Finally some interaction between Levi and Eren! ^^ I hope I didn't speed this up a bit too much...I wanted this story to portray relationships a little more realistically. So let me know what you think!

-Shiragami

It was not a pleasant morning...well, afternoon now, for Eren.

In events prior to this one, Armin charged in from behind the entrance door like a mad man, and dragged Eren to their bedroom to speak. Levi was clearly extremely unhappy about it.

"EREN!" Armin's eyes were intense, but he kept his voice to a whisper-yell, not wanting the man behind their door to hear. "LET ME SEE THAT BUSINESS CARD."

The blonde was scaring him a little. He handed the elegant card to Armin, very confused about all this commotion. The other's eyes grew even larger than before, impossibly large. His body trembled as he held the card, as if it was the first time he held food in days.

"I knew he looked familiar, but the height fooled me a little at first…Eren, please tell me you know who this man is."

"Kind of, I guess? We met at the cafe yesterday…"

"No no no no no, that's not it! Tell me you know who this man is. Do you ever watch the news, read the magazines, or even browse networks at all?" Armin was gripping Eren's shoulders a little too hard, causing him to brush away Armin's hands harshly.

"I only read comics, and I hardly have time to watch TV, you know what already!" The blonde was pulling his hair by now, he can't believe Eren almost let something as big as this pass by without ever knowing the big picture.

"Listen Eren, I won't even try to explain it to you, but he is important. More important than any celebrities you'll meet. Now you get your butt out there, but please get dressed first, and accompany that man. Remember, you HAVE to get acquainted to him, it's for your own good." Armin's eyes were so wide and bloodshot and all up in Eren's face, how could he refuse?

"And also, I demand every. single. detail. when you get back home tonight."

With that said and done, Eren now finds himself alone with this 'Levi', in the same car they were in yesterday. Armin's words of wisdom kept on circling Eren's head, he felt like he should take it into consideration. It wasn't everyday the timid Armin could become this scary. Clearing his throat a little, he nervously opened his mouth to break the ice.

"Umm…President Ackerm-"

"Just Levi is fine."

The sudden interruption punctured the boy's courage once more. Trying even harder than before, he fisted the ends of his jacket's sleeve and spoke again.

"L-Levi! Where are we going? If y-you don't mind me asking…"

The man with raven hair swiftly changed lanes as the boy asked. He then sighed at the boy's question before stopping at a red light. Taking this opportunity to look at the adorably nervous kid next to him, he replied nonchalantly.

"First we are going to get you a proper coat. I can hardly believe you'd wear something that old and full of holes in the middle of winter."

Taking slight offense to that, Eren just looked away and frowned. He admitted that it has been years since he replaced his coat, but he managed so far just fine. Suddenly thinking about his bank account, how much can he spend this month without going completely broke? Feeling frustrated and stressed at the numbers once more, his brows furrowed together, thinking hard. Though nothing was left unnoticed by the older male next to him.

After what seemed like a twenty-minute drive, Levi pulled over and parked in front of a store. Eren stepped out and observed his surroundings, only to see some very new and bright buildings surround him. Levi locked his car with a press of a button, and waited for Eren to come back down to earth. The boy had, obviously, never been to this side of the city. His gawking explained it all. Chuckling at the sight, Levi called out Eren's name before turning his heel and walked into the designated store.

Inside the shop, the first thing Eren noticed was that the floor was very shiny, and the tiles were white marbles. Bright beige lights shined everywhere and mannequins showcased designer suits and coats for the season. Everything about the store screamed sophistication and elegance, and Levi looked more than fitting to be inside here, shopping. For the first time, Eren noticed that despite being slightly shorter, Levi had a stronger built. His fingers were slender under the black-leathered gloves, but they looked larger than his own. His hair looked like silk, and the color black was strangely attractive on him. Eren kind of wanted to touch the shaved parts at the back of Levi's head. Oh my God. Strange thoughts alert! Strange thoughts alert!

To distract himself, he peeled his eyes off the man who he barely knows, and walked awkwardly towards a random, neatly arranged shelf. He browsed through the selection, taking note on how soft and silky the dress shirts were, and how long and slender the pants were. These would look good on a model, I wonder how I would look like in these…

Lost in thoughts, Eren didn't feel someone approach him from behind.

"Found something you like?" Eren flinched. Levi's body was pressed behind Eren. His mouth was so close to his ears, he could feel his warm breath hit the back of his lobes. Suddenly flustered and confused, Eren's speech became messy and incoherent.

"N-N-No! I'm s-still look-k-k-king… Aha hah. aha ha ha. yeah." He wanted to calm down, so he pretended to be busy looking at the price tags, mind still spinning around. However, things backfired when he turned the tag around and counted the amount of digits this coat valued. Repelled by the tag, thy holy coat commands thou to kneel down! Eren fell onto his knees and counted his fingers. How many months of constant labor can amass to that?

Levi was dense, but when it came to human reactions, he could read them like the back of his hand, thanks to his work. And since Eren was so easy to figure out, he responded extremely well to his teasing (please forget Levi's failure in chapter two, lol). Pretending to be concerned about the boy, he pulled the kid up ever so easily from the waist, whispering "Are you ok?" and the brunette's legs felt weak once more.

