Alright so I updated Levi's part because I left out why Levi was creepin on Eren.
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Eren:
Mikasa and Armin stopped by 2 days into my "I'm not getting out of bed" phase with a bunch of candy and The Sandlot and ended up convincing me to go to school the next day.
I was up until 3 a.m. thinking about how people were going to be giving me the whole 'It's okay to cry. I'm here for you if you need anything,' type shit that they do to make themselves seem like good people when in reality, if you do go up to them with your problems, they run full speed away. Trust me, I know from experience.
I finally got ready for bed and was tossing and turning for a good hour and start to think about Jean. I really didn't feel like crying tonight but I guess my damn emotions had other ideas because I'm currently bawling on my bed for the third time today.
I start to feel choked and I remember I still haven't taken my necklace off. I glide it carefully over my head, being mindful of the scars left on my neck and set it on my nightstand. Deciding I'm all cried out for the day, I turn on my side and a deep sweet voice lures me to sleep.
****
"You're so strong! If I were you I'd still be in bed for another week!" A chorus of agreement goes around the third group of girls that's approached me today.
I was at my locker trying to grab my stuff for track practice when they surrounded me.
"Uh, thanks I guess." I shut my locker and high-tail it out of there before they can start the group hug shit that the other girls did.
I make it out on the track 5 minutes later than it should've taken me and see the team already starting to stretch for the 3 mile run. The groups from earlier on the sidelines staring at me with empathy in their eyes.
Screw them. Screw everyone.
Deciding I've stretched enough, I put my ear buds in blasting Fall Out Boy and start the 3 miles.
Every time I made my way past the groups on the bleachers, I would increase my speed as if saying 'fuck you I don't need your pity eyes.'
I was on my last lap, which at the speed I was going would usually make me feel sore and slow down, but today it made me feel empowered to finish strong. So I picked up my pace one more time, causing my legs to burn in protest, turned up my music to full volume, and finished the 3 miles.
My coach walked over to where I was panting and told me I'd broke my PR by a minute thirteen seconds.
At least something went right today.
****
My first day back at work was unsettling due to it being the place where I met Jean.
It was the day before Thanksgiving and I was called into work because two of the three people who were supposed to be working at Sweetie Pi's that day called in sick last minute. So I had to put on my dumb pink uniform and ride the bus to work because dad took the car to work today.
Upon arriving, I noticed the line extended out the door. I sighed and walked into the chaotic mess of two newbies trying to fill order after order and screwing up more than half of the drinks they put out.
After two hours the line managed to stay within the store and less orders were screwed up. My feet were aching and I swear to god if I had to make another small, low fat vanilla milkshake without whipped cream I'd go crazy and probably end up pouring it over their head.
I'd just finished serving a mom with a crying baby and her child that knocked over the tip jar when I saw cute junior named Jean walk in. I'd seen him in the hallways with his bulky friend Reiner but I'd never really talked to him other than when he asked me in AP bio if he could switch lab partners with me.
I guess I'd been staring because he smirked and asked me if I was planning on taking his order anytime soon. Fuck, fuck fuck. This was not good.I snapped out of my daze and took his order, which was luckily not a small, low fat vanilla milkshake without whipped cream, and went about making it.
Sucks you have to wear pink, but your ass looks great in those pants." I turn around from where I was making his cookie dough milkshake to face him with a surprised look complete with a fucking blush over my cheeks. He was wearing his signature asshole smirk while leaning against the counter.
He came back every week and order something different on the menu each time (there were 314 different types of icecream hence the name Sweetie Pi's). Eventually he started coming up to Armin, Mikasa, and me at lunch.
I sigh and notice the group of girls walking in, hands adorned with Forever 21 and Hollister bags. They all order a kiddie sized scoop of low fat vanilla ice cream in a cup.
I don't mean to stereotype the girls at my school, but the bulk of them are rich and always on some fad diet.
"We're super sorry about your loss." The only black haired girl (Mina?) in the group says while putting $5 into the tip jar. The rest follow in suit shooting me pitying smiles.
Once they leave I snort and look at the tip jar which is now filled with a total of about $30 dollars. My boss Ymir comes out to tell me and Annie we can clock out.
