Anni e wasn't sure if she really wanted to sit down with Bertholdt's friends.
It would be weir. She would not feel uncomfortable but maybe she needed some friends, maybe having friends would bring her loneliness to a stop. She wanted to experiment once again that fluffy-warm feeling Bertholdt had giving her, but she was afraid to ask for more…
She didn't want to stay alone and if she didn't do anything about it right now it would always be like this: alone for ever.

The table was alone when she went there to sit.
Most of the tables were like that anyway.
She sat there for a moment wondering how this would be; she doesn't have a warm memory of sitting down with friends. She has always been a loner, but when her father die, about a year ago, that only got worse. She really wanted to have someone tell her it would be okay.
No one really said that. It didn't matter anymore, anyway.

Reiner arrived to the table with his trade of food.
He had chicken with thick bread and some rice.

"So you decided to sit with us!" Reiner said to Annie smiling.

"Yeah…" she answer

"Why?" he asked with a grin in his mouth

"None of your business" she said looking at him dead in the eyes

Reiner had a chill go down his spine

"Sorry!" he said "anyway, I'm glad you're sitting with us"

Annie stopped eating and looked at him with her usual coldness.
Why was he saying this? Was this because of Bertholdt?

"…Thanks" she said

There was a moment of awkwardness
Reiner spotted Bertholdt coming out of the lunch line, Historia was about to sit down when he once again asked

"So Annie, why are you sitting here?" He asked

"I wanted to sit here" she said with her usual coldness

"Ah, I see" he said laughing. "You… you-"

"Don't say anything, Reiner" Historia said "Hello Annie!"

"Hi."

"I'm glad you're sitting with us today! -"

"Thanks" she said without making eye contact

"Hey guys! What's up?" Ymir asked sitting beside Historia "I can't believe you're sitting here with us!"

Annie didn't said anything, she just nodded

"Anyway" Ymir said "I have some homework I need help with"

Ymir kept talking; Bertholdt was still standing by the table.
Annie hadn't notice him.
The reason why Bertholdt was still standing was because there weren't anymore sits left.

"Hey Bertholdt!" Marcos said from one of the table

"Do you need a chair?" this time it was Mina Carolina who asked "We have an extra one"

Bertholdt smile at the couple and nodded.
Marco came with the extra chair and gave it to Bertholdt; however Bertholdt couldn't move, he couldn't believe what was going on.
He needed to sit down. He was calling too much attention.

Annie blocked everyone around her, so she still hadn't notice him.
Jean walk pass Bertholdt and shove him in the chair.

"Sit down tall boy!" he said joking

Annie looked at her side for a moment, finally noticing the sweating boy.
She was surprise, she didn't know why; the warm-fluffy feeling was back, and this time was stronger.
She immediately took her eyes away from him. She couldn't handle that. It hurt to see him, it hurt to hear his name, everything about him hurt deep… but the hurting was something she was enjoying. That kind of hurt was something new to her.
It wasn't a hurt that would make her sad; it was a hurt that just kept growing and it was something like a pleasure.
What was going on?

Bertholdt felt Annie's eyes on him for a moment; he flushed and begun sweating more and more

"Bertholdt!" Reiner said "Are we still on for the party this weekend?"

"Yes" he said shyly

"I shouldn't have invited her to our table!" Bertholdt thought "She's so quite! She might be a little overwhelmed"

"Are you going Annie?" Historia asked, her voice was very sweet

"I don't have anyone to go to" Annie answer "I don't really care"

"This boy right here wants to go with you!" Ymir said touching Bertholdt's right shoulder

Bertholdt tense by what Ymir had said

"I-I-I… umm… I-I… Annie… I-I-I" Bertholdt couldn't get to even said something to the blond girl who was now staring at him

"Would you go to the party with him?" Reiner asked seriously

"I don't know" Annie said "He hasn't talked, he hasn't asked me. So I can't really answer that question"

Bertholdt's face was red.
He was about to explode and disappear into the thin air.
He wanted to go with her, he wanted to spend more time with her, and he wanted to do a lot of things with this girl.
She was the girl of his dreams.

