At exactly 10:00 Marco opened his and Armin's dorm room to find Eren and Jean waiting there with a coil of thick rope. Jean was wearing black jeans and a leather jacket of the same colour whilst Eren was wearing a brown jacket and white jeans.
"Are you guys ready?" Jean asked as he walked into the room.
"Yeah I guess…no one saw you leave your room right?" Marco asked.
"Nope. The hallways were all clear. Now let's get a move on!"
"Speaking of which…how are we going to leave the dorms? The building's front doors are locked which leaves just the emergency exit which will raise an alarm if used."
"Doors? No, no, we aint using doors!" Jean exclaimed a bit too loudly and received a shove from Eren who hissed at him to be quiet.
Jean thought about glaring at Eren but he decided to advance with the plan and instead he walked over to the window and gestured to it.
"You don't mean…" Armin began nervously.
"That is exactly what I mean, coconut head!" Jean said with a smile and began to tie one of the rope ends to the bunk beds metal frame. Once he made sure that the rope was firmly tied and he tugged on it to make sure that it wouldn't get lose he threw the rest of the rope down the window and began to climb out.
"If you fall and break your leg I will laugh so hard." Eren said, receiving the middle finger from Jean.
Once Jean climbed down the rope and reached the ground Marco went next, then Eren and lastly Armin who took a little longer than the others. After patiently waiting for Armin to get to the ground they ran away from the building and jumped the fence h=which surrounded the entire perimeter of the dormitory building. After that they made it to the pavement and began walking towards the city.
"Was it a good idea to leave the rope out there hanging? What if one of the teachers find it?" Armin asked.
Eren and Jean were running in the empty streets like idiots who had never been let out of the house before.
"Quit worrying, coconut and just relax!" Jean said and ran past Eren to get back on the pavement.
A few minutes later they reached a place with a more urban scenery and much more cars, lights and people. The city of Trost was only a ten minute walk from Sina High school and although the students were allowed to visit during the weekends, they could never stay past 5:00 pm; that's when all the students had to be back within school grounds. Trost was different during the night than the day in both atmosphere and the kind of people who visited. All the buildings and signs were lit up in different shades of red, blue and yellow from all directions.
"So which place are we hitting first?" Eren asked as they walked through the streets in awe.
"I've heard a lot of things about this nightclub called Survey something…It's supposed to be pretty great!" Jean suggested.
"I doubt they're going to let sixteen year old high school students in!"
"That's why I've got a fake ID, dumbass!" Jean said as he pulled an ID from his jacket that said that he was 19 years old.
"As if anyone's going to believe that! Maybe if it was 18 in horse years…"
Jean threw a punch at Eren but missed as Eren agilely ducked.
"Hey you guys! Don't start fighting now!" Marco said as he got in between them.
"Yeah, you're right Marco, sorry." Jean apologised. "Come on, I wanna see what's so great about this Survey place!" Jean continued and he ran off in one direction.
"Wait up!" Marco called after him.
The three of them finally caught up with Jean in front of a large white stone building with black and blue lights gleaming from above the doors. There were a bunch of people grouped together in front of the night club door's waiting to get inside and the loud and funky beats coming from inside the nightclub could be heard from outside.
"Jean, there's lots of people trying to get in, besides you're the only one with the fake ID." Marco said but Jean didn't care.
"Come on, bro! We're doing this!" Jean said and got in line with the rest of the people there.
Marco sighed and joined Jean in line without further protest. When it was their turn to get into the nightclub, Jean approached the bouncer first and showed him the ID. The bouncer took a good look at it and then back at Jean. He nodded towards the door meaning that Jean could go in, though when Armin, Eren and Marco approached towards the door the bouncer immedietly got suspicious by the nervous look on Armin's face and stopped him.
"ID." The bouncer asked.
"Oh umm…uh." Armin stuttered only increasing the bouncer's impatience and annoyance. "I…forgot it in my other pants…" Armin lied.
Jean walked back to the bouncer and shoved Armin out the way forcefully making him fall on a man behind him who had been holding a beer which was spilt all over him because of Armin.
"Hey what the fuck?! What do you think you're doing?" The man shouted angry and shoved back at Armin.
"Hey don't shove my friend, Asshole!" Eren retorted angrily to the man.
The man was clearly drunk as he threw a punch at Armin and missed terribly, instead hitting the bouncer. The bouncer's last nerve seemed to have been lost and he grabbed the man roughly from his shirt.
Whilst the bouncer kicked the man out of the line, Jean, Marco, Eren and Armin slipped past and snuck into the night club.
"Why did you shove me?" Armin asked once they got inside.
"It was all part of the plan! I was trying to get that drunk guy behind you cause a commotion as a distraction." Jean explained reassuringly.
"We sure are breaking a lot of rules today…" Armin muttered.
"Armin my friend that doesn't matter anymore…because look at this place!"
There was loud music playing at the DJ table at the far end centre of the large room lit by several different colours of light, a large spinning silver disco ball shooting out rays of green and blue lights all over the dance floor and there was a bar at the left side of the club. There was a corner with black leather couches where a few couples were making out and a long stage at the centre of the dance floor where people danced around it. The four of them slowly walked into the club, completely overwhelmed by how amazing it all was. That's when Eren realised that there was a long metal pole on the stage. There was someone with their hand on the pole who had short black hair and had a rather short structure themselves, although Eren couldn't see their face from where he was standing, especially with all the different lights shining into his face.
"Wait…this isn't a strip club is it?" Eren suddenly asked Jean.
"I don't think so…just some 18+ entertainment, Jaeger!" Jean said and approached the dancefloor.
Armin felt awkward and out of place there so he just tagged along with Marco and Eren who followed after Jean.
Eren looked attentively at the stage, trying to see that person's face. The short person on stage had expert dance moves and danced around the pole with a sort of elegance. They grabbed onto the pole with one hand and pulled themselves up onto it and spun back to the stage floor. The person grabbed the pole whilst thrust their hip towards it and looked towards the people at the dance floor.
That's when with a horrible realization, Eren saw the person's face and was able to place where he'd seen the familiar combination of short black hair and short structure before.