there wall she wanted to do was lean in and kiss her and say "There, THATS WHATS WRONG!" Jirou took a step towards Momo, having had let her imagination of pressing her lips to the softness of Momo's taken her away. She quickly stepped back and turned away from Momo. That's when Jirou said the words she knew she would regret later, "It's nothing I just need some space."
Jirou punched the pillow next to her, that had been almost two weeks ago. She hadn't talked to Momo since then, mostly out of embarrassment, mostly because every time she had gone to Momo had seemed to run from her. Jirou sighed, maybe she could find another way to talk to Momo, maybe she could have Kirishima check in on her, make sure she was okay..No, That would never work. Yeah sure the two of them talked but Momo wouldn't probably talk to her about that, she could try Todoroki, but she wasn't that close to him. Jirou signed sitting up and grabbing her laptop, she opened up pulling up Momo's facebook page, she could just message her, it wouldn't be to hard to do, it'd be a lot easier than walking up to her face. She hit the messenger button, then signed, she had forgotten she had already tried that, she had sent Momo a message a week ago asking about a question on a test, and she hadn't responded. Jirou chewed on the inside of her cheek again, thinking to herself. Maybe, the boys actually had a good idea about that catfishing thing.
She could make a fake profile and message Momo from it. Then she could find out all the things she had always wanted to know about her. Jirou sighed, that was a horrible idea, if Momo ever found out, it would be just like she had been lying to her. That was something she never wanted to do. She sighed and clicked over to her Tumblr page scrolling through her feed, song lyrics and pictures of guitars and drums whizzed past as she kept looking though. She noticed a message a small bubble on her message tab. She clicked on it was was an anonymous message, of course everyone went anonymous on tumblr. She sighed reading it, it was someone asking her to post a acoustic version of Smitherines by Twenty one Pilots.
She was used to this, she got at least one request every week if she didn't post one regularly, this post was a little different, "Hey, I noticed you hadn't posted anything in the last two weeks, You haven't even reblogged anything, not that I stock you. I just noticed, I was wondering if you could do a cover of Smitherines by Twenty-One Pilots.
I've been having a rough few weeks, and your music always makes me smile. It's one of those songs that makes me think of someone special to me. Thanks again!" She sighed, yeah that song made her think of someone special too. Momo, of course. She actually almost sent it to the other girl the day after the Mineta incident happened. Considering the song literally would have told Momo that Jirou was in love with her, she had decided against it. She pushed the laptop off her lap and then walked over to her instruments, picking up a old acoustic guitar her father had given to her, she sat down in the little recording studio she had set up for herself, she sighed, normally she would have dressed up, but she didn't care. She sat there in sweatpants and a bright yellow tank top that read Deep Dope on it. She strummed some of the cords on the guitar warming herself up, she hummed a bit trying to warm up her voice as she did so. Her earphone jack extended and pressed the record button, she smiled halfheartedly into the camera as she spoke.
"So an anonymous person has let me know that, I haven't posted anything in a while, to be fair I haven't. I've been stuck in my own mind prison as we all know that happens to the best of us. Anyways, this person told me they have been having a tough week, so I decided to pull myself up and help them out by doing a cover of Smitherines by Twenty-One Pilots for them. So this, this ones to you Anon, I hope that maybe you can share this with whoever the song makes you think about.
Jirou starts into the song, strumming the cords on her guitar, she sighs singing a at slightly lower Octane. "You know I've always been collected, calm and chill And you know I never look for conflict for the thrill But if I'm feeling Someone stepping towards you, can't describe Just what I'm feeling." Jirou smiles up to the camera as she plays she chews on her lip in between lines. She speeds up the tempo just a bit.
"For you, I'd go Step to a dude much bigger than me For you, I know I would get messed up, weigh 153 For you I would get beat to smithereens."
She smiled to the camera again, then smirks. "I'm going to switch up some of the lyrics here, because to be honest this song makes me think of someone also Anon, I'm sorry if you wanted the actual lyrics but, I just gotta go with my heart you know?" She winks at the camera, and slightly laughs at her one little joke, before going into the next verse. Her fingers continuing to play along.
"You know, You'll be in the corner taking notes." She laughed at her slight change and winked at the camera again, "And you know I got your six while you're working votes But if I'm feeling Someone stepping towards you, can't describe Just what I'm feeling" Jirou stands up with the guitar moving so she can get ready for the upcoming part, as she starts to sit back down on her Cajon.
