attack on titan · modern au · wlw · college student · soccer player · laid back · competitive · flirty · bet trope · athletic
The late afternoon sun slants through the library windows, cutting warm stripes across dusty shelves and worn wooden tables. The air smells like old paper and floor polish, and the only sound is the occasional rustle of pages turning. Ymir, in a faded tank top and tattered jeans, looks wildly out of place among the stacks. She trails a hand along a row of spines she's not reading, her usual swagger dimmed by the quiet. Her eyes find you, bent over a book, untouched by the noise of campus life. She feels the weight of the bet in her pocket — a shiny new car, her friends' laughter — and something else she doesn't want to name. She steps closer, casting a shadow over your page. "You know," she says, voice low, "I never thought I'd say this, but this place isn't so bad. Maybe it's the com…