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Hi there. I'm Eren Yeager, and I go to Titan High with my friends- Oh my god, actually, screw the formalities. My name is Eren Yeager, and that's all you need to know for now.
That was a bad start, wasn't it? But who could blame me. In the terrifying moments of your first day in highschool territory, you'd be pretty rude wouldn't you?
This Morning
"EeaRGHHHHHH..."
Do you hear that? That is the perfect sound to describe my being at the moment. Tired, ugly, incoherent, and a bit on the grumpy side.
I rolled out of bed lazily, and went to my closet to get my uniform. To say the uniform was bizzare, would be an understatment. It was just plain weird. This first layer was a regular white button up, and layered over was a tan colored jacket, that ended at my navel. There was a weird kind of patch sewn onto the front. Two overlapping wings, with beige colored pants with overlapping strapts.
After cleaning up, the usual brushing your teeth, changing your clothes, or occasional jerk off, I deemed myself ready for the exhausting day ahead.
I went downstairs and was greeted by the smell of the sacred food. That's right, bacon. One ray of sunshine leading to doom.
My mom was busy making breakfast by the stove, while my dad was reading a news paper and sipping at his coffee,my sister Mikasa was busy on her phone. Mom noticed me first, and turned her head with a smile on her face.
"Mornin', sleepy head. What took you so long? Mikasa was ready ten minutes ago."
I grumbled, shuffling to where Mikasa was sitting and flopping down un-gracefully to stuff my face with the food that mom has prepared.
"Well, hello to you too." Mom said jokingly, smile still resting on her face.
I looked to my dad, who was still reading the paper. His eyes drifted to me quickly, and he smiled briefly.
"Hello, son. You ready for your first day in the 104th district?"
I playfully rolled my eyes, small grin forming on my face as I chowed down into the bacon.
"You know I am.",
Dad chuckled, and continued on to reading silently.
Silently...hm, Mikasas been quiet.
I glanced to Mikasa, to see that she was texting Annie. If you looked closely you can see a small smile on her face.
Idea alert.
I lunged, grabbed the phone and with the few seconds I had I used my amazingly fast texting skills to send Annie a provacative text.
After school you think you could show me some lessons in the back of the gym? I know how good you are with your legs after all.
She glared, and slapped my lightly upside the head. I only stuck out my tongue and snickered. She hadn't yelled at me, so I knew that she was secretly ok with the sexual text I sent to her girlfriend. Looks like someone's going to be lucky tonight. I deserve a nice pat on the back.
As I checked my bag in case I left anything behind, I heard my phone go off. Checking the time quickly, I was relived that we still had time till the start of school. Not that needed the time, since Titan high was just a 15 minute walk from our home. After putting my things together, I answered the phone.
"Yell-ow?" I answered goofily, Mikasa rolling her eyes. I put the phone on speaker so she could listen, and was greeted by the frantic voice of our childhood friend, Armin.
"Eren! Mikasa! What are you doing?! Hurry up! The opening ceremony begins in 10 minutes!" Me and Mikasa looked at each other at the same time, boh taken back a bit, until we both exclaimed.
"What?!"
"Yeah! I got a call saying that they made a mistake, and now it's starting at 7:30! Hurry up before you guys get suspended!!"
"Shit!"
Me and Mikasa went into overdrive, putting on our shoes hastily as we started to run out the door.
"Bye mom! Running late, close the door!" I yelled, following behind Mikasa who was now sprinting.
"Wait up, god damnit!"
I followed far behind her, yelling profanities all the way to school.
Yup, a great start to my hellish day.
Current time
So that was this morning. By some miracle, we managed to find our seat and make it just in the nick of time before the ceremony started. I wasnt sure if that was a good thing, but I did find out some interesting things about how the school worked. The wings on the front of my jacket was supposedly the name of the hallway I was in. There were 3 hallways, the Garison hallway, the survey hallway, and the military hallway. Once again, I thought the names were epic, but decided against calling the military hallway by it's name. Instead, I decided to call it the unicorn hall.
There was also another thing I found interesting. It turned out, you were put int a hallway based on your grades. Garrison being below average, survey being average, and unicorn being above average. You were also almost always nominated or recomended for a scholar ship if you were in the unicorn hall. I wasn't surprised when Mikasa and Armin were both in the Military hallway, but I was surprised when I found out I was average. I always thought I was below average, so that was a plesant surprsie.
