Eren POV

I wake up to the sound of my phone buzzing, it's the alarm I set for school.

"Fuck..." I groaned as I hit the snooze button.

Last night, I had been playing Wings Of Freedom until about 4 AM with Mikasa. It was pretty fun, honestly. Now, it was 7:45 AM and I had to get ready for school. Needless to say, the lack of sleep didn't help me get up and about.

I slide on my jeans, put on the first white t-shirt I saw when I opened my closet, put some socks on, and put on my Vans. 

Sleepily walking to the breakfast table, I sloppily sat down and place my arms and head down.

"Didn't get much sleep again?" My dad asked.

"Pffft... I don't know what you mean..." I unconvincingly replied.

"Well Eren, you need to start sleeping at a more reasonable time. I get it, you wanna play your games and you wanna stay up but, it's not good for you. And besides, it's not something you can be doing when you go to college. Eventually, you won't be able to uphold this style of life."

My dad, Grisha, was a doctor, and a very successful one at that. He was actually selected as one of the Top 10 doctors in our country. It makes sense that he tells me these things as I know he cares, but at the same time, it just annoys the hell out of me. Like I know these things old man! I just... have a difficult time enforcing them is all...

"Dad, you don't need to tell me three times a week, I think I get the point."

"Well obviously you don't! You come down nearly every night sleep deprived and if you understood as you said you did, you wouldn't be!" He bit back.

I looked at him with a puzzled face. 

"Okay old man, I'll just get myself a piece of bread and be on my way out." I told him.

He seemed to feel a little bad for yelling at me like that but, he won't apologize anyways, he's way too stubborn for that. So, I do as a said. I grab myself a piece of bread, grab my school bag, and head on out to start the, already off, day.

On my way walking to school, I can't help but think about that girl I saw at the mall yesterday. Mikasa seemed to be the root of all thoughts at my current moment. I couldn't get myself to think of anything else, except maybe Wings of Freedom, but even with that I would think about her.

"Yo what's up man."

I looked behind me and saw Armin walking up to me.

"Oh nothing much man, just tired cause I spent all night studying." No I didn't, I was playing Wings of Freedom with Mikasa. Why did I just lie about that.

"Oh really? I thought I saw you online on Wings of Freedom? You weren't playing?" He replied, confusingly.

Oh shit, he caught me in my own lie. I don't know why I even lied about it in the first place, like there's no issue with playing up late at night and telling him, hell, I do that with him all the time. Maybe I couldn't say it because I was playing with Mikasa?

"Oh, haha... It must've been in the background on my computer or something..." I looked away with my face slightly red.

Armin gave me a smirk. "Or.. You were playing with that mystery girl weren't you!"

I looked up shocked, terribly attempting to conceal the surprise. How would he have found out, did I tell him about meeting her after school? I thought I didn't.

"W-What?! No man! I don't know what you could possibly mean!" I was giving myself away even more with the D-Tier acting I was giving him.

He looked at me for a moment, then shrugged. 

"Whatever man, as long as we can still play and vibe, it doesn't matter to me. But, if you start liking this girl or something, I will make fun of you for the rest of your life for having a crush on someone you've never even met. I promise you that."

Oh thank the lords, he didn't know about us at the mall or see us or anything. That was close.

We just continued to walk our way to school chatting about anything that came to mind. The fact that dad yelled at me this morning and Mikasa finally left my mind for the first time since I left my home.

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I had been daydreaming the day away. It was third period now, and all I have done is drawn in my notebook or thought about, you guessed it, Mikasa. It was actually hindering me now, since I couldn't get myself to focus on school but, it's not like I would've tried anyways. So I just continued to doze off into the distance.

"Eren! Would you mind answering the question on the board?" The teacher said

I jumped in my seat, I was caught off guard after all. I looked at the board to see if I could answer the question but, I guess you can't just doze off in AP Stats and just expect yourself to get back on at any given moment. It was asking me for the correlation coefficient of the graph and I had absolutely no idea and just stared blankly at the board.

"Eren?" The teacher said again.

Shit, shit, shit. How am I gonna do this, my graphing calculator is still in my bag even, it's not like I could input it quickly now without giving myself away from not paying attention.

"It's 0.86." Armin whispered to me from behind me.

"0.86!" I shouted after that. Maybe a little too enthusiastically. My face flushed a little from embarrassment. The teacher was visibly shocked at my response. Either I was right on the money, or so, so far from it.

"Very good, Eren." He gave me a nod of approval. I sighed and slouched back into my chair. That wasn't even that big a deal but goddamn, it scared the hell out of me. Our AP stats teacher is Mr. Shadis after all. He humiliates the kids who don't get these things right, and I'm not down for that today.

The bell rung after I gave that response. Mr. Shadis started telling everyone the homework for tonight but I just went straight for the door because all I wanted to do was go home and play Wings of Freedom with Mikasa. 

