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Height is but a Number [BertholdtxReader]

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Warning: Some foul language involved (sorry, all of my stories have language, Reader-chan really likes to cuss^//^)

“(f/n), why don’t you just tell Bertholdt you like him?” Sasha asked you, her words slightly muffled by the two pieces of bread she was trying to shove down her throat at the same time. Your (e/c) eyes widened in her random thought, and rapidly blinked your eyes.

“Two things, Sasha. One, why the hell would you say that so loudly? Two, why the hell did you just randomly bring that up?” All of the girls knew you had a crush on Bertholdt, but Sasha was the one who pushed you the most to tell him how you felt. She was also the one that caused you to get in very awkward situations with Bertholdt as well.

“Well, you’ve been staring at him the whole lunch, and now, you’re kinda drooling too.”

“WHAT?!” You shrieked, quickly wiping your mouth, you saw everyone in the mess hall staring at you, and you quickly put your head down. Shit, did Bertholdt see me? Oh, who am I kidding? Of course he saw you, (f/n)! God why do you have to be such an idiot? You were always messing up or tripping or doing something stupid when Bertholdt was around. His shy demeanor was just so cute, that you, who was normally the sassiest and confident cadet, turned into a stuttering and shy mess. Little did you know, Bertholdt thought that when you got all flustered it was also very adorable, but that made him even more shy than you. Your friends thought that you two would make the most adorable, yet awkward, couple, but you two couldn’t even dream of having any relationship with each other. Why? Because you thought the other absolutely did not like you because of your height differences. Compared to Bertholdt, you were at least a foot shorter, so you thought he didn’t notice you, let alone like you.

“I-I’m so-sorry, (f/n)! I just couldn’t resist!” Sasha wiped away her tears and clutched her stomach, the two pieces of bread forgotten on the ground beside her. You glared at the girl on the ground, ready to beat her up, but you felt someone holding your arm. You looked back, and saw that Mikasa was holding your arm in a steel-iron grip.

“Let go of me, Mikasa.” The girl in question shook her head, knowing what would happen if she let go and let you go towards Sasha.

“(f/n), just calm down. Sasha just meant it as a joke.” Armin’s quiet voice was surprisingly loud, as you had started to growl and thrash in Mikasa’s grasp.

“Hey, sweetie, as much as I like seeing you sexily struggle like that, stop it. I want to see you do that in my bed.” Reiner winked at you, and then threw back his head and laughed.

“Reiner… Shut the hell up!” Normally, you might tease back, especially because it gave you an excuse to get near Bertholdt, but not get nervous as you were talking to Reiner. However, today you were in a bad mood from Sasha’s joke, and you really did not want to put up with his shit.

“Oi, (f/n), don’t get too mad, I was just joking.” Reiner could tell from your voice on how angry you were, so he tried to make sure that you weren’t going to beat him up instead of Sasha. Frustrated, you ripped your arm away from Mikasa and stormed out of the mess hall, unaware of a certain pair of green eyes looking after your figure.

The owner of these green eyes were soon jolted by a certain, obnoxious blond flirt. Bertholdt blinked his eyes a couple times, and looked at his best friend, Reiner. “Huh?”

Reiner chuckled lowly and shook his head at his hopeless friend. “Go after her, Bertl. Comfort her, and then tell her how you feel.”

“Wh-what?” Bertholdt was so startled by Reiner’s suggestion he actually backed up from the brawny blond.

“She’s clearly upset. You could actually touch (f/n), Bertholdt, by comforting her.” Bertholdt shook his head furiously and blushed like mad.

“I-I cou-couldn’t… That’d be taking advantage of her.” He mumbled at the ground, attempting to hide his now even redder face.

“Bertholdt, this is seizing an opportunity that has been laid down in front of you. Take it, my friend.” The blond smiled gently at his shy friend, and pat Bertl’s shoulder. Then, he stood up, and pulled Bertl up along too. Reiner then pushed Bertl to the door and mouthed ‘GO’ while motioning towards the door.

**

“God, I hate them all so much.” You grumbled while walking around the halls of the dorms for it was too cold to walk outside the HQ as you normally did when you were angry. “Seriously, I mean I can’t believe Sasha would do that to me, especially because he was there. And Reiner, god, he knows who I like, and yet he still tries to flirt with me. He’s such an ass sometimes…” You heard footsteps close by, and you froze in your tracks. Oh, shit. What if it’s Levi? He’ll make me clean the whole castle if he thinks I’m skipping lunch. Panicking, you ducked into an empty room, making sure that no one else was in the room as well. You heard the footsteps pass by the room and then continue on down the hall. You peeked your head out of the door, and saw that no one else was in the hall.

