Night

The darkness seemed to engulf them, Eren didn't want to admit it but he was scared. Unconsciously, he held on tighter to Levi's hand him seeking for some comfort. Levi noticed and let go of the brunette's hand to put an arm around him, pulling him closer towards himself. Eren didn't know why he trusted this man so much, he barely knew him, yet he was taking him somewhere where there probably wouldn't be much people. "Uh, Levi…" He decided to ask.
"Yeah?" Levi answered looking at his watch.
"Where exactly are we going?" Eren's large eyes looked uncomfortably around at the dark surrounding. "Won't the teachers come finding us? I think we may be skipping the Christmas event…"
"We're nearly there, but we better hurry up." The conversation stopped there and the only sound heard was the crunch of leaves beneath their shoes.

Eren wasn't sure how long it had been after that conversation when they reached a clearing. It was a large field and you could see the whole city from up here, but he wasn't sure why Levi had taken him here. He looked at the man next to him with a confused expression, the shorter male just walked right to the edge of the field and sat down, motioning Eren to join him. He frowned but slowly walked towards Levi, smoothing his dress out and tucking one side of his hair behind his ear before sitting down next to him with his legs stretched out. Levi was mumbling something and Eren could only make out that he was saying something like "Filthy, but this is a rare chance." He had no idea what that meant but Levi's voice interrupted his thoughts. "Look at the city, it seems so small when we are up here." Eren nodded while shivering a bit, blaming himself for not bringing a jacket. The man next to him sighed "You cold?" Eren glared at him and shook his head. Levi raised his eyebrow "Give me your hand."
Eren frowned "Why?"
He ignored the question and grabbed Eren's hand, they were freezing. The shorter male sighed again "Well, you're a great liar." Eren glared at him again and turned his head to the side, not wanting to look at Levi. He heard shuffling and a few seconds later, he felt something warm touch his shoulders. "Wear this, you little shit." Levi spoke looking down at the city as if he didn't really care. Eren frowned "I don't need this." He took off the jacket and reached out ready to hand it back over to Levi, but Levi was quicker. He grabbed the jacket and pressed it onto Eren's bare shoulders "When I tell you to wear the damn jacket you wear it. I don't want you catching a goddamn cold and wiping your disgusting snot all over me." Eren's eyes widened at the comment "Are you caring for me?" A blush Eren could barely see formed on the male's cheeks "N-no. I'm not caring for you, just put the fucking jacket on." It was Levi's turn to turn his face from Eren.
Eren chuckled lightly and the blush on Levi's cheeks grew redder, though Eren couldn't see it. He could feel the brat moving closer to him, then he felt his jacket on his shoulders. "Well, I'm not going to make myself warm while you catch a cold so…" The bright-eyed boy had placed the jacket over both of their shoulders and grinned at the man next to him. "You little shit.." Levi muttered while looking at his watch again.
Eren sat quietly next to Levi, enjoying the little warmth on this cold night until Levi's voice started up again.

"15 more seconds." And waited a bit, continuing to look at his watch, but before Eren could ask '15 seconds till what' Levi started to count down.

"10."
"9."
"8."
"7."
"6."
"5."
"4."
"3."
"2."
"1."
Suddenly, the dark surrounding was lit up. There were fairy lights all over the tall trees surrounding them, shining in different colours. Eren's jaw dropped as he stared at the sudden change in scenery. He stood up and turned around in awe, Levi tapped his back and pointed at the large Christmas tree made of fairy lights behind him shining brightly, lighting up the surrounding. "Oh my… god…" He looked back down at the raven haired man who still had the usual bored expression on his face, the man wasn't looking at him so he called for his attention with a wide smile.

"Leeevii~" The man looked up at him with a confused look before his eyes widened slightly.

Angel.

What the fuck. Levi quickly turned back around, while Eren looked at him. "Come on Levi, let's go take a look." Eren bent down and grabbed Levi's hand, making him stand up. Then ran towards the tree "Levi look at it! It's like a star in the middle of a dark sky!" Levi mumbled something while looking at him, making the brunette's cheeks turn red. He playfully hit Levi on the arm, and the shorter male started chasing him.
"Stop…stop… hahaha…." Eren panted while calling out laughing "It's not fair, I'm in a dress with heels on!" Then he suddenly stopped laughing. Levi noticed something was wrong "What's up brat." Eren quickly turned around "The sky… Ok, ok, I'm sorry!" He said while Levi narrowed his eyes.
"Seriously, what's the matter?" Levi asked again.
"It's nothing…." Eren was speaking quietly.
"Do I look like a fucking idiot to you brat. You looked pretty happy few minutes ago. So what's wrong?"

