Hey, some of you people may wanna ditch me after this chapter, but please don't, read to the end of the chapter and my AN
The next day seemed to crawl by, slowly. Band went by quickly because I could joke around with Connie, but the rest of the day drowned on and on and on. Finally, it was sixth hour, where I could joke around with Connie again. But even that class went by slowly. I was just so excited for the party, I couldn't concentrate on class. (Not that I ever could, but still...)
At 2:25, the bell finally rang, releasing me from the prison of boredom. I jumped up quickly trying to get out of class as soon as possible. Ever since yesterday, Connie and I decided we would race to his locker to see who could get there first. Connie won yesterday, but I wasn't going to let him beat me today!
I managed to push my way out of the classroom, and around other students. I heard "Wait up Sasha!" in the background. I turned around to see where Connie was. I couldn't find him at first, but he was just a mere ten feet behind me, practically getting trampled by the upperclassman who were rushing to get to their lockers. I stuck my tongue out and gave him the stink eye, and continued on. I think he yelled "Wait up!" again, but I ignored him.
A few moments later, I was at his locker, locker number 352. A few moments after that, Connie got to his locker, nearly out of breath.
"You suck Sasha, why'd I even invite you to Armin's party tonight?" He complained. I snickered at that comment. Same old Connie, getting annoyed at me for winning one of our 'competitions'.
"I'm just that much more amazingly faster than you are to get to your locker," I teased.
"Shut up..." He said as he turned the lock to open his locker. He shoved in a bunch of papers, binders and textbooks into his backpack.
"Let's go to your locker then," he mumbled, slamming his locker shut. We walked together to my locker, which wasn't too far from his. I opened my locker and put everything I needed into my backpack. We then went our separate ways, me to the bus, and Connie to basketball practice.
"I'll see ya tonight then!" Connie said before he headed into the locker room. I waved him a goodbye, and hurried off towards my bus.
I decided I would give Armin a five pound sack of potatoes. (Those were my personal potatoes too, giving a stranger potatoes was a big deal!) I was pretty sure he'd like it, everyone loves potatoes, who wouldn't want a five pound sack of potatoes for their birthday! I wrapped up the potato sack in colorful wrapping tissue paper, grabbed my phone and wallet and hopped into my Dad's car. My Dad was pleased that I had made new friends at school already. Although in reality, my only friend right now was Connie and maybe Mina, but that would change today, hopefully.
My Dad and I got to the rink promptly at 4:35, but no one was here yet. I guess I came a little too early, the party didn't start for another 25 minutes. Connie told me basketball practice was until 4:30, and didn't know if he'd make it on time. All the sports were until 4:30. Connie also told me that Armin's closest friend, Eren was on the hockey team and practice was until 5:00, so he would definitely be late.
Five minutes later, a black chevy drove into the parking lot. Once the car parked itself, a teenage guy came out. He was rather tall, definitely taller than me by a few inches. He wore a thin grey sweatshirt and dark blue skinny jeans. He had sharp facial features, like his long face and sharp jaw line. And his hair! It was somewhat long and shaggy and light brown on the top, and shorter dark hair underneath. It kind of reminded me of a delicious chocolate cupcake with caramel or butterscotch frosting on top. He was walking straight toward me. My heart started beating a little faster. Calm down Sasha, I thought. He's just a really good looking guy coming here to roller skate. He's not gonna talk to someone like you. Yet, he continued walking toward me, and I couldn't get rid of the feeling that he was looking straight at me.
"Hey are you the new girl Connie told me about?" The guy asked. I suddenly realized the guy was right in front of me, talking to me. God, he was really good looking up close.
"Wait, what?" I blurted.
"Never mind," he said. He started to walk into the building.
"Wait!" I called. He turned around. "I think I'm the new girl you're talking about. I'm here for Armin's party, are you?"
"Oh so you are the girl Connie was talking about," He said as he walked toward me. "Name's Jean Kirchtein, you're Sasha Braus, right?" I gulped.
"Yeah, that's me, I'm Sasha." We stood there, awkwardly for about thirty seconds. My body felt super warm for some odd reason. Thankfully, the cold November winds had decided to kick in right then. My hair blew in the wind and many more colorful leaves fell to the ground. My teeth began to chatter as well.