Your classes were also based off of your hallway. Because I was average, my classes were also average. Leaving off of the subjects from last year. Mikas and and Armin's classes were advanced, based off of what they exeled at. I also found out that I made average because I exelled at one thing, biology and psyche. After the ceremony, we were esorted by upper years to our classes and lockers. I was locker 32, towards the end of the hallway. As we exited the gym, I made my way through the flow of bodies, already knowing where my locker and home room were located. Homeroom was really close to our hallway, so I didn't have a problem. The only problem was that it was social studies, and I always struggled with that subject.
Catching up to my friends, I noticed they had a strange look on their faces. Looking closer, I saw that Armin's eyes were darting everywhere, and Mikasa's were too. Except hers were warry.
"Hey, whats up?"
During the ceremony, we were forced to sit apart from eachother, so I was a bit out of breath when I caught up to them. Placing my arms around their shoulders and hugging them tight, there features smoothed out a bit, but their gaurded expressions came back as they looked around. As I was also about to look, Armins whispered quckly into my ear.
"Later, we'll tell you at lunch. Just, be careful."
They walked to their hallway, quickly, walking up the stairs. I didn't know what they ment, so I went to my locker, oblivious to the eyes that were watching me.
As I thought, Social studies were grueling. so was math, and music. I was happy when I found out Lunch was my fourth hour, since it ment I could eat at a normal time. After getting my lunch, I scanned the cafeteria for my friends. I spotted them sitting among familiar faces, and felt my self break into a bright smile.
Making my way to the table, I was even more confused. Everyone was here, Connie, Sasha, Ymir, Krista, Bert, Reiner, Annie, Marco, Even horse shit. So why did they look so somber?
"Yo."
I called out as I sat in between Mikasa and Armin, making my smile wider. I expected them to smile back, or atleast react, but they just stared at me. Not even Jean had any snarky remarks. That's right, I said it. Jean wasn't being a douche.
"Who died."
I said with my serious face, and in three seconds, everyone broke out laughing. AHA!
Jean was the first to compose himself, while everyone was still recovering from my unexpected bluntness. I was thoroughly miffed, what was so funny? But, I brushed it off since the atmoshpere was lightened a bit, well, at least at our table.
"Shut it, Yeager. It wasn't that funny."
"I think it was, horse shit. And i'm pretty sure you thought so too, considering the weird noise you call a laugh."
"Hey!"
"Guys." Annies sudden voice broke through our bickering, and our attentions were drawn to her. Annie was next to Mikasa, but instead of holding hands like they usually do, they kept their hands planted on their lap. I looked to them quizically, but everyone elses faces once again became darker.
She looked at me like I grew a second head, and motioned for me too look around. Turning my head, I saw why everyone was suddenly so cautions. Almost all the tables were quiet besides ours, and were staring at us like we just commited first degree murder. Gulping, I faced my friend and lowered my voice so that only the people sitting with us could hear.
"What happened?"
They shared looks, and Armin sighed and looked to me.
"Eren, this school," He looked away, trying to find the words to explain their distress," Is a big deal. Almost everyone in Military hallway get scholar ships. We found out that each quarter, based off of your grades, you change hallways based off of your grades" I nodded, still confused as to why this was a big deal.
"Go on..?"
"Have you noticed the looks you got when you smiled?" I nodded again," Have you actually seen anyone around you laugh, smile, or even interact in general?"
Armin's face was now very close to mine, he leaned towards me, a gliint in his eyes. I gulped, and let out a small yup. When it hit me. He was right. Each time I smiled, talked to my friends, esspecialy when I laughed, I recieved he strangest looks. It was almost as if, they were afraid.
"The students here are afraid. This school has connections, Eren. It effects jobs, and even lives. People here are afraid to act normally, and focus on their grades. Afraid that they would get in trouble for acting human."
I was now taken back. No, scratch that. Blown the fuck away. Afraid? Of acting normal? Well that's
"That's fucked up." I heard gasps. And I recieved incredilous looks from my friends, and even more looks from eople arounds us.
"Eren!" Mikasa exclaimed quietly.
