1. Friends
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Mikasa woke up at six every morning, sometime she even woke up earlier than Karla. She would take a shower, dressed for school and helped the older woman to prepare the breakfast and lunch boxes. Ten minutes before seven, Dr. Jeager would join them in the kitchen, sometime he was watching the morning news on TV, or when Karla needed more hands, he would help the women to prepare the food. It had been their morning routine. Usually, eren would join them around seven, but ever since he became a high school student, the young man had started to wake up even later. Sometime he even woke up after his father left the house.
Today, Eren woke up later than usual. His father had left to work when he joined his mother and Mikasa in the kitchen. Mikasa just finished doing the dishes when Eren sat down and drank his milk. His mother sighed and shook her head at her son's behavior. He didn't even say 'good morning' to them.
The mother put the lunch box in front of Eren, one brow raised so high as she talked to her only son, "hurry up, you will be late!"
Eren bit his french toast and rolled his green eyes, "I can run, Mom!"
His mother looked at him with a disaproval look, "sure you will have to run. Have you ever not?" She let out a deep sigh, "Eren... think about Mikasa. She has done so many things to wait for you to wake up!"
Eren looked at the girl who was now sitting in front of him and frowned, "you can always leave me, Mikasa... you don't have to wait for me to go to school."
"But I don't mind waiting for you, Eren," her voice was calm and she didn't smiling but her cheeks were pink when she added, "I want to go to school with you.,"
Karla chuckled at the girl. It was obvious that the girl had a crush on her son, though her only son seemed to be completely oblivious about it. She had talked about it with her husband many times and that was one of the reasons they had never adopted Mikasa legally. Because they had a feeling that in the future Mikasa might become a part of their family, though not by adoption.
Eren shrugged, "well you know how the other kids used to tease us because you always follow me. There are rumors in high school too. That's why I told you to stop coming to my class every lunch time."
Mikasa looked down, her finger played with her red scarf, "...you hated it?"
Eren sighed, ignoring his mother glaring at him, sending him a warning look. Well, to be honest, he didn't hate it. They used to be in the same class since elementary school but in their second year of high school, they got into separated class. Eren got in the same class with their childhood friend, Armin Artlet but Mikasa had to be in another class. They hardly see each other at school because their classes were in different wings, except for lunch and PE where their class would have a joined class during PE. Eren had befriended some guys in her class but apparently Mikasa found it was hard to make new friend so she would come visiting his class every lunch time and then together with Armin, they would have lunch together.
"You don't understand Mikasa."
They sat, side by side, in the train on their way to school. Eren had hands behind her head while Mikasa looked at him with unreadable expression.
"I don't hate you for seeing me and Armin everyday," Eren yawned, "I just worried that you didn't make friend with your classmate."
Mikasa pouted, something she wouldn't do in front of other people aside from the Jeagers and Armin. She didn't say anything though. She wanted to say it out loud. It was Eren who didn't understand. She didn't want to have new friends. She just wanted to be with Eren and Armin. Especially with Eren. She was afraid that Eren would have new friends and forgot about her. She felt insecure.
"Listen," Eren looked at the girl seriously, "try to get a girl friend, okay... You need to enjoy your school life!"
Mikasa bit her lower lip and said nothing.
The only thing that could make her happy was Eren, and now it felt like he was pushing her away.
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"Hey, Eren, good morning!" Eren entered the class room and found a skinny guy waved at him. He grinned as he walked to his seat next to the boy.
"Yow, Connie, what are you doing?"
The boy named Connie grinned back as he waved his cellphone in front of him, "I got a girlfriend!"
Eren rolled his eyes. Sure he got a girlfriend. Connie always got dumped after one or two dates but he would find new girlfriend really fast. Eren wondered when Connie would learn his lesson. Just look at him changing girlfriend every two weeks was kind of tiring.
"Good luck with this one," Eren murmured as he looked around the classroom. His classmate were chatting from each other, some were reading or busy with their phone. He could see Armin in the other side of the class was reading a book seriously. Apparently, their homeroom teacher was late again.
"You are so lucky," Connie finally put his phone back in his pocket. Eren raised an eyebrow at him, "you have a beautiful girlfriend like Mikasa Ackerman..."
Eren hissed, "she is not my girlfriend!"
This was not the first time they talk about this and Connie was not the first person saying this. He started to get too tired to explain, this people has their own imagination about his relationship with Mikasa.
"Ha! Every morning you go to school together with, every lunch time she would come to our class and after school you will walk home together..." Connie wiggled his index finger in front of Eren, "even married couple don't spend time as much time as you two..."
"Mikasa is my Brother." Eren wished his home room teacher would come already and start their homeroom only to stop Connie from talking. Sure Connie was someone he could consider as friend, but sometime he was just too nosy for his own good.
"Last time I checked, Mikasa is a a girl."
"Well, so?"
Connie opened his mouth to say something but fortunately for Eren, a woman entered the classroom. The class representative led the student to greet the woman, who apparently was their home room teacher, Hange Zoe.
"I am sorry I am late kid! There was a little, err... accident!" the woman in her late twenties laughed as she pointed at her cracked glasses, "well, uh, however, let's continue what we had yesterday..."
Eren was lucky. Now that Hange-sensei was here, he didn't have to hear more from Connie about his relationship with Mikasa. Well, it didn't mean that Connie would ever drop the topic though. There would always be next time.
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Mikasa couldn't wait for the lunch break time. Math was one of her best subject but the way her teacher taught the class was kind of boring and to be honest, she had learned all of this material at home by herself, so she couldn't keep her mind from wondering of what Eren was doing at this time. Was his class as boring as hers? Most probably not, his homeroom teacher was the eccentric biology teacher, Hange Zoe, and boring would be the last word to describe her class. Mikasa couldn't help but to think that it would be fun if she were in the same class with Eren.
