Chapter 3 is here! Hope you enjoy!
Another ordinary day in Attack Junior High School. Students chatting and studying, and they are having their break before the next subject. Saoirse was busy reading her book as far as her little eyeballs go, reading every word of the page. All that seemed to matter to her right now was the book. In fact, she was a huge bookworm, having thirst for knowledge and drama.
Janessa sat next to her and faced her. "Hey Saoirse," she greeted.
Saoirse closed her book and faced Janessa. "What's up?"
"Oh, just want to see what your doing," Janessa said, glancing at the book. "I see you read."
Saoirse shrugged. "Well, I love books because they are interesting and a lot suitable for me," she said. "Back in my day, people kept teasing me and calling Ms. Smarty Pants. But Mikasa was there to protect me, and you should see what happened to the bullies when I beat them up!"
"I don't find nothing wrong with your hobby, I think its really nice," Janessa complimented. "I mean, you and Armin are the smartest students in this class and you two could come up with great plans and strategies! Does Eren ever notice your hobby?"
Saoirse bit her lip and blushed lightly. "A-A lot, I guess," she muttered.
Janessa took this oppurtunity to tease her. She poked her red cheek slightly. "Come on, I see romance going on inside your head," she teased, grinning. "But I think your thinking about how you and Eren's babies will look like!"
Saoirse raised her head and turned redder than a heart. "Babies?! Who said anything about babies?!" she said. "Eren and I aren't even married yet!"
However, Saoirse's voice was loud enough to make the whole class turn to her and stare at her. She covered her face in embarrasment, not willing to show her face at the unexpected crowd hearing her blurt out her crush on Eren.
"Woah, Hillman has a crush on Eren?" Mina whispered to Thomas.
"The smartest girl has a thing for the titan fighting boy!" Nic teased.
"Oh, you two look so cute together," Hannah and Franz teased.
Saoirse's face turned red as a beet. She couldn't believe how embarrasing the situation is gonna turn. Janessa turned to the crowd and waved her hands, as if what Saoirse said wasn't a big deal, "Nothing to see here people!" she tried to deny.
Janessa's attempts usually fail, but for this one, it seemed to work. The student's shrugged it off and continued their business. Saoirse raised her head and sighed. "I owe you for that," she panted.
Janessa winked. "No problemo!" she replied. "Your my best friend."
They heard footsteps approach them and turned to see Krista and Ymir approach the two friends. Krista looked curious and Ymir looked like she didn't give a single thing about what they were here for.
Krista smiled. "I heard Saoirse blurt out her crush on Eren," she said. "That's so cute."
Just when she thought her face wouldn't be reddened again, it just did. She looked around desperately for help, but all she could see was Janessa, Ymir and Krista staring at her, waiting for an answer.
Saoirse bit her lip. "I-I guess so," was all she could say.
Janessa decided to do the talking. "Nah, she's just relieved because Eren isn't even here to hear it," she said.
Saoirse rolled her eyes. How was this even helping the situation?
The next period turned out to be dodge ball. The friends gathered in the dodge ball area in their PE outfits and Jean stood in front, indicating he''s the leader. "Listen up, people," he instructed with hands on his hips. "There are things important in life more than dodge ball. We win this in Class 4, first years will be the coolest kids in school!"
The very reason Jean said it is because he was fantasizing about the girls squealing over him with hearts on their eyes, including Janessa. However, Janessa was the one girl that truly loved Jean aside from those other girls, he just doesn't notice it yet, even though she was jealous of his crush on Mikasa. But Jean did care for her still, and he showed romantic moves sometimes, but towards Mikasa now.
The teamates listened carefully to Jean, including Sasha who was busy munching on food, even at a time like this. "According to the rules, everybody has to participate," he continued. "We all live, right!"
"Right!" they all said in unison.
"So begins my saga of my rise to the top!" Jean said.
Suddenly, he noticed something wrong now, because he was too busy focused on his little speech of winning and the honor of being the most popular boy in the class. He turned to Armin. "Wait. Armin, where's Eren?" he asked.
Armin smiled stupidly, to make the answer calm. "Seems he overslept," he muttered.
Jean stared at him in dismay. "Damn you eternally Yeager!" he yelled out, his dreams of fame and popularity going down the drain without the titan fighting boy on his side. "This was supposed to be my moment to shine!"
Saoirse rolled her eyes. "Party emotional day for him, huh?" Sasha asked.
