Hey lovelies, it's good to be back again! I've been feeling quite sick this weekend, so please bare with me on this chapter. Anyways, thank you for reading up so far, and I hope you enjoy this new update!

"Eren."

Levi...

"Eren, wake up."

No, let me cuddle you longer..

"Eren, do I need to get mom to dump cold water on you again?"

The mentioning of cold water snapped me out of my dazed, comatose state of sleep. I looked up from the pillow I was holding so closely to my chest only to see Mikasa's face leaning down to me through my tossled mess of hair. She was already dressed from what I could see, and no matter how heavy my body was, or how tired and reluctant I was, she would force me out of bed somehow.

"I'll get up, okay?" I nustled around in my bed, trying to kick the large comforter off my legs. Once I sat up, I looked back down to my bed to see the pillow I was holding onto so tightly, wrapped up in Levi's shirt. The last time he came over, we all had dinner together, but it ended with an agitated Levi when I spilled water on him. The memory in itself was quite funny because his face got red in embarrassment when the shirt started to cling to him in front of my mom. Even though I had sent him off home in one of my shirts that was way too big for him, he looked absolutely adorable in it. I think he must've forgotten about the shirt when he got changed, but I surely didn't. I had been using it as a cover for my pillow case every night. As stupid as that sounds, it helped me sleep at night and made me more willing to get up in the morning. His scent always calmed me down, and by the time I would wake up, I would actually be well rested.

After I removed my body from my bed, Mikasa finally left my room without another word. She seemed to be in a bad mood this morning. But for whatever reason she's had to hate Levi, she wasn't showing it as badly lately, which I was grateful for.

Whenever Mikasa didn't like someone, she would show it, and she would show it in the most obvious ways possible. Not that I could say anything against it, I did the same shit usually. Though, I haven't felt any anger or hatred in what seems the longest of times now. It's only been a few days since what I guess you could call Levi and I being "official", but I've been the happiest I've probably ever been in my whole life with him. I've also been through a lot of stress with this whole relationship thing. I've dated a girl before back when I was in 6th grade, but she ended up moving away. Not to mention, dating in 6th grade was so much easier than in high school now that I have actual hormones...And my partner happens to be a guy.

I've heard that it would be easier to date someone of the same sex, but in my case, that's not true at all. I have no idea how to treat another man, and I have no idea what I could buy Levi as gifts. With women atleast, I could buy them flowers, chocolates, jewelry and little trinkets that were cutesy and have them swoon over it. With Levi, I had no clue what the fuck he would want. He didn't seem like the type for big fancy gifts, which was good in my case because I'm broke as fuck, but it would be easier to know what to get him if he just told me what he likes.

I sighed out heavily and ran my fingers through my mess of hair. The touch felt greasy and knotted, causing me to cringe with disgust. This is what I get for not showering for one day.

I grabbed my phone and padded to my bathroom, checking the time to make sure I had enough time to get a shower.

6:15am

Good, I have plenty of time.

...

When I finished up with my shower, I only got to towel dry my hair because I lost track of time under the hot beads of water hitting against my back. I sighed out and looked in the mirror, combing out my still wet hair, hoping it would dry without curling too bad.

"Eren, hurry up. It's 7:10." Mikasa opened up the bathroom door without any warning, this causing me to scurry behind the door since I was still naked.

"Mikasa, you're supposed to knock first, get out!" My voice didn't mean to rise so loudly, but I seriously didn't want her to see me naked. Seeing family naked is probably one of the scariest things ever, and I would know from personal experience.

"Whatever, just hurry up." She closed the door behind her and I made sure to lock it just incase she decided to come back. I sighed out and put on the clothes I brought in with me, but right when I was fixing to leave the bathroom, I heard a loud buzzing sound against the counter.

1 New Message!

Who the heck is texting me this early in the morning?

Levi: Brat, you missed the Halloween breakfast in the lounge.

I felt my stomach sink with disappointment as I exited the bathroom and slid on some black Converse. I had forgotten that today was Halloween, let alone there was a breakfast at school that no other students but the office runners could have attended. Despite the grumbling at my stomach, I grabbed my backpack and walked into the living room, seeing Carla sitting at the couch looking upset.

"Aye, Mom. What's wrong?" I looked up to Mikasa who was standing behind the couch with the same expression as her. Their faces were pale and I looked down at the papers scattered out on the coffee table. I reached down to grab one of the papers and got my hand swatted away by Carla.

"Don't worry about it right now, Eren. Get to school. Both of you." Her tone was shaking, but held a certain stern tone to it that I knew I shouldn't question. So, without another word, I headed to the front door and Mikasa followed right behind me silently. Her face looked grave, but I didn't want to mention anything right now because Armin was heading right to our front door. I didn't notice it at first, but it is freezing outside. I opened up the front door once more and grabbed my jacket off the rack and slid it on. I heard a faint sobbing coming from the living room, but I decided to ignore it for now. I couldn't do anything right now with Armin here and my mother the way she is.

