This work is originally being posted on archiveofourown. I really hope you'll enjoy this and that I'm portraying the characters right, I'm having doubts about this.
Eren woke up to the sweet smell of homemade pancakes and beautiful sunrays followed by a banging on the door with a voice calling… more like screaming her name. It was the beginning of the week-end and she couldn't wait to have a taste of the homemade foo…. Yeah like hell that'd happen! Her sweet delusion ended with the screeching of her alarm and her almost falling out of bed on a fucking Monday morning that signed the end of her summer holidays.
Eren let out a groan, sleep still calling her as well as the warmth of being under the blanket, it felt so nice and comfortable but she dragged herself out of bed, painfully.
She couldn't be late on her first day of motherfucking college so the usual morning routine started: taking a shower, drying off, tightening her chest with bandages and putting on her clothes.
Why the bandages? Because Eren had been raised as a boy, grew up as one, wore boys' clothes all her life, enjoyed them and learned to like being a boy. When she went through puberty, she had to find a way to hide her gender effectively and that was the solution her family came up with.
Sure it hurt at first but she had gotten used to it and couldn't even feel their presence anymore. If it meant she could stay with her friends there was no problem enduring a bit especially when she liked her identity.
Looking in the mirror after checking for any flaws, in her clothing, that could reveal her gender she realized traces of the black eye and a cut on her jaw, she had gotten few weeks prior to this morning, lingered. It wasn't too noticeable and she didn't mind it being there except for the fact that it was a constant reminder of her defeat against the arrogant and pompous rich boy she had gotten into a fight with.
Ugh she wanted to beat him up so bad, to get back at him and just prove that she wasn't weak at all and even less someone that gives up on winning easily. Then a sigh escaped her lips at the realization that she would never see him again, so much for getting revenge.
She left the bathroom and entered her small kitchen where there wasn't any actual smell of pancakes because, well, reality! and she's been living on her own for five weeks already, she just missed her mom's cooking so much.
Eren took out a bowl, a spoon and cereals from a cupboard as well as milk from the fridge and after preparing her breakfast she munched absentmindedly while thinking of the harshness of reality, the painful feeling of homesickness and the fact that it was the first day of college.
She sighed again, her peaceful break was over and hell was going to start again. Sure she was going to see her friends, at least the majority of them because for some reason they all ended in the same place when their plans had been different in the beginning.
Whatever school still meant assignments, boredom and sleepless nights. Eren got up, put her stuff in the sink, cleaned a bit and headed out.
When the brunette finally reached her first class after getting her schedule she bumped into, as luck would have it, fucking Jean Kirschtein.
"Watch where you're going dude!" He was annoyed, very annoyed that on his first day he would already run into someone, it was a bad omen for his school year and it pissed him off. Jean bent down to pick up his notebook, fuming.
"Oh come on you're the one that ran into me horseface!" Eren joked a bit irritated but tried to make light of it. Realization was apparent on pony boy's face.
"Wait… Eren? Hey man how's it going?" His tone turned back to being angry "Well sorry jerk, it's not not my fault you don't have good enough reflexes!"
He had just gone too far and the brunette was not going to back out of this. "I'm sorry but who fucking beat you to a pulp last time? Learn to dodge before insulting my reflexes fuckface!"
"Hmph… Whatever you still left with a broken nose and even cried when Mikasa put it back to place you crazy bastard!" Jean smirked proud of this achievement.
"Oh because you didn't scream like a girl when I landed a nice punch on your balls? Want me to remind you what it feels like?" Eren snickered, remembering that priceless moment and got into a fighting stance, more than ready to rip his balls off.
"Just fuck off Eren. As much as I'd like to make you eat your words it's the first day and I'm not planning on getting a record already."
Eren grunted "Let's just go to class. Oh and the answer to your question is I'm fine just depressed that we're starting college."
"Yeah dude I totally get you but hey! We'll see Ymir and Connie! It'll be fun and we just have to enjoy and survive this year to move on to the next… though it's a shame Armin went off to Harvard…" Jean slung an arm over Eren's shoulder and they entered the classroom together.
