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“Come on Armin, it’s gonna be fun.” Eren rings the doorbell.
“Just don’t leave me when we get inside.” Eren pretends to be offended by his friend's statement.
“Never.”
Connie opens the door and raises his drink, “Welcome, come inside.”
They head in and go straight for the kitchen, where Mikasa wearing black shorts with fishnets and a black crop top, sits on the counter on her phone. Eren walks up to her and kisses her cheek. She puts her phone down and looks at him, running her hand through his hair.
“Hey, sexy, show up alone?”
“Yeah, but I’m not leaving alone.”
Armin rolls his eyes and coughs signaling his presence in the room.
Mikasa looks over Eren’s shoulder, “Oh hi Armin.”
“Hi, Mikasa.”
“How are you?”
“I’m good. How about you?”
“I’m fine.”
“Enough small talk, Armin I saw some beer in the living room, go get some.” Armin sighs and turns around.
“Thanks, Armin.” Mikasa chimes in as Armin heads out.
In the living room, he grabs 3 beers and heads back to the kitchen, only to discover that they’re gone. He sighs, not surprised by this. He sets the bottles down and takes a churro off the counter. Sasha runs in, looks at Armin, and groans in disappointment. “Ah, dammit. I failed.”
“Failed what?” Armin asks concerned
“Keeping them separated, but you’re alone which means they ran off.”
“If it’s any comfort they’re still in the house.”
“I guess. You wanna meet Connie’s friend? He just transferred. Come on.” She grabs his hand and a bag of chips on the way out.
Moving through the crowd they get to Connie talking to someone on the stairs. She taps his shoulder and he turns around. He sees Armin with her and laughs. “Wow, you really suck at your job.”
“You’re mean when you drink.” comes a voice from the stairs.
Armin moves closer to see who’s speaking. He catches a side profile of him. Even at this angle and medium lighting, Armin can tell he’s hot.
“Well, at least I don’t have a dumb beard.”
Jean sees a short blond staring at him. “Hi.” he waves and the blond blushes. “Hi,” he replies back.
Connie gets the hint. “Oh yeah, this is -.”
Jean leans forward slightly pushing Connie back. He glares but Jean’s glare is stronger.
“I can introduce myself. Hi, I’m Jean.” He holds out his hand and Armin takes it.
“Armin.” They shake.
“Nice to meet you.” They drop hands but keep staring. Sasha sees what’s happening and pulls Connie’s wrist. “Connie let’s do karaoke.” Connie gets excited and follows Sasha.
Jean sighs “It’s gonna get loud in here. Want to talk on the roof?”
Armin nobs yes and Jean gets up bounding up the stairs. Armin then sees how tall he is.
They access the roof through Jean’s new room and sit on the roof.
“So Armin what are you studying?”
“English. What about you?”
“Illustration. I want to make children’s books.”
“Amazing.”
They sat on the roof talking until sunrise.
They always look back on that with fondness, it was the greatest night of their lives.