Afternoon classes passed by in what Mikasa defined to be a flurry. Actually, Scratch that. The first day seemed like it would never end and boy was I tired.
I absent-mindedly chewed on a piece of gum Ymir had snook me in history a while ago and was now making my way to the Campus gate where my soon to be everyday bus stop was located.
Eren and Jean had stayed back to go and start up on their French project in the library, taking Mikasa and the rest of them by surprise and Armin had been approached by a couple science nerds in the beginning of the afternoon and was now undergoing some sort of club initiation.
This all meant that Mikasa was now heading back home with Sasha, Ymir and Christa on her tail. Earlier, she'd caught on that Ymir and herself had actually hit off quite well. Turns out they were both deemed cold-hearted and slightly reserved people. She reckoned she'd finally found herself some sort of an ally after a while.
Mikasa looked down as she opened the double doors leading to the parking lot partially blinded by the light of day. There weren't many students lurking around at the course of this hour of the day for some reason and Mikasa was glad she could just head straight to where her bus awaited her.
As she lifted her head back up again she could make out a few seniors, but not bothering to check out who was there exactly, she took her first step outside and turned her head to her left taking in the scenery along the way and pacing across rocky paths, her bus stop already in sight, keen on getting home.
Ymir pov
Christa and I were following religiously behind Mikasa, Christa whispering as she went on and on explaining to me about how Sasha and Connie would look so good together and what we would eat at her place. Yeah that's right we got homework to do. Anyways, and that's when I noticed while coming out, there were literally a few jocks hanging around their cars while me came out and straight away all eyes were on us. Or well I mean to say on a certain Mikasa Ackerman.
Got to admit I get why. I looked back towards Mikasa, still listening to Christa, and took in her appearance. She had the silkiest black hair going right past her shoulders making her look hella classy and oriental. From here she couldn't see it but she'd remembered being impressed by the Asian's grey orbs suiting perfectly with her small cute nose and feminine plump lips.
She had delicate features that were enthralling for whoever set eyes on her. Ymir noticed half the seniors were stuck on admiring her face. The others were looking a little lower and Ymir grinned cockishly. Mikasa was obviously very generous in the chest section and her legs were longer than most girls, hell they started higher than her own torso, a firm perky butt peeked out every so now and then when she readjusted her backpack but Ymir knew the seniors were hitting the jackpot from their side angle.
Ymir innerly sighed to herself before looking back towards Christa lovingly, the latter was still oblivious she had been paying attention to Mikasa and the seniors one sided exchange. If she hadn't met Christa first she would probably have put dibs on Mikasa but Christa was the one for her alright, that she was sure of.
All of a sudden, she realized a jock was coming Mikasa's way too soon before she had anytime to scare him off, busy being distracted by Christa.
Christa stopped short too as a tall senior with golden shagged hair, a slightly pointed nose and most importantly flirting eyes stride over in merely a few steps halting in front of Mikasa and taking her by surprise. Ymir saw how Mikasa, who had been oblivious up till now of the effect she had on the jocks, jolted in place before jabbing her knuckled fists swiftly through the guy's nose.
She giggled out loud before bursting into laughter grabbing a rib with one hand, the other latched on Christa for support whom she could see was trying not to seem amused but failing slightly so since her eyes were glossy with mirth.
The seniors on the other side had mixed reactions from what she could see. An eye browed guy was staring in disbelief at what happened just now, a mousy haired guy with baby features went pale and was clicking his tongue continuously, probably embarrassed the guy who got his ass sent flat on the ground was one of his friends. Most of them were gawking at Mikasa in awe and one guy in particular Ymir noticed was piercing his steely orbs straight through Mikasa's being, amusement written all over his eyes as he lay on his car hood, his arms crossed and his demeanor unfazed. Only people like Ymir who didn't possess that much facial expressions or better yet controlled them to perfection could be able to tell his eyes were intrigued and liking what they saw.
Almost instantly, she didn't like the sudden glint that appeared in his eyes when Mikasa ignored the groaning man in pain at her feet, simply rolling her eyes at him and stalking on off to the bus stop across the street.
'Come on Christa, I just remembered, I need to get something at the convenience store for-', Ymir cut short trying to find an end to her quick fib, whilst grabbing Christa by the arm, wanting to hurry and get Mikasa out of that guy's sight as quick as possible.
'Your mum?' Christa's eyes lit up as she finished, looking up expectantly at Ymir.
