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It was late at night, she had nowhere to go, that wasn’t supposed to be the way to spend that night. However, things were the way they were for a reason, what was the reason? She didn’t know just yet. She kept on going, walking on the streets of that unknown city, the sky was gray, reflecting exactly how she felt at the moment. She kept walking the streets, seeing every building, she needed to find a place to spend the night and hoped that tomorrow was going to be a different and better day.
Just when she thought that the day couldn’t be any worse, it started raining. The good thing? There seemed to be a small hotel just around the corner so she went there, paid for the night and went straight to her room. It was really small but at least it looked clean. She removed her soaked clothes, took a shower and put on something dry. She connected her phone to the charger since it was almost out of battery and left it at the bed table, the proceeded to lay in bed. It was as hard as a stone, she thought that it was just one night and she tried to sleep. One hour later she just gave up, other than the hard bed, her mind wasn't at peace, she was thinking way too much and that wasn't a great idea, every fear that she could think of was coming to her mind. She decided to get up, took her phone and stepped out of the hotel. Once outside she realized that it stopped raining, still, the streets were completely wet and it was really cold despite it being summer. She then proceeded to follow the music she'd been hearing ever since she was in her room.
She noticed that the music was coming from a bar on the next building, she took a look and decided to enter since it was pretty much empty, it could be a good distraction. There were a couple of tables taken by small groups of people or couples, at least that's what it seemed. As soon as she sat on a table, she realized that it was karaoke night, there was a girl around her age at the stage singing her drunk heart out, well, at least that was what she thought, someone had to be really drunk to be singing "suki suki daisuki" perfectly, making all the voice changes and everything. She smiled and ordered a beer and focused on the girl singing, for a reason she couldn’t take her eyes off of her.
The girl finished the song and got off of the stage, she had the urge to follow her with her eyes but resisted and just kept on drinking her beer waiting for the next person to come up the stage and sing.
Another boy went up and started singing but he wasn’t half as good as the previous girl was, as a matter of fact, he was really bad. He kept on changing the lyrics of the song despite having the lyrics on a big ass screen, she thanked the universe that the song wasn't one of her liking, otherwise it would be ruined for her. She then thought that the previous girl wasn’t drunk at all and smiled at the thought, she suddenly felt a tap on her shoulder.
“Mikasa?” she heard a voice calling her from behind, she wondered who could have known her in that place. She decided to turn around slowly and realized that the girl that was singing was standing there. Mikasa gave her a confused look and just as she was about to speak, the other girl continued talking.
“Sorry for bothering you, I must be mistaking you for somebody else” the girl said with an apologetic and awkward look and started to turn around to return to her table.
“Wait!” Mikasa said really fast, getting her hand in the air in an attempt to stop the girl. The girl turned around again to face her. “D... do I know you?” she said still confused.
“Sasha” she smiled “Sasha Blouse, I was in your class in 8th grade” she kept smiling while staring at her.
“Sasha! -she opened her eyes, recognizing the girl but she sure looked really different. She had all her ears pierced and was wearing these extreme baggy clothes, also, she had this carefree and goofy look. The Sasha she used to know always wore skinny clothes and looked like a really hyperactive person.
“Of course! I’m so sorry I didn't recognize you. There was definitely something familiar about you but I wasn't exactly sure what it was” she finished with a smile.
To be fair, they weren't exactly best friends, sure they hung out a couple of times and worked together on some assignments but Mikasa used to spend almost all her time with Armin and Eren. However it was really nice seeing Sasha again. Sasha’s smile got wider and went for a hug, taking Mikasa by surprise but returned the hug, she wasn't exactly the affectionate type.
“How have you been? It’s been a lot, what happened to you?” Mikasa asked while making a gesture with her hand inviting her to sit next to her.
“Well, when we finished middle school my father got a job offer here so we moved, that's practically why you never saw me again” she laughed awkwardly “We never went back. Fortunately I stayed in touch with Connie and Jean, they are here actually” she turned, pointing to a table where two boys were seated talking while drinking a blue beverage. “We start our classes tomorrow. But enough about me, what are you doing here?” she asked and waited for Mikasa to answer.
“Well, tomorrow’s my first day too, I couldn’t sleep and I decided to go out for a walk. I'm currently staying in a hotel next door” she looked at the confused look of the girl and added. “Long story, but basically I didn’t sign up for a dorm. I will have to go tomorrow and see if I can still get one.”
“Well, I really hope that you get one” she smiled and turned a little to order a beer “Do you mind if I stay here a little? I could really use a break from them” she laughed and looked at Jean and Connie fighting over a bowl of peanuts
“Not at all, I really thought that I was going to be all alone here but it’s nice to see some familiar faces.”
“And what happened to Armin and Eren?” she asked, hoping that she didn’t mess things up asking for them, however, when she saw that Mikasa’s expression didn’t change, she continued “You guys were inseparable, are you and Eren still together?” she saw Mikasa getting flushed while choking on her beer.
