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Maybe life is worth living, after all. Sitting here next to Mina, the sun on your skin. Life is good. Especially when you’re choosing to ignore the screams of anguish from Kaminari as Bakugo tackles him into the beautiful blue water. Wow. Nature is amazing. You especially think that when you watch Bakugo rise up out of the water, back glistening and flexing as he pushes his bangs back with one hand…Dear lord.
Mina swats your thigh, making you jolt on your towel. “Girl.” She looks up at you over her sunglasses, eyebrows raised. “Stop gawking.”
“I’m not gawking, Mina.” You lie, grabbing your water bottle out of the white sand, taking a long, slow sip. “I’m admiring the work of nature.”
“His back?” She rolls over onto her back, pushing her sunnys back up her nose, “Don’t let him catch you. He’ll end up ruining the vibe.”
“There is nothing to catch!” Setting your water bottle back down in the sand, you return to tanning, shutting your eyes and putting your arms behind your head. Life really is so good. At least, until you hear familiar stomping towards you, not even five minutes later, followed by a cloud of sand crashing over the two of you.
“Hey! What the hell?” You sputter, dusting off your legs and chest.
“That was such a dick move.” Mina whines, shaking sand out of her bikini top.
“What the hell did you do with my sunscreen, raccoon eyes?” Bakugo crosses his arms over his chest. God, you want to take a bite out of him. “You were the last person to use it, and it’s not with my stuff.”
“Chill, chill!” She huffs, grabbing her tote from between the two of you, “I just put it in my bag, no need to get your panties in a bunch.” She retrieves the tube and he snatches it, marching a few steps back to reapply it.
“It’s only been an hour, why are you putting it on again already?” You bring your knees up, wrapping your arms over your shins.
“Did you not read the bottle?” No. Who even reads those damn things? You don’t say that, though, because you are too busy watching him coat himself in sunscreen. He has such soft looking skin. “It says reapply after an hour when in water!”
“I didn’t take you as someone who’s on top of his skin care!” Mina laughs, looking at you for a second before rolling her eyes at your very obvious ogling.
“I actually take care of myself, unlike you extras.” He unceremoniously plops down between the two of you, right on top of Mina’s bag. “Someone get my back.”
He holds the sunscreen over his shoulder, and Mina throws her hands up in the air, looking to you. “Nah, I’ll leave that to you.” You could kiss her right now. Don’t mind if you do! You damn near pull his hand off with how fast you yank the sunscreen from his hand, but he graciously doesn’t comment on it. Mina hums as you pop the lid, standing up. “I’m going to go rise off.” She trots off to the water, where Kaminari and Sero start screaming with joy, Kirishima having already fucked off further down the shoreline to collect seashells.
You lather your hands in sunscreen, grinning because no one looking at you means that you don’t have to pretend to be nonchalant. “It’s cold.” You warn, before pressing your palms to his wide back. God, he’s as soft as he looks. You can die happy.
“I fuckin’ know that.” He grumbles, leaning forward as you watch the muscles jump in his back jump under your touch. You could lick the sunscreen off of him. That probably wouldn’t taste good though…And it might get you sick. So you don’t do that. Because it would be creepy and weird. You turn your focus back to actually spreading the cream onto his back, putting your hormones aside to be a good friend and make sure that Bakugo avoids a sun burn. Bakugo all red and flushed…Oh, my.
“All done!” You yank your hands back like he burned you, resting them on your lap. He stands up, looking at you over his shoulder.
He sucks his teeth, before rolling his eyes. “Thanks.”
And with that, he runs off to go join the others in the water, who have ganged up on Mina to splash her as much as possible. Bakugo obviously joins in on the fun, making her screech. You lay back down against your towel, taking your eyes off of that hunk of a man to refocus your attention on getting rest and relaxation under the setting sun.
You totally fall asleep, groggily waking up to the approaching sounds of the group bickering. It had been a while, judging from the way the sun was almost completely gone, as well as your incredibly uneven tan.
“We’re packing up!” Mina shouts as she watches you wake up from your sun induced nap, one of Kaminari’s arms slung over her shoulders to pull her closer. It looks like a sweet moment at first, but he ruins it by grabbing her head with his other hand and shaking her. Kirishima and Sero have started working on unscrewing the umbrella, “It’s supposed to stat raining soon.”
“How?” You sit up, rubbing sand off your shins, “It was just so sunny!”
