Mikasa woke up in the morning looking in the mirror with a little smile on her face.

"Today is the day Mikasa. Finally, you will be freed from… everything...no longer will anybody be able to hurt you, no longer these damned memories of… Don't think about it. Today is a good day because it will never ever come into your mind again. 16 Years and no longer!"

She went into the bathroom and got dressed. Next she proceeded to go downstairs and made some breakfast for herself eating it quickly. There was a question she had for her mother.

"M-mom can I maybe have a bit extra money please?"

Her mother glared at her.

"Mikasa, I and your father give you enough so that you can fill your tummy every day of the week. If you wouldn't eat so much maybe you could come through the week"

Mikasa remained silent and nodded looking down. Her Mother would always raise her voice when she asked for some money. She prepared her food. Mikasa was about to go and just said something…

"I'm going to school mom.I-I love you"

"Yeah, yeah, and manage to keep up the good grades, I don't want you to dishonour our family"

"O-okay mom…"

'Don't worry Mom, I will never ever dishonour our family…'

She went to school so that her parents, who were home for once, would not suspect anything. There was a hidden way to school which she always took so that nobody would notice her. The path ended behind her destination and she went through a small window into the girl's bathroom. Making sure that there was nobody inside to see where she came from was her first priority. She went inside and quickly got out of the bathroom. But a well-known face was staring at her as soon as she came out. Annie Leonhart would wait outside this bathroom every day knowing that Mikasa came out of there.

"Hello Ackermann, how are you today?"

It was said with such a smug smile on her face. Mikasa immediately turned leftwards and walked fast when she bumped into someone. And of course, it's Jean.

"Ackermann, you bitch don't you dare bump into me!"

He then kicked Mikasa on her shin and she stood up, ignoring the pain. Annie and her friends caught up with her and grabbed her hair. They pulled on her hair hit her, teased her, insulted her…

The clock rang when they pushed Mikasa against a wall.

"Have a nice day Ackerman"

One of them said mockingly. Mikasa had tears in her eyes but she knew this would happen because it always happened. And there was nobody to help her. Sometimes she would be late after being beaten up and then the teachers would scold her. Not wanting to think about it she just stood up and casually walked to the classroom.

'7 years…I endured this for 7 years, how even? How did I…it doesn't matter anyway'

First Period:

Their teacher announced that there would be a new student. Mikasa did not really care but she still looked up to see him. He had brown messy hair and she found him kind of…handsome. But he wouldn't be interested in her especially since she looked at the other girls and noticed how they basically melted at his sight and figured, since they were all better looking, that he would probably not even notice her. Heck with how he looked like he would probably become popular and also bully her. But that opportunity shall be denied to him.

"Hello, my name is Eren and I hope that we can have a great time together."

He simply said some, what seemed to be a stock text. He looked around seeing some girls basically melting in front of him but then he looked into the last row. At a girl with long black hair. He thought she was kind of…cute but he already said that he wouldn't do this anymore so he quickly snapped out of it.

"Eren please sit down next to Armin."

Eren and Armin looked at each other with smiles. They knew each other for a long time and were best friends. The period went quite normally. Mikasa sat in the last row so that nobody could throw anything against the back of her head. Although sometimes they would still throw things at her.

Time Skip

It was the last period before midday-break by now and Eren had told Armin that he wanted to spend it with him but, he was still kind of fascinated by the girl in the last row. The other girls seemed, well, normal but she, she seemed…different. Different than anything he had ever seen before.

He wrote a letter to Armin.

"Hey who is that girl in the last row?"

Armin looked at Eren and rolled his eyes. Eren sighed and wrote

"It's not like that"

Armin again rolling his eyes this time writing back

"That's Mikasa Ackerman"

"Do you know anything about her?"

"Only a few things. She has no friends, she gets bullied, she is very smart but quiet"

"Where does she go to during break?"

"I don't know, I have never seen her during the break"

Eren thought of her as the "mysterious girl" which nobody really knew. He wrote back to his friend.

"I know that we wanted to spend break together but I gotta do something else. Sorry, buddy."

Armin was slightly confused but he just shrugged it off and wrote back

"Ok, no problem"

Armin looked at Eren a few times during the rest of the lesson seeing him staring at something else. He was a bit suspicious and already had a theory why Eren didn't want to spend break time with him and whom he looked at.

When the clock rang Mikasa ran as fast as lightning and Eren quickly got up and ran too. Armin now knew that his theory was right. He wanted to stop Eren and screamed after him.

"EREN, I KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!"

But Eren didn't even respond. He was stubborn. As always.

'Nah, he won't do anything stupid…who am I kidding, of course, he is going to do something stupid'

Eren ran after the girl but he was cautious so that she wouldn't notice his presence. Mikasa ran into the old part of the building. It was basically empty at all times except for when somebody had Handicrafts lessons but that was only for people from grade 4-8. She always ate there because she knew nobody would come after her here and she could somewhat enjoy her meal. She ate in the dressing room for the old gym.

'Finally some peace!"

Her last thought before the door began to open slowly. She couldn't believe it. Did someone follow her? Whoever it was she would probably have to suffer again.

