Hey! look at me update this fic at the speed of a dead turtle! :'D
I am so sorry this took so long, and thank you all for being patient UwU Real life has been getting in the way (and as much as I wish it wasn't, real life is a bigger priority...and Pokemon)
I really didn't think it would take me this long to update, I really didn't...Just all my TAFE course assignments are due in these next few weeks till I'm finished for the year, and then I've gotta pack all my crap to move back home for the summer till my course starts again. Once all that's out of the way, hopefully I'll have more time to work on this (and that's praying I don't have to do a lot of help with rousing sheep)
Blue eyes fluttered open at the sound of roaring thunder disrupting her rest. Still groggy from sleep, Christa glanced outside the window that went along the wall to see that it was still raining outside. Letting out a quiet yawn, she sat up and stretched her arms and back, followed by looking around the room, where most of the people she met last night were still asleep. The person sleeping in the pile of cushions and blankets next to her was an unfamiliar face, which must have been the girl they mentioned who was working last night.
Being as silent as possible, Christa stood up and snuck out of the room, being very careful not to disturb whoever was sleeping when she closed the sliding door. As soon as she turned around, she jumped a little when she realised there was an unfamiliar boy standing right behind her. The boy was rather handsome, taller than her (she's not gonna deny, everyone is taller than her...), with a mop of brown hair, and eyes with an incredibly attractive shade of teal staring at her with curiosity and suspicion. The one thing that was really noticeable about him was that he was ridiculously clean, which made him stick out like a sore thumb in the building full of dust and filth.
"Umm, who are you and what are you doing here?" the boy asked as he arched an eyebrow.
"I'm Christa, one of your friends brought me here last night. You must be the boy the others told me about, umm...Was it Eric?"
"Eren." The boy corrected curtly, still giving the blond a leer until the other door slid open to reveal that Ymir was already up.
"Alright Fido, back off before you do something stupid. She's harmless."
Eren's glare was wondering up and down the girls body before his shoulders lowered as he started to relax, "Alright. Sorry, I'm just a little weary of new faces."
"Oh don't worry, that's perfectly understandable! I'm no threat at all." Christa giggled nervously.
"So how'd last night go?" Ymir asked Eren as she slung an arm around his shoulder.
"Fine..."
"Did that Levi fella give you a good time again?" Ymir grinned as she wiggled her eyebrows, which Eren returned with a face of horror and shoving her away.
"NO! Why the hell do you always think I'm fucking the guy?!"
"It's fucking obvious Yeager, why else would he invite you over every Friday night?"
"Because we get along? Jesus Christ, he's engaged!"
"Hasn't stopped anyone before."
"Oh my god!" Eren whined as he buried his face in his hands, Ymir was wearing a smug grin of victory.
"Pardon me, but what's all this about?" Christa decided to butt into the conversation, she didn't really want to pry into anything personal, but it also didn't help that she was curious.
"Yeager's fucking a cop...well, I think it's the other way around, he seems like a bottom kind of guy, but whatever." The taller of the three stated boredly, earning an elbow to the side by Eren.
"Don't listen to her, I got hit by a cop car a few months back, nothing too bad, it was my fault for being stupid enough to be running around on the road. Anyway, one thing lead to another and I ended up on good terms with him and his fiance, who happens to be this really cool, but kinda crazy forensic scientist, and they like to invite me over for dinner and stay the night on Fridays."
"That's rather nice of them." Christa couldn't help but smile at the little story.
"Yeah, they're great! Is everyone else up?"
"Nope, just the usual early risers."
It was at that moment the Jean had exited the library, his movements were rather sluggish which indicated he was still half asleep. With a yawn, the male scowled and leered at Eren, "Jesus fucking Christ Yeager, you have any idea how loud you are? It's a bloody miracle that everyone else can sleep through your annoyingly loud voice."
"Shut up Sea Biscuit."
"Bite me!"
Eren just retorted by sticking his tongue out and gave Jean the middle finger.
Ymir just rolled her eyes and turned her attention to the petite blond next to her. "Hey Christa, how about we go into the theatrette and leave dumb and dumber to try and kill each other." The taller girl groaned as she grabbed onto Christa's oversized shirt and yanked her into the other room, just in time before the two boys started bickering at each other.
"So, how'd ya sleep?" Ymir asked.
"Alright. Definitely better than the last couple of nights."
"Newbie huh?"
Christa nodded.
