"O, she misused me past the endurance of a block! an oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her; my very visor began to assume life and scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed," Eren stopped abruptly and sighed heavily, the short boy on the couch looked up at him questioningly as if to ask why he had stopped.
Eren slumped onto a near chair and threw up his hands in exasperation, making him lose his spot in the script he was holding. Exasperated, he threw the script onto the floor and groaned, "I don't even understand why you are making me run lines all day."
Frowning, Levi walked over to where Eren had thrown the script down, "You were late to meet me at work, I had to sit outside and wait. This is my way of getting back at you." Levi picked up the script and shoved it onto Eren's lap. "Continue, please."
Eren rolled his eyes and picked the script up and began shuffling through the pages until he found the page, then he began speaking in a monotone way, completely lacking any feeling, "O, she misused me past the endurance of a block! an oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her-"
"Stand up." Levi ordered.
Eren obeyed and slowly rose to his feet, not stopping his reading as he did so, "My very visor began to assume life and scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller-"
Levi sighed and motioned for Eren to stop, "You're really not into this right now are you?"
"How'd you guess?" Eren spat back at Levi.
Levi smirked and looked at Eren, "Your boredom is so obvious that it is seeping through your words and making me bored, thanks Eren, you have ruined my favorite monologue," he chuckled slightly.
"Does this mean I can stop?"
"Yes."
For a few months their lessons went on like this, Eren not really acting and Levi lashing out at him. Sometimes it was worse than others, but most of the time Eren hated these lessons. Even so, Eren and most of the people in his classes, could see his improvement. Although they were slow and agonizing, these lessons began to become what Eren looked forward to. He began to love those lessons, he wasn't sure why. Maybe it was because he liked being around Levi or maybe it was because during these lessons Levi gave him his undivided attention, or maybe it was a mix of both. Either way this began to be what he looked forward to, so when the day came that Levi said, "We don't need to have your lessons anymore." Eren reacted quite badly.
They were sitting in the kitchen talking over dinner when Levi brought it up. They hadn't even been talking about acting or anything of the sort. Levi just dropped it on him. Eren turned to Levi and looked at him with a confused look. Not sure if he heard correctly, and said, "Wait, what?"
Levi cocked his head at Eren, "You heard me, we don't need to have lessons anymore."
Eren laughed, hoping that Levi was just pulling his leg, "Yeah okay, funny, joke's up Levi."
Levi shook his head, "No I am completely serious. You are just as good as me, there is nothing else I can teach you."
Eren frowned, the reality that he and Levi would no longer have those lessons that he so looked forward to and that him and Levi would in turn hardly hang around each other really hit him. "You are still so much better than me. I don't see how you think that I'm just as good as you!" Eren stood up out of his chair, "I still have so much to learn!"
"Why aren't you happy right now?" Levi knit his eyebrows together, "I thought you hated those lessons."
"Yeah you would think that," Eren growled and began to walk to his room.
When he shut his door, he heard Levi yell, "What does that even mean?!"
Eren sat down on his bed, why was he so upset about his lessons with Levi being over? He hated learning stuff about acting, but he didn't hate that small smile that would come to Levi's mouth every time he said a line perfectly or had the right amount of emotion in his expression. He would try to do every little thing right, just so he could see that small smile grace his face. He also loved the way that sometimes Levi would look up at him, almost not as a teacher, but as if he was an audience member. It felt good that Levi thought of him as an equal. Eren loved these lessons for one reason, and that reason was Levi.
As the realization hit him, Eren laid back on his bed and stared up at his ceiling. "Am I love with Levi?" he spoke quietly to himself. He rolled over and buried his face in the white sheets of his bed. "Oh god I am," he spoke to himself again. How could this happen? How could he fall for his bitchy roommate, who is a guy, of all things?!
Suddenly a knock came at his door, "Eren?"
"Go away Levi," Eren responded.
He heard the doorknob turn, "I'm coming in okay?" The door squeaked as it open. Eren didn't move one bit. He just stayed on his stomach with his face in the sheets as Levi made his way over to bed. He heard the footsteps stop next to his bed.
"Eren why are you upset about this? It can't just be that you want to keep learning." Levi laughed to himself, "I know that's not the reason, you hate learning."
Eren rolled back over and stood up in front of Levi, "Yeah, you're right, that's not the reason." Eren wasn't exactly sure what he was doing, everything was happening so fast in his head and for some reason he thought that it was a good idea to lean forward and capture a very confused Levi's lips in his own.
Levi was the first one to react. He began moving his lips against Eren's and tangled his hands in the brown mess of hair, pulling him closer, but Eren pushed back. He held his hands on levi's chest for a brief moment before pulling them back and turning away, muttering, "Shit...that wasn't supposed to happen."