"It just won't be the same... I'm already feeling the loneliness of not having smarty pants forcing us to learn and my best friend to drown my sorrows with." Eren sighed.
"Hey if you need to do that someday, I'll be there for you." Jean smiled supportively and Eren returned it with a pained lift of the lips.
They pulled some seats and sat down while laughing about Jean's hiking trip with his family that had turned to shit.
They had already known they'd end with in the same classes because even if they hated each other they almost had the same tastes except for Jean being more of a coward and Eren a suicidal guy when it came to fighting so they chose the same courses and have every class together.
Those similar tastes caused a lot of fighting for some weird reason but it's getting them to friendship and they've started having less and less brawls and more… sympathizing moments with bits of arguments. They still get along well and often laugh together.
It seemed that their first class was criminology, in fact both of them were majoring in sociology and specializing in the former. After some time their conversation was cut off by a short woman entering the room, she was short and looked rather bored, very annoyed with the students sitting in front off her and introduced herself.
Rico Brzenska had blonde hair close to gray and glasses that just added to her strict and standoffish attitude. Silence had taken over the room and soon murmurs of complaints broke out between most of the scholars. This was probably the worst homeroom to ever have and those that had heard rumors about that teacher were letting out groans of displeasure.
Eren leaned towards Jean and whispered: "Can't believe we're stuck with her. This sucks."
"Yeah tell me about it but at least she'll be a good criminology teacher." Jean snickered and Eren soon joined him, which earned them an unimpressed glare from their 'beloved' teacher.
This was going to be one hell of a year with tons of suffering guaranteed.
Rico did the usual introduction to the rules and how everything was organized in the University of Trost. Jean left the room together with Eren when the bell rang and after another three boring periods of getting introduced to the subjects, it was finally lunchtime.
The two entered the cafeteria to find themselves lost in a mass of bodies. They tried to push their way through the crowd trying to avoid knocking into the tables in order to reach the lines to get food.
Some students were already sitting eating their lunches, others were walking around with their plates and the duo joined the ones who were filing up to get food.
While waiting they looked around the room and Eren heard Jean mutter something but because of the noise she didn't get what he said
"What'd you say?"
"Huh? Oh I was wondering where the fuck Connie and Ymir were."
"Oh yeah that's right but how are we supposed to find them in this crowd." Eren's eyes darted through the mass of people. "Is it even their lunch break?"
"Yep Connie texted me and apparently Ymir's with him."
"Ah yeah that's right I changed phone numbers and I still haven't given you the new one. Hope you didn't bother some poor guy trying to call me?" Eren gave Jean a questioning look with a smirk.
"Wh-What? No, that definitely did not happen." Pony boy let out an awkward laugh.
"Eh? Really? It doesn't seem that way" Eren's smirk grew larger and her eyes lit up at the thought of Jean trying to explain the situation to the person on the other end, it must have been hilarious to witness.
"Ju-just don't mention it in front of the others." His eyes were avoiding Eren's at all costs for some reason.
"Why not? What happened? Wait were they here when you tried to call me?"
"Nothing! Nothing happened! They weren't there! No one was" He was getting visibly anxious and she was enjoying seeing her rival getting worked up, it made her feel like she having some kind of control over him. She preferred physical fights but those were fun too.
"I so want to know now! If you don't tell me I'll ask them anyways." She gave him a mischievous smile, she was going to get him.
"Fuck you…" Jean muttered this last sentence under his breath and was saved by the cafeteria lady asking them what they wanted.
Meanwhile Eren stored away the information to be sure to ask the others about it.
While they were walking away to find a table to sit at Jean asked Eren:
"Where were you during the last few weeks? I know you moved to an apartment alone cuz your house was too far from the college but you could've told us where you went."
"Doing stuff."
"Come on we had no way to contact you! No idea where you now live! A little heads up would've been nice!"
"Why? Were you worried?" Eren smirked teasingly.
