Memories ~ Attack on Titan

Chapter eight

The first night was hard for Rin, she lay on her small bed while all the other girls in the room slept. She just stared at the ceiling and thought about the day, she kept thinking about how she defended Eren and was the center of attention during dinner, she felt so embarrassed the more she thought about it, why would she let her anger take control like that? She felt like a complete idiot.

-Rin pov-
The next day all of the cadets were called to one of the outside areas. I skipped breakfast, I was way to nervous to eat and was honestly scared I might throw it up. But I decided to go anyway to see my new friends for a bit, When i entered the cafeteria it was full of cadets, i looked around and saw Eren, Armin and Mikasa sitting at a table, I rushed over to them and sat next to Eren. "Good morning guys, can I sit with you?" I asked with a bright smile on my face, trying to be as positive as possible. Armin smiled at me, "good morning rin!" Eren smiled at me too, "yea of course you can." When breakfast was over the group of cadets went outside to where Kieth was standing. He divided us Into four groups and had each group stand in front of a machine. It was time for the aptitude test.I was in a group with people I wasn't familiar with, all of my friends were all placed in other groups. There was one person I knew however that was in my group, Jean, but I'm not sure if I'm on friendly with Jean or were him and I stood, plus I was still a bit annoyed with him from last night, so i didn't approach him. I found myself staring into space as I watch the people in front of me being strapped into the machine. I remembered seeing my dad use something like this, he made it look easy enough, but then again hr made everything look easy enough. I snapped out of my daze when i felt someone pat me on the back. "Hey, it's your turn you know, what are you not paying attention or something?" I frowned when I heard that familiar voice, I and looked up to see jean, of
Course. I looked away from him, "right." I said as coldly as I could and walked towards the machine. I was having a little trouble keeping my balance, but I didn't fall or do anything embarrassing. After a second i got used to it and hung there loosely without wobbling. Then I was lowered down and walked back into the group so the next person could go. I couldn't help but feel disappointed, I was decent, but I didn't want to be decent I wanted to be amazing, my father is amazing. My father mastered his gear right away and never needed help. But I didn't let my disappointment show, i stood up straight and kept my face blanked as I walked passed Jean and towards the back of the small crowd. Jens watched me though as i walked past and for whatever reason he followed after me, "hey, why do you look so down? Why do you have that look on your face? You did better then a lot of these idiots." He asked looking down at me with a little laugh. I bit her bottom lip and looked down at my feet, "Yes Jean I know you did better then me no need to point it out." I said still looking down, "I'm not as good as you but soon I'll be better then you, count on that." I said but then suddenly I got distracted from the conversation, i looked over to see Eren completely upside down and Kieth yelling at him. I ditched Jean jogged over to where Eren was. Jean just stood there and sighed.
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"Hey, where are you guys off to?" I asked Mikasa, Armin and Eren as they were walking down the hall towards me. Eren looked at me, he looked kinda defeated but at the same time hopeful, strange combination, "I want to get a little more practice with using my gear before tomorrow." I smiled at my friends, it nice to see someone so serious, "oh I see, sorry Eren, I would help you but my head hurts so I think I'm going to go head to my room until dinner."
I walked away from the group and towards the girls dorm room, the other cadets were just walking around and talking. I happened to noticed Jean and Marco talking in one of the halls, Marco looked at me so I gave a tied smiled to the boys as I walked passed and Marco waved at me with a big smile. As i walked passed them I couldn't help but over hear something interesting.
"Jean, you should have talked to her. She's really nice so why are you worried?"
"Look Marco, The girl hates me, I haven't even gotten a smile from her."
"Yea but Rin is really friendly, I'm sure she doesn't hate you! But if that's how you feel."
Jean signed and leaned his back against the wall.
Marco looked at his friend, "you should offer to help her with her ODM gear, your the best one in our group and I think she was having a bit of trouble."
Jean signed again, "yea maybe I'll ask her."
I was leaned against the opposite wall so the boys couldn't see me but so I could hear there conversation, so that's were I stood with Jean huh?
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I was sitting next to Armin and across from eren and Mikasa in the dinning hall. I over heard some boys mocking Eren behind me so I did the only thing I could and stared them down, "care to say that loud enough for the rest of us to hear?" I said coldly and the boys shut up. Mikasa popped Eren's shoulder which pulled him out of his thoughts. Armin looked at his friend, "Eren, you won't solve anything with worrying." I looked at Eren and smiled hoping to ease some of the tensio , "she's right you know, Ignore those idiots, Mikasa and Armin and I will help you. There's still time to practice more before morning." This made Eren a upset, he and Mikasa started arguing. This was a bit uncomfortable so I was the first to leave the table. I stood up without a word and threw my trey away, hoping to just make a clean exit. Pretty much everyone else was still eating but I was finding that I wasn't to hungry. I walked alone into the hall and towards my room. Jean stood up and threw his plate away and jogged to catch up with me, I heard his footsteps and tried to quicken my pace to avoid him. When he saw i was not far ahead he called out to to, "hey, Rin." I stoped walking and turned to look at Jean, a blank look on her face, all i wanted was to go to bed so why was this boy bothering me again? "Yea?" I said shortly. When Jean finally made to me he stood in front of me and smiled, "yea so I remembered what you said about not being as good at ODM gear as me and You probably noticed but I'm the best in our group. Sooo, I figured I'd offer to help you and be nice, since I'm pretty sure you don't like me for some reason. So, What do you think?" I looked at him and narrowed my eyes, this guy was looking down on me? What the hell was his problem? "I'm the second best in our group, only behind you, I'm not shitty with my ODM gear like you seem to think Jean. So why are you offering help to me and not the others who can't even stand up straight?" Jean looked down at me and forced another smile, which I still didn't do."yea well I just thought it was the nice thing to do. Especially since you were upset and all." He scratched the back of his head awkwardly feeling like he screwed up this whole thing.I looked up at him feeling slightly offended yet slightly entertained. I could totally do better then him with my gear, so now would be the perfect time to prove it. Neither of us spoke for a moment until I broke the silence. "Yea, I'll take you up on your offer. But only so I have a chance to beat your ass in ODM training." Jean's face lit up and he smiled brightly at me, he's that excited to get his ass beat? "really? Yea okay okay, cool!" He said, realizing he sounded probably a little to excited and a small blush dusted his face,"so uh, you wanna start tomorrow?"I couldn't help but smirked a little and looked up at the boy, "sure Jean, but for now, I just want to go to bed." I said tiredly, this time giving him a small smile.