ARUANI oneshots

• RUNAWAY BRIDE •

" I'll follow what my heart says even if my brain doesnt want me to "
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The big wooden doors of the church opened, the brides maids and grooms men entered and marched down slowly the flower girls soon followed. A few moments later the bride entered and started to walk down the aisle.  Her veil covering her beautiful face, annie's blonde locks were out of her usual bun and instead was let down with curls at the tips and her head also had a flower crown to top it off, her white ivory gown made her look like a princess out of a fairytale. Her eyes however told a different story, though almost everything about her today sparkled and shined her eyes seemed empty and almost sad but on her lips was picture perfect smile that it covers the truth behind it.

Armin was no fool he could tell that she wasnt happy.
he could tell the lie behind her smile. As he watched her from afar and wished that it was he who was at the other side of the altar and not bertholdt.
Armin remembers how this all happened.

*flashback*

Armin was from a poor family and that fueled his desire to do better and to study harder so he could give back to his parents who worked their backs off to feed and provide for him. During his highschool days he took a part time job in a small cafe, there he met annie leonhardt.
Annie was stoic. at first their relationship was nothing more than that of customer to waiter.

All that changed when at 7:30pm the cafe was about to close and armin was the one in charge to close the shop, he saw annie again since she was one of the cafe regulars, he couldnt help but stare at her,there was something about her that drew him in.

Was it her crystal cold eyes? Her pretty hair? Or was it that mysterious aura that surrounds her? He could feel that annie was not the type of person who lets people in easily but something tells him that she could be a good person to be friends with if she gives them a chance to get to know her.

Armin snapped out of his trance when he noticed that she wiped something off of her cheek, he went over her table to ask if something was wrong, annie looked at him with her tear stained eyes.
Armin sat at the seat across her and said if you wanna talk about it im all ears miss..
Annie looked at him for a moment seemingly considering his words.
She sighed and replied my boyfriend..broke up with me..

Oh.. Im..sorry to hear that armin said.

No dont be.. I honestly feel glad that he did since we were growing toxic with each other.. We were an on and off couple.. Annie said.

I see.. Well.. I guess it is better to leave that toxic relationship rather than wait for it to worsen and poison both of you. Armin replied.

Annie smiled at him which took armin aback, its 8pm now shouldnt you be closing mr.waiter? She asked.

OH right.. Armin almost forgot that he had to close up the shop.
Right well.. I hope i made you feel a little better miss... Its annie, just call me annie. she said

Okay.. Then call me armin he smiled well.. Bye annie, annie waved at him and went out off the shop armin then looked down at the table a piece of paper caught his eye, there on the paper was written a phone number.
xxx-xxx-xxx
"Call me

- annie"

Armin blushed no way.. He just got a girl's number!
From then on the two would chat and call each other whenever they were free and looked forward to meeting each other in the cafe every saturday and sunday.

2 months after that armin planned to confess, every message and call he received from her always made his heart jump and everytime he sees her armin could feel his face burning up. That's when he realised he liked her already. He knew this 1 month ago but tried to downplay his feelings and hide it at first but he miserably failed since hiding his feelings made his heart ache. So he decided that he needed to let it out and tell her. So armin decided to confess to her at sunday when she comes in the cafe.