"Whatever he totally loves it," Connie answered.
"He just wants the fame for himself," Saoirse said under her breath.
Jean tried to calm himself. "Try to keep it together, Jean," he tried to assure himself, as to not let the situation get out of hand. "Cover up that Eren's not here."
He and the others didn't notice that Keith was behind all along. Jean was the first to feel it, hearing him. "Will anyone care to explain what this racket's all about?" he asked. "If I didn't know better it stated it has something to do with the fact that Yeager appears to be absent."
The students cringed, unable to move from the shock. Only Mikasa seemed chilling with it. She raised her hand. "Eren's in the restroom in a racket because Sasha farted," she covered the absence up to not cause trouble.
Sasha gasped and winced so hard, it was really painful for them to look. Keith seemed to take it and covered his nose. "Why doesn't that surprise me?" he said.
This made Sasha even worse, with Saoirse trying to stop herself from laughing. She shook Mikasa by the arms. "For crying out loud girl, learn straight." Keith said, walking away.
"Mikasa why'd you say that what have I ever done to you why did you lie to him?!" she ranted in one breath, before Mikasa covered her mouth with bread.
Jean wiped his forehead and gave a thumbs up to Mikasa. "That was close!" he said.
"In the meantime," Keith was not finished. The other students looked at him. "If I catch any of you slackers goofing off, even a little bit, I will personally hand feed you to the titans myself!"
The students grew scared and they couldn't hold their fear, only Mikasa remained calm. Keith slowly walked away, as if it wasn't a big deal. "Well this just got real," Jean said. "Okay team we will all agree that we will cover for Eren until the jerk decides to show?"
The other students nodded nervously. "Eren's not a jerk, horse face," Saoirse mumbled under her breath.
Jean faced his teammates. "Damn right!" he shouted. "And remember, we're playing this to win!"
"Yeah!" The team cheered, not noticing Annie stalking them.
"Alright! Let's get this dodgeball tournament underway!" Hannes said. "The first match will be Class Four- Team A and Class One- Team B."
The teams stood on each side of the court, inside the player area. Hannes stood in between the teams, holding the ball. "Ready?" he said. "Let's see some sportsmanship! Best of luck. And...play ball!"
He threw the ball in the air, beginning the game. Marco and the other student from Team B tried to catch the ball, but the Team B student successfully caught it and threw it over to his teammate. "Mine!" he shouted. The teammate caught it and threw it at Team A. Connie successfully caught it and stared at it in awe. Jean raised his fist. "Alright!" he cheered.
The other's then begin to hope, even without Eren, because they knew Connie was an athlete and he had a spot for every sport, including dodge ball. Maybe this could work out without Eren. But Connie turned to their team's defenders direction and raised the ball, earning collective gasps from Jean. "Hey, heads up!" he called.
He threw the ball into the outfielder, who looked really confused holding the ball. Janessa slapped her forehead. "Dammit Connie!" Saoirse said.
Jean couldn't hold his anger. "What the hell are you doing?!" he shouted, hands on his head in frustration.
Connie looked at Jean, oblivious. "That's the other team's outfielder!" Marco corrected. "Do you even know how this game's supposed to work?!"
"Oh sorry," Connie apologized. "Tell me what we're playing again?"
However, they didn't have time to talk about the game, because the other team's outfielder threw the ball at Connie, which bounced on his head and it bounced next on Marco's head, rendering them out of the game. "Connie and Marco are out!" Hannes reported.
In the corner during the game, Marco was busy teaching Connie the basics of dodge ball. "Dodge ball, your supposed to hit the other team's in fielders," he taught.
Jean, Janessa and Armin looked in dismay. "Well I guess that will teach me to underestimate Connie's stupidity," he said. "Hey on the bright side at least we know the weaknesses of the players."
Janessa placed her arm on his shoulder. "Don't get yourself stressed by this game," she assured. "We can still win, right? It's the power of teamwork."
"I guess your right Janessa," Jean said. "We have to make due with who's left."
Armin suddenly panicked. "Sasha, no!" he yelled. "What are you doing?!"
Jean and Janessa turned to the direction of where Armin's yelling at. Sasha was slurping noodles, even at a time like this. "Why, noodle eating, what else?" she said, mouthful.
"Don't you see?!" Armin said. "Why eat here out of all places?!"
"This is not the perfect time to be slurping noodles, potato girl!" Janessa said.
