This wasn't a date. Not in your eyes or Armin's. But in the eyes of your friends? A completely different story. With you both hanging with the same group of people, setting you two up on a quote-on-quote “date” was quite easy. Maybe even a little too easy. At the sound of anything school related, you and Armin were up. Like nerds.

Your friend group had decided on a day, place, and time for this so called “study session” for upcoming finals week a month later. Being the sharp, on schedule, and on top of everything people you and Armin were, you both arrived at the decided place... Several minutes earlier than decided, too.

While you and Armin were waiting for everyone else during that 5 minute early duration of your arrival, you both get a message from the group. All of a sudden, something had come up… for all of them? Specifically today, right now especially? A coincidence, perhaps? No, not at all. Though, you and the blonde remained oblivious.

But hey, Armin wasn’t going to waste such a good time to study. And with a pretty girl like you? Oh, as if he was going to blow off an opportunity like that.

While the rest of you and Armin’s companions silently cheesed and giggled at the sight of you two through the coffee shop window from across the street, Armin glances at you for a brief second before speaking.

“Hey, what do you want to drink?” He tilts his head up, gesturing to the menu screen displayed on the TV mounted on the wall of the coffee shop. “I’ll pay.” Smart and a gentleman? Your friends could only pray that one of you snatches the other up on this not-so-date of a date.