Introductions

I headed to my next class. I noticed as Hanji trailed behind me, I assumed she had some business with whatever the teacher we were heading too. We made it to the class and sure enough, she walked in and gave him the clipboard before sitting on his desk. He didn't seem phased that she made herself right at home in his room. He looked over the clipboard for a moment and then set it down and greeted the class.

"Hello everyone. My name is Erwin," he said looking at my friends and me since we were the new kids in the class. "My powers are astral projection, and portals, and teleportation." He introduced himself just like we had the last period. He left out his age, but he seemed to be around Hanji's age maybe just slightly older.

"I'm sure Hanji already went over all of your schedule for the day," he said before Hanji let out a sheepish laugh.

"Actually I totally forgot." She shrugged. "Would you mind going over it?"

"Fine," he said and Hanji started roaming around the class. It was a little weird especially when she stopped beside me for a moment. I felt a little awkward almost like I was in trouble, but she continued walking after a moment.

"So, I know most of you already know the schedule for the day, but there are some of you who don't know the schedule for your classes. So how today goes is you have every single class as a sort of meet and greet. You get to know your teachers and your teachers get to know you." He said before leaning against his desk. "Today's classes are much shorter than your regular ones. Regular classes will be 3 hours with a 15-minute break in between the each hour. This is to make sure that each teacher can get to each person and work with their specific powers."

"However, unlike the lower class levels, you do not have every class every day normally. On a normal day, you have two classes. Occasionally you might only have one. The schedule is emailed to everyone at the beginning of the week. However, we recommend you check your emails nightly because last-minute changes sometimes happen. The latest a change will be made is 5 pm so after 5 pm you don't have to worry about any schedule changes. I will also say schedule changes are rare." He said before looking to Hanji probably making sure he didn't forget anything.

"Yup, also, I'd like to add some information for the new students and a reminder to the older students." She cleared her throat before continuing, "if any of you guys are struggling or need to talk to anyone you can come to pretty much any of your teachers and we will help. I know some of you might be struggling and I want to take the time to let you know you don't have to go through it alone. If you want to talk about anything, whether it's that you're just feeling blue today, or if you want to talk about the event that triggered your powers we will all lend an ear."

She looked around at us and I noticed not a single student was looking at her. Everyone's eyes hit the floor. I noticed because I brought mine back up to look to Mikasa and Armin to see what they thought about this. A quick scan around the room and everyone in the class seemed to be avoiding looking up at her. I wonder if every one else looked down for the same reason I did? My power trigger wasn't as traumatic as some people's but it still hurts to talk about. It's the part in your life where you are the most stressed out. Hell, some people it was the part where their lives should have ended but it didn't because their power triggered when it did.

"Well, I'm going to head back to my class," she said and Erwin took back over explaining some of the things we would be learning. I checked out. I couldn't focus on words I just kept thinking about what she said. Was she really willing to listen or was she just reading from a script?

After he finished explaining he let us have the last few minutes of time to talk amongst ourselves. I was caught in my own thoughts thinking over what Ms. Hanji had said that I didn't even notice everyone talking until I heard Mr. Erwin speak over them.

"Class dismissed," he said and everyone stood up to leave. "Mikasa, Armin, and Eren, may I have a moment?" he said as we stood up.

We all walked over to his desk. I could tell Armin and I were thinking the same thing, what are we in trouble for. Mikasa, on the other hand, seemed calm and unphased.

Erwin reached his hand out to shake ours one at a time. "It's nice to meet you, I'm looking forward to having such gifted individuals in my class," he said with a smile that just radiated friendliness. I couldn't tell if it was just from me feeling anxious or not but it felt like he stared at me with the same confused look Hanji was giving me earlier.

He let us leave after that he just wanted to greet us in person rather than see us as another face in the crowd. I'm sure it must have just been my nerves that made it seem like he was looking at me because no one else seemed to notice. He walked us to our next class and passed the clipboard onto the next teacher. Now I'm positive that it has something written about us whether it be our powers or something else but it's about us.

Now I can't help but be curious at what Ms. Hanji had written about me since I saw her write extra notes while looking directly at me. Whatever it was, maybe is the reason I thought Erwin was staring at me. Maybe he was. Or maybe the clipboard is just class attendance and my brain is making everything up again.

