ARMIN: When we arrived at my dorm, I unlocked the door and found a towel to take to the bathroom. "I'll be back." I told Eren. "Don't go through my stuff...please."
"I won't." He said. He placed my phone on my desk.
I hurried down to the bathroom to dry off.
I came out of the bathroom with only the towel wrapped around my thin hips. I can't believe I forgot to bring some clothes down to the bathroom with me.
And worse, Eren was still in my dorm.
On the way back, my heart pounded. What if Marco comes back and sees that I'm only wearing a towel? Would he make another stupid comment about me banging Eren or something? I didn't want to find out.
I knocked on my dorm. "Eren, it's me. C-can you close your eyes or something until I tell you to open them?"
"Sure." Eren opened the door, and his eyes were shut.
"I'll only take a minute." I said, making a beeline for my box full of clothes and rummaging around for my pajamas. Why did it seem impossible to find them?
I finally found the blue pajama pants and an old t-shirt featuring an anime I hadn't seen since junior year, and a pair of white boxers.
"Keep your eyes shut." I told Eren.
"Uh...okay." He mumbled.
I slipped the shirt over my head, but somehow I managed to get stuck in it. Trying to free myself, I tripped over a box and my towel fell off, exposing me. I fell on my bony ass, making a loud thud.
"Are you okay?" Eren asked.
"Don't look!" I insisted, grabbing my towel and covering myself with it.
I quickly slipped my boxers on, but I realized they were on backwards now. Goddammit. I took them off and put them back on again. I hurriedly put on my pajama pants.
"Okay, you can look now." I said.
Eren turned around. "Uh...I might have peeked just to see if you were okay..." The tips of his ears turned pink.
My face burned. "H-how much did you see?!"
"Not much..." He bit the inside of his cheek.
"Eren, you're a terrible liar; I can tell you're lying." I said, standing up.
"Okay...I might've seen your dick. But I closed my eyes so quickly I'm not even sure!" Eren admitted.
"Oh..." My face burned hotter, and my ears felt warm. "Anyway...let me take your measurements now."
"Sure. Do I need to take my pants off again?" Eren asked.
"Yeah, it would help." I said.
Eren unzipped and unbuttoned his pants and slid them down. I found my measuring tape and wrapped it around his thighs. His really nice, muscular thighs...
My face was really close to his crotch. He said he had maybe seen my dick, and I ever so slightly wondered what his looked like...
I scolded myself for thinking so lewdly. He wasn't my boyfriend or anything, just my Cosplay partner and my friend. That's all. Besides, he had had a girlfriend before so he was probably straight.
I finished taking his leg measurements and I wrote them down. "Okay, you're all set."
"Thanks." Eren pulled his pants back up. "Wanna go back to the party?"
"No...I don't need to humiliate myself worse before school even starts." I said.
"Then if you're not going, I don't have a reason to go back." Eren said.
I furrowed my brows. "Uh...but don't you want to make some other friends besides me?"
"I don't really need a lot of friends." Eren shrugged.
"What about a potential girlfriend?" I asked.
Eren shrugged again. "I miss Mikasa a little too much to look for a girlfriend."
"Hmm..." I sat down on my bed. He sat down next to me. "What do you wanna do then?"
"I guess I should be reading those books you lent me, but I left them in my dorm." Eren said.
"I have them on my Kindle..." I said, taking it out from underneath my bed.
"Will you read it to me? Not that I can't read, I'm just lazy." Eren said.
"Huh? Oh...sure." I tapped on the icon and turned to the beginning.
I was so absorbed into reading the book to Eren, I hadn't noticed he'd fallen asleep. I smiled, but I also realized I'd have to wake him up and tell him to go back to his dorm.
I gazed upon his sleeping form. He really wasn't that bad-looking. His green eyes, now shut of course, were gorgeous when they were open. His breathing was steady and he sometimes made a little noise when he breathed out.
My face got close to his, watching him intently. Armin don't be creepy, I thought.
Suddenly, Eren's eyes snapped open and he jerked awake. "Hwat? What is it?"
"You fell asleep in my bed." I said.
"What time is it?" He groaned.
"Uhh...nine forty-two. The party ends at ten." I said.
Eren sat up abruptly, hitting his head on the top bunk.
"Eren! Are you okay?" I shrieked.
"Yeah...I'm fine." He rubbed his forehead.
"Be careful next time," I said, helping him out of my bed.
Next time? Had I implied that he would fall asleep in my bed again?
He didn't seem to notice my diction as he swung his legs over and stumbled over to the doorway.
"Well...goodnight, Armin." He said.
"Goodnight Eren," I replied.
When he closed the door, I flopped back down on my bed and sighed.
Suddenly the door was thrown open and Marco appeared.
"I'm baaaaaaaack." He sang.
"Great; did you have fun?" I sat up.
"If you count trying to hit on that fly honey from Eren's dorm as fun, then yeah." Marco said. "Seeing you take a dive into the fountain was pretty great."
I blushed. "You didn't have to make such a rude comment."
"But it's true, isn't it? I can tell you're gonna fall for Eren." Marco said.
"What are you, psychic?" I squinted.
"Maybe psycho, but-" Marco's eyes caught something in the room: the towel. He grinned maniacally and picked it up. "Oooooooh, what's this?"
"A towel...?" I replied skeptically.
"What'd you use it for?" He winked at me and made a series of sexual gestures.
"I used it to dry off after I fell in the damn fountain; Jesus, Marco, do you have to make every situation sexual?" I snatched the towel away.
"Because I have to. And did you say I'm Jesus? I like that...Freckled Jesus." He mused.
"Go to bed, Freckled Jesus." I muttered.
"Goodnight, Coconut Head."
"Don't you dare make a Ned's Declassified reference."