I fucking hate Reiner. I sat at a circular table in the town's public library. I could sense stares from the people around me. I wouldn't blame them, I probably looked like a sight to them. It was only a little past 10 in the morning, on a Saturday. I wake up around this time at earliest on a normal basis. I had only gotten up a half hour ago, thinking I was going to be late. Reiner claimed it was past 11:30, and I was supposed to be at the library at 11:00. I jumped up that morning, threw on a random sweatshirt and a pair of jeans, threw my hair into a bun, grabbed my things and ran out the door. Of course, I didn't realize Reiner had woken me up a whole HOUR earlier than I needed to, until AFTER I saw the clock in the library. He had fucking pranked me on a Saturday morning. I wasn't in a good mood.

Why was I in the library in the first place? I asked myself. I then began to remember, and replay the events of yesterday in my mind.

"Hey Annie?" Armin asked. We were in the hallway, on our way to Mr. Ackerman's math class.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"So you know how I was absent yesterday? We didn't get to meet up yesterday after school," he started.

"Yeah...?" I questioned, having a gut feeling of what he was going to say.

"Well, we should probably make that up shouldn't we? Are you available this Saturday?" He asked. I groaned in my head. It was the weekend, which in my mind meant sleep and away from people, and hope that Reiner won't prank me, and the twins would go to their friend's house or something. However, Armin had looked at me hopefully. What was wrong with his eyes. His stupid eyes, I swear could convince anyone to do anything. I had also just made up with him after a fight that I had pretty much caused. If anything, Armin deserved it. I was behind in my studies still anyhow, it was probably a good idea to go.

"Yeah. I'm free this Saturday," I replied dully. Armin's expression lightened, he grinned.

"Great! Let's meet at the public library at 11:00! You know where that is, right?" he asked. I shook my head.

"No. But I'm sure my cousins know where it is."

"Great! Also Annie, umm I was wondering, if..."

"If?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

"If you... maybe afterwards want to hang out? You know, I mean, if we're going uptown, we might as well do something, you know," he stumbled. Now normally I would decline such a thing. However, it was Armin, and I think the twins saying they were having their noisy boisterous friends over on Saturday.

"Well, what would we do?" I asked vaguely.

"Well, I mean I was thinking maybe we could see a movie. I was thinking the Lazarus Consequence, maybe?" I found horror movies rather dumb, considering that it was all so fake and most were cheesy. But maybe this would be good.

"A horror movie? Alone?" I asked. Armin blushed, and started waving his arms.

"No, no that's not what I mean! It's not a date or anything, um, Eren and Mikasa are coming too!" He stuttered. Gosh, this guy got nervous really easily! I was just kidding with him about being alone. Although, maybe I would have rather been alone with Armin. Mikasa was a stone who was practically Eren's mom, and Eren, well all he talked about was how he hated communism. As if to read my mind, Armin asked,

"Are you okay with them coming? I mean, we were planning on going to see it this weekend anyway, so I thought, maybe you might want to come too?"

"Wouldn't your friends mind if I came?" I retorted.

"No, not at all," Armin instantly replied. "So, will you come?"

I sighed. In all honesty, my brain told me I didn't want to go, and that I shouldn't go. My heart, however; was begging to differ with me, saying I should go because it would make Armin happy and he kind of deserved. Why does my heart always win.

"Fine. I'll go." I replied.

And that was why I was currently sitting in the library. I had a long day ahead of me. At least I avoided being at the house when the twin's were having their friends over. I looked over at the clock. 10:08. I still had time to kill. I thought about sleeping. I was in a library after all, library's were supposed to be quiet. I began to put my head down, when the librarian shot an angry glare at me. What was her problem? It wasn't like I was doing anything wrong. I groaned and sat back up, waiting for Armin to show up. As if on cue, he came in, twenty minutes early.

He looked sharp, for it being so early in the morning. He had on a blue and grey plaid long sleeve with a dark grey T-shirt underneath. He had dark blue jeans and tan colored hunting boots, and he had his glasses on, (which was a somewhat rare thing for me to see, I usually only saw him wear them during chem).

"Annie!" Armin loudly whispered, as he lightly jogged over in my direction. "You're here so early, it's only 10:14!" I nodded groggily.

"Reiner pranked me, and got me up an hour early. I'm going to punch him as soon as this stupid cast comes off," I mumbled. Armin gave me a nervous smile, as he backed up ever so slightly.

"I'm glad I'm not Reiner then," he nervously joked.

"Of course you are," I replied sarcastically with a half grin. Armin set his stuff down beside mine.

"Yeah. Well, I guess we should get started then."

