Sola's P.O.V
I gave Erwin a small smile and waved my hand as I watched him leave the room. I heard Lunette shut off the water, giving her my attention when she began to talk to me.
"Soul, do you want to go to the library with me after I finish drying off these dishes?" She asked me, drying off one of the plates. I rolled my eyes, not surprised she wanted to go the library. I suppose I could go with her, I could probably take a small nap while she looked around. With the events that happened today, I felt tired and drained of energy. Honestly I wanted to go to bed but it was too early in the evening for that to happen. So I just shrugged and smiled at Lunette.
"I suppose I can seeing as there isn't much else to do." I told her, watching her give a cheer of excitement. I just giggling at her child like behavior. But I was suddenly broke from my thoughts as I felt her grab my arm, yanking me toward the door letting go of me once she reached the door. I rolled my eyes running after her as she pushed through the door and took off sprinting down the hallway toward the library. She let out small giggles as we continued running, occasionally passing other soldiers on our way to the library. Suddenly I found the breath being knocked out of me as I had not realized we had already reached our destination and that Lunette had stopped, getting ready to open the doors. Lunette stumbled back as I ran straight into her, struggling to prevent herself from falling backwards. She narrowed her eyes at me for a moment.
"What the hell? Pay more attention you idiot." She snapped at me before finally opening the door and walking in. I was about to apologize to her, thinking she was still made. I cut myself off, realizing her attention was now on the books surrounding us and not on me any longer.
"Sweet freckled Jesus! These place is so huge!" She said, looking around with wide eyes. I watched as she trailed her fingers along the spines of books as she continue her way down a row of shelves. I spotted a couch out of the corner of my eyes and decided to head over as Lunette continued exploring the library, knowing we would be here for a while. Finally reaching the couch, I flopped down, a small gasp escaping my mouth as I realized how soft it was! It felt like I was laying out on a cloud! I turned to my side, grabbing one of the pillows that were on the couch as I did so. Pulling my legs up towards my chest, I snuggled my face into pillow and closed my eyes. I could feel myself beginning to drift to sleep but just as I was about to, I felt something lightly poke my side. Drowsily, I slapped whatever it was poking me away. I assumed it was Lunette, she was always poking at me while I tried to nap, knowing it annoyed me. I didn't feel anything poke my side again so I let a small form on my face, happy that Lunette take the hint that I was tired and wanted to nap. The smile left my face as I felt something poke my cheek, repeatedly. I cracked my eyes open to, about to snap at Lunette for not letting my sleep. I was tired and all I wanted to do was take small nap! Was that too much to ask for? I had to wait for my eyes adjust for a moment, seeing a fuzzy silhouette leaning over me.
"Moon, what the fuck? Can't you..." I trailed off as I realized it was not Lunette but some lady leaning over me. I shot up and scooted back from the woman, looking at her. The woman had messy brown hair and had glasses on. That's when I realized it was the same woman from earlier today, the one that asked Erwin what news he had for them. The woman just stared at me, laughing at my reaction.
"Oh! You are one of the new cadets." The woman said, leaning over to grab my arm. I looked at her in confusion as I watched her lift my arm and look it closely. It was almost like she was inspecting it. I didn't say anything and let her continue with her weird antics. It almost reminded me of Lunette when she found something interesting and wanted to inspect it. She suddenly pulled away, a startled look appearing on her face for a moment only to change into a smile.
"My name is Hanji Zoë." She told me and she backed away and took a step back, letting me get off the couch so that I could stand.
"I'm Sola" I squeaked out, feeling a little uncomfortable at her behavior.
"Sola huh? Wait, there was two cadets...where's the other one?" She asked as she whipped her head around, looking for Lunette. I was about to tell I didn't know where she was because I lost track of her while I was trying to take nap when I heard the sound of footsteps coming toward me. I turned around in time to see Lunette walking toward me carrying a huge tower of books. I heard her let out a small curse as she bumped into a table, unable to see it because of the books blocking her sight. I cringed a little, watching the books crash down, spreading across the table, a couple falling off the side. I walked over, helping her stack the books back up on top of the table. After finishing organizing the books on top of the desk, she turned towards me, about to thank me. Suddenly her eyes lit up as she remembered something.
"Oh! Soul! I wanted you to hear a theory I had! I was looking around at the books when suddenly an idea came to me. I mean I still need to do some more research on it before I can prove but it is an idea so far." Lunette told me, looking excited. I wasn't surprised seeing as she did this lot and came up with lots of theories. Sadly she wasn't able to prove many of them, not having enough materials to do so. I smiled at her, happy at the thought that she might be able to prove it, having more materials for once. I was about to Lunette what her idea was but I was interrupted by Hanji. Oh yeah, I forgot she was there.
