"I'll race you to the top~!"

Cheerful laughter could be heard as the four of us ran to the top of the hill we always played at. I grinned as I took the lead, sticking my tongue out at the others before she

gasped.

"Eren watch out!" she had called.

But of course, I had turned too late and tripped over a tree branch. Landing on my face, I groaned before sitting up straight.

"Eren are you alright?!" Armin frantically questioned as they caught up to me.

Giving a laugh, I sheepishly rubbed the back of my head.

"Yeah I'm okay," I stated.

"Idiot," she and Mikasa chimed.

"Hey!"

I groaned after she and Armin had started laughing while Mikasa had a soft smile on her face.

"Stop laughing!" I barked crossing my arms.

"Ah that reminds me!" she exclaimed, completely ignoring me, before reaching into her pockets, "I wanted to give you guys these."

She first approached Mikasa, who gave her a confused look, and smiled before taking her hand.

"Think of it a piece of me in case you miss me," she winked before tying a neatly knitted bracelet onto Mikasa's wrist.

It was purple, black, and white in color.

"Conceited," I scoffed.

She glared at me as she tied Armin's on for him, his was light blue, brown, and black.

"These are really cool!" Armin exclaimed with a bright expression, "Where'd you get these?"

"I made them," she stated as she moved over to me with a black and white bracelet, "They all generally look the same, just different colors."

"Do you also have one?" I asked.

She looked up at me before smiling a little as she tied the bracelet onto my wrist.

"Of course I do," she stated before pulling up her sleeve to reveal a navy blue, black, and white bracelet, "They wouldn't be friendship bracelets if I didn't have one too."

"Who would wear things as tacky as friendship bracelets?" I scoffed scowling slightly at the bracelet.

She frowned before she smacked my head.

"If you don't like it then don't wear it!" she pouted as she crossed her arms.

I growled and was about to start an argument with her but Armin cut me off.

"But why does it sound like we won't see you again?" he asked, "Are you going somewhere?"

She paused before she turned to Armin.

"Did it sound like I was going to leave?" she asked.

"Well no," Armin began before looking behind us, "But there's someone running over here..."

We all turned to see a boy running towards them, looking as if he was in his late teens or early 20's.

"Onii-san?" she questioned with a confused expression.

"That's your brother?" Mikasa questioned.

"Yeah, but what's he doing here?" she mused as I glanced at her.

We all waited until her brother reached the top where we were, only to have him grab her wrist and yank her up.

"O-Onii-san?!" she yelped in surprise.

"C'mon, we have to go," he demanded, "Now."

"B-But," she stammered as she glanced back at us.

"No buts," he snapped glaring at her, "Let's go!"

We all stood up in alarm as he started dragging her away. I could see the desperate look in her eyes as she moved further and further away from us.

And just like that, she vanished. We never saw her again, but we kept the bracelets in her memory. Her instincts were always right, she made the bracelets for us because she knew she was going to leave us one day...how right you were Leah.

If anyone wants to see what the bracelets look like, you can message me and I'll send you the links ^^