"Not surprised, you seemed really out of place being on the streets just by how hopeless you were, plus your clothes are WAY to nice for a homeless kid."
The blond huffed at the comment and quickly moved towards the table, where she was greeted by Armin, Mikasa, Sasha and Bertholdt.
"Good morning Christa." Armin started with a bright smile.
"Good morning." She greeted back, her frown quickly changing into a smile as she took her seat at the table. Ymir followed shortly after, taking a seat next to her.
"So, how'd you find your first night here?" The blond male asked.
"It was alright...Kinda daunting actually."
"Don't worry about that, it's like that for everyone, I was just lucky I had Mikasa and Eren with me when we came here."
"Speaking of which, Eren's home." Ymir announced, which Mikasa was the only one to physically acknowledge the news as she excused herself from the table and quickly walked out of the room.
"Umm, I know it's not really my place to ask, but how did you three get here?"
"It's fine. We came from Shiganshina, which got caught in a terrible bush fire 3 years back."
"Ah, I remember hearing about that! It was all over the TV and newspapers."
Yeah, well unfortunately the fire took our homes, all our possessions, and we got separated from our parents, but we managed to stick together. We still don't know if they're alive or not, but it seems like they haven't been looking for us, so we're assuming they got caught in the fire."
"I'm so sorry."
"It's fine, I'm just grateful that I still have my friends with me, and that Reiner and Bert found us when they did and took us in."
The taller male's face turned a faint shade of pink, "W-well, it's not like we could leave you 3 out in the snow to die."
Armin chuckled, "I know, and I still really appreciate it."
Ymir, who was drumming her fingers along the wooden surface of the table, decided to pop the question. "So what about you Chris, what's your little sob story?"
"Huh? Well...I uh...-"
"Ymir! Don't feel ya hav ta tell us now, Christa. We can wait till yer ready."
"No no, it's fine...I'm just...Well...My mother had passed away recently. She had been very sick for a few years but she did manage to survive passed what was expected and because of her death, father had to take care of me. Me and dad never really got along since I'm a bastard child and he had an image to keep up because of his high profile and his religious background. One day, he decided to take me on a trip to Trost, saying it was meant to be a father/daughter outing and he wanted to be closer to me...I guess I was hoping I'd finally have a proper father figure to look up to, but he ended up abandoning me at the plaza in the centre of town...I went to the police and they thought I was crazy and just laughed at me since very few people know I was his daughter."
"What a prick!"
"A part of me should have known he was a horrible enough person to ditch their child just to keep their status clean..."
"Don't get too down 'bout it, some of us are in the same boat like Bert, Reiner 'n Marco. Me, Jean, Connie 'n Annie are runaways, 'n then ya got tragedies like Armin, Mikasa, 'n Eren." Sasha stated
"What about you, Ymir?"
"I got chased out of town after being accused of practicing witchcraft." The brunette gave the blond a mischievous smirk and she wiggled her fingers at her, which only caused Christa to roll her eyes.
The group continued to chatter over small things and cracking jokes every once and a while as the others would finally wake up and join in one by one.
"So, what do you guys do on days like this?"
"Not a whole lot, Sunday's usually the day when shit happens." Connie answered.
"What's on Sundays?"
"There's usually a flea market on, we have a little gig we put on to earn some cash that does pretty well."
"Sounds interesting. What kind of gig?"
"It's a mix of ar-" Connie was cut off by Reiner butting in.
"I think we'll just wait till tomorrow to show her, just to keep it a bit of a surprise."
The group fell quiet for a bit, not finding anything to really say until Ymir came up with an idea.
"We do have some old board games, anyone up for something?"
"We could play Trivial per-"
"Armin no, fuck off! You always win that stupid game!"
"Do you have monopoly?"
"We do, but Yeager throws a fucking tanty whenever he's losing"
"I DO NOT!" Eren snapped.
"How about Twister?" Marco offered.
"...Yeah, I could do Twister, anyone else up?"
Most of the group nodded, with the exception of Reiner and Annie (who was still asleep in the library)
"Alright, we're gonna have to do a rock off to see who goes first."
As you can clearly see, I didn't drown in the tyrannical rain UwU in fact, I think we've finally hit some nice weather...or the calm before the storm (stupid Melbourne weather is bipolar as hell!)
Anyways, you have no idea how giddy I am to get such a good response for this fic from everyone! Now I just pray I don't stuff it up horribly :'D