-At the airport-

"Make sure you come back safe." Armin's grandfather warns as he places a kiss on his 'granddaughter's' head.

"Don't worry, I will. I just hope Eren or the ride there doesn't kill me you know."

"I'm sure he won't, you don't see it yet but he has a weak spot for you."

"Sure he does...Anyways, will you change your mind in living in England? I want you to come to America."

"No, it's best I spend the remainder of my life where all my best memories are."

"Well, I'll make sure to visit as much as I can."

"Thank you, now hurry your husband seems angry over there."

"Oh come on, you know we're not actually married."

"According to the law you are."

"Ah details, well anyways, love you."

-At Japan-

"You know we would have had more privacy in my private jet. I don't see why you're so against it. I hate traveling with common people, and why did we have to ride coach? We could have gone first class." Eren complained as he waited in a line to receive his luggage from the VIP section.

"Calm down, it's a good change for you. And I'd hate to show off. Just stop your complaining, I want to get to bed as soon as I can and before the press can recognize us! And remember a happy wife makes for a happy life!" Armin replies as he slings a backpack over his shoulders.

"You're not even a female."

"Yeah,but when I'm around you pretending to be I feel like a maybe I was even meant to be one. After all you are a girl until your 'Y' chromosome kicks in."

"Pssh whatever, hurry up and let's get to the lodge already. Being around all these people makes me uncomfortable."

"Yeah yeah." Armin replies pushing a cart with their things as they headed out double doors, and into a limo. Driving up the the resort took a few hours, however the two were able to check in and bring their belongings inside. Looking around Armin surveyed the area content with what he saw. There in front of him was couch, TV, table, and kitchen.

"Hmmm, what should we do since it's Christmas and all?"

"Why not ice skate. It seems like a fun thing to do."

"I don't know how to ice skate..."

"Why does that not surprise me?If you don't know I'll teach you."

"Rather not you seem like the type to get angry if didn't get it right on the first try."

"No I'm no, you can ask Mikasa. After all I was the one who taught her."

"You teach her: no way."

"Yes way."

"I always thought she rocked at everything she tried."

"Well yeah but ice skating was something that took her a while to get the hang of."

"I don't know..."

"Come on one try. I promise it won't be as bad as you think."

"I-I guess so..."

"Great, then put on your winter clothes. It's going to be pretty cold outside."

-At the ice rink-

"E-Eren, I swear i-if you let me go I'm going to kill you." Armin threatens as his hands grab at Eren's forearms keeping him balanced as his feet tried to desperately to move forward.

"Calm down will ya? You've only taken two steps so far. I told you to glide not step."

"Well gliding is kind of hard when you have no clue what that feels like." The blonde responds in a shaky tone continuing to look down at his feet."

"Then it's best we start you off at the wall."

"There is too many little kids there, and I don't want to get laughed at."

"Who here would laugh at you?"

"Everyone."

"Whatever, you want the hard way I'll give you the hard way." Tugging Armin forward,the brunette glided in front of him pulling him along for the ride.

"W-whoa! What are you doing!? I'm going t-to fall!"

"No you're not, I'm just letting you feel like what skating is suppose to feel like. Quit being a baby."

"I am not, now just teach me how to skaaaa-..." Closing his eyes, Armin waited for the cold solid floor to connect with his face. However he did not meet such a fate. Feeling the warmth, he slowly opened his eyes to see what had happened. Once more the whole world stopped as Armin processed what had happened. Still standing, Eren caught Armin before he was able to fall to the ground.

"Don't worry, I gotcha." The brunette replies softly with a smile helping Armin back on his feet. Still stuck in a daze, Armin looked at Eren as if he was a memory he couldn't comprehend well. Something about the model in that moment seemed different, but different from the times before. It was as though, he for once, took off his mask and revealed his true caring form. And in that moment, Armin could actually say he was comfortable to be around him as his heart skipped a beat.

"Cho Hee!" A voice calls out to the singer who shakes his head assuring his reality.

"W-What?"

"You kind of blanked out for a second there. You're not falling for me are you?" Eren suggest with a toothy smile.

"A-As if I would! Who on earth would want to date someone like you?"

