Hello ! Here I am ready for the second day ! Enjoy !
Day 2 : New Family
- Mikasa, have you ever imagined how could have been our future if everything had been different ?
Mikasa looked at Eren, who was sitting next to her. It was a night just like the other ones. Eren and Mikasa were chatting outside, staring at the stars twinkling above them.
- If all of this had never happened, if titans had never existed, if there was no danger…
Mikasa brought one of her bangs behind her ear. Eren and her, like the others, had lots of regrets and lots of unachievable dreams. It was hard to accept, hard to go forward knowing that. But what could they do ? So they used to talk about that sometimes, about their wasted lives.
- If I hadn't only 7 years to live…
Mikasa felt her heart tighten. If there really was something that had broken her dreamer soul, it definitely was that revelation, the one about Eren's curse, an irreversible countdown.
The two friends remained in silence a moment, the glance lost between the stars. The tears no longer flowed on their cheeks. The two of them had already cried too much, they had cried all the tears a human body could cry.
- We could have lived peacefully, in a little house far in the country...
Mikasa closed her eyes, letting the image taking shape in her mind.
- We would have get married, it would have been a huge party. You would have been beautifully in a long white dress..
Mikasa was imagining. Everything was so precise, elaborated in her head. Eren and her had realized their feelings some months ago. They had confessed everything, and cryed very hard. They led the kind of life that wasn't meant to bring happiness. The kind of life that was lived for the others, and not for yourself.
- And then, we could have had children. One, two... maybe three ? We would have been happy, together living of our happiness.
Mikasa wasn't thinking anymore. She let her mind wander, led by Eren words.
- I would have told them lots of stories, fireside, while you would have rocked the youngest in your arms.
She imagined herself lied on Eren, on an old couch. He was older, his glance was comforting, he had a badly shaved beard. She was holding a baby sleeping peacefully, wrapped in her soft red scraf. Eren had a brown-haired girl on his knees, she was staring at him the eyes full of admiration.
- We would have done walks, through towns and forests. We would have discovered the world, together.
Mikasa saw the three of them again. Eren was holding the little boy on his shoulders, he was taller, while she was holding the little hand of her daughter who was asking a hundred of questions about everything her eyes saw.
- I would have loved you Mikasa. Like I should have ever done.
Mikasa went back to her senses. Some tiny tears were born in her eyes. It was the hard return to reality.
Eren and her had no future. They would never live peacefully, the would never had such a cute and united family. But dreaming of it was fine. Even if it was painful. It was comforting to imagine another life, a great life, different, better.
Eren sighed. He hold it against life. Life had stolen his mother, his past, and now his future.
Mikasa get her face closer and kissed his lips softly. It was a sweat kiss, innocent. Not a kiss of hope, not a kiss meant to give courage. Just a kiss of love.
- Let's go to bed, Eren ended up saying, taking Mikasa's hand.
And while the stars still shine, the two broken lovers joined the dormitory.