"Hey, Eren! How're you?" Armin excitedly asked me, his hair fluttering out from under his beanie. He looked like a little kid when he wore winter-time clothes, but it suited him.

"I'm fine, and you?" We started walking down the pavement to the school in a fast pace since it was so cold out. I myself was even colder than I should have been because of my wet hair, but it was my own fault for not taking advantage and showering last night.

"I'm excited because it's Halloween! Are you guys going to come trick-or-treating with me? Or we could go to the party at school, but the admission to get in is like ten bucks which is ridiculous.." Armin thoughtfully thought of all the options we could do for tonight. I honestly didn't have any costume except the one from last year which was supposed to be a werewolf, but everyone teased me saying I looked like a puppy instead.

"Yeah, we can decide at school. That way we can see what everyone else is doing, right Mikasa?" I looked over to Mikasa who had her red scarf wrapped snuggly around her neck. It amazed me that she still had that thing. Ever since I gave it to her when our family first took her in, she's held onto it every day since. The color had faded out of it, but you could tell she took good care of the now worn material.

I earned just a silent nod from her, noticing how her eyes were darkened even more than they already were naturally. She looked straight forward the whole time we walked to school, and it worried me how distant she seemed, especially since I heard mom crying when I had went back inside for that brief moment.

I pulled out my phone and opened up my messages, realizing I had forgotten to reply back to Levi. I quickly tapped on the screen, hoping he wouldn't be upset with my slow response back.

Eren: We're at school now. I'll b heading to the office pretty soon - hope u didn't miss me too much ;)

Right when I turned my screen off, the phone buzzed immediately afterwards. I sighed out softly, looking up and pulling open the door for Armin and Mikasa to walk inside the building as I checked what Levi sent me back.

Levi: Well then, I think I might just throw away this plate of food I saved for you since you're gonna act like a shitty brat.

Eren: NOOOOOOOOO! I'll behave, I promise!

Levi: That's what I thought, now hurry up.

My heart fluttered with joy, feeling happy that Levi took the time to save me a plate of food, which he probably wasn't allowed to do, but did anyways.

"Hey, I gotta get to the office. We can ask what everyone is going to do at lunch today, okay?" I wrapped my arms around Mikasa and Armin, hugging them both before I let go and started to head to the office. I wanted to get food in my stomach immediately.

I reached up to my hair as I walked down the hallway, noticing how the locks were cold and damp still. The ends of my hair were curling even worse than normal, and my hair was starting to grow out to a messy length, but I really didn't care. What I cared about right now was to get some food in my stomach and maybe steal a kiss or two from Levi. We rarely showed affection towards each other, but when we did, it was either during a serious talk or when I would steal kisses or hugs from him. He never resisted them though, which was really surprising the first few times I did it.

I made my way to the front office, going in through the side door so I could sign in that I was here. When I started to head towards the back room where everyone usually was, I was grabbed from behind on my arm. I tensed up and turned around, having to look up to meet eyes with a familiar blond-haired man.

"Hello, Eren. What're you doing for Halloween?" Erwin's deep voice rang through my ears, and for a moment I felt a little weak in the legs. It was awkward to be in a one hand grip at my arm by someone I barely even knew, let alone someone I barely knew that looked like a Greek God.

"I have no clue, I was planning on asking my friends at lunch today what they all wanted to do," I watched closely as he released my arm, and I finally got the chance to step back away from him. He always stood so close to me to where I had to look up just to see his face, it made me feel small when I really was just average height.

"Ah, well Levi, Hanji, and I usually go to one of our houses and have a small party. Counting that Levi refuses to pay ten dollars for the school party and says receiving candy from strangers is disgusting." His smiled almost blinded me and I nodded in agreement, trying to avoid looking up at him.

"Yeah, it sounds like something he would say.." I started to back away inch by inch away from him, but it seemed like he was still walking towards me each time I scooted back.

He was getting way too close for comfort and I felt like I would suffocate just from him standing this close. He needed to get away, because I couldn't promise myself not to punch the shit out of him if he tried to get any closer. Yet, at the same time, I felt like I was unable to move.

"Erwin."

I watched as Erwin snapped his head up away from me, and to the voice that sounded just like Levi's. I turned my head also and saw Levi storming over to me and pushing Erwin back with one hand and wrapping his arm around my waist with the other.

"Oh, hey Levi," Erwin gave Levi a crooked smile, still keeping up his "innocent" act, "I was asking Eren here what he was going to do for Halloween."

"He's going to be spending it around me, that's what he's going to do," Levi hissed out in a bitter tone towards Erwin, tugging me at my waist to lead me to the back room. Erwin followed behind us, but kept his distance thankfully. It seemed Levi and Erwin had some shit going on between them since Erwin has been trying to get closer to me lately. Maybe I could ask him what was wrong later. Right when we were about to enter the back room where we always went, I heard Erwin getting called by the secretary at the end of the hallway.

