"My grandfather'll be here soon!" Armin said happily, his gaze glued to Eren's window. Eren didn't see what was great about Armin's grandfather being there soon, because all it meant was that Armin would go home. He kicked his legs around aimlessly, hitting the sofa he was sat in, and grunted in reply.

Almost as though he could sense something was wrong, Armin turned towards Eren and opened his mouth. However, his words never came out, and his blue gaze tumbled downwards towards Eren's dirty trainers as they hit the bottom of the sofa over and over again.

"Your shoelaces are untied," he mumbled.

Eren looked down. "Oh. They are."

"You should probably tie them," Armin's gaze met Eren's.

"Can't."

"Can't what?"

"Tie shoelaces."

"You can't tie shoelaces?" Armin chuckled. "But it's easy!"

Huffing, Eren folded his arms, and looked away. "Not for me."

"Well, why do you wear laces if you can't tie them?" Armin asked, cocking his head to the side.

"Because they look cool." Eren shrugged. Armin was annoying him now. Where was his grandfather? It was time for Annoying Armin to go home and tomorrow Fun Armin could come round and they could play games and have fun and not talk about his shoelaces.

His eyes wide, Armin asked, "Would you like me to teach you how to tie you shoelaces?"

Eren wanted to say no, but he was fairly sure that would upset Armin, because Armin loved teaching people things. He groaned. Armin took it as a yes, and immediately knelt down.

"Okay, so, what you do," he said, grabbing the mud-stained laces, "is make two loops like this, see? And then you put the loops together like a heart, and then you pull this one under the other one and ta-da! They're tied!" The blond beamed up at him.

"Uh," Eren looked down in confusion, "could you do that again, please?"

So Armin did it again. And again. And again and again and eventually Eren did it too.


Author's Note: I forgot how to tie shoelaces while I was writing this. Also I really want to write an snk-pacific rim crossover, but between this, Shingeki no Pizza Hut, Observations, and the two other fics I have on the go that haven't been updated since before my hiatus, that will probably never happen.

im trying to do each fic from a different characters point of view? next time itll be mikasa's, and some other familiar faces might start cropping up. 10th of the way there. We can do this.