"It's time to turn in your personality traits assignment" Mr. Levi said in a stern voice. I glanced over to Marco and smiled as I reached into my bag and pulled out our very organized binder, containing all of our notes on the assignment. "I think we will make a decent grade on this" Marco said to me. "Agreed" I replied. I can't believe that our project is over I thought to myself. We spent several hours over the past two weeks working on the project. "I think that's the last page" Marco said with a smile before closing the binder and falling back on his bed. We have been working on the project for close to two weeks now and it was due on Monday. "I'm just glad to be done honestly, it seemed like such a simple assignment at first, but obviously Mr. Levi is just trying to kill us." I sighed, getting up from my spot on the floor of his dorm and sitting next to him on the bed. He let out a laugh at my comment and rolled his eyes. Is it weird that I already miss hanging out with him? We've only been friends for a few weeks, but I already feel like he is the closest thing to a friend I've had in a long time." Well I bet you'll be glad to have your afternoons free again. You won't have to hang around me all the time" Marco said with a stiff laugh. "What do you mean? Do you not want to hang out anymore?" I asked feeling a pit of disappointment in my stomach. Of course he doesn't want to hang out with me. I was such a jerk to him for so long. "W-what? You mean you still want to be friends? Even though the project is done?" Marco stuttered out. I quickly turned my gaze up to meet his "Of course I do! Why wouldn't I?" His face turned a shade of red before he turned sat up and turned his gaze towards the floor "W-well I just figured you wouldn't really want to be seen with me without the excuse of a project. I mean.. We aren't really on the same level socially and all of your football friends can't stand me. I mean.. You even used to pick on us, remember?" I flinched as I remembered the first real conversation we had together and the angry words I said. "Well, honestly the other football players aren't really my friends. Their actually a bit obnoxious, but I didn't really have any friends so I sort of just stuck with them and did what they did.. But I thought that maybe we were friends? Or at least, I would like to be?" I finished off awkwardly, avoiding Marco's gaze for a moment wishing that the ground would swallow me at this point. Did I have to come across as so lame? "I-Id love to be friends with you Jean" he whispered. Without hesitation I found myself wrapping my arms around Marco. I thought, I actually have a friend. *FLASHBACK* An annoyed groan from Mr. Levi pulled me back into the present as he stood in front of Connie and Sasha with a disappointed scowl. "I knew I shouldn't have made you two partners" Levi said to Sasha and Connie while rolling his eyes. "But Mr. Levi" Sasha said "It's not my fault that we don't have our assignment. Connie's the one that was trying to read it in the shower." All I could hear was the two class clowns telling Levi any excuse they could to get an extension. The bell rang and I started gathering my things. "Don't forget to continue to write in your journals" Levi said as we were leaving the class.

           Soon after class, I found myself eating with the band kids again, and Eren, who was always wherever Mikasa was. "Hey" Armin said, "Where is Marco?" "I'll text him" I said.

          I instantly jumped out of my seat at the lunch table and ran down the hallway, with Armin, Eren, and Mikasa following closely behind. Marco has never sent a text like that. Several things were running through my mind as I was thinking I really care about him. As I turned by the computer science classrooms, I saw Marco at the end of the hallway being pinned up against the wall by Floch, one of the biggest homophobes in the school. "Where's your bodyguard, fag?" Floch said in an intimidating tone. Before I knew what I was doing I shoved my way through the crowd until I was in front of Marco and forcing distance between the two. "What the hell are you doing?!" I yelled into Floch's face. He looked shocked for a moment before an irritating smirk appeared on his face as he glared past me at Marco. "Well look here, loverboy came to save you after all Bodt!" I heard Marco whimper behind me as my glare deepened at the fuckboy in front of me. "Hey!" Eren yelled as he and Armin pushed through the group of football players that surrounded us. "What do you want Jeager? This has nothing to do with you or Amin" Floch scoffed while rolling his eyes. "H-hey now, there is no need for anyone to fight now." Armin stuttered nervously out while pulling Eren back from lunging at Floch. "Eren!" Mikasa said, finally breaking through the crowd herself. Eren ignored his girlfriend's cry, but it seemed like the rest of the football players did not. Upon seeing the Asian girl, they all immediately turned a shade whiter while some even began to back away. "What's going on?" Floch began to back down when he saw the intimidating girl give a deep glare at the crowd. "Whatever. You and your kind just stay the hell away from me!" Floch yelled, throwing a glare back at Marco before stalking away with the other football players quickly following. As I watched the other football players walked down the long hallway, I heard a deep sigh coming from behind me. "Are you okay?" I heard Armin ask Marco quietly. "Yeah" he responded, "I'm just tired of everyone being such an ass to me." I was infuriated. All I could do was pace, as to not go up to Floch and beat him up myself. Without thinking, I stormed back to my dorm and tried to calm myself down.