"What?! I can't let it get cold so I have to make due with ramen!" Sasha refused.
Jean continued watching the argument between the three and fell to the ground, completely dumbfounded. However, the argument held them enough for a student from Team B throw the ball at them. Armin noticed it. "Oh no Sasha looked out!"
Sasha was quick enough to see the ball come in so she set aside the bowl and the chopsticks, allowing the ball to pass and miss her. She went back into eating her ramen. "Your kidding me," the teammate mumbled. "Take this!"
He threw the ball again at Sasha but she quickly dodged it with her ramen. "Take that!" he shot at her again, but Sasha twisted her body in time to let the ball miss her while slurping her noodles. Armin lit up like a light bulb. "Of course!" he finally realized the point. "Nobody stops Sasha from whenever she just happens to be eating!"
Janessa raised her fist. "This could be a great advantage for us to get to our score!" she cheered.
"That would be awesome if she didn't have to use her hands!" Jean said as well. "This is embarrassing. Can't we have one decent player?"
Suddenly he realized it. "Wait there's Mikasa," he said. "She's got skill."
A girl threw the ball weakly at Mikasa. "Haha!" Jean cheered. "No way to throw that weak to tag out someone like-"
But she didn't act in time for the ball to hit her. This caused her to fall to the ground, on her face. She looked weak as if she was suffering all over her body. "What the-?!" Saoirse exclaimed.
"Come on! Seriously?!" Jean yelled. He couldn't tolerate another fail of his teammates. "Your that weak?!"
"I know Mikasa," Saoirse said. "She isn't the type of person she is in currently, but I think I know what's bothering her."
Armin leaned over to Jean's ear. "Yeah, the thing about Mikasa you have to understand is that when she's separated from Eren for too long her stats go down by thirty."
"But if Saoirse loves Eren, does that mean that she would follow Mikasa's routine?" Janessa asked.
They turned to see Saoirse looking depressed as Mikasa was. A boy threw the ball at her and succesfully hit her, making her fall to the ground beside Mikasa. "What?! How is that a thing?!" Jean said in disbelief. "And why is Saoirse acting like this also?!"
"Saoirse has the biggest crush on Eren, so she is ten times depressed as Mikasa is," Armin explained. "The two girls aren't taking it very well."
Mikasa and Saoirse's depression was so strong, they had a grayish blue aura around them. They didn't feel anything but depression and devastation. It looked like there was no way to cure this unless Eren comes. "The world is a cruel place," Mikasa muttered.
"I can't decide wether to live life or just waste it," Saoirse mumbled.
Armin, Jean and Janessa watched in disbelief. "Hard to believe two girls since elementary school would go that dark," Armin said.
"Ouch," Janessa said.
"What is with this team?" Jean complained. He looked at his teammates. "An idiot who can't get his head around the rules, a girl who stuffs her face in the middle of the game and a star player and an extremely high girl's depression is so intense that they've got an aura. What is going on with this team?!"
The rest of the team decided to rest while they watch other teams play dodge ball. They all looked tired and dumbfounded from what happened earlier. Saoirse and Mikasa were busy spending their depression by lying down on the seats, with the brunette sitting weakly as well. "The first match wasn't the bad, but it doesn't count our struggle for the win."
"Right, imagine if Mikasa was in top four and Saoirse for best strategy," Armin said. He suddenly sneezed. Janessa and Jean noticed he's not with his futon. "Hey, what happened to your futon?" Jean asked.
"Hope it's not lost or anything," Janessa said.
Armin looked at the two girls. "They took it," he said.
Marco, Connie, Armin, Jean and Janessa looked at them in dismay. "Fantastic, its getting even worse," he mumbled.
"Sorry, I had no idea what to do, they're just`-" Armin was interrupted.
Hannes interrupted. "Okay!" he shouted. The five looked at the call and saw Annie and her team with the other opposing team. Now things were about to get harder for them.
"Looks like Annie's team is up," Armin said.
Janessa cringed. "Oh boy, I have a feeling we don't have a chance against her, she's good!" she said.
"Uh oh, whoever wins this match is our next opponent," Jean said.
A student from the opposing team started. He threw the ball at Krista, who winced from the pain. She was out of the game with the starting hit. "Krista nooo!" Reiner shouted, determined to save her.
He tried to run to her, but Ymir placed her foot in front of his, causing him to fall whilst Mina was watching the scenery. The ball landed on Ymir's hand. "She's perfectly safe, thanks," she assured, throwing the ball.
