Alone.

Chapter 24: Paintball

Armin went to the gym while Annie went for a walk with her mother. She had never trusted so much to anyone but her friend. She felt safe near this family who had kindly greeted and helped her morally. Eren lifted weights while blowing, while Armin was pushing his side, his friend had noticed that he still had marks in the belly of his kidnapping.

- Do you still have sequelae? asked the brunet, putting the alters on the ground.
-Uh, yeah," said Armin, straightening himself before rolling his shoulders. But they will leave. But I do not care about my condition right now, I worry more about Annie's, I hope she'll be better.
- Why ? She seems not to be?
- She can hide it and unfortunately this scar will not close. But I will try to appease him.
-Well, you're a real protector," the brown man chuckled.

Armin raised an eyebrow and smiled before taking alters too.

- I'm having a paintball party at home, do you want to come?
- Wait, at your place? You're on because the painting ...
- Finally in my garden, how big it is, do you think?
- I'll ask Annie, but that would be cool Armin smiles.

The same evening, the blonde had agreed to go, it was going to take her out a little and think of something else. They had put on simple clothes as it was going to be a real bath of paint. Eren gave them pistols and cartridges, Jean, Mikasa, Sasha, Connie, Reiner, Berthold, Marco, Ymir and Historia were part of the party. Each one made their team, before being distributed in the zone, hidden. The goal was to steal the flag of the opponent, lying in their camp. There were two defendants, for the blues: Ymir and Historia, and the reds, Reiner and Berthold. Eren, Sasha, Annie and Armin took care of flying the flag, just like the blues: Jean, Connie, Marco and Mikasa.

- Leave!

Mikasa drove straight into the pile, shooting at Sasha, who caught a red ball in the belly. She will run, avoiding the attacks of Armin and Eren who were trying to block his rapid advance. Annie sneaked quietly behind the hiding places, watching the enemies pulling a little at random while laughing. She was about to get up, before someone crushed in front of her, it was Reiner who had just caught a blue paintball right in the face.

- It's okay ? she asked a little worried.
- Nikel chuckled the blond with a hand up.

Mikasa slowly approached his target, which was the flag of the opposing side. She glanced a few times and stood up, but a bullet went to her head. With great luck she stooped at the last moment and then hid behind a wall. Reiner and Berthold were KO, it could only be Annie or Armin running around, because Eren was fighting with Jean and Sasha, and Sasha was too lazy to get up after taking a paintball . She was talking about meat, weird. Mikasa counted to five ran out of her hiding place, she saw Annie and pulled. The blonde turned her head towards the small missile that darted at full speed towards her, when Armin stood in front and took it right in the face, yes it hurt ... The teenager runs away while the blonde threw down his weapon and raised the blonde in a sitting position.

- But you're sick of putting yourself in front of me ?! she said, looking at the blond's colorful face.
- It's funny ... Say ... Do you have a twin?
-Uh ..." Annie said, passing her hand in front of Armin's eyes.
- Why do I see you in two then? the blond man awkwardly asked, looking at her.
- Maybe it's the fact that you just took a missile right in the face? It's a hypothesis.

- Or, that you are beautiful?

-I think you just had a head injury," Annie said, snapping her fingers in front of her eyes as she blushed.
- I think I just melted smiles Armin.
-I think I'm going to kill you," Annie added, taking out a balloon of paint.
- You would not do it ...
- You think ?

Armin did not have time to say anything that the blonde smashed the paint on her face and stepped back to see his work. The teenager unloaded his gun and took revenge by swinging all his ammunition on the blonde who was covered in color. Mikasa managed to take the flag and raised it to finish the game. She squinted as she saw far away, Sasha giggling foolishly as she saw stolen unicorns, Eren still fighting with John, to Marco's desperation, Connie eating, Ymir making a statement to Historia while she was dying, just because she had just received a paint missile in her belly, Annie and Armin rolling together in the painting and Berthold and Reiner wondering why they were there. She sighed:

-  I won.