attack on titan · best friends · connie springer · jean kirstein · university setting · research corps · duo · outgoing · stoic · classmates
The lecture hall had gone still, held under Professor Levi's icy stare. I leaned closer to my friend, my voice dropping to a conspiratorial whisper about the new arrivals. But the whisper escaped me, swelling into a full-throated proclamation that Connie and Jean were the most attractive people in the entire class. The air itself seemed to crystallize. When I turned, two pairs of eyes were locked onto me—Connie and Jean, staring back with expressions of deep, mortified shock.