That day on the train

by Nodameee

"Screw this train." Eren mumbled under his breath. Everyday day he had to ride the stuffy train to school, always failing to find a seat. Now not only that, Hanji lost a bet to Petra and Eren was forced to dress up as a girl to the school ball. "Why is this happening to me..." Ereri/Riren/Eren x Levi

10. Rejected

Rejected

"SHIT I'M LATE FOR SCHOOL!" Hanji screamed as she chucked her alarm clock onto her bed, grabbed her glasses and scrambled to get to the bathroom on all fours, not bothering to make her bed. Using her quickest speed, she brushed her teeth and did her hair before racing back to her bedroom again "Running late huh?" Her dad was leaning at the bathroom doorway with a smirk "Yeah, dad can you drive me to school today?" Hanji was already halfway down the hallway and slamming her bedroom door shut "My pleasure." Her dad laughed as he went downstairs to wait.

Her ringtone seemed extra annoying today as she struggled to find the ringing phone. When she finally found it, she picked up without seeing who it was. "HELLO?"
"Hanji! Where are you?" Petra's worried voice started on the other end
"PETRA THANK GOD, TELL ERWIN I'LL BE A BIT LATE." She could faintly hear Eren's voice in the background asking where Hanji was since she was 4th up.
"Ok, just hurry up and get here."
"BYE!" She ended the call quickly and rushed to get dressed "Oh my fucking god where is my uniform?" she flipped through her closet trying to find her uniform "Finding this?" Her mum walked in with her uniform, neatly ironed. "THANKS MUM, YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER!"
"No problem, I'll see you at school then." She quickly got dressed and ran down the stairs.
"You ready?" Her dad passed her a piece of toast which she took gratefully "Yeah, let's go."

She put her shoes on with the piece of toast hanging in her mouth and opened the front door. "HANJI!" Everyone was outside "What the." She took the toast out of her mouth and stared at the people outside her door then stared back at her dad who had already shut the door and was peeking through the window from the kitchen. "So…are we gonna go or what? If we keep standing here staring at each other, we will actually be late and since like everyone who is going on stage is here, Erwin's going to give us hell if we don't show up on time." Eren said quietly. "We should be going!" Krista pulled Eren's hand and smiled up to him, the boy smiled back at her causing glares from Mikasa and Levi. Krista just poked her tongue out at them playfully while letting go of his hand. Hanji turned around and waved at her dad who gave her a thumbs up and the group walked off, the excited atmosphere affecting one another. Hanji walked beside Levi, who was staring at the back of a certain brunette with a slightly softened expression. "You like him don't you." Levi's head turned around sharply and his usual cold grey eyes met with Hanji's eyes, the expression Hanji saw a few seconds ago seemed like an illusion.
"Is there extra shit in your brain today?"
Hanji laughed at the insult "No, I'm just stating the obvious." She opened her mouth to say something else but got cut off by Levi "If you're gonna start with some of that weird sciency shit, save it."
"Aw, but Leeeeevi."
"The name's Levi, not Leeeeevi." Levi rubbed his temples. "But Eren gets to say it."
"He's a kid." Eren turned his head around in front of them and pouted at Levi "I'm not a kid."
"I'm older than you now." The brunette raised his eyebrow "You had to?" Levi smirked "Yeah, I had to." He sighed and turned back around to talk to Mikasa and Armin. Hanji watched the short conversation with high interest, it seemed as if they had something between them that the rest didn't know. "What was that about?"
"None of your business."
"You going to tell him before you leave school?"
"…None of your business."
"You might never get to see him again?"
"And why do you care?"
"Because he's a pretty hot target." Hanji winked and Levi fell silent.

The school was set up with balloons in all sorts of colours, Eren picked one up that had fallen to the ground and showed Levi "Tch, go away." Levi frowned "Levi hates balloons" Petra whispered in his ear with a giggle "Ohhh…" Eren grinned as well. "I heard that, Petra." Levi glared at the petite girl. "I don't hate balloons, the one he picked up was filthy. It was on the ground." Levi muttered "Sure." Erwin walked past him "Shut up eyebrows."
"Hey Erwin" Hanji said with a cheerful voice to Erwin who nodded. "Ok guys, get into your places."

