Capture The Moments
Chapter Two: Small Progress
"I find it completely coincidental that I'm failing French, and your cousin just happens to speak it fluently." I muttered as I sat at the lunch table outside with Petra.
"He came as a miracle then." Petra smiled.
I made a face and looked down at my notebook. "Where is he anyway?"
"Eren's with Annie and Krista. You know when they came over a few days ago and he had his camera out? Well, let's just say that Krista offered to be his model because she wants in the fashion industry and she needs photos for the college she wants to get into." Petra said. "Actually, all three of them are in the photography class." Then she took a pause. "Also, Eren said that Annie looks like this French girl he used to know in Paris, and though it's just a rumor, people are saying she likes him."
"Look, there he is right now." Petra tilted her chin towards him. I looked over my shoulder to see him talking to Annie. He must have been very expressive because he kept using different hand gestures and faces. Annie smiled the entire time and didn't break it once. Reading his lips, he asked if he could take a picture of her, and of course she said yes.
"Well, maybe she does like him." Petra raised her eyebrows. "The drama that is going to cause if that is true."
I rolled my eyes and turned back to my notebook.
"Bonjour mes amis!" Eren smiled at us when he sat down. He chose to sit next to me. Eren looked at my notebook. "Oh, you're in that class, I have Italian. It's really easy."
"Thank you for sharing your unasked for opinion."
He flinched. "I'm sorry." He looked away.
Petra huffed. "Levi needs help in French class. Help his sorry ass who would rather lose a limb than ask for help."
Eren chuckled. "L'entêtement ne mène nulle part. But do not worry; I am here for Mr. Levi." He gasped suddenly. "Oh that reminds me! Petra, Annie has French and Italian roots, she speaks fluent French and Italian too, how cool is that?"
Petra giggled. "I know right, now you have something in common with someone else too."
"Yeah, she offered to help me out if I had any trouble with Italian."
Eren turned back to me. "So what exactly do you need help with?"
I slid my notebook towards him. He made a little smile as he read my notes. My mouth opened a little because of the way he looked like from the side. He should be the one getting the photographer for him. Why did I even think that?
"French I? Aren't you a senior? Why are you in French I?"
"I simply managed to dodge it for three years, this time, I wasn't so lucky."
"So basically you're having trouble with the days of the week and days of the month." Eren rested his chin on his hand and he looked through the rest of the notebook. "Do you write print anywhere?"
"Ha, the teacher, doesn't let us write in print in that class, it has to be in cursive. But Levi here writes in print on the test just to bother him. Even in simple classwork and homework, he writes his name in huge print letters at the top of the page." Petra explained.
"He has to know that I do not give a single fuck what he wants it in."
"Mr. Zacharius docks points for every print letter you know, he is really strict." Petra continued.
Annie came by to sit down with Eren, she said some things to him, and then they just continued on in their conversation. I could have imagined it, but what that a look of disapproval on Petra's face towards her own friend? She loves everyone, so this was definitely something new to see.
"..Alright maybe this weekend, since I'm new to the town, you're gonna have to show me around." I heard Eren say.
"Do you have a number?" Annie asked.
Eren gave a nervous laugh. "I mean I do, but I don't know it by heart, I barely use my phone, but here," He handed her his phone. "Add yourself in."
After that a few more words were exchanged between the two of them before her blonde ass decided to leave. Eren looked at me. "Get ready for some hardcore studying my friend."
It's been two long fucking hours since we got home. Eren did not let me get up from his bed to go absolutely anywhere even if it was to go to the bathroom. I had to piss really bad I felt like I was going to explode. He said that he wanted me to know and memorize what I needed to know before anything else.
"Now, say them all to me again, Monday through Sunday."
"If I say this, can I go?"
"Only if you make no mistakes, now, tell me Monday through Friday in French."
"Lundi, Mardi…" I blinked real hard. "Mercredi..." The fuck was Thursday again? I stayed silent for a few moments and all Eren did was just stare and wait.
"Levi what is Thursday?" He asked.
"J-Jeudi..."
"Parfait! Now continue!"
