Annie's never been a bad sport. As her coach said, you should win with class and lose with dignity, and Annie was good at that most of the time.
But that day was not one of those days, Armin found her moping inside the lodge, warmed up in a puffy coat and pants.
"There you are!" The blond sighed as he removed his beanie and joined her at the table. "Why are you inside? I thought an athlete like you would be skiing all day."
"I'm tired." Annie took a sip of her hot chocolate. "Can't I take a break?"
"Yeah, but you've been sitting here for an hour now, I thought you wanted to meet Eren and Mikasa."
Annie groaned when those names were uttered.
"Don't look at me like that, I know your a little self-conscious-"
"Why don't you shut up?"
"-about being an athlete but still-"
"I said shut up!" Her blue gaze grew fierce, but he wasn't fazed.
"-failing at skiing and sliding down into the bunny hills, screaming bloody murder-"
"I don't want to talk about this!" Annie yelled, glaring hard enough to make a war veteran piss their pants.
"Is someone jealous?" Armin sang mockingly as he took a sip of her drink.
"What if I am?" She resigned. "It's humiliating to be more ripped than my nerd boyfriend but fail at skiing compared to him and his friends." Annie buried herself deeper into her coat to hide her flushed cheeks.
"Who even thought up skiing in the first place?" She muttered to herself. "Sure let's strap two planks of wood to our feet and zoom 90mph down a snowy hill."
"Ahhh," Armin cooed as he moved to wrap an arm around her waist. "Don't be so hard on yourself, bae."
"I don't need your comfort, Blondie." She growled in response.
"I know you get mad when you're not automatically good at something-" Shit he knew her well. "But really, this is your first time touching a pair of skiis, the three of us have done this since birth. Hell, Mikasa could have gone pro if she wanted to. You're doing amazing for a beginner!"
"Honest?" Annie peeked a blonde head from out of her coat.
"Honest." Armin pecked her lips before smiling in reply. "Now why don't we suit up again? Eren and Mikasa have been waiting forever to meet my cute, sweet girlfriend."
"I think you must be cheating, 'cause that ain't me." Regardless she took his hand and headed back outside with him.
A.N. Three guesses who that story's based off? Yesterday I went skiing for the first time, and didn't quite know how to stop, so I was flying down the hill, screaming as I passed my friend "Help me" And continued down the hill meant for three-year olds.