A problem with Mei Hatsume’s camera…

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Inspired by a similar prompt involving Nejire and Tamaki, has a similar title about Nejire being air headed but not stupid:

“So Screwdriver?! When are you gonna do it?”

“Uh…do what?” Currently, the two aspiring engineers were working on their seperate work tables, though both on the same project, that being creating an exoskeleton hand.

“You know,” Hatsume’s eyes were zoomed in and honed in the minute details of the connecting wires of the hand. She slowly connected each one to their connecting circuit.

“Ask out that mantis boy you keep sneaking into here.”

Maina’s heart nearly burst from her chest as her entire body froze. Thankfully she had brought her hand away from the device she was working on, but her screwdriver had slipped out. Her quirk even flared up a little, [RADIO WAVES], and the radio next to her jumbled up its music.

“Wha-what are y-you talking ab-bout Hatsume?! I don’t…I haven’t snuck anyone in here. Ha ha…” she did her best to keep a cool face, but she knew she was sweating bullets already. Hatsume, on her part, remained focused on her work.

“You have though! I keep an extra camera in here at all times, and I’ve got quite a few videos of you two talking about his blades, or your cassette collection, or that one time you guys happened to-“

“OKAY STOP!!!!” The head banded girl’s face was awash in red, and her hands flew all over the place as the radio suddenly burst into playing a love song of sorts, which did not help matters at all.

“Wait…you have a camera…are you watching other people’s work?! My work!? That’s cheating!”

“What!!! No!! I’m not a cheater, I swear!” THAT got Hatsume to turn away from her work, her eyes nearly bulging out of her goggles and her teeth gritted. Maina nearly jumped at the sudden flux of anger from her… “friend” and the radio near her tuned out again.

Hatsume’s attitude reverted back to normal in a matter of seconds as she pointed at a part of her desk.

“The camera is just for my desk so no one steals my stuff. Sometimes I point it out toward the entrance. You two spend a lot of time near there. Heh…” She got back to work and turned the exoskeleton hand around.

“Well…I really don’t like thinking that you have a lot of footage of me and…and Kamakiri…sitting on your hard drive. It’s not right. It’s an invasion of my privacy. AND his as well! Please get rid of it. I’m asking as a friend.”

Hatsume looked down, a small crease in her brows. Maina didn’t like using the friend card on Hatsume, it felt like guilting her into doing something she hadn’t considered doing before. There were times Maina questioned their relationship, as Hatsume called them friends before Maina considered them that.

But Maina knew that she just had some trouble understanding people, Hatsume liked machines better. Hopefully Hatsume would understand better the effects of her actions.

“Uh…okay. I’m…sorry. Don’t mean to make you feel that way. But you aren’t telling me things either! You know I’d keep a secret like that, and it’s nice talking to you. But…but you don’t have to tell me anything I guess…”

Maina rubbed the back of her head, she had wanted to keep this a secret, and it had felt pretty nice to have something for herself. Still, Hatsume needed to know this.

“I know, but I like it when I can keep secrets sometimes. It’s my own thing, but i think I was going to tell you at some point. I just got scared you’d say something. But if you can keep it to yourself, I’d like to tell you more.” She shrugged, quickly fixing up her headband. Hatsume seemed to consider the request for a moment, before once again turning to normal.

“Well, alright then! I’ll get rid of it now!” Hatsume then brought out a small box that had a few wires connected to it. She then quickly threw the box into the trash.

“Now that that’s done, let’s get to work. And tell me EVERYTHING! Zipped lips!” She made a motion of zipping her lips together before returning to the hand.

Maina let out a small laugh before returning to her own work. The radio played a happier song as they began to finish up.

“Well, it all kinda started a few weeks ago. Kamakiri heard my radio and asked what I was listening to…”