Krista looked up at her. "How can I ever repay you?" she thanked.
Ymir smiled as well. "How about when this crap's done and over you will marry me?" she asked. Reiner growled at Ymir, whom she held Krista in protection in order not to let anyone take her precious darling away. Ymir stuck out her tongue at him.
Janessa rolled her eyes. "What a loser," she mumbled. "Reiner tries to save his 'goddess' at a time like this to impress her."
Annie glanced over to Jean's team, who was watching nervously. Only Hannah and Franz seemed to make out at a time like this, like there was nothing else that mattered but themselves. "Getting tired of this!" A student from the opposing team threw the ball again, which it was heading for Annie. Krista noticed and she looked at her. "Annie!" she warned. "Look out!"
Before Annie could act, Bertolt came in front of her and blocked the ball with his face, leaving him to bleed from the hard hit. Annie noticed and looked at the ball in the sky. "Annie! Heads up!" Reiner said.
Annie sped towards the ball. Armin, Jean and Janessa watched in awe. She ran toward the ball and caught it perfectly. She somersaulted in the air and threw the ball in one swift move. The ball was able to hit three people at the same time from bouncing. Thomas caught the ball and threw it. "Reiner!" he shouted.
Reiner jumped in the air and caught the ball perfectly. He threw the ball. "Take this!" he yelled. It ended up hitting several people in the team, allowing victory to be passed to Annie's team. Hannes whistled. "Game over!" he shouted.
Armin, Janessa, Jean, Marco and Connie watched in total shock as they realized it may be the next to impossible to beat Annie's team, as they studied her movements and motives. They were gonna have to fight harder if they were desperate to win dodge ball. "Class Four Team B wins!" Hannes called out.
The five students screamed in dismay, now ten times nervous on how to beat dodge ball with Annie around, and them winning. Like Jean said, the team will be the next opponent to them if they win. "We don't-we don't stand a chance!" Armin whispered.
"It's as if they are...high mind.." Marco mumbled.
"Yeah...it's what teamplay is all about," Jean said. "Every member is true to each other. And they only roll in the middle of the match!"
"This is gonna be the next to impossible," Janessa said.
Suddenly, Annie approached them. "Where's the cheeburg bastard?" she asked bluntly. "He better crawl out from whatever rock he's under before our match starts. Or else I'm telling Mr. Keith on you."
After that little threat, she slowly walked away, as if it wasn't a big deal. Jean fell down to the ground in dismay. Janessa knelt next to him. "Well that's it, there's no way around it anymore we're gonna be five star titan chow," he muttered.
"We are dead meat," Janessa said. "No pun intended."
"Come on Eren!" Armin prayed. "Help us out here! Wake up already!"
Eren was busy staring at the clock in his hands, which marked 12:55. He had just awoken, and he was so drowsy and tired. He continued to stare at it more, smiling insanely.
"Crap!" Eren screamed, upon realizing he's super late.
Back at Junior High, Team A of Class Four was dreading badly about the upcoming match with Annie's team. "Lunch time! Eat up kids!" Hannes said.
The students were back in the classroom to rest and eat enough food for strength and knowledge in the upcoming dodge ball match. Krista approached Annie shyly, who was holding her lunch. "Hey Annie, I was wondering if you mind me asking something," she said. "Are you really more into that mosogu seaweed?"
Annie looked at her in dismay. "Uh, yeah, love it," was all she could muster.
This made Krista excited. "I was hoping you would say that!" she said. She showed her lunch. "I have some for lunch and I think it's gross. I was sort of thinking maybe you could take it so it wouldn't go to waste, you know?"
Annie stared at her. "For a second there I thought- You know what, sure," she said, taking Krista's lunch. She was about to dig in when her other teammates approached her dreamily with their lunch boxes in their hands. They looked desperate as Krista was.
"Hey Annie," they all said in unison.
"While your at it, would you mind eating my mosogu seaweed?" Reiner said first.
"Mine too, please?" Ymir pleaded.
"And mine," Thomans said.
"Same here!" Mina said.
Annie grew annoyed and couldn't tolerate it anymore, since her lie had just gotten real bad. "I hate this stuff so-" Bertolt pleaded before Annie stomped her desk with her hands.
"What's wrong with you people seaweed taste odd!" Annie snapped.