Mikasa knew that Eren had many friends since they started high school. Eren was not really good at socializing but he was at least better than her. Just a week after they got into different classes for their second year, Eren had made several new friends while Mikasa hadn't even talked to any of her new classmate. She didn't try to make friend to anyone at all.
Sometime Mikasa wondering if Eren would ever finally fed up of her. She had been literally following him wherever he went ever since they met. Mikasa was so overprotective about Eren. She knew that Eren often got into trouble and she did her best to help him out of it. She wanted to be useful for him.
Mikasa sighed and smile secretly when the bell rang. Finally... She quickly stood up from her desk, ready to pay Eren and Armin a visit. She hadn't took more than three steps when someone called her name.
"Mikasa!"
Mikasa stopped and turned only to see a blond girl smiling at her. The girl's name was Historia Reiss, her seat was next to her, and she was also in the same class with her in the first year, but they had never really talked before. Historia smiled gently at Mikasa, unlike a dark haire girl with tan skin who sat in her own seat next to historia. In front of them there were two boxes of lunch box, unopened.
Mikasa didn't smile back and just glare at her but Historia didn't seem to be intimidated or irritated at all.
"Want to join us for lunch?"
Mikasa remembered of what Eren had told her earlier that day. This might be a good chance for her to make a friend but right now she just wanted to leave the classroom and see Eren as soon as possible. So the black haired girl shook her head and murmured an apology before she left both of her classmate, ready to see Eren and Armin and have lunch with them.
Mikasa could feel eyes on her as she walked into Eren's classroom. It wasn't surprising to see Eren and Armin was hanging out in the back of the class room, some of them have sandwich or bread in their hand, talking as they enjoy their lunch. Mikasa frowned at the bread in Eren's hand and then looked at the lunch box which belonged to Eren in her hand.
It was Armin who saw her first. The blond boy smiled when he saw her. Waving his hand casually, the boy called her name.
"Good afternoon, Mikasa!" One of the boys whom she didn't know the name grinned at her cheerfully, she looked at him for a second before she turned to Eren and gave him the lunch box.
"Wow, another lunch box!" another boy laughed before he elbowed Eren playfully before he turned to the girl and grinned, "do you make it for him?"
"Yeah," Mikasa answered coolly, ignoring the boys started to tease Eren and Her. This was nothing new.
"Oh shut up you guys, you know my mom made them!" Eren groaned as he got the lunch box, he turned to Mikasa and frowned, "Mikasa you shouldn't say something that could make them misunderstood us!" He stood up from his seat, pointed to the door with his chin as a sign to Armin to leave.
"Where are you going?" called a tall blonde boy as the green eyed boy started to walk, followed by Armin and Mikasa. The boy, Reiner, smirked when Eren stopped only to look at him, "you can have lunch here, you know... Jean would love to talk more with Mikasa..."
"Oh shut up!" a boy whose face was red groaned as he palmed his own face, trying to hide his red face, his friend, a boy with freckles chuckled at his behavior, "Jeager can eat wherever wants to eat."
Eren rolled his eyes. He wasn't really get along with that boy.
"See you later guys," with that Eren left the classroom.
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Their favorite place to enjoy their lunch was in the school backyard. Behind the school building, there was their favorite place, it was quite and comfortable. More importantly, if they had their lunch here, he wouldn't have to hear more teasing from his friends.
Eren sat cross legged on the grass, enjoying the lunch box his mother had prepared for him. The food his mother cooked for him was delicious but actually he started to think that bringing a lunch box from home was kind of unnecessary. He could just bought something to eat from the cafeteria and Mikasa didn't have to come to his classroom everyday to give him the lunch box and his friends would stop saying stupid things like Mikasa to be his girlfriend.
That was stupid.
He didn't understand his friends. Only three or four years ago they thought that being too close to girls would give them cooties but here they were now, talking about girls and their body and what-not everyday.
The idea of Mikasa being his girlfriend was stupid. First, Mikasa wasn't a girl, well not in his eyes, girls are annoying and noisy while Mikasa was neither annoying or noisy. And then, they were not friend, they were brothers, so the term girlfriend was stupid and unthinkable.
"So you haven't made any friend in your class?" Armin took a sip of his milk, the boy was dying to get taller so he would drink two litres of milk everyday. Eren would tease him for it but Armin didn't seem to care about his friend's teasing, he had his target.
Mikasa shook her head silently. The girl ate her lunch silently. That question again. When will the boys understand that she had no plan to start making friend with anyone in her class. She didn't need any more friend, but then she remembered about the blonde girl who talked to her earlier.
"Ah but today a girl from my class asked me to join her and another girl for lunch."
Armin looked surprised but also excited at the same time, "really? You should have say yes to that offer!" Armin clenched his hand excitedly, "that was your chance to have new friends."
Mikasa pouted despite her expression remained flat, "but I do not want new friends."
Both Armin and Eren sighed for different reasons. Mikasa ignored it and focused on her lunch. The lunch break almost over and she didn't want to spend it arguing about her getting new friends. She stole a glance on Eren and chewed her own lips nervously. Eren was frowning. She knew that he was thinking and she had a good idea abou what he was thinking.
Mikasa scowled, "Fine."
Both boys looked at the girl with a confused look, waiting for the raven haired girl continue.
"Tomorrow I will try to have lunch with girls from my clash," she added, "but for now, let's talk about something else..."
