ASSIMILATE

for you

"Of course, right after I tell you not to bring Armin up. You bring him up," Ashley sighed with a little giggle as she was washing her dishes.

"Not my fault! He was really pissing me off,"

"Okay yeah I get that but neither of us knows why they fell out. What if it was something really bad?" She suggested as you sat at the table while talking.

"He didn't look that offended, not any angrier than usual. I kind of want to know what happened now though,"

"If you think about it we really know nothing but him or the situation. In high school, none of us really talked until the end beside you and me. Maybe you should ask Armin!" Ashley suggested.

"I will when I see him around, I have a lecture to get to. Text me when you get in the Uber, okay?" you replied while standing up with your keys in your hand.

She nodded and you walked toward the door. You headed out around six pm, thankfully the classroom you had to be at wasn't far. Professor Ackerman, you didn't have him as a constant professor this was just a one-time thing.

You headed toward the singular brick building and walked inside. He was already teaching and clicking through the presentation slides while pointing to the board.

You sat down at a table, you didn't feel like doing any note-taking so you just focused your attention for the next two hours on what he was saying. You tapped your foot repeatedly, you realized you forgot to grab something to eat before leaving so now your stomach was hurting while you waiting for him to finish.

The moment he said he was done you perked up out of your seat and rushed out the doors, you hated headaches and when you didn't eat, you'd get one.

As you pushed the wooden doors open, someone was right in front of you as he was walking out too. He turned around and stopped you in your path.

"Let's go," Eren's voice blurted as he looked behind you whilst standing in front of you.

"Go where? And why?"

"To correct the packet and so I don't get failed," he pulled out his phone and showed you an email on his phone from Erwin saying he'd be checking in to see how your studying was going.

He turned around and put his phone in his pocket before you finished reading, he started walking without saying anything as it started to get dark outside.

"I don't want your help. So I guess you'll just have to fail-"

"I don't like you either and you can piss me off all you want but I won't fail because of your stubborn ass. Let's go," he directed again as he walked down the steps.

"I said no." You had hesitated after you took a few steps down the stairs but completely stopped walking when you go to the bottom of the steps.

He stopped walking as well. You could see how his body tensed up by how much you were annoying him.

"You serious?"

"Yes. I don't want your help-"

He turned around and snatched the pencil and packet out of your hands. He crouched down by the last step you were standing next to and started writing and talking about the packet.

"Most of them are right but that doesn't mean you did them correctly. Professors don't care if you got the right answer if you used a different strategy, to them that means you did it wrong. When writing always use MLA format for essays unless told otherwise, simple," he stated as he wrote quickly on the textured paper because of the cement stairs underneath the paper.