Meanwhile, Class Four Team A was dreading in the outside, extremely nervous of the upcoming match with Annie and her team. "We're in big trouble," Jean muttered. "It's only a matter of time before we're eaten, trust me."
He rubbed his forehead in frustration. Their lives are now in Eren's hands, if he comes. "What could have I done more with my life?" Jean continued. "If I have known we should haven't ended up like this."
Janessa sat next to him. "Jean, can I tell you something?" she asked suddenly.
Jean glanced at her. "Go ahead," was all he could say.
Janessa took a deep breath, and stared at Jean whilst trying to avoid the pink color on her face. "Jean, before we become titan chow, I just wanted to say that I love y-"
Before she could confess, Armin piped up. "I've got a plan!" he said.
Janessa and Jean looked up to Armin. He had a determined look on his face. But Janessa sighed, so disappointed that she was so close to confessing her crush on Jean before Armin had interrupted in. He told the plan, and Jean was completely dumbfounded.
The teammates stared at Jean in excitement, because Jean had a brown hair wig that is supposed to let Jean impersonate Eren until he comes. "Damn right!" Connie said.
"It's too perfect!" Sasha exclaimed.
"He can do it!" Janessa cheered.
Jean wanted to slap someone right now. "Your out of your minds! I don't look anything like Eren!" he protested.
Armin placed his finger under his chin. "Actually your physics are similar," he said. "You both have the same shape of eyes and your features."
Jean glared at Armin. "Say that again!" he growled.
Sasha looked happy. "The two of you look so much alike it might manage to pull Mikasa and Saoirse out of depression!" she said, glancing at the two girls.
"As long as we can keep this up, we can avoid becoming titan food!" Janessa cheered.
But Mikasa and Saoirse remained in their slumber. "It won't," Mikasa muttered. "I can't feel his spirit."
"Same here," Saoirse agreed.
The other teammates looked dumbfounded by the two girls, who remained to stay depressed until the real Eren comes. "Okay that doesn't sound like a crazy person at all," Jean said.
"Pardon the intrusion," A deep female voice called out that didn't belong to any of the teammates. The group turned to see Annie and her team standing in front of them. "It's almost time for us to get this match underway. Cheeburg bastard better be here."
Sasha and Janessa pushed Jean in front of them. "Don't you worry about that, Eren's right here!" Sasha assured.
"Here he is!" Janessa played along.
Jean tried to squirm from the two girls, but now he had no choice but to play along as well in order not to let Annie find out about Eren's absence and report it to Keith to get them as titan food. Annie studied Jean closely; she wasn't falling for it. "Wait a second, something isn't right," she said. "When did you get a horse face?"
Jean had to think fast, but he didn't answer. Annie decided to continue taunting him. "What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?" she bluntly asked.
Jean thought it was an easy question. "Nom-noms?" he mistakenly said.
Janessa slapped an open palm against her forehead. "Dang it!" Armin shouted.
Jean blew their cover, and now the dreaded time was coming. He realized he messed up, and now Annie would report to Keith to get them in trouble. "Oh hell-" Jean cursed.
"Cheeburg!" shouted a familiar voice that didn't belong to Jean or the others, plus he corrected the horse face's statement.
The others gasped and looked at the direction of the voice. Mikasa and Saoirse stopped their slumber, upon hearing the very familiar voice. It turned out to be Eren on top of the dugout. He was panting heavily and he held his jacket. "Sorry guys, I overslept," he said.
"Eren!" Saoirse was the first to scream. She ran out of the dugout and she climbed on it to approach Eren in happiness. "Your here!"
"That was kinda close there!" Jean said.
Mikasa ran out of the dugout as well and ran to him. "Get out of my way!" Mikasa demanded. Armin ran away as well.
The two girls happily approached Eren in happiness. "Mikasa, Saoirse, now that I'm here everything's gonna be-"
He was interrupted when Mikasa pinched both of his cheeks, giving a sour look. "Tardiness is a very bad habit," she muttered.
"Yes ma'm," Eren replied.
"Come on guys, we've got a match to battle!" Saoirse tried to snap them out so they can get focused on the game.
Annie wasn't finished. "Glad you decided to show up, cheeburg," she said. "Prepare yourself to be squashed flat!"
Eren, Mikasa and Saoirse faced Annie. "Bring it on, Annie!" Eren said. "This team's not afraid of you!"
The game began soon. "Time for the championship match!" Hannes said. "Class Four Team A will go head to head with Class Four Team B! So, is everybody ready? And...begin!"
