Two weeks had passed, and it was two days before Winter Break, otherwise known the day before the dance.

All the girls were hanging around my desk and we were talking about what we were doing after school, and you want to know what it was? Dress shopping.

When we first talked about this subject last week, I wasn't excited at all. In fact, I was telling Uraraka that I didn't want to wear a dress to the dance, and after what felt like a million years of my friend convincing to get one, I finally would. Nothing fancy, just a simple dress.

"Should we all leave school together and go shopping?" suggested Ashido.

"I like that idea, Ashido, plus it will be quicker," said Yaoyorozu.

Uraraka nodded, "Okay, that settles it! We'll all leave together and pick our dresses out for tomorrow!"

"Yay," I murmured, still kinda not excited about the whole shopping thing.

In all honesty, I wasn't that excited about the dance either. Yeah, I was pretty pumped about it a few weeks ago, but when Todoroki told me we couldn't hang out that much anymore and he couldn't date anyone, the chances of seeing him at the dance was pretty unlikely. I was happy to go if Todoroki would have been there, but no, his father has to be a big butt hole (sorry for my language, but it's unfair!)

Uraraka poked me in the shoulder, "Cheer up a little, shopping isn't that bad!"

I gave her the are-you-freaking-kidding-me-I-almost-died-because-of-shopping look and said, "I don't believe you."

My friend playfully rolled her eyes and all the girls kept talking about the whole shopping thing while I sat at my desk, playing around with my pencil. Shopping was part of the reason why I was so down.

I didn't tell my friends about what Todoroki said to me because I didn't want them to feel sorry for me, and plus it was kinda hard to talk about. Ever since that day in The Common Area, I have been feeling a little sad and I have barely seen Todoroki these past weeks, and that just made me feel even worse.

The class then started and Mr. Aizawa told us to shut up (no joke) and get in our assigned seats. I caught a glimpse of Todoroki seating in his seat all the way across the room, he looked down at his desk and looked sort of...depressed? I haven't seen him like this in a while, I wonder what was going on with him.

While Mr. Aizawa was talking, I was doodling in my Hero Analysis Notebook, not paying attention that much. Suddenly, a piece of pink sticky note paper flew onto my desk and I got startled by it. There was writing on it.

I took out my pack of sticky notes and wrote a note back to her.

When I gave Uraraka the note she gave me a look that read concerned, and she was about to throw another note back to me when Mr. Aizawa yelled, "Don't be throwing notes in my classroom, Ms. Midoriya, and Ms. Uraraka!"

"Sorry, Mr. Aizawa!" Uraraka and I apologized at the same time, and the homeroom teacher went back to his job.

The school day was now officially over and the girls and I got permission to leave the UA campus to go shopping, still wasn't excited about it.

All of us were walking together to a store Yaoyorozu told us we should shop there. It was pretty chilly outside and I was glad that I had brought a really warm coat with me, or else I would have been freezing my butt off. There was no snow on the ground yet and I couldn't wait until it came.

After walking in the cold for a while, Yaoyorozu said we had finally arrived at the store. It was sort of boutique like and was small, but there were dresses all over the store. There must have been millions of them to choose from.

"Wow, this place is really great Yaoyorozu!" Ashido commented, turning her head to look at everything in the building.

"Yeah, the dresses look really nice here!" said Uraraka.

"I come here whenever I need a dress for something, and don't worry, everything here isn't that expensive, it's pretty cheap," Yaoyorozu informed us.

Then, picking out dresses and shopping thing started. Uraraka dragged me along with the other girls and started looking through dresses that might look good on me. I ended up in a dressing room with a huge pile of dresses in my hands.

"Look through them and let us see them after you try them on!" Uraraka said behind the dressing room door.

I did what she told me to do, look through them, and tried the first dress on. It was a long hot pink dress with about a billion ruffles on it and tons of glitter. Princess Bubble Gum who?

When I walked out with the pink dress on, all the girls looked at it like it was the ugliest thing they have ever seen, "Yeah, that does not suit you at all!" Ashido told me, shaking her head.

"Too much pink," stated Asui.

I went back into the dressing room and tried more dresses on. The second one was dark red and was way too short and showed too much of my cleavage, nobody agreed with that one either. Next, I put on this blue dress that had rhinestones all over the top and the shirt looked like a huge balloon. 

I tried on countless amounts of dresses, all of them were terrible or I didn't like them. The girls kept giving me a bunch of items to try on but none of them were working.

"This is seriously exhausting!" I groaned, sitting down on one of the chairs in the store. 

"I feel your pain, shopping isn't my favorite thing either," Jiro told me.

"Deku, we'll try to find you something to wear, don't give up so easily!" Uraraka tried to cheer me up, but it didn't work and I just gave her a small nod.

The girls then started looking around the store, and I didn't want to sit down in this chair forever and be out into more stupid outfits, so I got up and started looking around the store for something I would like.

In the beginning, I had no luck of finding a dress, and I thought I was very much doomed for tomorrow. When my head was filling up with worried and scared thoughts, something caught my eye.

I walked over to a rack and saw a dress that I thought was really cute and pretty. I took off the rack and headed to the dressing room and tried it on, and I absolutely loved it.

It was a short dress with a white top that had a pretty pattern on it and the lower half was a pretty minty green skirt, and it wasn't too flashy or anything, it was perfect for me.

"Deku? where did you go?" I heard Uraraka's voice outside the dressing room I was in.

"I'm in here, Uraraka!" I said and opened the door, revealing me in the dress that I liked, and all the girls gasped when they saw me in the outfit.

"Oh, my god Midoriya that looks so cute on you!" Yaoyorozu complimented me.

"I love it, ribbit!" Asui smiled.

"So do I, Deku, you look so pretty in it!" Said Uraraka, "I bet Todoroki will too!" Uraraka whispered that last part to me so only I could hear it.

When my friend told me that, my eyes widened a little and I pushed down the cry that was about to come out of my mouth, "Y-Yeah, totally," I said softly back to her.

Soon, I took off the dress and everyone else found their own as well. Jiro was getting a short dark purple one that had straps coming off the shoulder, Yaoyorozu choose a long red dress that complimented her very nicely, Asui picked out a medium length dark green dress that was strapless, Uraraka liked a light pink dress that had some ruffles at the bottom and Ashido found a hot pink dress that had bright yellow stripes.

We all paid for our dresses and started walking back to the UA dorms, it was almost dark out and I was very glad that I had all my friends with me so that I wasn't alone. My neck was now healed from that night but I still get scared whenever it gets dark out.

Uraraka must have seen me getting a little anxious and she nudged me, "It's okay, Deku, all of us are here and nothing can happen to you since you're not alone."

I smiled at my friend, "Thanks Uraraka, It's still hard being in the dark."

"I know, we're almost to the dorms, try to calm yourself down a little," Uraraka gave me a bright smile of comfort.

"I'll try," I said.

Uraraka then linked our arms together while we walked, and that made me feel a little better. I and my friend walked like that until we got back to the safety of the UA campus.