"We're married."

"Fake married. A-Anyways, let's get along with this lesson...I'm not having a lot of fun."

"Fine, I know a sure fire way to teach you."

"Great what is it?"

"Well you'll just have to see." Eren says before slowly taking Armin off to the side where the wall. After leaving him to grab onto the wall, Eren skates away to the center of the rink with the spotlights on him.

"W-What are you doing?" Armin yells lightly trying not to drive too much attention towards him. From across the way, he sees Eren ignore him and continue onto whatever he was doing. Standing awkwardly near the edge of the rink, Armin tried his best to get out of the way of children who like him were still learning how to skate. With each child, he had to maneuver himself round them in hopes not to disturb their fun. Looking back to his companion, he saw that there as no sign that he was going to come back.

"Aren't you going to teach me!?" He yells in desperation as he held the wall in a three year old death grip.

"Nope, use the wall."

"Y-You can't leave me like this!"

"Yeah I can, have fun~!" Eren sings as he away quietly. Huffing out watching his breath turn to fog, Armin stoop at the side and observed the Christmas decorations. Wallowing in his own self pity, the singer sighed and watched happy couples pass him by. So badly did he wish he were them, or that he was home studying for the winter final that would come when they came back. So there he stood miserably as he watched his 'husband' talk to other girls with his fake smile.

Clicking his tongue, Armin looked away feeling his chest start to feel odd as he watched Eren go about his business. Knowing it was not safe to dwell on this feeling, he tried to think of the things that he cared about.

"Cho Hee?" He hears from his right directing his attention over there.

"J-JEAN!?W-What are you doing here?" Armin inquires with a smile hugging the tall brunette tightly.

"W-Well, you do remember I come here every Christmas because my grandmother loves it here. I thought you were staying somewhere else in Japan, and why are you skating you know you don't know how?"

"Oh yeah, I forgot. And my jerk for a husband left me here to try and figure out how to skate; some honeymoon this is...I'd rather be in England with my grandfather."

"I see, w-well...s-since you're alone right now, d-did you want me to teach you? I-I mean just so you're not alone." Jean ask nervously with blush dusted on his face.

"Aren't you with your family?"

"Actually they left to have dinner,and I'm here to skate since none of them like it."

"Okay, then I accept your offer. Where do we start?"

"W-Well, I-I can hold your waist while I go through the foot movements with you."

"Okay sounds simple, we glide right?"

"Yes, you take two steps forward similar to walking, instead of planting your foot on the ground let the ice take you away. When you want to turn you have to lean a bit to the opposite side you want to go."

"Simple enough, better than what Eren told me. Let's start." Shifting his position, Armin puts one arm around Jean's waist as the other is being held on by the other's hand. Feeling himself wobble a bit, Armin hugged Jean again for safety.

"Whoa take it easy, I won't let you fall." The brunette replies with a smile assuring his crush.

"U-Un..." Armin replies blushing a bit as he did so. Reverting back to his original position, Armin allowed Jean to take him around the rink a few time they did so they laughed happily talking about the old days.

"Oh my gosh you were such a cry baby back then." Jean chuckles.

"W-well I was pretty weak, I still am..."

"No you're not, you think too little of yourself. You're way more than you'll ever know."

"You're too nice to me Jean, how come you don't have a girlfriend?"

"Well I've been in love with the same girl for years. And I actually came here to chase after her."

"Oh do I know her?"

"Y-You could say that."

"W-Well then maybe I can help you. After all you've done so much for me, I wouldn't want to be a burden to you by keeping you all to myself. I can be your wing man."

"Okay, well then if you are a girl, which you are now, how could I capture your heart?"

"W-Well," Armin pauses remembering how Jean had captures his heart all those years ago. "If I were a girl, I would like you to act chivalrous to me. All the pulling out chairs, and fighting for the girls honor is cute. But then again if you take it too far I would feel useless. Oh my gosh, w-why am I speaking in first person on this topic?"

"Don't worry, you're just creating the persona."

"Nerd."

"Well it comes with hanging out with you a lot: nerd!"

