Sounds of ceramic clanking together echoed through the house as Levi stacked dishes in the cupboards. The apartment lacked a dishwasher, so washing the dishes was an endeavor for both Eren and Levi. Often times Eren would end up washing the dishes because, according to Levi, 'He sucked ass at cooking.' So he wasn't able to help out much, but sometimes Levi would feel generous and put away the dishes for him.

Eren had been sitting in the living room writing an essay for English for a few hours, by now he was used to the obnoxious sounds drifting in from the kitchen. When suddenly, the noises stopped abruptly, followed by Levi- who sounded fairly angry- saying, "Oh my god, are you a fucking invalid?"

Eren, who had beenmaking progress with his essay, looked up from his laptop to see an angry Levi standing in the kitchen, holding up the cheese grater, and glaring daggers at him.

"Do you not know how to wash a cheese grater?" Levi continued, "I don't even think you tried, there is still cheese on it!"

The brown haired boy on the couch held up his hands in defense and smirked, "What's the big deal, clean freak, why don't you just rewash it?"

Levi's eyes widened at Eren's comeback; he never talked back. The shorter man shook his head, an artificial smile stretching across his face. "Do you think I'm at your beck and call, brat?"

"If you don't like how I clean the dishes, you should just clean them yourself?" Eren muttered before looking back to his screen.

The sound of ceramic hitting tile rang in Eren's ears. He looked over to see that Levi had slammed the plate down on the counter. The short man looked genuinely pissed now.

"Because, asshole, I'm not the only one who eats food around here!" Levi shouted back at him. Yep, he was seriously mad now.

Eren didn't want to just leave it here. He was tired of hearing about all of his cleaning being sub-par, and how he should make his bed, and not leave his toothbrush on the counter. This was the last straw for Eren and before he knew what he was saying, Eren blurted out, "It's not my fault that you have some weird OCD when it comes to cleaning."

Levi looked up at Eren, emotion evident in his voice as he said, "You know Eren, you really are a jerk." With that he stormed out of the apartment, slamming the door behind him.

The other man hardly ever said Eren's name, so realization hit Eren that this probably wasn't just about the dishes. It wasn't a far stretch to think that it could be about the kiss they shared last night.

"Shit...that wasn't supposed to happen." Eren muttered, turning his head about from the blushed boy standing in front of him.

Levi knit his eyebrows together, and shook his head letting out a nervous chuckle, "What, so you like me then?"

Despite Eren wanting to pull Levi into another kiss, the brown haired boy took a seat on his bed, answering Levi's question solemnly as he scratched the back of his head, "Yeah I guess you could say that. I mean I can't stop thinking about you. Thoughts of you keep me awake at night."

"So why don't you get your scrawny ass off the bed and keep kissing me?" A smirk spread across Levi's face.

Eren looked up at Levi, his eyes cold and dark, lacking any emotion, but his voice told it all. "I'm not gay." He clenched his jaw and looked out the window, the sunshine filtering in through the window didn't seem to fit his emotion at all. His chest was clenching with the unmistakable feeling of heartbreak and tears pricked at his eyes, threatening to spill before of the only person he doesn't want to cry in front of. Why had he said that? Why would he say that stupid, untrue sentence to Levi? He wished he could just take it back, but by the way that Levi was looking at him, he knew the damage was done.

Turning on his heel, Levi walked out of Eren's bedroom, "Obviously you have some things to figure out, Eren. Come talk to me when you do."

Eren sucked in a breath. This was not how it was supposed to go, this isn't how things happened in romantic comedies. Everything came crashing down on Eren so suddenly, this wasn't some movie that he could just rewrite and make everything happy again. This was real life and he had fucked up. Laying back on the mattress he let the tears come as broken sobs wracked his body.

Last night, Eren never went and talked to Levi, but all morning things had been awkward and tense. Then the yelling over dishes had happened... this wasn't good, not one bit. Now Eren was walking down the street, trying the find where Levi had run off to. Obviously luck was not on his side today, because in the crowd of people walking down the street, he didn't spot Levi anywhere, but he kept walking on the off chance that he might find him.

After a while of walking, he stopped in a park and took a seat on a bench. It was pretty much pointless to be looking for Levi anyway. If he found him what would he say? Hey I'm sorry I didn't wash the dishes right, oh and by the way I do really like you? Yeah right, but just as he resolved to quit looking for Levi he looked up and, on the park bench across from him, the small black haired boy was sitting and staring at his lap.

Eren smiled to himself and rising from his perch he made his way over to Levi and stood in front of him. The other boy raised his head and looked up at Eren, it was evident that he was about to yell at the person who was standing there, but when he looked up and saw it was none other than the boy he had left his home to avoid, his face distorted into a mask of despondency and anguish. Usually the shorter man showed no emotion, but apparently when caught off guard his face could be extremely expressive.