Eren stared at his shoes for a few seconds before answering Levi's question.
"I'm…I'm…."
"Spit it out brat, are you pregnant?"
"HELL NO. I'M A GUY, AND I'M PRETTY SURE YOU KNOW GODDAMN WELL GUYS CAN'T GET PREGNANT MR TOP IN THE YEAR." Eren rolled his eyes at Levi before noticing that he just told Levi what was wrong. "Shit. I'm a guy ok, sorry. I was forced to dress up as a girl tonight. Sorry for any disappointment I may have caused, you can leave me if you want…"

"Oh, I knew you were a guy already."

Eren thought he heard Levi say he knew he was a guy. Maybe it was the wind. "What did you just say?" Eren asked again, ignoring the slightly annoyed look on his face.

"I said, I knew you were a guy already." Levi looked at the brat.
"Hahaha, you know what I heard Levi, I heard you say you knew I was a guy all the way." Eren was laughing while Levi glared at him "That's what I just said."

Eren's eyes widened "B-but how?" Levi smirked and motioned him to wait a second as he turned around. Eren frowned but did as he was told, a few seconds later, Levi turned back around hold a small box that was neatly wrapped up along with a small note. It was hand written and the handwriting was familiar. Where has he seen this handwriting? He read the short note and instantly remembered. There were only 5 words on the note.

'You look beautiful today, Eren.'

Eren looked at Levi with his large emerald green eyes "You sent me the flowers that day?" Levi looked back at Eren "Yeah, who else could it be."
"But… the concert was private… and how did you even know my name…" Then a weird look flashed across Eren's face "Could it be… you're stalking me…oww." he rubbed his forehead. "Why the heck would I stalk a brat like you. Yes, the concert was private but I knew Hanji. She invited me and said that she was performing with a cute kid with green eyes who was in the same school as me called Eren." He paused a bit then continued "Then I thought of the stupid kid that slept on my on the train." Eren blushed furiously while Levi continued "So I decided to drop in and check if they were the same person, and guess who I found?" He smirked as Eren blushed even more. "I was surprised when I saw you as a girl today, but then I was even more surprised when you were my partner, and even if I've never seen you before, your voice was a big give away that you are a guy." He pulled Eren down to sit next to him in front of the bright tree "The present I just gave you was supposed to be handed to someone else then given to you like last time. Never thought I would be giving it to you myself." Eren quickly turned to him with a surprised look on his face. "So Hanji knew who the flowers were from?" It makes sense, the sudden look of realisation that appeared on her face after a short while. "Most likely." Levi shrugged.

"Open it." Levi told him, Eren frowned "Isn't it rude to open presents in front of the person who gave it to you?"
"Not when the person tells you to." Levi rolled his eyes.
Eren just rolled his eyes back while taking out the neatly wrapped box. "What's in here?" Levi sighed "I don't know. Maybe you can OPEN it and find out?"
"Ok, Ok, I'll open it." He carefully ripped open one side of the wrapping paper, and gently pulled out the small box that was in it. He stared at it for a few seconds before turning around to face Levi.
"Levi…." Grey eyes looked at him silently asking what other problem he had.
"You…you aren't proposing to me right.. I mean, this box kinda looks like a – WAIT LEVI WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" He yelled as the raven-haired guy stood up and turned around to leave.
"I'm just sick of your useless brain." Levi glared at him.
"Ahaha, ok ok I'm sorry, please sit down." He opened the box as Levi sat down beside him once again, readjusting the jacket so it was mostly covering Eren.

"What is this..?" Eren stared at the small Christmas tree charm in his hand, it was small and simple. The tree itself was dark blue with a silver stem, near the top was a light blue crystal. It looked kind of familiar as Eren suddenly turned his head around to look at the bright Christmas tree behind them.

