tell me how you feel about me
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    you groaned, looking up at the bright sky. it was a saturday afternoon, and historia decided it was a good idea to go shopping at your local outside mall with your entire group, which included armin, sasha, connie, ymir, mikasa, eren, and jean. 

 "why did we even do this?" sasha groaned.

 "its hotter than me out here sasha!" connie wailed at a failed attempt of making a funny joke, but still he snorted and laughed to himself. meanwhile, everyone was quiet as they were wandering around the mall in agony of the heatwaves that afternoon, as they scanned the shops that they have memorized at this point in their lives. 

 "you know, we can always leave." eren commented.

 "yeah, as if we don't know that idiot." jean mumbled as he looked away from eren before the younger smacked him on the head. 

 y/n sighed, ignoring the two that had spent the entire outing at the mall bickering. instead she was scrolling on her social media and checking everything for the hundredth time today, seeing if there was anything new. it was a bad habit the young woman had adapted to over the years. 

 "hey let's go get food and cool off in the restaurant guys!" historia chirped happily, pointing at the speck of a building in the far distance.

 "oh my god, would love to!" sasha almost screamed.

 "i'll race you there!" connie exclaimed to sasha, as the two ran off in the distance toward the restaurant.

"be careful guys..!" armin stated worriedly, as him and the others followed the two maniacs close by, too lazy and out of fuel to even run like how they were. 

 y/n set her phone down on a bench nearby to take a sip of some water, which she quickly did, before she ran off chasing the group, which were barely visible to her in the large crowd of pedestrians at the shopping mall. 

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 while the rest of the group sat, bickered, and engaged in joyful conversations, y/n couldn't help but feel a weird feeling overcome her. it was as if something was missing. though, she didn't know what. after almost 10 minutes of this, y/n decided that she was fine and it was all in her head. every now and then, she had experienced these kinds of things but they would turn out to be just her head messing with her. therefore, she just decided that this was that and pushed her discomfort away.

 "y/n, eat." mikasa muttered quietly, nudging y/n's food closer to her. in which the 21 year old gave the dark haired woman a lopsided grin and tended to her meal. 

 "just saying, if you don't eat that, i will." sasha commented with a mouthful of sushi in her mouth, barely audible, as she spat her food all over connie. at this, the whole group engaged in laughter and disgust, as y/n joined them. 

 soon after, silence fell amongst the group, and the h/c woman reached in her back jeans pocket to take her phone out, planning to go over another one of her hourly social media checks. her face dropped when she realized it wasn't there. quickly getting up, y/n frantically searched in her bag and in every pocket of her shirt and pants. 

"y/n? are you okay?" historia and armin said, almost in sync.

"shit," y/n cursed under her breath. "i lost my phone."

 it was then that ymir's phone suddenly rang. 

"hey." the brunette answered.

"hi this is hange zoe! i found this phone on a bench and you were listed as one of the emergency contacts. im at the local town mall if you don't mind notifying the owner of this phone if you have a way to reach out to them." a deep but feminine voice was heard on the other side of the line.

"okay. y/n let's go." ymir smoothly cooed, before notifying the caller that we would be there shortly.

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 "how did you even lose your phone, dumbass." ymir quietly giggled before giving y/n a small smack on the head. 

 "hey i dont even remember what happened!" the other girl said in defense. 

 it was then that they reached the decided meeting location, and they were met with a tall woman, nearing 5' 7", who loomed down at y/n, a small smirk plastered on their face. she also had y/n's phone in her hand. you could tell because the phone case was something that the owner of the phone could spot a mile away.

 y/n's jaw slightly dropped, before she scanned the other woman, unable to keep her eyes off of her.

 "hey, it's rude to stare." the feminine voice said again, this time light-heartedly.
 
 y/n looked at the brunette standing over her, as she stared at the woman's messy but cute hair in a ponytail alongside her  glasses, hanging on the bridge of her nose. 

 "yeah, sorry." y/n muttered quietly before diverting her eyes somewhere else. meanwhile, ymir stared at the two, a smirk forming on her face, as she cleared her throat.

 "do i know you? you seem awfully familiar." ymir stated.

 "i thought we've met before. shingeki university?" the other smiled brightly, teeth showing, as they rested their hand on their neck.

"yeah, that's the one. little y/n goes there too." ymir smirked, patting y/n's head, as the other elbowed her casually, growing red, causing hange to chuckle.

"ahem. hurry up already, i wanna get out of this place already." another voice cooed, this time a male voice, which appeared to be more aggressive than hange's smooth one. 

"levi, no need to be harsh. let them handle their thing." another said.

"whatever."

this was when the taller woman diverted her gaze from y/n's e/c eyes to behind her, as she faced her two companions. 

"oh, right. well, i gotta go now," the woman said with a smile, staring at the shorter girl in front of her. ",better not lose it next time."

"thank you, i owe you one."

"how about you text me? i already typed my contact into your phone. consider it." hange stated gleefully, as she walked away, joining her two companions.

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"the hell was that about? you're never that awkward around people." ymir busted out laughing as soon as the tall individual walked away. 

"ymir! stop!" 

"just wait till' the others hear about this one." the other grinned, resting her hand on y/n's head, causing the h/c individual to groan in response while the two walked back to their building, and y/n kept checking her phone and pinching herself, making sure this was all real.

--

"was she hot?" jean stated almost immediately. 

"don't try it, y/n practically drooled over her already." ymir said gleefully.

"oh i'm so happy for you!" historia grinned, looking at her friend, who sat there awkwardly drinking her water at the end of the table.

"y/n, have you texted?" armin stated eagerly.

"no, of course not! it's been like five minutes! i'll look too desperate if i text now." 

"if i were you, i'd get to know her before i drooled over her, just saying." jean smirked. 

"stop lying to yourself, dumbass." eren scoffed, bonking the other on the head. 

"can we go home now? i feel like i'm gonna puke." sasha groaned.

"yeah! and its like 6:30, we've been here since 12. no offense, i love you guys and all but i'm getting bored." connie said. 

"back to the university we go then." armin huffed as he got up, grabbing his keys, preparing to drive everyone back to their destination.