CHAPTER 7

So I had apparently broken my foot, and there had been no good news. They had taken me to the hospital afterwards, and after a few hours I had come home with a lot of plaster around my foot.

The doctor had told me not to do anything the next 6 weeks, so I was now forced to stay at home, doing nothing. I was stuck in the living room, staring at the TV all day long. Eren had promised to visit as often as he could, but I was still dying from boredom.

So every time he had come over, I had wanted to spend every minute with him. Not being able to do anything else, we usually just sat on the couch, cuddling or watching a movie. Sometimes we just talked, but no matter what it was, I was more focused than before, giving him all my attention. I started to notice things about him, that I hadn't before.

How his lips pursed when he was annoyed, or how small dimples appeared when he was smiling to widely. How there was always a sparkle in his eyes when he was in a good mood, and how he tried to hide his concern for me.

But the thing that I noticed the most, was how he always knew what I wanted.

Today was Saturday, so Eren had come in the morning, so we could spend the whole day together.

"Good morning," He twirped after opening my bedroom door, before disappearing into the kitchen again. I had given him a key a few days before, so he could come and go as he wanted.

I grabbed my crutches that stood near my bed and used them to get out and into the livingroom.

"Oi! I thought you wanted to come at noon instead? What happened to sleeping in?" I saw how he shrugged, still having his back turned at me.

"I don't know, I just wanted to be here early. I didn't really want to sleep in,"

"Yeah, but I wanted to ... " I muttered for myself, like a little child. I sat at the kitchen counter, placing my crutches at my side.

"What are you doing?" I asked, suddenly intrigued. He rarely cooked for me, and I didn't remember asking him to.

"Pancakes," He said, and turned around to give me a quick smile.

I raised an eyebrow, worried how that would turn out.

"Um ... Okay. But why?"

"Can't I spoil my boyfriend when I want to?" He said and winked at me, before opening the refrigerator to grab the eggs.

"Don't call me that," I said, annoyed. He put the eggs down on the table, and walked over to me. He didn't seem to be affected by my comment at all.

"Well, you clearly don't mind it when I do this," He said, leaning over to grab my chin. He pulled my head forward a bit, and kissed me passionately. I placed my hands on his chest, not having made up my mind yet if I wanted to push him away or pull him closer.

He left me breathless when he cut off the kiss to return to the pancakes.
"Whatever," I muttered, scratching the table with my nail to distract myself.

It took him over half an hour before finally being done. It smelled great though, I just didn't want to give him the satisfaction of telling him. It seemed like he was having a little too much self-confidence today, and I certainly didn't want to contribute to that.

He found the plates, forks, knives and syrup before sitting down. I grabbed a pancake and placed it on my plate, before looking around the kitchen. Eren had put syrup on his, and was already rolling it together.

Where the hell is the jam?

Eren suddenly looked around the table.
"Whoops," He mumbled, before standing up. He reached the refrigerator and quickly pulled out the glass jar with raspberry jam. He sat down again, placing it on the table before returning his attention to his own pancake.

I furrowed my eyebrows, watching it all happen with a baffled expression.

Had I said that out loud? No. I definitely hadn't. Could it be that he had just thought of it himself? No, he had been to focused on his own –
"Hey, want do you wanna do today?"

Eren had reached over to grab my hand, interrupting my trail of thoughts.

"Hmm ... Do you want to play chess?" I asked him, though I already knew the answer. He was prepared to do anything that I wanted to. It was something that I didn't know how to feel about, either being annoyed that he was so nice, or appreciate it.

It was easier to be annoyed, though.

We ate in silence, though it wasn't an uncomfortable one. I was actually most happy about the fact that we could be together without feeling the need always to have a conversation. So we just holded hands most of the time, until we both finished. On one leg I jumped over to the sink, and started cleaning the dishes that he brought over. While waiting for me to finish the dishes, he just stood behind me. His arms were loosely wrapped around my chest and his head were resting between my shoulder wings. His eyes were closed, and he was humming a random melody. It made me sleepy again, my movements becoming sluggish and slow.

When I finally finished, we sat down at the wooden table, so we could focus properly. I put the little pieces on their right places, and we began playing.

I had clearly underestimated the boy.

Everytime I thought I was going to get the upper hand, it seemed like he knew just what to do. Everytime I had moved a piece, he blocked me. Therefore, I ended up overanalyzing every move that I wanted to make.

If I move that one, then I can take his horse, but not if he moves it afterwards.

I took the chance.

He moved it.

Right now, the best thing would to move the tower up there ... Eren has some good opportunities to kill my other horse with his own tower, which would ... No, I'll move the tower and hope he doesn't see that he can actually kill me with his queen ...

He killed it.

"How can you be so good at this?!" I growled, clearly getting more and more worked up over this.

Eren just shrugged, wich pissed me off even more.

"I've played chess for all my life, I've beaten everyone I know, but you still manage to win, and then just shrug about it?" I stood up, knocking my fist into the table.

"This is unbelievable!"

"Are you seriosuly mad that I won over you?" Eren laughed, but I could see him getting nervous. "Levi, don't be a bad loser. It's just sad,"

I grabbed my clutches without another word, and went into my bedroom to cool off.

"Levi!" He yelled, running after me like a lost puppy.
"You cheated," I quickly stated, my hand on the side of the door. I was ready to close it in his face, if I needed to.

"How?" He raised an eyebrow.

"I don't know, you could have – " I groaned in annoyance. "Or you could ..."

I really had no idea.

"I'm sorry, I guess I'm just better than chess than you are. Is that really something to be this upset about?"

He reached over and grabbed my waist. I was still pissed, but I let him pull me towards him anyway.

"Hmf," I just mumbled, crossing my arms to at least distance our upper bodies.

"You're such a girl," Eren mumbled, bending down to kiss me.

I let him, though right before his lips met mine, I noticed something.

His eyes flickered again.