Finding comfort

I was woken by Mikasa calling my name. When I opened my eyes I saw her standing over me and once again with that same concerned look on her face.

"You're crying again" She said in a monotone way. I raised my hand to my cheek to find I was crying. "You dreamt about mum again didn't you?" She asked as she sat on the edge of my bed. I thought for a moment; trying to remember what it was I was dreamt.

"Yeah" I simply said. I glanced over at my clock, 7:30 it read. I groaned lifting my duvet over my face.

"Will you be coming to school today, Eren?" She asked while pulling my covers off my face. Once again concern and worry in her voice.

"What do you think?" I turned away from her, pulling my covers back over my face. I haven't bothered with school since my mum died. I saw no point in it anyway, I couldn't be bothered to deal with all the dicks that go there and now my mum wasn't here to pester me about it, what was the point in going?

I felt Mikasa get up from where she sat on the edge of the bed. "You're going to have to go sooner or later you know" She has hope that one day I will go back to school but she still knows it wont happen, not now. "If you need me, just call" She sighed and the next thing I heard was the click of the door. Once I heard the front door close, I soon drifted back off to sleep.

By the time I was awake again, it was already noon. I could still felt sleep but no matter how hard I tried, sleep would not come. I would have to deal with Mikasa's nagging if I spent the day sleeping. So instead I headed to the shower.

Letting the water run its coarse along my body, I got lost in thought. It's been half a year since my mother died. Her death hit us pretty hard and when my dad left us alone made matters worse. The two of us were left alone to deal with loss of my mother, I was only nine at the time and Mikasa only ten. Since that day its only been the two of us but Armin's grandfather came to check on us from time to time, to make sure we were okay.

Because Mikasa is a year older, she took it upon herself to act in as my mother and if not for her, I probably would have been lost in the sorrow and grief of losing my mother.

Once I had finished getting ready, I went straight for the kitchen. It was about 1 o'clock by the time I had finished getting ready and naturally I felt hungry. Mikasa being Mikasa, had already made me something to snack on. She'd also left me a note that read 'I made you a chicken salad. Just because I'm not there, you're not pigging out on crap. Love Mikasa' Even though Mikasa isn't my real sister, she really has taken after my mother. A smiled a bit at the thought. When we were kids, she always said how much she wanted to be like my mum. I don't get how she copes with all of this; she lost her real family when she was young so we took her in but then she also lost that family too.

I made my way to the living room after I had finished eating, leaving the plate on the side. I turned the TV on and fell onto the couch, not really paying any attention to what was on. Everyday was like this, everyday I did the same thing. I'd wake up from a dream of my mum, have a shower, eat and watch TV till Mikasa came home from school. Even though I did the same boring things everyday, I still chose not to go to school. I don't even think I could go back to school, even if I wanted to. I haven't been to school for 6 months now, so I doubt they would even let me go back. It's not like the school even care that I'm not there either; they haven't exactly made any effort to try and get me to go. They only people who do try is Mikasa and Armin.

I had gotten bored of watching TV and waiting for Mikasa to come home, so I decided to go to the coffee shop at the end of the street. It's a place I go every now and then, mostly when Mikasa brought people round and didn't want to put up with all nagging about going to school. It was a place I could slip away for a while and be at peace.

I'd ordered the usual coffee and took my seat by the window. Normally spend a few hours there, sat just watching as people go by but I got a message from Mikasa saying she needed me home. She hadn't specified why she needed me home, so I guessed it wasn't exactly important. I waited it out for a while, taking my time with my drink. It wasn't until my phone stared to ring that I'd realised I got lost in thought again.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Where are you? I told you I needed you to be home" Mikasa replied in a rather annoyed tone.

"Ahh, I'm at the coffee shop! I just lost track of time, sorry" I replied sheepishly. I heard Mikasa sigh.

"Well, hurry home!" Mikasa finally said and before I could answer, she hung up. I sighed and got up and left. I didn't exactly rush home; I still had a coffee to drink.

Even though I didn't rush, it still didn't take me long to get home. But when I got there, I saw someone's car parked outside our house. I just stared at it for a moment, who's car is that? In a rush to find out, I made a start to the door.

"I'm not waiting any longer for that shitty brat, I'm not going to spend my time..." Just as I was about to walk through the door, I bumped into a rather angry and... short looking man. Before I could register what had just happened, I felt sudden pain in my abdomen and the next thing I know, I'm curled up on my front step coughing.

"Shitty brat! Look what you've done!" When I look up, I saw a very pissed looking guy with a rather large coffee stain on the front of his very white shirt.