A/N So sorry if this has taken a while but I've been held back by so much work I feel like dying. So here is the 4th chapter. Enjoy!
Eren was walking to school, yawning. After waking up in the middle of the night she had continued playing until four in the morning, helping her blow off some steam. She knew she had to savor her lasts days with freedom of sleep but she just couldn't resist the temptation, the need to play and feel the rush of killing monsters.
Reaching the entrance of the college the brunette remembered the fight that had occurred only last night with her bitchy friends and she groaned:
Confronting them was definitely not going to be fun and having to stand horseface during every fucking class was going to be a total pain.
Eren sighed in defeat, she was going to have to face them whether she wants it or not and if she had the misfortune to avoid or ignore them the brunette would be drowned in an insufferable pool of pain. It was three against one after all and they weren't bad fighters for sure, Connie being the mastermind for pranks.
He was to be feared, taking him lightly meant ending up with a burning mouth walking around the house screaming and taking the milk bottle, winding-up up with a glued hand and then of course the milk hadn't been milk so Eren had ran to the bathroom, slipped and fell face first on the hard floor, producing a marvelous finale.
It had all been taped and Eren had screamed at the camera with a bloody nose.
Eren shivered at the memory, it had been a painful day and a grand revelation on the fact that you should never underestimate Connie Springer because he had planned it all and must have gotten a good laugh out of it.
It had been when Eren had stayed over at Jean's house and Connie had been annoyed with her for not choosing to go to him when his parents had been away with Mikasa, and Armin had been out of town with his grandfather.
She couldn't believe he had held a grudge for that during a whole fucking week, how petty! Eren's fists tightened at these thoughts and wondered if she would get him back for it.
Meanwhile Reiner approached her not so stealthily but Eren didn't notice a thing. At least not until his hands were hovering over her hips, ready to grab the brunette. She briskly turned around, surprised and somewhat ashamed that she hadn't heard Reiner's heavy footsteps.
They had a quick stare-off with Reiner grinning like an idiot and Eren glaring at him, unsatisfied with herself and annoyed by him. It broke when he spoke.
"Oh damn! I thought I would get you this time! You seemed unaware and soo vulnerable." Irony dripped in his voice, even licking his lips for effect.
But Eren's annoyance burned in her eyes, clearly not in the mood, and she raised a brow as if daring him to lay his hands on her hips.
"What do you think you're doing Reiner?" This finally allowed him to catch on the fact that his hands hadn't moved.
"Nothin'" Fake innocence shined in his eyes and playfulness was clear in his singsong voice. He quickly held his arms up in surrender, his smile not even fading one bit "Can't a guy say hello to his friends?"
Eren, unimpressed, returned the sentence to him, venom clear in her tone: "Can't you keep your hands off your straight friends"
"Ouch! Stingy." Reiner faked hurt dramatically and continued "You're in a bad mood today"
Eren started walking to her next classroom, not looking at the blonde "Glad you got that figured out and now you can go ahead and piss off."
"Nah, I'm good. Though I'd like to know what's got your panties in a twist." She shot him a quick glare warning that she was running out of her very short patience but he didn't flinch. Furthermore, by a mere stoke of luck, Reiner spotted Eren's friends in one of the corridors and forcibly dragged Eren with him.
She might be feeling down but that didn't mean she would be nicer than usual to Reiner.
"Hey asshole where do you think you're taking me? Let me go!"
"You'll see." He turned to smirk her way.
'Why must he be so cocky? Couldn't he just let me be?' Eren saw where they were headed and spotted them, her so called friends 'Nuh-huh there is no way I'm dealing with them right now!' She started hitting his arm so he'd release her but he just tightened his grip on her.
"Bastard! Leave me the fuck alone"
"Don't get that mad, or is it such a big deal that you can't see them without running away." Reiner asked, mocking her and she simply glared.
"I asked you to let me go!" Eren's sudden screaming had him flinching back "I can fucking walk on my own, I'm not a baby!" There was no way she was going to be labeled as a coward.
Reiner just smiled awkwardly and let her go "Then go right ahead my prince" and allowed himself a small chuckle as he continued cheekily "By the way there was no need to make such a scene".
Eren's eyes dragged across the halls and she realized that they had attracted the attention of quite many people. 'Well fuck', Eren just ignored the others and hurried over to the small group of three standing next to some lockers.
When they reached the spot where Ymir, Jean and Connie all stood Reiner got their attention by cutting their conversation.
"Hey guys! Someone know what's up with this guy over here?"