Thank God.

"I'm pretty sure your food is cold by now, but oh well, you can eat it anyways." Levi walked into the room and grabbed a plate stacked up with all different types of foods and sweets on it. I felt my stomach grumble just looking at it and I immediately ran over to Levi, grabbing the plate and sitting down behind the desk where everyone usually just alternated sitting at. I looked up to Levi who was leaning up against the wall, eying me as I ate my food happily. The plate was stacked up pretty high, so I figured he tried to get a bit of everything since he didn't know what I liked.

No matter how distracting Levi was, though, I couldn't quite escape the nagging thought in the back of my mind; what was my mom crying about? She was always a strong-willed woman, and I had never seen her cry other than at funerals, which was understandable. I probably shouldn't have left her alone today, but I didn't know what to do. She seemed pretty stern in wanting me to leave, but maybe later on tonight she'll tell me what's wrong. Or maybe I could squeeze out what happened from Mikasa since she seemed like she knew what was going on. Though, I doubt she would tell me since she's just as much of a hard head as I am.

"Brat," I heard Levi call out to me, and when I looked up, he was leaning over the desk and staring at my face, "What the hell's up with you?" I looked around the room and saw that no one else was in there with us.

"I'm just worried about my mom.." I mumbled out lowly, not really wanting to talk about it, but since it was just Levi, I figured it would be just fine.

"What happened? Do I need to fuck someone up?" Levi bitterly asked, crossing his arms and walking around the large desk to come and stand by me. I shook my head tenderly, chewing slowly on a piece of bacon that was on my plate.

In order to change the topic, I put my focus on my plate of food, "You got me a big plate of food and no drink?" I meekly looked up at him and earned a smack to my head that wasn't very gentle at all. I whimpered out and rubbed my head, still feeling the damp texture.

"Why is your hair wet, brat?" I looked up to Levi who was wiping his hand off on his jeans and walking over to his backpack to dig through it.

"I took a shower this morning and didn't have enough time to dry it, does it look bad?"

"You're asking me if you look bad wet?" Levi turned to look at me, his lips turned up in his trademark smirk. I felt my cheeks heat up, and I immediately focused my eyes on my plate of food, not able to look at him anymore.

"No.. I meant my hair.." I looked back up at him to see what he was shuffling around for and noticed a bottle of water in his hand. It wasn't filled up all the way, but he handed it to me either way and ran his hand through my hair once more.

"You can drink out of my bottle, unless you don't want my germs," I blushed and took the bottle, earning a gentle kiss against my cheek. Levi slid his arms around my shoulders from behind, leaning down to breathe against my ear. His hot breath caused me to shiver a bit as I took a drink out of his water bottle, feeling a little too aroused by his gentle touch. It was odd for him to get in an affectionate mood, but I always accepted it since it was really cute to see him try and get my attention.

"You guys are SO CUTE!"

I jumped at the loud outburst that came from the doorway, only to see Hanji standing there with her phone up as she took pictures of us. I quickly hid my face and Levi just stayed still, still draping his arms around my shoulders, though his breath had hitched from being walked in on.

"Hanji, what do you want?" Levi's tone sounded annoyed as he finally released me. I shyly started to pick at the nearly empty plate of food in front of me. All that was left was the cookies that were crowding the plate. I wasn't much of a sweets eater, I liked salty and bitter things more, but I still would eat sweets occasionally.

"Oh, nothing. I was going to dress Eren up for Halloween, but I walked in on a porno!" Hanji hurriedly ran up to me, and I scooted back in my chair, slightly scared from her rapid movements. She wasn't a bad person, but she was very boisterous and a little crazy.

I looked down to a black bag that she had in hand and the familiar white lettering of "Hot Topic" on it. I watched as she dumped a load of clothes and belts out onto the desk. Levi seemed to be annoyed as he dug through the pile, lifting up the belts and then the jacket with a white and blue symbol of wings overlapping eachother on the back. The outfit seemed intricate, and I had no clue what it was from or what the hell it all was, but overall, it looked a lot better than any "werewolf" outfit.

"Hanji, you're really going to make us dress up like that shit again?" Levi huffed out and looked down to me as I scooted the chair up to the desk to look shuffle through all the belts that lay on top.

"This looks like a bitch to put on..." I mumbled out, mostly talking to myself, but also aiming it towards them both.

"It is, trust me. It took me nearly an hour to figure out how to put the shit on the first time," Levi grabbed the water bottle off the desk and took a sip of it, twisting the lid back on tightly before placing it back in his bag.

"I even got costumes for all of your friends, too!" Hanji excitedly started to jump around, shoving the outfit back in the bag and tying it up.

