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(don't play the song yet)

(okay now enjoy the chapter <3)

❝ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐢 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐲 ❞

"Surprise !"

"Ay di mi. You guys didn't have to go through all this trouble for me," Espeanza exclaimed, tears being bought to her eyes.

Your whole entire group of friends, came up hugging her in her wheelchair. "Of course we did. We'd do anything to help you out," Sasha said smiling brightly.

"But Ramona was the one who gave us the idea," Mikasa said pointing to the girl pushing Esperanza's chair.

"I thank my lucky stars for her everyday," Esperanza smiles.

"We're happy you're okay, senorita." Armin says pulling away from the hug.

"Of course I am. It will take more than a hip surgery to knock this old bat out the ring," she laughs heartily in her seat.

"Okay well food and everything is out. Just enjoy yourself," you say walking away to go check on Gabi who was standing off in a corner, watching everyone have fun and drinking a bottle of water. "Hello little one," you greet her.

"Hi miss (y/n).... I have a question."

She seemed serious by the expression of her face. "Uh sure. What's up ?"

"Why did you do all of this for Esperanza ? Are you and her blood related ?" Her tone didn't give you a hint of attitude, telling you that this was a genuine question.

You looked at her with a little confusion. "No but she's family."

She looks up at you. "But I thought you said you weren't blood related."

You chuckled. "Gabi you don't need to be related by blood to be family. Family are the people that you'd do anything for. Everyone in the shop is family."

"Even Edna ?"

"Even Edna. And so are you, Gabi."

"Why ?"

"Why what ?"

"I was rude to you at first and you helped me. You didn't do anything wrong and I was acting like.. an asshole."

You nod, poking out your bottom lip. "Yeah you were but I had a feeling your little hard ass, had your walls up for a reason. So, I gave it time and now look at ya'."

( A/N : and before you niggas say anything let me be clear. i didn't like gabi's ass in fact i despised shawty in the show/manga especially because she killed sasha. i was PRESSED. but listen. she develops as a character and on top of that this is a fanfiction. completely not tied into the aot storyline. so please. i beg SHUT THE HELL UP LIKE GOD DAMN. the comments were funny at first okay ? i'll give ya'll that.. but it's just a time to relax <3 now continue. sorry if this came off rude, i've just been kinda quiet about this lol ! )

She nods and the two of you sit in silence for a bit. That is, until you feel someone cling around you. You tilt your head down a little to see Gabi, burying her face into your shoulder, letting out little sniffles. "Thank you," she whispers. "Thank you for not giving up on me."

You smile and hug her back, rubbing little circles on her back. You didn't really understand Gabi's reaction. You were just doing what any human with compassion would do but it was clear that nobody has done that before. And knowing that you were the first one, made you happier than words could say.

"Alright relax before you get snot on me," you laugh. She pulls off of you, laughing as well and excuses herself to go spend the rest of her time with Falco and Shawn.

"You guys are really good with her ya' know." You look next to you, to see Connie standing next to you.

"Took a bit but it was worth it."

"You were always a caring person (y/n)."

"Really ? How ?"

"Like that one time you.."

(YUH FLASHBACK NIGGA LET'S RUN IT)

⋆flashback three years ago

"Connie stop making dog noises in front of my door. I'm coming." you call as you get up from your bed, to answer the door.

"It's not me. I swear," he responds, sounding worried. The weird noises continued. "Can you hurry a little please ?"

You pull your shirt over your face, "Okay hold on. Can't come out my dorm without clothes on, now can I ?"

You open the door but instead of only, Connie, there was a baby pitbull, which he was holding with oven mits, away from him. You raise your eyebrow, "What..Why is it always something with you ?"

"Okay wait hear me out. I saw this dog and he was wandering everywhere and he almost got stepped on like ten times. So now here's a dog."

The little gray dog squirmed around his hands, trying to nip his arms. "Why are you holding him like that ?"

"He's a death machine (y/n). You should probably put something on your hands so you don't- Okay now you're holding him."

You took the dog into your hands. At first, it squirmed around, trying to sniff you and get your scent. "Hey baby" you coo at the small animal. It licks your check, "Alright relax."

"How is it not biting you ? When I literally saved its life, he almost bit my entire hand off," Connie pouted as he stepped into your room and closed the door.

"I dunno," you shrug. "But ole boy needs a bath."

"We can't really take him to the showers since they don't allow pets in the dorms."

"Yet you bought him to my room," you side eyed him.

(play the song now if it ends after this part ends, replay it <3 )

Connie threw his hands up in defense. "You said you liked dogs one time."

You laugh. "We'll just.. wash him in the sink." You walk over to your desk, where you had a plate of chicken nuggets sitting and broke off a small piece of one. The dog sniffed around it before chomping onto it, just missing your fingers.

You let the dog sit there as you went to run him a little bath in the sink, filling it with some body wash you never got around to using. When you were done, you walked back to the dog, who some how managed to scarf down a whole two nuggets in your absence.

You suck your teeth and pick him up. Before putting him in, you checked if the water was too hot. It wasn't so you gently lowered him in. At first he freaked out, trying to climb out but eventually submitted to the water's comfortableness.

