Soooooo I'm sorry for making you guys wait and stuff, but you know school started the 25th this month and just. Ugh. It sucks. Plus the fact that I have homework that takes several hours, and I just need to take a breather sometimes. I still worry about you guys though, so I'll keep updating as soon as possible!

Anyways, thanks for reading so far!


Eren's POV

Today was the last day we were to spend in California, and it was to be spent packing and making sure everything was in check to leave. I didn't want to leave at all, nothing was worse than the harsh reality of going back to school and boring cold ass Washington. And to make it worse, Levi had been in a pissy mood ever since the last night we had kissed and almost did more than that. The thought in itself was very pleasant, and every time I would think about it, my face would heat up, but it was really just getting out of hand at how annoying Levi was acting. He has been making me clean this fucking hotel room for hours now before we leave and has been making sure I got all my shit together for about the 100th time. After that last night, he wouldn't even let me sleep in his bed anymore saying, "I kick in my sleep and I'm annoying," but I think that's a load of bull shit. He never said anything like that before, so why would he start now of all things? I must've set off some gear in his thick skull that night because he wouldn't even leave the room to come watch a damn movie with everyone. All he's been doing is listening to his headphones and ignoring me for the most part, only speaking when I would "miss a spot" in my cleaning which I saw absolutely nothing in the places he'd pick out.

His eyes have been watching me closely this whole time and it had been around 10 in the morning before Mikasa and Armin came to save my ass after I texted them. I quickly got up from dusting the tables to answer the door to my saviours.

Mikasa had her large duffel bags in hand and Armin had his bags in hand also. "Eren, Professor Dolan said for everyone to meet up downstairs now, get your things," Mikasa spoke up from right outside the doorway, looking in the room only to send a death glare towards Levi who was ignoring her look completely.

"I heard you were giving Eren a hard time, Levi." Mikasa strutted in the room only to stand before Levi who was grabbing his things. Her stature was overscaling Levi and the aura she was giving off was one of a venemous nature.

"Mikasa don't start this now plea-"

"Shut up brat, let me listen to what your girlfriend's got a problem with." His eyes narrowed up at Mikasa who quickly turned her head in fluster.

I watched in disbelief at his words, getting highly annoyed at the idiotic remark he made. He fucking knows we're not dating, we're fucking siblings for christ sake! Plus, he knows I like him, so why is he getting so defensive lately and cold?

"He's not my boyfriend, and you need to quit being such a jerk to him, or we'll be having some problems." I watched closely at Mikasa crossed her arms and started tapping her foot impatiently towards Levi.

"M-Mikasa please calm down, I'm sure Levi has just been upset for not getting to go places because of his injury.." Armin came up to them both, grabbed Mikasa's arm and weakly smiled at them both.

"Whatever, keep your boyfriend on a leash so I won't have to be a "jerk" to him." Levi's eyes met mine with a cold stare as usual, but for some reason, the look was actually hateful. It hurt to see him acting this way, and honestly I am shocked about this change in behavior.

I grabbed my things quickly and stormed out of the room, it hurt too much to see him acting this way. I wasn't one for getting hurt over shit like this. I could be beaten, kicked, punched, screamed at, anything, but I wouldn't cry. So why is it now that I feel the unfamiliar stinging at my eyes?

I rushed down the hallway, ignoring looks from the other students and the yelling Armin in the background trying to get me to stop. Before I even noticed, I was at a full run, sprinting down the hallway to the elevator like a fucking idiot. I felt so humiliated and embarrassed, I felt so broken and hurt, and most of all, I felt enraged at Levi. The fucker had enough balls to kiss me and almost take shit to the next level, but now he wants to act cold and distant. It made not a lick of sense to me and I'm fed up with it.

Once I reached the elevator, I pressed the down button and waited the short period of time and got on, ignoring everyone who was trying to talk to me. I was just about to get to ride alone, but right when the doors started closing, Jean and Marco started running towards me. I tried to ignore making eye contact with them because I was pretty sure I looked like shit, but with God not being on my side ever, Jean was able to keep the door open.

"Hey, why the fuck didn't you stop the door for us asshole?" Jean lightly pushed at my shoulder and I, not paying attention, got knocked against the wall of the elevator.

I avoided eye contact and kept my mouth shut, I was really not in the mood to get pushed around by asshole Jean, and definitely not in front of Marco because of how nice he was.

"Eren, what the fuck's wrong with ya?" Jean started trying to get a look at my turned face and Marco tilted his head around slightly to try and look, too. I tightened my grip on the bag and the doors to the elevator closed, leaving us three in there with our bags. I felt like dying already, like jumping off a cliff or some shit.

"Nothing." My voice cracked slightly, revealing how upset I was. God really must fucking hate me. God is saying, "This is punishment for being a gay ass faggot who has fallen in love with a sexy short clean-freak."

I don't even believe in God, but it really felt like some supernatural being was just trying to ruin my life.

"Aye, are you crying? Big bad Levi hurt little Eren's feelings?" I felt Jean's arm wrap around my shoulder, he obviously was trying to make light of the situation, but it wasn't helping. I wanted to scream at him to leave me alone, but I didn't want to be left alone. I wanted someone's company during this. If I was to be left alone, my mind would wander to all the awful things that could have happened behind the scenes to make Levi act like that.

"Are you okay, Eren? We're here for you.." Marco walked around Jean and stood in front of me, lifting up my chin to look me in the eyes. I obviously was broken down by now, with tears that I didn't even notice streaming down my cheeks. I wanted to wipe them away, but Marco was right there staring into my fucking soul with his damned freckles and worried look.

By the time I was getting ready to answer, the elevator door opened up and a hoard of girls was standing there, looking at what probably didn't look too pretty counting that I was crying, Marco was really close to my face, and Jean was tugging me at his side.