I grab my things from the back and literally run into Reiner on the way out.
He gives me a pat on the back while saying, "We should hang out sometime. I've been meaning to get to know you but Jean never seemed to want us to all hang together." I nod, smiling slightly and walk out the door leaving him to wait for Annie who was still in the back finishing up inventory.
****
Levi:
I'm gearing up for my sleep run tonight, which basically consists of me getting more dust for my pouch, when Hangi appears next to me with some weird, sloppy kid with a bad dye job.
"LEVI!" They scream directly into my ear, which, even though I've been around them for 100 years, I never get used to it.
"What is it, you crazy pain in the ass?" I glare at them and the kid, who shrinks under my gaze, before turning back around and getting my dust ready.
"Meet your replacement! His name is, Jean and he used to be Eren's beloved. You're going to be teaching him about how to put clientele to sleep!" They lean over and loudly whisper into Jean's ear, "Basically you just have to tell them his jokes." They cackle and slap me on the back.
"Hangi, I hope you've told him people wouldn't be able to hear my great jokes because he's invisible to them." The kid looks like he's about to piss his pants.
They sigh before responding, "Levi, what kind of boss would I be if I didn't at least tell Jean the basics?" They look at Jean who's currently struggling with loosening his tie. "Anywhoo! I've gotta go check back in at HQ! See ya, Levi! Be pleasant." They give me a warning glare before smiling again and leaving.
"Alright, kid, we're going to start you off small. So before you work on humans, you'll be putting cats to sleep until you get the hang of it." He raises his eyebrow and looks about to retort something witty but I cut him off with a glare.
"Fine." He mumbles and we go about looking for cats.
"I swear you're making it ten times harder than it has to be. Step one: Find a fucking cat, Step two: Get out your fucking dust, Step three: Think good fucking thoughts Step four: Pour fucking dust on the cat, Step five: you're fucking done. Got it?" He rolls his eyes and tries again for the fifth time.
"I DID IT!" Jean screams and ends up waking the cat up. I slap my hand on my forehead.
"This is going to be a long fucking night."
Once he puts 10 cats to sleep without my help, I decide it's time he try it on a human. So we walk back to Eren's house where he's putting papers in his book bag and starts pulling off his clothes to get into his PJ's.
"Damn, I'd put 1,000 more cats to sleep if I get to see this every night." I glance behind me where Jean is unashamedly looking at Eren's half naked body.
Tch. I slap the back of his head and force him to turn around like I was doing before, "Have some respect you horny shit."
Once I decide Eren's probably dressed and in bed, I turn to Jean and tell him to imagine being weightless and floating through the wall. He closes his eyes and we manage to get through the wall without him getting a bloody nose.
Wait, spoke too soon. I quickly grab a tissue from my pocket before any of his blood can drop on the carpet. That would be a real mess to clean up.
Once his nose stops gushing, I tell him to put Eren to sleep just like he did with the cats.
He walks over to the bed and pulls out his dust. It takes a few tries, but eventually I deem Eren officially asleep.
"Can we see what he's dreaming about?" I raise an eyebrow but eventually nod. The kid wants to see if he's being dreamt about.
"Close your eyes and focus on seeing the dream." He shuts his eyes tightly which makes him look like he's taking a stubborn shit. I chuckle a little before I myself wander into Eren's dream.
We're inside a shop somewhere. Eren's behind the counter with a broad shouldered, blonde male. The temperature starts rising and I can tell Jean feels it too because he's sweating. This can only mean one thing; it's about to become a wet dream. But of course Jean doesn't know that so when Reiner and Eren start wantonly making out.
I glance over at Jean who seems to be taken aback. His face turns from confusion to anger. He starts to stomp towards them, probably to push them apart, but I hold him back and pull us out of the dream.
Jean's face is filled with ill-disguised fury. He glares over at Eren who's moaning in his sleep. I pull him away and we leave to go work on other clients.
I can tell the whole Eren fiasco is messing up Jean's work, but he still manages to get it done fairly well. That is until we get to our last client, Hannah, who sleeps around. It takes us 20 minutes to locate her at a condo with the man she's with tonight.