"Oh? So this one's a reader." Hanji stated, walking toward Lunette. Lunette snapped her towards Hanji suddenly realizing someone else was in the room. I don't blame her for being surprised seeing as I completely forgetting she was still there and I was just talking to her little bit ago!
"Who are you?" Lunette asked her, looking at Hanji suspiciously. Hanji opened her mouth to reply but was suddenly cut off by Lunette. I looked over at her, seeing her eyes suddenly widen looking like she just realized something.
"Wait, Dr. Zoe?" Lunette slowly asked Hanji, smiling when Hanji nodded. Wait what? How does she know her? Wait, this is Lunette, she probably just read the name somewhere or heard it somewhere. I just shook my head and went to sit down at the table as Lunette introduced herself to Hanji.
"Now that we are all properly introduced, I would love to hear that theory of yours." Hanji told us, turning to Lunette. I also turned my gaze towards Lunette, waiting for her response, wanting to know about her theory also. Lunette paused for a moment, gathering her thoughts together so that she could explain her idea to us.
"Well I found myself thinking about how titans don't really mess with animals. So I thought that maybe since animals have different scents that maybe we could cover up our scents with their blood. If we could mask our scents, maybe the titans would ignore us." She told us, pulling a few books toward her, flipping through the pages. I nodded my head in agreement, seeing the point she was making. Maybe that would work but how would we test that without getting someone killed or injured? I mean if she was wrong, the results could be devastating. I was cut out my thoughts when I noticed heaving breathing coming from beside me. I looked over to see that Hanji eyes were lit up in excitement, her hands on the desk, leaning towards Lunette. She was panting and breathing hard and it looked like she was beginning to drool just a little. What the fuck? She looked like she was going to explode from excitement.
"Interesting! That would make a great experiment to try!" Hanji gasped out between breaths. She seemed to calm down for a moment
"I mean, I would use Eren but from what I have heard he doesn't have the same interests as other titans so that wouldn't work." She mumbled to herself, placing a finger to her chin, a puzzled look on her face. Hanji suddenly push herself back from the table, jumping to her feet. She walked around to the table, grabbing Lunette's arm.
"We have to go and tell the others! This is brilliant idea to test out!" Hanji told her, trying to pull Lunette towards the door. Lunette yanked her arm back, her eyes widening in shock. Hanji turned back, confused by Lunette's reaction
"Wait! I only just thought of this. I need to look up more information before testing this! It's only just an idea right now." Lunette squeaked out, her face slowly turning red. Well wasn't this funny I thought as I watched Hanji and Lunette. I don't believe I have ever seen Lunette so embarrassed and uncomfortable about something before. I continued to watch the pair as Hanji gave Lunette a small smile.
"Alright kid but then you will have to tell them or I will." Hanji told her, waiting for Lunette's response. After Lunette to let Hanji know she understood, Hanji turned to leave the room. She gave me a small smile as she passed me and I returned it, watching her walk out. I turned back towards Lunette, smirking as I saw that she was still blushing. I walked up, giving her cheek a poke to get her attention.
"Moon, why is your face red?" I asked her, wanting to tease her but not really understanding what she was so embarrassed about.
"Huh?" She said, snapping out of her thoughts. "Oh, well I don't really like to talk about my ideas. Well I don't mind telling you but I don't like telling them to others. Especially if that person happens to be a figure of authority." She told me, looking down at the ground. I wanted to say something to comfort her but couldn't help but giggle as a thought popped into my head.
"So aren't a complete hard ass after all. And here I thought you couldn't be embarrassed or feel shy." I told her, still giggling as I watched her head snap up and giving me a glare. Oh, if looks could kill, the world could have been rid of titans at that moment.
"Shut up soul" she yelled at me, picking up a book and chucking it at me. I caught it and stepped forward placing back on the table. I could hear Lunette growling, pissed because she didn't succeed in hitting me. I decided to return the couch, observing Lunette as she began to read through her books, once in awhile she would get up too go grab a new book to add to her pile. I watched her read a book for a while but she would suddenly look up and search through the stacks of books surrounding her. I would hear her mumble something to herself as she began flipping through the pages, searching for something before nodding and going back the book she began with. I rolled my eyes, flopping on my back, looking up the ceiling. I was no longer feeling tired at the moment and just felt bored at this point.
"How many books are you planning to read at once?" I asked her. She turned around the pile of books surrounding her to look at me.
"All of them I got?" She told me like it was the most obvious thing. I rolled my eyes at her response.
"Oh my holy Maria! You're such a nerd." I huffed out. She ignored me, turning back to her books. I puffed my cheeks up in annoyance and I was about to get up when I heard the doors open and looked to see that Armin was walking into the room. I smiled and waved at him as he stopped, spotting us.