Jean hid the fact that she had hit the target. They had all been worried until Carla had told them Eren was fine but the fact that she was making light of the situation just got him even more pissed off "Oh come on just answer the goddam question!"
"Fine, fine I was hanging with the squad. I needed to blow off some steam with it being the end of the holidays and Armin leaving as well as Mikasa." A tentative smile made its way on her face and they sat down at a table.
Jean nodded in understanding. "Gang's still as violent?"
"Yep but it ain't the same without you there for me to beat the shit out of you." They both smiled.
"Come on is our relationship only this much to you? Me being your punching bag?" He faked hurt.
"Nah you're fun to be around, plus I gotta admit it, I miss fighting with you, it was a challenge and entertaining. I still won every time though!"
"I won too! Sometimes…"
"Yeah like once or twice" Eren smirked and then her face fell "Shame that your parents found out…"
"I know but you saw how they reacted" They both snickered.
"Man that was scary! I am never going up against your parents and their money again! They are way too careful with their image."
"Ugh tell me about it."
"You got so scared when they saw you, what a pussy! I will never forget that horrified face that you pulled." Eren tried to imitate it and broke out laughing, tears pouring out of her eyes while Jean gave her an unimpressed scoff and started eating his food, frustrated and a bit offended.
"Try not cowering when your mother finds out you're brawling in the streets."
"Oh come on I was just joking! We can still hang out together even with you being grounded. And you have some balls trying to beat me when you know you'll loose. I'll give you that." She smiled sincerely and started eating too.
Suddenly Eren felt a pain on her left shoulder, she turned to Jean suddenly and glared at him;
"What the fuck horseface? I told you I was joking!"
He looked up from his plate wondering what Eren was talking about. "I didn't do anything?"
A voice came from behind the duo "Hey darlin' how you doin'?"
Eren let out a groan "Hell no… please tell me I'm dreaming." She slowly turned around to find Reiner giving her the broken-hearted puppy eyes, which was very odd.
"You aren't happy to see me?"
"With you always bothering me and entering my private bubble I'd have to say no, I'm not happy to see you Reiner."
He put a hand on his heart and clutched his shirt, a look of hurt on his face. "My heart, you've just broken my poor and weak little gay heart."
Jean snickered "Come on man you can handle that much. You've been rejected so many times by him already it shouldn't even faze you."
"Oh hey Kirschtein, I didn't see you there."
"Seriously? You're kidding right? You'd have to be blind not to have seen me while coming over!"
Eren was trying to hold back a snicker "Nah I don't think so horseface. You're too irrelevant to him."
Reiner put an arm around Eren and pulled her backwards onto his chest, smiling "That's right! When he's there my eyes are on his beautiful teal orbs and lean frame so there is no space for you Kirschtein. Eren totally outshines you!"
Eren pushed Reiner off of her. "Let go of me. I told you to stop coming onto me!" Eren was wary of being found out as a girl so the kind of physical contact Reiner always sought was to be avoided.
"Oh come on baby you know you like it!" Reiner was enjoying joking and messing with her.
"No I don't that's where your problem is! Want me to kick your ass?"
"Relax Eren I'm just playin' with ya! You don't have to get so angsty even if it's real cute." Reiner winked which was pissing off Eren, she was having a hard time holding her fist down.
She liked Reiner, they got along really well but when he was purposefully coming onto her when he knew she couldn't stand it, he annoyed her to no end.
Furthermore she was in a bad mood, it being a Monday and her first day returning to a form of school meaning she couldn't fight whenever she wanted to.
She had gotten lost in her thoughts trying to keep her anger at bay and started listening to Reiner and Jean's conversation when she got her irritation under control.
"It's a shame you haven't been around."
"Yeah I know but I don't think I'll ever be able to return with my parents watching my every move."
"Well you missed Eren getting completely knocked down!" He smirked "By a midget!"
Jean turned to Eren smirking while she was fuming at the memory of that arrogant rich boy and touched her eye, the remnants of the bruise she had gotten. Jean followed the movement of her hand and noticed the injury, his smirk got larger.