"How do you know my friends?" I nervously looked up at her and she grinned down at me, taking a deep breath before speaking up again.

"Well, I already knew Armin since he's one of the smartest students in the school and all. But, a good scientist does their research thoroughly, especially when it comes to getting clothing sizes! So, naturally, I made outfits for; Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Marco, Sasha, and Connie! I have the clothes in the back of my car, so at lunch time I'll bring them to them all. Oh yeah, and be sure to-"

"Hanji, shut the fuck up already." Levi hissed out to her, but amazingly, she didn't even flinch at his cold remark yet again. This woman had an amazing immunity against Levi, but I guess you learn to have one after being his friend for a while.

I stood up from the chair and grabbed the bag that Hanji gave me, I placed it down beside my backpack and looked back to Levi who was crossing his arms whilst leaning up against the wall as usual. He looked ticked off, but I couldn't much blame him, Hanji did kind of barge in on us. I didn't mind too much though, it was really nice of her to give me a costume, although I'm not sure about whether or not she got the size right or not.

"Hanji, we need to you to run this to in the library!" One of the secretaries called out to Hanji from the doorway, waving a folder out in the air to capture her attention.

"On it!" Hanji happily ran to the woman and grabbed the folder, waving back to Levi and I before heading out of the room. Once she left, the room was filled with a still silence. Levi was staring down at the bag that Hanji gave me, and I fumbled around with grabbing my plate to throw it away.

"Are you going to wear that tonight?" Levi spoke up with a slightly bitter tone in his voice, but I ignored it, nodding to him with a light smile.

"Yeah, she went out of her way to get everyone matching outfits, so why not?" I looked over to him and noticed the sharp intake of breath he made. He didn't look too pleased about the whole ordeal, but I guess that's because he wouldn't want to dress up anyways.

"What's wrong?" I slowly moved over to him, getting close to his body so I could look down at him and urge an answer out of him. The fact that he had to look straight up to me to see my face made me feel happy, but I couldn't be distracted right now. I needed to get an answer out of him.

"Nothing.. I just wanted to spend Halloween alone."

I tilted my head to him, wondering why the sudden change of heart since he said he was going to be spending time with me today towards Erwin.

"But you said we were going to hang out together tonight.."

"That's what I meant by alone, brat."

He hissed at me, and I immediately wrapped my arms around his body, making sure to press his face into my chest. He was so small and short that I could easily rest my chin on top of his head when we hugged, which is probably one of my favorite things to do. After a while, I felt him slack up and wrap his arms around my waist. He never hugged me anywhere else other than by my waist, and I wondered if that was his way of reminding me that he still held dominance.

He was so perfect in every way to me, and it was moments like these that I treasured so much. It was the few moments with him where he would calm down and let me just hold him that I would remember forever.

By the time school ended, Hanji and I were able to convince everyone to wear the costume she got us all out to the central park where there would be a Halloween parade. The only distinct differences in each pair of clothing were the under shirts that went before the jackets. Mine in particular had a ragged, well worn look to it and the collar had a bit of it snipped off in the front and tied up with black lace. The beige color to it suited my tan skin and brown hair, and it looked as if Hanji put a lot of effort into everyone's outfits. When I had asked to pay her back the expenses, she insisted that it was fine.

When the final bell rang, Levi escorted me out of the building before too many people would clutter outside. So luckily, he was able to get us both in the car and out of the parking lot before it got too crowded.

"Tell your mom that you're not going to be home until late tonight, it should be fine since today's a Friday.." Levi glanced over to me, occassionally looking down to the bag with my costume in it.

"What? I thought you were going to drop me off at home first."

"No, I'm taking you to my house," Levi spoke with finality in his voice. I was perfectly with fine with him taking me to his home since I've never been there before. Though, wouldn't that mean I would have to meet his parents?

"Do I have to meet your parents..?"

"No, I live by myself," Levi kept a stoic expression on his face as he drove, carefully turning down an unfamiliar road that the trees were dying out on. Though, it wasn't unusually to see dead trees since it was now the very end of October. Dead branches hung over the paved path and the autumn sky lit up in an orange hue yet again. It was beautiful outside, and I bet it looked even more beautiful during winter time.

"Why do you already live alone?" I dared to ask him the question that was nagging at the back of my head. It could have been a mistake to ask him, but I wanted to learn more about his life since I had no clue what his home life was like.

"I prefer to not be within a mile radius of my father... And... My mother is gone." His voice hitched when he began to talk about his mother, and I could tell he really cared about her. I wondered what she passed from, but I knew it was a touchy subject and I didn't want to push my luck by making him mad on a night that we were supposed to be having fun on.

"So how'd you afford to live alone? Is your family really that rich that you can afford two houses?" I faced my attention to out the passenger side window, slightly wondering how far a drive it is down this long, curvy path to his house.