Jean blew off the staring looks and lead me out of the elevator with his arm still wrapped around me. It felt reassuring for some reason, like he wasn't going to abandon me. It was nice, honestly. I always figured Jean was some idiot asshole, but I guess he had a caring bone in his body somewhere. Marco walked on the other side of me, still glancing down at me on occassion as we walked over towards the designated area.

After we got to the waiting area, we separated ourselves from the crowd a bit and sat down, Jean released me once we did and both of them sat on either side of me.

"So, what happened?" Marco spoke up curiously, his voice was low so we wouldn't catch any attention and I appreciated it greatly.

I balled my hands into fists to where my knuckles began to turn white. Even thinking about my situation, let alone talking about it, made me wanna curl up in a ball and die in a hole.

"Uh.." I tried to make a practice test on my voice so it wouldn't sound like a pre-teen going through puberty. Though, I was still going through puberty, but that wasn't the point. "Levi's just been a real dick head lately to me, more than usual.. We uh, were getting along pretty well in the beginning, but on the night we all came to your room to watch that stupid movie, he turned hateful.."

"What's the difference there, Sherlock? He's always a dickhead to everyone." Jean spoke up in an "as a matter of fact" tone as if it was complete fact. It annoyed me how he always thought he was right, but I just ignored it for the time being, I was too upset to get in an argument.

"No, I mean when Mikasa and Armin came by, Mikasa got in his face and he started saying me and her were dating and shit and was acting like a complete douche.." I left out everything involving him and I kissing, sharing beds, and almost fucking practically. They probably knew most of it anyways, everyone knew I'm sure. Our group of friends were severely observant and could spot attraction and couples from a mile away.

"Maybe you should talk with him about your feelings, that's what Jean and I do when we get into disagreements.." Marco spoke up in his gentle manner, gently rubbing his hand on my back so I wouldn't get choked up again.

"Yeah, don't be a big baby about it. Everyone can tell your balls deep in love with that guy, so go after him and tell him how you feel idiot." Jean placed his large hand on my head, messing up my already curly, fucked up hair. I felt a bit of relief from their advice, it was nice to get two versions of input from two very different people. I smiled a bit and stood up, immediately getting tapped on the shoulder from behind.

Once I turned, I had to look down to see who stood before me, and just when I did, those cold icy blue eyes were staring up into mine. Levi stood with his arms crossed, bags in hand and over his shoulder as he tapped his foot impatiently.

"Come here, you're sitting by me on the bus and I get the window seat." I stared down at him in disbelief, completely lost at his nonchalant way of dealing with this situation. He must've known I was upset, so why was he acting so normal to me? I figured he'd want to stay as far away from me as possible and sit by Petra or something.

"W-Why're you even talking to me now? You've been ignoring me for several days now.." I turned slightly to pick up my bags, trying to act as casual as possible about the whole situation. I just prayed that my face wasn't red from crying like a wuss.

"I can't leave my dog behind, so hurry up, shitty brat." His face was in a scowl and as I looked up slightly, I saw Mikasa and Armin standing in the background staring at us with a knowing look. Knowing them, they probably chewed Levi out when I left. Well, Mikasa probably chewed him out, Armin probably gave him gentle advice as always. I smiled lightly at them to confirm that I was okay, and I received a light smile back from Armin. Mikasa just looked pissed off as she shot daggers at Levi's back.

"Oh.. Alright then..I'm not a dog you know?" I tried to lightly smile down at Levi, but his face was unchanging as always.

"You're whatever I say you are. Maybe I should get you a collar and leash to drag you around since you're so mouthy, kiddo." It took a moment to process what he said, and right when I did, Jean burst out laughing from behind me.

"So you are a BDSM guy! I knew it! O-Oh m-my god!" Jean began to cry bursts of laughter into Marco's shoulder. My face heated up in embarrassment at Jean's nonsensical laughter. The thought didn't process at first, but after Levi giving me the idea of getting a collar and leash, it actually didn't seem like a terrible idea. Anything sexual with Levi sounded amazing, and I would love to try anything and everything with him within reason.

"And if I am?" Levi deadpanned towards Jean who stiffened up at his stern tone of voice. I shyly moved away from them and excused myself abruptly. I was too embarrassed to hang around for that conversation, but Levi stopped me, holding my hand with his firm grip. His hands were always so soft, and it almost made me melt at how he so boldly touched me in front of other people.

This is the Levi I knew before, and it was nice to see him back to his old self for atleast this moment. Levi tugged me outside the hotel secretively without anyone noticing except Mikasa who was watching us like a hawk. I gave her an apologetic look as I got brushed past the front doors by this obscenely strong short male. There were a few teachers outside and groups of students who were already loading onto the buses, and Levi tugged me to hide in a sharp corner by the front entrance.

"What're you doing, Levi?" I looked down at him, noticing he hadn't pulled his hand away from mine and was holding it gently now. It was odd to see him act so gentle or sweet like this after him being a complete dick head, but it was nice.

"I wanted to say I am sorry. Just know that whenever I act like that it's for a reason, okay?" Levi's eyes were staring up into mine, searching for an answer probably. He was tensed up and looked really worried.

"W..Well why were you acting like that then? Can't you tell me?" I shyly reached down and grabbed his free hand with mine, keeping our hands interlocked in a gentle grip as I tugged him closer to me.

He released my hands immediately after and wrapped his arms around my back. The way he seemed so urgent to hold me just caused my heart to skip a few beats. It was too reassuring, too kind, too gentle. This is probably one of the most romantic things he's done for me ever. Having us sneak around just to apologize and hug me like this was too cheesy, but I like it.

