Picking up the pieces - a JeanKasa story

Chapter 18 - Fakes

Jean's pov

"I've got a special lesson for you today" I said as I patted his back,
"what do you mean?" Eren asked. I gave a slight chuckle at his oblivion.

"we have a guest for you to spar with" I had asked Mikasa to spar with Eren so I could evaluate him,

"Its basically a test" he shuddered, I scheduled for him to have a test every eight lessons so I can see where about he is.

We arrived at the gym, got changed and he started his warm up,

"uh start mobility exercises, a run on the treadmill and then we can start boxing" he nodded "I'm going to go check what time our guest is arriving," I jogged off to the lobby called Mikasa,

"hello?"

"hey Jean, how are you?"

"I'm good"

"okay now how are you really?"

"I'm pretty tired, but I have do this, I don't like breaking promises"

"I know, but you have to take your health seriously as well"

" I know and thank you Mikasa"

"I'm just trying keep you alive longer"

"hey um where abouts are you?
Maybe I could come and get you?"

"yeah I'm right behind you" I turned around to see Mikasa's smiling face, looking up at me. I gave her a kiss and she went to get changed. I made my way through the gym and back to Eren, who sat by the treadmill drinking his water.

When he saw me, he walked up to me with an unreadable expression,

"So? Where's our guest? " Eren asked, I couldn't tell if he was eager or dreading this completely,

"changing, should be out in a minute" I chucked him his gloves and he got his gum shield, by the time we finished getting ready.

Mikasa came out of the changing room, ready to box. She headed into the ring and waited whilst I briefed Eren on the situation,

"Mikasa's the special guest?" he laughed and I laughed at his stupidity,

"Yeah I mean, I can't box you so why not get the best female to box you?"
His facial expression of changed drastically, "best?" he asked I gave him a cunning smile,

"no girl in this gym could beat her, the only person to beat her is the best of the males" I looked her with a proud face,

"who was that?" I patted his back as he entered the ring,

"asked her yourself." I told him, I really don't like telling people what I'm good at, unless I don't know them.

Mikasa's pov   

Eren looked kind of scared to see me as his opponent so I figured I could try calm him down as an act of courtesy,

" you know, you're lucky it's just me" I said, I saw his eyebrows furrow as if he didn't know what I meant,

"just you?" he said, Jean told him then

"who'd you lose to then?" he asked.

"did Jean not tell you?" he shook his head,
"he said to ask you myself" Danm that humble son of a bitch,

"the person I lost to has never been beaten before by anyone in this gym" I said. Eren nodded,

"okay but who is he?" just then Jean came back with a clipboard and pen we turned around and looked at him as he approached us,

"so Eren I cannot tell you what to do nor am I going to supervise you, I'm just going to let you guys start and I will grade you based on your technique and overall performance, you may start"

Jean's pov After the match.   

I told Eren to go take a shower whilst I get evaluation done and over with,

"How's it looking" I felt hands on my waist and a chin on my shoulder,

"pretty good, looking at a B+ maybe an A, he's improving very quickly" I said,

"why didn't you tell him about your title Mr unbeatable?" I laughed at her

"It wasn't important and I don't want to look like a show off" she kissed me on the cheek

"Jean you should give yourself a little happiness" I don't deserve happiness when I killed two people in my family and drove the other crazy, but I couldn't say that, it would hurt her too much,

"no point, you give me all I need and extra" I smiled, I don't know if she could tell what I was really thinking about or not but that didn't matter,

"hey look Eren's back" she let go of me and went to congratulate Eren, I stamped his grade paper with an A and handed it to him,

"you did good" he nodded and took the paper.

"thanks Jean, why don't you come to this party as a thank you and or celebration?" they both pouted

"when is it?" I asked,

"tomorrow night at Sasha's everyone's gonna be there "
I nodded, waved and walked away.

Mikasa's pov.                     
"Mikasa, how come Jean acts like he doesn't care about Marco's death but when I talked shit about him on the first day of school he flipped like he had two personalities" I was just about to push him down the stairs. How could he say his name like that, I turned around with the most pissed of facial expression ever,

"what!?" he stepped away from me,

"I mean, like he never talks about him to me or anyone else for that matter"

I wanted to ask him, ask him how he would feel if I died trying to save him from getting hit by a car and then Carla killed herself because she couldn't take the guilt which then drove Grisha to be an alcoholic and a drug addict who beats you up and sexually harasses your girlfriend.

How would he feel then?

But I couldn't because Jean wouldn't want that, he wouldn't want another person to worry about him 24/7 so I half assed it,

"He isn't really an open book. I mean, it took me ages to get him to trust me enough for me to be his girlfriend and even now he doesn't tell me everything, but at the end of the day he really is only trying to protect us" I smiled, but he probably saw that it was faked.