"Eren." This time, Krista looked to me, a stern look in her eyes. I was about to protest, till I saw the look in her eyes. I've only seen her look like that when she scolds Ymir. I sighed in defeat, noticing that even Ymir wasn't draping an arm around krista. And they almost always show some sort of PDA. This must be serious.
"Ok, fine." I grummbled with distaste.
The whole rest of the day went silently, so did the rest of the week. Silence. Silence. By the end of the second week I couldn't take it anymore. As I exited school, I had to keep silent. The whole two fucking weeks, I didn't even have one single fight with Jean. And we literly are four lockers away from each other. I decided I hated highschool. Everything was silent, plain, boring. The people, the classes, the same. It was alot different from my old school, shiganshina. It was always loud and full of life there. The teachers were fun too, but here? The teachers did nothing else but give assignments and put in your scores.
Even more disgusting? Not only were most of the students here spineless, but I've already walked into 5, no, 6 'matings'. I don't think witnessing someone suck someone off counted as mating, so just six. Yup, not that I've walked into twelve people getting down and dirty. Nope. I just don't want to use the bathroom cause it's...dirty. Yup, really dirty.
I was ready to drop out. I wasn't even motivated to study. I somehow managed to kee my grades steady, I even managed to get advanced biology class. The only good thing that came out of the lack of social life. I should have been happy that I got more time with my friends, but it only made me bitter. Since it was advanced, I got three extra hours with Armin and Mikasa. I don't meen to sound cocky, but I found that I understood the mind and bdy better then them. They admited themselves too. Anyway, I was done with this shit. What was the point of having extra time with the people you care about, if you can't even talk to them?
Once we were out of range from the school, I decided it was time for a get together. I asked Jean if it was alright that we all go to his house to hang out. For once, he didn't argue and was enthuseastic to finally spend some time with everyone, and so was I.
I called everyone, Connie, Sasha, Ymir, Krista. I didn't need to call Armin or Mikasa, since they were with me when I asked Jean if he could use his house. Since Annie was with us too, I didn't need to call Reiner or Bert. (They live together.)
At four, we were all in Jean's basement. Jean and marco sat together at the left end of the couch, while me and Armin sat at the right. Connie and Sasha sat on the floor in front of the couch, and Mikasa and Annie took the love seat. Reiner and Bert were at the minnie bar sitting by the counter. That's right, a minnie bar. Jean's parents were pretty loaded, what rich person doesn't have a minnie bar? Oh, and Krista was sitting on Ymirs lap on the floor. We all chatted among ourselves, updating each other on what happened through out the two weeks.
"Oh, shit! I almost forgot. Jean, come over here for a second." Horse shit raised an eyebrow, but sat down on the floor next to Connie nonetheless. Connie took out his phone, which had the cover of a potato, the screen lock screen with a potato, and Sasha eating a potato for the home screen. (Sasha had the same case, screen saver, and home screen with Connie eating a potato.)
He fumbled with his phone a bit, and handed it to Jean who now, was laughing and clutching his stomach. I climbed down to peer over Connie's bald head, and nearly screamed in mortifiction. On the screen, was me posing in the mirror, with the most ridiculous hand gestures. Shit.
"Shut up!" I glared at Jean, who was now tearing up.
"How the hell am I suppose to do that? That's the uggliest thing I've ever seen."
"Ooh! Baked potato! Show me, show me!"
Connie chuckled and handed her the phone, while I burried my face in a pillow.
"Sure thing, potato chip."
A moment later, Sasha Joined Jean in a rolling laughing fit, and soon everyone was huddled around Connie on the floor, all laughing. I felt my face heat up, and groaned louder.
"Holy shit! Look at that duck face!"
"And that double chin, damn. Sorry Eren, but I have to agree with Jean on this. This is probably the ugliest face you've ever made."
"Reiner!" I could see Armin trying to control his giggles, while Mikasa hid her wide smile in the crook of Annie's neck. And I think I felt my heart stop. As fast as I could, I took Connies, phone from him, Earning many protests but I didn't care. I went to camera mode, and took a picture, capturing Annie's happy smile.
Everyone looked at me with questioning looks, but as soon as I showed them, everyone went silent.
"Holy"
"Shit."
We all looked at Ymir, then Krista.
"Krista, did you just..."
