Amaranth

Chapter 5: Hyacinth

"Morning, killer," Hitch greeted.

"Did I ask you not to call me that?" Mikasa hissed.

"Maybe," Hitch shrugged, "Whatcha gonna do about it?"

Having no comeback, Mikasa rolled her eyes before she began working on the work for her Spanish class, letting Hitch copy her work.

"I heard you got your ass beat in soccer," Hitch said as she tilted her head towards Mikasa's casted foot.

"Yeah," Mikasa nodded, "but I could still kick your ass with my arms tied behind my back."

"Easy there, killer," Hitch smirked, "I was just making small talk."

Luckily, Spanish passed quickly, and Mikasa was able to escape Hitch. Sadly, the rest of her classes passed incredibly slow, and by the time lunch rolled around, she felt like it had been hours.

When Mikasa arrived at the table, she saw that everyone was there. Most surprisingly, Annie was at her table as well. "What the hell is she doing here?" Annie deadpanned when she saw Mikasa sit down.

"Did you think I didn't sit with my brother?" Mikasa asked matter-of-factly.

Annie grumbled something unintelligible under her breath as she continued eating. "Weren't you two close earlier in the year?" Eren asked, "Annie used to walk you home."

Annie and Mikasa both glared at him, silently telling him to shut up and not bring it up. "Oh," Ymir said with a smirk, "A secret love affair?"

"Ymir!" Historia exclaimed as she jabbed the girl in the side.

"Ow," Ymir muttered as she put her hand over where Historia had hit her.

Historia whispered something in Ymir's ear that made her immediately pale and shut up. Everyone gave the couple a curious look, but Historia just smiled innocently, and everyone backed off.

"So," Marco, Jean's best friend, began in an attempt to change the topic, "Did Jean tell everyone the venue for our party?"

"Nope, we're all in the dark," Eren said with a pointed look at Jean.

"Anyway," Jean said, giving Eren an annoyed look, "We're going to my parents' lake house. I know it's fall, but it's in the middle of nowhere and will be a good getaway."

Everyone nodded in agreement as they began talking about how they'd get there. "Mikasa, Armin, and I can drive with a few other people. My mom has a van for family trips," Eren told the group.

"Perfect," Jean said, "I can drive a group as well."

"That should cover it then," Armin nodded, "There's 12 of us, so 4 others can ride with Eren, Mikasa, and I while the other 5 ride with Jean and our things. Everyone good with that?"

"Works for me."

"Yep."

"Perfect."

"As long as I get food."

"As long as I can steal it."

"Don't you dare."

"When are we going?" Bertholdt asked.

"We're leaving tomorrow from the school and staying until Monday night since we don't have to come in on Monday," Jean answered.

"We don't have school on Monday?" Mikasa asked.

"The teacher's are doing conferences or something, so they're giving us the day off," Jean told her.

"Oh, I didn't know that," Mikasa said quietly as she picked at her food.