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The graduation ceremony took ages, it was already around 4:30 pm when they finally left the school.
"Ahh… my legs hurt." Jean complained
"Dude, you only stood for like 10 minutes." Connie rolled his eyes "Think of Levi and Eren, they stood for basically the whole thing. Besides, did you see Eren? He was literally flooded with presents from girls' younger or same year as us. I mean, Eren, you could have told us you were that popular."
"Yeah" Armin laughed
"I didn't know that would happen… I don't buy girls like Jean does." Eren laughed at his own joke earning a harmless glare form Jean.
"Shut the hell up shithead." Jean growled at his laughing friend.
"I'm hungry." Sasha looked like she was dying without food "Go get food then?" Reiner patted her back. "Nah I'm good, I need to go home. Gotta pack." Sasha grinned "Oh, right. You guys are going on a vacation." Reiner chuckled.
"Hanji, how many days are we going?"
"Let's see…" She took out her phone and tapped on the screen a few times "Like 5 days, so 4 nights." She looked at her phone for a little while and frowned as if she was thinking hard "I suggest you bring warm clothing and uh some cooking supplies, I have a feeling that this thing my mum set up isn't going to be one of those fancy hotels. Hope you don't mind..."
"Cooking eh? I can bring them." Sasha announced looking proud "Cool, thanks Sasha." Hanji smiled "I guess that basically the most important stuff. You all know what else to bring right? Clean clothing, toothbrush…"
"Yeah, we know don't worry." Eren smiled "Where are we meeting tomorrow?"
"Uh, how about we meet at your house."
"Sure, what time?"
"We need to get there early so, leave your house at 9 in the morning? Basically everyone needs to be at Eren's house at 8:30. Judging from my GPS thing, it's a 6 hour drive." Marco groaned causing everyone to look at him.
"It's such a long drive…"
"Ah, we'll be taking breaks every now and then." Hanji announced and Marco nodded.
"Sounds like fun… It's a shame we couldn't go." Krista smiled softly "Maybe next time." Everyone nodded in agreement. Annie looked around "Are you guys going to get packing or what because I want to go home."
"Ok, I'll see you guys tomorrow?"
"Bye!" They all headed different ways.
Levi looked at Eren who looked back with a hint of laughter in his eyes "Well, I'll see you tomorrow brat."
"Bye, Heichou." Eren received a glare as a response as the raven haired male turned and walked away, Eren made his way to the train station and boarded the train home.

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"Eren, wakey wakey…" Petra whispered gently to her cousin. "5 more minutes mum…" Eren flipped to the other side, ignoring Petra. "I'm not your mum Eren, and you really need to wake up or else – "
"EREN ITS 8:29 WAKE UP!" Hanji's loud voice startled Eren, he sat up on his bed with wide eyes scanning his room in shock. A few people were in his room, Petra, Hanji, Armin and… Levi? "The heck… get out of my fucking room guys." He sighed and got out of bed to get ready "Ok, I'll see you downstairs Eren." Armin laughed and walked downstairs guiding the rest, Eren just waved his hand at them without turning around as he closed the bathroom door. "Hm? Levi you coming?" Armin looked at the male who was sitting on Eren's bed not giving a damn about what's going on. He shook his head and Armin shrugged heading downstairs.

Eren walked into his room again after taking a quick shower and brushing his teeth. He saw someone in his room and sighed as he saw who it was "What the hell Levi, why are you still…" His voice trailed off as he saw what Levi was doing. The male had fallen asleep on Eren's bed and Eren was speechless as he walked over and placed a small blanket over him. That woke Levi up and Eren observed that he was a light sleeper "…What are you doing brat." Eren sighed loudly resisting the urge to roll his eyes as he spoke "You fell asleep, didn't want you to catch a cold so I gave you a blanket. Never thought that would wake you up." Levi nodded and lifted his legs onto Eren's bed while turning around to face the wall "Well, hurry up and change. We don't have all day, wake me up when you're done." He pulled the blanket up and stopped talking. Eren buried his face into his hand, this guy… he turned and flipped through his closet and found something to wear. After changing, he walked gently over to his bed but before he reached it, Levi sat up and nodded "Let's go." Then he walked out of his room, leaving Eren with a load of question marks. A few seconds later, Levi's head reappeared behind his door and stared at the brunette "Are you coming or not?"
"Coming, coming." Eren grabbed his bags and they walked down the stairs together.

