Eren:
Warm air rushes throughout the store as another costumer steps inside from the blazing summer heat. My eyes are heavy, and blurry, but I can make out their clomping footsteps as they near the counter.
"Welcome to Sweety Pi's, what can I get you?" I smile wider than usual to make up for my eyes being nearly shut. Lately I haven't been able to sleep much. I can't remember my dreams, but I usually wake up rapidly panting, and drenched in cold sweat . My lack of sleep seems to take over my body this past week seeing as I could barely stay awake during my finals, and the fact that I can't even keep my eyes open in a dream.
At least I think this is a dream..
"Eren." That voice...
My eyes snap open to see Jean standing in front of me with a scorn adorning his face.
Yep, definitely a dream.
"JEAN! How are you?" I fling myself over the counter and embrace his now rigid body. "Are you liking being a Sandman?"
It was as if someone flipped a switch. All of a sudden the cool, relaxing store I pictured, rapidly burned into a sweltering, red, chaotic mess.
"You're just gonna act casual?" His glare burns into my confused, droopy eyes.
I stare up at him innocently, not knowing what he was referring to. "Why wouldn't I be casual? What's wrong, Jean?"
"Well let's think, Eren. Maybe it's because, oh I don't know, YOU FUCKED SOMEONE 4 MONTHS AFTER I DIED? Does that ring a bell?"
With my smile fading, I check to make sure he's not joking, but find no traces of humor anywhere on his strict face. I awkwardly cough into my fist before continuing, "Uh, Jean, I loved you and always will, but Levi is here with me now and makes me just as happy as you made me. He helped me through your death, Jean! It's not like I moved on in a night or something!"
"ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME EREN? Oh wait no, because you're fucking Levi. 4 months is just as screwed up as a night! You could've at least fucking waited a year!"
"Jean, please just-"
He cuts me off with an inhumane growl, "Don't tell me to listen to you because I have. I've listened to you and your new boyfriend. I ca-"
"THEN YOU SHOULD FUCKING KNOW HOW SHITTY I WAS AFTER YOUR DEATH YOU IDIOT! YOU'RE ACTING LIKE I NEVER LOVED YOU AND WE BOTH KNOW THAT'S COMPLETE SHIT!" I spit angrily at him before taking a calm breathe and continue, "Jean you're gone, I can't spend anymore time pretending that us being together will work."
His head turns rapidly away from mine, and he brings a hand up to his now wet face.
"That's still shitty to me and you know it." I sigh.
"It's shitty that you're holding me moving on after your death against me. I've found someone who made me as happy as you did! Why can't you accept that and move on?"
"Fuck you, Jaeger." He answers with a huff.
The sweltering room chills as another presence makes themselves known in my dream.
"Jean." Levi acknowledges him with an icy tone. He pulls out a pack of tissues to wipe the sweat I didn't realize was falling from my face. "Where have you been?" He directs his question at Jean while cleaning my face. I stare with an embarrassed blush at the floor while Levi continues his task.
Jean clicks his tongue to which Levi responds with a terrifying glare.
"Marco's worried." Jean whips his head to look Levi directly in the eyes.
I tug on Levi's suit sleeve, "Who's Marco?" He simply stares Jean back in the eyes, as if daring him to answer.
"He's my friend." He mumbles, breaking eye contact with Levi's silvery stare. Tch. Levi clicks his tongue at the seemingly false information Jean presented me with.
"So you make out with all your friends? You take all your friends on dates?" My eyes widen to the size of saucers. THAT FUCKING HORSE!
That's when I loose it. I scream at him, my eyes practically turning red as I call him out, "YOU'RE A FUCKING HYPOCRITE! YOU TELL ME I MOVED ON TOO FUCKING FAST BUT THEN YOU HAVE A SANDMAN BOYFRIEND? YOU'RE ALLOWED TO MOVE ON BUT I'M NOT? I'M NOT ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY? FUCK YOU, JEAN!" I stomp over until I'm right in front of him, poking him in the chest, "YOU PURPOSEFULLY MADE ME LOOSE SLEEP, YOU ATTACK MY BOYFRIEND, AND NOW YOU END UP BEING A FUCKING HYPOCRITE? GET OUT!" I breathe in sharp breaths with my hands now clenched into fists.
"Eren," Levi's hand finds my shoulder and pulls me away from Jean, "I think it's time you wake up." I nod and angrily turn back to Jean.
"Don't mess with our relationship anymore. I've found my happiness and it sounds like you've found yours. Let's leave it at that." Without waiting for a response I pinch my arm and wake up with a start.
"Ah." I sit up straight on my bed, panting and, just like every other night this week, covered in sweat.
I feel around on my nightstand before picking up my cold iPhone. Levi texted me 3 hours ago at 1:16 am that he'd been able to keep his human form since 10 p.m and only just started fading. Although it doesn't as impressive as days do, this at least meant that his times were getting longer again.
I sigh, running a hand through my damp hair. My clock glew with an angry red announcing it was 4:29, I was lucky that school had ended two days ago, otherwise I would've skipped it all together. I heaved a heavier sigh realizing that in 3 months I'd have to drive down to California State to attend my freshman year of college. So excited..
I gradually get up from my over-heated bed and sneak downstairs, careful to miss the creaky steps, to grab a glass of water. My heart was still pounding from that nightmare I had a little over 15 minutes ago.
When I was finished with my ice water, I set it in the sink and crept upstairs once again, but instead of being met with my slightly over-heated room, I was met with Levi sitting on my bed with his leg crossed over the other. He seems to be swiping invisible dust off of his shoulder before he noticed my shocked form standing in the doorway.
"Are you going to stand over there all night, princess, or do you want an explanation?" His snarky comment got my legs to start functioning again as they moved me to sit next to his petite form. I tug him closer and bring him into a tight hug, inhaling his calming scent of chamomile. He massages my back and moves his head so it's fitted against my neck.
I glance down at Levi, "So, are you going to sit here all night or are you gonna give me an explanation?" He reaches up and flicks me in the nose, rather hard I should mention, his form still wrapped tightly in mine.
"Jean agreed to do his work again." I gape down at Levi. "Yeah it took a hell of a lot of time, but eventually he said you were right. He said that if I make you as happy as Marco makes him, then you deserve me."
"Oh my god! LEVI WE CAN FINALLY BE TOGETHER!" I wrap him tighter in my arms, if that's even possible, and squeal. His calloused fingers reach up and wipe away the tears I failed to notice leaking from my cerulean eyes.
"Idiotic brat." He chuckles into my neck.
"I think you mean your idiotic brat."
Levi hides his laughter in my shoulder, "Shut up. You need a shower."
I snort as I get up to do exactly that even though it's only 5 a.m.
Anything for my Levi.