Stay With Me {EreMin} [Discontinued]

Chapter Eight

A/N: I know this chapter is insanely short but I'm going to make up for it.

Armin's POV

The week passed by insanely slow. I spent most of it resting on the counter, aside from the few times where Mikasa would pull me away from Eren's overprotective demeanor, so we could do some exercises that would help my system. The fever was completely gone by the fourth day, which made me feel relieved, but Eren had refused to let me get up until he was positive that I was back to my full strength. He ordered me to stay put one more day and so I spent most of that day sleeping.

When I woke up the next day I was alone, and I wasn't sure why. Not even Eren was there.

I stayed put for what felt like an hour, assuming they had gone to search for food, but they still hadn't returned and I had no idea when they had left. Eventually I had decided to take measures into my own hands. I pushed myself into a sitting position using my arms, and then swung my feet around the side of the counter. My head pounded from sitting up so suddenly. (I should've figured since that's usually what happens when you spend a lot of time in bed.) When the pounding faded I got to my feet, and stretched. It had been a day now since I last got up due to how overprotective Eren had been lately. I decided it was about time to begin my search.

When I finished searching the entire store, which was empty, I headed outside, I assumed that they had cleared away most of the lurkers, but I was proven wrong when I saw four figures in the distance. That's when I second guessed myself. 

What if it was Mikasa, Eren, and Jean? 

I should've ran as soon as I saw them. Once it was too late, I figured out who was approaching. It was three of the kids who had bullied me constantly throughout high school, with a lurker tied to a dog leash. That last part got me. Why the hell would they have that? I never would've thought I'd figure out why.

The shortest one, a blonde girl, grabbed me by my collar and pulled me towards her and not to forget the lurker at her side. She smirked, and moved so she was behind me. She pressed the heel of her boot into my back, and shoved me into the lurker. I tripped and fell over, but despite having recovered from my flu, I still wasn't as strong as I usually would've been. The lurker tried to move towards me but she yanked on the leash and it halted.

"Bertl, Reiner," The girl muttered, looking from one boy to the other. Reiner, a burly blonde, kneeled beside me and held me down by my right arm. Bertholdt, an insanely tall brunette, pinned down my free one.

The blonde girl moved forwards, and stepped on my ankles, pinning them down, and causing me to cry out in pain. She then took a hold of the collar around the lurker's neck and unhooked the leash from it. The lurker started to stumble towards me.

Struggling was the first thing my brain allowed me to do. It was pathetic really. Everything had happened so fast and now there was a lurker heading towards me, yet I couldn't do anything to protect myself. It was at that moment that I noticed the bite marks covering Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie's arms. They'd been bitten? But why hadn't they turned? I asked myself. Of course, this fact slipped my mind at the time.

I realized at that moment, I should've run and because I hadn't trusted my gut when I tried to convince myself it wasn't my friends, I was a goner.

Eren's POV

I heard a scream, a high pitched scream. I instantly knew the direction it had come from, I knew who it had come from. I turned to Mikasa and Jean who were searching for fire wood with me, they knew it to. Before a word could be spoken we all ran in one direction, towards the supermarket, towards Armin.