Bakugo jogs up to you, scooping up the towel that Mina was laying on earlier, “We should’ve come yesterday like I said, but no one wanted to listen to me.” He shakes the sand out of the towel and you use the time to appreciate the last few seconds of his shining abs. Sigh. We’ll miss you.
You stand up when he starts drying his hair. You and Mina spend the next few moments to pick up the groups belongings, as well as shove the cooler shut so Kaminari and Sero can carry it back to the car and bicker the whole way. Kirishima had already disappeared with the umbrella, presumably at the car. Mina gets her towel back from the smarter of the blondes, sticking her tongue out at him before she leaves you with a wink. And with all of the stuff. Asshole. She has also left you alone with Bakugo for the second time today. Although, this time is less fun because you don’t get to rub his back.
“Hey.” Bakugo’s voice is softer than normal as he turns to look at where you’re rolling up your towel to shove into your bag. “Have you been staring at me or am I going crazy?”
Well, he’s certainly not going crazy. But you’re furious with yourself for getting caught. You weren’t really being discreet, but, y’know. Still. “Uh,” Fuck, how do you even respond? ‘Yeah, I’ve totally been eye-fucking you! My bad!’ Yeah, he’s gonna blow your head off. So you settle on a quiet, “Yeah.”
You swallow the lump in your throat, “My bad.” You should at least try and defend yourself, “I mean— you’re like really…toned.” You are not doing a good job. Fuck.
“You think I’m hot?”
“I didn’t say all that.” You groan, hiding your face in sandy hands. “But, yeah. Don’t let it get to your head.”
“You think I’m hot.” You can hear the cocky grin on his face, even before you look up to glare at him.
“I said don’t let it go to your head.” He crosses his arms over his chest, still grinning, and obviously letting it get to his head.
“Nah, ‘m ignoring that.” He huffs, repeating himself yet again, “You think I’m hot.”
You just stare at him, exasperated, and his smile only widens. “Dude!”
“What?” He throws his hands up defensively, much like Mina did earlier, his damp bangs sticking to the bridge of his nose. He looks so arrogant about this that it’s pissing you off. “You think that I’m super hot.”
“I did not say that!” You bite back, and he laughs like you’re the funniest woman on the planet. Oh god, he’s insufferable.
“What?” He laughs again, his eyebrows raised to his hairline, “You think that I’m so sexy and you want to kiss me so bad.”
“Bakugo.”
“Katsuki.”
“Fine. Katsuki.” You roll your eyes, picking up your tote bag and slinging it over your shoulder, ”You’re being dramatic. I did not say any of that.”
“You don’t wanna kiss me?”
Well, you didn’t say that either. Shit.
You stare at him, gaping, and he laughs yet again, taking a step closer to you in the sand. Oh, shit. Is this really happening?
“C’mere.” He doesn’t have to tell you twice, as you gladly take up the offer to step towards him and loop your arms around his neck, angling your mouth towards his. His hands settle at your waist, a gruff noise leaving his chest as he presses his lips towards yours.
Hell yeah. You’ll have to tell Mina to suck it later, because your ogling got you here! She didn’t believe in you. The hater.
He pulls away after a few seconds of soft kissing, sighing before speaking, “C’mon. We gotta go.”
“Yeah.” You pull away, too, arms unhooking from his neck. “We should.”
Shit, it’s awkward now. He bends down and pecks your temple, taking your tote off your shoulder. “I got it.”
Before you can open your mouth to thank him, Mina’s loud voice comes from the path leading to the car. “Come on, lovebirds!”
ig since this is getting some amount of attention i'll also use this post to educate about the problem to the best of my ability (if anyone wants to chip in about it be my guest im certainly not the most qualified). and yes i get yall are upset about the porn bots but this isn't about bots this is about our sisters being harassed and threatened and having their accounts wrongly terminated. 2 years ago The CEO of Tumblr continuously terminated a trans woman and her alts and then continued to harass her on Twitter, threatening to call the cops if she continued to dispute the wrongful terminations of her blogs. Threatened to call A Person With A Gun to her home over an "explode him with hammers" type post. Trans women have been a continuous target for unjust termination by Tumblr's moderation staff regardless of their blog's content for years, and have failed to step in against users who harass trans women for a long ass time.
funnily enough kym has like the most complete and comprehensible coverage of the ceo's little stunt that i've found so far. link to their article
An animated like button is not enough to excuse the mountains of bullshit they put trans women through on this site.
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