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𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺, 17𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳

                            "DID YOU DO IT" JEAN ASKED EAGERLY AS HE APPROACHED ARMIN who was placing books into his locker. armin furrowed his eyebrows at jean, not knowing what he was talking about, not to mention the 'hello' that didn't come with it. "do what?" he shrugged, closing his locker and facing him.

jeans face dropped at armin's horrible attempt to remember what he had told him and/or the fact that he had completely forgot "bro, you serious? you said you'd ask y/n if i could have joey's number" he jogged his memory, hoping armin would do the same. armin reminisced back to when jean said that in the group chat - something he really didn't wanna have to ask. "right..." armin responded.

"so did you do it?" jean asked one more time.

"no."

"what?- why not?" he whined, slightly taken aback from the blunt and quick answer. "because i didn't have time to bring it up, and I didn't even wanna do it in the first place. that's too awkward" he inwardly cringed just at the thought of how that conversation would go down and not to mention the way you would react.

"wow, it's nice to know you're looking out for me" armin sensed the blatant sarcasm in his tone and rolled his eyes. he wanted to be a good friend, so if it meant going through 2 minutes of awkwardness to ask for the number, that's something he may consider."look, i'll do it the next time we have a session" he announced, in hopes that it would give jean a little bit of hope and drag him out of his childish antics.

"when're you seeing her next?" he asked, as they both headed side by side to their next period. "today, after school" he confirmed.

"already? didnt you just tutor her on saturday?" jean questioned.

"yeah," armin answered, "but i have to make sure she gets at least all B's by the end of the semester, so im gonna be seeing her a lot" he informed.

"good luck with that" jean muttered, loud enough for armin to hear in which armin just scoffed in response.

"wait, you're tutoring y/n?" connie exclaimed which was quickly shut down by armin, eren and jean's quick shush's. They were in class waiting for their teacher to arrive in a classroom full of students - not to mention you were in the classroom also.

"you got suspended for 5 day, now you forgot how to talk properly?" eren scolded, looking around to see if anyone was looking in their direction. luckily, he didn't shout loud enough to catch the attention of the whole class.

"sorry, sorry - but y/n?"

"what's that supposed to mean?" armin questioned.

"i mean, she's a lot to handle and apparently her grades are awful. they're even worse than mine and that's saying something" he answered, kind of shocked that it was even possible for someone to have worse grades than him.

"and who did you hear that from?"

"khalifa"

"ugh, i forget your friends with him sometimes" jean mugged, leaning back in his chair.

"he isn't that bad" connie defended him.

"you serious? your talking about the guy who constantly cheats on y/n" jean tried to talk some sense into him. that was one thing connie couldn't defend him on.

"anyways, she isn't that bad. she's actually kinda... nice". armin looked down and shrugged, trying to avoid eye contact as much as possible.

"WHAT?" all 3 of them exclaimed at the same time, this time gaining a  few stares from those close to them. "shut up" he whispered whilst rubbing his temple, hoping that his hand would cover the embarrassment on his face.

"wait, you said she's nice?" eren repeated what armin said.

"i'm not saying it again"

"doesn't she lowkey hate you because you spilt your drink on her?" jean slightly chuckled.

"wait what? armin split his drink on y/n?" connie gasped as it was his first time hearing it. "ain't nobody told me that"

"so basically..." jean started to explain the forbidden story. armin rolled his eyes, not wanting to reminisce that memory over agin.  to block out the sound of jean's voice, he looked around the class, looking for a distraction and landed on you. you sat on the table with you feet dangling off the edge, your friends gathered all around you looking at something on your phone.

his glaring came to a hold at the sound of the classroom door opening and the teacher walking in, that was everyone's sign to stop conversing and take their seats. armin watched you take your seat in front of him. you flashed the faintest smile but dropped your face almost immediately. it happened so fast, he didn't have time to process what you just did. you smiled at him? he was slightly taken a back, not expecting that from you at all.

"good afternoon everyone, before i start today's lesson, i have an announcement to make" mr ackerman started "those who didn't sit the quiz for whatever reason will take it next week" he was directing you and connie, but it felt like if was more leant towards you.

you wanted to cuss him out but replaced it with a harsh eye roll - just when you thought you had escaped mr ackerman's quiz.

you didn't show it but you were shitting yourself. you had to get at least a B to stay on the team but you had only just started to get tutored and it wasn't like there was gonna be improvement in a week.

right now you were putting the possibility of passing onto armin's shoulders, and he was feeling the pressure too.

FLAWLESS