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Bruises.

Chapter 3

The little rays of sunlight coming from a window woke Sasha up, she opened her eyes slowly, having a hard time waking up. She had slept yet she was tired, it felt like she had only slept for a few minutes. Yawning she put on her boots, she stretched and tried to brush her bangs with her fingers.

"So you're finally up" She heard Ymir's harsh voice.

"Yeah" Sasha walked closer to Ymir "Is it too late?" She asked a bit concerned.

"Well, depending" Ymir smirked.

"Depending on..." Sasha frowned.

"Depending on if you care about on Eren or not" Sasha frowned even more.

"Huh?" She wasn't understanding the situation pretty well "I mean, I do care about him"

As she finished saying these words she felt shivers in her back, something bad had happened, really bad and she was clueless about it because she had overslept. If she had only returned to the building earlier last night.

"What happened?!" She put her hands on Ymir's shoulders, the freckled girl just glared at her.

"Not much you know, just that Eren will be put on trial"

"What?! Why?!" She shouted these questions without really meaning to.

"Well, they think that he might be an enemy of mankind and all that shit" Ymir said with the most boring face she could make.

"But" Sasha's arms crossed "I mean, he helped us, he's clearly not an enemy"

"Yeah yeah" Ymir interrupted her "I don't want to chat with you about that. I wanted to ask you something"

Sasha tried not to be prejudicial when it came to relating with people, she tried to accept them as they were and understand them, one could never know what they had been trough. But when it came to Ymir, she just couldn't avoid to think that there was something sinister about her, therefore she felt a bit alarmed because of the question Ymir hadn't made yet.

"Why did you return so late last night?"

"Huh?" Sasha thought about the question. Last night, last night, last night! "Well, last night, I had a little chitchat with someone"

"I know you had a chitchat, I just want to know who did you lose yourself with?" Ymir chuckled.

"What do you mean?" Sasha blushed.

She started to feel embarrassed just by remembering what had happened last night. If it had been someone else maybe she wouldn't feel this way but she had cried in front of Lance Corporal Levi, she had shown weakness in front of the most powerful soldier.

"Never mind" Ymir rolled her eyes "I was just bugging you, not that I care about what you did. By the way, you didn't oversleep, we're leaving right now to catch up with Eren" Sasha felt relieved when she heard this.

"O-okay" She nodded rapidly "Hey, did you already eat breakfast?" She smirked a little.

"Yes. Christa saved you some food" Ymir walked to the door and opened it.

"How nice" Her smirk widened.

"Hurry up" Ymir shouted.

"Right" She hurried to the door.

"Thanks, Christa" Sasha said with her mouth full of bread "You're so nice"

"You're welcome" Christa smiled "I knew you'd be hungry" The both laughed.

"Will this be ending soon?" Jean asked out loud "We've been standing in here for hours"

"It hasn't been that much" Reiner replied.

"I just want it to be over soon" Jean passed his hand trough his hair.

"Me too" Connie took off his jacket "It's so hot"

"So, who's in here" Sasha asked.

"Well, you know, military police, some members of the wall cult and the scouting legion" Jean answered her.

"Really? Why so many people?"

"Well they're trying to decide Eren's fate..."

The scouting legion...could the corporal be there? He had to be there, he was important. What of she casually ran into him? Just to say good morning, it wouldn't do any harm to anyone.

Without really thinking about it, she started to brush the crumbs of bread off her uniform. She re-made her ponytail and brushed her bangs once again with her fingers.

"Are you even paying attention?" Ymir snapped her fingers in front of her face.

"Yes" Sasha snapped out of her thoughts "You're right, Jean, it's taking too long"

"I know" He sighed.

The gates of the building opened, Sasha stood up from the floor immediately and started to see all the people that were coming out. She waited patiently, watching all the people, some were tired rather angry, but no sign of the people she wanted to they spotted Armin, they walked towards him.

"What's going on? Where's Mikasa and Eren?" Jean asked.

"What will happen to Eren?" Reiner asked.

"It's okay, the scouting legion will take care of him" Everyone felt relieved when they heard "Though, the corporal beated the crap out of him" Ymir laughed silently making Christa hit her with her elbow to shut her up.

"Where are they?" Jean asked again.

"Inside" Armin replied.

"Can we go in and see them" Sasha asked.

"I guess" Armin shrugged "Come"

They all followed Armin into a hallway, there was Eren and Mikasa, her looking pissed as ever before.

"Hey, if the corporal beated you, then why are you looking so good? No bruise left" Everyone sighed.

"Because he's a bloody titan, you moron" Ymir laughed.

"I'm fine, thanks" Eren said smiling.

"Yeah, I sort of missed it" She made a grimace.

"So, what happened?" Jean asked.

"Basically, the scouting legion has to take control over me, but I really don't mind"

"Good thing" Sasha said, she turned around and spotted the corporal, he was leaning on a wall. She got away from where they were talking without getting noticed and walked towards the Corporal.

"Good morning" She said smiling.

"Morning" He said just that;coldly and started to walk away.

Sasha felt like she had just been slapped in the face and had the word loser written all over her face. She had expected him to ask her how she was, to act him like his not normal self. Disappointment, that was the word she was looking for, she was disappointed at herself, she had been a fool for crying in the Corporal's arms.

Anger, that was the other word that was accurate for the moment. Anger, she had left that someone saw as something she wasn't, she wasn't weak and she was not going to let anyone think she was a cry-baby that couldn't stand anything.

"Don't worry, Sasha" She felt Christa's hand on her shoulder "I'm sure the Corporal isn't someone to bond with easily. Let's go"They walked out and Levi was there again. Sasha swallowed and...

"I'm not a little cry-baby" She shouted at him. Luckily for them, there were only a few people left.

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