Eren's friends' expression had changed from one of shock as to why Reiner was dragging Eren their way to one of disdain pretty quickly. Nobody answered his question, and a very heavy silence fell over them.
The brunette didn't even waver as she stood proudly in front of the very friends she was currently having a petty quarrel with. Her eyes locked with Ymir's and Eren looked away disdainfully.
A very dark mood had settled between the four people and Reiner just gawked "Hey?" He asked tentatively "What the hell happened between you guys?"
Jean snorted darkly, 'He fucking snorted! Why the fuck would he do that!', Eren was barely holding herself back, she didn't know why but she suddenly felt a strong urge to punch horseface.
"Oh Eren is just mulling over the fact that he's a pathetic player."
Reiner turned to Eren, a question lingering in his eyes. 'He totally wanted to know and there was no way I was giving him the story.'
"Yeah right!" She exclaimed, still avoiding any form of eye contact. "If I'm pathetic what are you horseface? Dirt? Maybe even less!"
Jean grinded his teeth and the usual heated argument started while Reiner scooted over to where Connie and Ymir were standing.
"So... What really happened?" The blonde inquired.
"Ah well Eren messed up our kill and poor wussy felt hurt." She rolled her eyes. "Though I can't say that the other idiot over there didn't add oil to the fire. Without Jean we might have overlooked the incident but he got Eren so worked up that it ended in a full out argument." Ymir sighed, they were both pains in the ass. "So the argument got to a point where we were ready to tear Eren's head off but he disconnected before we could."
Connie added, "All of us were soo mad, it was, like, crazy, we screamed so loud and even ended up getting kicked out of the café for swearing loudly and scaring away customers. And Eren, that lucky bastard, logged out before the scary ass man scolded us. Phew he was very very intimidating."
Connie was throwing his arms around, excited. "It was so much fun." He looked Eren's way "I've personally forgotten him cuz it's just one titan and Eren was right: he did save us many times."
Connie was acting as the wisest one here leaving Reiner to gape at him, sure he didn't know Connie that well but he knew he was a sucker for goofing around.
At that point Connie was talking more to Ymir, leaving a puzzled Reiner, he didn't understand everything but he still had the main idea. The freckled-girl still had a bit of fire burning in her eyes but she softened, remembering Eren dying in her stead, she acknowledged the fact that he was human and was allowed to make mistakes.
She tched loudly and started stomping towards the other two whom had started brawling and hit them hard on the head. While then Connie and Reiner were dispatching all the spectators before a teacher got wind of the fistfight between Jean and Eren. It went pretty quickly thanks to Reiner being very intimidating and Connie being considered as be crazy and plus it happened so much that it felt like a routine.
They looked up at her dumbfounded, holding their heads in their hands "Why'd you do that?" They asked in unison both thinking that Ymir had a pretty mean punch though it wasn't the first time that they were on its receiving end.
Ymir gave no sign of answering and Connie did so in her stead "Just cut it out guys. Eren did this for us y'know Jean even if it didn't help us."
"But.."
"How many times has he saved you?" Ymir cut in while Eren stared at her friends in wonder, they weren't that bad in the end, she might still love them.
"Huh…" Jean looked away sheepishly and whispered "Many times."
"Hah! Thank you for finally recognizing you were wrong!" She exclaimed gleefully.
"Oh can it Eren! We're being considerate, don't ruin it you arrogant douche." Ymir reprimanded, glaring Eren's way.
"Fine…" Eren looked down, embarrassed "Well thanks for forgiving me I guess." She scratched her neck awkwardly "Truce guys?"
"Truce" they all answered though Jean did so begrudgingly and they shook on it.
"Well now that that's settled we should probably get to class."
They parted ways and each went their ways, Reiner felt like he had been forgotten during all this but he just shrugged it off, after all he was the only one in this little group that was still part of the gang so Reiner had plenty of time to spend with Eren.
When the brunette reached her classroom with Jean she suddenly remembered her plan, her mind had wandered in other directions but now her goal was clear, she had to find out dirt about Levi.
Eren entered the classroom, letting her eyes travel from one classmate to another when she spotted a lone kid in the midst of all the groups that had already formed.
The brunette walked up to him, determined to find out something about Levi, the kid might not know him but it was always worth a try.
"Hey you." She spoke.
The boy recoiled in his chair, clearly surprised and looked up to find a pretty intimidating Eren, she didn't look very friendly with that frown especially from that angle "Yeah… what is it?" The boy said hesitantly.
"Have you ever heard of Levi? He's a freshman here too." And muttered under her breath "Probably."