It was like a normal session, except in a public library instead of a school library. Armin was fairly decent at teaching, he was significantly better than any of the teachers. It wasn't like the stuff I was learning was hard, it was just catching up with this school was hard. According to Armin, I was learning the stuff at the same speed as everyone else, I was just in a different plane, I was further behind. After two hours, we finished up what we were working on.

"Well," Armin said, looking at his wristwatch. "We should probably get going to the theatre."

"How are we getting there? Do you have a ride or something?" I asked. Armin shook his head.

"Annie, have you never been to the theatre? There's a pathway from here to the theatre, it's less than a mile away from here," I hadn't, in fact been to the theatre since I moved here. It wasn't that I hated movies, I just never went to the theatre since I moved, there was nothing I wanted to see, even the movie I was going to see today I was uninterested in.

"No, I mean, I only moved here a little over a month ago," I replied.

"Oh. Well, I'm sure you'll like it, it's a nice theatre,"

And so we left the library. There was a sidewalk path between a lane of green trees. The two of us walked down the path. I couldn't help but notice how bright and green the tree leaves looked, as they shifted in the wind. In the distance, I vaguely heard Armin briefly explain what the movie was going to be about. I gave him a few nods. We soon reached the parking lot of the theatre. It was a fairly large theatre for a small town. Armin explained that it was the only movie big theatre around the area for several miles, so many people from neighboring towns came here. We walked into the theatre. There were a few people in the theatre entrance, a few people in line to buy tickets. After a few minutes, Armin and I bought tickets for the Lazarus Consequence. Once we passed the ticket booth, we saw Eren and Mikasa waiting for us. Based on the surprised look on Eren's face, and Mikasa's ever so slight raise of an eyebrow, I could tell they weren't expecting extra company.

"Hey Armin," Eren started awkwardly. "Hi Annie..."

"Hi" I replied coldly. Tension was in the air, and Armin looked disturbed, not knowing what to do, probably.

"Well, Annie and I had a project we had to finish up this weekend, and since we were both at the library, I asked her if she wanted to come and see the movie with us, since she's never been to the theatre in Trost before!" I could tell from the shaking of Armin's voice he didn't know what to say. I hoped Eren and Mikasa wouldn't question my presence too much, but I wasn't all that hopeful. Mikasa nodded.

"Well, what are we standing here for? The movie will start soon, let's go" Mikasa said in monotone, and grabbed Eren's jacket sleeve and walked towards the airing room.
"Sorry," Armin whispered. "I didn't tell them you were coming, I thought they would be okay with it," No kidding that he didn't tell them, it was painfully obvious. It was also painfully obvious that I was an unwanted guest.

"It's alright. Go enjoy your movie Armin. I'm clearly not wanted here, I'll call Reiner and have him come and get me," I replied. Suddenly Armin grabbed my arm.

"No, Annie, don't leave, you already paid for those tickets, you should watch the movie! Now let's go before it starts," And he pulled me by the arm. Now I could have easily resisted Armin pulling my arm, but I chose not to. After all, he was right about the fact that I spent five bucks paying for some shitty movie, I wasn't going to waste it. And I knew, that even Eren and Mikasa didn't want me to be there, Armin did. That's why he invited me.

"Fine," I mumbled as he continued to drag me and I smirked. It was almost cute that he wanted me to see this stupid movie.

Our movie was in room 13. I was pretty sure that the workers made sure to air the movie in room 13 just because people thought 13 was "bad luck". How corny. Armin didn't let go of my arm until we were inside. We followed Eren and Mikasa into one of the top rows. Mikasa sat first, then Eren, then Armin sat next to Eren. I sat beside Armin. The screen showed some movie trailer about some stupid chick flick.

"I'm gonna buy some popcorn," I muttered, disgusted by the stupidity of the trailer. Armin nodded.

"Want me to come with?" he asked.

"No, I'll be fine on my own"

"Well, I want food anyway, so I'm coming with you," he replied. I shrugged. I was pretty sure he just didn't want me to run away or something, he could never leave me alone, could he. So we walked back to the concession area and decided to split a medium popcorn, since it was cheaper than two smalls. We made it back to room 13 just in time for the movie to start. They were airing those disclaimers, like no cell phones, refrain from kicking chairs, etc. Then the movie started. The screen showed a black and white image of a dead pig. Stereotypical to start a movie that way, black white with the corpse of a pig. There were some hands, doing something to that pig, giving it a shot. How disgusting. Suddenly the pig moved. It jerked around. Wow, scary, I thought sarcastically. I turned to look at Armin, and noticed him and Eren clinging to each other. Mikasa was looking at the screen, not amused by the two boy's behaviors. The scene ended, and the two let go of each other.

