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It was early Monday morning and Ymir's alarm was put down to snooze the 5th time in a row.
„Meh…"
She closed her eyes again when it knocked at her door. „Ymir, come on you will be late on your first day! Don't make this be your first impression at the new school!", her mother's voice said, well knowing that her lazy-ass-daughter didn't really care about what others will think about her.
A lightly freckled face popped up under the blanket, yawning and rubbing her honey-golden eyes.
„Whatever…", she mumbled while finally leaving her bed.
After a short shower and getting dressed with a dark-grey tanktop with a washed out metalband-logo print and tight black and ripped jeans she sat down at the dining-table, her mother was already waiting with a nice smelling breakfast.
„You really want to wear this, Ymir?", her mother asked and raised an eyebrow.
„Why not.", Ymir responded with a tired gaze while biting in her bread.
„Just asking, I want you to have a better time in this school than last time."
„…I don't think my clothes should have any influence on how many friends I get…"
„You're right, I'm sorry. I'm just worried about you."
„Thanks Mom but you don't need to worry about me.", Ymir said, finishing her breakfast and smiled lightly at her mother. She was always so worried about her that Ymir felt sorry for making her worry.
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3 weeks before
„Oi, bull-dike!", a dark voice shouted and Ymir tried to ignore it, she kept walking.
„Oi! Fuckface! I'm talking to you!", the voice shouted, louder and more aggressive than before.
The tall girl stopped and turned around to see three young men walking straight up to her.
„What?", Ymir said uninterested, trying to hide her nervousness.
„(Oh fuck, her boyfriend…)"
The guy who shouted at her stopped just a few inches before her, having an arrogant smile on his face. The other two guys were standing on his left and his right, playing with a baseball-bat and with a butterfly-knife.
Ymir swallowed hardly, trying to look as uninterested as she could in this situation.
„What do you want?", she asked, hardly trying to keep her voice straight but it shook lightly nevertheless.
„Oh, what I want?", the tall and muscular man asked with a rhetorical sound and a bright smile before he grabbed her neck roughly, almost crashing her at the hard stonewall next to them.
„I want you to FUCKING stop flirting with MY girl, you get it?!", he growled at her, almost touching her forehead with his. Ymir grabbed his arm, struggling for air but she hadn't a chance against him.
„…and you need to bring two others to tell me that?", she played cool and looked at him with an arrogant smile, licking over her lips.
She knew this was a mistake the second the words lefts her mouth.
The next thing Ymir knew was lying on the ground, trash and a demolished trashcan all around her, with her stomach and head hurting badly.
„If I see you near her again or even at our fucking school you will regret it, understand?"
After that incident she decided that this pretty girl wasn't worth it.
This bitch just played with her, there was never something true she said or did to Ymir, it was just a bunch of those super popular people at school who wanted to provoke a cause to beat that gay girl down.
After coming home her mother ran up to her, with that super-worried look on her face Ymir hated so much, because she do not want to see her hurt.
„Ymir! What happened, it's so late already an- …you are hurt, what happened, Ymir, tell me!", she said with a mix of anger, worry and confusion.
And her daughter told her what happened.
„I make sure that you will change school, don't worry."
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„Bye Mom, thanks for the breakfast!", Ymir said loud enough for her mother to hear in the kitchen.
„Take care!" – „(I will, don't worry so much.)"
„Eren! Hurry up, Mikasa is already waiting outside for you!"
„I didn't asked her to!"
„You shouldn't be so rude to her!"
„I'm not rude!"
The green-eyed boy left the house, almost tripping down the few steps outside their house with a toast in his mouth trying to get his lightly brown jacket on when he saw a black haired head over the solid hedge.
„Mikasa! Why are you waiting, you will be late!"
The asian girl turned around, trying to hold back a huge smile when she saw Eren.
„Good Morning Eren, how are you?", she said with a lovely voice, ignoring the fact that they were really late for their first class on this day.
„Uhm, good, thanks but we have to hurry, come on!"
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It was the first day of the new school-year, so everyone was in the assembly hall, waiting for the director to appear at the stage.
It was noisy but when a well-built man appeared everyone sat down and it was silent.
„Good morning students, my name is Erwin Smith and I'm the director of this school. Most of you know me but as we have new students here I wanted to introduce myself again."
After a standard speech a way smaller man entered the stage with a deadly gaze on his face, looking through the mass of young people.
„My name is Levi Ackermann, I'm the deputy director and also responsible for inform you brats about our clubs. I don't give a fuck about everyone joining one, but better be prepared for extra work if you don't choose one, understood?"
The hall was deadly silent.
„Fine. Information –material is prepared outside so get the fuck out and choose a damn club."
„Oh fuck.", Ymir sighted as she stood up, grabbing her bag.
„Everything okay with you?", a female voice asked, turning her blue eyes to Ymirs.
The addressed girl turned around to see a blonde girl, lightly smaller than her with her hair tied together, wearing a white hoodie.
„Uhm, sure…why do you mind?", Ymir answered, scratching the back of her head.
„Well, ‚Oh Fuck' isn't the best way to react to something… to most things at least.", the blonde said with an almost suggestive smile on her face.
Ymir gave that smile back in an even more suggestive way.
It was this ‚I can see you're gay, I'm gay too hottie~' way of looking at each other.
„My name is Ymir, nice to meet you…?"
„Annie. Nice to meet you, too, Ymir."
They shook hands and Annie let her index finger stroke over the back of Ymirs hand, making her shiver lightly.
„I never seen you here before, are you new at this school?", the blonde asked while both of them walked through the hallway, looking at the booths which tried to recruit new members for their clubs.
„Yes, I'm new. So you are here for a few years yet I guess?"
„Yeah, I'm here since first year of highschool. It's okay I guess, nothing special, but okay."
They continued with some smalltalk while Ymir was checking on some sportsclubs.
„Which club do you joined, Annie?", Ymir asked while checking on a soccer and on an american football club flyer.
„I'm in the martial arts club, we train different kinds like kickboxing, karate, especially tang soo do and some others like judo and so on. Wouldn't this be something for you, too?", Annie answered, looking at the taller girl with a little bit of hope in her eyes.
Ymir let out a sight, scratched her neck and looked at Annie:
„No, sorry. I'm not the fighting type, I'm more the ball-sport type. Do you know anything about those two clubs?", she asked and showed the two flyers she was studying before to her new friend.
Annie sighted loudly but grabbed the flyers Ymir gave her.
„Let me think about it. Hm, so… all I know is, that Reiner is the teamleader and best Quarterback of the American football team, he is very popular here, everyone knows him and, you know, every girl wants him.", she rolled her eyes annoyed, „But I guess that's nothing what interests you, right?"
Ymir laughed and her lips formed a narcissistic grin.
„You're not sure anymore? You seemed to be very sure when you stroke my hand before, Annie~"
Annie blushed lightly and looked away, stroking her hair behind her ear.
„Not that I would care…", she mumbled, what made Ymir laugh again.
„I like you, and know what? You were right, don't worry, your gay-radar isn't broken, blondie."
Annie did not react to that anymore, she just leaned against the wall behind her and nodded to Ymir.
„Decided? Want your head to get crushed by the most popular guy in school? Or running after a ball to kick it around?"
Ymir looked down on the flyers Annie gave her back.
„(I guess I better stay away from another ‚popular guy all the girls want', I bet this little fucker has an adorable cute girlfriend I better don't get in contact with…)"
Ymir sighted and threw the American football flyer in a trashcan.
„I'll take soccer."