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Chapter One - You're Not Annie
It was a mistake, a very stupid mistake, betting with Jean, that is. It wasn't his fault, really, that Jean had to be jealous about his relationship with the girl of his dreams, Mikasa, who was in fact his step-sister, which then Eren told Jean to just say you like her already and stop picking a fight with me every fucking single time!
It all began from there with Jean initiating a bet of whoever confesses their feelings to the person they like and they liked them back will be the winner. One condition of the bet was to have someone witness the whole thing, hiding, of course, and the loser will have to buy them lunch for one whole month.
Eren was confident Jean would lose so he accepted the bet.
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Now, we see Eren standing alone in the locker area, more specifically in front of a locker which was clean with nothing sticking on it unlike the rest of the lockers, and it seemed to be sparkling in the boy's turquoise eyes. He brought his arm up connected to his hand that was holding a small not-so crumpled white envelope (because Eren couldn't believe he's actually doing this because it's supposed to be the other way in this situation), the boy swiftly looked around his surroundings, straining his ears for any strange noise before he quickly (and quietly) opened the locker and placed the envelope neatly atop a folder and books.
Successfully completing his task, he let out a shaky breath he didn't know he was holding and looked up at the locker for a few seconds before jumping a bit when he heard footsteps coming in his direction followed by a loud (maniacal) voice that sounded like of a (crazy) woman's, and he hurriedly left the area before anyone sees him standing in front of the rumored one of the badass trio in campus - Annie Leondhart.
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"Jaeger! How'd it go, bud'?"
Eren scowled when he saw Jean's (overly) happy face the second he stepped foot of 1-B classroom and strode straight to his desk, followed by the guy he hates who just couldn't stop grinning from ear to ear.
That grin fell, however, when Mikasa walked past him (without even a single glance) and sat on the chair in front of Eren's desk before handing him his share of cheese and ham (with vegetables hidden somewhere because Mikasa knows Eren doesn't like the greens) sandwich she bought from the canteen earlier (while Eren was out doing his secret mission) which Eren murmured his thanks after taking the sandwich from her hands.
He deliberately ignored the feeling of eyes making holes at the side of his skull as he quietly took a bite from his sandwich, swallowing before he let out an annoyed sigh and finally said, "I delivered the message. All I have to do is wait after school."
At that, Jean's grin was fully back on his (horse-) face.
"Hahaha, nice man! I can't wait to see you get dumped!" Jean exclaimed, slapping the back of Eren unexpectedly (which was on purpose by the way but Eren doesn't know that) where he almost choked on his sandwich.
Light tears welled up in his turquoise eyes as Eren coughed, 'Like you're one to talk, asshole.'
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Meanwhile, back in the locker area where our protagonist had just fled from a few minutes before, two figures (a short one and taller one) came into view and continued walking through the hallway, easily maneuvering through the mass of students occasionally passing by because it's lunchtime and the two was supposed to be having lunch in their usual turf than to be going to the locker area because Levi (the shorter one of the two) forgot something in his locker that he wanted to get now than to get it later and walk a distance away from the committee room which was on the other side of the building. That was his reason when Hanji asked (more like, whined about it because she was really hungry already) anyway.
"And then he- Hey, Levi, are you even listening to-" the eccentric woman by the name of Hanji Zoe whose hair was up on a messy-like-she-hasn't-combed-for-decades ponytail stopped whatever she was one-sidedly conversing about to her shorter-than-her male companion who stood still beside her, staring intently at something that was in his locker. A icky-looking bug, maybe...? Hanji mused.
Instead of an icky-looking bug, a semi-crumpled white envelope was laying oh-so innocently atop that thing (it's actually the folder that was needed for the school committee meeting later) Levi, the raven-haired male companion who was a bit shorter than Hanji and whose hair was styled in an undercut, had forgotten to get.
His beady steel-blue eyes stared intently on the piece of paper hoping that if he stared enough, it would combust before the four-eyed freak sees it-
"OOOH! Levi got a love letter~!"
Too late.
If Levi was a normal person, he would have face-palmed. But, alas, Levi is not like those people who can freely express their emotions out in the open so he turned his head to glare at the eccentric woman whose grubby hands were a breath away from the innocent letter but Levi got to them first. Thankfully.
Sending another heated glare to his (taller) companion and ignoring her whines of "Leviii! You stingy old dwarf!" (he was not old (he's only eighteen for crying out loud! that's not considered old!) nor a dwarf, just because she was taller than him (and wasn't afraid of his death threats because they were long-time childhood friends) she can insult his height just like that, fuck you, you four-eyed fucker) before opening the envelope (and fuck, it's even scented too!) and read the letter:
Please come meet me behind the school building after class.
I have something to say.
I'll be waiting.
- E.J.
Levi's eyebrow twitched. He re-read the letter over and over again until it registers in his mind that someone actually gave him a love letter. His admirers (yes, he admits he have those too) usually asks him directly and lead him to a less crowded place and confess their love to him, or whatever. Levi didn't really care because what kind of a person falls in love with someone just because he was good-looking, has good grades and is ranked second in the whole campus or whatever crap his so-called admirers can think of.
The raven was so focused with the letter that he didn't feel someone's presence looming over his shoulder and have also read the letter because it was there in the open just asking for someone (by the name of Hanji) to be read!
"Wow, this 'E.J.' person actually have the guts to have you come see him unlike your usual admirers!" Hanji exclaimed, her maniacal-looking brown eyes behind her rimmed glasses sparkled with mirth.