After hearing your giggles and splashes coming from the bathroom, Connie walked in to see you washing the dog and him wagging his tail in delight.

He was captivated by how pretty you were. But most importantly how patient you were, especially considering the fact he just randomly showed up to your door with a baby pitbull. Oh and your laugh, he could listen to it on repeat for hours on end. This was definitely the moment he knew he would fall for you.

Where did the time go ?

"How did you get him to be so nice ?" he asked stuffing his hands into his pockets.

"Maybe he just didn't like you," you respond scrubbing little circles on the puppy's back.

"Man dogs love me." Connie crosses his arms.

"Yeah you do seem to attract a lot of mutts" you say sarcastically.

"See now you tryna be funny."

"Yeah, yeah. Watch him real quick while I get a towel."

I kid you not, you left the bathroom for maybe less than two minutes. You come back to the dog outside of the sink, shaking itself dry, getting everything in the bathroom, including Connie wet. You suck your teeth. "You had one job."

"Listen he jumped at me."

"He's not even a foot tall Connie."

"Okay ? David was small and he beat Golliand."

"You mean Goliath ?"

"Oh so now you're a preacher."

You laugh before picking the dog up and drying it with the towel, as you carry him to your bed. "Okay here's the game plan. Imma take a nap and we're gonna take him to an animal shelter."

"Sounds good to me but um who's gonna watch him when you take a nap ?"

You point down at the puppy swaddled into the towel, to show Connie how somehow, he managed to fall asleep.

"Oh."

⋆back to the present

"Oh yeah I remember that. I wanted to name him-"

"Cassanova," he laughs.

"Yeah." The two of you were now standing in an awkward silence. that was thankfully interrupted by Historia.

"Hey (y/n) Sasha and Mikasa wanna announce the raffle winners and how much money that was raised." She hands you a microphone and directs you to where everyone was watching Mikasa and Sasha, against the gate.

"Oh cool." You take the mic and tap it a few times while you walk to where your co-owners were.

"Okay now that the three of us are here, time to announce the raffle winners. But I'll let Mikasa do that." Sasha looks over to Mikasa, who was now standing in front of the prizes, being showcased by Connie and Jean.

"Alright so the winner of this Bath & Bodyworks set is...." she sucks her teeth. "Edna."

"Yeah she's starting to smell like old people so she should have it," you hear Papi call from the dj stand, where he was standing with Solei and Eren. Everyone laughs but Edna keeps a sour face while she walks to collect her gift.

"Next prize is this $100 Visa Gift Card. Good anywhere that accepts cards, I think."

Jean holds up the card for everyone to see with a bright smile on his face as if he was showing off a prize on The Price Is Right.

For the rest of the prize distribution, you kinda found yourself zoning out, looking at Connie who was smiling and laughing at the prize recipients' reactions to winning. His smile made you happy.

You quickly snapped out of it when Sasha handed you a paper with the grand total of money raised. "Now is the moment we've all been waiting for. For those of you who aren't aware, this event was organized by us, along with our friends to raise money for Esperanza's surgery. She's making a speedy recovery already but we have no one else to thank but her niece, Ramona." Every clapped and cheered for her before you continued. "With that being said, the grand total for today's event is.... oh shit. Fifty thousand, three hundred and forty eight dollars !"

Everyone cheered once again, giving Esperanza hugs and kisses on the cheek as she began to tear up. Armin handed her, her check and everyone continued to go about their activities, carrying out the rest of the day, ten times happier because of the good news.

You handed the microphone back to the Historia and walked over to Papi, who was trying to be sneaky about the glares he was giving Niccolo, while Eren and Solei were off enjoying the event. "You know you not slick right ?"

He jumps, startled since he didn't see you walking up. "What are you talking about ?" he responds nonchalantly.

"You know what I'm talking about. You okay, though ?"

"Nah not really but she really likes him and she's happy. Su sonrisa es mi sonrisa. ( her smile is my smile)." You poke out your bottom lip and rub his back, in attempt to comfort him. "Hey (y/n) ?" You hum in response to let him know to keep talking. "If Connie was Sasha in this situation, what would you do ?"

You poked the side of your cheek with your tongue. "Um. I dunno. I'd be upset but as long as he's happy, I guess."

"So you wouldn't try to interfere ?"

Would you ? Even before you and Connie dated, you always found happiness in his. You even let him travel the whole world without knowing your true feelings, so that you were assured he would first find happiness in his dream.

But that was before. Before you were introduced to a bit of another side of him. Like a drug, once you got that vulnerability from and with him, you wanted more. So in all honesty, you probably would consider interfering if he was ever to find someone new. But you probably wouldn't go through with it.

"Probably not," you answer. "I would think about it hella hard though but it would be selfish."

Papi nodded his head. "Right... So hypothetically if I wanted to egg his house, you wouldn't be my getaway driver ?"

"Mmcht no. Unless we needed to. Then of course."

"Ight' cool," he smiles, looking back down at the turntable.

"Aye, miss (y/n) ! A letta' came for you," Shawn screams running over to you and Papi with a red envelope in hand.

Examining its color, you take it out of his hand and open it.

"To my dear daughter, (y/n),

The family is getting back together."