The bell rang.
Lunch was over.
Annie got up from the table and begun walking away to her next class that was History.

"Go ask her" Reiner said to his friend "You want to take her, don't you?"

Bertholdt looked at his friends with a worried face.
He ran to where Annie was.
He didn't know what words he was he going to said. He was nervous, and he didn't know if he could talk.
Everything was so different from last week.

"Annie!" he said behind her

Annie turned around to see the tall boy.
Bertholdt was terrified of the moment.

"I… umm could you" he said trying to find the right words "gowithmetothedance?"

Annie looked at Bertholdt baffled

"What?" she asked

"Would you… d-d-d-d-do me the f-f-favor" he begin "no… no, no the favor b-b-b-but the h-honorrrr of g-going with m-m-me to the d-d-dance?" he asked

Annie looked at him with a cold look, but deep inside she was jubilant.
She couldn't believe what Bertholdt just asked her. They had just talked recently; they didn't even know each other very well.
Well, Annie didn't but Bertholdt did. He loved her since Kinder Gander.
She was his everything, nothing in the world could compare to her, and she was simply perfect.

Annie looked at him with a startled look.
She couldn't process the information.
Bertholdt begin to feel uneasy, the bell for the next class was about to ring.

"Anni-"

"Yes." She said.

The coldness in her voice had left.
It was a sweet voice Bertholdt had never heard.
Was he dreaming?
Was everything a fantasy?

"I-I-I-I…" he stopped talking for a while "I… umm… where… would you like… to eat?" he asked

Annie looked at him.
Her coldness around her had left for a moment.
She looked more alive, she was prettier!
How could she only get prettier?
What was going on?

"Come, we are going to be late for class" she said grabbing his hand "and we will talk about that later on."

Annie didn't know why she had grabbed his hand. When she realized that, she let go of it.
Bertholdt was delighted because they could share a moment like that one.


"Well you both are tardy" the teacher said "good thing Levi is not here today!"

Ms. Hange was the one who was in her husband's desk.

"Come, come" the teacher said smiling "you have to turn in some papers from last week, and today you are working in the 1800s! Isn't it fun?"

"Yeah…" Bertholdt said with a shy smile "since, you are tardy just get in a group and work on this" she handed them some papers

"This is a crossword worksheet" Annie said

"Yes!" Ms. Hange said smiling "It's so much fun to do those with partners! I love doing them with Levi"

Annie and Bertholdt sat down together.
Bertholdt felt awkward.
Annie felt the hurt again.
Everything was so unexpected, it did make Annie happy.
She felt the same feeling she had felt the night before when Bertholdt had given her the note.
The colors seemed brighter. Everything was simply getting better.

"Annie…"

"I would like to go to your favorite restaurant." She said suddenly hiding her face.

Annie's voice didn't sound the same.
She got her face up just a little to see Bertholdt and then she smile.
Bertholdt had never seen such thing.
His face automatically turned red.
Deep, very deep red.
He couldn't understand why his brain was going crazy, why everything seemed like a dream.

Annie didn't know why she had a smile.
Was she feeling overwhelm by the events?
It didn't matter… her heart was changing.
This person was changing, little by little, her tiny lonely world; it was something like this: her constellation was uniting with another one and it made hers more beautiful than before.
She could feel a connection, she could sense the feeling… little worlds spinning around her… she was a planet in a huge constellation that was Bertholdt.
Bertholdt was changing everything, and she didn't know if it was good.
Is it okay to open up and try to be happy for moment?


Hello there!
I'm so very sorry for not updating lately.
And I apologize for the previous chapter.
I know my writing skills are bad, but that's why I'm writing.
I'm very sorry.
And ummm…. Sorry because I had not update since long ago.
SORRY!
I had so many things coming up.

Please enjoy this chapter
Thank you for reading