"Shut up. Anyways, say I was a girl, what you're doing now with me I would start to like you a lot. The way you helped me today makes my heart feel like it's about to burst. But that's only because you took me around too fast." Armin lies trying to hide his re-developed feelings for the brunette.

"Ha ha sorry, so if this were a date what else would you want to do?"

"W-well, I would want to go have hot chocolate as he held hands and walked. Then maybe after we could watch a movie and just enjoy each other's company. Then we could exchange Christmas gifts to each other showing our love...Whoa, okay way too into this girl persona."

"I can tell, what would happened if I did this?" Jean places Armin in front of him making sure he was stable. Then he lifted Armin's chin allowing their eyes to meet. He then started to lean in slowly awaiting to see if Armin would consent to his kiss. Observing how Armin closed his eyes, he smiles before barely even brushing Armin's lips.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!?" Jean hears a scream from behind followed by a kick to the face by an ice enough the actor fell hard onto the ground, blood trickling from his cheek where he had been kicked.

Armin who was caught off guard was on the ground curled up protecting his body once Jean no longer could keep him up.

"O-Ow..." The blond complains as he slowly gets up practically feeling the bruises litter his body.

"A-Are you okay?" Jean asked ignoring the cut on his cheek, and helping Armin up slowly who got swept away by Eren.

"You didn't answer me you prick, why were you going to kiss my wife!? Why are you even here?"

"Will you shut up for a second, Cho Hee are you alright?"

"M-My a-ankle h-hurts..." Armin replies as a single tear falls before falling unconscious from the pain. In that second something snapped in Jean's mind, he immediately grabs Armin away carrying him bridal style. Everyone in the skating rink watches silently to see how the scene would unfold in front of them.

"Where do you think you're going with her?"

"I'm taking her to the hospital."

"No I will I'm her husband."

"As if I'd let you, what husband leaves his wife alone while he fools around with girls right in front of her?"

"W-well, she wouldn't hurry up and I wanted company."

"You could have helped her! You could have stayed with her until she got the hang of it. You should have treated her like a princess! You should have done a lot of things."

"W-Well, I'm new to this marriage thing.'

"You better get use to it because you have the most beautiful kind person as a wife. I don't care if you're her husband or not, I'm taking her to the hospital because I love her. Which is more than you'll ever will."

"I wouldn't have married her i-if I didn't love her. Now give her back!"

"No, I won't. But i will leave you with this one thing. From today on we are officially rivals."

"Ha, as if you can become as popular as me."

"I don't have to be popular with the everyone. I only have to be the most important in Cho Hee's heart. Once I get that, I'll have the world unlike you who has had it handed to you on a silver platter."

"She'll never like you!"

"We'll see about that. Now why don't you go back to flirting with those girls? You looked much happier than with Cho Hee." With that Jean left Eren by himself in the center of the ice rink to reflect on what he had done. Watching as his classmates left him, Eren looked around seeing how everyone's eyes were on him. Clicking his tongue and looking away, Eren skated away trying to clear his thoughts and conscience. The only thought that was on his mind at the moment is if Armin was okay.

-At the hospital-

"U-Ugh, my body hurts..." Armin complains slowly getting up from the hospital bed he was currently on.

"Armin you're okay!" Jean exclaims.

"Yeah, but why am I at the hospital?And are you okay, your cheek was bleeding."

"You fainted from the pain of your ankle and those bruises all over your body. And don't worry I'm fine, it was just a cut." Looking down, Armin observed his hospital attire as he examined his body seeing a wrap had been put around Armin's sprained ankle.

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry! I'm being such a burden on you right now! You're family must be worried sick about you!"

"Shh, shh don't worry. I contacted them already, besides I already spent of Christmas Day with them."

"But they're your family."

"Armin you know you're like family to me." You're more than family, Jean thought.

"Well thanks for helping me, I know I'll repay you one day. Ha ha,but thanks for today."

"No problem it's what friends do."

"You know, I'm jealous of the girl that ends up with you."

"Oh and why is that?"

"You're really caring of me, so if you had a girlfriend you'd treat her like a queen."

"Don't worry about that now, worry about getting better. What are you doing for the winter final near New Year's?"

