Chapter 7: The talks

CreatorX-501: Maybe just maybe but you'll find out later on in the story. And I guess you could say Annie wasn't lying if you look at it that way :P

Cosmicblader12: Haha that actually makes me happy. That's the reason I like the actual show because they send twists that you don't see coming.

Kaniel Lau: Thank you. I hope you like what there is to come.

Thank you all for reviewing. It's one of the main reasons that I'm writing this. It honestly means a lot to me and I will keep trying to post every two days but school has really been kicking me around so we will see. Enjoy.

December 23rd, Day of Parade.

"Eren get up now!" Armin screamed shaking an unmoving Eren in his bed. "Ughh just go away. Let me just lay here." Eren said waving his arm lazily at Armin.

"Eren you've been in this bed since Friday. You have to get up sometime." Armin yelled attracting other kids to him. "Woah, why is big bad Eren so depressed. Did someone break his heart." said one of the kids in the orphanage. A crowd has gathered around now all trying to figure what was wrong.

Everyone knows that Eren doesn't care about anything. They know that he is the guy that doesn't have anything affect him and someone that you just don't mess with. Many of the kids at the orphanage know Eren as the biggest and the baddest, which is why everyone calls him big bad Eren.

"Hoi kids, why don't you just go back to the living room and watch some television." said a soft old voice. Everyone turned around to see Pyxis at the door of the room. Everyone filled out of the room and last to leave was Armin.

Pyxis put his hand on Armin's shoulder before he left. "Hey my boy. You have no plans later tonight, right." It was more of a statement than a question. "Um..no sir. Why?" Armin asked hesitantly. Pyxis simply replied with a smile, "I'ma need a favor from you in order to help this kid get back on his feet." He nodded towards Eren. Armin nodded and left him alone with Eren.

"Now my boy, why don't you tell me what's the matter so that good ol' Pyxis can help ya." Pyxis said in a western accent. "Cut it out. I'm not in the mood Pyxis." Eren said putting the pillow over his head.

Pyxis sighed, "Is that about that Mikasa girl still. Why don't you tell me exactly what happened, eh?" Pyxis went and took a seat at the edge of the bed. Eren shifted over to face Pyxis. "I made a fool of myself is what happened! The one time I let down my guard and try to actually be nice to someone and it blows up in my face and she was apparently using me for something that I don't even know!"

"If you don't know what she was using you for than how did you know she was?" Pyxis said while rubbing his beard. "That's what that blond girl said. I think her name was Christa I think and I'm positive that I heard that they are best friends." Eren said hysterically.

He's heard people talk about Mikasa hanging around a blond girl named Christa and having no other friends. It had to be her friend. What other people does she talks too.

"Why? Why did you open yourself to her, out of everyone in the world, you chose to be her friend. That was all your choice." Pyxis said locking eyes with the boy. Eren looked him over and said without hesitation, "She came up to the roof."

Pyxis' eyebrows furrowed and he asked, "What?"

Eren sighed and sat up from the bed. "She came up to the roof. You see, back at my old school people would only go to the roof to run away from their problems. At this honors school, there shouldn't be any problems for them. I felt that, when I first came there, no one would be like me and everyone was so perfect. When I saw that she came up there with tears in her eyes, it showed me that at least someone was human here and not someone that saw themselves above everyone. It brought me hope that I wouldn't be alone."

Pyxis looked the boy up and down. Eren has always been a loner. Never has Pyxis seen him get along with any of the other boys in the orphanage and even when people came to adopt him, he seemed to just push them away and try NOT to have them like him. The only person that Eren would open up to is Pyxis. And Pyxis cared for the boy as if he was his own.

"Look it's not the end of the world, Eren. Here how about this. You take Armin to the Christmas Parade to clear your head." Pyxis said as a commandment more than a simple suggestion.

"I don't feel like it Pyxis…" "No, you're going and you are getting out of this bed." Pyxis said forcefully. He went and through the covers off of Eren. Eren groaned and was about to protest until he locked eyes with Pyxis. Pyxis' eyes were stone cold and serious.

Instead of fighting him Eren got up and went to the bathroom. Pyxis smiled and went downstairs to go tell Armin that he's going to the parade tonight.

Eren whispered into his pillow, "All she had to do was say something, anything to disprove her but she had to wait and tell me that she doesn't know anything."

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"Mikasa, sweetie, lunch is ready!" her mom yelled from down stairs. Mikasa was in her room staring at the ceiling, playing with her scarf. The scarf that Eren got her. She had only talked to the boy for a week but he made her so happy that past week. The scarf reminded her of it and she will always remember that.

I have to find a way to tell him that Annie was lying. But I don't see him till next Monday. That's too long to wait. There has to be some way to get him to talk to me. I don't even have his number to talk to him. Not like her would answer.