Levi's thoughts exactly.
"Hey, hey, are you going to come see this E.J. person?"
Levi rolled his eyes. It seems that Hanji is more excited than him about this when it was him who received the letter. Ugh, whatever.
The raven folded the letter and pushed it back inside the envelope and put it inside his pocket (so no other than him and the freak could know about it but this is Hanji we're talking about) before he took out the folder (his original goal), tucked it under his arm and slammed his locker shut.
Levi turned to look at Hanji who got this crazy-looking expression plastered on her face as if she's planning to do something the raven would have not liked. Steel-blue eyes bore intently with her frantic brown eyes before saying in a deathly whisper, "Never tell this to anyone or I'll fucking decapitate your beloved babies."
Hanji's facial expression went from excitement to utter doom (like, world apocalypse doom) at the threat. Now, here's the thing, Levi's threats usually don't deter Hanji but because he threatened her babies, HER BELOVED BABIES (which are hamsters by the name of Sonny and Bean by the way) for the very first time they have been friends since they were in diapers, well, Hanji doesn't want Levi to decapitate her beloved ham-hams so she mimed zipping her lips, locking it with an imaginary key and tossed it over her shoulders.
Levi smirked and started walking towards the canteen, with Hanji in tow.
'E.J., huh?'
"Hey, what were you smiling for just now?"
Levi scowled, "Shut up."
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After so many agonizing hours of sitting, listening to boring lectures, and the occasional throwing of tiny paper balls behind the horse-face's head and pretending he was listening to the boring lecture and raise his one eyebrow, tilting his head to the side in mock innocence whenever his victim would tell him in a harsh whisper to fucking stop it Jaeger!, classes are finally over.
While the majority of his classmates were hastily gathering their books and whatever stuff, and put them all inside their bags so they could finally escape this hellhole called classroom (and school), Eren was taking his precious time with his. Not when his favorite brand of pen was being pen-napped by an ugly horse who was stupidly grinning at him while twirling the pen between his fingers.
"Excited to get dumped, Jaeger?"
Eren scowled.
"Eh, eh, what, what? What's with this about Eren and getting dumped?" Connie (a funny guy with a shaved head and no he's not completely bald) said as he walked towards Eren and Jean.
"Haha, our friend here is gonna confess to someone, that's what!" Jean answered Connie.
"Ehhh, I didn't know Eren had someone he liked!"
"Oi, Sasha! Stop eating with your mouth full, man! That's gross!"
"Whoops! Sorry!"
Eren slumped defeated in his seat. He feels tired all of a sudden.
"Uhh, Eren, you shouldn't have agreed to that bet, you know." a timid voice spoke from where Jean was supposed to be and apparently the said person was trying to flirt again with his step-sister by the door.
"It's fine, Armin. I want to see Jean's reaction when he gets dumped, anyway."
"Well, if you're sure..."
Eren flashed him a wide smile before snatching the pen on Jean's desk and putting it back inside his bag. He pushed his chair back only to put it back under his desk again once he got out and sauntered towards his friends who were waiting for him and Armin.
Eren flicked the bird to Jean when he mouthed an 'are you ready, Jaeger?'
'I just hope Annie comes...'
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Meanwhile in the other side of the building where the school committee officers were getting ready to start the meeting, a tall blonde man whose name is Irvin Smith and got the same undercut as Levi's walked inside, quietly observing the room for anything missing before getting himself comfortable in his seat,
"Anyone seen Levi?"
Four pair of eyes stared with one another before turning to look at the blonde man who was currently eyeing them like some hawk and shake their heads simultaneously.
"Oh, if you're looking for Levi, he's gone to get himself confessed to!"
"We were supposed to have a meeting now."
"Oh, oh, but this seems to be a special case, though, Irvin!"
"Oh?"
"Yeah! He got a love letter, see! So he went to check who this E.J. person is!"
Everyone in the room went quiet all of a sudden.
Upon realizing her mistake, Hanji scratched the back of her head as she smiled sheepishly and pleaded, "Uhh... Please, please, pleeease don't tell Levi I told you guys!"
"A love letter, huh?"
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Eren was nervous, like, really, really nervous. He couldn't stop looking back at the one way he (and his friends) had entered to see if the person he was supposed to confess to have shown up yet because ohmygod, where the fucking hell is she?!
He's (they've) been there waiting for god-knows how many minutes already and time is tick-tocking somewhere. It doesn't even help that he had to confess in front of his friends who were hiding like ninjas behind the bushes, whispering at each other like a bunch of idiots (except for Armin and Mikasa, of course)
Eren could even hear them from where he was standing:
"OW! Shit, Connie, you stepped on my foot!"
"Sorry, man! A little crowded here, y'know."
"...Why are we hiding?"
"Ugh, guys, be quiet..."
"This is stupid."
All this jittery makes Eren want to flee from the scene already but he wasn't a coward (like someone he knew) but... wow, Annie is really late. Is she even going to show up?
Is he going to get dumped before he's going to do the confessing? Oh god, Jean is never going to stop making fun of him now for the rest of his school life!
Eren was so busy talking in his head that he didn't notice someone walking and stopping in front of him.
"Are you the one who sent me this letter?"
Eren's ears perked up at the voice and thanking the lord that Annie finally showed up. The brunet looked up (more like, looked down) to where the voice came from and was about to start the confessing business but he stopped short.
"...You're not Annie."
So hard to update two fanfic reading sites at once, hahaha~ I'll update this fic more over in AO3 =w=