"Vendredi, Samedi, and Dimanche."
"Incroyable! That was just beautiful Levi!" Eren clapped excitedly.
My face burned due to the praise. "Eren if I don't piss right now, I swear I am going to die."
"But you might make a run for it afterwards and you still need to tell me the months so I know you know them." He tipped his head, and then a smirk formed on his face when I made a face at him.
"You are being very sadistic right now."
"No, you're just cute when you don't get what you want, but because I'm not about to have you get sick, go, but come straight back."
I ran out, took like five seconds to get done because, don't mean to be cringing or whatever, but everything little burst out, washed my hands, and went back to Eren's room.
"Now, tell me the months." He said, not wasting anytime at all.
"Janvier, Février, Mars, Avril…"
"Alright, and the next ones?"
"Mai, Juin, Juillet…" I shifted my sitting stance because I was getting uncomfortable with not perfectly being able to pronounce that word.
"Tell me August, Levi."
Too embarrassed, I stayed quiet. Not saying anything. Like that made Eren do anything, all he did was continue to look at me. He showed no signs of giving up on me. Which was getting me mad because then he calls me stubborn. He's being awfully stubborn right now! "A-Août…"
"The last four should be easy."
"Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Décembre. "
Eren laughed and clapped excitedly once again. He closed my notebook and handed it to me. "You should know these like the back of your hand now."
"Come closer,"
"Why,"
"So I can kill your ass."
"But then you'd get arrested and Petra won't bail you out." Eren smiled. "Besides, I'm a good person Levi; I have done you no real wrong."
I rolled my eyes and heard a knock on the door. Eren and I both went downstairs to see who it was. When we did, Eren gasped.
"Eld! It's you!" He ran up to him.
"Eren, how it been? You're still as tiny since the last time I saw time I saw you! Eat more man."
He turned his attention to Petra. "How have you been?"
"Better, you know, since last time." Petra said with a hint of sadness.
"That's great, just keep on with that, and don't worry about them, okay? Is Levi still around?"
"Bitch I know you saw me what the fuck," I crossed my arms.
Eld smirked. "Still as short tempered as I remember. You know Levi, anger isn't good for the brain."
I flipped him off and went into the living room. Eld Jinn was a guy of twenty-three years with blonde hair and a cocky attitude at times. How he knows Eren, I do not know, even though I've known Eld for a long time, same with Petra.
I rested my head on the armrest of the couch and closed my eyes. It darkened a few seconds after, not bothering to open my eyes, I sighed. "Go away Eren."
"But I found a box filled with filtered film, I want to try out it on you because I think that this filter would capture you a bit realistically."
"Oh yes, because dramatizing my life makes it better." I frowned.
"Come on Levi, I helped you with your school work, let me do this please."
"Out of the other people here, why me?"
Eren stayed silent, and after a few moments I opened my eyes. I saw him staring at my face with pink dusting his cheeks. I took a hold of his camera and surprisingly he let it go. I examined it and accidentally pressed the flash button right in front of Eren's face. While he rubbed his eyes I sat up and went through the photo gallery to see how it came out. I snickered because it came out sort of funny. He turned slightly and his eyes were squeezed shut. "Eren you said there was a filter."
He was still recovering and blinked several times.
"Levi did you just put the flash in his face?" Petra asked.
"Maybe,"
Eren blinked once more. "You didn't switch the settings." He took back his camera and pressed a couple of things. "Um, no sir, that was a terrible angle." Eren's eyebrows furrowed.
"Fuck the angle,"
Eren raised an eyebrow. "Angle is everything, and so is lighting." He grabbed my hand at pulled me to a window. He pressed his leg against my ankle so I couldn't 'escape'. "Watch my magic Mr. Ackerman." He smiled as he opened the curtains and positioned my face and arms. "Now, look right with just your eyes, do not turn your head."
"I don't want to,"
Eren blinked. "But Petra is secretly laughing at you."
Stupidly, I looked over to where she was and saw that she wasn't looking at me in anyway, and that her attention was on Eld. The snap sounded and I realized that Eren tricked me. I legit felt emotionally defeated. Eren took another picture. "What can I say Levi? Toute expression sur votre visage est une œuvre d'art." Then he blushed and looked away from me. "Un jour je vous ferai la mienne."
