Chapter 8

Disclaimer: I don't own Attack on Titan, Marvel, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Batman, Avatar, and Elvis.

My slumber was ruined by the sound of the Darth Vader theme. I opened my eyes to see a room covered in superheroes. 'Oh, it's Lucas's room. I guess I fell asleep.' I slowly got up from the bed. I saw Lucas next to me, sleeping like a bay through the alarm. We were both covered with a nice light blue blanket. I looked around to find the alarm.

'There it is!' It was a Death Star alarm clock that was next to the Tardis lamp. 'God, this room is amazing! Maybe I should reconsider decorating my room.' I turned off the alarm and slowly got out of bed. I shook Lucas, telling him it was time to get up.

"Five more minutes…" he says sleepily. I giggled and tucked him in. I noticed the TV was off. 'I guess someone came in here took care of everything.' I quietly left the room.

A couple hours later, when everyone was awake, Petra comes bursting into the living room with a silly smile on her face.

"Mickey! Great news! You are now officially a new student at Trost High School!" she says literally jumping up and down.

"Trost High School?" I said curiously.

"It's the only high school in Trost. I go there too so I'll show you around on Monday." explains Armin as he looks up from his book about ecosystems.

"Thank you." I said. 'Wow, school huh. I am scared and excited. I wonder what is like at Trost High.'

"Hey Mickey, thanks for hanging out with me last night! It was really fun! Can we do it again sometime?" says Lucas. I nodded and ruffled his hair.

"You guys hanged out?" asked Erwin as he looks up from the newspaper. Lucas nods and smiles.

"Yup! We talked about superheroes and watched Batman! It was so much fun!" Erwin smiles at him and ruffles his hair. Then Erwin sits up strait as if he remembered something.

"Oh yeah, Mickey needs to know how to get around the city?" Everyone nods at this.

"I can do it." Armin offers. Erwin grunts in agreement.

"Wait, what about the café?" I asked.

"It's closed on the weekends so we can do whatever we want." said Petra. Armin closes and sets his book down as he stands up.

"Come on get ready. We got a lot of walking today." said Armin. I got up and followed Armin to get ready.

Thirty minutes later we were ready. I wore my new dark blue skinny jeans with new black converse and a white shirt with a black sweater over it. Armin wore gray jeans with red converse and a red sweater with a white shirt under it. 'Ha, it's like we're wearing the same thing.' I smiled was we left the café.

"This is the grocery store, the craft store," Armin points out as we walked down the street. "And that's the one and only park in Trost, Aberrant Park." I looked over at the park. I see the lake in the idle of the park. 'Oh I remember that park. I met Eren there.' I smiled at the thought of Eren. 'No! Snap out of it! You just met the guy! Don't go drooling over strangers Mickey!'

"Is everything okay, Mickey?" asked Armin.

"I'm fine!" I said with a cracky voice. 'Ugh, the hell is wrong with m? Just, calm down Miku.' I sighed to relieve some stress as I continued to follow Armin. Eventually, we came upon a big brown building. There was a sign painted on the side of the building. It said Trost High School in big red and white letters with some human like creature on the side.

"This is Trost high School: Home of the Fighting Titans!" announces Armin. "Sorry I can't show you around the school. It's locked up for the break. I'll show you around the school Monday."

"Okay!" We continued walking till Armin stopped. I turned around worried.

"Armin, are you okay?" He was silent for a minute. Then he starts to speak.

"What's going on? You just popped up into my family's life, saying that you're Uncle Erwin's daughter. And now you are living with us no questions asked? I'm confused about the situation. Can you tell me what's happening?" I stayed silent. 'Yeah, well I'm just as confused as you are. I mean, my mother just abandon me. He should at least know.' I was about to answer till I was cut off by a loud shout.

"Armin!" shouted the voice. I turned around and saw that horse-faced guy with that freckled kid from the café.

"Jean! Marco! What's up!?" Armin replies. Marco and Jean start running towards us. Marco was wearing a gray shirt and light blue skinny jeans and Jean was wearing a long sleeve blue V-neck sweater with dark blue jeans. They stopped short when they spot me.

