The Girl Next Door (AOT/SNK ~ Eremin Fanfiction)

Chapter 8 ~ Fights and Secrets

I felt something soft hit my face with great force, causing me to jolt awake.

"W-Wha-"

"Get up." Mikasa sneered, threw a pillow at me and stormed off. I could see she was still pissed with me.

The worst part was that after having that conversation with Armin yesterday, I was starting to feel a bit like a dick. I couldn't let my feelings take control and hurt others like that. I felt the urge to appologize to Mikasa but with me being the stubborn shit I was, I didn't want to at the same time or else I would've lost the battle.

But there wasn't even a battle.

I growled in frustraion. What the fuck was wrong with me? I walked downstairs to appologize but Mikasa wasn't there.

"Where's Mikasa?" I asked my mother who was in the kitchen.

"She just left." She said quietly. She was obviously mad with me too; not that I could blame her. God, this is all my fault.

"I'm sorry..." I mumbled.

"What?" My mother turned around to face me.

"I said I'm sorry... My behaviour yesterday was one of a complete idiot's..." I rubbed the back of my neck.

"Aw, my boy's growing up." She grinned, coming in for a hug.

"Aw cmon, mum. I'm 17 for god's sake." I groaned as she hugged me and started calling me stupid pet names.

"Now go apologize to Mikasa and her friend, please." She pulled away and looked into my eyes.

"I will." I replied.

After I got dressed and ready, I left for school. When I arrived, I looked everywhere but Mikasa wasn't anywhere to be found. At our usual lunch spot, Jean was sitting there with Reiner and Bert.

"Have you guys seen Mikasa?" I asked.

They all shook their heads.

"Why would you be looking for her? Don't you live with her?" Jean asked, rolling his eyes.

"She left early this morning because we had a fight yesterday..." I rubbed the back of my neck. "I was a bit of a dick and wanted to appologise but she just left. I need to find her."

"What did you do?" Bert asked.

"Yeah, what did you do to Mikasa?" Jean growled, standing and seizing me up.

"Calm down." I pushed him away. "I don't want to talk about it..." I mumbled. "Is anyone else here?" I asked. It was pretty early in the morning.

"I saw Armin and Marco." Bert replied.

"Where did they go?" I asked. I needed to apologise to Armin.

Not that I really understood why she was angry.

"I saw them walking by the lockers." Bert said.

"You did?" Jean asked. Bert nodded a reply.

"I'm going to find them." I said.

"C-Can I come?" Jean asked.

"Why?"

"I dunno..." He shrugged.

"Yeah whatever." I mumbled and started walking off with Jean following. We went to the year 11 locker area and started walking along.

"Why exactly did you want to come with me?" I asked, looking at Jean with a smirk. I knew how badly he wanted Marco, it was so incredibly obvious.

But what if he liked Armin.

I stopped thinking once I saw Jean stop in his tracks with what seemed like horror in his eyes.

"What's..." I turned in the direction where he was looking.

And my stomach seemed to drop.

Along with my feelings.

Marco had Armin pinned against a locker, and they were extremely close; looking into eachothers eyes.

I opened my mouth to interrupt but Jean slapped his hand against it and pulled me around a corner.

"What are you doing!?" I hissed.

"D-Don't interrupt them..." Jean looked away.

"Why!? That's your future boyfriend there-"

"He's not my future boyfriend, and she's not your future girlfriend!!" He whispered with great force. Obviously, we couldn't let them know we were there.

I was taken aback.

"They're happy together and if we really did love them, we would let them go..." He slid down the wall and sighed, sitting on the school floor.

Totally disreguarding that he basically just admitted to liking Marco; I thought about Jean's words. As much as I didn't want to agree with Jean of all people, he was right. It hurt of course, but if it made her happy I'd have to accept it. I sighed and peeked around the corner where they were still in that position, whispering words to eachother I couldn't hear. What were they waiting for?

Then, Armin pushed Marco away softly and looked down.

"I c-can't." Her voice cracked, and I saw tears fall down.

"A-Armin, I'm sorry, I didn't-" Marco went bright red and tried to comfort Armin.

"N-No i-it's not that." She started sobbing and it ached my heart that I couldn't go over and wipe her tears away.

"Well... What is it then...?" Marco asked.

"I can't tell you here..." She whispered so I could barely hear. "I'll text you or something..."

"Why can't you tell me here." Marco frowned.

"Because I don't want you to look at my face when I saw it. You're going to hate me-"

"Armin I could never hate you!!" Marco gasped.

"J-Just trust me!" Armin sobbed and ran off.

I quickly got back behind the wall before Marco saw me and looked at Jean who stared at me weirdly.

"They didn't kiss and they aren't together." I told him like some sort of gossipy teenaged girl.

"W-What?" He perked up slightly.

"But Armin's going to tell Marco something big over text. I really want to know what she's hiding because shes so secretive and I just-"

"Hate secrets? I know." Jean chuckled.

I sighed in relief. At least I still had a slight chance with Armin, if she were to forgive me for being such a dick.

"Speaking of secrets..." I smirked, looking at Jean. "Marco, aye?"

"Jaeger, I swear to fucking god if you tell him-" Jean stood up and grabbed my by the collar.

"I won't, I won't!!" I laughed, pushing his hand away. Jean just looked away and mumbled with a red face.

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i keep making marmin (marcoxarmin) references and im not sorry XDD

eremin is always first okay

and mikanni and jeanmarco and yumikuri and- illstopnow

~Biffleinator