We all headed to the next class. I followed behind Erwin as he leads the way. I kept my head down no really sure of what I should do. Mikasa and Armin were busy talking up ahead and I didn't really want to interrupt them.

"So how's your day been so far?" Mr. Erwin had asked me and I felt myself freeze up for a second.

"Um, good," I said quickly.

"Have you already gotten settled into your new dorm?"

I get he was trying to be nice and make conversation, but I am way too awkward for this sort of thing. "Kinda," I said quietly.

"Kinda? What do you mean?" He wanted me to clarify.

"Well, I'm supposed to be switching dorms within the week or something," I said quickly. I hoped he would drop it there but of course not. Why did this class have to be so much farther away?

"Are you not getting along with your roommate?"

"No, it's not that. We get along fine, but he really wanted to be roomed with his b- other friend. So I'm supposed to be switching with him." I caught myself.

"Oh, you must be talking about Jean and Marco. Yeah, they've been trying to get switched into the same room for a while now." Erwin laughed before pausing, "that means you're going to be rooming with Levi?" 

I just nodded. Well, I by the way he paused he seemed to know exactly what I was in for. 

"Good luck, you'll need it," he patted me on my back.

"Is he that bad?" I sighed.

"He's a good kid, he just takes some getting used to. He's the type of person that you have to figure out, but once you do you'll be glad you did. To bad, most of the other kids never take the time to know him." Erwin let out a disappointed sigh as we reached the next room. "I'm sure you guys will get along." He said with a smile before walking me into class. He handed the clipboard over to the next teacher While I went to find a seat.

I headed to an empty chair in the back but not before stealing a glance at my soon to be roommate. He had headphones in while reading a book just as he was when I saw him earlier. I sat down and turned my head away.

"Good Morning students," our teacher greeted. "So, which of you is which?" She asked looking at the clipboard. "Armin?" She called and Armin raised a hand. "There you are. Mikasa?" Mikasa raised her hand and the same response. "You must be Eren." She said and I just nodded.

Well, the clipboard definitely has our names on it, but that means nothing it still could just be the attendance sheets.

"Nice to meet you all, I'm Petra, my power is that I can manipulate the 3 basic states of matter." She said introducing herself. She also seemed to be around Hanji's age.

"So after this class, you'll have lunch and then will be reporting to Mike's class. After that, you should have Auruo and lastly Eld." She paused a moment, "also in Eld's class, the principal and vice principal should be coming in to introduce themselves. I know most of you have already met them, but they still like to make their appearances every now and again. Oh, also Molbit should be coming in during Eld's period as well." She explained before continuing with some of the classes we might learn from her during the years. 

She did specify that these were just general topics whereas most topics specific to each person's power is taught individually during the classes. Which Erwin seemed to explain a little in his class. She explained that since our class had 13 people in it then each teacher would spend roughly 12 minutes helping each student individually and 20 minutes on a general lesson.

After she finished explaining she let us talk amongst ourselves. They were right, today's classes only seemed to be about 20 minutes long. The teachers would use 10 to 15 minutes to describe the class and introduce themselves and the last 5 to 10 minutes they would let us get to know each other.

This would be great if I actually had someone to talk to during this time rather than just staring at a wall and praying the teachers don't talk to me. Unlike the last two teachers Petra didn't strike up a conversation with me rather she let me sit in my seat silently before dismissing the class.

I was so relieved that it was lunchtime until I realized that I swore I would make friends to hang out with at lunch. Mikasa and Armin were still swarmed with people who were getting to know them. Well, I think they were getting to know Mikasa and Armin was just following her around. I stood up and was about to see if Jean wanted to hang out at lunch. I saw him and Marco heading to the bathroom looking over their shoulders and decided that it would be best not to follow them.

I just made my way to the cafeteria. Apparently, these days were the only days it was used to actually eat. Most students went off campus for lunch most days. The cafeteria was only ever used by people to hang out in. Days like today where it was an all class schedule is apparently the only time people use it... Or so I overheard someone say as the walked passed me and headed to a table. I sighed and looked for an empty table.

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