I managed to make it to my locker before the halls were absolutely flooded with people trying to get to their next class, which is a weird feeling. It's looks as if I were here on a weekend. But of course, people eventually started to pour out into the hallways. 

As I was putting my AP Stats textbook into my locker, I saw something in the corner of my eye. I looked to my right and my eyes were greeted with a girl with long black hair, but more importantly, a long, crimson, red scarf. I slammed my locker shut, locked it, and started rushing my way through the horde towards her.

"Sorry.. Excuse me.."  I kept repeating the same phrases, excusing me through the people. Until finally I made it to the end of the hallway. 

I thought I lost her for a second until I saw the closing of the stairwell door and a glimpse of red following it. I rushed into the stairway and I didn't see anybody. But, I did hear the sound of someone walking downstairs. I recollected myself, and start making my way down. I had to be fast enough so I could catch up with her, but not so fast that I would startle her. 

After I walked around the second corner, I finally saw her just making her way down. An attractive girl with smooth, long, black hair, and a long, crimson, red scarf. 

"Mikasa..." I said without thinking. If I weren't mesmerized by her, I would've been too nervous to say anything. She turned around, unveiling the cute features on her face, and her notably, gorgeous black eyes. We locked eyes and for a second, I thought I might have been in heaven.

"E-Eren?!" Her face suddenly became a light shade of pink.

"I didn't know you came to our school?" I said. I had no idea how I was being so confident, I mean I'm not usually like that. It didn't last for long though, and I looked down at my feet quickly and my face became a light shade of pink too.

"I just moved here. It's my first day." She softly said. Her first day? This is a perfect opportunity to ask her to show her around but, we still are in the middle of the school day though aren't we. I can't ask her that now, we would just be found by an Administrator and given detention. But, if it's with her, I think that could even be enjoyable. But instead, I decided that asking to see her at a separate time when we could actually speak would be more appropriate.

"A-Are you free during lunch?" I said, changing my fluster from a shade of pink, to a color almost indistinguishable from her scarf. She looked up at me, but I continued to stare downwards.

"S-Sure..." She said quickly. I looked up surprised. She actually accepted that? Damn, I was thinking she would've shot me down immediately.

"You want to hang out? We can meet in front of the fifth building." I said with another sudden burst of confidence.

"O-Okay... I'll see you then." She said and then ran off. She accepted my invitation. That caught me completely off guard. I stood there for a moment motionless, until I fully realized what happened. I got flustered once more, but I felt amazing. This is gonna be the first time I'll be talking to a girl during lunch. The bell rang however, ruining my sense of accomplishment.

"Shit!" I shouted and then sprinted to my next period.

I've never been good with girls. Never. I remember in fifth grade I once asked a girl out, and she rejected me and I became so sad for months. It wasn't that big a deal, but of course I had to exaggerate the hell out of it. It probably didn't help that the girl in question told all her friends, which embarrassed me even more. But I mean, we were fifth graders, it all just looks funny retrospectively. But regardless of that, I've always been way too nervous when talking to girls since that. So it's weird that with Mikasa, I've been able to actually, well, speak. I was able to confront her on the game, but the digital aspect might have been a help. But even then, I was also able to meet her in the mall. Now, I was able to ask her to hangout at lunch face to face! I'm both surprised and impressed with myself, but a little more surprised. Regardless, it should be fun. I just hope I don't become a klutz and make a fool out of myself.

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-Yo. It's the author. Yeah I haven't updated this story since 2018, it's 2020 now. Only thing I can say about that is I guess I kinda grew out of it. I mean, I was a 7th grader when I started writing this in 2016. Now I'm a junior in highschool, I can drive, I have a car, I'm in an actual relationship, lots has changed. I booted up wattpad a few days ago randomly because I was trying to find this funny joking fanfiction I read with a friend a long time ago about SpongeBob. Instead, I found an Obama x Spongebob (Spobama) fanfiction, which was also a joke and one of the most hilarious things I've read in a while. Everybody died in the end. So I don't know, I looked at this old story and I was just like "I might as well write". I've been wanting to improve my writing for a while, so regardless of the fact that I might not be the die hard shipper of EreMika that I was when I started writing this, I decided to write the next chapter because I've been wanting to improve my writing and actually write something. It just works out that this was already established and started so, I've continued it. I can't promise any regular updates, and you can see why if you see my previous chapters and my "IM BACK" posts. I can try however. I told my friends about this even though I hid it back in 7th grade, because I mean, it's funny that I wrote this, I'm not really embarrassed about it. So maybe if I stop updating, I can get them to convince me to continue because I don't wanna stop just cause of a sudden lack in motivation. So yeah. I'll try and continue this story and finish this story. Oh yeah, I also saw that this somehow had like 3.1K reads overall which surprised me. It's ranked like #500 out of 1K stories in this category which definitely surprised me. So yeah, here I am. Message me IG if you wanna. I'm down to talk to people and vibe. So yeah. I'm here now.