"Seriously? Man that must have been awesome, I would've loved to have been there."
"Oh fuck off Kirschtein, I managed to hit him, he left with some scars!" Reiner laughed at Eren's reaction.
"He totally got his ass handed to him. It was hilarious because Eren was so mad and lunged at him, his eyes lit up by anger and the guy just dodged his punch so easily Eren was completely thrown off guard. Everyone in the gang had watched completely shocked and in pure amazement as the midget beat him up. The strongest guy in our group!"
"Reiner. Shut up!" Eren gave a warning call through her teeth, they were clenched in order to hold herself back. She was chanting a simple sentence in her mind 'We are on school grounds don't do anything stupid. First day you can hold it in Eren just hold. it. in.'
"And then he asked his butler for a cloth to tidy his hands up muttering something about it being filthy. You should have seen Eren's face, he was beat down but still raging on the floor. Then the guy just left not giving any of us a second look."
Eren hit the table with her fist, silencing Reiner and making silence fall over the cafeteria and Jean give her a contemplative look.
He was wondering 'Who the hell is that midget and how strong can he be to beat Eren. He's a fucking reckless fury when he fights and he always gets up after falling down. Sure I managed to beat him but it was because he wasn't as serious as when he is with enemies.
I don't know if I want to know who the midget is or not? Because man I want to worship him for beating Eren and putting him back into place but he sounds like a complete asshole that I'd totally hate and Eren is my friend.'
Eren looked up at Reiner "If I ever see him again I'll be sure to win and make him eat his words! How dare he treat Mina like that? Looking down on me!"
"Well you're in luck because…"
Reiner was cut off by Ymir and Connie's sudden appearance.
"Hey guys!" Connie grinned happy to have found his friends and Ymir simply smiled.
"Where have you been? We've been sitting here for awhile." Jean smiled and that remark made Ymir sneer.
"Don't you look at your phone Kirschtein? We've been searching everywhere for you retard and you were just sitting here waiting for us to show up, you're a fucking bitch."
"What?" Jean lifted a brow quizzically while Eren snickered at his obliviousness and stupidity. What she didn't realize was that she wasn't any better than him in that field.
"Yeah what Ymir was trying to say is that should look at your phone man, we've been texting you for at least ten minutes."
"Well sorry I got distracted by the idiot next to me and also the other gay annoyance." He turned to look at Reiner but the latter had walked off somewhere "Huh that's weird where'd he go" Jean whispered under his breath.
"What! It's not my fault your attention was focused on my awesomeness and not meeting up with our friends." Eren turned to look at Ymir to emphasize the fact that she had nothing to do with Jean being an idiot that forgot important stuff. Ymir nodded in understanding, annoyed by the fact that Jean wouldn't admit having made a mistake.
"Like hell you're interesting. I'm sorry I didn't notice my phone going off." He gave them a tentative smile to Ymir in order to be forgotten who returned it by an unimpressed stare and for some reason Connie grinned widely.
"Whatever I've got an amazing scoop and you'll never guess what it is." That broke the tension and got Jean and Eren very interested while Ymir was thinking of what it could be about when her eyes widened 'Wait no he wouldn't!'
She turned to Connie giving him a warning glare 'Don't say anything. Connie you better shut up they don't need to know and if they find out I will break your neck.' She was thinking the words really loudly in her mind trying to get the message to reach Connie but he faked noticing her.
"Ymir's in love."
"Connie how could you! I'm not even sure it's love!" That was a lie, she had completely fallen for the sweet girl she had met in the morning.
Eren grinned "Seriously. Ymir is in love? I need details of how that happened! Who's the unlucky guy?"
Jean joined "Wait let me process this…" He then almost screamed out "How is this possible? You just play with people you don't… love!"
"Well you should have seen her today" Connie was smiling evilly and Ymir growled at him "She just froze up and stared at the girl's face, it was so awkward and I was trying so hard not to laugh at her dumbstruck expression."
"Ugh I can't believe I acted like that. First impression ruined and now she must think I'm a stupid ass woman."
