Chapter 12
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"Wow, I knew you had bad memory but not as much as to forget me." The girl with pig-tails said to me shocked at my reaction.
"I'm sorry." I apologized.
"Ugh, you still apologize when you don't need to apologize? You haven't changed at all. That's sad Mickey. Is there no mind in your head or what?" she said with her arms crossed. "It's me, Mina! Mina Carolina!"
I was strucked surprised that it's Mina. 'God damn, no fucking way.' I thought to myself as I looked at Mina in disbelief that it was her in the flesh.
"You know Mina?" asked Annie. I nodded awkwardly as a response.
"How do you guys know each?" asked Jean.
"We use to live in Brass together!" Mina answered as she puts her arm around my shoulders. "We basically grew up together."
"Really, what was Mickey like as a kid?" question the excited Krista. Everyone seems interested about it and come closer to Mina.
"Let me tell you she-"the bell interrupts Mina in the idle of her sentence. "I'll tell you later. See you later!" said Mina. Then, I quickly left to group to avoid wondering questions of my past. 'I need to avoid that subject.' I avoided them for the rest of the day.
After school, I quickly raced out of the building to go home. Then, someone calls me out.
"Mickey wait up!" a familiar voice calls out. 'God damn it, don't tell me it's…' I slowly turned around hoping it wasn't her. Hope was not on my side as I see Mina running towards me.
"Thank God I caught you in time. Let's hang out today to catch up yeah? It's been a long time since I've seen you. I know this great café not too far from here. Let's go!" without my answer, Mina drags me to a little café.
When we got there I noticed it was familiar. I looked up at the sign and saw that it was the Recon café. 'Oh fuck me.' Mina drags me into the café and quickly pushes me into a seat near the window.
"So how's my little Mickey been doing?" she asks.
"I've been…great so far I guess…um…how about you?" I answered. I really don't want to talk to her, but there no escape from this.
"I've been good." She smiled. We became silent for awhile. Then, Petra comes up to us with a notepad.
"Hello welcome to Recon café. What can I get you?" Petra asks. She looks at me with worry. I smiled to assure her that I'm fine. She smiles back, understanding that I'm fine.
"I'll get cup of black tea please." Mina says to Petra.
"Water please." I said. Petra nods and leaves for the kitchen. We still remained silent then; Petra comes back with our order.
"Thank you." Mina and I said to Petra. Mina starts to giggle.
"That hasn't changed huh?"
"I guess not." I looked down at my water as the droplets slide down to the table.
"So…how's your mom?" she asked. 'Fuck!'
"She's…f-fine." I answered hesitantly.
"You're lying. You stutter when you lie. What's going on? Where's your mom? More importantly why are you here in Trost?" Mina questions me. She gets a little louder with every question she asks.
"What's wrong? Did something happen? Where is Nanami?"
"Shhh! Not so loud." I said.
"Then tell me." she asks. I start to get stressed over how to answer her questions.
"It's…it's complicated right now."
"How is this complicated? These are simple questions that anyone can answer. This isn't as complicated like it was years ago."
"You're bringing that up?" 'How dare she bring that up?"
"That isn't that one simply forgets Mickey." I brushed my hair back out of my face and sighed in frustration. It became silent again. Finally, Mina starts to speak. "Look, I know we had …problems in the past but…right now you are in some trouble are you? I mean you're in Trost. Something has to up?" 'Okay this is ridiculous. I am done!'
"Don't talk to me like you care." I snapped at her.
"Mickey…"
"Why do you care?"
"Because I do, I've been your friend for a long time."
"No you don't. You don't give a rat's ass about me so stop it." I said to her. I got up from my seat walked out the door.
'How fucking dare she still calls herself a friend when she did all that stuff to me?! She even brought that up!' I was very angry about this reunion. I still remember what happened that day. I lost the only friend I had.
"How dare you!? I knew you were garbage but this…this is something that I can't even explain!" shouts Mina's mom. She yelled at my mom in front of our apartment. Mina was hiding behind her mom as she yelled on the top of her lungs.
"It's not my fault that your husband is board with you." My mom says bluntly to her. Then, Mina's mom slaps my mom.
"You ruined my marriage!" Mina's mom says to her as she pulls Mina by the arm and walks away.
After that, Mina treated me like I was garbage. She used to throw rocks at me, blamed me for things I didn't do, wrote and spread rumors about me, all that teenage stuff. After three months, her parents got divorced and she moved away.
I kept walking around the town, trying to clear my thoughts of the past. I didn't know how much time has passed. The only thing notice was that the sun was going down. I decided to go back to the café.
"Mickey?" called out a familiar voice that made my heart beat faster.
"Eren." I said as I turned around. He comes up to me with worried look on his face.
"Petra texted me saying that you left three hours ago after a conversation with some girl. She got worried and she sent everyone to look for you," He said.
"I'm fine. I was just about to walk home." I said trying to avoid him.
"Wait." He said as he grabbed my arm. I pushed him away as hard as I can.
"Just… leave me alone right now okay?" I said to him and walked as fast as I can. But, he caught up to me and walks next to me without saying a word the whole way home. He stops in front of the door of the café.
"See you tomorrow." He says sadly and backs away and leaves for home. I opened the door slowly. Then, I got attacked by Petra and Lucas.
"Where were you!? We were worried sick about you." Petra says to me as she hugs me tightly. Her hug made my back crack. 'Seriously, the inhuman strength? How many people in this have it!?'
"We need to get her a phone." Armin suggested. Erwin grunts in reply as he ruffles my hair.
"We won't ask questions about what happened today. We want you to talk to us till you are ready to talk about it." said Erwin. I felt so much warmth from them; I started to tear up a little.
"Oh no she's crying!" Lucas shouts.
"I'm not crying." I said. Everyone laughed.
"Come on, dinner is ready." Petra says as she heads to the kitchen. Then, we all had dinner together, having the most amazing time.