"HOLY JESUS TAP DANCING CHRIST KRISTA SWORE!"
Connie and Sasha became spazing, while Mikasa and Annie continued to smile, my ugly duck face forgoten. I gave Krista my brightest smile, and she gave a small meep, making herself small in Ymirs lap.
"That's my girl!" Ymir ruffled her hair, and Krista became pink. We all took out our phones, and took a picture. Well, at least things ended well.
...
BUT WAIT. THERES MORE.
Haha, did you guys seriously think I would end on such a happy note? Damn right I'm not. Lets get to the big speach, shall we?
Current time...again
After our laughing subsided, I cleared my throat. Time to get serious. I rubbed the back of my neck again, and slowly everyone looked to me.
"Okay guys. So I wanted all of us to meet up because, honestly? I was looking forward to school with all of you guys. But you see, highschool sucks balls. Quit figuratively and litterly." I earned a few chuckles, and glare from Mikasa. I felt my cheeks heat up a bit, and continued.
"But thats not the only reason as to why I wanted us all to meet." Armin looked at me with a glint, and Mikasa looked at me with worry.
"Like you said before, the students at titan high were afraid. But are we?" I looked at everyone. I knew for a fact I wasn't afraid, I was more pissed. And I knew that they were too.
"Hell naw!" Connie shouted loudly. I smirked.
"Neither am I!" Cried Krista.
"Ooh, shits getting real! Well, if my girl isn't afraid of some student body, then I ain't either. Ain't that right, angel?" Ymir said, nuzzling in Krista's hair.
"Well, if my baked potato isn't afraid, then this potato chip isn't either!!" Sasha jumped up, and suddenly was holding both her arms out, and held one knee high. Effectively copying, um, crane style? Connie joined her, doing some sort of, pray-mantus sort of look. And they thought my posing was funny. I took a picture.
"Eren, where is this leading to." Armin asked in a serious tone. I looked at him, and he looked at me.
"Ar, I know your an evil genious. You know me better then enyone, and so do you Mikasa." I looked to my sister, who now looked at me with a hard stare.
"Eren, don't do anything stupid."
"Pshh. Mika, I think we all know everything Eren does is stupid." Jean scoffed.
"Shut it, horse shit."
"Ahem. Continue on, Eren." Marco said quickly before me and Jean could get into another fight. Marco really is an angel. Now, Reiner and Bert were leaning towards us, and we were all in a bundle of sorts.
"Right. kay, so we all know that back in shiganshina, we were the bomb. Hell, I earned a nickname, so why don't we earn our reputation back and turn this school around?"
Everyone was quiet, till Reiner interupted with a hardy laugh.
"Well, I don't know about you losers, but I like this plan already. Schools boring as hell, and footballs losing pazzaz now that we can't whip each other with towels in the locker room, or any late night partys after a game. If this plan involves getting that back, then count me in." Bert nodded. Typical Bert.
Annie looked disappoving, but sighed eventually.
"If those losers are doing this shit, then I have no choice. Just don't do anything that gets me in trouble, Yeager." She scooted next to her roomates.
Ymir was now clinging onto krista.
"Well you now our answer."
"Ours too!" Sasha chimed in.
Now all was lefts was Armin and Mikasa. I looked at Armin. And we starte dat eachother for what seemed like an eternity, until he finally rolled his eyes, and sighed.
"Okay, fine. Besides, you need an evil genious like me in order for this plan to work." I laughed and shoved him playfully.
"Now," I looked to Mikasa.
"Mikasa I-"
"I'm in." Mikasa cut in, and I grinned.
"Welp. That's settled. You guys ready to do this shit?"
Everyone nodded.
"Hey, Yeager bombastic!" Oh shit, horse shit.
"You forgeting someone? I looked to Jean and marco, and just smiled.
"Nope." He looked absolutley hurt.
"Don't get your panties in a twist, you shit stain. Why do I need to get your approval when I already know your gonna help us, idiot. And I know for a fact Marco the freckled Jesus is gonna help." I punched his arm lightly, and he smirked back at me. Marco gave me his beutiful smile.
"Okay! Your ready to destroy this depressing highschool and bring back the life into those losers?!"
"Hell yeah!"
I grinned a shit eating grin. Everyone followed my leage.
"Watch out, titan high. A new era has begun!"