"Are you here to save me from the boredom?" I asked him as he walked over. He looked down at my position, confused. I was about to ask him why he was looking at me like that before I realized I had shifted position after calling Lunette a nerd. I was currently lying half way off the couch, laying with my chest on the floor, my legs still on the couch. I slide them off the rest the way and stretched out as I went to stand up. Armin shook his head before turning towards Lunette
"What is she doing?" he asked me as he pointed towards her.
"Reading like 20 books at once to see if she can prove a theory of hers." I told him. Armin nodded as Lunette look up from the book she was currently reading. She noticed Armin standing there, so she waved at him before focusing on her book again. Armin and I were going to head over to her but we stopped, hearing the door to the room opening again and footsteps heading to us. I looked up to see the corporal was stalking his way up to us. He glared as he stopped a few feet away.
"Hey you little shits, it's time for bed. Get your ass's to your room" he told us. He then looked over, seeing Lunette at the table, books scattered all around her. Speaking of which, I don't think she even realized Levi was here. My thoughts were proven true when she began to speak.
"Do you think that it is true that titan's only want humans? In this book, it talks about how in expeditions that there hasn't been any titans that ate the horses. I mean a few were smashed or lost but there has been no signs of titans actually eating them" she told us as she looked down at the book. She didn't wait for a reply before closing the book she had in her hand. She stood up, gathering up the books and got up to put them away. Well, she didn't even wait for us to reply now did she? I watched her put the books away, turning back to walk back to the table we were currently standing at. I saw her eyes widen in shock, noticing Levi standing there besides us. She turned toward me, glaring at me. I just back up, smiling nervously at her.
"I...I just assumed you realized we had company. I...I mean you noticed Armin we he came in so I figured..." I trailed off, watching her turn her glare to Levi. He just tsk and glared back at her.
"It doesn't matter. Just get this mess cleaned up and go to bed, runt!" he snapped and walked out. I looked at Armin before going over and helping Lunette put away the rest of her books. I walked up to Lunette, holding out a few books to her. She took them from, placing on them on the shelf. She turned to look at me.
"Soul...how long was he there?" she asked. I noticed she slowly began to turn red and turn her down to look at the floor.
"He came in right before you began to talk about the possibility of the titans just wanting humans." I told her. She turned to look up at me with a slight glare.
"Why in the hell didn't you tell me soul?" she snapped at me. I looked down, realizing I upset her by not warning her about Levi.
"You just seemed so happy! I didn't want to disturb you!" I said "I'm sorry I..." she cut me off, knowing what I was about to say.
"No Soul, you didn't fuck up." she told me. Sure I didn't. She always tells me I don't fuck up but somehow I didn't believe that. When we finished cleaning up, we told Armin goodnight and walked out into the hall. We walked towards our room not seeing anybody on our way. Suddenly a door a few feet ahead of us opened and I looked over to see Mike step out. Lunette and I stopped, pausing to let Mike move out of ours paths. I couldn't but take a deep breath, letting my lungs feel with his woodsy scent. Was it me or was it stronger than before? I could hear Lunette snicker quietly, making me turn red at my actions. What the hell was wrong with me? Mike turned to look us after he closed the door, smiling at me and moving out the way so we could get passed. As I walked by I heard him call out to me. I turned over to look at him.
"Good night, sunshine." He told me as he walked off. I blushed and continued to walk to our room. Sunshine? Did I hear him wrong or did he really call me that? For some reason I couldn't shake the feeling that someone has called me that before. But that's crazy, Lunette's the only one that has called me by something other than my name and she has only referred to me as Soul. I shook my head, trying to ignore the nagging sensation in my mind. If I continued to think about it, I was going to give myself a headache. Finally arriving at our room, we opened the door and head towards our beds. I went to change into my sleepwear before I flopped onto my back. I could hear Lunette climbed into hers after she finished changing also.
"I heard him you sunshine." She told me. Luckily she couldn't see me because I'm pretty sure my face was the color of a tomato at this point.
"Well hopefully he doesn't get any ideas, because you are my baby!" I heard her tell me as she continued to talk. I rolled my eyes, I was perfectly capable of taking care of myself. It's not like it was even possible that he could like me so there wasn't anything that could happen
"Don't be so protective of me. It's not like he likes me and I don't like him either. I'm just trying to make friends and he's just being nice." I told her, standing up for a moment so I could move my blankets to the side
"Well unlike you, I'm not here to make friends." I rolled my eyes at her response as I climbed back into my bed, pulling the covers over myself.
"I would have never been able to tell." I sarcastically told her as I snuggled into my blankets. I felt my eyes getting heavy and begin to shut. I let out a content sigh before drifting off into slumber.