“Oi, shitty brat, what are you doing?” The voice you had dreaded to hear was right behind your head, and you cringed.

Shit I thought he had just passed me… “Uh well, you see Corporal, I was uh…”

“Tch. Whatever, I don’t care anymore, just leave.” Levi inspected his nails, looking for dirt that could never be there.

“Yes, sir!” You quickly saluted and ran off towards your room. “Of course I just had to run into Corporal Levi now. I have such shitty luck.” As you sighed and contemplated about the events that had just recently happened, you had reached the hallway where your room was located. However, in front of your door, stood a very sweaty looking tall green-eyed boy. “B-Bertholdt?”

“Uh, h-hi, (f/n).” The boy in question was now awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck, trying not to sweat too much in front of the girl of his affections.

“Wh-What are you doing here?” You stuttered, your usual confident self disappearing in the presence of the guy you had the biggest crush on. Why did I have to run into Levi and then Bertholdt? God, today is just so fucked up…

“U-Uh, well, I-I heard what happened in the mess hall, and you just disappeared, so I thought, that I should uh-uh, come and find you.” Bertholdt’s last words were so quiet, if you two hadn’t been the only ones in the hall, you wouldn’t have even heard him.

“Oh, well, um, thanks.” You blushed a deep crimson, and shyly looked down at the ground while scuffing your foot back and forth. He probably just cares about me as a friend though… Don’t get delusional, (f/n). Do not expect anything from him. “You should probably head back to the mess hall though before you get into trouble with Corporal Shorty, I saw him on my way here. Thanks again for coming to check on me though.”

“Y-Yeah, no problem… B-But I can stay i-if you want me to though. I wouldn’t m-mind.”

“Oh, no! You should really head back before you get in trouble, Bertl. Honestly, I’ll be okay.” You were honestly worried about Bertl getting in trouble, so you wanted to send him away as soon as you could.

“Alright, if you say so…” Bertl started walking towards the mess hall, and you sighed in relief at his departure.

*~Bertholdt’s POV~*

“She must hate me.” I sadly sighed and entered into the mess hall once again. I saw Reiner look over and grin ridiculously at me, but instead of returning his smile, I sadly shook my head. Reiner waved me over to where he was sitting, and I dragged my feet back to the table I had just left only a few moments ago.

“Soo, how did it go, Bertl?” Reiner wiggled his eyebrows at me, and I shook my head again.

“She hates me, Reiner, she really hates me…”

“Whoa, did you really admit your feelings towards her? And then she rejected you?”

“Well… Not exactly… She seemed to really want me to leave when I went after her.” I shook my head, studying the whorls of the table very intensely. Reiner snickered a bit, but comfortingly put a hand on his tall friend’s back.

“Bertl, I really don’t mean to offend you, but you’re really not that good at reading others’ feelings. (f/n) doesn’t hate you, I think she was sincerely worried about you getting in trouble with the corporal about wandering the halls, especially since you were in the girls’ hallway.”

I sighed sadly. “I really hope you’re right, Reiner.” I got up and walked out of the mess hall for the second time and went back towards the boys’ rooms. Because of this, I couldn’t see the grin Reiner was flashing, and the knowing look in his eyes.

*~Reader’s POV~*

Knock, knock! You groaned, rolling over on your bed, towards the door. “What do you want?”

“It’s Sasha, (f/n).” You rolled your eyes, and then gave a grunt of approval for your roommate to come in. The brunette girl walked in, holding a potato as usual, and sat on her bed across, so she was facing you. “(f/n)... Are you okay?” You gave her your iciest glare, and she shrunk back further into her bed.

“Hm, let’s see. You embarrassed me in front of the whole mess hall, including Bertholdt, I ran into Corporal Windex Shorty, and then when I went back to my room, Bertholdt was standing there, and I got so embarrassed. So I guess you could say that I’VE HAD A REALLY SHITTY DAY, SASHA.” Your voice raised at the end of your statement, and Sasha shrunk back even more into her bed.

“Look, (f/n), I’m really sorry, but it was only a joke… Besides, Bertholdt came after you, right?” You nodded slowly, while furrowing your eyebrows. “(f/n), I did that so you could have a little bit of time together.”

You pinched the bridge of your nose with your thumb and forefinger in exasperation. “Sash, couldn’t you have come with a different idea? I mean, you embarrassed me in front of the entire Survey Corps…”

“Hehehe, sorry, (f/n)... I couldn’t really think of any other plan besides that one.” Sasha was about to open her mouth again, when there was another knock on the door.