Everyone was sitting at the dining table, Eren's parents seemed pretty happy talking to them. "Ah Eren and Levi!" Carla smiled sweetly as the two appeared "Morning mum." Eren walked over to the table and took two apples "Hello again Mrs Jaeger." Levi replied politely with a slight smile while catching the apple Eren chucked at him. "You guys took ages." Jean complained "Sorry, we should get going soon shouldn't we Erwin?" Eren looked at the tall blonde who was ready something on his phone. "Yeah, we should be going about now. Thank you for the breakfast Mr and Mrs Jaeger, see you next time." Erwin nodded at Eren's parents who smiled back at him "Have a safe trip!"
"We will."

Eren stood quietly as he waited for everyone to put their shoes on "Hey Eren, take this." Hanji chucked something at him "What? A walkie talkie? You're a genius Hanji." His friend grinned as she pressed a button and whispered into the walkie talkie "Can you hear me?" Eren mimicked her movements and whispered back "Yeah." Hanji gave him a thumbs up and she opened the door to the front seat of Erwin's large black BMW and sat in. The rest started piling into his car and soon only the people who was going on Levi's car were still standing outside. "Eren, you're sitting at the front!" Petra yelled as she got into the back seat of the car dragging Connie and Sasha with her.
"…" He climbed into the front of Levi's grey Toyota highlander wordlessly, Levi sat in a few seconds after Eren, not surprised that Eren was sitting beside him.
"Are we ready to go?" Armin said through the walkie talkie which surprised the 3 people at the back seat. "Woahh what was that!" Connie grinned taking the walkie talkie from Eren's hands and replying into it "Yeah, we're good." Erwin's car in front of them started to move and Levi followed close behind.

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After driving for around two hours, they stopped for a break. "Ahh… finally." Connie groaned as he got out and stretched. They were at a place where there were a few shops to shop in and rest "Eren, Levi, are there any drinks you guys want?" Petra walked over with Mikasa and asked "Uh, hot chocolate please and Levi?" Eren looked at the man to his right "Tea thanks." The two girls nodded and walked off to buy the drinks, he saw Hanji, Erwin, Armin, Connie and Sasha but he didn't see Jean or Marco. "Hanji, where's Jean and Marco?" he asked the girl.
"Oh, Marco fell asleep on the car so Jean offered to stay in the car with him."
"Ok." He saw that Levi had gone back into the car and closed his eyes for a short nap so he got in with him. As soon as he closed the door Levi opened his eyes, he watched Eren until it was getting uncomfortable for the brunette. "What." Eren finally asked.
"Nothing, just looking at what you're doing."
"I'm just getting in. Nothing exciting."
"What if you trip, or close the door on your foot?" Levi smirked
"…Well I didn't, so." Eren sighed as he saw Petra and Mikasa walk over passing drinks around.
"Thanks Mikasa." Eren smiled at her cousin.
"You're welcome Eren." She eyed Levi with a hint of smile in her eyes "Levi, stay patient." She winked at the raven haired male. "The fuck..." Levi mumbled.
"Well, we're going to be leaving soon so get ready. It's already 12." Levi nodded and watched as Erwin and the others got back into the car. In no time at all they were driving again.

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They didn't stop for the rest of the drive, when they finally got to the place, it was already 4:30 pm.
"Well, that took a bit longer than I thought." Hanji announced. It was an old but large house, they walked into the house to see that the house was really clean and tidy but simple. The walls had chocolate coloured wallpapers and there was a large TV in the middle of the living room. The couch was big enough for everyone to sit on "Uh so… this is the place your mum booked?" Armin asked Hanji. "Well, apparently." Hanji looked just as confused as the others "It looks more like a large household than a hotel or anything." Marco commented "That means we will probably be living like a family for the next 5 days.." Jean ended. "Coming to think of it… it's really not that bad right? I mean, it would be kinda fun. It's not something everyone will experience in their lives with their friends." Petra giggled "I agree, it would be fun. Besides, it's only for 4 nights. I think we will be the only ones in here" Eren laughed as well "What's for dinner today?" Mikasa suddenly asked "Um… let's go take a look at the kitchen."

"Wow, this kitchen is amazing…" Sasha looked around, her eyes sparkling "Can I cook tonight? Please please pleaseee!"
"Haha…of course Sasha, but… we have no food." Erwin opened the fridge and reported.
"Aw…"
"Um… if someone is willing to take me to the supermarket, I can buy the stuff needed..?" Eren started "OH THAT WOULD BE GREAT THANKS EREN." Sasha nearly cried with joy.
"I'll take him." Everyone turned around to the person who barely spoke ever since they got here.
"Ah yes, that would be fab Levi." Hanji smirked while pushing the two out of the door "well I'll be looking forward to dinner. We'll get all the luggage and stuff sorted before you guys get home, just go off and enjoy yourselves~" Hanji slammed the door shut in their face. Levi and Eren looked wordlessly at each other before making their way towards Levi's car.

