It's the start of a new year at Shingeki High School. It's the start of September and the days were slowly getting colder. Ymir is now in her senior year, not like she cared anyway. She just wanted to leave this damn school ever since she started. She has never been one to have friends as she's always been the type to start fights and skip classes. Most people don't want to be associated with people like her, but despite all this she is still the main target for most of the bullying. Back in 10th grade rumours started to spread about her sexuality after and she was caught staring at a cute blonde girl in the gym locker room. From then on she has been picked on, made fun of and even been physically abused. Then at the start of 11th grade she came out as gay. Not like that made it any better. She still has no doubt that the bullying will continue this year but now she's mostly become numb to it all.
Ymir walked into their home room late as usual, walking to the back of the class to her desk. People stopped their conversations to look at the late comer. The home room teacher Mr. Hannes tried to give Ymir a detention for her tardiness but that was a loosing battle. She wouldn't turn up anyway. Sitting down lazily on her chair Ymir brought out her phone, uninterested in what was going on around her. Unknown to Ymir Christa was watching her as she moved through the classroom. Christa would look up from her textbook to watch Ymir lumber from one end of the classroom to the other. Turning her head round to where the brunette sat, staring at her dark freckles on her tanned skin. She stared at her for a moment before turning back to her textbook. She hasn't told anyone this before, but she was intrigued by Ymir. The way she moved, spoke, acted. It all intrigued her. Ever since that moment in 10th grade. The exact moment Ymir had started to get bullied. Ymir had been starring at her, she was the blonde. Christa has always been a star pupil. Always concentrating in class, never late to school or lessons, she hasn't even involved in any arguments either. She is the complete opposite of Ymir, and a question that always circled Christa's brain was, 'was this the reason she intrigued me or is it the other reason?'
After home room both Ymir and Christa had science. Ymir liked her science class as a certain blonde always sat directly in front of her. Always immersed in her textbooks. Ymir wouldn't dare to even talk to her and she would always try to hide the fact that she was looking at her. Her beautiful shoulder long blonde hair that always smelt of strawberries. But being known as the schools gay or 'faggot' which is also the classes favourite word to call her, Ymir has always been afraid that the girl would be weird out by her or even worse. She could become another target for the bullying, so in a way keeping her distance Ymir felt as if she was protecting her. Ymir was strong she could handle the bullying and she could hold her own in a fight, but the thought of Christa being subjected to that scared her. She looked fragile like she could brake from a slight touch.
Upon entering the science classroom the whole class could see that the teacher Miss Zoë was already standing at the front of the room with her white lab coat on. It's not compulsory for her to be wearing a lab coat but she wears one anyway. "Good news everyone! Today I will be swapping your lab partners. I think it is important that you all learn to work with other people and not just your friends" Miss Zoë announced quite cheerfully.
Christa wasn't bothered by this as her last partner was Connie. He was fun as a person but didn't work very hard so when it came to the hard topics he would let Christa do it all then copy. However Ymir didn't like this change one bit. Working with Annie was easy. They both done their work in silence, and there was no need for them to talk to each other as they were both good at science. Plus she never said anything about Ymir's sexuality, to be honest Annie didn't care. She was a person who kept to herself.
Their attention went back to Miss Zoë at the front of the class. She would read out two names and that would be who you were partnered with. "Marco and Jean, Annie and Mikasa, Bertolt and Reiner" she listed. "Sasha and Connie, Christa and…" The blonde looked up at Miss Zoë wondering who she will be partnered with. "…Ymir, and lastly Eren and Armin" She called out the rest of the list. Christa heart skipped a beat when hearing Ymir's name, this was her chance to get to know her better. Ymir's eyes widened as she heard her name being called out with Christa's and she immediately started to panic a little, 'What if she thinks I'm weird, we've never spoke to each other before. Shit what if I say something bad or embarrassing?' she thought. All of a sudden she was rudely snapped out of her thoughts upon hearing Jean shout across the classroom. "Be careful Christa try not to catch her gayness". He then burst out laughing with half of the class. Ymir instantly stood up and looked at Jean with fire in her eyes. "Shut the fuck up horse face unless you want me to fix that fugly face of yours!" Ymir yelled back, getting ready to punch him until she heard the softness of Christa's voice beside her. "Jean don't be so rude. Besides, I think being comfortable with who you are is admirable. Ymir should be proud of herself, and I'm sure we'll work well together" she turned to Ymir and smiled "Won't we?" By then everyone was staring at them but Miss Zoë was quick to divert the classes attention. Ymir had no words to say. Christa had just stuck up for her. No one has ever done that before. She smirked at the sandy haired boy and stuck her tongue out at him as he was just put in his place. Hearing Miss Zoë's voice call out more instructions "Alright everyone, find a desk and follow the instructions, if you need help just ask" said as she sat down on her chair behind her desk.
Assuming Ymir would want to sit at the back of the class, Christa walked to the furthest desk from the door and sat down. Looking at her notes Christa realised that they were starting biology today. 'Great, now Ymir will think I'm an idiot' she thought as she's never been too good at this subject but to make things worse, she knew Ymir was really good at it. Turning round from facing Jean, Ymir found Christa already sitting at her favourite desk. 'Yes! Biology something I'm actually good at' Ymir thought when she checked her notes 'At least she won't think I'm dumb'
Turning towards Christa, Ymir was the one to brake the ice first. Normally she liked the science, but even Annie held somewhat of a conversation. "Hi… I'm Ymir.. Well I guess you already knew that.. Anyway I don't think we've spoken before" the brunette introduced herself.
"Hi, I'm Christa. It-it's nice to finally talk to you" she replied with a slight blush. 'God I can't believe I just stuttered! Now she'll definitely think I'm really stupid' Christa thought as she could now feel her cheeks heat up from her blush. Ymir instantly thought that her stutter was kind of cute but she couldn't help but ask herself, 'Am I really that intimidating?'
"You like biology right? It's never been my strong point, I'm afraid I won't be a very good lab partner, but I promise I'll do my best" she said with a big smile on her face. Ready to prove to Ymir that she isn't too stupid. Ymir smiled and rubbed the back of her neck "Don't worry it's fine… I'll help you" she offered. Christa's eyes lit up "Really? Ohh thank you so much! I don't know why, I just can't pick up biology there's just something about it that I just can't grasp and ohh gosh I'm rambling again aren't I? I tend to ramble when I'm nervous… I mean I'm not nervous or anything I guess it's starting on a new topic that I'm not good at" she paused realising that she hadn't taken a breath the whole time. Her cheeks blushed and looked down at her feet. "Some help would be great, Ymir. Thank you" Christa concluded.
Ymir raised her eyebrows the whole time the whole time the blonde was talking 'Wow this girl can talk… But it's kinda cute' she thought and smiled at Christa. She had always thought Christa was cute ever since 9th grade. Ymir hesitated but patted her on her shoulder. "No problem, and don't be nervous it's fine… Now shall we get on with some work?" She suggested with a smile and looked back down at her notebook.
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