His day could not get any better. Mikasa was ten times easier to be around now that he didn't have to hide his big secret from her. He was lucky to have such an understanding sister. His best friend would come around too. Armin probably knew by now anyways. He was after all, the smartest kid in their grade.

Eren only wished Levi would turn up somewhere. He had searched for him all day but had yet to find him. It was, in all honesty, bumming him out.

If he already wasn't bumming, he sure was now. Oluo rounded the corner and ran strait into the brunette freshman.

"Oh, uh, it's you," Oluo sputtered. Eren avoided eye contact in a sad attempt at a get away. "Wait, hey. I wanted to apologize. Not about running into you, but the other day. I just... I'm at a bad place in my life right now and I just needed a distraction and..." He trailed off.

"It's okay," Eren said in a small voice.

"I know that Levi really cares about you."

"What?"

"When he beat the crap out of me, he wasn't doing it to put a member of the Levi squad but into place, he was doing it protect you." Eren became slightly less bummed.

"Do you know where I could find him?"

"We were... um... talking in room 103 a few minutes ago. Maybe check there?"

"Thanks!" Eren muttered quickly and he speed-walked towards the classroom.

Rounding the corner, he glanced into the window of room 103. Nobody. I pushed open the door and stepped in. Still nobody. Eren shrugged, turning to walk out. He stopped when he heard muffled talking coming from the storage closet. He put his ear to the door.

"You've filled out nicely." Eren blushed deeply. It wasn't Levi's voice, but the grunting he heard soon after defiantly was.

Eren backed away from the door, staring at it in horror. He tried the knob, no luck. It was locked. Oh no. Oh God no. Was Levi in there having sex with someone else. It wasn't as if they were an item but surely he must know... Eren felt his heart beat strong, but not as strong as it did when he heard gasping coming from the next room. It wasn't a sexual kind of gasping either. It was if-I-could-scream-I-would-but-something-is-constricting-my-airways-and-I-need-help kind of gasping. He listened closer and heard the other man chanting what sounded like "say my name."

Eren didn't know what to do. He ran out of the room, head darting in all directions, looking for anyone to help. All the way down the hall was a janitor, a set of jangling keys swinging around his finger.

"Sir! Sir!" Eren cried, running toward the old man, "You need to help, now. My friend Levi, he's in trouble!" Before the janitor could answer, the teen grabbed him by his keyless hand and pulled him into room 103, cart and all.

"He's in there." At the moment, there was no talking, and Eren was more worried than ever. "Open it!" The janitors eyes grew big as he jimmied the key into the lock, taking what seemed like a whole life time. The door open slightly and open busted through, pushing the janitor out of the way.

There was Levi, pinned and helpless. His grey eyes were barley open, holding less life than ever. A tall blond man had his hand pushed tightly against Levi's trachea. It wasn't a sexual kind of chocking. It was a I-want-to-see-the-life-bleed-out-of-you kind of chocking.

The janitor bumped the boy out of his way and opened his eyes wide.

"Get the hell off of him you psychopath!" Even in his old age, he was able to pull the predator off of Levi and onto the ground behind him. Levi didn't move. Eren picked up the walky-talky from the janitor cart and called the office.

"Come to room 103 fast!" He threw down the device and rushed to Levi.

"Levi! Are you okay? Talk to me!" Nothing. "Levi!"

"What's going on in here?!" shouted the principal. Two teachers rushed to go help the janitor with constraining the blond male and two rushed to aid Levi. Eren was pushed away by all the traffic. His head was spinning. Before he knew it, he bent over a desk and threw up.

...

"Is he going to be okay?"

"He's fine, he's awake now. Nothing in his air way was crushed so that's good. But there is some major bruising so don't be surprised when you see him," the school nurse said.

"Does that mean?"

"Go ahead in."

Eren ran past her and behind the curtain.

"Levi?"

"Hey, brat," he smiled, his voice small. It was true, his entire neck was covered in finger shaped bruises.

"Oh, my God," Eren put a hand over his mouth in an attempt not to cry.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's okay. I'm fine now. See?" He lifted his arms to show he had mobility. "I'm fine."

"You're neck, you could have died! Who was that? What happened? How long-"

"Slow down, Eren. It was an old teacher of mine. He used too..." Levi had reveled two of his biggest secrets, he didn't know if he could revel his repressed memories. He shakily took the packet of cigarettes out of his deep back pocket, not even caring that they were inside of school. Eren flinched as he stuck one between his teeth. When he did, his shirt shifted, revealing the small, bullethole burn left but Oluo's cigarette just a few days ago.

"I- I'm sorry. I know you don't want me smoking."

"No, if that's what you need-" Levi cut him off by tossing the cigarettes into the trash bin by the bed. Eren paused.

"Thank you."

"It's not a problem. It's a nasty habit that I've been needing to quit anyways. I've just never had a reason too... until now, of course." Eren blushed at his words.

"Well, you don't need to talk about it if it upsets you.. What am I saying, of course it upsets you, I just... You can talk about it when.. well I mean-"

"Hey! Quit yammering, would ya? You deserve to know what happened," he took a deep breath. "The man you saw todays name... was Erwin Smith. He was my elementary school teacher. He was also a predator of mine for the majority of my childhood. After I went off to middle school, I guess my mind needed to move on and couldn't handle the memories, so it repressed them. Occasionally, I have a dream when I'm being molested as a child again, I always just thought it was just some weird problems that I had going on in my subconscious. When I saw his face again, all the memories just came flooding back and I didn't know what to do. I guess he wanted to pick back up where he left off, and I guess where if left off was trying to kill me." There was a deep silence in the room. Levi looked over an Eren and noticed the tears streaming down his face. "Eren, don't-"

"I'm so sorry," he cried, throwing himself facedown onto Levi's lap. His chest heaved as he spoke. "You d-don't deserve that. I don't know w-what I can do to help." He sobbed harder.

"Hey," he said, rubbing Erens back, "Just you being here has helped me so much. You're a really amazing person, you know that Eren. And I'm happy to tell the world that Levi Ackerman is in love with Eren Jeager." Erens breath hitched.

"W-what?"

"I said I"m in love with you, Eren Jeager." Levi side smiled. Eren began to cry harder, but was also smiling. Levi found it amusing.

"I'm in love with you, Levi Ackerman," Eren laughed and smiled. His face was wet with tears as Levi put his hands on either side of it and brought their lips together. Eren felt as if he would explode... but in a good way. In an amazing way actually. Is there an amazing way to explode? Eren Jeager would tell you yes, all you need to do is kiss Levi and you'll get the most amazing explosion there ever was.

There it is Levi thought, the butterflies, the Angels, the music. It's all right here. No girl had ever made Levi feel like this before. He smiled mid-kiss, leading Eren to (to both of their misfortunes) pull away.

"What?" He asked.

"Oh, nothing," Levi smiled, "It's just that, well, you're the only one I see."