The movie continued on. It was about some weird serum that could make dead things come back to life. Some researchers were trying to make some dog come back alive again. It worked, but the dog was acting strange, it walked onto this woman's bed. I suddenly felt Armin's arm wrap around mine. I turned to see him, and noticed he put the popcorn bag on the floor. I also noticed Mikasa was hugging Eren's arm tightly, and wasn't letting Eren move.

"Uh, Armin?" I whispered.

"Sorry!" He whispered back, loosening his grip. "It's... kinda scary," he mumbled embarrassedly. I rolled my eyes.

"It's fine," I muttered. "It's not like you could hug Eren, Mikasa's hogging him." Armin let out a nervous laugh.

"Yeah... she does that..." The movie went on and Armin let go of my arm. It continued on about how their lab was going to be shut down because bringing the dead back to life was unethical. So the group of scientists decided to sneak into their lab before all their equipment would be confiscated. They began experimenting with the dog, but then there was some power outage and this scientist Zoe died. Her husband executed CPR, but it was no use, she was gone. If this were a real thing happening before my eyes, I might have felt sorry for this man. I might have felt sorry that he had to go through a sudden loss. But he was a fake man behind a screen, pretending that he felt sad. So I felt no anguish towards the character. He was a phony. Which was why I hated his character for impulsively bringing his wife back to life. It had worked, and she was telling him how she was in hell. How her one mistake repeated over and over and over.

One mistake. One mistake could change everything. One mistake could be a choice between life and death. One simple mistake. My thoughts were interrupted by Armin's arm hugging mine. I could feel his warmth radiating onto my body. The movie was continuing on with the woman Zoe having psychic powers, and killing off the scientists one by one, until finally, everyone was dead. The conclusion of the movie was Zoe bringing all the dead back to life. Talk about messed up. Armin's arms were tightly wrapped around mine the whole time. We exited the theatre. Armin and I had hardly touched our popcorn, mainly because Armin hugged my arm for most of the movie, and I couldn't hold the popcorn with my other arm since it was still handicapped.

"Wow, that movie was great! I loved it!" Eren exclaimed as we walked out toward the main hall.

"Really?" Armin stuttered. "I thought it was scary,"

"Oh come on, Armin, you get scared of everything!"

"Says the guy who cuddled with Mikasa the whole time," Armin retorted. Eren's face turned red with embarrassment and anger. Mikasa turned a shade of pink as well.

"So?! That was mainly Mikasa that did that! Besides, you have no right to say anything when you were cuddling with Annie, like, the whole time!" Eren lashed. I rolled my eyes, and Armin turned pink.

"Don't involve me in your boy drama," I replied dully. "And just for the record, we weren't cuddling, Armin was just cutting off circulation from my arm."

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" Armin sputtered. He was always so apologetic over the tiniest things.

"It's fine Armin, you don't need to apologize over that. Besides, I've found your weak point now," I teased.

"Annie-" He moaned. We reached the door. I then called Reiner and told him to come and get me. Eren called for his ride. Apparently Armin and Mikasa lived near him, so they were carpooling.

"If you could bring someone back alive, would you?" Mikasa asked while we were waiting for our rides. We were all a little startled by this. It certainly wasn't a question that one would ask everyday, but of course, we had just come out of watching a horror movie so this was not too surprising.

"No," Eren replied immediately. "Especially after seeing this movie, that's just messed up." Bringing someone back to life. I had thought about it before. I wondered how different my life would be if I could bring mom back. Would Dad have been okay? Would he put an end to his awful life style if he could live with Mom again? What about if I could bring her back to life? I wouldn't have come here if it weren't for her. I shook my head. There was no point, it was impossible. Bringing people back from the dead was impossible.

"Annie?" Armin asked.

"It's impossible. No point in thinking about it," I replied dully. A black sedan pulled up.

"There's our ride. We'll see you Monday, Annie," Mikasa said. I nodded.

"Yeah, and I expect to see you at lunch too! You should come sit with us more often!" Eren added. I nodded, surprised that he actually seemed genuine about it. Mikasa and Eren hopped into the car.

"Hey," Armin said. "Thanks for coming today. I mean, I'm glad we got work done, but I'm also glad you came with us to the movies," I nodded.

"No problem," I mumbled. "It was nice seeing a movie, I hadn't seen one in a while." Armin nodded.

"Well, I'll see you Monday!" Then he went off to the car Eren and Mikasa were in. I chuckled to myself. He was kind of adorable in a way, how he was scared of the movie and his awkwardness in general. I waited for Reiner and Bertholdt to get me, and wondered what Armin thought about bringing back the dead. After all, now I realize he never put his input on the conversation. I shrugged it off once I saw the boys' pick up truck.

I'm super sorry. I haven't updated this in exactly a month. I just had track and AP exams and got really busy. But now since both of those are over, and summer is near, I will be able to update more often :) Also this is the longest chapter yet, so be happy! Until next time!