"Hey! You're that cutie from the café!" said Jean. Jeans rushes towards me then, he leans on the wall. "So how's it going sweetheart?" Jean says in a low tone, trying to be sexy. 'Okay, that's creepy.' I smiled at him, trying to be nice.

"My name is Jean, Jean Kirstein." He introduces himself.

I was so uncomfortable; I started to take some steps back. Every time I took a step back, he would go a step forward. 'The fuck is he doing, going all up in my space like that.' Jean starts to get closer and closer to me till Armin pushes him away.

"Whoa! Armin, what's wrong? Is this your girlfriend or something?"

"No! She's… a friend." Armin lies. Jean tilts his head. 'I guess he's not ready to break the news to them. That's fine. I'm a total stranger to him, it's natural.'

"Yeah, a friend with the same fashion sense as you; ha! Yeah, right!" Jean shouts and puts Armin in a headlock. I stood there watching the scene until Marco slides up beside me.

"I'm sorry, Jean was just excited." said Marco.

"Hello, my name is Marco. What is your name?" Marco says politely, giving me one of the cutest smiles I have ever seen.

"Mickey." I answered memorized by his smile.

"It's nice to meet you Mickey. I hope we can be friends." Marco says as he lifts up hand for a hand shake. Still memorized by him, I shake his hand.

"Awe, how come you can get a girl's name but not me?" pouted Jean. Marco giggles and turns a little red as he shrugs. Jean puts his arm around Marco, pulling him into a headlock.

"So, what are you guys doing?" asked Marco.

"I'm showing Mickey around." Armin answers.

"Can we come along too? We're board and have nothing to do." states Jean.

"Is that okay with you?" Armin asks me. I nodded my head.

"Sure, why not." I answered. After that we continued to walk around the city. After a long time of silence, Marco starts to talk to me.

"Is Mickey a nickname?" he asks.

"Yeah, my real name is Miku." I answered.

"Wow! Are you foreign?"

"No, my mom is. She's Japanese."

"Wow! I have a friend who's Asian too."

"Really!"

"Yeah!" He gives me that award winning smile. We had a nice conversation and a nice trip around the city. By the time we were done, the sun was setting.

"Well, I have to go home. I was nice meeting you Mickey." Marco says happily.

"Me too!" shouts Jean. "See you around hot stuff." He gives me a wink. Then Jeans was pulled by the collar by Marco and left.

"Wow, they're really nice." I said.

"I guess." Shrugs Armin.

"How do you know them?"

"I met them in middle school when I moved here."

"Moved?"

Armin smiles and stops talking as he walks away. 'I guess he doesn't want to talk about it?' I quickly sped up to catch up to Armin.

We finally got back home to see that dinner is ready. Erwin and Lucas were already at the table.

"Hey guys! Right on time! Grab a seat!" shouts Petra. We quickly take our seats. Petra sets a bowl of corn, mashed potatoes, gravy, and some fried chicken. It looked so good; my mouth watered.

"Eat up!" Petra says excitedly. We all filled up our plates with delicious food. This time we actually talked at the table. It was awkward for the first few time but, now it's noisy. I kind of like it.

"So Mickey, tell us more about yourself." asks Erwin. I froze on the spot.

"There isn't really to say about me." I answered.

"Oh come on! Tell us anything. Allergies, dislikes, things you like to do." said Petra. I sit there quietly thinking about what I should say.

"Um… I like Marvel." I said.

"What about school? What are you like?" asks Armin.

"I'm an average student." I said honestly.

"Did you have a lot of friends at Brass?" asked Lucas.

"Not really. The plague left most of Brass kind of empty so I only had one or two." I said as I continued eating. 'Man, talking about myself is weird. But, at least they should get to know me a little and I should get to know them more too.'

"What about you guys?" I suggested. "I should learn about you guys too!" Everyone looks at me curiously. 'Damn, they probably think I'm trying to change the subject.'

"I like ninjas!" Armin says suddenly. 'My hero!'

"I like food!" shouts Lucas.

"I play the violin." said Petra.

"I…like… action movies." Erwin says awkwardly. Everyone giggles as Erwin turns a little pink. For the rest of dinner, we all talked about ourselves. From Lucas liking Avatar: The Last Airbender to Erwin liking Elvis Presley, I learned many things about my new family. 'I am going to enjoy living here.' I thought as I eat my dinner.