Bertholdt x Mikasa (BeruMika)

Twelve

~Bertholdt's POV~

Wincing scents of toasting bread with basil floated, scattering and dispersing into the air. It smelled so beautiful, nothing could compare at the moment. I felt my feet move slowly one after the other towards the girls' log cabins. Every step I took my nose was tantalised by the benevolent smells tempting me to eat all it offered. I felt daffy as I walked into Mikasa's lodging.

I snapped out of it when I heard immense cries to my left. I looked left, and then down to a single bunk where Hannah laid. Poor Hannah, I could never have something like this happen to Mikasa, nor myself. I held her shoulder comfortingly and looked to her for a few moments. After she started to break down into sniffles I let her shoulder go and moved further down to Mikasa's bunk.

"Hrruuhhmmmuuuhh" Mikasa groaned and rubbed her eyes, she kept them closed. I stood there and watched to see if she'd wake herself up. She just tossed and turned for a while, and when I thought she'd wake all she did was nod back off to dream land.

So I poked her arm.

"RGAAUUHH!!" Mikasa shot up and was on her feet, she was just about ready to flip me into the ground.

"Uh haha- Mikasa it's Bert." I awkwardly laughed and waited.

"Huh? Uh-- sorry." Mikasa apologised embarrassed and let me go.

"It's fine."

"What do you want anyways?" She snapped into an interrogating investigator.

"Uh -j-just-- well.-- WELL! I was wondering if you and I could go on a walk-- together-- alone. O-or with a friend its whatever really! An-and then maybe the woods by the lake later?!" Ugh I'm such a stammering idiot, why couldn't I be well formatted like Reiner, he's a well put together guy.

I stood waiting for her reply and she just kept looking at me with no reaction, no expression, no emotion. My sweat glands turned on and my forehead's sides started to sweat, I'm such a lame idiot.

"Are you going to try anything?" Mikasa finally said something.

"W-what? What do you mean?" I'm kind of confused by her question.

"Guh. I mean are you going to try to lie me on my back and stuff, I've heard enough of that from your idiot best friend--Reiner." Mikasa sighed exasperated and scoffed at the syllables of Reiner's name.

Wait-- did Reiner ask to. . .do the deed with her? Oh goodness I would never. My face was pale red at the thought of it.

"No! Never-- not that a guy wouldn't want to with you er I mean. Gah! I'm just going to stop talking." I shut my yap and resumed to look at the wooden ground with my hands shoved into wool pockets.

Mikasa giggled at me. Giggled. Gih-gulled. Wth?!

"Sure, sorry I'm just already annoyed with people being back now." Mikasa confessed.

"He-haha yeah me too I guess." I tried to agree, no one but Annie's annoying me. Before I went to Mikasa's lodging, I threw my packages by my dresser and when I got to my bed, Annie was there: surprise surprise. What made it worse were her clothes off and she had only her under garments on, uggg. I never liked her like that, and even if I did I really wouldn't want to do that until marriage or something. That's just the way I was taught.

Mikasa cut my thoughts off by accidentally tripping over my foot.

"Oomph!" Mikasa sputtered out from her quiet mouth.

I caught her in a reflex right before she hit the ground.

"Whew! Thanks Bert--" Mikasa stopped mid sentence to see Annie walking and stopping in front of us. When I looked up Annie was already making her way to her bed. She brushed by my shoulder in a small shove and I commenced in picking Mikasa up. She blushed and suggested we'd leave to snack already.