A Blooming Love Story (Erehisu)

Chapter 11.5- Soccer and Mikasa

Levi looks around at his ragtag Scouts team. He casts a glance at Miche who is standing beside him with his arms crossed, waiting. Levi checks his watch for the fiftieth time in the last two minutes. 5 minutes. 6 minutes. They were 6 minutes late! He lifts his head when he hears two sets of breaths gasping for air as if they ran the mile.

Levi's eyes are steel as he looks at the two perpetrators. "Eren, Historia. You're 6 minutes late."

Historia gains her breath back quicker. "I'm sorry, sir. We lost track of time."

Eren: "Yeah, we fell asleep."

Levi: "I can see with the marks on your faces. As soon as you guys' gain your breaths back, I want you to run around this field 6 times."

Eren: "But Le-"

"6 times. Do you want to go for 7?"

Eren looks down in defeat. "No, captain."

"Good. Chop, chop." He watches the couple for a minute as they begin their jog. They came together and it appears that they did makeup after their fight. It was evident yesterday that something was wrong with Eren and Historia wasn't there. Mikasa told him they weren't on speaking terms which made Levi believe that Eren found out about Rod. However, knowing Eren, that wouldn't easily shake him off.

Levi mutters. "Stubborn bastard."

Miche: "Now that your team is accounted for, are you ready?"

Levi: "Yeah. Listen up brats, since we have been doing drills the last few practices, we're gonna start to play a game against Miche's team. Remember, Mikasa is captain and Jean is co-captain on the team. Listen to them."

Jean turns to his team as Miche starts speaking to his group of captains. Jean looks at Mikasa and gives her a small smile. She blankly stares at him and turns away. Not the response he thought he was gonna get.

Connie waives his hands in front of Jean's face. "Hellooo! Earth to Jean!"

Jean scolds Connie. "What?"

"I see you staring at Mikasa."

"She's been acting weird since this weekend. Do you think it's because I'm growing my beard?"

"Is that what you call it?"

"Whatever."

Mikasa looks to the group she is tasked to lead. Within the group, there's Sasha, Connie, Armin, Eld, Gunther, Petra, and Oluo. Oluo has an expression of displeasure. He's not fond of the idea that two freshmen were selected.

Oluo loudly states. "I still don't understand why freshmen were picked to lead our team when we clearly have veterans. What's the deal, Levi?" I thought this was a joke last week

Petra rolls her eyes. "Levi thought it was a chance for them to improve on their leadership."

"Oh yeah? Are you his spokesperson now? It's ridiculous! I'm the better choice than these two combined! I mean I-" Oluo bites his tongue. "Aaahhhh!!"

Petra snickers and turns to Mikasa and Jean. "I apologize for Oluo's temper tantrum."

He vaguely speaks. "Is iznt ay teemmmpah tantum."

Eld: "I don't mind you guys leading, in the next two years, we old guys will be gone. Let's see what you got."

Gunther: "Agreed. I'm not the best at soccer anyway."

Levi: "If you guys are done, they can start the practice."

Jean and Mikasa look at each other. Mikasa suggests. "We can start with warm-up exercises until Eren and Historia come back.