She's seventeen the day she finds out. The house is cold and she's alone and Eren finds her crying in the bathroom, counting with her fingers over and over again.
His parents are more than happy with the news, his mother shedding tears of emotion and promising she would help with everything.
His friends stay quiet for a moment, maybe too shocked, or maybe even as scared as they are, but in seconds everything turns into screams and laughter and happiness.
Her parents don't answer, their bodies as cold as the stones with their names above them, but she confesses in the night that she can feel them watching over her, and that she is scared they are disappointed. He whispers on her ear that she is nothing to be disappointed of, the baby is not a disappointment and he loves them both very much.
They are young and they love deeply, giving everything they have to give.
She wakes up in the middle of the night in a pool of her own blood, and she screams and tears fall down her cheeks and she hasn't been this scared since a long time ago and she doesn't know what to feel.
He wakes up next and he calls for his parents, and he's crying too because this can't be happening. They are young, and they love with everything they have, and to lose it all…
His father pulls some strings in the hospital and they do everything they can but it's too late and he falls in a seat when he hears because what are they going to do? The tears fall without him knowing and his mother's embrace is as warm as he needs, but she is not her, she doesn't know what it feels like because he is here but his child isn't and god, how is he going to tell Mikasa?
He cries again when he tells her what she already knows, and she screams in pain with him because why? What does the world have against them?
Some friends show up, and they all get teary eyes because they are young and they were so happy.
There is nothing for them to bury, and they don't get enough closure. They dream about what could have been, and school seem like hell with all the stares and the pity flooding the rooms.
They can sense the teacher's eyes on their backs, once filled with the disdain and now replaced by the pity.
He can hear her cry sometimes, in the shower or in the middle of the night. He cries too, but he doesn't let her hear. He can only hug her, the way she always supports him, and whisper thing for her to hear, yet not for her to believe.
She can see him stare off somewhere, lost in his owns dreams, so she puts a hand on his shoulder and she brings him back to Earth.
They love like few of their age do, and they lose like few of their age do. But they have survived worse things, so they pick themselves and they smile to each other, because as long as they fight, they win.