He threw the ball in the air, beginning the game. Marco and Bertolt tried to catch it, but the tall boy caught it and threw it to Reiner. The muscular boy was about to catch it when Annie swooped in and took the ball for herself. "Annie!" Reiner said.
Annie threw the ball. Eren ran to it. "Leave it to me everybody! This one's mine!" he said.
The ball was about to hit Jean when Eren jumped in front of him, letting the ball smack into his face instead. "Seriously?!" Jean said.
Mikasa ran in front of Jean and jumped in the air, catching the ball in time. "Eren is safe!" Hannes said.
"Wow she's so agile!" Jean said.
"Yeah look at the difference, glad Eren showed up," Armin said.
Annie grew frustrated, and threw another ball. Eren ran up again. "I'm just getting started!" he said.
The ball was aiming for Armin, who knelt down in fear. Before it could hit him, Eren let himself get hit in the face again by the ball. Saoirse jumped and caught the ball perfectly. "Safe!" Hannes said. Annie threw another ball in desperation and in revenge for Eren's saying for love of cheeseburgers. Eren jumped up again. "This time-" he got hit once again in the face.
Mikasa caught it again. "Safe again!" Hannes said.
Mikasa glared at Annie, whose eyes were focused. She threw the ball at Annie, who dodged. The latter threw the ball again and Saoirse caught it again. who threw it directly at Mina. The two best friends took alternatives in catching the ball depending on the direction. There were two girls against one.
Thomas threw the ball at Saoirse, and Eren swooped in to save her butt again, getting hit. "Eren's safe again!" Hannes called out. The other teammates watched in awe as they continued staring at Saoirse and Mikasa battle the other team. They were even more agile than a while ago.
Three can play this game, but two are gonna finish it. Saoirse threw the ball at Mikasa, who then threw the ball back at Annie. The blonde girl threw it at Mikasa, and Eren again let himself get hit in order to protect his sister and his crush. "Safe again!" Hannes called out.
The battle bounced back and forth as Annie tried to aim at the two girls, but they successfully caught it and aim it at her teammates, with Eren saving their butt every time, with Hannes repeatedly saying his safe. This was the longest match ever, until one of the girls were gonna get hit. Marco, Jean, Armin and Janessa watched. "He's getting blasted but he can't get up!" Marco said. "Mikasa and Saoirse are taking this very well!"
"Woah," Jean whispered. "This is amazing."
"Go guys!" Janessa cheered.
But they didn't expect the ball to bounce on Jean and Janessa's head, targeting them out of the game. "Oh, Jean and Janessa are out," Hannes said.
The fight between the trio with Annie went on and on forever. Mikasa and Saoirse continued to take turns into catching the ball and aiming at Annie with Eren trying to block them from getting hit, making himself get hit instead. In the middle of the game, the ball had hit Hannes. The pattern repeated and repeated over again until Saoirse, Mikasa, Eren and Annie were the remaining ones in the game. "This is insane!" a teammate said. "There are only four left in the game!"
Eren's face was all bruised up and bleeding from dozens of hits by the ball. He picked it up. He shook his head and he faced Annie. "I will put an end to this in one throw!" Eren shouted.
"Do it," Annie said, forming her stance. "Let's see what you've got."
Eren aimed the ball at Annie. She raised her leg and kicked the ball perfectly enough for it to bounce back and hit Eren very hard. His body twisted from the pain and fell on his face, bleeding. "Wow, that was some serious skill," he said.
"It's a special technique, if you want I'll be happy to teach you," Annie said.
"No thanks," Eren replied. "Dodge ball hurts."
"Are you kidding? Stop trying to be so damn modest," Annie continued.
"Hey Annie," Mikasa and Saoirse called out to her. They stepped towards her. "We'll be happy to learn your technique."
"We could use it as a great advantage," Saoirse said.
"Teach us." Mikasa said.
Annie glared at them. "I'm not so sure about that," she said. "Whole thing only works with human beings."
The remaining team members of each side watched. "Uh oh, epic match alert," Sasha said.
"Hell yeah!" Jean said. "Mikasa and Saoirse kick Annie's butt all together!"
"Things are going to get very ugly," Janessa said.
"I bet my strawberries," Krista said.
"I bet hairing," Ymir said.
"And I bet my meatballs," Reiner said.
"I'm in," Bertolt said.
The three girls glared at each other. "Let's do it," Annie muttered. "Come at me with all you've got."
