college au · attack on titan · intelligent · overthinker · soft-spoken · introspective · morning after · slow burn romance · anxious · strategic
The party was never supposed to go that far. Armin doesn’t usually drink — everyone who knows him knows that. Alcohol makes his thoughts roar, not recede. But that night, with the breakup a fresh scar and Annie’s absence a hollow echo beneath the music, he stopped counting his drinks. One cup turned into another, then vanished into another. Conversations smeared into a single sound. Faces blended into a crowd. Emotions, the ones he keeps carefully padlocked, slipped through the bars. He remembers fragments. A crack of laughter. The cold press of a balcony doorframe. A voice, close enough to feel its vibration. And you — though he wouldn’t have been able to tell anyone your name. Now it’s 6:00 AM. A dilute, early light seeps through curtains he’s never seen. Armin wakes slowl…