The whole school was hyped up about the final tomorrow night. I was in the library during my lunch period, after my 6th period, when I felt a tap on my back. I took my ear buds out to see the guy occupying my thoughts. Jean had the lunch before me so he would have been in 6th period now.
"What are you doing in here? Why are you not in class?" I asked a bit frantically, even though I knew he wouldn't be taking any chances of getting in trouble.
"Relax, relax, I missed Yesterday's test and they're going over the answers so I can't be there. Which is pretty stupid, since I'm bilingual but, whatever. I'm not ditching." He answered me.
"How do you think you guys are going to do?" I asked him.
"I'm a little nervous actually,"
"You? Nervous? About a soccer game? Never." I joked with him.
"Oh, ha ha ha. Yes I am, they're a really good team." He said a bit sarcastically. "You better be there too, I play better when you're there."
"Wh-what?"
"It's true. So… my mom was wondering if you would go with her?"
"D-does she still think we're… d-ating?" my voice broke a little and my face was once again the color of a tomato.
"Du bist wirklich niedlich." He said quietly staring at me.
"What?"
"Uh-um nothing. I really don't think anything will dissuade her on that though."
"Oh." I said simply.
"Yeah, sorry you don't need to go with her. She doesn't have anyone to sit with until Mrs. Bodt gets home from that wedding she's been away for."
"N-no, it's okay really. I don't think it would be so embarrassing if it was just her and I."
"Really?" he asked sounding a tiny bit shocked. "Marco will be sitting with you guys anyway too, he always sits with my mom."
I got a couple of glares from a group of girls across the room, no doubt ones who had crushes on Jean. Freshmen I think, I didn't recognize any of them.
"So, you'll seriously go to the game with my mom? Like seriously?"
"Yeah, why not?"
"Awesome." He stated. "You know, I'm pretty sure Levi will come to the final. It's been a long time since I saw him."
Eren would probably drool over Levi.
"Really?"
"Yeah, he had like, over half college classes and he didn't go to parties or anything so I never saw him outside of soccer."
"Connie told me it was almost creepy how you guys worked together."
"Yeah, we we're a great duo."
"The bell's about to ring." I said to Jean as I stood up.
"You aren't still sick right?"
"No, I'm fine. Just… cold in here I guess."
"Not taking any chances." He claimed slipping off his soccer sweatshirt and forcibly shoving it onto me. It was the one that said 'Kirschstein' on the back and he wore a lot. It smelled like coconut and peppermint, like… Jean.
"Jean, I don't-"
"No. Chances. You're my living good luck charm." The bell rang after that and he walked away rather quickly, probably so I wouldn't try to give the sweatshirt back to him.
I took the courtyard to get to my next class, if I wasn't looking down I'm sure I would notice some stares because of the sweatshirt I was wearing.
I walked into 7th period and sat down next to Connie, who immediately started talking about how he thought the soccer game was going to go. I tried to focus on what the teacher was saying about Uniform Circular Motion but I couldn't. I guess I could just ask Jean for help because it is his strong suit, the teacher learning from the student. Connie just started talking about Jean and how he'll probably have even more scouts looking at him than he already did. Then he went on to telling me how it would probably be the same for Marco with baseball this year.
"Haha, we don't need luck when we have Jean." Connie said loudly to the class, laughing like an idiot.
"Oi, you're gonna do great Con!" Sasha yelled from the other side of the classroom. Our teacher knew better than to put them remotely near each other. Connie winked and clicked his tongue at her and continued laughing to himself.
"Alright, alright. Back to class, here's your test review. I don't care when you do it, just do it in 2 days." The teacher said handing out the papers. I'd do it later rather than sooner in this case because Connie would not stop talking. I don't blame him though, if I went to the ocean I wouldn't shut up about it either.
I'll give my mom ur address?
Yeah that's fine.
Ok, I'll see you at the game
Can I ask a favor?
Sure thing what is it
Connie wouldn't stop talking while the teacher was going over uniform circular motion can you help me with it when you get the chance?
Yeah no problem
Haha, thanks jean
Don't worry about it.
And I'm apologizing in advance for any embarrassment my mom might cause you, she really thinks that were dating
Its fine, i can endure it
Who do you have for physics anyway
Is it bad that I still don't know his name?
HAHAHA no I still don't know the gym teacher's name
You don't even have gym so theres your excuse
Or the art teachers name now that I think about it
Ok that's better haha
I put an ear bud in and turned on some music and started with the parts of the packet I actually understood.
I looked across the room to see Sasha tapping her foot rapidly and her eyes moving from her packet to her phone every second. She was texting Connie that much was apparent. It was weird because that's kind of how I felt inside right now.
Hey my phone is almost dead auf wiedersehen
Okay, bye good luck.
I'd only heard Jean speak German twice. The first time was last year in Calc class when the teacher was being kind of rude to him, so I know he was cursing her out, the only word I can recall was 'hündin'. But more recently he was speaking directly to me and I don't think he was cursing at me. Du bist wirklich niedlich, I wonder what that meant; I'll have to google it or something. Eren might know, he does take German.
"Let's go Armin, I don't have homework, for freaking once." Eren mumbled the last part.
"Yeah, okay." I pushed off of his locker.
Eren held the main door for me when we walked out of the school. We were talking when Eren looked as if he just saw a ghost. He fell back a little before I turned to look at him.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"Why. The. Hell. Are. You. Wearing. Horseface's. Sweatshirt?" I knew he would act like this, he really cannot stand Jean. It's pretty irrational, Eren has never really spoken to him outside of yelling at him.
"I got a chill and he forced me to wear it. Calm down, really Eren."
"I guess I should give him a chance."
"Hey, do you know what niedlich means?"
"Uh, no… Sorry." I got the feeling he was lying but I let it go. "Uh why?"
"Jean said it."
"What? Why?"
"Why are you getting so weird?"
"I'm not. Oh look, we're at our stop let's go!" he wasn't going to talk about it anymore so I dropped it.