Well, whatever Eren said, sure caught Eld and Petra's attention, which wanted me to know what he said. The room went silent for a bit as Eld and Petra looked at the both of us. Eren was covering his face with his hands and slowly made his way to his room. Petra smiled and whispered something to Eld; he just chuckled and shook his head when he looked at me. Something was definitely up, and I was starting to get really interested in knowing what was going on. Both of them were looking at me with such amused glances as they spoke and looked at me from time to time. Fuck them if they are going to play this game.
A couple hours later, Annie came over and spent the entire time in Eren's room with him. I caught Petra and Eld several times when they tried to listen to what was going on, even though the door was right open. I gave up on paying attention to those two. Petra signaled me to join them, so because she's my best friend, I did.
"-but you know what, it was fine because my dad paid for everything. So it's not like I got into trouble or anything. Now I know never to bother adults over the age of thirty-five with curly hair."
"Was your dad upset about the camera?"
"Pfft! Are you kidding? My dad is so not a fan of my dream to become a professional photographer at all! But, he bought me a new one. He said that I needed something to occupy myself with something productive because sometimes I distracted him from his work. Regardless of that, he bought me a new one. Which I was totally fine with, I wanted a new camera anyway, I needed to capture the crazy faces of the bakers who would kick me out of their shops in perfect HD."
Hearing Annie's annoying laugh made me twitch and Eld just made a face.
"When does he get back? Your dad I mean,"
There was a silence. "I'm not sure, he said he's gonna be in Shinganshina for work-"
"Eren that's like two days' worth of distance."
Petra's lip quivered and she clutched her sweater.
"Yeah, but he's got to do what he's got to do, you know?" Eren chuckled. He sounded like such a happy child with high hopes that his dad will come back one day for him. "But anyway, that's when I decided that green never goes with the color yellow, it is absolutely terrible. The guy scolded me for wearing such a thing in front of his shop. So when I got home that day I cleared out all of my green and yellow pieces of clothing and threw them away. My first interaction with an artist in Paris and he tells me to leave."
"Aww that must have been really unfortunate."
"Actually, no because he was a fake, he was caught, and taken to jail." Eren snickered. "But he was right about one thing, green is ugly with yellow."
"Couldn't you just get rid of one color and pair it with another? I mean it's just color."
"Art is my passion; I look at things at a different perspective than normal people so the answer to that is no."
"That's actually pretty amazing." Annie said.
"You're one of the very few people that have said that to me, thank you."
There as another silence, a very long one. Petra decided to risk it and take a look in his room. She instantly looked back with wide eyes. She waved to point towards the kitchen quickly and quietly ran away.
"Remember when I said that she likes him? Well she fucking just kissed him, you know!"
"So what's wrong about that?" Eld asked.
"Annie isn't good for someone like Eren, just watch, if it ever comes to the point where they get together' it just might go down hard. She's my friend yes, but I just can not have someone as hard as her deal with someone like my cousin who gets easily fragile hearted.
"Ever hear something like, the kid needs to grow a pair and deal with his own shit?"
Petra gave me a look. "Fine then, Levi move out."
"No, no, I'm sorry."
"I like looking after people, and since I know Annie and I know Eren, I think I should have a say in how things go here. Especially because, no offense to him, but he doesn't really give much thought before doing something."
"Fine, then I'll go knock some sense into him."
Petra narrowed his eyes. "You will not hit him."
"Fine, then with words."
Right after Annie left, Petra pushed me towards the stairs. "Remember what I said."
I huffed and made my way to Eren's room. I knocked on his opened door as I entered. He smiled at me. "Close the door for a moment."
"What's happened?" I asked as I did
"Sometimes I wish life had an undo button." I tried not to look so annoyed with him being so vague, so I just gave him a blank face. "Do you think that sometimes life rushes things a little too quickly?" He asked me. I thought about it. The answer was yes, and I think I understood where he was trying to get at. "Yeah."