Ymir chuckled, this girl was so soft.
'Yeah, for my mum and we're taking Mika with us', with that she caught up to Mikasa, feeling the audience had shifted their attention back to them she pressed a hand against Mikasa's back pressing her to cross the street more rapidly.
Mikasa lightly protested before realizing it was Ymir behind her and let herself be hurried before turning around once on the opposite pavement.
'Are you two taking the bus? I thought Christa's driver was coming to pick you up?' Mikasa inquired, looking towards Ymir.
'Um well, I need to get some ramyeon for my bro, he's ill and mum's not home so…' Ymir trailed hoping Mikasa would get the gist. She just didn't want those seniors knowing Mikasa took this bus home. They were obviously going to try and find out who she was exactly after this.
She watched as Mikasa pondered for a while before realization hit her about something, her shoulders slightly drooping. The Poor thing probably just wanted to go home.
'Oh yeah, I also need something, I'd forgotten, In that case let's go', Mikasa smiled a small rare smile letting herself be guided at Christa's side by Ymir who lived nearby and knew the area, down an alley behind the bus stop.
Neither of them bothered to look behind them as they disappeared behind a corner.
Convenience Store
'Mikasa look here!' Mikasa walked backwards, drawing her head to the side, towards the aisle she'd just heard Christa call her from.
She was wearing a pink princess crown and glitter was spread across her face.
For a split second, even Mikasa was mesmerized by the shiny aspect, thinking if she'd had a little sister she would have wanted her to be as cute as Christa here.
'What's going on?' Ymir turned the corner, opposite Mikasa and she watched laughing at how Ymir's jaw dropped, her hands full of ramyeon packets threatening to fall to the ground. Her face lit up as she threw the ramyeons in her cart and embraced Christa in a bear hug whipping out her phone in the process ready to take cliches. She whooped a few times twirling Christa about in circles, Christa on the other hand was now a living tomato and rendered speechless. Mikasa went back to her searching before Ymir put a heavy hand on her shoulder blade.
'Right, we'll be off now, we want to still have time for work and I need to drop this off beforehand real quick, you know the way back right?', Ymir asked quickly,
'Yeah sure, I remember how we got here, see ya then', Mikasa reassured her she recalled how to get back.
Ymir grinned, both her and Christa waving her goodbye as they paid for their goods and left the shop, the bell at the front ringing their departure.
Mikasa resumed her skimming of the aisles, where do they put the damn alarm clocks? She moved down another aisle barely paying attention to the ringing sound soon after, remembering she was the only one in the shop now and that someone came in in that case.
She bend down, crouching as she finally found the object of her search, miniature black alarm clocks, she grabbed one and an extra battery pack for good measure and was ready to head down to the checkout stall.
That is before she strode right into somebody's broad and firm chest. She staggered for a split second before gaining her balance once more thanks to two forearms shooting out for her to grab onto.
She looked up after a few seconds that seemed like hours, a sense of déjà vu hitting her as she found herself eye to eye with no other than Levi the handsome senior.
He had familiar steely grey eyes, the greyest she'd ever set her eyes on, reminding her a lot of her own. The way his eyes locked onto hers immediately was something new to Mikasa, she felt like his piercing orbs were reading into her very soul. She discerned a minty scent radiating off him, not to mention the warmth his body spread to hers. She unintentionally gripped his forearms a little harder feeling the muscles underneath his thin grey shirt, he was ripped. At this he arched a perfect eyebrow, his head slightly tilted to the side, causing his hair to pull downwards and gently tickle Mikasa's forehead … not that she was complaining.
Right, Mikasa don't break his arms. I withdrew my hands hastily breathing out a quick sorry before side passing him in haste, set on leaving as quickly as possible after the awkward encounter. However, I didn't anticipate on him grabbing onto my arm though. I skid backwards, merely avoiding tumbling over. He turned me over before opening the palm of the arm he had latched onto. I looked up at him questioningly, not understanding his actions before he slammed a battery pack into my palm before looking back at me expectantly, arms crossed, even though his face was void of emotion.
'We say thank you when things like this happen', he furrowed his brows, accessing me, a shoulder leaning against the shelf near him, cornering her.
It took me a while to process what he had just said, when realization hit me, I stood up a little straighter, also lifting an eyebrow. Oh really, well, two can play at this game-
'-You must really like barging into people, I suggest you try again another time when there's a little more of a crowd going on to mask your intentions', she countered calmly, just wanting to leave.
