The next morning, Eren's eyes peaked open slowly, preparing himself for the glare of sunlight that he was sure was going to hit him in the eyes from Jean opening the blinds, but when he looked at the alarm clock on his bedside table he was happy to realize that it was 8:00 AM. Eren looked around the room; he remembered the events of yesterday. Storming out of his dorm, finding Levi's ad, meeting Levi, moving in with Levi, and finally his mind settled on "The Carrot Incident". "The Carrot Incident" was what Eren had began to call his weird reaction to how Levi had bent over him to grab the carrots out of the fridge. It had been on his mind a lot last night, from right after it happened until he fell asleep. He knew it was weird to be thinking about such a minuscule thing as much as he was, but he couldn't help his mind from drifting to what it would have felt like to have Levi press him against that countertop and bend over him in a different way.

Eren knew one thing about himself, that one thing was that he was not gay. It had been that way for his whole life. Now he was beginning to think that, that one thing may be changing. Why else would he be thinking about his roommate in that way?

Before Eren's hormonal thoughts could get the best of him, he got out of bed, not caring enough to get out of his pajamas. He didn't have class until later and it was just an American History class followed by Creative Writing. Speaking of creative writing, he had to read his essay aloud in class today, it was some stupid prompt on the highlight of your life as a teenager, it could be good or bad. He wrote of something good; that something was when he learned how to play the violin. It was something that just started out as lessons his mom made him take but when she died it was one of the things that reminded him of her. It reminded Eren of how he would play the violin for her each night and she would just sit there watching him with a proud look in her eyes. He continued to play and it was now one of the things he loved best. Somehow the way that it sounded as he dragged the bow across the strings brought a certain calmness to the usually brash Eren Jeager. Thinking of how much he loved playing just made him want to get out his violin and practice, but seeing as it was eight in the morning and he hadn't had anything to eat yet, he probably ought to go find some sustenance.

Eren opened the door of his bedroom and walked out, making his way to the kitchen. The kitchen was parallel to the living room. The two rooms were only separated by a bar and a space on the floor where the tile turned to carpet. As he was pouring the milk into his bowl of Captain Crunch, Eren looked up to find a strange blonde man sitting on the couch reading the newspaper and drinking coffee. Eren's face scrunched up in puzzlement as he thought to himself who this man could be.

"It must be one of Levi's friends... well duh, who else would it be..." Eren thought to himself.

He wasn't the type of person to shy away from meeting someone, so he grabbed a spoon for his cereal and took it to the living room where he sat down in the chair across from where the before mentioned blonde man was sitting. "Are you one of Levi's friends?" Eren inquired, before taking a bite of his delicious looking Captain Crunch.

The blonde man looked up at Eren, raising an eyebrow slightly, before looking back at his newspaper and simply said, 'Yes, my name's Irvin."

Eren nodded his head and said, "Oh, I'm Eren." Not wanting to just stop the conversation there, he continued and asked, "Are you a sophomore like Levi?"

Irvin sighed and looked up at Eren, this time a little more annoyed and said, "Yes."

Obviously, all hopes Eren had for a decent conversation were crushed. Besides, his cereal was getting soggy, so he began to chomp away at his Captain Crunch. However, before he could get any real eating done, Levi walked out of the bathroom... in just a towel. Eren was pleasantly surprised by the sight but also taken back. Levi was very fit, and in all the right places. Which led Eren to gasp slightly, however seeing as he had a mouthful of cereal, what should have been a small gasp turned into a fit of choking, drawing Irvin's eyes to him once again, this time Irvin knowingly smirking at him.

Levi walked into the kitchen, with hardly a glance at Eren, and grabbed the carton of eggs out of the fridge. He began to make what appeared to be scrambled eggs. Once Eren's wheezing had stopped, Levi glanced up at him, and with no emotion whatsoever, said, "There's no eating in the living room, what do you think the bar is for?"

