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What events in your first year led you to the situations you find yourself in now.
flashback pt 1.

You spent the summer leading up to your first term of university working at a children's summer camp in the woods by some lake. You purposefully did that to stay out of your hometowns gossip indulging mothers, who were undoubtedly talking behind your back about your recent breakup with a certain, Floch Forster. The breakup had come out of nowhere and neither of you had given a clear reason for why it happened to the prying eyes of the town.

At this point getting out of that town had become a top priority of yours. You were exhausted with how your life events became everyone's business. Even your own mother fed in to the gossip and rumours.

You only spent a week back in town, before you moved all of your essentials to your new apartment in the city, and that week could have almost killed you. Marley was a suffocating small town, and if you hadn't of had any ties to it you would have chosen to never come back to it at all.

Moving in was a rather quick process, most of the place was already furnished. All you really had to bring along with you were your clothes and some decor for your room. Considering both yours and Eren's parents had found the place on a whim, during one of their couples get togethers, it wasn't half bad of a place. It was spacious with a full kitchen and sitting room, plus the rent split between you two was cheap as hell for the area.

Although if there was a problem with the place, it was your roommate. You spent a good chunk of your summer worrying about how your new living dynamic with Eren would work out. The two of you hadn't had a proper conversation alone with each other since you were in the 8th grade. The two of you had went your separate ways in high school, barely giving each other a second glance, and then add the whole grad night situation. You weren't sure what to expect.

Your worries and expectations couldn't have prepared you for the reality of living with him. He would be out of the apartment by 7am most mornings and you wouldn't see him till late in the evening, if he even did come home. At first you thought he was diving deep in to his new life as a post-secondary school scholar, but then you came to the realization that he was just flat out ignoring your existence.

If anything it was like living with a ghost. Actually it was worse than living with a ghost, at least a ghost would acknowledge you with a haunt, Eren wouldn't even look at you.

Those first six weeks were torture, and if you hadn't of made any friends of your own, you weren't sure how would have survive the radio silence from your roommate. Lucky enough, you met Sasha over orientation week and from then on the two of you stuck to each other like glue. From there your friend group expanded, as you let in Jean, who seemed to always pair up with you two during class work. The three of you spent most of your time together on campus, or at each other places.

But all good things come to a pause, as once mid-October hit you were faced with having to return home for reading week. You could have stayed in the city, but your parents insisted on you coming home to visit, they even purchased your train ticket in advance. You couldn't say no. It seemed as though Eren couldn't say no either, as he too had purchased a ticket home on the same train as yours.

Maybe if he would actually talk to you, you both would have coordinated to go to the train station together. Instead you both arrived separately, only to realize it when the two of you stood side by side on the platform.

"You too?" He nodded his head towards the train tracks below the platform.

You shrugged, "they missed me, I guess."

"Figures," he crossed his arms over his chest, "I mean, if my kid spent the whole summer away, then moved out, I'd beg them to come home at any chance I'd get."