He was hot, I'll give him that, but with that personality he was a definite no no in my books.
Not giving him time to reply, and frankly not caring at all on anything else he could say I spun on my heel and walked up to the bearded man at the checkout, money I fished out of my pockets already in hand to speed up the process.
I could hear Levi walking down the aisle as I hurriedly took my plastic bag and rushed to the door, a gust of wind sending my hair back as I took a deep breath of fresh air.
Bye Levi
Hanji pov
I huffed and lifted my head up, not being able to calm Petra down. This girl's jealousy was incredible. I was just going to have to settle on trying to tune her out. I franticly searched for my earphones in my backpack nodding the whole way.
'… And how come, he saw me and didn't even come over once?'
'Would you ignore your ex like that, really?'
'Who was that Sally bitch kidding anyways', she ended her rant with a scoff of indignation.
Hanji halted her search for a moment, her eyes widening as she avoided eye contact with Petra who looked puzzled.
Silence fell upon them.
'Don't tell me you knew !', she took Hanji's silence as a yes and jumped her, knocking them both off the bench they were sat on before scurrying up, Petra dusting off her clothes upon seeing a teacher cross the courtyard.
'How could you?' the red haired girl hissed, eyes narrowed and hands trembling as her eyes blazed at Zoe.
Hanji turned her head her way, humming a tune and picking an ant from the ground, lowering her glasses and examining it.
'What happened was too late, what would be the point of telling you, apart from hurting you?' she asked genuinely, staring Petra down now and waiting for an answer.
Petra tore her gaze away after a while, pursing her lips and pushing her hair behind an ear.
'Whatever…' she said absentmindedly actually rendered tongue tied.
Hanji approved with a slight nod before jumping up, grabbing Petra's hands.
'Let's go get ourselves some pizza, I'm pretty sure the guys were planning on heading out after classes', she wiggled her eyebrows and added in a whisper.
'Levi will be there… '.
Petra's response was immediate. She stood up, taking out her lip balm as they went off to the car parking lot.
Upon arriving, Petra scanned the area quickly and noticed, her shoulders slumping and disappointed that everyone was there but Levi was nowhere to be seen. She strides over quickly to where Erwin and the others were, not missing Auluo's wink. She ignored him and looked firmly at Erwin.
'Isn't Levi coming?'
Erwin sighed briefly looking away,
'You're the fifth to ask, I'll repeat myself once more, Levi left a while ago, we don't know where he is either', he told her. Petra was not satisfied though, she saw he was avoiding eye contact, which meant only one thing, he knew a little more than he told her.
What was he trying to hide from her?
'Alright', she stated simply, no point on seeming desperate, that was the last thing she wanted.
She took this as a cue to go up to Auluo and drew him further away from the group, pretending they were discussing something about the upcoming winter holidays.
Once they were out of earshot she turned on him.
'Where did Levi go?' she said innocently, managing to ask him the question as if she were talking about idle happenings like the weather.
It seemed to work though, he answered straight away, grinning the whole time while he flexed his biceps nearly shoving Petra in the face, clearly wanting attention.
'Oh yeah, some chick came by earlier, he told us he wanted to check something out but we all know what that rascal was up to', he chuckled to himself looking over the horizon making sure the sun provided him enough lighting to make his eyes shine.
Petra became livid. He was running after some girl? She composed herself on the spot, clearing her throat and not letting anything from her tone betray her angered self.
'Oh really? Do you know who the girl happened to be? Must be something if she caught Levi's attention', she said kindly, making sure he thought she was over him.
Auluo reminisced and collected his thoughts before his eyes softened considerably.
'You can say that alright, she was this Asian bomb, never seen anything like her before, she was like …' Auluo snorted before animatedly drawing the beginning of an S-line with his hands before Petra whacked his arms down.
He fancied her too? Wasn't he meant to like her? Who is this girl?
A million questions went through Petra's head before thoughts flooded her of what they could be doing right now. Where they together? Are they official?
She was pulled out of her trance by Auluo.
'Ah, look who is back', he pointed behind her, and she whirled around. Levi was at the entrance coming their way.
But there was something different about him. He looked lost in his thoughts and his eyebrows were furrowed which Petra thought to be strange.
It was only upon Gunther calling him over that his face became neutral again, a familiar smirk playing on his lips as he joined his fellow seniors.
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