Eren came up to the, what he perceived to be „mysterious girl".

He started how he normally would.

„Hey, how are you?"

Mikasa was slightly relieved at first but was sure that he did not come in good faith. But maybe he did? But she wanted to be alone regardless.

"G-go a-away please.Y-you don't want anything to do with m-me."

"I'm pretty sure I know who I want to hang out with you know."

She was a bit angry now.

"Ok then I will say, I don't want anything to do with you. Now go away"

A smile formed on his face.

"I am pretty stubborn you know? If you want me away you need to force me to"

Mikasa couldn't hold herself back for some reason. She stood up in a second and threw him over her shoulder in lightning speed. When she realized what she had done, she was shocked because of her behaviour and had images of "the incident" in her head. She tried to get them out when she heard the boy say something weird.

"That was unbelievable, you need to teach me how to do this!"

There were no more thoughts in her head when she opened her eyes to see his smile and his face so near to her. Suddenly her cheecks began to warm up. She fake coughed so to pretend that she was sick.

He asked slightly worried

"Are you not feeling good?"

She nodded.

"Maybe it's because it's so cold… wait here."

He ran to his backpack pulling out a scarf and he wrapped it around her.

"It's warm now right?"

Again she was blushing but this time she did not fake cough but was just stunned. She had just hurt him and now he said such sweet things to her and even gave her something? How could anybody be so…kind?She had never experienced anything like this.

„Y-yes."

She managed to stumble this out. When they sat down again Mikasa no longer thought of complaining about him being there.

"You can keep the scarf. Perceive it as a gift."

"N-no, I-I can't-"

"Please, just take it ok?"

She nodded. Eren then looked at Mikasa's meal. It was made up of a sandwich and a bottle of water. Usually, she would have bought something but she had already spent the little money her parents gave to her for this week. Eren shook his head.

"No, no, no this is not an acceptable meal. Here take some of mine."

He then gave her some of his food prepared by his Mother.

"N-no I have food, just…j-just eat yours ok?"

He put his index finger up and continued to shake his head.

„Nope, either you eat some of mine or we will go hungry. It's your decision."

By now he seemed a bit suspicious to her. He was too friendly for it to be true. Maybe he wanted to play some stupid trick on her while some of the"popular" kids waited behind the door to burst out in laughter once she ate the food…maybe he had put a lot of chilli powder into it. If yes then he was up for a big surprise.

"O-only if I can have your half there and you b-bite off it first."

A bit confused he shrugged it off and did as she said. Nothing happened. Her suspicion was still not entirely gone. But even if they played some trick on her she could just shrug it off. It was her last day on this planet so who really cares right?

It was so delicious that it blew her mind. Never ever did she eat something like this. It felt like it was made with love. By someone who deeply cared at what her or his son would eat.

She ate half of it but then stopped. Eren looked at her confused.

"You are not going to eat that?"

"N-no, my mom says I shouldn't eat that much else I will become fat"

Eren raised his eyebrows.

"What? You are thin"

He then proceeded to touch her ribs not far under her breasts.

"See I can easily feel and see your ribs when pressing your shirt against them"

She became red again and jumped back

„H-hey d-don't touch me!"

"O-oh u-uhm s-sorry"

He was also a bit embarrassed looking away from her rubbing his neck.

"B-but still you need to eat that, you seem to be quite thin and a few more kilos would be good for you."

Mikasa was reluctant

"N-no I-I would rather not"

Eren than took a piece and stuffed it into her mouth. Even though it was against her will she ate it because of how delicious it was. It felt kind of…good being with this boy. Just for a second, she forgot her terrible life but then fell back into reality when the caretaker came in.

"Hey, you can't sit here, go somewhere else."

"We are very sorry sir. Come on let's take our stuff and go."

When they were out of the room she pulled him by the sleeve looked at the floor and told him something that she didn't say in a long time as there was never any possibility…

"T-thank you."

He turned around.

"Thank you as well. Come on let's go somewhere else"

She nodded and the day went on.

After school

School just ended and Eren stood went outside together with Armin. Mikasa was constantly inside his head. He was thinking about her ever since the break had ended. Even staring at her during one of their classes until Armin pulled him out of this trance by elbowing him in the side after which he always akwardly smiled at his friend. Most important, he also thought about what Armin had said before the break.

'She is being bullied…why? Why does it always hit the good people? The people who just want to be left alone or be themselves? I wonder who is doing that shit to her'

He then noticed a crowd not far from the school. It looked like some children gathering around something and they were laughing. He had a weird, unpleasant feeling in his stomach which told him that he should go there. As fast as possible. He ran towards it interrupting Armin whilst he talked about something to do with geography.

"Eren where are you going?"

"Do you see this crowd, I don't know why b-but I have the feeling something there isn't right, I think we should check what's going on"

He went towards the crowd and what he saw shocked him.

Thank you for reading. I hope you liked it and criticism is appreciated, I am currently trying to improve my writing style and I already have a lot of ideas for this book. I already have concepts for 8 others, some a bit more usual like this bully story, some a bit out of the ordinary…

I wish you a great day and goodbye!