Mikasa and Saoirse glared at her. The two shared the ball and ran towards Annie with all their might. Things aren't gonna go well between them. Mikasa and Saoirse were about to throw the ball together when Eren came in between. "Let me go-" he was about to say before his face was hit by both Annie's leg and Mikasa and Saoirse's ball. They let go which led Eren into spinning and falling to the ground again. "Eren!" Saoirse and Mikasa called to him in unison. They both knelt down to him.
"Annie, why do you hate me so much?" Eren asked. "It's not like I've ever done anything to you."
Annie rubbed her arm and looked away shyly. "Heh, you really wanna know?" Annie said. She glanced at the sky and at Eren again, and repeated the process until she stopped her hesitation for saying why. She closed her eyes and sighed. She turned back. "Pay attention because I'm gonna be saying this once...at the entrance ceremony, you told everyone you love cheese hamburg steak. Without even realizing that you basically stole my thunder."
The teams looked in dismay. "It was my favorite first, I should have been the one to blurt it out!" she continued. "So naturally I hate your cheeburg guts!"
"I don't understand," Eren said. "Couldn't you just have said me too?"
Annie grew angrier. She gasped when Eren stretched out his hand to her. "Look I'm really sorry," he apologized. "When you get down to it though we have something in common."
Annie hesitated for a moment, staring at the hand. She had two choices: either a truce or enemies forever. Then, she smiled and placed her hand on his, helping him up. "I suppose we do," Annie said. Mikasa looked at Saoirse, who pretended to gag.
"It's sweet! Yay friends!" Krista blurted out. Ymir looked at her, and Reiner clapped in agreement. The teams clapped and they all looked so happy that they weren't titan meat. Ymir looked dumbfounded. "This is ridiculous," she said.
Hannes rubbed his head. "Wait, what's going on?" he said, looking at Eren holding Annie whom they are both smiling, with a not so happy Mikasa and Saoirse watching. But the moment was interrupted when a ball bounced on Annie's head. They turned to see Connie beaming. "I did it now! Dodge ball!" he cheered. "I totally just tagged her out, right?!"
He looked at his friends for an answer, but no response. Hannes blew his whistle. "Technically yes, game over, congratulations!" Hannes cheered.
The quatret decided to eat outside the school after such a long day at dodgeball, relieved they didn't become titan chow. "Let's dig in!" they all said in unison.
Eren raised his chopsticks holding the cheeburg. "Alright, my fave!" he said, but the meat slipped out of the chopsticks, lying on the dirty ground. He gasped. "This isn't happening! That was my cheeburg for the day!" he screamed.
He desperately tried to grab the food from the ground. "No three second rule," Mikasa said.
Eren stopped. "Mind if I join you guys?" a voice called out suddenly. They all looked up to see Annie holding her lunch box. "Hey, sure no problem." he said.
Annie adjusted herself and sat down with them. She noticed the cheeburg on the ground. "Is that...?"
Eren looked down. "Yeah, it was gonna be the best part of my whole lunch except now..." he sadly said.
Annie looked at it for a moment. She handed her cheeburg towards Eren with her fork. "We'll share," she said.
Eren beamed up. "No way! Really? Thank you!" he said, handing his lunch box to let Annie drop the cheeburg. He happily put it in his mouth and he was so satisfied with the taste. "Best cheeburg ever!"
Saoirse and Mikasa watched. "That was super nice of you," Eren complimented.
Annie looked down in embarasment. "Whatever," she mumbled. "In return though. Let's agree to-uh, forget what I tried to pull-"
Mikasa tried to stuff Eren with fish. "Eat this, your not getting enough fish in your diet," she demanded.
"Mikasa, stop it!" Eren protested.
Saoirse reached into hers and tried to feed Eren too. "Here! Have some teriyaki! You love meat, don't you?" she said.
"You too, Saoirse?!" Eren said.
The three continued arguing when Annie handed over another cheeburg to Eren. "Here, have another one," she said. Eren handed his lunch box. "No joke?"
"Eat this!" Saoirse and Mikasa tried to feed him again. The three argued and argued about the food and Armin watched in embarrasment. "I see a love quatret between them," he said.
YESS IT TOOK FOREVER TO FINISH THIS CHAPTER *clears throat* Sorry for taking so long. I had to study for exams and now it's summer (for us in the Philippines) I won't be udpdating for a while because I'll be going to America. So Awinx out for now!