Recognition lit up the boy's eyes "Well… um… yeah I've heard about him." He hesitated "I'm friend with one of his friends."
"That guy has friends?" The shock and disbelief were apparent in her voice and Eren didn't have time to hold back her words. She silently cursed her uncontrollable mouth while the boy looked taken aback.
"Yeah… he does. He actually helped me with healing my leg. He paid the hospital for my family, he's a really caring person."
'Wow that's not what I expected for someone to tell me…'
She nodded to show that she was listening "Really? That's real nice." Eren was not one bit convinced of this. "Since he's somewhat your friend do you know more about him?" The brunette asked with a nice smile because Eren had realized that if she wanted the boy to talk she had to coax him into it.
"Well I know he's really strong, he always stands up for his friends" 'Is he some kind of self righteous prick' 'He lives in a huge mansion, where he invites whomever is close to him. I've seen him help his servants clean up the place, he might look uncaring but he truly does and he'll help whoever he deems worthy of it."
'Wow… this boy has some serious problems. He makes it sound like Levi is his hero, phwew, like seriously what the hell is wrong with you, I feel bad for you and you obliviousness.'
"Sounds like he has great morals and is his house really that big."
"Well of course, it's the Ackerman mansion. Haven't you heard about it? " Eren shook her head. "Really? Well it belongs to the Ackerman family, obviously. And they have a huge business, I'm pretty sure they're at the top of the business house in our country." The boy's eyes shone with admiration.
"Seriously? That's awesome but man it must be a lot of pressure on Levi."
"Well yeah but he's used to it. Levi grew up in that pressure and he relieves a bit of it by fighting people in the streets. At least that's what I witnessed, I bet he has a justified reason to do it but you can see that it's what he likes best in his work."
'He knows a lot, I hit the jackpot but he shouldn't boast about this… well whatever more information.' Eren smirked internally, she would get him.
The boy continued his rant explaining how strong Levi was, which Eren sadly already knew and how his business had grown in the last hundred years thanks to a brilliant head of the family. How he knew all of that, Eren had no idea and she had kind of tuned him out at that point anyways. History was never her strong fort.
Eren cut his rant short "So how'd you meet Levi."
"Oh like I said I'm just a friend of a friend and frankly he scared me at first. He had approached me looking pissed and bored and I thought my heart was going to stop under his cold stare. I seriously thought I was going to faint and Levi has a bad temper." The boy chuckled nervously. "He snaps in two seconds so if you ever meet him be sure to not piss him off."
'Well too late for that.' Eren thought with an inner satisfied smile, she loved pissing off people she hated.
Suddenly he stammered "D-don't get me wrong he's really nice still and he has a funny sense of humor?" The boy proposed hesitantly.
"Oh really?" Eren asked doubtfully and almost started laughing imagining that cold guy popping a joke.
The boy started explaining one of Levi's jokes and Eren couldn't hold back the laugh, the boy thought it was because of the actual sense of humor and he smiled shyly but it was actually because firstly the explanation was a total fail, he couldn't do it and second that wasn't a joke, it was total shit. She continued snickering for a while and stopped to say,
"Well thank you for all this… hmm…?"
"Oh, my name's Jan but why did you want to know all this?" Jan asked, his eyebrows furrowing at the realization that all this was probably useless to Eren and she didn't even know him. Problem was Eren slipped away whispering that she heard the teacher's footsteps in the hall and sat at her desk leaving a dumfounded Jan.
And the teacher did indeed show up. Eren sighed in relief, she had gotten the information without being questioned. She hoped this wouldn't reached Levi's ears not that she saw why it would hurt her she just thought it was best that he didn't know anything.
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Classes passed by and she joined her friends for lunch, Reiner included. He seemed to have settled with hanging out with them and infiltrated the group and they were perfectly fine with it, having known him for a while thanks to the M.R.R. and Connie knew him from moments where they had previously hung out with the bulky blonde.
After some talking Eren finally managed to mention Levi in the conversation:
"So any of you guys know who Levi is?"
Reiner eyes lit up mischievously "Oh that hot dude that beat you up? Don't tell me you're turning gay Eren."
"You wish Gaylord." She smirked
"Oh yeah that'd be like the best day of my life, I could finally get my hands on your delicious tanned skin."
Eren blushed and then scowled, somewhat disgusted but she didn't let herself get affected by this, no way she'd give him the satisfaction "Try to get past my fists if you can and then we'll talk about it. I'll pummel your face in before you can even touch me." She said smugly.
Eren was clearly stronger than Reiner and had beaten him on more than one occasion and unsurprisingly it was always when his teasing went too far.
