Last chapter was way too short. Sorry.

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Mr. Hannes, their teacher just walked in the class when the bell rang. All the students quickly took their seats. He cleared his throat. "Ahh, good morning everyone! We have a new student with us today." He waved towards the back where the blonde girl sat. "Would you care to introduce yourself?"

The girl sighed. She stopped fidgeting for a moment to brush some of her bangs behind her ear. "Annie Leonhardt." She mumbled.

Mr. Hannes grinned. "Well it's nice to meet you Ms. Leonhardt! Anything you would like to share? Like where you went before here?"

"No." She replies bluntly.

Everyone looked at each other, then back at her. Their teachers eyebrows furrowed. "Come on. Your last school?"

She groaned. "Fine. I went to St. Maria, but since it burned down I transferred here."

The class started to mumble to each other. St. Maria was a poor high school. It was the school full of students who made the worst choices and had the highest rate than any school for suicide. It was over crowded with students and was said to be the worst high school you could go to, so only the students without much money went there. It recently burned down from an electrical problem. The fire was huge, it was all over the news. About twenty to thirty students died in it.

"Well, thank you for sharing that Annie." He turned around and started writing on the board. "We'll be starting Hamlet today—"

The class went on. Annie kept twisting a pen between her index and middle fingers and her leg kept bouncing up and down. Armin wondered what was bothering her, but decided not to ask because of how she was acting earlier. She didn't seem in the mood to talk at all.

Finally, the bell rang an hour and a half later. Armin saw Annie pack up her things as quick as possible and dash out the door. Sighing, he packed up and headed to his second period class.

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Not much happened that day. Annie was in his third period class too, but she sat with Mina Carolina there. The two seemed to be polar opposites; Annie never spoke once and seemed conservative, while Mina was talkative and said what was on her mind.

At lunch, Armin sat with his friends Eren and Mikasa. He's known them since he was a little kid and they've always helped him. He sat down and smiled at the two. "Hey guys."

Eren smiled at him. "Hey Armin! You've seen that new girl right? That blonde girl?"

Armin nodded. "She's in two of my classes. She doesn't talk much, and seems kind of jumpy. I can understand her point of view though. She's new and started in the middle of the year."

Eren waved it off. "But starting mid-year. Who does that? Her parents must hate her!"

"Eren, thats rude."

"Sorry."

Armin shook his head. "Never mind that. Is she in any of your guy's classes?"

Eren nodded. "She's in my second period class. Thats it though."

Mikasa tapped her finger on the table. "I heard the teacher call her name yesterday. She must be in my gym class."

"Most likely."

Armin was really curious about Annie though. Starting in the middle of the year? And she didn't seem like the person to open up to others either. He wondered if she was hiding something.

"Hey look!" Eren pointed across the cafe. "There she is! She's with Mina, Thomas, Franz and Hannah."

Armin nodded. "I heard Mina say she'll let Annie sit with her at lunch today. She kind of dragged her there, actually."

"I heard she came from St. Maria." Mikasa piped up.

"Yeah, I heard that too. Armin?"

The boy in question nodded again. "She said that in first."

"How did Maria burn down again? Was it an electrical problem or something?" Eren asked.

"Yeah, it was."

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The final bell rang and Armin got out of his forth period as quick as he could. He may be smart but he hated Physics, and that was strangely his best subject.

He bolted down the hall and down the stairs to his locker. He packed the unnecessary books away and pulled out his coat, scarf and hat then locked his locker again. At the front gates of Rose, he zipped his winter coat up and started to walk back to his home.

After about five minutes of walking, he looked up and noticed a girl with a jacket (more for springtime) and a hat walking ahead of him. He noticed her small figure and blonde hair and immediately knew it was...

"Annie!"

The girl looked at the car that pulled beside her. Armin looked at the car inquisitively. It was a black 2005 Mustang GT (yes, Armin knew stuff about cars) with two teenaged boys riding in the front. "Come on, we don't have all day! You said you'd skip last. We've been waiting forever!"

Annie huffed. "Yeah, yeah. Just let me in the car Reiner."

Armin stopped dead in his tracks. Reiner? That means Bertholdt is in the car too. Those two caused the worst trouble. They were expelled from St. Rose the year before for almost killing the vice principal. Those two were always smoking or at parties. They were not people you'd want to hang out with. And wait, Annie knew them? How it sounded, she has known them for a while.

He watched Bertholdt, a tall, black haired boy get out of the car to move the seat forwards. Annie crawled in the back seat and Bertholdt got in the car, then the three drove off.

What?

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Those moments when you think you typed 2000 words but it was only like 500. Typing-on-Mobile life. It sucks but F it. Im sleepy so dont blame me for a shitty chapter please.

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