𝘼𝙇𝙇 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙍𝙎 • 𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙭 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧

chapter three: a familiar face

🧾 june 29th, 2024
🕰️ august 7th, 2023, 11:33 a.m.
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Quick disclaimer:

If you haven't read the prologue/all disclaimers and trigger warnings yet, this might be a good time to do it.

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The rest of the weekend has passed you by very slowly. Your hangover Saturday morning had been as mild as possible, but that hadn't particularly helped your motivation for school work.

Technically there wasn't anything to do, but you had been so bored out of your mind that coursework had been the next best thing to do.

You had taken the subway back to the city on Sunday, finally taking the opportunity to interview at Café Maria, which had gone exceptionally well. You were supposed to start training on Tuesday, but that still left you with a full day to be anxious about starting your position.

Most of your future coworkers had seemed extremely welcoming, but nothing was able to ease your anxiety as you started your Monday morning.

The entire weekend had so cozy and slow that you had started dreading Monday more than anything, even though class with the others was something you were usually looking forward to.

Nevertheless, you couldn't do anything about your current headspace. The only thing that cheered you up was the weather still being beautiful, which helped you get out of bed significantly.

You stood around a wooden bank underneath a tree with the others, trying to absorb the sun as the others happily chatted away. They were excited to finally see Sasha again after she had missed her first week of school, and you couldn't deny that you were starting to grow curious as well.

After all the times the mood had shifted at the mention of Sasha's name, you had slowly begun creating an image of her in your head. Hitch had assured you that Sasha was incredibly easy to get along with, and you could admit that you were getting impatient.

Annie was swaying from side to side and obsessively checking her phone to see if she would still be in time for her next class.
The sun was shining directly above your heads, so you had found rescue under the shadow of the campus' large tree. Little spots of light shone through the leaves, which rustled above you in the wind.

"How is Sasha even getting here?" Eren asked suddenly. He was sitting on a bench, staying in a position that indicated how bored he was.
His legs were stretched out slightly, his hands were resting on the bench and between his thighs, and he evidently didn't care how hunched his back was.

"First of all, sit like a normal person," Jean warned Eren, shooting him an annoyed look. "And secondly, Niccolo and Connie are picking her up. They insisted, so that's why Niccolo took the morning off."

"He's missing school to drive her here?" Mikasa raised her eyebrows. "Sometimes I wonder how they got serious so fast."

"Two months strong and he's ready to put his life on hold for her," Hitch chuckled, but Jean shrugged her comment off.
"It's just one morning, not his entire life."

Silence fell again as everyone returned to tapping their feet and perplexedly looking around. Eren returned to his sluggish sitting position and Jean periodically checked his phone.