"It would take about five more houses to buy and furnish before we would notice a dent in the budget," Levi finally turned one more slightly sharp turn and right as he did, a driveway appeared right in front of us. The driveway lead up to a two car garage that was connected to a giant white and black victorian-styled home. The house had a giant porch surrounding the whole house, and each intricate design in the poles were highlighted with pure white. I could tell it was a three-story home at least, but what made me worry slightly was the fact that Levi lived alone in this giant home. Wouldn't that get lonely? But wait..

"What about Nicholas, your butler?"

"He's my father's butler. I just call him up to do shit for me sometimes." Levi shrugged it off as he turned off the car in the driveway, opening up his door and locking it when I got out with him.

He lead me up the steps to what I figured was his front door and unlocked it, stepping inside and immediately cursing, "Shit, it's cold as fuck in here." I ignored his comment and looked around the house. Even without the factor of the house being legit cold, I could tell the atmosphere was cold and detached, just like Levi. Everything was black and white, just like the exterior, save for the tints of navy blues that helped design some of the furniture. It really must be lonely living in this house alone. Despite the detached and spotless appearance, the home was beautiful. The entryway had a long carpet leading up to the first row of stairs and a chandelier hanging above the rectangular room on the high cieling. All the tables were either black or mahogany brown, and all I could think about was what I could do to liven up this house. I kept imagining placing vases on each table and filling them up with brightly colored flowers, putting woven baskets filled with fruit in the kitchen, adding colorful, vibrant paintings of greens and blues on the wall. Anything to add a touch of me to his life.

When Levi came back from adjusting the thermostat, I was busy looking around the large living room that held a white couch and navy blue side chairs. "You better hurry up, it's going to take you a long time getting the straps on."

I turned around and met eyes with Levi who was stripped from his jacket. He turned away from me and motioned with his hand to follow. I grabbed my backpack and the Hot Topic bag that held the costume in it, walking behind Levi who was leading me up the stairs and down one of the hallways that only had three doors in it. He opened up the first door to the right and when I looked inside, there was a large bedroom in front of me. A giant bed with black bed posts and navy blue satin sheets was placed against the wall in a perfectly centered position. A large slide open closet was beside the bed and on each side was a side table with intricately designed lamps.

"Hurry up and get dressed, I'll help you with the straps when you get to that part." I watched as Levi began to dig through his closet, pulling out a fairly large box that must've had the costume in it. I set my bags on his bed, digging through the Hot Topic bag to pull out the shirt. It felt a little embarrassing to be changing in front of Levi, but we were in a relationship and he was a guy also, so it shouldn't matter too much, right?

As I slid off my shirt and folded it back up, I looked back to Levi who was now watching me with a low glint in his eyes, though, when he saw me, he averted his eyes off my body.

I was able to get dressed in the shirt and white pants pretty quickly, surprised at how Hanji was able to get the size correct. Levi got his clothes on also, quickly strapping all the belts on. I was surprised at how clean his top was compared to mine, not to mention the cravat he wore made him look very aristocrat-like. It looked as if Hanji purposely changed shirt-types to indicate what class everyone was in, me being a fairly low one probably.

Once he finished up his outfit, he grabbed the top belts for the upper body, helping me slide on the straps and buckling them fairly tightly. I never would have figured out what goes to what because there were so many places to hook each strap, not to mention some areas were to be twisted.

After about thirty minutes of just trying to get the straps on, I finally had everything on correctly. Levi had a full body mirror hanging lowly against his wall, and when I looked in it, I was amazed at how well designed the clothes were. Even though they were uncomfortable as all hell, I still really liked the look.

"Do you like it?" Levi spoke up from behind me, also fitting his body in the mirror as he adjusted his cravat and straightened out his clothes.

"Yeah, these outfits are really well made and awesome! We're supposed to be soldiers, right?" I walked over to Levi's bed and sat down on it, immediately sinking in the mattress.

"Yes.. The outfits are actually based on this stupid game we used to play when we were kids. Hanji just took it a next step farther when she got reminded of it by Petra last year." Levi started to pace back and forth as he spoke, looking as if he was trying to remember something. I didn't ask him why he was pacing, though, I was too wrapped up in how soft his bed was.

I reached over on the bed and grabbed my phone and immediately felt a sinking in my chest, "Shit! I forgot to text mom.."

Mama Bear: Eren, where are you?

Mama Bear: Eren, I hope you're safe, text me back when you can ok sweetheart?

Levi crawled onto the bed and looked over my shoulder, scoffing out as soon as he read my messages. I looked over to him curiously, wondering what the heck he was shaking around for.

"Mama Bear? Really, Jaeger? What are you, like five years old?" Levi covered his mouth with his hand, covering up what I would like to think was a smile.

"Hey, don't make fun of me for loving my mom," I crossed my arms and turned my head, pretending to be upset with him. Right as I was going to text my mother back, I felt Levi place his hand on my thigh and his lips press to my cheek.