Eren looked up and smiled slightly. He turned away and I saw him touch his lips with his fingers. He looked over his shoulder. I looked away and focused on some pictures. "So what exactly is up with you?"
"I just experience something for the first time with the wrong person, and I do not know how to feel about that."
I tried to look clueless, even though I knew exactly what happened. I just did not want him to know that. "With Annie?" He nodded, so I raised my eyebrows. This was really awkward. "She seems like a nice girl." Damnit, I'm straying away from what Petra wanted me to do.
"She's really nice, but I don't know-"
"Eren please tell me that you did not just experience your first kiss at age sixteen."
Eren closed his eyes. "Pathetic right?" He smiled.
Why did I find that so surprising? I mean, Eren wasn't ugly at all, I mean, I guess he could be attractive to a lot of people. I mean he is sort of cute- I shook my head vigorously. So much that I got dizzy and disorientated that I fell to the ground. Eren gasped and kneed down next to me. "Are you okay Levi?"
I looked up into those ocean green eyes that were starting to grow on me. "You're annoying." I blurted out. Eren laughed and sat down crisscrossed at my head. "You know what I have noticed?" He asked as he tugged two locks of my hair on either side of my head. "These two pieces of your bangs are uneven. One side is longer than the other and it's because of this."
"I love how you are criticizing my hair. What is this?" I reached up and pulled at the sections of his hair that would stick out. Eren laughed and grabbed my hands. "You pull too hard,"
"Or maybe you're just a baby."
"Possibly." He chuckled.
"That would explain a lot."
Eren leaned closer. "What are you trying to say?"
For a moment I was too focused on that fact that he was invading my space. Then I blinked. "You seem like a sensitive guy."
"You haven't made me cry yet, so you can't say that."
I scoffed. "You're implying what?"
"That you are mean and a bit insulting."
I pursed my lips and rolled my eyes. "Let go of my hands."
"You need to let go of my hair first."
But I stayed still and found myself slowly curling my fingers into the mess of hair he possessed. I needed to break the silence. "So what are you going to do about Annie?"
Eren said nothing for a while, then he sighed and took my hands away from his hair, a slightly cold air hit my fingers. His hair must have been warm and I didn't notice till my fingers left his Eren's brown locks. "I'm gonna see where life takes me," Was all he said to that.
"I have never met such a guy who is as vague and as complicated as you."
Eren gently squeezed my hands. "I know, I can tell. But anyways, what are you going to do with this unevenness?" He ruffled my bangs.
"Leave it as it is, but I do know one thing I'm going to do."
"And what is that."
"Cut these pieces of hair that sticks out while you're sleeping." I closed my eyes when I heard Eren gasp.
"Please no, I was born with this type of hair, it's not my fault." I heard him get something from his dresser. He went silent and then I heard a snap.
"Damn you, Eren fucking Yeager." I grumbled.
"I'm sorry; you just looked cute with your eyes closed."
"Call me cute one more time and I will show you just how cute I can be."
Eren smiled and rested the tips of his fingers on my hair. "I'm sorry,"
I made sure to not fall asleep before it was too late. It was almost two thirty-two in the morning and I was sure that Eren was sleeping already. I got up and put on a black hoodie on. I found the V for Vendetta mask that I bought for the Halloween when I was in ninth grade. I smiled, this is perfect! I quietly crept to his room and carefully opened the door. I glanced over his dresser because I remembered that there were scissors on top of a scrapbook. I stopped when I came across this cover that said 'Trost' in golden calligraphy letters. It looked like Eren's handwriting because I've seen his calligraphy work. I opened the book and the first thing I saw what the iconic gray clouds this city had to offer, along with the rain. There was a picture of the front of Trost High. Then it's hallways and brown lockers. Skipping two pages, I found the first one he took of me one his first day. Under every single Polaroid picture of me, my name was on the white thick space on it. Then the one that he apparently favored, the one of me in the hallway, took up a whole page because he took it long ways, so the picture came out vertical. I felt like I was intruding but I continued to look through this book. I discovered other pictures I never noticed him take. Some of them had Petra smiling or posing in the background. This hoe knew what he was doing and never made it noticeable, or even told me about it.
