It All Started Like This... (Eren X Mikasa)

Chapter 7: Just Make A Move Already!

Tuesday-

Mikasa's POV:

I walked to school and got their early. Eren wasn't there yet, so I had to wait on a bench. I don't know why I was waiting for Eren. I just felt like it. Or maybe because he's my only friend, other than Armin. I will never know myself. I was looking through the manga that I still had. I forgot to return it to Eren, but it seems like he already forgot about it. But I don't think he'll ever forget what happened after I tried to get the book from him... I sighed.

I kept looking at my watch to see what time it was. About half an hour passed before Eren actually got here. He was around the corner and I was about to go talk to him, but the bell rang. It didn't leave me a lot of time to talk to him, but we at least walked together to class.

Since Jean and Levi haven't tried to kiss me or even stalk me yet, there was no other reason for Eren to hang around. If it suddenly gets too normal for me, then Eren might leave me or drop from the pretend boyfriend position. It wouldn't affect me too much if it wasn't that he was my only friend, other than Armin, and the fact that I may have... gained feelings for him. I was afraid this might happen sooner or later. I would fall in love with the guy who protects me and is my friend. This came true.

Today, my heart kept pulsating rapidly when I was around Eren. I kept a cool face on, but really, deep down inside, I was nervous. Kind of how that girl in Yandere Simulator who felt the same around Senpai, but with no panty shots or killing people.

What would happen between Eren and I? He did say he liked me the other day, but I don't know if that was his true feelings or if he was trying to protect me. But if that was true, then the same is true for me, too. I like Eren even if we had only met for a few days. He was my pretend boyfriend, but his personality and good looks just brought me over to like him.

For the entire day, I kept thinking about Eren, even during the night. I just couldn't stop thinking over him.

-The Next Day-

Armin's POV:

I woke up as normal as it could possibly be. I showered, got changed, ate breakfast and walked to school as usual. When I arrived at the school, I noticed that I was early. I looked around for a place to sit and saw Mikasa sitting down on a bench near a cherry blossom tree. I walked over and sat down next to her.

"Hi Mikasa!" I greeted her.

"Hey Armin..." Huh? Mikasa looked liked she didn't get enough sleep last night and on top of that, her face was red.

"Are you sick or something Mikasa?"

"No. I'm not sick...." She replied. I don't know what's bothering her, but it's enough for me to get curious about it.

"Seriously Mikasa. Tell me what is wrong." She just sighed and looked at me.

"Fine... But you better keep it a secret." I nodded and turned over to whisper in my ears.

"You know how Eren and I are supposed to be a fake couple?" She asked quietly.

"Yeah."

"Well..." She started to hesitate but she continued anyway. "I might have started to have feelings for Eren. For real..." I was surprised but only a little bit. I sorted of expected Eren and her to crush on each other but I didn't know that Mikasa would tell me about it.

"So you 'like' like him?" I asked. She just nodded in response. "Wow...um... I was expecting this to happen."

"Really?" She looked astonished. Didn't she know that my friends and I were shipping them for real? Did she even notice?