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Commander Keith walked down the rows asking random people their name, where they're from, and why they're here. Everyone of them seemed to cower in fear or peril when he yelled at them. He was so mean, it's awesome. My grin seemed to get wider. I watched as he stopped at a boy three over on my left. A girl across from me stared at me as if I were the strangest person alive. I hid a laugh when a few others noticed as well and made the same face. I looked over to see the person who Commander Keith was talking to sit on the ground and hold his forehead.

"No one told you sit recruit! If you can't handle this then forget about joining the military police!" The Commander yelled. He then moved on and started walking towards me.

"What the hell is wrong with your face you smiling idiot?" He yelled at the guy next to the one on the ground. I couldn't quite make out what he had said, but he smiled the entire time! As the Commander spoke to him his face fell and he started to look worried, and a bit scared.

"Hey q-ball your up next." He said moving onto the guy next to me.

"Oh me?" He hesitated. He did the salute, but with his left arm instead of his right. "Sir! Connie Springer, from..." He continued yelling. Before he could finish he was lifted off the ground by the Commander. He lifted him up by the sides of his head.

"You have it backwards Connie Springer. That was the first thing you were taught. This salute represents the resolve in your heart to fight those bent on the systematic destruction of our people. Is your heart on your right side!?" He yelled the last part. I continued to smile even through all this. He looked over and saw my smile. He let go of Connie who fell to the ground.

"What's wrong with your face!?" He yelled. I tried to hid a laugh that had been growing. I did the salute, my fist placed over my heart while my left arm was behind my back.

"My name is Lily!" I yelled in reply, my face still a smile.

"What's your last name recruit?" He asked, his face in a scowl.

"I would rather only be known as Lily, my father is a man of which I do not want to speak of." I answered. My face never faltered from it's grin.

"Why are you still smiling!?" He yelled, getting closer to my face.

"The thought of training for the world outside the Walls is a dream come true. Nothing will make me loose this smile if I'm doing something I love." I smirked. Suddenly there was a crunch of food, everyone froze. The Commander forgot about me and moved onto a girl behind me who was eating a potato.

"Hey you there, what do you think you're doing?" He asked. She didn't answer and continued to eat the potato. "YOU ARE OFFICIALLY ON MY SHIT LIST! JUST WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?" He yelled. I heard her swallow.

"Sasha Braus from Dopper village at your service! Reporting for duty sir!" She saluted, her voice never faltering.

"Sasha Braus huh? And what is that you're clutching in your right hand?" He asked, quieter.

"A steam potato. It sat there in the mess hall begging to be eaten, sir." She answered.

"The theft I understand, but here? Why eat it here of all places?" He asked.

"It looked quite delicious, and it was getting cold. So I gave it shelter in my stomach sir." She told him in a monotone voice.

"Why? I can't comprehend. Why would you eat that potato?" He almost stuttered.

"Are you asking me why people eat potatoes? I'm surprised you don't know sir." She answered. She giggled nervously after a second. I turned to see her break off part of the potato and hand it to him. "Here sir. Have half." She said solemnly.

"Have half." He accepted the potato. "Really?" He looked back up at Sasha. Who smiled at him.

I was told to run until sunset with Sasha. She also lost meal privileges for the next five days. She seemed really depressed about that. It was now almost sunset and I had kept a good steady pace the entire time while Sasha had slowed down quite a bit. I continued to run around the field my skin getting tanned by the late night sun. I looked over to see several people standing on some kind of balcony watching us. It wasn't that hard to run this long. I mean, I spent my entire life outside the walls. I was taught how to run as fast as I could for as long as I could, in either an attempt to escape or just because it was fun to run after abnormals, or be chased by them. Either way I made a game out of everything.

I laughed as I nearly tripped over my own foot. I continued to run for a few hours until I heard a bell ring. I then picked up the pace and ran towards the building from earlier. I ran faster when I saw Eren and Mikasa.

"Eren! Mikasa!" I yelled. I quickly caught up and put an arm on each of their shoulders.

"If you insist on worrying, worry about how long your hair is. It's gonna catch up with you in a bad way when we start." He told Mikasa.

"Okay, I'll cut it." Mikasa replied. I looked at my hair.

"Mikasa, can I get my hair cut with you?" I pleaded as we walked towards the dorms.

"How short should I go you think?" Mikasa asked.

"Maybe to your shoulder." I suggested. "Hey Eren, mind if I get a style like yours?" I asked.

"Why do you want a hairstyle like mine?" He grumbled.

"Because I've never really had short hair and I want to try it out. You have the cutest short hair out of all the guys I know. Besides, I would look good with hair like yours, and it's easier to maintain." I told him. He shoved me.

"You are such a girl." He told me. I retaliated by jumping up and bringing his head down. I then smothered the top of his head with my fist.