Oh…

The charm was a miniature version of this huge tree. Eren's eyes widened at the small charm in the palm of his hand as he looked at Levi who was observing his every move. "Thank you… but, how am I supposed to use this?" Levi frowned "Haven't you seen it yet?" Now Eren looked confused "Seen what?"
"The silver chain I gave you." Eren stopped for a moment trying to recall any silver chain he had received, but couldn't think of anything.
"I'm sorry, I don't remember.."
"Remember that day when you slept on me on the train? Well, didn't you find anything weird after you got home?" Eren tilted his head thinking hard, he ran all the way home after he slept on him by accident. There wasn't anything in the mail that day, what was wrong. He thought a bit more before he realised…

"The keys!" Eren looked at Levi "They were in a different place to where I normally put them, but I didn't think much and thought it was one of Jean's stupid pranks."
Levi smiled, making Eren stare at him for a short while "I put a long silver chain with your keys, when you get home, put this on the chain. You can hang the chain up or anything, but I want this, on the chain." Levi looked into Eren's eyes, the brunette thought he saw something in those eyes, but it soon turned back to the cold grey eyes he recognised. He nodded and put the charm carefully back into the box and put the box in his small handbag before remembering something.
"Levi, since I don't think we will be going back into the hall, this is your present." He held out a small present wrapped in gold which Levi didn't even notice he had with him. "The school said we were going to exchange presents with our partners." Levi nodded while also pulling out a present wrapped in dark red "Merry Christmas, it's not even Christmas yet." Eren laughed and asked
"What's the date today?"
"December 23rd"
"Oh well, close enough" They both chuckled before falling into peaceful silence again.

"There's only a few days until we graduate Levi, what uni are you going to?" Eren turned to look at the man next to him. "Got into the top uni, and judging from the look in your eyes, you did too?" Eren nodded excitedly "I'll get to see you again!" before quickly covering his mouth realising that he had said his thoughts out loud. The shorter male turned his head around trying to hide a smile.
"Stupid brat."
"Hey, I'm not stupid! If I was I wouldn't be going to the same uni as you. Talking about being smart, do you remember the grades you got last year? Because I got full marks for all of my tests and I was wondering why I still wasn't first place. I mean, at least have a first equal."
Levi closed his eyes thinking and Eren couldn't help but think at how good looking he was.
"Oh yeah I remember, I got full marks too last year, but you remember that bonus question in math that didn't count in the final mark? Well, I got that right and even though it wasn't in the final mark, it made me lead since both of us got full marks on everything but you got the bonus question wrong." Levi smirked.

"…."

"Ughhhh" Eren buried his face into his hands. "That's not fair!" He said, his voice muffled.
Levi patted his back "Life isn't fair kid."
"Dude, quit making yourself sound old. I'm the same age as you."
"Really? I'm 18 turning 19 like Hanji, and I'm pretty sure you're 17 turning 18 this year. That makes me older than you, K I D."
"But, is your birthday over yet? When's your birthday?"
That made Levi stop, and a smile formed on Eren's lips. "I see, your birthday isn't over yet. That makes me the same age as you now." Levi scowled at the bright eyed kid who was grinning all over the place.
"Whatever you little shit. In a few days I'll be older than you, let's see who's the one grinning like an idiot then."
"Wow, better prepare my camera because Mr Top In The Year is going to be grinning like an idiot."
"Fuck you." Eren laughed "So when is your birthday? I thought you just said it was in a few days."
"Yeah it is in a few days, it's on Christmas." Levi looked down playing with a piece of grass.
"Wow, that's cool."
"Not really, it's just on Christmas."
"Do you get extra presents?"
"No, and that sucks."
"Yeah, I agree." Eren faked a sigh. "No, I'm just kidding-" Levi interrupted him "Of course you're KIDding, you're a KID after all." That took a few seconds for Eren to understand before he face palmed himself. "Man, your jokes are so goddamn dry."
"Thank you, and you were saying?" Eren thought for a while before actually sighing "I forgot."

