Friday morning.
"You owe me a cooking session this afternoon, just as you promised," Eren said as he grabbed his school bag, which sitting comfortably on the couch.
"Ee," Mikasa replied with a subtle smile.
Eren's heart fluttered seeing her smile, because she rarely did. Maybe it was being in love that made her smile at him just like that, and only to him. It made Eren feel all the more special because Mikasa loves him and only him.
"Iku?" he asked her.
"Okay, let's go together, then," she replied as she held out her hand for him to hold.
Eren gladly took her hand and caressed her skin with her thumb. Even though Mikasa worked a lot, her skin was still smooth and silky. He probably should learn from her to use lotion every day.
~~.
It wasn't unusual to everyone that Mikasa and Eren came in together. The talk of the town was that Reiner was made being the dummy for Hange's monkey experiment, and Sasha laughed at him for bringing bananas to school everyday. Reiner tried to choke Sasha, but he was kicked on the knees again. Connie could only sigh in exasperation, for his BFF was literally still immature as ever.
Another talk of the town was Hange getting herself a boyfriend in the person of Moblit, a persistent suitor who wooed her despite her being erratic and weird.
"Yeah, damn right," Ymir dryly told everyone who heard her. "Hange-sempai should start dating now and use her heart more often."
"But what's between the ears are as important too," Connie told her.
"Follow your own advice, Connie," Ymir told Connie before earning her a growl from the short guy.
"Ah, stop that, will ya?" Jean growled before looking at his BFF Marco. "Right, Marco?"
"Yeah, you two should stop that already," Marco said in his usual mild manner.
Eren and Mikasa did not take notice of the chaos around them and proceeded to their respective seats. Armin, ever the perceptive one, noticed a change. He saw Eren smiling a bit at Mikasa, and the Asian girl nodding her head with a shy smile, like the two had some secret language.
"Can you let me in the loop?" Armin asked them as he approached his best friends.
"Ah, yeah, erm, we have something to tell you," Eren told Armin before looking at Mikasa.
Armin looked at his best friend before looking at the other best friend. He raised his eyebrows and grabbed Eren to Mikasa's table.
"What is it, Eren?" Armin asked. (Not a pun to Jean's famous "What is it, Eren?" line in the manga. :3 )
Eren turned and stared at his girlfriend, who blushed and blinked at him sweetly.
"Uh-oh, are the two of you...?" Armin asked.
"Yeah, Mikasa's my girlfriend now," Eren admitted, and Mikasa nodded.
Armin gaped, but then grinned like the Cheshire cat. "Hontou, hontou?"
Eren dropped a sweat and tried to explain, "Mikasa's... just a foster sister, after all, right Mikasa?"
"Ee."
"And it's not like, it's prohibited to date her. We're not siblings after all," Eren explained again, hoping Armin got it. Of course, he knew that Armin got it. Armin's smart, after all.
"Sugoi!" Armin exclaimed happily.
"Whose girlfriend is who?" Ymir suddenly blurted out from the back.
"Is it true, Eren?" Connie asked, unable to believe.
"I knew you two weren't acting as foster siblings!" Sasha cheered.
Eren and Mikasa were suddenly hounded with eager questions.
"But you two, the whole time, were having sibling feelings, eh?" asked one.
"But did you...?"
And more questions.
However, the fact that Mikasa is now Eren's girlfriend did not sit well with Jean. He was too damn jealous to even learn about it that he threw a fist on his table, making the table lose a leg in the process. Everybody heard the sound of a destroyed table and things falling off the floor.
"Is... is it true, Eren?" Jean asked, growled, his voice shivering.
All his hopes, all his dreams of being Mikasa's boyfriend went down the drain, just because she was now the girlfriend of her... her own foster brother? It doesn't seem right, and he knew it was wrong.
"Yes," Eren replied with conviction. "And I love Mikasa."
Jean's mind went blank, and his anger flared up even more. He strode towards Eren, grabbed his collar, and punched the poor guy, and Eren fell on the floor.
"And did you... Did you already f*** her? Did you enjoy her? Did you enjoy spending the night with her? Huh?"
Mikasa felt offended. Why was Jean insinuating like that? She suddenly felt like Eren and she had done something more last night when all she did to him was just to cuddle him. Eren, too, was very deeply offended. Why was Jean asking if Mikasa tasted nice and all that?
"Uh-oh, just as I thought," Ymir spoke to Krista. "Talks regarding something between the legs will never go undiscussed."
"Will you just shut it already, Ymir?" Krista scolded her before going out.
"Where are you going?" Ymir asked.
"To find Erwin-sempai!"
Eren got up from the floor and began to punch Jean to bits. Just hearing about such nonsensical stuff was too disgusting. And Mikasa was just hugging him last night, nothing more.
"F*** you, Jean!" Eren shouted at the top of his lungs. "You have no right to say something about Mikasa like that!"
"Oh yeah? Why not? Just admit it already, Jaeger, so I'll stop pursuing her!"
"Just quit pursuing her and just believe that nothing happened to us last night!" Eren screamed.
Mikasa sat on her seat, dumbstruck. Finally, Eren was fighting for her. And the first thing he fought for was fighting for her purity. She blushed again, knowing that Eren fought for her, and still knowing that nothing really happened last night. If she could just kick Jean and imprison him in a barn, that would be very much welcome. Meanwhile, the two guys ended up punching each other.
"What's the matter here?" a stern voice boomed.
Everyone jumped in their places. To their surprise, it was Erwin, and Mike and Nanaba were with him. Krista showed up from the back, and Jean gnashed his teeth in anger. Krista decided to tell them about the ruckus? How dare she!
"You know that public scandal is not allowed in school, no matter what form," Erwin said to the younger students. "Failure to abide by the law will get you a reprimand at first, and if this happens again, a call to your parents, then a suspension, then an expulsion, or a combination of any of these."
"A combination of what?" Nanaba's expression seemed to say.
"Who started the ruckus?" Erwin demanded.
Connie pointed at Jean, and Sasha pointed at Eren. Mike told the guys to follow him, and Eren and Jean, who were about to continue punching each other, were being held by Marco and Bertholdt.
"Follow us," Mike roared.
Before the super trio left, Erwin made another announcement.
"Uhm, does any of you play Clash of Clans?"
The first year students were shocked. What was that about?
"Is there a competition in school?" Reiner asked excitedly.
"No, I just need more dragons," Erwin said. "Care to join our clan if you have dragons?"
"I don't have a dragon yet, Sempai," Reiner replied.
"Well, forget it. I really need a dragon," Erwin replied before walking away with Mike, Nanaba, Marco, Bert, Eren, and Jean.
~~.
Hange saw the super trio going in the Students' Council's office, and she asked Moblit if anything happened for the two freshmen to be called.
"I think I heard a petite blonde call on Erwin some minutes ago," Moblit told her.
"Oooooh! I wonder if they could let me give my own punishment!" Hange said in glee as she danced rumba, much to Moblit's amusement, but much to Levi's annoyance.
"Hey, Shitty Glasses, the 'Dancing Queen' title really doesn't suit you," was Levi's rude remark.
"Oh, but dancing is exercise!" Hange smiled while continuing to dance.
"What is Erwin up to?" Levi asked.
"Punishing the brats?" Hange replied before going away while dragging Moblit along.
"Poor Moblit," Levi thought. For the first time, he was being compassionate.
He thought that, should he get a girlfriend, he didn't want someone as lunatic as Hange. He was hoping still it would be Mikasa, without knowing that Mikasa already belonged to Eren.
~~.
Up next, the cooking session. But things are not going to get steamy, okay?