jeanpiku week 2022

Day 5 and 6: In another life & With friends

Her group of friends was wonderful and they were all very close, they had known each other since they were kids and lived in the same neighborhood. They went to school together, although not to high school, but whenever they could they hung out together.

"I think we should meet some new people" Pieck said. "It would be good for us"

It was Saturday and they were at Annie's house. On Fridays Reiner and Bertholdt (and sometimes Annie) hung out with their class, so on Fridays it was just Marcel, Porco, Colt and Pieck or they took the opportunity to do homework and study, not leaving everything to the last minute on Sundays.

"Aren't our classmates enough for you?" Porco asked sarcastically, knowing that Pieck didn't care for anyone in their class, for anything: not for friendship or for sometime more. She rolled her eyes.

Nobody took Pieck's proposal badly, they knew it wasn't personal, they knew that Pieck loved them very much and was enough for them (apart from the fact that she was also very fond of their little brothers and little cousins), but they understood that she wanted to meet new people, to get out of their comfort zone and have new experiences.

"You could meet our group of class friends" Reiner offered.

"Yes, they are very nice" said Bertholdt.

"Well, some of them…" Annie whispered, more to herself than to anyone else.

"Some of them have already mentioned that they want to meet you" said Bertholdt.

"We could see if we meet next weekend" said Reiner.

The following Monday, at recess, Reiner and Bertholdt mentioned the idea to their class group and they all (although some more than others) liked the idea, so they organized a small party at Annie's house on Friday afternoon. They always made plans at Annie's house, since she only lived with her father and her father worked in the evenings. She was fed up with her house being always the meeting place, but it was the only house where they could have peace and privacy.

They went to Annie's house after school, school bags included. They were going to eat there, cooking something, although Annie only agreed to it as long as she didn't cook anything and then everything was cleaned by them.

Marcel and Porco put the cutlery and glasses on the table. Eren served as waiter and Mikasa served the drinks in the glasses, and the rest went to the kitchen to cook, with Annie present there, sitting in the chair at the small table, watching over the chefs.

"Being in the kitchen so many is overwhelming" said Bertholdt, "a few of us should leave"

"Yes, if we are all here it's going to take a lot of time to cook and we're not going to be productive, that way we're going to take longer to eat" Reiner said.

"And I'm very hungry" Sasha said.

"No!" Connie said, acting surprised. "We hadn't realized when you said you wanted 3 pizzas"

"Let Armin, Annie, Jean and Pieck stay here" Reiner said. "Come on" he said as he put his arms around the shoulders of some of them and led them out of the kitchen with him.

Those who stayed there cooking reacted in different ways, from "Better, more calm" to "What a nose they have". And surprisingly, Annie got up from her chair and walked over to Armin to help him make the pizza he was making.

Jean tossed various cheeses onto the freshly-bought frozen pizza crust with freshly-bought tomato sauce spread across it, while Pieck reached for the spice rack to grab the pot of oregano and sprinkle some on it. Meanwhile, of course, they talked a bit among themselves and with the two blondes.

"The oven is ready" Annie said.

"And this pizza, too" Pieck said.

There was a moment when both blondes left the kitchen, leaving those two alone.

"They're so screwed up" Jean said.

"That's what I was thinking" she said. "I don't know Armin, so I can't say for sure if he feels the same, but Annie is obvious, at least to me who known her all my life"

"And for me, I've only known her for two years and we've barely spoken" he said, making her smirk.

Those mentioned returned and they acted as if nothing had happened, hoping that they had not heard them, although it seemed that they had not, so there was a moment when they looked at each other relieved, smiling, holding back their laughter, leaving the blondes a little confused, seeing that they barely knew each other and already had inside jokes.

They kept cooking and the four of them were the ones who took the longest to eat, and they missed eating with the rest and the conversations in the living room, but they weren't bad there either, and then they joined the conversations with the rest without problem. The meeting went well, so it seemed that the groups were going to merge to become a bigger one.