"Come on darl…"
"So that Levi guy is the one that shamed us in the classroom yesterday right?" Jean cut in and Eren was very thankful to his interruption and curtsied Reiner with a glare while she nodded to Jean.
"Yeah I kind of lost my temper back there." Eren stated apologetically.
"Kinda? You totally lost it dude, I thought you were dead for sure. Man that guy was scary." Horseface shivered visibly at the memory causing Ymir to smirk, it was always delightful to see that guy scared shitless.
Connie joined in "Is the Levi you're talking about like a short dude with black hair? Killer glare?"
"Yep that's the one" Reiner cackled, "Don't forget his killer looks and ass. Damn I'd totally tap that." He added jokingly.
Eren rolled her eyes at that, sure the guy was strong and probably had muscles but she couldn't really see how he was handsome, he just looked like Satan to her and his bored attitude wasn't really exciting.
Connie continued, ignoring Reiner's last comment "He's super famous, didn't you know? He like owns the Ackerman business and takes care of people who bullshit him. He's has a fearsome reputation."
"Then how come I had never heard of this feared and famous Levi before?"
"Cuz you're retarded." Jean snickered.
"Come on you didn't know him either!"
"Well I'd heard rumors about that cold asshole?" Jean thought he had heard some stuff about him without really acknowledging it but he still wasn't sure if they were about Levi. Eren just huffed in response.
"Now that you mention it there were rumors about a badass fighter that was a midget, surprisingly strong and he wrecks havoc mostly in the west district but I heard he's moving towards the north one these days." She sighed "Where our, well your squad -Eren, Reiner- takes action. But he's still more active in the west part and more towards the center, next to the intersection of the four districts." Ymir lived from the West District even if she hung out with her gang in the North so she hear a lot about their situation up west.
Connie nodded along "Apparently nobody knows what he does but he kinda like helps the government and stops illegal acts or whatever."
"So he's some kind of kiss up to the order. What a bitch." Eren commented.
"Yeah I guess but they say he's a cold beast, he might not be better than his victims in other rumors. He beats down people without flinching and kills them mercilessly." Reiner jutted in.
They all shivered at that thought, imagining an animal with a cold blue stare that froze whatever crossed his eyes.
"Holy shit that guy's nuts." Jean's eyes were wide with fear and some kind of shocked amazement.
"More like damn bad news." Ymir declared, her tone grave and serious.
"Yeah thank god he didn't kill Mina and the rest of us when she ran into him. I should have been prepared! And beat him up good." Eren half-raged, her eyes burning with the need to throw him to the ground, her muscles aching to get a good punch in his face but also feeling the helplessness of not being able to do anything.
"Wait Mina ran into him? Oh my god it's like amazing that she hasn't gone into trauma. How did he not touch her? Oh my gooood." Connie panicked, speaking quickly, his words jumbling and his arms flailing around.
"Eren was here to distract him." Reiner announced proudly.
"I swear I'll find a way to destroy that arrogant ass." Determined, Eren was trembling with the need to do something to Levi to prove her worth and to get her revenge.
"You shouldn't promise to do something you won't be able to do." Jean grinned, very proud of his jab at her pride.
"Oh yeah we'll see about that horseface!" Eren growled and Jean growled right back. Connie whispered something to Ymir about those two looking like dogs having a show down and they snickered with Reiner.
After a while the school bell rung and it was time for the cursed hour of juvenile delinquency, she entered the classroom with Jean quickly and spotted Levi at the desk, second row, next to the window so she chose the seat at the back of the class in the corner opposite from the windows.
Eren was determined to get as far from him as possible and even did little math to figure out where she could be the furthest away from him and that was an accomplishment in itself. Though the math wasn't hard at all and Jean had raised an eyebrow at her rushing to the desk and ended up grinning smugly at her apparent fear and unsettlement.
What Jean didn't notice were the glares Eren sent Levi during the whole class, she couldn't hold it in, couldn't resist the need to just bash his head into a wall. The brunette was desperate to feel the adrenaline that would rush through her veins once she'd heard him cry out, once she'd heard him surrender and take back his words.
Nobody was allowed to say that she was weak without suffering in return. She burned with a fierce hate and desire to destroy Levi.
Halfway through the class Eren remembered that she didn't have enough physical strength to get to him so she reasoned and concluded that while she built up her muscles and reflexes she'd bother him as much as she could.
Eren started grinning wildly while staring at her prey and thought mischievously 'Let the pranks begin'.
A/N Hope this was okay and entertaining enough x')
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