his best friend

06 - Rose

"y/n! y/n! y/n!"

chants.. The room filled with nothing but chants of your name. The lights began to dim. A bright circle roamed on the stage, shinning brightly on you. The chants faded in the background as you walked step by step towards the mic. You tilted your head down, strumming one hand on your guitar while the other grasping the mic. The cheers went on louder as more lights turned on, one by one. A heavy rumble followed by rapid vibrations filled the stadium. Drummer Connie and guitarist Jean were having their intro solo.

1...2...3 "Good evening, we're BLAST" you scream into the mic as your fans go wild. You smirk and move your body to your song, Rose.

Where to start? A lot of things happened during these past few years. You finished your high school experience. After the incident you and Armin hardly saw each other, and when you did you pretended like your friendship never existed. It truly hurt. Mikasa also stopped hanging out with you, she became interested in music and spent most of her time with Eren. You lost your two favorite humans. High school flew by, college as well. You did however meet some pretty cool people. Such as, Jean, Connie, Sasha, and your now manger Pieck. They became your best friends and you loved them to death.

You've changed a lot. You also regret a lot of things. But you don't regret leaving Armin that day. You weren't the help he needed. You also couldn't deal with his drug addiction. You failed once already, how can you possibly save someone? It was a selfish thing to do but for both of you it might've been the best decision.

You noticed after, Armin had stop taking them. It seemed like losing you was his breaking point. He lost you for drugs. He looked better. The last days of your friendship was tiring. It was hard to see him, you thought it was the stress that got to him. His sullen cheeks, and red eyes, it was a sight you never wanted to see again.

5 years have passed since then. At some points he never left your mind, he haunted you. You've had your ups and downs but you've truly felt better. You were a totally different person now, both mentally and physically. You have multiple piercings on your ears, a few tattoos and now you're the age of 23, an age were you can legally drink alcohol. You also had sex with quite a few people. Oh, and also in a band.

Yup. It's kinda weird to say but you are the main vocalist of your band, called blast. After any inconvenience of your life you popped in your earphones. You loved music. And after Armin taught you the guitar, your love grew.

Picking a career was one of the hardest decisions to make. You needed to decided what you wanted to do with your life but you couldn't think of anything. It wasn't until your high school field trip. When you went to a university that specializes in music. Your eyes lit up and your heart starting beating irregularly when you saw them practice so hard. You saw as their life got consumed by their passion, as they cried over stuff they once enjoyed. For some reason you wanted to experience something like that. Something that made you feel that way.

And so you did. You enrolled in your dream school, Pardis College of Music. That's when you met Jean and Connie, they were in the grade as you and dreamed of the same thing. To start a band. Of course it wasn't easy. Actually the past few years have been the hardest but your hard work was seen by others. You're grateful for them and your fans.

There is one thing though. Eren, Armin and now Mikasa had also picked the same path. And now you two were rivals.

Two new rivaling bands, Free and Blast.

Freedom, free for short was what they went by. You weren't surprised that they stayed as a band. They definitely had talent, something you had to work for.

They were however surprised that you ended up being in a band. But you couldn't careless with what they thought, especially Mikasa. After that incident she kept her distance. It seemed like Eren rubbed off on her. You knew he hated your guts. He was the one who pushed you to help Armin but instead you ended up leaving him. You couldn't blame him, you knew what you did was fucked up. If only the two of you understood each other.

Now back to the main part, your performance of course. You were now performing your new hit, Rose. You thank your traumatic experiences for giving you such good songs. You wrote most of them based of Armin, your first and last love. He probably knew but the chance of meeting him again was pretty slim. I mean you guys are rivals how can you meet, right?

— guilty or innocent?

It's been so longggggggg but we're back, finally. I've missed writing for sure. I also recently wrote a oneshot so if u wanna check it out it's posted. Thank you for continuing to read his best friend. This story is heavily implied on the anime called Nana so I definitely recommend it. See u next time!