"Well I was planning to sing, but the song I don't know.I kinda want to do a duet."

"I'll do a duet with you."

"Are you sure? I thought you were doing a scene for the final."

"I am, but that doesn't mean I can help you."

"True, but you help me too much already."

"Think nothing about it, I always have your back. Anyways any duet songs you think would be good?"

"Well I kind of wanted to do a song called the Couple Song."

"It's about a couple saying how handsome/pretty the other is. It has a good beat to it, and is very soft to sing to. I was actually thinking of asking Eren to sing with me."

"Why?"

"It's called the couple song, if I don't sing it with him that would be weird."

"Can he even sing?"

"You know I don't know, maybe I can figure out later." Armin looks down to his hands sadly.

"Why do you look so down?"

"I just, my life is too complicated right now, you're the only thing that is going right. T-that, and I'm scared of hospitals..."

"Why?"

"It reminds me of death?" The blond replies sadly showing no uplifting tone in his voice. Looking at his friend with sympathetic eyes, Jean pinches Armin's cheeks causing the blind to jump.

"J-JWEAN, W-WHAT AWE YOU DOWING (Jean what are you doing)?"

"Make you smile, it's Christmas the day. So give me a smile!" Jean releases his cheeks soon after giving him a toothy closed eyed smile. Lighting punching his shoulder Armin giggled for the first time since the day started.

"You always know how to cheer me up. You'll make someone happy." If only I wasn't sick and stuck in the situation, then maybe I could have been yours.

"I already did idiot."

"True, true, now stop it everyone is looking. They might think we're dating, especially that told lady over there. She's watched one too many dramas."

"And you haven't?"

"Shut up!"

"Oh yeah, that reminds me I have a Christmas present for you."

'W-What really? Y-You didn't have to?"

"I wanted to. Here." Jean says as he pulls out a small box with two tiny rings inside. In the center of the gold bands were two identical crystals.

"They're friendship rings. I saw them and thought of us."

"They're awesome, but I hope you remember we're both guys. What guys wear friendship rings?"

"Us."

"Point taken, thank you." Armin states placing his ring onto his index finger so that he wouldn't lose it.

"You two are the cutest couple I've ever seen." The old woman from across the room said with glee.

"O-Oh no h-he's not...w-we're not..." The two of them said in unison, freaking out and blushing once they both made eye contact.

"S-She has someone else, I-I'm just her friend." Jean explains hiding his blushing face behind his hand.

"Well that's a shame dear, it seems like you two are soul , and Merry Christmas."

"M-Merry Christmas." The two replied as if they were completely defeated. After the old woman had turned away, they both smiled and laughed for a few minutes before having their laughter die down.

"Thank you for making my Christmas better Jean. I really appreciate it."

"You thank me too much, I should be thanking you for just being with me."

"I know right, it's just so hard to be me when I'm wanted so much."

"Shut up." If only you knew.

"Anyways it's getting late, I probably should sleep."

"Yeah my family is probably heading home by now."

"Merry Christmas Jean."

"Merry Christmas Armin."

-An hour later-

Eren entered Armin's Hospital room seeing that most people were ready for sleep. Ignoring the voices of the nurses telling him to leave, he walked straight towards Armin's bed. His head spinning with guilt for what he had done. The cinematic record in his head could remember the face of Armin happily accepting Jean's kiss compared to getting one from him. Narrowing his eyes in anger, Eren came to a closed curtain opening it forcefully revealing a sleeping Armin.

He stared at the blond for a second before taking another step forward. Carefully his eyes examined every inch of his body seeing the bruises and wrap around Armin's ankle. Seeing all of this made him shiver wondering how badly the singer had fallen to the ground. Taking a seat from the side Eren quielty watched Armin sleep observing his features.

Smiling at the sleeping face, Eren leaned and placed a gentle kiss on Armin's forehead.

"I'm sorry okay. I just have a lot of issues, you're just too good for me." He says quietly before holding onto Armin's hand and feeling it's warmth. He stayed that way for five minutes before letting go and laying his head on the bed near Armin's legs.

"I'll never let him have you, you're mine."