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Day 9: Annie
Annie sat on her bed in her dorm. Her roommate had gone with some friends to have a party or something. Annie had not felt like joining them, since she was a bit of a loner and, at any rate, she wanted to be alone with her thoughts at the moment. She stared out the window and watched snow falling lightly outside. She remembered back when she was a trainee, and she would watch from the sidelines as the other trainees would have snowball fights or make cookies. She had never joined in, though just watching them had always made her the slightest bit happy. Now more than ever before, she realized she missed them. Strangely enough, she almost wished she had chosen to join the Survey Corps instead of the Military Police despite her mission.
There was the time when Sasha made some cookies, but they were all shaped like potatoes rather than gingerbread men or other holiday shapes. And the time Connie had mistaken some random plant for mistletoe and hung some up, hoping to trick Eren and Mikasa into standing under it. When he finally succeeded, they just ignored it because both recognized it was not mistletoe. Annie actually laughed at the memory.
And then there was that day when someone had somehow managed to put fake reindeer antlers on Jean's head without him noticing. The teen had walked around all day without figuring out why everyone was stifling laughs when he passed by. Annie almost laughed again, but her thoughts turned to what the trainees must be doing now. They were probably having lots of fun, maybe they were even throwing a party right now as well. Annie sighed, again wondering if perhaps she should have joined them.
Hitch suddenly ran into the room, grabbed a bag of decorations, and started to run back out. She stopped and turned however, "Hey, Annie, are you sure you don't want to come to the party? Just for a few minutes?"
Annie considered the offer for a second, before standing up and following her. When they reached the party, Annie saw the latest batch of recruits all surrounding a Christmas Tree, planning how to decorate it. Hitch joined the group before passing out ornaments and decorations. Annie stood to the side, watching the teens. She saw a table off to the other side, heavily laden with desserts. Annie approached it after watching some girls grab a few cookies during a break in the decorating.
There were all kinds of cookies, some covered in frosting and others not, some in holiday shapes and some were just a normal circular shape. The one that stood out to Annie most was a malformed cookie, off to the side of a plate of sugar cookes, one that obviously no one else had wanted. To Annie, it looked like a potato. And, whether out of momentary insanity or out of her desire to see her old squadmates again, Annie chose that cookie.