I closed the book and made my way to the side of the bed Eren was sleeping on. I took his Canon camera and I slowly pulled the covers away from him face.
He looked so peaceful sleeping. Well, snap.
Now, I wasn't going to really cut his hair, but I sure did want to scare him thinking that I would. Taking a few more pictures of his peaceful state, I switched the settings to shutter speed. I cleared my voice. "Yo Eren." I said darkly and I made the little snip noise with the scissors.
When Eren opened his eyes and screamed loudly at such a high pitch that I almost didn't believe it came from him, I pressed the button and to take the hundreds of pictures this camera makes it seem like it takes. Eren started to cry out of fear and I had to bite my cheek to make my stop from laughing.
I heard Petra run up the stairs. She burst through the door and gasped. "LEVI WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THAT FUCKING HEAD OF YOURS? GET THE FUCK OUT NOW!"
Snickering as I bolted away, Eld smacked me on the side of my head. "What possessed you?"
"I wasn't really going to do anything, but you know I figured since I said that I would, I'd make it happen. You know?"
"You got some issues there," Eld scoffed.
Then, Eren came running, ran and shoved me up against the wall hard, and then left. Out of shock, I didn't move. But Eren came back to help me up, then left back to his room.
Petra came back looking like she was going to yell at me again but laugh at the same time. "I've never seen him look so pissed!" She whispered. "You really brought that side of him out, you got talent." She punched my shoulder a bit hard, which made me wonder if she was kidding or trying to hurt me.
Well, I actually fell back asleep rather quickly, though the alarm for school went off three hours later. I made my way to the bathroom and started washing up. As I was brushing my teeth, I felt something sticky under my hand. I cringed inside, screamed internally, and quickly finished up so I could inspect my counter. I made a face and brought my face closer to the counter. It was fucking syrup, what in the hell? I don't remember bringing this into my bathroom. I took a deep breath in and reached under my sink to clean this up. This was a total disaster because the bottle was absolutely empty. I washed my hands again and decided to get dressed before doing anything else.
I kept it simple, grey jeans and a black shirt. I pulled my maroon colored sweater over my head. I huffed as I quickly went downstairs to look for the cleaning supplies. To my horror, there was nothing. I couldn't find anything!
"What is going on?" I whispered to myself.
I went to the kitchen and finally found the Windex bottle. I ran up to my bathroom and instantly started to clean the substance off my counter. I smiled when it was clean. I turned towards the door opened it, but glue was all over the knob. "Ew!"
I quickly cleaned off the knob and left the room, but not after carefully looking if anything was for some reason touched and unclean. I closed my bedroom door and heard Petra and Eld in the kitchen. I went downstairs and returned the cleaning supplies to where they needed to be. Petra turned to look at me. "Levi what is going on with your hair?"
"What do you mean?"
"Did you decide to color it or what?" Petra's nose flared as she gave me her phone in front faced camera mode. My jaw dropped. All of my ends where grey and light blue. "What the fuck? No, no, please no. I swear to God if this doesn't come off." I almost cried.
"The bus is going to be here in a few minutes," Eld said. "You three need to get going on, where is Eren?"
"He's getting ready, don't worry."
As if on cue, Eren hopped down the stairs, literally every single on, and came down with a smile. "Petra do we have any microwaveable pancake packs?" He was wearing a beanie and I guess that was my doing. I pulled my hoodie over my head so he couldn't see my hair. As Petra warmed up her cousin's food, I stood by the door. That's when something hit me, I couldn't see very well. My contacts, I didn't put them on. I quickly walked to the bathroom to find them and they weren't anywhere to be found. I almost let out a whine. I slowly made my way to Petra. "Petra?"
"Yes my dear buddy?"
"Have you seen my contacts?"
Petra shook her head. "No, but you have glasses in case something like this were to happen."
"But I look like a dork wearing them!"
Petra giggled. "You have a test today, forget that you're gonna look like a dork, go get them the bus is here."