"You can come closer to me," Jean said, his face slightly red, probably from the sudden change in temperature. "We'll be warmer if we stand together," Not that my body needed to get any warmer, the wind was a nice cool down. Why was I even hot before the wind started blowing anyway? But in the end, I was chilled again, so I stood closer to Jean.
"Hey Jean, you're back!" A tall girl with freckles and dark brown hair tied in a low pony tail said. Walking next to her was a rather petite little blonde girl with large innocent blue eyes.
"Yeah," Jean replied. "Made it back just in time for Armin's party."
"So I see you've met Potato girl, wait, why is she even here?!" The tall freckled girl exclaimed in disgust.
"Umm," I stuttered. "Connie asked Eren if I could come..."
"That bald little bitch," The freckled girl muttered under her breath. I guess this person either really didn't like meeting new people, or didn't really like me. I hoped it wasn't the latter.
"Ymir! That's not a nice thing to say! Connie was just trying to be nice! And her name's Sasha!" The little blonde girl chastised to Ymir.
"Awww, I'm sorry Krista, I love you! Marry me tonight!" Ymir screamed, hugging the now blushing Krista from behind, and pulling Krista into her lap. I stared at the two awkwardly. I knew girls could be very touchy, but wasn't this a little bit much?
Jean leaned over and whispered."Don't worry about those two, they're always like that," I nodded. Ymir and Krista continued to cuddle on the concrete sidewalk, and three more people came out of a car. There were two tall boys, and one girl much shorter than the two that were accompanying her, but I was sure she was taller than Krista.
"Welcome back Jean," The blonde muscular guy said. Jean nodded. "I guess you've met Sasha now, huh?" We were still standing quite close together, but not nearly as close as Krista and Ymir were.
"So I guess the people who aren't here yet are Eren, Mikasa, Connie and birthday boy?" Ymir interrupted, still cuddling with Krista. Right then, we saw three people walk up. I recognized the blonde flute girl, there was an Asian girl with her, and a boy with brown hair, whom I assumed was Armin.
"So you're Armin?" I asked the boy with the brown hair. "Happy belated birthday!"
"Ummmm, no, I'm Eren. That's Armin," the brown haired boy replied, pointing to the blonde flute girl.
"What?! But you're a girl!" I shouted, pointing at the flute girl. "Connie told me you were a boy!" The crowd of people turned silent. The muscular boy started snickering at first, and then almost everyone around me burst out laughing. The flute girl just blushed.
"What's so funny?!" I demanded. The crowd continued to laugh hysterically like some crazy maniacs.
"It's just that," The muscular one started trying very hard not to laugh as he was explaining "Armin's a boy!" The crowd would not shut up. I could feel blood rushing to my face, and it wasn't because I was cold, Jean helped me warm up after all.
"Don't laugh at her," Jean protested. "It's not her fault she mistook Armin for a girl! Armin just needs a haircut!" I felt even more blood rushing to my face at that comment. Why was that? He was just helping me out.
"Speaking of Connie," Ymir started as everyone's laughter finally died down, "Where is that bald little bitch? It's already 5:10 and he's still not here!" People shrugged.
"Let's just go inside and get our skates rented," the Asian girl said. "Connie is probably smart enough to figure out that we all went inside."
"I dunno Mikasa, we're talking about Connie here," Ymir snickered. The Asian girl eyes turned cold, most of her face hidden by her red scarf. I didn't know if I wanted to see what was under that scarf.
"Would you like to wait for him out here by yourself Ymir? You can stand outside by yourself," Goodness, this Asian girl could be pretty scary. Her character completely changed in a matter of seconds! I think I even heard Ymir gulp. Krista whispered something into Ymir's ear, and Ymir just nodded to whatever she said.
"Alright, fine let's go, and get this party started," Ymir muttered.
Alright, sorry this was just crappy filler. I was gonna write the whole party in this chapter, but it already was already over 1500 words long and the party hadn't even started! Also, I know some of you (especially those who like Springles) probably don't like the crappy fluff I wrote about Jean and Sasha there. Just trust me, and try to bear with me, I didn't make Sasha and Connie get along so well in the beginning for no reason. I promise, my next chapter WILL be better, the action will finally start in the next chapter! Until Next Chapter...