I wrapped my arms firmly around his back, and rested my chin on top of his head. The height difference was so obscenely great that it just made this whole scenario even better. I always loved the thought of having Levi's shorter stature pressed up against mine and for me to hold him like this. It made me feel like the dominant one for once, and I liked it. Not that I didn't like Levi dominating me, but my inner turmoil always urged me to take charge over Levi, though.

"This is probably the cutest I've seen you act, old man." I murmured out softly to him, not letting go of his body. I earned a low grumble from him against my chest and he tugged away just a little bit, looking up to me and...pouting? I swear, if my heart didn't stop beating now, I don't know what would make it do so any other time.

"I'm not an old man, you fucker." His voice was still stern as ever, but the cute puff on his lower lip and the faintest tint of pink on his cheeks was enough to make me swoon over him. I leaned down in a happy daze, grazing my lips against his in an innocent kiss. It felt amazing to feel his soft lips against my own. I had taken mental note when we kissed for the first time to get chapstick when I got home and to stop chewing on my lip because of how rough mine were compared to his.

My hand moved up to cup his cheeks and I immediately earned a rough tug at my shirt, crashing our lips together in an even rougher kiss. No matter how much I try with this man, he always ends up making me feel so much smaller than him. Even when we kiss, he won't let me have one moment of power.

All the worries and the heartache I felt earlier was brushed aside just by his actions. I knew he was bad with words, and I guess him kissing and touching me like he does shows how much he cares. He's always stoic with his expressions, but man can he get a point across with his kiss. It almost scared me how good he was at kissing, counting how inexperienced I was. Of course, I've kissed people before, but they were either family, or that one time our group played spin the bottle and I had to kiss Armin. It was awkward, of course, but atleast Armin was cute, plus he's my best friend so it meant nothing.

Right when I was about to daringly deepen the kiss by sliding my tongue in his mouth, the front doors opened and the loud chattering of voices filled up around us. Levi pulled away with an annoyed look on his features, and grabbed his bags off the pavement.

"I'll tell you what's happened when we get back to Washington. I don't want to be around all these loud fuckers when I tell you." He began to walk away, urging me to follow behind him.

I hurriedly picked up my bags that I had dropped down beside us and followed behind the other. I kept glancing down at the nape of his neck from the back, thinking about all the bite marks and hickies I could fit in on it. I wanted to claim him as mine, I didn't even know what kind of relationship we had right now. I didn't even know if he wanted to be more than friends, or fuck buddies even? His actions didn't have the means of friends or fuck buddies behind them, I knew that much, but of course, this man was unreadable so I wouldn't know 100%.

"Aye! Eren!" I looked back and saw the familiar blonde haired boy I've named my best friend for all my life. He was running up to me with Mikasa jogging behind him. They both had their luggage in hand and was trying to catch up with the group.

"Hey guys, this is our class bus, right?" I reach up to fix my slightly tussled hair, the humidity outside doing nothing but making my hair look like shit probably.

"Yeah, we ran a bit behind because we wanted to use the restroom before we left." Mikasa spoke up from behind Armin, she looked exhausted. I smiled lightly at her and nodded, turning back around on my heels to get on the bus right behind Levi.

We scooted our way through aisle and sat down in the back, me having to help Levi place his bags up on the top rack because of how short he was. It wasn't anything big to me, but he looked really irritated when I grabbed his bag and put it up for him. And like he said before, he sat by the window, to which I had no problem with. He probably didn't like sitting by the aisle because of being closer to everyone else. I personally had no problem with it, because right across from us sat Mikasa, Armin, and Petra. Petra seemed to be avoiding me lately for some reason, maybe that's what Levi wanted to talk about with me. I've already prepared myself for his rejection, I just wanted to make this moment of happiness last because I knew it would probably end soon with the way things have been going. I looked over to Levi who was playing on his phone and staring out the window on occassion. His head wasn't wrapped up like it was before, but there was still a patch of gauze over his forehead where he had stitches. Despite his constant refusal about wearing gauze over his wound, I made sure he followed what the doctor said. He seemed to hate showing any signs of injury to other people, maybe he thought injury was a sign of weakness. But this man was anything but the figure of weakness, I thought of him as a strong individual who played by nobody's rules except his own. And that's what made him so god damned attractive and irresistable. Maybe it was a little superficial of me, but the first thing that attracted me to him was his looks, but by far the second thing I loved about this guy was his stability and power. He was definitely a strong guy, far stronger physically than I, that much was obvious. But I loved the thought of him acting so tough, so dictatorial, so detached. He seemed to show emotions for a little bit, but I couldn't read him half the time, and that's what I loved. I like seeing right through people, but with Levi, I couldn't read him at all. He was so far, so distant from me that the adventure and chase just made the relationship so much more fun. We are such opposites, him being stable and conservative while I am boisterous and adventurous. We are like night and day, Yin and Yang.

"Oi, brat. Wake up, snap out of it kid." I abruptly got snapped out of my thoughts by a light smack to my face, this causing me to whimper and rub the stinging spot with a pout.

"What was that for?" I looked over to Levi who was pulling out his earbuds completely and staring at me with his usual disinterested facade. His cold blue eyes were staring right at my face and I could only imagine how dumb I must've looked when I was lost in thought. I ignored the low self-esteem for a moment and met our eyes together.

"You've been staring off into space for a long time now, and I asked if you wanted to hold hands." His eyes didn't avert at all, and for a moment, I thought he was screwing with me. But the look on his face showed that there was no signs of humor behind the offer. Levi was holding out his slender hand to me, gently urging my hand to fit into his. I glanced over to Mikasa and Armin who were sitting closest to me, but not looking over at us. It was embarrassing to think that if they looked over here, they would obviously see us holding hands if I agreed to it, but I didn't really care. The only person I worried about was Petra who was sitting from across us, I knew she had deep feelings for Levi this whole time, but as of late, she's been ignoring me completely. Though, Levi said he was going to tell me everything I wanted to know, I just couldn't shake this guilty feeling off my shoulders.

