I grab Armin's hand.

He looks over at me. "Yeah?"

"Can I kiss you right now?" I ask him.

"I guess," he says.

And so I pull him in and kiss him.

He is flushed bright red.

"Eren what the hell?! That was longer than you've ever kissed me!" Armin says, in a surprised tone.

He turns around and pulls something out of his pocket.

"Eren," Armin says, turning to face me. "Here, I got this for you, I wanted to wait 'till today to show you. Because it's your birthday. So, think of this as a birthday gift, 'kay"

I inspect the box 'till I remember that it's my birthday.

I blink. Oh, uh. . .Thank you."

"Guys, shut up, I got the drinks."

I look up to see Mikasa.

"Hey, girl?" I say.

Sasha peeks out from behind them.

She has meat and a baked potato. "Hey, what are you up to?"

Armin buries his face in my shoulder and I nod. "Armin was just giving me a birthday gift."

"Oh," Sasha says. "Is it your birthday?"

"Yes, it is, my birthday has finally arrived! Now, Zeke can't complain!" I scream, like a bird of course.

Then Zeke walks up with Levi and says. "How's this for not complaining, why do you always take the. . .The. . .Ugh!"

"Why are you like this, Zeke?" Levi asks.

I pull my face out of Eren's shoulder. "Hi, guys."

"Hey Armin," Mikasa says.

Mikasa has pigtails, a long-sleeved shirt, a skirt with spikes on the waist band, a choker that matches their skirt, braces but the dots are bats, boots, and a hairclip that has a rainbow, sun, water, clouds, and flowers.

Sasha has a ponytail, a shorter-sleeved shirt, a sleeveless sweater vest, a skirt with slits on the sides, boots, and a hairclip that looks weird, it has potatoes, meat, and seasonings.

"Armin," Sasha says. "Are you gay?"

I look way over at her. "What?! Why do you think I'm gay?!"

"Cause you act it," Sasha says.

"I do not," I'm too defensive.

Sasha turns to Mikasa more. "Right?"

Mikasa nods. "He told me that he's gay. And Armin, you can let basically anyone in our friend group know."

"So stop hiding it," Sasha says. "Stop sulking in the corner and man up!"

Eren holds his hand up. "Guys stop being mean to each other, okay? You guys are friends for god sake, so start acting like it, alright?"

"Are you standing up for him?" Sasha asks him. ". . .Loverboy."

"No, what I'm trying to do is get you guys to act like friends," Eren says pulling his hair back. "Do I need permission to do that?"

I shake my head. "No."

"Maybe, if you give me food then no, but if you don't give me food then yes," Sasha says.

Just then I hear a voice say. "Sure thing, Potato girl."

I look over to see. . .Jean and Marco,

"Hey, guys," I say, smiling at the sight of a kind person, also a pair of new people.

Marco closes his eyes and smiles. "Hey, Armin."

"Hello," Jean says. "Marco."

"Polo," Marco says, looking over at Jean.

"Have you seen Ymir and Historia?" Jean says asks.

Zeke yells at the top of his lungs. "I am only in love with Levi!"

Levi takes out his pistol-broom. "Stop in the name of the law!"

Ymir and Historia show up along-side Yelena and Pieck.

"If you don't stop yelling Zeke, you're going to DIE!!" Ymir says.

Ymir grabs Historia's head to cover her ears.

Historia looks over and sees Marco and Jean, then she grins and waves at them. "When'd you guys come back?"

"Yesterday night, I would have called you guys on group chat, but it was late so," Marco says, putting a hand to his head. "Sorry."

"No, it's okay," Historia says.

Marco looks at her intensely. "I swear, I'm truly sorry."

They have a little chat for a while, then Historia tapes his mouth shut.

Nicely of course.

"Now, Marco, it's okay!" Historia says.

Ymir grabs Historia up and holds her up in the sky.

Historia pulls out a cage and hands it to me. "Happy birthday!"

On the cage is a tag, on the tag read: 𝙃͜𝙖͜𝙥͜𝙥͜𝙮͜ 𝙗͜𝙞͜𝙧͜𝙩͜𝙝͜𝙙͜𝙖͜𝙮͜, 𝙀͜𝙧͜𝙚͜𝙣͜ 𝙅͜𝙖͜𝙚͜𝙜͜𝙚͜𝙧͜! 𝙇͜𝙤͜𝙫͜𝙚͜, 𝙃͜𝙞͜𝙨͜𝙩͜𝙤͜𝙧͜𝙞͜𝙖͜!

Then at the bottom it read:𝙎͜𝙤͜𝙧͜𝙧͜𝙮͜ 𝙖͜𝙗͜𝙤͜𝙪͜𝙩͜ 𝙩͜𝙝͜𝙚͜ 𝙨͜𝙢͜𝙖͜𝙡͜𝙡͜ 𝙬͜𝙧͜𝙞͜𝙩͜𝙞͜𝙣͜𝙜͜ 𝙖͜𝙩͜ 𝙩͜𝙝͜𝙚͜ 𝙚͜𝙣͜𝙙͜! 𝙔͜𝙚͜𝙩͜ 𝙖͜𝙜͜𝙖͜𝙞͜𝙣͜, 𝙡͜𝙤͜𝙫͜𝙚͜, 𝙃͜𝙞͜𝙨͜𝙩͜𝙤͜𝙧͜𝙞͜𝙖͜!!!!

I look up at the cage and see. . .A bird! "Thank you so much, Historia, you are the best!"

Ymir kicks my kneecaps, my shins, and my crotch.

"Ow!" I scream in pain.

Armin rushes over to me. "Are you okay?!"

"No but lean forward, 'kay?" I say.

"'Kay."

I kiss him.

"Are you okay now?" Ymir asks, taking a picture of us.

"Yes, thanks, Armin, I love you," I say.

He just stares at me with soulless eyes.

"Uhh," I say. "Okay, whatever."

Marco and Horseface are playing rock-paper-scissors.

Then Conney and Conney Jr. walk in.

"I love Hazelnut," Conney and Conney Jr. sing together. "Oooh, I love Hazelnut, do you love Hazelnut?"

"Yes, in fact it's the type of coffee and creamer I drink every time I drink coffee," I say. "Unless I'm out, then I ask, Armin if I can have some of his."

Armin stands up. "And I say yes, because I'm a loving boyfriend."

"I knew it!" Sasha says. "You're gay, Armin! and you can't do anything about it!"

"So are you, Sasha," Mikasa says. "So don't make fun of, Armin."

Sasha looks down at her food. "No I 'm not! I'm in love with food!"

I chuckle. "Yeah, surrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you are."

"I am!! You can't stop me from liking food!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sasha yells at me.

Levi smacks her. "Shut it, you rat."

Erwin grabs Levi, kisses him and makes it his goal to kiss all the adult couples he knows, then he kisses Zeke.

Hange laughs like a maniac and starts tickling Sawney and Bean with that weird thing she uses all the damn time.

Eren says. "Commander Erwin, can I talk to you alone please?"

Erwin nods. "Come."

They go to the bathroom, and it takes the same amount of time when Eren kisses me.

"Armin, will you marry me?" Eren asks, when he comes out.

Oh no!

"Oh my, oh my god. Eren, you killed Erwin, am I correct?" I shout at the top of my lungs.

"No, he's going piss."

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!" Zeke laughs loudly.

Levi glares at Zeke. "Shut up, you Stinky Monkey."

Yelena starts break-dancing.