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8-chan requested an angry/embarrassed Eren boyo trying to tell a deaf girl that he likes her!

I use the name Snow for the stand-in name. Different chapter, different person, same name. I hope that makes sense.

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Eren - Give This A Chance

He first saw her on one of his first few outings to town after he joined the Scouts. He couldn't keep his eyes off of her, following her movements with his gaze. She finally looked toward him after feeling stared at and instead of the usual scowl people shoot him or trying to avoid him in any way, she smiled.

The brightest, most pure smile he had ever seen. He flushed and couldn't stop himself from shyly smiling back, then she turned and walked away. He so desperately wanted to call out to her right then, but he couldn't since "he wasn't there to sight-see", as Lieutenant Levi put it as he called him to him. He couldn't get her out of his mind after that.

Two weeks later, which was the next time he went to town, he saw her again in just about the same place, reading under the shade of a tree. He wondered if she regularly come to relax under that tree. Perhaps, he'll see her around here again whenever he comes by. She looked up from her resting place and locked eyes with him. Again, she smiled, adding a wave this time. Eren found himself smiling, returning a small wave and she went back to her reading. Every encounter, he would stare, she would smile, sometimes wave and go back to whatever she was doing before hand with the smallest hint of a blush. Eren always noticed it, wondering why she had started to do that recently. Then, he decided he had to try to speak to her.

Eren doesn't understand. He simply doesn't understand why she don't respond when he calls out to her. Somehow, he hasn't had enough time to get to her and by the time he does, she'll either be too busy with errands or she's already gone.

It frustrated him to no end.

"I can't get her attention anymore!" Eren explained to Armin in exasperation while over dinner. "I try calling out to her..." he sighed.

"What happens?"

"It's like she doesn't hear me!"

"Aw, is titan boy having girl problems?" Jean cooed at him with a shit-eating grin.

"Can it, Horseface, before I take my frustrations out on you."

"She ignores you, huh? No surprise there." Jean couldn't help himself. Eren's having girl problems, it's the perfect opportunity to mess with him!

Eren stood up abruptly, just about ready to punch his stupid his face in.

"Eren." Mikasa called out him, trying to get him to sit back down. She doesn't want the cleaning freak of a Lieutenant to come over to "solve" the problem. Eren sat back down when she pulled on his shirt sleeve.

"Yeager, stop whining and just go up her and tell her." Jean said, resting his cheek against the palm of his hand.

"I don't need advice from the guy who almost lost his girlfriend!"

Armin visibly cringed at the mention of his sister being Jean's girlfriend.

"I got her and I'm telling you to stop being a wimp! You're a Scout for Goddesses' sake!"

Eren scowled at him as said girlfriend rubbed Jean's arm in an attempt to get him to calm down and leave one of her brother's alone. Eren's been trying! It's not like he's been going up to her then running away before he says anything! The next chance he gets, he's going to rush over to her before she have a chance to escape him again and just tell her! After dinner, he asked and got permission from Lieutenant Levi to go into town next week and he thought of exactly how he was going to get her attention and how he was going about telling her he liked her. He's going to succeed this time! He found her once again under the shade of a tree, reading peacefully like she usually like to do. Ok, he just needs to call out to her and—He realized that he didn't even know her name and he wanted to facepalm. He's just been calling out, "Hey!" or "Wait!" or something similar, of course she haven't been paying much attention.

"Excuse me." he called out as he neared her, but she didn't even flinch. Is she really ignoring him? He tried being a little louder. "Excuse me!"

When that still didn't work, he sighed and walked right up to her, finally catching her attention when she saw the tip of his shoes. She looked up at him with curiosity in her eyes, straight into his. Goddesses above, her eyes were much more beautiful up close. His brain blanked as he started getting lost in them, but he snapped out of it when he noticed her expression shift from curiosity to confusion. Embarrassed, everything he told himself flew out the window and he blurted out the first thing that came to his mind.

"I-I like you!"

Did he say that too loud? He noticed the few people within earshot glance his way and his cheeks burned. Instead of verbally answering him, she reached into a light brown satchel at her side, pulling out a notebook and a pencil. Eren watched her curiously as she opened it, quickly scribbled something down and turned it over for him to see.

"I'm sorry, but I'm deaf. Can you please write down what you're trying to tell me?"

Deaf...

She's deaf!

Now it makes sense! No wonder she always seemed like she never heard him! Thinking about it, Eren feels a bit foolish about this now that he knows.

With a patient smile, he gently took the notebook and pencil she was holding out to him, wrote down exactly what he had tried to say and handed it back. He sat in from her, studying her expression as she read and watching her pause as red blossomed on her cheeks.

Too cute.

She snapped her head up, gazing at him as if she couldn't believe what he said, her golden brown eyes a shining open book. You truly feel this way about me?

The expression had him wanting to reach over and kiss her. Finally, she looked down and started to write, seemingly stumbling over what she wanted to convey on paper, occasionally crossing out a word or two. After a moment, she passed the notebook back to him, her fingers slightly shaking with nervousness. Or was it excitement?

"I've wanted to speak to you for a while now, but I've been too embarrassed."

Eren's smile widened, happy that he wasn't the only one wanting to talk and he also came to the conclusion that it meant that she had been thinking of him, too.

"My name is Snow."

"Eren Yeager." he wrote.

Snow paused. Crap, she recognized his name, didn't she?

"You're that boy who can turn into a titan!"

Looking at your expression almost made him laugh. Her eyes were wide and shining brightly in genuine interest. Thank the Goddesses his ability to transform didn't scare her away. She stopped when her gaze landed on his shirt and curiosity made him follow her eyes to the symbol of his uniform.

"You're in the Survey Corps, aren't you? You bare the crest of the Wings of Freedom."

He nodded and noticed her lips pulled into a frown. Please don't tell him that she's one of the people against the idea of the Scouts...

"My father was in that regiment."

Was. Past tense.

Eren frowned as she continued to write.

"I remember he used to hug me like he would never get to again, every time he had to go outside of the walls."

Eren felt his chest tighten when he looked up and into her sad eyes. He skimmed over the page and saw the words "And then he" crossed out, before you pulled it back to write again.

"I don't want to have to go through that again."

The boy reached out and grabbed both of her hands, acting on instinct. He leaned in and spoke slowly, making sure she can read his lips.

"I will never leave you behind."

He gave her hands a squeeze as he looked into her eyes again, those emerald eyes expressing intense absolute; this was a genuine promise.

Snow didn't know if she could go through that pain again. If she became serious with him and he didn't return one day...The day of when she got the news about her father flashed in her mind, she couldn't stop the tears coming to her eyes. Eren's eyes changed their expression to worry and he so badly wanted to hug her, but thought it was too forward. He knows. He knows what went on in her mind to bring her tears, so he held her hands tighter in place of a hug.

Snow didn't want to go through that again. But...

She gently pulled one of your hands out of his and put up your thumb, index finger and pinkie, while keeping your ring and middle finger down. She held her hand out, palm facing away from her and she moved it back and forth slightly. He gave her a slight confused expression, so she mouthed,

"I like you."

Instantly, his face flushed and he beamed, smiling, his eyes sparkling like bright emeralds shining in the sunlight.

She wants to give this a chance.

I snuck in a little reference to my last story~

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