The door to her room flung open and in came her mother. "Sweetie, you have to come eat. I don't know what's gotten into you lately." Mikasa's mother was worrying about her daughter lately. She knew that she wasn't the most popular girl but she was pretty sure that she had friends.

"I want you to eat before you go to the Christmas parade." Her mother said. Mikasa groaned and looked at her mother, "I don't think that I'm going to go." Her mother looked at her with a sad smile, "Honey you were so excited about this though. Just a month ago you were saying that Christa and you were going to go and have a great time."

Mikasa looked at her mother with a sad look. "Me and Christa. We aren't really talking right now…" "What! But you two have been best friends for so long. What happened?" Mikasa's mom said shocked.

"I don't want to talk about it." Mikasa said. She didn't want her mom to know that Ymir was involved since it was her mom that her dad left with. "Is this why you're so sad right now?" her mom said trying to piece together why her daughter was so depressed.

"Yea. But no, It's also because I sorta... made a … new 'friend', named Eren Jaeger, but that ended badly. He actually gave me this scarf." Mikasa said softly. Her mom looked her up and down, "He? Like you guys had a relationship?" her mom said interested in this topic.

"No no no. Not like that, we just started talking to each other and got along very well." Mikasa said now staring at the scarf with an intent look. Her mom got up and moved closer to Mikasa. She gave her a hug, "Mikasa, If you care about this boy then go for him."

"I do like him but, I don't know if I can. What if I messed up my chance?" Mikasa said having her eyes dropped to the floor. "Here maybe I can help. What if I call his parents and ask them if he's free tonight and you guys can both go to the parade together and make up." He mom said thoughtfully with a smile on her face.

"NO. you would just embarrass me if you did that." Mikasa said throwing herself back under the covers.

Mikasa's mom got up and said simply. "You're going to go to that parade. And you are going to go enjoy your teenage." Mikasa groaned and her mom left before she could protest.

Mikasa's mom didn't want Mikasa to be sad anymore. She didn't want her to lose someone that she so obviously cares about like how she lost her husband. She wanted only what is best for her daughter.

Mikasa's mom went to the phone immediately after exiting the room and called Mikasa's school. "Hello, this is Vere Ackerman, I'm the parent of Mikasa...Yes I'll hold." Vere tapped her fingers on the wall as she waited to be connected to someone else at the school.

"Hello ma'am. Is there something you need?" came a lady's voice on the other line. "Yes do you know the number for the parents of a boy named, Eren Jaeger?" Vere asked politely. "One second please."

"Alright I have the number here. May I ask why you want it?" the lady said with some concern in her voice. "I just would like to talk to them about something with my daughter." Vere said casually. "Um...Okay. Here's the number."

After the lady gave Vere the number, Vere hung up and dialed it into the phone immediately. "Hello. Is the Eren Jaeger's parents?" she said when the phone picked up."

"This is his legal guardian here. Who is calling."

Vere found it odd that the man on the other line said legal guardian and not parents and also sounded like an elderly man that shouldn't have any teenage kids, but she brushed it off. "This is Vere Ackerman, I'm Mikasa's mother, if you know who that is."

"Ah Yes! I know of her. I've heard much of her from the boys that go to that school."

"Oh do you have multiple children that go to different schools?"

"Yea only two go there, but the other 20 go to East High."

"20!? You have 20 kids?!"

"Ma'am? Do you know who you're calling."

"I thought that you said that you're Eren's guardian?"

"Yes and I am also in charge of all the other kids at my orphanage."

Vere froze up. Orphan. The boy is an Orphan? "Oh I had no idea. When Mikasa told me about him. I didn't expect that."

"Haha. Don't worry. But why was it that you were calling?"

"Oh I was just wondering if it was alright if you could send Eren to the parade with Mikasa.

Pyxis had the biggest smile form on his face. But then thought about the situation. From what he can tell, Eren doesn't want to see her right now. "Eren is actually going with his friend, Armin."

"Oh, so do you think that they can meet there?" Vere said cautiously. "I think that she should surprise him because from what I hear, if we tell him to go with her, he won't." Pyxis said trying to formulate a plan.

"Okay. Well she's going either way so hopefully they meet up then. She won't go if she thinks that he's going." She said smiling. Pyxis laughed and replied, "Ha well if fate wills it so then they will meet there. Sounds like they are real 'friends' though."

Vere smiled and said, "They sure seem like it, don't they. Now I got to go and have lunch with Mikasa. It was wonderful talking to you." Pyxis smiled and replied, "It was lovely talking to you, thank you so much for calling."

They hung up and carried on with their day, Excited to see what the kids will do if they met up with each other.

So I have two ideas for what's going to happen at the parade but I can't seem to choose which one works best for my other ideas for this story. That's the reason this chapter ended here and plus I don't want you guys waiting that long for a new chapter. Also if anyone can tell me how I could add this story to a community because that would be awesome, but I don't know fully how that works. Well thank you for reading and I am going to go work on the next chapter. Bye!