Fight for Love (Attack on Titan/SnK fan fiction)

Fight for Love: Chapter 22

Petra eyes me over top of her bowl of breakfast, her spoon is halfway to her partly open mouth as her golden eyes watch me carefully,"So you're not going to tell me why you took two days off?"

I sigh and shove my bowl away from me,"I told all of you already!"

Oluo laughs,"No one truly believes that you had to get away from the 'stress.'"

I shoot him a glare,"No one believes that your intimidating either." I snap.

He narrows his eyes,"You were pretty scared of me when you got here."

Gunther chuckles,"She knocked you on your butt the first training you guys were paired together."

Oluo whirls around,"Shut up!"

Eldo smiles lightly,"You were scared every time she raised her hand at you for two weeks."

I smile,"See? You're not intimidating, at all."

Levi takes a sip of his tea from where he's sitting at the head of the table,"Oluo shut up."

Oluo clenches his teeth and sits back his eyes flashing. Petra smiles behind her hand trying to hide her quiet laughter, I grin at her from across the table. Eldo and Gunther flash toothy smiles at all of us; I laugh and gently poke Oluo's arm.

He jerks his arm away, curling his lip at me,"Don't touch me!" He cries.

I laugh and wiggle my fingers at him,"I'm gonna get you."

"I swear if you touch my I'll-" His eyes widen as his tongue bursts, blood rolling down his lip.

I smirk,"Corporal Levi warned you." I waggle my index at him.

Levi shoves back from his seat and shoots a glare at Oluo,"We need to start training, let's go."

Smiling I push back from the table and stretch my arms over my head before falling into step next to Petra.

She glances at me out of the corner of her eye,"You didn't take those days off because of Alex, right?"

I blink in surprise, but I quickly hide it before she detects my shock,"How'd you find out about that?"

"Almost everybody knows," she says,"Alex wouldn't shut up about it."

"He was boasting about that?!"

She nods,"Yeah, even though you broke his nose, he still thinks he won."

I click my tongue in annoyance,"Of course he does." I growl. She pats my shoulder in reassurance and gives me an uneasy smile, I smile back.

"Typical man, right?" She says with a laugh.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Oluo snaps as he falls into step next to me, his eyes glare into Petra's. Detecting the now rippling atmosphere I speed up so I'm walking next to Eldo.

"I'm pretty sure the sentence explains itself, Oluo." Petra snaps.

"Are you saying that men are simple minded!?" Oluo cries. Eldo glances at me and we share an amused smile as the pair's bickering grows louder. I tune them out with ease and stroll almost lazily behind Levi and Gunther; just as my mind is about to drift elsewhere, a prickling feeling starts at the nape of my neck and crawls all the way up to the tip of my ears. Knowing somebody is staring at me, I spin around just in time to catch the flash of blue hair. I catch Petra's eye and quickly mouth 'Alex' before she can look away, she elbows Oluo and leans close to whisper in his ear as I turn around and stuff my hands into my pockets to hide my clenched fists.