The whole bus ride I covered my face with my notebook. It wasn't helping at all with the fact that Eren was sitting next to me. "Hey, Levi, what's wrong?" He poked me.
"Don't touch me."
"Come on Levi, what's wrong?"
"Touch me again and you lose a finger." I said, but after I said that Petra cleared her throat real loud. Then I sighed and pulled off my hoodie. Eren burst out in giggles. "Do you like it?"
"No, I hate it, now my ends while probably dry up and die."
"I was thinking maybe I should have colored it red, it would suit you better." Eren giggled.
Right then and there I wanted to hit him in the face so hard, but I sighed loudly. "This was your doing?"
"Yes, for getting back at you for, not only coming into my room, but touching my camera, looking through my stuff, and approaching me with scissors."
"You saw all that?"
"No, Eld saw you."
I pursed my lips.
"But do not worry, you're in luck. I have a perfect solution to your problem." Eren went through his book bag and took out a black snapback. He pushed all my hair back and put the hat on my head. He tilted it a little. "There, now no one will know that you managed to let a sixteen your old color your hair."
I rolled my eyes and turned away. He rested his chin on my shoulder. I tched and tried shrugging him off but he stayed. "You know, you look nice with glasses on." He said as he wrapped his arms around me. "You're really grumpy,"
"Even grumpier when you touch my like you've known me your whole life."
"What's three weeks? Come on, we're friends." He let me go. "Want an Oreo?"
"No thanks, you could have done something to it. Did you put glue and syrup in my bathroom?"
"No, the syrup was Petra, the glue was Eld. I hid the cleaning supplies, dumped the bottle of Windex out, and I'll give you your contacts when we get home."
"You are such an idiot sometimes. No, scratch that, all the times."
Eren smiled and pulled out a whole stack of Oreos. "As some teens say, 'Shit happens.' Now, take one."
I looked at him. "I don't trust you."
He handed me the stack. "Take your pick,"
I rolled my eyes and took it from him. When I realized they were Double-Stuffed I wanted to eat them all. I almost laughed at the idea of me doing that as Eren watched. Just me eating all of his cookies and him not getting any... Is that too cruel, no? I took one and bit into it. "You got some nerve sometimes, why me?"
"Cause I figured you're simple enough to get to know."
"What about Petra? She's your cousin, and I'm pretty sure you two haven't seen each other in years."
"Are you kidding? No thanks! Petra is a girl, which means she makes things absolutely WAY more complicated than shit needs to be. I swear one time, when I was thirteen, she came up to visit me and we went out shopping. You think that her being fourteen, she'd lay off on her little cousin but, holy shit." Eren bent over and ran his hands in his hair. "She took twenty minutes of my time because she could not decide which shirt to get. First of all, they were the same fucking color. One was long sleeve, the other was short sleeve. So I suggested that she bought both, and she went off about how she can't because when she comes back it's too humid for long sleeves. So when I told her to get the short sleeve, she said she couldn't because she still has time to spend here and it was cold at the time she came. I reminded her that she had a sweater and she was all like 'No, I can't wear that it goes nothing with what I have! I would look terrible, do you not understand?'
I accidentally smiled at his impression of Petra's voice. Eren stopped and gasped. "Levi, I need a picture of your smile. I need to take it while it lasts." He didn't waste time getting his camera and he took out his cellphone instead. He smiled down at it. "It's a nice smile, and don't worry, I won't tell Petra you showed some happiness towards me for the first time since I've been here."
"That wouldn't be good, so yeah, don't tell her."
Eren leaned over and looked out the window. "We're almost there."
"Do you have any pictures of yourself?"
Eren blinked hard at me. "No, but I found the ones you took of me. Make sure you turn the camera off next time you use one that isn't yours."
"Thanks, so when I go to jail for touching something I wasn't supposed to, you bail me out because it would be your fault because you didn't tell me or show me the proper way to do something."
"I won't be able to bail you out; I'd be next to you because I helped you commit your crime. Petra would have to get us, and we'll both get hounded for it."
I nodded. "She can be scarier than me,"
"That I totally believe, yes." He leaned in closer. "Especially when it's that time of the month."