Eren walked over to the bar and placed his bowl on the tile surface. Taking a seat, he noted that Levi was in fact making scrambled eggs and he now wished that he had thought to do the same; his cereal now seemed pitiful in comparison.

With a mouth full of cereal, Eren asked Levi, "What are you doing today?"

Levi continued stirring his eggs in the pan, he thought to chide Eren on speaking with his mouth full, but he was too tired to ridicule him this morning, instead he just said, "What does it matter to you?"

Eren swallowed his cereal, and moved his spoon around in the now pinkish milk, "Just curious I guess."

With a sigh, Levi said, "I have work at 4 and before I go there I was going to finish one of my papers for class. You do have something to do right, because I'm not going to spend all day with you just because you're my roommate."

The blonde haired man by the name of Irvin uttered a laugh at this then folded up his newspaper, setting it on the coffee table. "Levi, thank you for the coffee. I'll see you later." Then he put the mug in the dishwasher and walked out the door.

Sensing that Eren was curious about the tall man who had just walked out of his apartment, Levi explained, "We went to highschool together, he lives right across the hall. Sometimes he comes over for coffee. We're really more colleagues than we are friends."

Eren thought back to how Irvin had previously said they were friends. It seemed to him that Levi had a strange view of what a friend was. He thought not to argue, he didn't feel like testing Levi, especially since he did not relish in the idea of being kicked out of the apartment.

Silence fell on the two of them, as Levi continued making his breakfast and Eren sat there eating the soggy remains of his cereal. It shouldn't have been an awkward silence, but there seemed to be some tension between the two, tension that was probably caused by Eren's thoughts toward the other man. Not to mention the fact, that Levi was making breakfast with just a towel wrapped around his waist, didn't help clear Eren's mind one bit.

To Eren's surprise, it was Levi who asked the next question, "Do you have class today?"

"Yeah, at 5." Eren responded quickly.

"Good. You can go with me to work so I can show you where it is, then after class meet me there, you need a key to get into the apartment and seeing as I'm the only one in possession of a key; you'll have to wait until I'm done with work."

Eren frowned slightly, "Is that really the best way to do it? Why don't you just give me the key? I'll be home before you anyway."

Levi rolled his eyes, "Have you seen yourself, you're incompetent, I'm not going to risk you losing my key. We'll make a copy for you tomorrow."

Eren's frown deepened, "Fine."

After Levi had gotten dressed and was ready to go, Eren threw his messanger bag over his shoulder and the two of them made their way out the door. Levi locked the door once they were both through it and they headed toward the elevator. Once again the two of them fell into an awkward silence, Eren shoved his hands into his pockets as they walked side by side down the hallway. They stopped in front of the elevator and Levi softly pressed the down button. Eren tapped his foot as they waited for the elevator to make its way to their floor.

"Stop that." Levi growled at Eren.

Eren stopped tapping his foot, "Sorry."

Before Eren could mke the situation any more awkward, the elevator rang, presenting it's arrival. Eren sighed in relief and walked in through the open elevator doors, Levi following in suit.

However, the elevator ride proved to be even more awkward than their encounter before. They stood on opposite sides of the elevator, seemingly as far away from each other as they could get and the elevator music was loud compared to the silence between them. Both of them could feel the tension rising, yet neither did anything to diffuse it. They just stood, on their own respective sides of the elevator as it made it's way to bottom floor. Awkwardness increasing with every floor they passed. The elevator dinged to announce their arrival in the lobby, both of them walked out, happy that some of the tension was realeased as they left the small confines of the elevtor. Walking would give them something else to focus on.

They made their way down the busy street, Levi had mentioned before that he worked at a coffee shop downtown, named Sip. Before long they made it to the shop, Levi stopped in front and turned to Eren, "Meet me back here once you're done with class."

Eren bit his lip slightly and nodded at him understandingly, " Okay, see you then."

Levi glanced at him with that everpresent glare, then nodded once before walking into work.

Eren turned around, straightened his messanger bag slightly, and began walking towards the subway, he said sarcastically to himself, "That went well."