Chapter 12: Fall festival
Hello hello everyone! It's been a little while since I last updated, sorry about that. Anyway, here's the next chapter.
"Can you believe it?! The fall festivals tomorrow!" Sasha said. "Man Sasha, I've never seen you so excited about something that's not food." Marco said. "Nah, Sasha is just looking forward for the pie eating contest. The winner gets a week worths of pie." Connie deadpanned. "Figures" Jean muttered, earning a few chuckles from everyone. "Oh yeah, speaking of festivals, why don't we all go as a group?" Eren asked. Everyone agreed, either by nodding or saying something along the lines of "Sure" or " Sounds like a plan". "Alright then! We'll meet at the entrance at 6:30" Eren said.
The next day~
"Ugh! This is torture!" Sasha whined, "Sasha, we've only been waiting here for three minutes" Jean said. "That's forever!" She pouted, "Besides, I'm hungry, can't we get a caramel apple while we wait?" "But don't you want to save your appetite for the pie eating contest?" Connie asked. "But its just a snack! I'm not going to be scarfing down on funnel cakes or..." Sasha's mouth began to water slightly as she thought of the many foods the festival had to offer. "Hey there they are" Marco said as five people approached them (Mikasa, Annie, Armin, Levi, and Eren).
"Hey g-" Armin never got the chance to finish his sentence. "YAHOO! They're here!" Sasha cried as she dragged Connie to the caramel apple stand. "Hello everyone" Marco said. "Hi-" Armin tried to say but once again was interrupted. "Hey Levi, lets go get a caramel apple!" Eren said as he dragged his boyfriend away.
"Sasha your about to enter the pie eating contest, you can eat the kettle corn later" Connie said as he held the bag away from said bottomless pit. "But the contest isn't for another ten minutes!" Sasha whined. Connie face palmed, "You never do anything unrelated to food Sasha" "Attention, all participants for the pie eating contest please make your way to stage 3. I repeat all participants for the pie eating contest please make your way to stage 3" a woman said into a megaphone. Sasha stopped fighting and raced toward stage 3, Armin and Marco chuckled and everyone followed.
The pie contest had eleven participants in total, and Sasha stood out like a sore thumb. Not only was she one of the two girls participating in the event, she was the smallest person there. Most of the contestants were bulkier males around their early thirties to mid forties. From the looks of it they were pretty confident they would win, but obviously never met Sasha. Pies were set down in front of all of them. "Contestants, are you ready?" The woman from earlier asked, followed by the crowds cheer. "START!" She yelled, and the contestants dug into their food.
It wasn't surprising (to those who knew her anyway) Sasha was the first person to finish a pie. A man in his thirties with scruffy blonde hair and aftershave was next. Everyone watched in silence as the number of contestants gradually began to go down. The scene went down as expected, Sasha who's face was a mess and looked like she might go into a food coma stood on the stage, her arm held high in the air for all to see. The woman was congratulating her for eating a total of thirty-seven pies and had won a weeks worth of pie (her choosing).
The rest of the festival was excellent as well, Eren won (well, Levi won it for him) the giant bunny rabbit he wanted, Mikasa and Annie had a not so friendly strength competition with the high striker (hit the thing with the hammer and see if you can ring the bell) resulting in it breaking and a tie, and now it was time to watch the fireworks together.
"A perfect way to end a perfect night, huh?" Marco said as he sat down next to his friends. Armin nodded while everyone else seemed to be in their own world or in another conversation. "Oh look, there's the first one!" Eren squealed as a green firework shot up into the sky. Everyone "oohed" and "ahhed" as different colored fireworks lit up the night sky. After about an hour the show ended and people were getting ready to head home. Marco was in the restroom so Jean decided to wait for him so he could walk him home. Armin was also there, seeing as Eren had run off with Levi and Mikasa was having an arm wrestling match with Annie.
"Tonight was fun" Jean said as he looked over at Armin, who nodded in response. The boy had a warm glow but seemed ready to go home and pass out on his bed. The dim light made his hair almost glow around the edges and his blue eyes, although tired, seemed to shine righter than any star. Jean looked away as he realized he might creep Armin out with all the staring. "Well, I'm sorry to leave you Jean, but I'm going to get Mikasa and go." Armin said. "It's fine, goodnight" Jean said.
Armin nodded with a sleepy smile and took a step forward, and being as clumsy as possible due to his fatigue, he tripped. Jean instinctively reached his arm out and grabbed him, but his balance betrayed him and they both ended up on the ground. And since the universe just had to, their lips came touched. Jean had no idea what possessed him, but he had the urge to kiss the blond. It wasn't until Armin let out a squeak Jean got up, very embarrassed. "S-sorry!" He said as he helped the smaller boy up. "I-it's okay..." Armin trailed off, his face twenty different shades of red. "I'm going to go get Mikasa." He said as he walked off, taking more care not to trip.
Meanwhile Jean stared at the ground where he and Armin were a few seconds ago, the memory still fresh in his brain. He and Armin, in a way, kissed. To make matters worse, he liked it.
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