Hanji peeked at them through the small window on the door and breathed out heavily after she saw them leave, she then turned around to face the group of people who had also gathered around her to watch them leave. "Ok guys, I know there are 6 rooms in this house and each room has two beds. This means that people will have to share bedrooms and one person will sleep alone-"
"CAN I SLEEP ALONE" Connie literally yelled at Hanji.
"Uh… yes ok, does anyone mind?" She looked around and people were shaking their heads and shrugging "Well, the rest please find someone you're sleeping with for the 5 days here." She walked off to Erwin who was sitting down on the couch.
"How do you think Levi is progressing with Eren?" She asked quietly
"I don't know, he seems to like him don't you think. But then there are times when I don't think he feels anything for the boy." Erwin muttered
"Yeah, I wonder when Levi will make the first move."
"Oh, he already has."
"Huh? When?" Hanji looked confused
"Just then, he offered to take the boy out meaning he wants private time with him alone. Probably shocked by the amount of presents Eren received from girls, gosh Hanji, you really weren't joking when you said Eren was popular" Erwin chuckled.
"I told you! And that makes sense." Hanji laughed.
"What are you guys saying?" Another voice joined the conversation, Petra looked at her two friends with interest.
"Nothing, just taking about how Levi offered to take Eren out." Hanji said "Ohh I see, and Hanji, I'm sleeping with you." Hanji nodded and walked back over to the rest of the group.

"Have you guys decided who's with who?"
"I'm with Marco." Jean answered, an unnoticeable small blush formed on his cheeks.
"Hanji~" Petra smiled
"I said I wanted to be with Eren, but Armin said no…" Mikasa's face dropped "Mikasa… you can be with me if you want?" Sasha said eating something, Mikasa nodded.
"How about you Armin?" Hanji looked at the blonde boy
"I-I was going to go with Eren but…" His voice trailed off, but Hanji already knew the reason why, how could he not have noticed? She winked at him and he smiled "How about you be with Erwin?" Hanji asked, he nodded but looked a bit shy as he looked at the taller male "Sorry to be disturbing you for 4 nights Erwin.." Erwin laughed "Not a problem at all."
"Wait so if Jean's with Marco, your with Petra, I'm with Sasha and Armin's with Erwin… then is Eren going with Levi?!" Mikasa's eyes widened, she wasn't stupid. She could feel Eren's feelings growing on Levi, but she just felt unsure about all this.
"Yeah, don't worry. Levi is safe." Petra seemed to have seen through her cousin's worries and smiled at her "If you say so…" Mikasa decided to give those two a chance.
"Right! So, since we got that sorted, why don't we go pick the rooms?"
"OK!"

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The silence was awkward on the car, Eren sat beside Levi dozing off slightly. "You tired?" Levi's voice cut through the tension. "O-oh no, I'm not." He answered, not sure how to reply at the sudden question. "No, you're tired." Levi's eyes stayed on the road "Uh, no I'm not actually." Eren raised his eyebrow. "Yes, you are actually, and you can sleep. I'll wake you up when we get there." Eren sighed "Ok, whatever, I'll sleep if I'm tired." Levi nodded. The silence started again, Eren didn't realise he had been staring at the side of Levi's face for a while now. "Oi, had enough staring?" Levi finally spoke up "Uh, y-yeah sorry." Eren felt his face burning and he turned around to look outside the window "What are you planning to buy today?" Levi asked.
"Um… I really don't know. Is there anything you want to eat?" Eren threw a question back to him.
Levi thought for a moment before slowly making out "…Pasta."
"Right, pasta it is. Even if Sasha doesn't know how to make it, I can make it." Then he started mumbling to himself "Should I buy the sauce or make the sauce… tomatoes are expensive lately… so I might as well just buy the sauce…" Levi listened with a very small smile "LEVI YOUR SMILING!" Eren suddenly gasped "No I'm not you little shit."
"Yes! I saw you! Levi SMILED!" Eren was shouting and it was getting on Levi's nerves "Shut up brat."
"Not until you admit you smiled…"
"No."
"But you did smile."
"Whatever." He turned into the corner where the supermarket was and parked his car before walking into the supermarket with a bright eyed kid.

