Eremika Week 2018

Homecoming

Eremika Week Day 4: NSFW/Confession

Rating: T

Both Mikasa and Eren have trouble determining who to take to the dance as Homecoming approaches (High School AU)

A fluffy, cliche high school AU for you since the current canon-verse is too depressing to write in for seven short stories. Because I still have a younger sibling in high school, I am reminded that it is once again Homecoming season. I don't miss high school dances at all, but it was fun returning to this era for a bit. Also, this piece is SUPER long, like double my other pieces, which is ironic because I initially had major writing block for this prompt. Enjoy :)

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The high school cafeteria buzzes with the chatter of hungry students and the clanking of metal utensils. Eren lifts his head upward to gaze at the dark blue Homecoming banner that's being hung into place. He grumbles and takes a bite of food, having forgotten that the onset of autumn also means that an annual school dance is right around the corner.

"A beach theme, really?" Eren mumbles, staring at the illustrated waves on the banner.

"Have you thought about who you're going to ask?" Armin asks besides Eren.

"No. I might just not go. Last year was underwhelming," Eren mutters as he takes another bite of food.

"I forget. Who did you take last year?"

"Mina Carolina. She just dragged me around the whole dance to show me off to her friends."

Armin tilts his head. "Why did you even take her, then?"

"We were in the same geometry class. I don't know. I heard her complaining that no one had asked her yet, and I hadn't found a date, so I thought, why not?"

"Pst," Connie interrupts, sliding next to Eren. "I heard a rumor that Mikasa Ackerman is going to ask you this year."

"Huh?!" Eren questions.

This is the first time Eren's been made aware of this rumor. Come to think of it, he hasn't talked to Mikasa in a while, not since over summer. In their elementary school days they were inseparable, but later on into middle school and eventually high school, their childhood friendship began to weaken. Just for a second, Eren feels a glimmer of disappointment and perhaps guilt for not maintaining a strong relationship with her.

"Who did she go with last year?" Armin wonders.

Connie shrugs. "I don't think she went with anyone. Sasha told me that she was too heartbroken over some guy to go."

"Well, she never told me anything," Eren argues.

"Don't you have Algebra 2 together? Maybe she'll ask you this afternoon," Connie jokes.

"It's not like we sit next to each other and hold hands!" Eren shouts, his anger rising from Connie's incessant teasing.

"Eren, are you blushing?" Armin asks, turning his head to stare at his face.

Eren turns his face to hide the reddening of his cheeks. "It's because you two are messing with me!"

"Talking about Mikasa Ackerman, are we?" comes the sly, cocky voice that drives Eren mad every time he hears it. He looks upward to see Jean Kirstein has approached the table with a smug look on his face.

"Mikasa's going to ask Eren to the Homecoming dance," Connie states.

"Hey, we still don't know if that's—" Eren's attempt to hush the rumor is broken off by Jean speaking again.