Levi took in a ragged breath and turned his head from the boy in front of him. Without looking back to him, Levi spoke quietly, "Eren, how do you feel towards me?"

Moving over to take a seat on the bench, Eren let out a sigh and said with complete honesty, "I'm not sure."

"Then why did you kiss me?" The emotion in his voice was unmistakable. Was Levi actually upset over this?

"Levi, I'm sorry, but I don't have answers yet. I'm still trying to figure it out myself."

Levi nodded his head slightly, not as if he were saying yes, it was more like he was accepting that Eren didn't have an answer for him yet. He then stood up and shoved his hands in his pockets, "I'm going back to the apartment now, you can come if you want."

Eren watched as Levi made his way back down the sidewalk to the apartment. It was sad watching him walk away like that, but Eren really needed to work through some things and he only knew one way that he could really do that. He pulled out his phone and typed a message to his good friend Armin. This was one of those rare moments when Eren had not been able to think of any good solution, so he called upon his very smart psych major to do the thinking for him.

EJ: hey armin do you think you could meet me at the campus cafe in about 20 minutes?

AA: Yeah, are you doing okay Eren?

AA: Is your roommate still being a bitch?

EJ: wow armin no need to get mean about levi...but it is about him

AA: So was I right?

EJ: i'll explain when i get there ok?

Standing by the door of the cafe, Eren watched for Armin. As he was looking around he saw all the happy couples around him. He couldn't help but think that was what he wanted with Levi. A nice relationship where they could just enjoy being together, but some part of him knew that they could never be truly happy. Neither of their families would approve of them being together. Hell, Eren knew that his dad wasn't the most accepting person in the world, so what would he think of his only son dating another guy?

"Hellooo," Eren saw a hand waving in front of his face before he registered that it was Armin trying to get his attention. The blonde haired boy smiled once he realized that he now had Eren's attention, "Come on, Space Case, let's get inside before you get hypothermia."

Eren smiled slightly at his friend being so nice to him, and followed him through the big wooden door, into the warm interior of the small campus cafe. The air smelled of coffee and Eren couldn't wait to get his hands on a nice warm cup of coffee and tell his friend about all of his problems. Hopefully, Armin would be able to find the right solution and help him through it.

Armin, who was standing in front of Eren in line turned around and gave his friend a smile, "So what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Let's get ourselves some drinks and then talk about it, I feel like this may take a little while to explain and I am caffeine deprived."

"Alright." Armin smiled at Eren, nervousness showing in his expression. It wasn't very often that Eren asked for his help.

When they got their drinks, they took a seat at an empty table. Armin beckoned for Eren to start talking.

He took a deep breath, not really sure how to explain the current situation he was in. So he thought he would start from the bottom and move his way up, "Okay so you know how when I first moved into the apartment, I hated Levi."

Even though Eren had said it more like a statement than a question, Armin responded anyways with, "Yes, I do remember that."

Eren continued, "Well I guess that's sort of changed." Armin raised his eyebrows at him, "Yeah, well we started doing these acting lessons for like theatre class and such. Basically Levi would have me run lines and then he would critique me. Pretty soon after we started, I really started looking forward to those lessons and I wasn't really sure why, but then yesterday he tells me that I don't need his lessons anymore and that I'm good enough."

Armin chimed in, "Well that's good right?"

"Yeah I guess I'm happy that I'm good enough, but at the same time I was sad because that's really the only time we get to hang out and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I really like him." Eren finished with a sigh.

Armin laughed, "Well that's good too! It's good to get along with your roommate."

"Yeah but this isn't just a friendship like." Eren responded. "I think I may have real feelings for him."

Armin perked up and his eyes widened, "I knew it! I bet Mikasa two years ago that you were gay when you started listening to Katy Perry but she would hear none of it! But I was so right! Yes!"

"Jeez Armin, I'm glad you're happy that I'm gay or whatever, but I really need your help," Eren rolled his eyes at his friend who was excitedly telling Mikasa about it through text.

"What do you even need help with Eren? Everyone knows that Levi is gay. You like him, so tell him." Armin concluded.

"Shit Armin you're right, I should go talk to him now, then!" Eren hopped out of his seat excitedly. "I'm sorry to leave but I did something kind of stupid and I need to go fix it."

Armin waved him off, "'S'fine Eren. Text me later."

"Alright bye!" Eren called back at him.

He walked out into the cold, and swiftly made his way towards the subway. He needed to tell Levi how he felt right away. It was such an obvious answer, but Armin always has these blunt ways of putting it that makes it so much easier to understand. Well, now that everything made so much more sense, he had to tell Levi everything.