"Finally." Levi said while dragging the kid out of the supermarket "Honestly, if I had knew it would take that much trouble to get you out of the cake section I would have never let you go there in the first place." Eren was pouting and the shorter man sighed "I'll take you somewhere better next time ok? I know a really nice cake shop." His face instantly brightened up and Levi rolled his eyes.
"Come on Levi, let's go home." He smiled brightly and Levi instantly felt his heart skip a beat, he thought over to what his friends had been saying to him and they may have been right. He might just like this kid. The feeling that he felt in his heart when he cried, the beat that his heart skips when he smiled. The sound of his own music when he played with him. Everything was falling into place slowly. He got into the car at the same time as Eren and drove off in silence, he needed time to think and process the thoughts he just had. If he had confirmed that he liked Eren, should he tell him? What if Eren thought he was weird, or even disgusting? He's never been rejected, up to now it had always been him rejecting other people. He never thought anyone liked him for who he was, it had always been looks…and money, but for some reason Eren made him feel special. "Levi? Are you alright?" Great, now the person on his mind is talking to him. "Yeah, I'm good." Eren nodded, after a few seconds he started speaking again but really softly, Levi barely heard what he said "Levi, I need to tell you something tonight. I saw a small lake when we got to that house, would you like to come with me…?" Levi didn't know what to reply, he wanted to say yes but somehow… "Thanks but no thanks." From the corner of his eye, he saw emerald eyed kid's face filled with disappointment but quickly covered up by embarrassment. "A-ah alright haha." He pulled a forced smile onto his face which made Levi frown. The rest of the ride was quiet, it was unusual to see the brat this quiet. He quickened up the pace and drove a little faster, hoping that Eren would say something or tell him to drive slower, but he seemed to be stuck in his own thoughts.

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"WECOME HOME GUYS!" Hanji's annoying voice nearly made Levi turn and walk back out of the door. "Hey" Eren laughed "Have you guys sorted out who's sleeping with who already? Wait you guys already took my luggage into the room?" He glanced at the place his luggage was before he left and asked. "Yeah! We have, I'm sleeping with Hanji, Mikasa is sleeping with Sasha, Armin with Erwin, Jean with Marco and Connie's sleeping by himself." "Oh…." Eren thought for a moment who was left, before his curiosity turned into horror "Wait…I'm with Levi…?" He turned his head slowly to look at the man next to him who stared back with a frustrated expression. "Shit. Show me the damn room glasses." Levi closed his eyes then reopened them as he walked up the stairs.
"No problem! Eren, you come up too." The boy nodded and followed.

"Ok, seriously Hanji, what the fuck." Levi nearly kicked Hanji out of the window "It was a coincident…" she started
"You call this…a fucking coincident?" Levi cut her off "You call sleeping with him on the same fucking bed, a coincident?"
"No but…" Hanji started again with a grin on her face and Levi already knew what she was going to say next.
"Whatever, get out. I've had enough of your shitty ideas." Levi glared at her which made her grin even wider.
"Levi, like I said before. Stay patient." Mikasa said casually as she walked out of the room ignoring the sharp glare behind her back. Eren was standing in the doorway with a lot of question marks. "Well, are you gonna get in or what. I need to close the door."Eren quickly walked into the room, shutting the door behind him, Levi started to unpack his stuff so Eren copied. It wasn't long before he had finished, he made an excuse to see if Sasha was making dinner to get out of the awkward room. Eren nearly collapsed at the door as soon as he walked out of the room, the thought of sleeping with Levi on the same bed made him really nervous. Especially after that awkward rejection. It was weird, since everyone else's room had two beds…
He sighed and walked down the stairs to find Sasha.

Note:
So here we are, Levi realised he liked Eren. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure why he rejected Eren… sorry guys XD I hope the household thing was alright (them living together like a family for 5 days) I just thought that it would be pretty cool if I ever got the chance to experience something like that in real life. Sadly, I probably won't, so I'll do it for them :)) This chapter probably wasn't the best chapter but hopefully it wasn't really boring. I think there will be more interesting stuff going on next chapter. Also, sorry for not replying to the people who commented. The system wasn't working I think or something was wrong with my computer, idk… Thank you all for reading this up to now, see you next chapter :)