I looked down at Levi's hand once more and then back up to him, gently placing my hand in his and noticing how the other immediately interlocked our fingers and began to rub his thumb against my palm. It was so innocent and sweet of him for once, but all I could think about was the warmth I felt, how my heart was beating so fast, and the desire to take things even farther with him.

This man was not a sweet talker at all, and he was blunt, and cold, and crude, and had a perverted and dirty sense of humor, but I loved it all. This man was Levi, the sexy, conservative, stable, trustworthy man who I could tell anything to. And I wanted to tell him everything and anything about me. I wanted to take the time that we would be talking about what happened over this trip to get to know each other. Of course, he was very distrusting and very closed up, it would probably take a long time of knowing each other, but it was fine with me. Despite the pain that I would probably set myself up for, I wanted to be with this man more than anything right now. I wanted to learn more about him, his quirks, what he finds funny, what he finds stupid, his interests, what he's good at, his family, everything about him.

It wasn't like me to be so attached to something, I've always learned to never grow attached to somebody or something because it could set you up for failure. But in this case scenario, I didn't care.

I looked over to Levi who had his earbuds in once more, and I daringly reached my free hand over and snatched the one on the farthest side of his head, putting it in my ear with a grin. I earned a glare from the other and a light squeeze to my hand.

"What are you doing, brat?" Levi scooted closer to me instead of pressing himself to lean up against the wall. Our shoulders started to touch and the grip on our hands loosened up just a bit. It was really awkward counting that I knew Mikasa, Armin, and Petra must've noticed us by now, but I was too embarrassed to even look over there.

"I wanted to listen to your music with you..Pretty please?" I looked over to Levi and nuzzled our bodies a bit closer together in a cute manner, hoping he'd fall for it. Right now, there was no music playing, he must've been looking for a song to listen to right when I snatched an earbud.

"Alright, guess you wanna listen to Satanic bible verses then." Levi shrugged in a nonchalant manner and I just stared at him in disbelief. I knew this guy wore a lot of black and looked like an emo guy, but Satanic bible verses?

"I was joking, Eren. You're face when I said that though was priceless." A wave of relief washed over me right when I met my eyes with Levi's. I noticed a light tugging at the corners of his lips, and for a moment, I almost mistook it for his usual smirk, but there was something a little different about this new found smile; he was showing a little bit of teeth with it.

Let me marry this man, please.

Levi's eyes during this entire time kept averting from me to the seat beside us holding the three hawks watching us probably, though, I was still too shy to look over there. I didn't notice it before, but Levi and I were leaned against each other, placing our weight equally against one another to balance us both out.


Throughout the ride, Levi only played soothing music like instrumentals, classical music, and jazz. All of which, I enjoyed. I noticed he had tons of playlists on his phones like 80's rock, 80's pop, 90's grunge, and tons more. Everything was carefully labeled in his phone and it suited him. It seemed like him and I had very similar tastes in music, of course I'd listen to anything, as long as it sounded nice or I could relate to the lyrics or beat.

During the short drive to the airport, Levi's head began to droop down and rest against my shoulder to which I gladly let him. He seemed to be exhausted already, and I could understand completely. A lot of shit happened this trip, but I still enjoyed it either way.

When we got to the airport, all of the buses it seemed like were already there. I wondered why we always ended up being last to get there, maybe it's just the way they planned it, or we're just slow, but it was annoying thinking about how we'd have to wait behind all the other students to go through security check that took forever.

The whole process of getting everyone on the plane and going through every line and check took around two hours, and to my dread, I felt like I was going to vomit from having to deal with the stressful airport and loud noises.

I mainly stood beside Mikasa and Armin throughout the process and made sure to check back on Levi who was right behind us and walking with Petra every so often. It made me feel guilty that I was getting jealous over such a trivial thing, especially since Levi has been showing a lot of affection towards me, well, more than a guy like him normally would. Maybe he was trying to ease my mind, but jealousy was such an evil thing and it's not something that I can push away so easily.

Eren, put your big boy panties on, and quit acting like a lovestruck idiot.

Luckily, we got through the last security check and right when we were about to be handed our tickets to get onto the plane, Levi walked in front of our group and leaned over the desk to the clerk and said something to her in a low tone to where I couldn't pick up what he said.

"Sorry, students get these tickets." She tried to shove Levi a ticket in his hand and he waved her to lean in closer to him. She did so with an annoyed look on her face, and when he whispered something unidentifiable in her ear, she immediately pulled back with a shocked look on her face and began digging through her drawer hurriedly.

"I'm so sorry sir, please forgive me. I was told the son of-"

"Shut up already, it's fine." Levi stopped her right when she was about to reveal who the fuck his dad was. I huffed out a tense sigh, annoyed with how Levi wouldn't allow anyone to know how the fuck he was so rich, or who his parents were.

"Give this group the same tickets, too, they're covered." Levi motioned to our group of friends, and the clerk woman nodded, passing out tickets that looked a lot more different than the other generic ones.

"I feel like some rich aristocrat now," Jean spoke up from behind me, flapping his ticket around annoyingly.

"Get off your high horse, horseface, those tickets were paid for by Levi. Shit, the whole trip was paid for by Levi." I spoke up to Jean in a harsher tone than I wanted, all this stress was making me flip out mentally.

"I think I deserve a little more respect, counting that I helped your ass when your were cr-" Jean let out a loud yelp as Marco elbowed him in the side, politely smiling to me, but you could easily see the frustration behind his smile.

"Sorry, Eren. Jean gets a little out of hand sometimes." He lightly patted my back and ushered me forward to hand my ticket to the last clerk I'd have to see in this damned airport. I handed the ticket to the lady and caught up to Levi who was waiting on everyone. His bags were in hand still, and when I walked up to him, he winked at me with a smirk on his face.