She goes into the next chorus. "For you, I'd go Step to a dude much bigger than me For you, I know I would get messed up, weigh 153 For you I would get beat to smithereens"
She shifts her guitar around behind her, hanging on her back by the strap as she is sitting she starts the same beat she was playing on the guitar up on the box between her legs smiling as she sings the next part. "I would get beat to, You know I had to do one, You know I had to do one, You know I had to do one, On my Tumblr for you, You know I had to do one on my Tumblr for her like this, You know I had to do one on my Tumblr for her like this, You know I had to do one on my Tumblr for her like this, You know I had to do one on my Tumblr for her if--"
Jirou kind of misses a beat as she sighs, her mind thinking "If I told her I loved her." She quickly readjusts herself, pulling the guitar back around she smiles to the camera and starts playing the song again. She slows it down a bit. "I'm feeling Someone stepping towards you, can't describe Just what I'm feeling."
She holds the tone closing her eyes as she lets the emotions of the song flow over her, before she finishes the song up.
"For you, I'd go Write a slick song just to show you the world. For you, I know They think it's messed up to sell out for your girl, For you, I'd go Step to a dude much bigger than me, For you, I know, I would get messed up, weigh 153 for you." She stares directly into the camera and lets out another smile and she sings the last verse, she stops playing entirely.
"I would get beat to smithereens"
She sets her guitar down and twirls her earphone jack around in between her fingers. "Well, I think that song also helped me out to, I got to thank you for that one Anon, I think that's just what I needed right now at least. I promise I'll try to keep updating and adding some more music. Again, thank you for everyone who watches this or rebloggs this."
She sends her other jack that isn't in her hand to press the stop recording. She sit's there for a few minutes wondering if she should rerecord it, most of the school already knew she was gay, so it wouldn't really make any conversation, but the possibility of some one one somehow finding out it was for Momo. She chewed on her cheek again and drummed lightly on her cajon. The song was so good, though, and it felt good singing it. She stood up and walked over to her desktop, pressing post quickly before she changed her mind.
She had it set up so it would post automatically to her Tumblr, and Youtube page. Jirou sighed and grabbed her laptop sitting down at the desk, she hit reply to the Anon's message.
"Hey, I did the song for you, I kind of changed the lyrics some but it just called for me to do so. And hey, You have to listen to the music right? Anyways, thanks for asking for this song, It really helped me out, I've been having some conflict myself."
She hit post and signed as she began scrolling again. She twirled her headphone jack around as she watched another musician she fallowed on Tumblr playing a cover of Should I stay or Should I go by the Clash. She smiled bobbing her head along to it, before she noticed a little red bubble on her messages again. She quickly clicked to open it, a small flutter coming to her heart.
"Jirou! That song was just how I hoped you would do it. It was absolutely wonderful! I can't get over how talented you are! I'm so sorry to hear that you are going though a tough time. If you'd like I'd be more than okay with being an ear to listen to. My number is 345-598-1567, Please feel free to text me if you ever need a friend. I'm going to be listening to your song on repeat by the way, Twenty-One Pilots better watch you, you are doing their songs better than they are."
Jirou chewed on her lip, re-reading the message again, She sighed pulling out her phone. She opened her message and signed typing out a quick message.
"So do you give your number out to everyone, without first telling them who you are? -Jirou."
She quickly pressed send and then, set her phone down staring at it, she had defiantly broke code number one, texting a complete stranger, someone she didn't know off the internet. God Momo would have killed her if she had found out. Her phone buzzed on the desk and she just stared at it.
"Not really, but I've fallowed you for so long, I feel like I just know you. I'm sorry if this is creepy or anything. My name is Monica, by the way."
Jirou rolled her eyes, she wasn't about to believe anything this person said about who they were, She did just spend her day watching Catfish, and then tried to Catfish a fellow student, she might have been dumb enough to text a stranger but she wasn't dumb enough to believe anything they said. She typed out another message back to the person as she sat back in her chair and put her feet up on the desk.
"Not to be a bitch, but I just binge watched a ton of episodes of Catfish, so I'll talk with you and what not but I'm not about to believe your a girl, and or that your name is Monica. No offence to you, I'm sure a good person, but I'm a bit crazy after watching Catfish for a few hours."
Jirou laughed to herself after she pressed send, maybe she was being to blunt, to forward in telling this person she didn't bevel them, after all the person did say she fallowed her on Tumblr and loved her music, she might want to be a bit nicer. She twirled her headphone jack and stared at her phone waiting for a reply. She smiled as her phone buzzed.
"Honestly, I'm glad to hear you say that, I'd hate to know that you would just trust anyone off the internet right away. I'm just glad to have someone to talk to, even if you don't think I am who I say I am."
Jirou smirked, at least they got that she wasn't so keen on believing them. She got up from her desk setting her phone down as she wondered over to her guitar, starting up a new friendship was good and all, but she felt like she hit her limit for talking to people today. She sighed and she played a few songs, getting lost into her music and letting ever other thought fade into her music. If she couldn't talk to Momo, and couldn't talk to the bros, maybe, just maybe she could talk to a complete stranger she didn't know but met online, and if anything, maybe she'd end up on an episode of Catfish. She shrugged staring down at her phone.