"Alright, let's hurry up though, I still gotta get make up on us both."

I looked up to Levi who was now standing in front of me for a moment before turning towards what I suspected was the master bathroom that was connected to his bedroom. Before I got up to follow behind him, I quickly typed a reply to Carla.

Eren: Hey ma, sorry for not texting you, I got distracted. I'm at Levi's house getting ready for tonight. My group of friends will be at central park for the Halloween festival. Hope you're feeling better, we can talk when I get home tonight :) 3 Love you!

Mama Bear: Okay! Have fun sweet heart, love you too.

I turned off my phone when I got reassurance from my mother. Atleast it seemed like she was back to normal from the way she was messaging me. I sat my phone back on the bed and walked into the bathroom, slightly amazed at how beautiful it was. On one side, it had a huge bathtub sitting alone and on the other side there was a huge shower. Even in the middle, the sink and counter tops were unneccesarily big.

I looked over to Levi who had a bag out on the counter that was filled up with all kinds of make up. He was dragging what looked like liquid eyeliner over his top eyelids in a thin line, and when I walked over to him, he put down the pen.

"Why do you have so much make up?" I began to dig through the bag, looking at all the different kinds of brushes, foundations, and powders. When I looked back up to Levi, you could definitely tell he was wearing a thin line of eyeliner, counting that his eyes normally were quite small and sharp, but now they looked more full.

"Halloween is my favorite holiday, it's the one time of year that people like me can dress up how I normally would without being labeled as a freak show. Though, I could give a fuck about what people think of me." Levi casually started to add what was labeled as foundation on his nose and cheeks, smearing it in evenly and grabbing a brush and a dark brown looking powder. I watched closely as he began to contour his nose and cheeks, making his face look even more defined than it already was.

"When I was around your age, I was really into drag. It's actually one of the few things that make me feel alive, but I don't do it anymore." Levi smeared in some of the dark powder to fade it out a bit and washed off his hands of any makeup residue.

"Why don't you do it anymore?" I wrapped my arms around his waist from behind, watching him in the mirror as I rested my chin on his head. He almost looked like a completely different person with just that little bit of makeup, but he looked alive I must admit. I could tell he had a lot of experience with makeup with how fast and easily he was putting everything on. I had a feeling if I tried to do what he was doing, I'd end up looking like a clown.

"When I associated myself with drag, I associated myself with a lot of bad people along with it. You already know that I've been around the block when it comes to sexual favors, so you can get an idea of what exactly happened," he took a deep breath and paused for a moment, so I figured he was done talking for now.

"I don't care about what you di-"

"No, shut up. I know you're jealous over the thought of me being with other people, I know exactly how you feel. You want to support me, but still the thought lingers at the back of your mind, doesn't it?" He stopped again and pulled away from me, walking over to the cabinet above the sink and putting the bag away in the very back.

"What I'm getting at is...I'm not going back to drag because it reminds me of things I don't want to remember. The only time I even allow myself to wear make up is on Halloween."

I sighed out lowly and looked over to Levi who was staring at himself in the mirror. He seemed to be really serious with this topic, and I knew that it had affected him deeply in his past. I never really thought of Levi as the type to be into drag, but I guess that just shows how little I even knew about him. Though, it was nice that he finally was opening up a little bit to me. I wanted to keep learning about him, and I wanted to know things about him that no one else knew, and to hold those secrets in my heart as my own. I didn't know if he wanted to learn anything about me, but I considered myself a fairly boring guy. I didn't hold any drama in my life, I didn't do anything bad other than fighting. I was just a typical guy compared to Levi who was just a bunch of surprises.

"Levi.. Honestly, compared to you, I'm like a newborn baby. I haven't experienced near as much heartbreak as you. Isn't that okay, though? I have no reason to leave you if that's what you're worried about. You can be a dick, but so can I. And you already know that I'm hard-headed, so fighting for you is something that would come naturally to me.." I lightly itched the back of my head and offered him a reassuring smile, but he just looked at me with the same distrusting, stoic look in his eyes.

"Quit worrying, brat. You look like you're going to shit yourself," Levi sighed out and walked over to me, placing a hand on my shoulder as he looked up to me, "Thanks, though. You don't have to freak out every time I tell you something about my past, I'm not someone who can break down from a shitty past."

I nodded and gave him a light hug, immediately hearing a loud buzzing coming from the bedroom. I released the raven-haired male beside me and quickly jogged into the bedroom, grabbing my phone and answering it before even checking who was calling me.

Hanji: "Ereeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!"

I jumped slightly at the loud calling, immediately recognizing the tone of voice as Hanji's.

"Hanji, how'd you get my number?"

Hanji: "A true magician never reveals their secrets!"

"I thought you were a scientist.."

Hanji: "That, too!"

I rolled my eyes and sighed out heavily, looking to Levi who was grabbing his things and watching me with an annoyed look in his eyes, "Why'd you call me again?"