I stopped walking when he winked at me and all I could do was look away and hide my face out of embarrassment. This guy really loved to embarrass me, didn't he?

Once everyone caught up, we were escorted out onto the plane and like usual, we were moved up to the very front of the plane. This plane was similar to the last one we had, but it was cleaner and had more intricate designs on the inside.

"Eren," I heard the familiar soft spoken voice pipe up from behind me. When I turned, Mikasa placed a hand on my shoulder and leaned in closer, "Are you going to sit with me and Armin again?"

"I don't know, it really depends on what Levi and Petra are gonna do..." I spoke quietly to her, so no one would hear us. But right when I was going to move forward and wait to see who sat where, Levi tugged me into the same seating aisle as him. I shyly stumbled over and almost collapsed on him. But luckily, I was able to catch my footing.

"Quit being clumsy, brat." I shyly nodded to him and looked back to Mikasa who was glaring at Levi. Right behind Mikasa was Petra who was eying me with a light smile, making me forget the previous guilt I had on the way here, maybe she knew and didn't care? I would've figured she would've came to me about something like that, though.

"You're the one who pulled me, jerk.." I mumbled softly and right when I was going to sit down a seat away from Levi so we would have room between us, he tugged me over to the middle chair beside him. I shyly sat down beside him and looked across from our set of chairs and saw Mikasa, Armin, and Petra taking place beside us like they did on the bus. Part of me wished they would sit somewhere else so I would get some alone time with Levi without having anyone watching us.

After the plane got started and the teachers did role call, I got out my phone and made sure to set it to airplane mode. I clicked the camera icon on my phone and showed it to Levi who stared at me with an annoyed look, his eyebrows furrowing.

"No."

"Pretty please?" I puffed out my lower lip and batted my eyes at him, nuzzling close to him to urge him on.

"No."

I looked over to Mikasa who was watching us during this time and decided to shrug it off and lean in, kissing Levi's cheek. "How 'bout now?"

Levi looked over to me with his sharp eyes, crossing his arms and leaning towards me in a reluctant manner, "I would say no, but what you just did was really convincing."

I smiled happily and heard an audible sigh of annoyance coming from Mikasa who sat across from us. I decided to shoot her a look to shut her up and I went back to turning the camera view up front and holding out my phone in front of Levi and I.

"Quit looking so mad, Levi," I looked over to him, shooting a sad look to convince him to quit being such a stick in the mud.

"This is my face, kid. Would've figured you would notice that by now," Levi glared up at me and ignored my begging act I put up for him. I decided to put up with his scowl as I leaned back in close to him and held up the camera in front of us, fixing a few strands of hair that was in my eyes before snapping a picture of us both.

"Thanks," I opened up the picture to look at it and laughed at how pissed off Levi looked. Levi looked over and sighed out in annoyance.

"I look like ass."

I looked over to Levi and shook my head, leaning over to whisper in his ear, "If that's what ass looks like, I can't wait to see how gorgeous your literal ass looks."

Levi huffed out and turned to look at me, reaching up and messing up my hair like he often does, "Don't get too cocky now, kid, no way I'm letting a virgin top me. Maybe after a few good fucks I'll grace you with topping."

I immediately looked away and covered up my face with my hands, too embarrassed to do anything but hide my face from the other male. This guy was way too blunt and embarrassing.

But I loved it.


It didn't take too long to get back to Washington, but by the time we were escorted off the plane, a cold blast of air hit me. I definitely forgot how fucking cold it was here compared to California, and I was not ready for the drastic weather change just yet. Though, I was happy to be back so I could be with mom and back in my own house again.

Before we could move around freely, the teachers did a final role check to make sure everyone was there. One class was panicking around because they couldn't find two of their students, only for the two to come up out of the bathroom without asking permission.

"Wow, what idiots. That shit could get you in big trouble." Levi spoke up from standing beside me. He was fairly quiet during the plane ride, only responding to me with short answers as he listened to music. I had decided against bothering him too much since he seemed like he was really tired.

"Yeah, it's not very wise.. How's your head by the way?" I looked down at his perfectly aligned raven-black hair. It always amazed me how his hair could just fall down perfectly without having anything done to it. I wished my hair would do that, but no, it was a stupid thick, curly mess.

"It's fine, Eren. How'd you wanna talk about what happened?" Levi looked up at me with his a calm exterior, but his eyes flashed importance behind his words when he spoke.

"I don't know, it depends. Did you wanna go somewhere to talk, or we can just text or call each other.." I looked up to Professor Dolan who was trying to get everyone's attention by hollering out over the loud chattering of the group. I looked around and noticed how everyone was impatiently waiting around to get released. Everybody looked tired, even Sasha and Connie who were usually bolts of energy, but this time, they weren't even eating. They looked half dead. Jean and Marco stood slightly off behind Levi and I, shutting up quickly so they could hear the teacher tell us we could leave.

"Alright everyone, we hope you had a great time on the trip and learned a lot about biology and the study of marine life. You're all free to leave to your rides now."

In truth, I learned nothing about marine biology. If anything, this whole trip was just a giant vacation away from school, which was just fine with me.

Our group of friends walked outside and looked around for our rides. There were tons of cars out front and students were packing in to certain cars and driving away, but luckily, I saw my mom's car towards the back a little bit. She must've gotten here quite early and waited just to get that spot.

"Oi, Eren."

Right when Mikasa and I started to head towards our car, I heard Levi speak up. I turned back around and walked towards Levi who was holding his luggage in both his hands. "Go get settled down at home for a couple of hours, I'll pick you up for dinner tonight. Text me your address."

