Alone.

Chapter 6:Invitation

A bruise had appeared in her belly and back. A wound at the corner of the lip, was still bleeding. Annie stared in the mirror and finished putting on her black tank top. As usual, she bandaged her wrists to hide her scars, if it was asked what she had, it would be because of his "sport": boxing. Annie brushed her hair and made her bun leaving her wick covering her right eye, then put on her boots and took her bag to go to class. She quietly closed the door of the apartment, so as not to wake her father who had fallen asleep only 3 hours ago. Walking on the sidewalk, she looked at the floor and walked to the school, which was 20 minutes from her home. It was nice to walk in the morning when the air was hot, but when it was raining and it was cold, it was something else ...
Armin prepared his bag to go to class, today it was a short day, only 4 hours of material: French, mathematics, science and English. After class, he will go to the gym to get muscle, he went there often when he had more work to do. Eren came to train with him, accompanied by Reiner. Weight training had given him confidence, when he was a child, he had been mocked by his classmates, saying that he would never be a strong person. Armin had always said that strength was in the mind and not in the physical. Despite this, he wanted to take his "revenge" and decided to carve. Since that day, many girls were trying to go out with him, but he was not really interested, not like Eren Jaeger who spent his time flirting with his greatest teammate Jean Kirschtein.
The corridors were crowded on Thursday morning, a horror, it was necessary to be small to be able to sneak between the students who blocked the passage. Eren walked quietly, headphones in his ears and loud music, ignoring the hustle and bustle around him. He opened his locker and took his things for his future classes before seeing Mikasa in the distance.

- Hi, how are you ? she asked, approaching him.
- Yeah, and you ?
- Yes, for the holidays, my father had the idea that camping with friends in the forest. It tell you ?
- Awesome ! On the other hand, I do not know how to ride aunts.-Maybe ... But this is learned, we ask Armin?
- Yeah, I ask others if they want to come?
-The more we are, the happier it is that she has accepted.

The class started and Annie, as usual, sat down as far as possible from the front row, that is to say the last one, on the wall, far from the others. She pulled out her notebook and rested her head on her hand, sighing.

- Can I sit down? Armin asked with a warm smile.
- If you want to make the blonde still looking in front of her.
- In addition to not being very talkative, you're not very sociable chuckled the latter out of his business. Besides, I have something to offer you during the holidays.
- I'm listening, said Annie, who was trying to imagine everything he could say.
- Mikasa and Eren offer to go camping, sleep in the forest.
- There are no wolves anyway?
- But not laughed Armin. Then if there are, you will count on me.

Annie turned her head toward him and narrowed her eyes when her smile disappeared.

- In fact I don't know, but Mikasa will often camp with his parents, and they have always come back alive, so good. You accept ?
- Euh, I don't know...
- It will be nice, you can get to know others. Then the best thing is that you'll be with me, he said with a charming smile.

The blonde clenched her teeth and sat up while taking a deep breath. After all, he was right, this outing would make her change her air, be away from her father. Annie accepted then, which made Armin smile like a child. The course began when the teacher talked about how to build a development when commenting on texts. Annie was trying to listen, but she was completely destabilized by Armin, who was looking at her, why did he look at her just now? It was stressful? She had something on her face?

- Can you remove your right hand from your face? murmured the blonde, leaning his head toward her to avoid speaking too loudly.
- Why ?
- What did you do on your lips and wrists? Armin suddenly worried, looking at his forearms.
- Boxing.
- Do you do boxing?

-Mh, she lied, still staring at her.

Armin stared at her for a few seconds and squinted before transferring his intention to the course. Annie swallowed, he suspected something?