“Ugh, not again… Who is it?” You called loudly to the person standing outside your door.

“It’s Reiner.” You motioned for Sasha to get the door as you sat up on your bed and tried to make yourself seem less pissed off than you currently were. The muscular blond came into the room, and sat down on a chair that was in between the two beds.

“What do you want now, shithead?”

“Ouch, harsh, (f/n), real harsh. I just wanted to see if anything happened between you and Bertl when he went after you.” Reiner wiggled his eyebrows at you, making it seem like he wanted an answer when he already knew what happened.

You sighed and looked down at the blankets. “No, nothing happened. In fact, I think he really just thinks of me as a friend. I mean, he just came to check up on me and then when I said he should go back to the mess hall so he wouldn’t get in trouble with Levi, he did exactly what I said! Ugh, he probably doesn’t even notice me half of the time because I’m so damn short.”

Reiner grinned, and then started to chuckle. Then, he started full out laughing, clutching his stomach and wiping away tears. “Wow, you and Bertl both, (f/n)... You both are such oblivious idiots!” You growled at Reiner, and was about to hit him, but Sasha lightly threw a pillow at you and shook her head furiously.

“Reiner, just tell her already!” Sasha’s exasperated voice was slightly muffled by a pillow that you had just thrown back at her.

“Oh, alright, alright. I wanted them to figure out on their own, but I guess I have to tell you now, (f/n).” You cocked your head to the side, a questioning look on your still slightly furious face. “Bertl likes you too, (f/n)!”

“W-What?!”

“Yup, he’s liked you for quite some time, I’m really surprised you didn’t know until now. Jeez, you two really are slow in things concerning love…”

You jumped off of your bed, and walked towards Reiner. “Where’s Bertl right now?”

“Probably in our room, sulking about the way you shooed him back to the mess hall and didn’t ask him to stay with you after you ran out.”

You hadn’t really heard the end of the sentence Reiner had said because you were currently walking as quickly as you could to the boys’ side of the HQ in order to meet with Bertl. You had been to Bertl’s room before because Reiner had jokingly shoved you too into it and then locked the door as another attempt to get you two to confess your feelings, but it just ended up with you two on the opposite sides of the room as far away from each other as possible. Eventually, you reached Bertl’s room and knocked twice. When no one answered, you knocked again, loudly this time.

“Who is it?” Bertl’s voice groaned from the inside, sadness and disappointment leaking through as well.

Oh my gosh, I really did hurt him… “It’s (f/n), Bertl.”

“(f-f/n)?!” You heard a lot of scraping and clumsy footfalls, accompanied by an “Oww…” You giggled as the door opened, and you saw the chest of your crush rising and falling. Your gaze traveled upwards to see Bertl rubbing his head, and a deep crimson red staining his face. “Uh, h-hi. What are you doing here?”

You said nothing and simply walked into his room. Then you proceeded to sit on Bertl’s bed, as he followed after you, still deeply confused as why you simply came into his room so suddenly. You patted the bed next to you, and Bertl cautiously sat down, watching you with worried eyes.

“Don’t be so tense, Bertl.” You gave a warm smile, no longer too nervous around your long-time crush because you knew how he felt. “I came to say thanks, for coming out to see how I was after I ran out of the mess hall today. And I also wanted to say that, well, umm… I love you!” Your nervousness suddenly came back, despite knowing how Bertl felt, and you shrank into the bed, away from Bertl. Oh great, Reiner was probably just teasing me. God, I’m such an idiot to believe that bastard! You closed your eyes, and was about to start crying before you felt something warm and soft on your lips. You quickly opened your eyes to see the eyelids that shielded the bright green eyes of the man you loved. Bertl quickly pulled back and flushed an even deeper red than before.

“I-I’m so so s-sorry, I guess that was j-just my way of-of saying that I-I love you too…” You smiled and moved towards Bertl. You closed your eyes and leaned in, slowly and gently kissing Bertholdt’s lips. A “mmpf” sound was made from Bertl, surprised at your move, but he closed his eyes and leaned in to the kiss as well. It was a gentle, yet passionate kiss, and it was sweet, cute, and kind as well. The two of you separated, and stared into each other’s eyes lovingly.

“But wait, I’m so short and you’re so tall, how did you even notice me?”

“I could ask you the same thing, (f/n). But, how could I not notice you? You’re such a wonderful and beautiful girl, it’d be really hard to not notice you, let alone not love you. It’s going to take a lot more than a stupid number to not get me to notice and love you, (f/n).”
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