With the cold air surrounding my body, I could definitely feel the change in temperature swell up in my chest at his words of finality. He didn't ever ask my opinion on things half the time, and if he did, I would answer and he would plan around with it by himself. He never asked what time would be good for me, or where we're going to go, he just chose and lead me on for an adventure or surprise. And that was something so unbearably attractive about this man.

I nodded at him shyly and stepped a bit closer to him, opening up my arms slightly to offer him a hug goodbye. Of course, there was everyone outside who could see, but I really didn't care. Being gay wasn't exactly the most secretive thing about me, and if they didn't like it, sucks for them. Levi rose a brow at me, probably wondering what my intentions were, but after a short second or two, he stepped up and wrapped his arms around me firmly. His face was buried into my chest, and my chin was rested atop of his head. He was so warm for looking so cold, and right when I was about to pull away so I could leave, he pulled me down by my shirt. At first I was a little scared at the sudden movement, but when I felt his lips kiss my cheek, I smiled a began to laugh. This guy was really cute sometimes.

"Go on now, before I decide to take you home with me, dog." Levi lightly pushed me on and I grinned, back at him, catching up with Mikasa who was already getting her things in the car. I ran up to her and placed my things in the trunk along with hers and got in the passenger seat beside mom. Mikasa always liked to ride in the back of the car because it was spacier, which I had no problem with because I liked to ride in the front.

"Hey you guys, how was the trip?" Mom smiled at us both and I leaned over, kissing her cheek happily. Mikasa leaned forward and kissed her cheek right after me, smiling also at her.

"I had a great time, I'm just glad to be back home. I missed you a lot," I watched ahead of us as she pulled out of the parallel parking.

"That's good, be sure to thank that Levi friend of yours again for taking you both, it was really nice of him and his parents to pay for that. Oh tell him I wanna meet him some time, too." Mom finally got passed all the cars and students and was able to pull out of the airport through the gate.

"Uh, about that. He wanted to take me out to dinner tonight and said he was going to pick me up, so maybe you can meet him then?" I looked over to Carla who glanced over at me with a slightly worried look.

"This soon after getting back home? Isn't that a bit abrupt?" I shrugged and rested my arm on the slight rest on the door, staring out the window and watching the scenery pass by.

"He got injured and had a slight concussion for most of the trip and had to stay at the hotel, so he wanted to take me out so we could hang for a little bit," I completely avoided the true topic behind why we were going to go out. I didn't want my mom to know what really was going on between him and I. It wasn't my right to tell her we were together just yet, especially with all the things that have been going on.

The rest of the car ride was spent with Mikasa and I having to tell mom about what all happened and what we did everyday. Thankfully, Mikasa left out all the things that had been going on between Levi and I. Even though she didn't like him, she wouldn't rad me out to mom like that, and I was grateful for it.

As I stared out the window, the scenery outside started to become more and more familiar as we got closer to home. The ride back home went by a lot faster than it did when Mikasa and I were riding with Levi and Petra in his exquisite limo. It really blew my mind with how wealthy some people really were, and it almost made me jealous to think how Levi could live such an easy life with all the money he has.

We got back home safely after quite a bit, and right when I stepped through the front door, my pocket vibrated. I decided to ignore it for a little bit as I dragged my bags to my bedroom and set them on my bed. It was good to be back home, in a place where I was always comfortable and free to move around. I decided to check my phone after I settled in and noticed the text was from Levi.

I opened up the message and turned my phone off of airplane mode so it would automatically connect to our wifi. It really was good to be back home, back to my precious wifi.

Levi: Send me your address.

Eren: **** Jamie Dr.

Levi: Alright, I'll be there at 6:30. Wear nice clothes.

Nice clothes? He couldn't possibly be taking me out somewhere nice, could he?

Eren: Nice clothes? Like what a tux or somethin?

Levi: Not that nice, I doubt you even own a decent tuxedo anyways, kid. Just wear a dress shirt or that outfit you wore to school that one day. No jeans.

I don't know if I should be offended or not that he knew that I didn't own a tux, because I didn't. I've never had anything so formal happen to where I needed to wear something like that. Though, it would probably be good to own atleast one.

Eren: Alrite Ill be sure to look fab 4 you

Levi: Good, now rest up.

I smiled and closed off my phone, digging through my bag to get out and charger to charge it while I waited for it to get a little later on in the day. It was already 1:45, a little too late for me to be eating any lunch, so I decided against eating anything until dinner tonight.

The rest of my free time was spent unpacking and putting dirty clothes I used in the washing machine. Mom made Mikasa and I clean up the house a little bit incase Levi ended up coming inside, which I was fine with. I made sure to clean it as best as I could because I knew how picky Levi was about cleanliness and I didn't want to give a bad impression. Of course, his house was probably a lot bigger than ours and a lot nicer counting how rich he was. But I wasn't ashamed of our place, it was perfect for a middle class family like ours, and it wasn't too lavish nor too shabby.

When it started to turn nearly 5:00, I decided to hop in the shower for a quick rinse off so I wouldn't smell like cleaning supplies. Plus, my hair looked like shit, so a good wash would help.

When I got out, I blow dryed my hair and turned on the straightener, leaving it on the counter to heat up while I went to my room to get atleast halfway dressed. I decided to go with a dark green button up shirt that went well with my eyes and my tan skin and some black dress pants that I tucked the shirt into. I grabbed a normal black belt and slid it through the slots and walked over to my phone to check the time and text Levi real quick.

5:55

I sighed and opened up my messages and started typing away to Levi.

Eren: Hey, my mom wants to meet you for a little bit and introduce herself to you before we leave.

I took my phone in the bathroom with me to wait for his reply. I started to brush out my locks of hair, getting annoyed with how unnaturally curly it was being today. I grabbed the hot straightener and began to clamp down on my locks of hair that were sticking up. Once I was nearly done, my phone I placed on the counter vibrated loudly, echoing through the bathroom.

