A/N: Hope this makes up for the short Chapter 3. I will eventually introduce more characters, but most of the time, I'll be focusing on the changing relationship between Mikasa, Eren, and Levi, thus the only 3 characters tagged. I don't own Eren and stuff D8.
There were days he thought the sound of the blood running in his veins would consume him and all he would see was red. Eren thought it was normal and that it would go away when he was younger, but it never did. During those days, even the sunlight seemed like it wanted to skin him alive.
Branches from trees seemed to lean out and attempt to snag Eren's clothes. The ground sometimes tried to trip him, yanking itself off his feet and acquainting itself with the soft, scraped up cheek.
On those kinds of days, he thought it was because Mikasa wasn't there.
Eren curled under the blanket, hoping his mom wouldn't come barging in to clean his room again. He skipped school today, the constant murmur of shadow voices and the rushing of blood making him deaf to the world. Mikasa knew it was that kind of day, and before she left, she leaned over his prone body and promised she'd be back soon.
The messy, brown-haired boy barely had the strength to smile and nod.
He could hear the whistling of Carla as she busily cleaned up the halls with the excuse that she called a broom. Eren thought about spending his allowance on a new broom for his mom, and a smile spread on his face.
But as soon as that smile came, it disappeared just as fast.
No matter what he thought about, it would all circle back to sadness in a never ending elliptical figure around his head, like a planet orbiting the sun. Every person's destiny is to die. In the end, a person will love himself more than others. Sacrifice is about honor, not about loving someone.
Eren shut his eyes as the voices grew louder and chorused in dirty, little voices that wouldn't stop. He clenched his fists and bit his lip so hard, he felt the coppery taste of blood touch his tongue.
Happiness wasn't something that could be his in times like this.
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