"You've witnessed her wrath before?"
"Levi, I was there the first time she got it. Poor me, she took out all her mood swings on little Eren Yeager. No twelve-year-old should have gone through such a thing. Sometimes it doesn't seem like she's my cousin, she's more like a big sister."
"Seems like you've been through quite a lot with Petra." I noted.
"Oh yes." Eren said with his eyes wide.
Eren almost missed a phone call because he forgot what his ringtone sounded like. It was a split second from the call hanging up when he finally realized it was his phone. "Hello?" Sometimes, he disappoints me. I swear. I stared at him with a look of disapproval the whole phone call. Eren's little nose flared every time he looked at me. When he finally hung up, he sighed. "It was my dad."
Remembering what Petra said, I shrugged. "What did he say?"
"Nothing much, he just told me how things where in Shinganshina and asked if I was doing well and stuff. Though, it was kind of weird, he sounded way more distracted, or like, uninterested. I guess it's just me. But oh well, one day, he's gonna come back for me and he said that I'll get to travel with him."
"Why would you want to do that?"
"I want to be able to paint the beauty of this world in different colors, on a single canvas, with just my fingers. I can draw and paint too you know, it's just a hobby though."
"Okay, but." I thought my words carefully. "Let's say, something happened, and your dad had to stay where he was and could not get you, what would you do?"
The happiness in Eren's smile was making me feel bad for him. "Well, I don't know, I haven't thought about my dad ever leaving me. But if it ever came where he did, I'd paint Trost. You know how many colors I could manage to describe this city?"
"Three colors. Brown, gray, and white."
Eren chuckled. "I see many other colors than just those three." Then he just continued to smile was he swung his legs underneath the seat. I slowly turned and raised my cellphone, seeing that he was off guard, I flipped the camera to face us. Fuck this getting-the-right-angle-and-lighting shit. "Eren."
"Hm?" He looked up and I took the photo. "Hey! Stop, no!" He tried reaching for my phone but I put my hand on his face and kept him back.
"What the fuck are you two even doing?" Petra looked over the seat. We froze and looked at her with blank faces. "And Eren, how did you manage to get on top of him without getting smacked?"
"I can make the impossible happen."
Petra smiled. "Well, the bus is stopping so get ready." She sat back.
Eren turned to me. "Delete the picture."
"Uh, no thanks. This is exactly how I feel every time you take pictures of me. This is payback." I pushed Eren off me.
"Fix the hat, your hair came out." Eren laughed and ran out the bus.
Standing against the wall, sharing headphones with Eren because we were listening to this one song and I was just now realizing the height difference between him and I. My eyebrows furrowed and I smacked his arm. Eren gave me a confused look. Damnit, this wasn't very fair. He's younger than me, yet he is the taller one. Fuck this shit. At least I was taller than Petra, even if it is like an inch or so... Screw this. Eren was looking down at the screen and I realized another thing. Eren had his phone below my face. IS THIS FUCKING BRAT MOCKING ME? "Eren, I'm gonna fight you."
"Alright, just keep your bedroom door looked the night after the fight."
"Are you threatening me?"
Eren smiled and looked down at me. "You started it."
Eren was only three inches taller than me but sometimes it felt like ten. I sighed. "Stop the song, the bell is going to ring." And it did and we walked into class. The first thing that happened was Ms. Brzenska stopping us. "Take the hats off you two.
I looked at Eren that clearly told him to do something about the situation. Eren just smiled down at me and looked back at the teacher. "But ma'am it's international hat day."
I turned around and covered my snicker, pretending to cough. I failed terribly.
"Go sit down and get straight to work." I can't believe she actually let us go like that. Eren turned to me when we got to our seats.
"You sounded like a little kitten who sneezed when you tried to stop yourself from laughing and your glasses just made it look even more cute!"
My face burned. Eren laughed. "Aw, Levi you're blushing." I covered my face with my hands in embarrassment. Even Petra started giggling at me. "Vous êtes tout simplement la chose la plus mignonne jamais." Eren said silently.
And then there were the times where I wish I understood what he says.