Levi: Alright, I'll come a little earlier then.

Eren: ok Ill be ready! :D

"Eren?"

I jumped a bit and turned around to the door, seeing Carla peeking in at me with a light smile. I sighed out in relief, glad it wasn't Mikasa there to interrogate me about Levi. '

"Yeah ma?"

"Wow you're dressed up, but I was going to remind you that I wanted to say hello to that Levi boy. How old is he anyways? He seems pretty responsible for covering expenses and planning things so well." She walked in the bathroom and picked up the straightener, bringing it up to my hair and fixing out some places I must've missed in the back.

"Yeah, he told me to dress nicely, and I know you wanted to meet him. I just got done texting him about it. He's only a Junior, but he's actually 18."

"Why's he only a Junior then? Did he get held back?"

"He's from France. When he moved here, they held him back a year to catch up on things that they didn't teach in France I guess. He makes straight A's, all AP classes, too. He's a genius or something."

I looked in the mirror in front me and saw the smile of approval from mom. She probably was just glad I was hanging around smart people so they'd help me with my shitty grades. I wasn't stupid or anything, just half the time I'd forget to do homework.

"Well, that's good. Does he speak French?"

"Uh, oui?" I lightly grinned at my mom through the mirror and she returned the grin with a smile and a light laugh.

"That's really cool, well I can't wait to meet this Levi boy. Oh yeah, I'll get your father's black suit jacket out, it's going to be cold out and you'll need it." I nodded in agreeance to her and brushed out my hair and turned off the straightener. I had to admit, I looked pretty damn good in dress clothes, especially in dark green.

After a few moments of waiting, I stepped outside the bathroom door and walked to mom's bedroom. She was digging through the closet for the coat it seemed like and after a few seconds of standing at her doorway, she pulled out the pitch black coat. It looked brand new and never worn still.

"Hey, here you go. This should fit you just fine since you and Grisha are about the same size." I grabbed the coat from her and slid it over my arms and tugged it up my back, aligning the material smoothly against my body. It fit perfectly on me and I smiled up at Carla with a happy grin.

"Go wait in the living room, I'll get you a tie to wear." I groaned out loudly at the mentioning of a tie. They always choked the shit out of me, but I guess it would pull the whole outfit together better if I did wear one, and I definitely wanted to look good for Levi. I looked down at my phone and saw that it was already 6:15. Levi was probably going to be here in a little bit, counting that he had to make time for meeting my mother. I hoped it wouldn't be awkward, though, it probably would be.

"Hey, I found a tie!" Mom padded quickly over to me and I sighed, standing up straight for her to put it on me. I hated when she would put ties on me because she damn near chokes me to death each time, but I could always loosen it when she wasn't looking.

After she put the tie on, I reached up and loosened the knot, straightening out the black material and tucking it inside my coat so it wouldn't hang out. I decided to look at myself in the hall mirror right beside our front door to make sure my hair was in place, and right when I fixed a few strands, the doorbell rang.

My heart stopped for a moment and I quickly paced around, wondering if my mom wanted me to answer it or her.

"Answer the dang door, Eren." Carla began to walk up to me, noticing how panicked I looked.

I sighed out heavily and walked up to the door quickly, unlocking the door and turning the knob to reveal Levi standing there with his hands behind his back. He was wearing a black and white tux, with a what almost looked like a napkin hanging around his neck. If I recall correctly, it was called a cravat, maybe.

My mother walked up behind me and smiled cheerfully at Levi, stepping back so he could walk into the entrance way.

"Hello Mrs. Jaeger, it's a pleasure to meet you." Levi lightly bowed his head to my mother and pulled his arms from behind his back to hold out a huge bouqet of assorted flowers. I stared down at Levi in disbelief, then back to my mother who had her hand brought to her chest in flattery.

"Oh my goodness, you didn't have to get me these!" She reached out and grabbed the bouqet, politely smelling of the beautiful flowers and thanking Levi yet again.

"It's no problem at all, I thought it'd be nice to give you them." His face wasn't in a scowl like it usually was, he was actually smiling a bit to my mom. This was probably the coolest I've ever seen Levi look. He looked so adult-like and responsible like this. It's hard for me to imagine this as the same guy who wore skinny jeans, chains, and band t-shirts everyday at school. The same guy that had a pissed off look on his face everyday, the same guy who told shit jokes and was cold to everyone.

Damn he was good.

"Well, my name is Carla, please do call me that. Now, you two should get along now, I don't want to keep you both waiting, plus I need to put these beautiful flowers in some water."

"Is there a certain time you would like Eren back home, ma'am?" Levi politely kept using formalities with my mother and I just stood back, awestruck with how Levi knew exactly what to say and do.

I heard a light scoff emit from across the room and I looked back to see Mikasa who was eying us three from the hallway. She was in a tank top and sweat pants like she usually wore around the house and when I saw her, she turned back to her bedroom.

"I'd say by 10 would be good for just dinner, of course you might want to go do something else since it's still bright outside," Carla piped up cheerfully to Levi, subconsciously sniffing the flowers that even I could smell from a few feet away.

"Then he'll be back through the door by 9:50." Levi spoke with finality to my mother and she gave an approved smile. I decided to cut in and open up the door, shivering a bit at the blast of cold air from outside.

"Goodbye, Mrs. Jaeger."

"Goodbye, Levi, it was a pleasure meeting you!"

Levi stepped out the door first and right when I was going to follow after him, my mom grabbed my shoulder and stopped me, whispering in my ear so Levi wouldn't hear.

"Are all French guys that charming?" She let out a giggle and I shrugged it off, trying to ignore the fact that I thought Levi was charming even without that fake attitude he just displayed towards my mother. Of course, it could have been real and he could have been honestly showing his respects to her.