"Call me a girl again and I'll do worse." I told him, letting go and walking with Mikasa towards the girl dorm.

"Why'd you do that to Eren?" Mikasa asked me, she sounded threatening.

"Eh," I shrugged. "He's almost like a brother, I feel like I need to treat him like one." I told her.

"Don't hurt him too much." She told me, I nodded.

"It's aptitude test time so listen up! There is no place for you here if you cannot perform! Fail and be shipped to the fields!" Commander Shardis yelled at us. We each were sent to one of the 3DMG simulator things. I was put into one next to Eren. I had got my hair cut so my hair looked a lot like his now. I was raised up in the air off my feet. I kept steady for a bit before I started to rock myself back and forth a smile growing on my face. I then curled my knees up to my chest and started spinning rapidly in a circle. I then stopped by flinging my arms out and my legs, stopping in the shape of an 'X'. I looked over to see that Eren was upside down and he couldn't get back up. He looked completely mortified.

"Eren." I whispered, feeling bad for the younger boy.

"Hey!" I said sitting down next to Connie and Jean, whom I had learned to know in the last two days. We had finished up with the balance training and I had decided to hang out in the dining hall.

"Hey, I like your hair this way." Connie told me. I reached up and pulled down a lock of my reddish brown. I could just barely see it.

"It suits you." Jean told me. He sat in front of mt while Connie was to my left.

"Thanks." We stopped talking when we saw Eren come in and take a seat. He had a bandaged wrapped around the top of his head.

"What happened to him?" Jean scoffed.

"I don't know, but I'm gonna go find out." I stood up and walked over, sitting across from him. His face was filled with terror. Armin sat to my right while Mikasa sat next to Eren across from Armin. Mikasa put an arm on his shoulder and pinched or something because he groaned in pain.

"Eren." Mikasa said.

"Worrying won't solve a thing. Think, there's still time to practice come morning." Armin told him as he started eating.

"I'm guessing the late night training didn't go too well." I asked Armin, quiet enough that Eren wouldn't hear. He nodded.

"How pathetic. How am I supposed to kill them if I can't even stand up straight." Eren complained.

"It might be time to let that dream die." Mikasa stated.

"You can't be serious." I said under my breathe.

"What do you mean?" Eren said looking at Mikasa worriedly.

"I think you should give up this attempt to be a shoulder. There's a lot more to fighting and combat than just throwing your life away in vain." She finished with a straight face.

"What are you saying? After everything we saw that day? After what happened to my mom?" Eren's voice steadily rose. "You're crazy if you think I'm just going to walk away."

"I get it, but it doesn't matter how determined you are." Mikasa told him.

"It... Eh... What do you mean?" Eren stuttered.

"Because whether or not your fit to be a soldier isn't up to you." Mikasa finished. We stayed quiet after that. The bells rang soon after and thank god they did. The air was getting solemn and dark because of the conversation. Before anything could continue I picked up my dishes, put them away and ran out of the building.

"Freedom!" I yelled.

"What's your problem?" Jean asked me as he left the building with Connie and Marco.

"Mikasa can be really dark sometimes. It scares me." I shivered. I then smiled and got an idea.

"Why are you smiling so much?" Marco asked as we walked towards the dorms.

"Have any of you ever done a cartwheel?" I snickered and stopped walking.

"What the heck is a-" I interrupted Connie by doing a cartwheel myself and nearly hitting his nose as he looked back at me.

"How are you so agile?" Jean commented.

"Let's just say that I grew up somewhere harsher than you guys have, and it was somewhere I would say was a place you have to be agile and ready for anything." I told him, shrugging a bit. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder and someone yell boo. I spun on my heel and pushed the person to the ground, the person pulled me with them. We rolled several times before I ended up sitting on his stomach pinning his arms to the ground with my arms.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you!" Sasha cried out from under me. Marco, Jean, and Connie laughed at us. I jumped up and did a roundhouse slap hitting all of there cheeks, hard, in a single swing. I then stomped off to the girls dorm, laughing as the guys complained about the pain in their cheeks. Sasha soon caught up to me.

"So what did you need?" I asked, looking up at the taller girl.

"I wanted to see if you had any food." I shook my head and she groaned. I rubbed her back in support.

I watched from the back of the group as Eren did his test. I was so short I couldn't see over any of the people in front of me. That and I couldn't here them so I didn't even know what was going on.

"This is such a pain!" I grumbled. I could just see Eren being lifted up. I cheered. He then fell backwards. He was lowered to the ground. They quickly did something I couldn't see and Eren was back in the mechanism. He was lifted into the air an he was completely balanced. What the heck happened! I still can't see over all these people's heads! Eren smiled a giant grin. He must have passed.

"Go Eren!" I cheered. A round of applause and other cheers soon followed. I whooped and hollered. Soon after, we were sent out into the forest to train. We flew between trees, and up into the air towards a new tomorrow?

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