We end up running into another SleepBringer, literally, who has freckles and dark hair. Jean accidently phases through him when he tries to phase through the wall. The freckled kid named Marco didn't seem phased, pun intended, and continued to talk- dare I say flirt with Jean.
I decide to let Jean talk with Marco and I put Hannah to sleep. I glance at the man beside her. He seems fairly tall and has light brown hair. Marco shows up beside me smiling.
"His name is Franz." I nod and notice Jean staring at Marco. Rolling my eyes I grab Jean who waves to Marco.
"Come on, Lover Boy." Jean and Marco both blush.
"So what happens now?" We're back at the tree outside of Eren's house to make sure he hasn't woken up. Jean seems to have remembered what Eren's currently dreaming about due to the resentment that crosses his face.
"We wait for an hour and go check on the others one more time before we head back to HQ." He nods looking like his head's somewhere else.
"Reiner isn't a good guy." Jean breaks the comfortable silence.
I raise one of my eyebrows as if to say well no fucking kidding that you'd think so because your boyfriend in there is having a wet dream over him and not your dead body. But I'm sure Jean doesn't really see that so I look away and wait for him to continue.
"No, seriously. I've been around him enough to know he's just going to hurt Eren." I turn my head around so fast, I get whiplash.
"He's going to hurt Eren?" Jean nods and starts mumbling about how he can't do anything but I tune him out. Jean may not be able to do anything, but I can.
I realize somewhere between plotting Reiner's death, that the kid with the gorgeous eyes managed to break through my walls without even knowing I exist and I wasn't about to let him get hurt.
Eren:
I have an unsettling dream that night about Reiner. I wake myself up from that nightmare blushing and hoping I'll manage to avoid him at school but as fate would have it Reiner starts clinging to me whenever he can.
Armin told me it was because he liked me, but I think it's because he's upset he lost Jean and needs a new person to spend his time with, or at least I hope that's the reason. Either way it's really awkward because of the whole dream, I mean nightmare, thing that I refuse to think about. But by Wednesday I come to realize, from his multiple unsubtle ways of flirting, that Armin was correct and he did have a crush on me.
Seriously, Reiner? Your best friend just died so you move in on his boyfriend a week later? Classy.
After school he approaches me with the rubix cube he's been trying to solve for a year but this time I noticed it's all been solved.
"Finally finished it?" He looks at me oddly then smiles and laughs.
"Quit playing with me, Eren. I know Jean gave you my locker combo and you used it to solve this. You're the only two who know it so it had to be you."
I raise my eyebrow at his accusation then respond, "I'm not playing with you?" I mean, yes, I did know the combination, but I'd never used it before.
He snorts, "If you're trying to freak me out, you're gonna have to do better than this." He smiles and lightly flicks me on the nose before walking away.
Alright what the fuck? I don't believe in ghosts and shit but this is totally something Jean would do. I shake my head hoping it will clear all thoughts of Jean still being around and meet up with Armin, Sasha, and Connie in the courtyard for lunch.
Connie was talking about throwing a karaoke party so I zoned out. Eventually my gaze fell upon a sleek looking man who was wearing an old fashioned suit and top hat. He seemed to know I was staring, so he walked towards me and glared at me with steely blue eyes.
Well fuck. First off this guy was hot, and second off this guy was pissed. I started blushing and by then, everyone in the group had noticed the guy walking towards us and whistled.
"Didn't you ever learn not to stare at people, brat?" His deep voice cut through my inner panic.
Sasha jumped up clapping her hands together, "SOMEONE SENT US A STRIPPER! WHAT'S YOUR STAGE NAME?!" Connie snorted and Armin turned as red as strawberry.
"What the hell? No, I'm not fucking a stripper but my name's Levi and-"
He was cut off midsentence by Sasha who chirped in, "Well you are a fine looking man, Levi." She winked at him while laughing and sat back down next to Armin who looked like his head was about to explode.
He clicked his tongue and looked about to reply with no doubt a sarcastic response but the bell rang. We threw our trash away and got up to leave.
I briefly glanced behind me to see the short man, Levi, walking away. His body was slowly disappearing. I rub my eyes only to see him completely disappear.
What a weird fucking day.