Hanji: "Oh yeah! You guys need to hurry up, everyone's starting to show up and it's cold out here."

I pulled my phone away from my ear and looked at the time, immediately starting to panic, "Shit, I didn't realize what time it was! We'll hurry up now, sorry for making you guys wait! Bye-bye!"

Hanji: "Awe, you say "Bye-bye?" That's so cute Eren! Bye-bye to you, too!"

I hung up the call quickly, making sure to save her phone number to my contacts as I grabbed my bags and adjusted one of the straps that felt a little loose.

"Let's go."

As soon as Levi and I got to the park, it took a little while to find a parking place since the whole park was filled up with people in costumes and booths with candy. It seemed like they even set up a big haunted house towards the center of the park that had a fairly long line of people waiting at it. When Levi finally found a parking spot towards the back, we got out and started to walk towards the front gate where our group of eight other people were dressed up all in uniform.

"Eren!" Armin immediately saw me and was excitedly jumping around. From what I could see, everyone's costumes fit them perfectly. It made me wonder how Hanji was able to get information so secretively or guess people's sizes so easily.

"Hey, Armin, your outfit looks good on you," I smiled down at Armin who was gleaming with happiness and excitement. It was cute how excitable he could get sometimes, especially when it came to dressing up in things.

"Thanks, you look great too. So, why were you and Levi late?" He purred out Levi's name to insinuate that we were doing something unspeakable. For being so innocent and sweet, sometimes he was a big pervert without even realizing it. It was understandable, though, counting that Levi and I were in a relationship and we were the only ones late.

"Honestly, we were talking about some serious stuff.." I mumbled out and looked up to everybody who was beginning to walk towards the center of the park. Sasha and Connie had immediately grabbed one of the Halloween bags that they were passing out at the gate to get candy in, and headed straight for the candy booths. Mikasa was heading over towards Armin and I, and Levi was walking over to Petra, Erwin, and Hanji. Despite knowing that Levi didn't like to trick-or-treat, he still grabbed one of the bags and throughout the whole time we were retrieving candy, he willingly got some from each booth.

"I thought you didn't like getting candy from strangers." I whispered down to Levi who was walking beside me now.

"I don't, but it's free candy. Plus, I can just give away all of it at the end to you overgrown children," Levi spoke with a dull tone in his voice.

When I looked down at him for a little while longer, I noticed his eyes actually held a tint of happiness in them. I was getting good enough at reading his eyes to where I could tell his emotions now, but it wasn't that big of an accomplishment counting that all of his long-term friends could already do that.

Throughout the whole term of retrieving candy from the booths, we got stopped several times by pedestrians to get pictures of our whole group since everyone was matching. There were ten of us total, and the big cluster of white pants, belts, and boots really did stand out from the crowd of randomized outfits. Everybody was more than willing to have other people take pictures except Levi who felt awkward to get in a pose with everyone, especially since he had to stand in the front since he was the shortest.

Before we decided to go to the haunted house, we were immediately attacked by a group of what seemed like freshmen girls from our school who lead everyone over to the pinned off area of what seemed to be musical chairs. My inner child came out and the few people who didn't seem all for the idea, A.K.A Levi, got pulled into the game by me. They put out nine chairs to start with since there were ten of us, and when they started to blare the music, lots of people started to crowd around and watch all of us play. The first one out was Petra, then Armin. Levi was able to last every round because of him being one of the swiftest out of everyone. The final round ended up being Mikasa and Levi, and I knew it was going to be a fierce battle between them. If it was Mikasa versus anyone else, she would've just let them win probably, but since it was against Levi, I could tell she was going to try hard her way through it. Levi had an apathetic look on his face throughout the whole game, and when the music started to play once more, he slowly started to encircle the chair, keeping his eye on Mikasa's movements. While Mikasa was rushed and hurrying her way around the chair each time, Levi was slowly pacing around it like he didn't care at all. If anything, the stare off between them was intense, and anyone could tell that they had a rivalry going between them.

Right as the music stopped, Mikasa hurled herself at the seat, but Levi simply side stepped once, claiming the seat before she could even touch it. It amazed me how quick Levi was, and his movements through the whole game were done with seemingly slow motions, but at the last second, he would jerk his hip down.

"And we have a winner! Here's your prize!" The girl walked up to Levi and handed him a giant stuffed bear with a witch hat on and tucked in the arm was a huge Hershey's bar. I looked back over to Mikasa who was standing beside Armin, looking pissed off about losing, but I couldn't much blame her; I was pissed too when I got shoved out of the chair by Sasha.

Levi walked over to me, holding the big teddy bear out to me while avoiding any eye contact. I smiled brightly, happily taking the bear and holding onto it tightly.