Footsteps appeared from behind and Levi stood up suddenly, his slim eyes narrowing as he spoke in a cold voice, different to the tone he was talking to Eren with a few seconds ago "Who's there."
Giggling was heard as Eren could visually see Levi relax "Get the fuck out of there Hanji."
"Oh Levi, I see you haven't scared your date away like last time eh." Hanji was chuckling and that was when Eren saw that everyone was there. "Damn, Hanji. You brought everyone here? Wait, how did you know we were here anyway." Eren asked
"Mikasa noticed you were gone and refused to do anything else before we found you, so we started searching and Connie saw this lit up place from the hall and we headed towards here." Petra was also giggling as she looked at Levi. "Yeah and a few of us ditched their partners tonight for you, so feel grateful." Hanji continued grinning.

"Eren." Mikasa walked towards him holding out a jacket "It's freezing out here and you aren't wearing anything warm…" Her voice trailed off as she saw the jacket over Eren's shoulders. Eren saw the disappointed look on her face when she realised she wasn't the first one to give Eren a jacket "Thank you Mikasa." He said with a warm smile while reaching out for the jacket while turning to Levi "Aren't you cold? Here's your jacket, thanks for lending it to me." He returned the jacket to Levi who shrugged and put it back on. Then he looked around to find a few of his friends missing "Where's the rest?"
"Connie and Sasha went to get hot chocolate for all of us since it's freezing tonight and you two decided to run off by yourself." Jean crossed his arms and smirked at Eren.
"Reiner went to the bathroom." Annie sounded like she didn't care as usual.
"Marco went after Connie and Sasha because he didn't trust them to not make a fool of themselves while coming back." Armin smiled at his friend, who nodded and motioned for them to sit down.

"Where's eyebrows?" Levi looked at Hanji who was pestering Eren and glared at her as she tried to touch Eren's face "He's telling the teachers that we are all leaving early thanks to you guys, didn't you think it was weird when no teachers came finding you?"
"Not really, I knew he was going to do all the talking anyways."

"They're back!" Krista yelled as she scrambled up to help them carry 14 cups of hot drinks, Reiner had somehow met up with them and was also helping with the drinks. "People, you do not know how awkward it was when Sasha went up to the counter and asked for 14 cups of hot chocolate." Connie was laughing and Marco was trying hard to not laugh.
"HEY! I THOUGHT YOU SAID NOT TO TELL THEM!" Sasha complained as she passed drinks to Mikasa and Armin. Eren laughed as he turned back to look at Levi, who was sitting quietly next to him already sipping the hot chocolate Reiner had given him. There was a small tap on his back as he turned around again to see Marco holding out a drink "Thanks." He smiled "No problem!" He quickly whispered to in his ear "You look cute with him." Before walking off to Jean who was calling him. Eren blushed again hoping Levi wouldn't see his expression right now. He only just met him…

Everyone sat down in small groups talking to each other, Levi was extra quiet. He didn't seem as talkative as he was before all the people came. Eren just sat quietly with Levi listening to Connie and Sasha talk about food with Jean and Marco. Hanji was talking to Armin about the recent science exam they had while Mikasa was beside them occasionally giving comments. Annie was on her phone next to Krista who was talking to Reiner laughing over something. Petra was nowhere to be seen, and he was slightly worried.

Hanji walked over to them "Eren! What was the answer you wrote for the second question in that science exam we had?" Eren combed through his long hair with one hand while thinking "Was it the question on mutations?"
"Yeah."
"I think I wrote something on changing the base sequence on DNA, and can cause genetic disorder if occurs in the genes, which will then be passed on… then they told us to give an example so I wrote about cystic fibrosis." Eren looked at Hanji who had her thinking expression on her face.
"And you Levi?"
"Similar to him, except I wrote about Down syndrome." Levi didn't even bother looking at Hanji.
"Ok thanks." She walked off shouting Armin's name.

"Are you planning to do anything on your birthday Levi?"
"Brat it's Christmas, of course I'm doing something."
"Are your parents celebrating it with you?"
"No, my parents are both away on business trips."
Oh… They seem busy."
"They are." The conversation stopped there as a person Eren had never seen before came into sight with Petra next to him, he was tall and blonde with thick eyebrows. Like real thick ones. Eren suddenly knew who he was "Eyebrows?" Hanji cracked up "God Levi, look at what you taught the innocent kid."
"Hey, I didn't teach him. He just happened to hear me." Levi said, turning back around to admire the city view.
Erwin faked a cough as he held out a hand to Eren "I'm Erwin, nice to meet you." Erwin? The name sounded familiar, he looked at Hanji and remembered. He was her partner tonight.
"Eren, nice to meet you too" Eren smiled as he shook the blonde's hand. Petra looked at Levi and suddenly smiled as she whispered something to Erwin who also started to grin.