When I stepped outside, I saw Levi standing out by the driveway and standing by the passenger seat to his black and red Mustang. I quickly hurried over to him, watching as he held the door open for me.

"Who are you and what have you done with Levi?" I jokingly laughed at him as he rolled his eyes.

"Get your ass in the car before I leave without you," with those words, I quickly scurried into the car, amazed at how spotless and sleak it was. The seats were pitch black leather and everything was intricately designed with red and silver outlines. I reached back and pulled the seatbelt around me as Levi opened up the driver's door and slid in with ease. He immediately pulled his seatbelt on and started the ignition, reaching over to turn the heat on in the car. I watched closely as he pressed a few other buttons on the dash and immediately felt my seat get warm.

"Woh, you have seat heaters? How the fuck does that work?" I squirmed around at the comfy warmth, knowing I could sleep like a baby in this chair.

"I don't fucking know, I didn't design the car. Now come here," I looked over to Levi who was leaning over to me, his eyes not averting away from my face. I felt my face heat up at his closeness, taking a moment to realize what he was asking for. I shyly leaned in to him, feeling his cold fingers graze over my cheek as he pressed his lips to mine. The kiss was gentle and warm, and the way his slender fingers ran through my hair gently near drove me crazy.

Our lips moved together in a slow motion, but me being the hormonal teenager I was, popped a boner midway. I shyly pulled away from our kiss and Levi kepts our faces close by cupping my cheeks with his hands. Both of our foreheads were pressed up against each other and he had his eyes closed as he spoke out in a weirdly soft voice.

"I don't want to hear any complaining tonight, everything is paid for by me, and you will have a good time tonight. Don't worry about anything. You deserve the best of the best, okay?" His eyes opened to look at mine and I felt my heart skip a beat. He was so gentleman-like tonight that it was almost scary.

"I hope you know that I'm not anything special, Levi. You don't need to buy me expensive things to make me like you."

"Believe me, I'm not trying to buy you out. I want to treat you like the special little dog you are." He reached up and started to stroke my hair as if I was an actual animal and I fell under the little trick for a moment, my head being a big sensitive spot on my body.

"Woof." I lowly said to him, my eyes lowered back down to his lips and my body shivering from the gentle touch to my hair.

I thought he was about to pull away for a moment because he huffed out in what seemed like annoyance, but when I looked up to his eyes, I couldn't catch them because they were averted. His teeth captured his lower lip and when I glanced down to his lap, there was a slight bulge in it just like mine.

"Unless you want your first time to be inside this tiny ass Mustang, I suggest you not tease me any further." He pulled away from me and put his hands on the steering wheel, and pulling out the driveway quickly. I smiled at him and looked out the window to my right, watching as he pulled off our street and on to the main road that lead out towards the bigger area of the city.

"So, what happened between you and Petra?" I looked over to Levi and noticed how his body tensed up at my question. He obviously was trying to prepare for the probably long speech about exactly what went on.

"Well shit, a lot of shit happened.. I guess you could say she actually accepted the fact that I didn't like her."

"More details, please?" I looked over to Levi who seemed to be avoiding something, and I almost felt sick at the thought of what he was about to say.

"Don't rush me, brat... As I was saying; when I woke up from passing out for the first time, I was in the hotel and Petra was in our room alone. I don't know where you and everyone else was, but it was just her there by my bed crying for some reason. She apparently was watching over me for the time being I guess, but after a little bit, she told me about her plan to use you to get me to like her again. And after a while, she said that she found out what was going on between us wasn't just some kind of friendship. She said I acted differently towards you, which I don't really think so, but yeah," Levi paused for a moment and sighed out heavily, "She then asked me if I could ever have feelings for her again and then proceeded to kiss me... I didn't return the kiss, and in all honesty, I was too freaked out and drugged up to push her away." I felt my heart drop to my stomach at his words, and I tried to act like it didn't bother me, but I knew Levi saw my shaking body because of the way he reached over and rubbed my back for a little bit.

"Don't flip out, Eren, if anything I started to hallucinate and thought it was you for a bit. She pulled away pretty quickly though and got up and left, saying she understood my feelings and said "Thank you for loving me" or some shit like that. She's pretty much accepted that I don't like her, so you don't have to worry about feeling guilty or anything."

Levi removed his hand from my back and put it back on the steering wheel, making sure to drive properly whenever he spoke. I honestly didn't know how to reply back to that, Levi sounded really hurt having to talk about rejecting Petra, and even more hurt with having to break it to me that they ended up kissing. I knew that he didn't return the kiss in any way, and he didn't like Petra, but I still felt jealous about it.

"Eren," I looked over to Levi who had a very serious expression on his face. Before he finished what he was going to say, he turned the car right into a fancy looking restaurant's parking lot and parked the up front in a parking spot that said "Reserved Parking Only."

Once the ignition was turned off, I felt Levi's hand grab mine to make me look him in the eyes. The car was completely silent, the warm air was still lingering around, and the car was lightly lit up from the exquisite looking restaurant right in front of the car.

"Do you think you can fall for a cold, bastardly man who hasn't loved anyone or anything since he was back in France as a child?" His words resonated around the silent, still car. It took me a moment just to process exactly what he was getting at through my head, and when I did, I felt my cheeks heat up in slight embarrassment.

And with a light sigh through my nose, I leaned in and kissed his lips softly, pulling away after a slight lingering against the soft touch, "I already have."


UGH. I'm so sorry for this overload of fluff after so much angsty shit. I thought this story needed to start heading on a higher note cos honestly, I was getting sick of this drama shit for a while. Anyways, thank you all so much for supporting this fanfic so far! And to all my lovely little reviewers, kisses and hugs for each and every one of you!

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