"Awe! Look at my two little gay boys being cute!" Hanji swooned beside us and when I looked behind her, I saw Erwin looking down at us with an unreadable look in his eyes. He had been ignoring me this whole trip, which I was grateful for, but I was even more suspicious of him now that he was eying Armin. He gave off this creepy stalker vibe sometimes, but I guess that was just my own opinion of him. Everyone else seemed to really like him, so I don't know why I felt so irritated now that he was paying attention to my best friend.

"Shut up, Hanji." Levi hissed out to Hanji who was still fangirling over how "cute" we were. I sighed out and held the bear to my chest, placing the huge Hershey's bar in my bag so it wouldn't fall.

We all decided to end the night with the haunted house, so I had to mentally prepare myself not to be a complete wuss during the experience. Levi looked as calm as ever, his arms crossed casually as we all waited in line. When we finally got motioned to go inside, the whole place was dark and lit up only by candles and lanterns. A few screams emitted from past the walls, causing me to tense up. Levi walked beside me the whole time, seemingly unbothered by the whole thing. We got to a long walkway that was lit up with blue streaming lights on the walls. It seemed like it was harmless, but as we got halfway down, someone jumped out that was camouflaged as the wall at Armin. Armin proceeded to squeak and hold onto Mikasa who looked apathetic about the jumpscare. The hallway then opened up to a stage where a girl in a torn white dress ran out from it, screaming continually as she got chased by a man with an axe. Naturally, she tripped behind a chair and the man made a chopping motion down at her and then looked to our group who was intently watching. He growled and pointed behind us. We all looked behind where he was pointing and I immediately jumped because a tall man was standing behind us holding a chainsaw. He cranked it loudly and held it up in the air, this causing me to run like hell away from him. I didn't know where Levi went, but everyone else seemed to be scared like me as we ran down the hallway. Right when we got close to the end, though, another person jumped out. It seemed to be another woman, but she was wearing a long black wig and her face had make up on it to give the effect of it being shredded off. I held my breath and clenched tightly on the teddy bear Levi gave me until I felt a hand press up against my back.

"Eren, calm down. This is all fake shit," I looked back and saw Levi standing there, rubbing my back slowly to calm down my nerves. I had to admit that it helped a little bit, but I just wanted to get out of this place. It felt like we've been in here for hours honestly, but maybe that's just because I was scared out of my mind right now.

Marco and Jean came up behind us, seemingly not as freaked out by the whole thing as I was. "Is little Eren scared by a few little jump scares?" Jean spoke up in his stupid ass taunting voice, making sure to reach up and pinch my cheeks to prove his point. I let out a big huff of air and allowed Erwin and Petra to walk in front of us. Petra was holding onto Erwin's arm, clearly freaked out about this whole thing since she was trying to convince everyone not to go through the haunted house.

Right as we neared the exit sign that lead back outside, a man in a dirtied up, shredded clown suit jumped out at Jean. The clown was laughing as he spewed what I guess was fake blood from his mouth and let it drip down on the ground and onto his clothes. Jean screamed in probably the highest tone I've ever heard a guy scream, and I swear at that moment my life was complete.

Karma was a bitch.

Everyone else started to laugh as we exited through the back door and was greeted by a girl wearing a vampire outfit, "Thanks for coming by!" She handed out a little bag filled up with candies and stickers to everyone and I put mine in the already filled up bag full of candy. I honestly had more luck getting candy here than I ever did trick-or-treating, though, eating this much candy would be a heart attack waiting to happen.

"So Jean, what was that about being scared?" I began to chuckle and everyone who heard me pitched in with the laughter.

"Shut up, he jumped like right out in my face.." Jean pouted and crossed his arms, looking away from everyone with an annoyed expression on his face.

As we all decided to head for the exit, Erwin stopped us all and smiled, getting everone's attention before speaking up, "Who's up for pizza?"

"WE ARE!" Sasha and Connie rammed their way up to the front, raising their hands excitedly. I looked over to Levi, noticing how he was giving an apathetic look about the offer. I was hungry, though, and pizza sounded really good right now.

"Well, it's usually tradition for us to go over to one of our houses for Halloween, so I was thinking we should come to mine for the rest of the night. We can order up some pizza, how does that sound?" Everyone nodded in agreement, Sasha and Connie especially.

By the time that we got out of the parking lot and started to follow behind everyone's groups of cars, it was already 7:45pm. I made sure to text mom to tell her where I was at since she was always a worry wart when it came to me leaving the house, but not Mikasa since she is more responsible than I am.

Eren: Hey ma, everyone is going to Erwin's house to eat some pizza and hang out for a little while longer. I've got a lot of candy, so you can have some too!

For some reason, whenever I sent Mom that last message, I felt a twinge in my heart. It probably was just my imagination, but I couldn't escape the feeling that something bad was going to happen.

Er...I'm sorry. That's all I can say for this next shit that's going to be happening.

Anyways, thanks for reading yet again!

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