At the Beach, In Every Life by AutumnWeen
Mikasa knows that to keep him, she has to tread lightly, has to wait for the right time to confess how she feels.
“And you know that won’t change who I am, right?”
She doesn’t understand the question, and he reads her so well that her confusion is a message written on her face.
The disappointment in his features lasts but for a second, but it’s long enough for her to see. Her eyes widen, and quick, shallow breaths begin to bubble in her chest.
“I don’t want you to be. Is that what you think I want?”
“I don’t know, so what then? What are we? Who do you need me to be?”
‘𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯. 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯,’ she thinks of saying, but she has made this mistake before.
There’s a time Mikasa remembers well, a moment when she was too scared to admit how she felt, too shy to let Eren know what he meant to her. It’s something she’s had to live with, and it’s not a misstep she plans to take again.
Her hands wrap around the scarf and take it off, leaving her neck bare.
His eyes, full of naked longing, follow the movement; the surprise evident on his face.
Her name sounds like a plea said with the sort of pain she has come to know well.
“What do you want from me?”
“𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨,” she breathes.
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