Tellin Armin my true feelings was going to be very easy.

And here I was doing it.

He was sitting across from the table, nose buried in a book. I was writing out a note. I thought this note over very carefully, and finally, I passed it to him from across the table. He looked at the note, and read out loud

"Roses are red

Violets are blue

Fuck my best friend

I'll shave your head"

...

"Jean this doesn't rhyme!"

"It's not about the rhyming, it's the message.

I'm serious. You do anything to Marco ill shave your head" I glared at him from across the table.

Armins eyes went wide, and then he chuckled very quietly.

"Jean, Marco is too much of a scared little boy to do anything intimate!" Armin gossiped.

I remembered when we first got here in training, and how Marco first kissed me the second day here. I wanted to speak up that he was an absolute animal, but didn't want to give Armin any ideas.

"Whatever Armin." I got up from the table and kicked the chair over. I closed the book he was reading for an extra little fuck you, I hope he lost him page.

($&)

Eren sat zipping through the trees, sweating like a gorilla and slicing up cardboard Titans.

Behind him, Marco was chasing Eren trying to catch up to him to talk.

"EREN SLOW DOWN!"

"NO, GO TRAIN WITH YOUR BOYTOY!"

"EREN PLEASE THIS IS ABOUT ARMIN! PLEASE!"

Eren released his grappling hooks and backflips onto a tree branch, Marco did a less graceful landing, scratching up his gear.

"what about him" Eren said between heavy breaths.

"I need to know how to umm... Break up with him" Marco said, with shame in his voice.

"...what?"

"BREAK UP WITH HIM!"

"But why, is he not good enough for you?" Eren said clenching his fist.

"No it's not that, it's just that I realized he isn't the one, and that I kinda always had feelings for someone else.." Marco said unsure.

"Oh really? Well, my advice to you is to show him you have moved on quickly, and then I'll come in with open arms, ready to kis-FUCK I MEAN dry his tears away!"

And so Marco did just that, as Jean and Marco sat at one table during the mess hall, and Armin and Eren, Marco ignored Armin the entire time, not even giving him a sideways glance.

Marco was dying inside from guilt, but he kept his mouth shut.

After supper, Armin came up to him, and said

"Marco why have you been ignoring me?" The blondes eyes full of confusion

Marco hesitated, and then said "Armin I need to tell you something."

Armin listened.

"I don't wanna be your boyfriend. In fact I would love it if we could just stay friends."

(&$)

Marco got his message across that night to Armin, because secretly when he went back into his bunk, with tears in his eyes wondering what went wrong. All he ever wanted was love?

Why was Marco suddenly blowing him off? What had he done wrong?