Eren and Jean's eyes widened in shock "Wait she? "
"Yep our Ymir's gay! It explains everything doesn't it."
"Yeah…" They tried processing this, after learning that Ymir could fall in love they discovered that she was a lesbian. Three words repeated themselves endlessly in their minds 'What the fuck' but it did make sense.
Jean recovered from the shock and smiled awkwardly while Eren just stared into the emptiness still recovering. "Well I'm happy for you and I hope it takes off."
He nudged Eren with his elbow so she would say something. That seemed to break her out of her daze and she smiled sincerely deciding to be supportive. "If you need any help I'll be happy to give you some. Especially if I can meet the beauty that made your heart swoon." She was a cross dresser so she had no right to judge.
"Thanks for accepting this. NOT that I would've have actually cared if you hadn't. Though Connie" She turned towards him and glared "How could you tell them? I thought we were friends." She lifted her hands in the air and let them fall back down, defeated. No time was left for the others to answer or retort to her tirade as she continued. "I haven't even made a move yet and you go blabbering to others." She turned to Eren, a deadly gleam in her eyes "By the way Eren don't you dare touch her she is mine!" Her eyes lit up in wonder and joy "Christa is the sweetest angel ever and I refuse to let it get tainted by your manliness. She is a pure being that's innocent and needs to be treated with kindness not the roughness given by boys."
"There is no way I would be getting close to your "darling". I actually care about life and I am not falling in love, it'll just make me weak and I refuse to fall into its claws, it's not for me." Eren shuddered at the thought and Ymir just shrugged at her reaction, they were all used to Eren's opposition to love.
Meanwhile Connie was breaking out in laughs, he couldn't believe the tough and ruthless Ymir had just said that.
'Manliness? Seriously that's hilarious and Ymir being kind? Not possible though if it was Christa, weirdly, I can see that happening. She had a tender look in her eyes when the blonde had left and that's how I guessed she was in love but man what a surprise. Love at first sight! Ymir? Priceless!'
Eren on her side was thinking about the fact that she was genuinely curious about the girl but not the way Ymir thought, she wasn't gay and had never felt love and was not interested by it.
Jean snickered "Right… because you're so gentle Ymir!"
"Oh shut up! I can be nice but not with you idiots, you are so not worth it!"
"What did I ever do to you? Ok Jean's a complete jerk and Connie is always hyper and annoying but I've been an awesome friend since middle school. I though you cared more than that."
"Hey!" Connie shot Eren an offended look "I am waaaaay nicer than you and I don't go around hitting every living body." Jean joined Connie harboring a disapproving glare and snorted "You aren't better than me for sure Jaeger."
"All three of you are retards, two of you love punching and the other one is a fucking goofball. How could I take you seriously! And you ain't girls so I can't be nice to you!"
Eren realized that it was true that Ymir had that tomboy attitude that made her get along with girls in a different way that she got along with guys. She charmed the ladies, treating them like princesses whilst she was real scary with every type of male... every. That change in personality was an impressive sight to withhold and still caught Eren off guard.
They continued bickering until the bell announced their next class and they waved each other goodbye, promising a meet up after school hours to hang out and talk about their summers and Ymir's sweetheart.
Jean and Eren reached their next class, which was juvenile delinquency, arguing playfully about what was the best song in an album they both liked but as they entered Eren's eyes landed on a silhouette sitting at a desk and leaning against the wall.
She froze in shock, she recognized that black undercut, the standoffish and bored attitude, the rich clothing, everything about that hateful guy had been carved into her mind.
Suddenly life seemed to return to her body and she stomped her way to the boy while Jean looked at her questioningly asking her what was going on with her but she had cut him off and simply ignored him.
She stopped next to his desk, her anger boiling in her veins and he lifted those bored eyes to look at her, those eyes that had looked down on her. "Motherfucker"she breathed under her breath and the she spoke clearly, her voice slow, accusing and threatening addressing the boy in front of her.
"I'm getting fucking revenge for last time you arrogant ass!"
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