“No, no, no. We were never together” Mikasa said, cleaning herself with a napkin.'' People always thought we were a thing. Damn, Even we thought we were a thing since everyone believed that. Obviously it didn’t work, I almost threw up when we kissed” she laughed and kept talking “Actually, they are together, Eren and Armin i mean” she said when she realized Sasha was confused “We were supposed to be here together, we were going to rent an apartment and live together, however, Armin changed his plans. You see, he has been secretly in love with Eren this whole time. He got tired of waiting for Eren and decided that he couldn’t bear being just friends and decided to apply for another school. He then came clean to Eren.” A bittersweet smile appeared on her face and continued. “Eren told him that he felt the same and applied for the same school as Armin and now they both went there and I’m here” Sasha couldn’t help to feel bad for her but she didn’t know what to say. Mikasa seemed to notice and added “And that’s ok, they wanted me to apply to the same school and go with them but I think it’s about time I stop third wheeling them” she laughed. “ it’s a good opportunity to go out of my comfort zone”
“Well, you’re not alone, if you need anything Jean, Connie and I will be around, you could hangout with us if you want.” She took a sip of her beer and continued “We can go out and find new places, I can show you around since I've been here for a while. I know all the good restaurants in the area.” she said with a silly smile on her face “We could make this bar our bar and come here to hangout! By the way, what are you studying? I forgot to ask” Sasha said everything really fast, she really was excited.
“All that sounds amazing Sasha. Thank you, really.” she said with an honest smile. She was really glad to have found Sasha in that Bar “I’m studying Biochemistry” she finished her beer and gestured for another one to the bartender “How about you?”
“Physics” she said and looked at the astonished face on Mikasa and laughed “I know, it’s hard to believe right? Everybody says the same.”
“No, no” Mikasa said quickly “Well, yeah, Please don’t take it the wrong way but I remember you not liking any science class back then.”
“And you are correct, I guess I started liking them in high school, I got in the archery team and realized that it was all about physics, so I started liking them.”
“Well, I think that’s really cool. Are you going to be in the archery team here?”
“Yes” she said with a big smile “I got a scholarship because of that. It’s really cool because I get to be on the sports team dorms, they say we have comfortable beds and a lot of tasty foods on the cafeteria” she started to drool and Mikasa couldn’t help to laugh at the action, she remembered how the girl used to always get in trouble for eating snacks in class. She started regretting not being closer with her back then but she’s always been really shy, actually now that she was thinking about it, it amazed her that she was having such a pleasant conversation with Sasha, maybe not being next to Eren and Armin was a good thing after all.
They continued talking for a while, they kept drinking and talking until they realized that the bar was empty now. Jean and Connie were half asleep and half drunk on their table. Mikasa checked her phone to see the time, the clock showed that it was almost two in the morning.
“Wow, time really does fly with good company” Mikasa said and got off of her chair “However I think we should get going, I don’t know about you but my first class is at 7:00am and I could really use some sleep.”
“Of course” Sasha said, also getting up "we should get going. Do you mind giving me a hand with those two? Actually, do you think there would be more rooms at your hotel? I don’t think I can take them to their dorm all by myself” she said, scratching the back of her head.
“It looked pretty empty when I got my room so most likely yes. We could get a room for them and you can stay with me, the bed is really hard but it’s big enough for both of us” Sasha went red as a tomato and started talking. “There's no need, I can go to my do…” Mikasa interrupted her. “Like hell you will. There's no way I will let you go alone all the way there. You’re staying with me, end of the discussion.”
They walked to the table where Jean and Connie were and tried to wake them up unsuccessfully. Mikasa decided to carry Jean in her arms and Sasha looked amazed, Jean was really tall and athletic, she was sure he shouldn’t be that easy to carry. Mikasa realized the look Sasha was giving her and smiled. “You don’t know the amount of times I had to do this with Eren” She said while still carrying Jean. Sasha then decided to do the same with Connie, it wasn’t really hard since he was about the same height as her and he was really skinny.
They left the place and went to the hotel. They got a room next to the room Mikasa already had, left them there, closed the door and went to Mikasa’s room. Once there Mikasa offered Sasha a pair of shorts and a tank top so she could sleep more comfortably, she refused, but Mikasa insisted. Sasha took the clothes and changed in the bathroom, when she came out Mikasa was wearing another pair of shorts and a tank top, she could see the toned body that Mikasa had and understood why it was so easy for her to carry Jean. She started to think that she could probably lift her and throw her from the window with only one hand until suddenly Mikasa interrupted her thoughts when she started talking “Do you prefer the right or left side?”
“I’m sorry?” Sasha asked, confused.
“The bed, would you rather sleep on the right or left side?” Mikasa said calmly.
“Oh” she came back to earth and stopped looking at Mikasa's arms “I don’t really mind” She smiled
“Well, in that case I will take the right side if you don’t mind” Mikasa said while Sasha shook her head “ I’m used to sleeping on that side.”
“No problem at all. Besides, this is your room, you have the right to choose the side of the bed you want, you could even tell me to sleep on the floor and I wouldn't mind” she said smiling while getting under the covers of the left side of the bed and Mikasa laughed while getting on the right side.
“I could never let a pretty girl sleep on the floor” she said, getting blushed, and realized the alcohol was making her say things she wouldn't normally say and “All right, good night” she hurried to say turning the lights off and proceeded to lay in bed facing to the opposite side.
“Good night, Mikasa, thank you for letting me stay here” she said all flushed and also turned to the opposite side. She tried really hard to sleep but couldn't stop thinking about what Mikasa just said. Mikasa thought she was pretty? Mikasa’s situation wasn’t any better, she kept thinking about what she just said. Of course Sasha really was pretty, but why did she say it out loud? She hoped that Sasha didn’t remember that the next morning, but there was no way she could forget it.