"Levi, can I borrow your boy for a minute." Levi felt like slapping that grin off Erwin's face as he nodded. "Eren come here." The brunette frowned as he followed Erwin to where Hanji was sitting.
"What's up?" He asked.
"Levi's birthday is coming up, I'm sure you're aware of that, we are planning to hold a surprise party for him on that day at his place." Eren's eyes widened "Can I go too?" Hanji laughed and said to him "We are planning to get all of you to celebrate. He's been having lonely birthdays for I don't know how long, we want to surprise him this year." Eren smiled "Of course! Is there anything I can help with? Wait…will he allow it though?"
"Yup, just get most people here to go, although Levi hates loads of people, he doesn't seem to hate this group. So we decided to do this, and as long as you don't mess up his house and make it dirty he won't really mind." Petra grinned.
"Sounds good then, have you guys got it planned out already?"
"Yes, it will be at 7:00pm, so tell your parents first. There won't be alcohol don't worry, just basically get there at 6:00, Erwin's got the key to his house we need to be prepared before he comes home from his violin lesson." Hanji took out a small notebook and started reading from it.
"Violin lesson?" Eren asked
"Yeah, he does violin, you can ask him about it later." Petra smiled at him.
Eren nodded "Ok, here I'll add you guys into our group chat so you can talk about it on here with them if you want." He took out his phone and tapped on the screen before putting it away again, he smiled at them "I'll be with Levi then." And walked off after they nodded.

"Do you think he will be the right one for him?" Hanji asked Erwin
"He doesn't seem to hate him..." Erwin pointed out as they turned and saw Eren laughing over something Levi had said, Petra gasped "Levi's smiling!" They chuckled as they walked over to Mikasa and Armin to talk about the birthday plan.

-.-.-.-.-.-

It was around 3:30 am when Eren arrived home, Hanji offered of drop him off. He never thought he would have such a good night. "I'm home…" He whispered "Eren?" He heard his mum's voice "Mum, I'm home" He smiled "Did you have a good night?" Eren nodded. "Good, go take a shower then. Oh by the way, Hanji said that your hair will return to normal tomorrow." Eren sighed out in relief "Thank god, I thought I needed to get a haircut." Carla chuckled as she pushed him up the stairs "Go take a shower."

When he finished, he carefully hung the dress up in his closet and took out everything in his purse before tucking it in a corner on his shelf. He saw the charm and remembered the silver chain Levi mentioned, and walked over to his school bag. "Ah, found it." He stretched the chain out and realised that it would be perfect to go on his wall as he saw two pins on both sides of the chain, he looked around his room and decided to pin the chain on the wall next to his bed. Then he opened the latch on the charm to hang it on the chain. "Not bad." He said to himself while backing a bit to observe the new decoration on his wall. He walked back to his desk and grabbed the exchange present Levi had given him along with a pair of scissors, it was something rectangular and hard. He carefully cut open the present, not wanting to ruin the nice wrapping paper.

"A notebook..?" He flipped through it and saw something written in it. It was some kind of sheet music, he flipped through the pages and read the notes which were hand written on. He gasped as he recognised the music, it was the piece he played with Hanji on that day. At the end of the sheet music there was a few words written in Levi's handwriting. 'Merry Christmas to whoever gets this.' He laughed lightly as he placed the notebook on his book shelf. He glanced at the clock, it was late and he should really be getting some rest. He climbed into bed and yawned recalling all the events that happened today, everyone got to know each other. He fell asleep with a faint blush on his cheeks as he remembered the short conversation he had with Levi when he saw the bright Christmas tree made of fairy lights.

"Levi look at it! It's like a star in the middle of a dark sky!"
"Sure, but not as bright as the star I'm looking at right now."

Note:

Soooo this was their first actual conversation (Yayyy finally) I had fun writing this, hopefully you all liked it haha. Please look forward to Levi's birthday! Have a nice Day/Night~