"I'm f-fine…thank you…" Unable to look back at Levi, who had a visible smirk across his face, Oh God, oh my God, he's so close!, he inquired about the price of this coat to cover his embarrassment and discomfort. "Umm, is there anything cheaper than this? I don't have as much money as you, so I can't buy th~IS!"

Eren's voice pitched up when he felt the hands that were holding up his body, squeezed his waist ever so sensually. Levi simply played it off, like what an adult would do when they want to get familiar with a child (like a rub on the back or something), but no matter how you looked at this, this was wrong on so many levels. "Too expensive? Then we can keep on looking."

The brunette didn't understand why Levi's hands were still resting on his body, he was just about to escape when they finally departed from his waist and positioned themselves against the shelf, trapping the youth between it and his body. The slightly shorter man pretended to reach for the deepest part of the shelves. He pressed his hard torso against Eren's back, even with all their clothes acting as barriers, the younger could feel it. The distance closed in so quickly, leaving no room for Eren to breathe. He also felt Levi's hip pressed lightly against his butt, the brunette had to hold a hand over his mouth to stop himself from gasping. His nose being extra sensitive right now, picked up for the first time the light cologne the elite used. It smelled sweet and alluring, yet very mature and sexy…but it was no time to be melted by that! Eren screamed to himself.

Eren never caught on the elder's approaches, the innocent boy simply thought that Levi didn't mind physical contacts with other people. He bit his lips, unable to handle the heat anymore, ducked under Levi's arms and ran across to the opposite side of the store.

Levi just chuckled to himself at that pure reaction. How adorable. However, he knew perfectly well where to draw the line for today, it was their second 'official' encounter after all, yet he was already losing self-control. Who can blame him? Levi watched over the boy for almost two months, yet he never got the opportunity to have a talk with him. Now that he was starting to become acquainted with Eren, he needed to play it cool and slow. Enough, Levi, no more touching for the day.

Spending that time around the shelf was totally just for playing, the raven actually had a goal in mind coming here today. He handpicked a few approved coats and beckoned a sales girl to pick them up. All the girls there just giggle between them, before finally pushing a small, blonde girl out. Levi took this as an insult, that they found his height to be funny and purposely got him a shorter female. Little did he know, that the girls were fangirling over the little session he had with Eren earlier.

"The other boy in this store, get him to try these on for me. If the sizes don't fit, go help him change it." ordered Levi coldly, all the intimacy were gone. The blue eyed girl nodded shyly before hurrying to find Eren who was hiding in a corner among hanged clothing, pathetically.

Levi sat down on a leather couch located right in front of the elegant changing room, where Eren was pushed in just a few seconds ago. As he waited for the boy to try on the clothes he picked himself, he got a little excited just thinking about it. Then his mind wandered off even further into the gutters. He imagined Eren sleeping on his bed, wearing his shirt, and nothing else...

Levi furrowed his brows and brought his hand to his face, gloved fingers massaging his temples. Since when did you become such a pervert? You never had these thoughts before, not even with her.

Eren came out a minute later, wearing a brown, fur-hooded winter coat. It definitely wasn't something Levi would wear, but it looked cute on the boy. Though he can't help but to judge the rest of Eren's choice of clothing. He figured since they were there already, he might as well pick some full outfits for him.

After what seemed like an hour, Eren was exhausted with putting stuff on and taking stuff off. Did he really look bad in all the other clothes he tried on? He thought. Levi noticed the tiredness from the younger's eyes, and decided that it was enough clothes for this trip. He quietly said something to the small lady, very closely against her ear. Something twitched at the back of Eren's mind, but he ignored it by pretending he never saw that. I mean, why do I care, right? That just proves he likes physical contacts, so earlier with me too...

The small lady's face brightened up at Levi's words and immediately called the other ladies to help. There were two pile of clothes, Eren noticed, one big pile and one smaller pile. The sales ladies took the big pile and carefully brought them to the counter. Eren panicked, immediately going after them.

"W-Wait! I am not buying them!" He felt like a dick, trying on so many clothes, both inner and outer wear, yet in the end he wasn't going to buy anything. The ladies just giggled again and the smaller one spoke up.

"It's ok, you're not paying for them, your boyfriend is!"

That was two stones thrown at the brunette's face. LEVI is paying for ME? So all those clothing that he told me to change and take off, he was thinking of buying all of them? And did she just say BOYFRIEND?! No, that's a mistake!

Eren's mind was spinning, he didn't know what was going on anymore. He dumbly watched Levi walk over the counter and took out a shiny, gold card from his slim wallet. He gave the card to the cashier like it was trash. The sound of scanning, beeping, wrapping and bagging could be heard. The poor boy just stood there, staring at Levi's back.

Not patient enough to stand through the entire process, he stopped the lady from bagging one coat and took it from her. He then walked over the Eren, who still had a shocked expression hanging on his face. He found it to be completely priceless, so much that he wanted to tease the boy some more, but then he knew he won't be able to stop himself. For example, he wanted to stick his tongue into the brunette's open mouth right then and there, but it would've been a bad idea. Ripping off the tag, Levi put the coat around the boy's body before snatching the old, worn out one from his arms.

Levi was a gentleman towards women and non-subordinates, so he couldn't possible let the girls take his bags for him. Carrying all the clothes he bought for Eren, he placed them all on the back seat. Now both sitting in front, Eren woke up from his little trance and spoke, though he didn't realize that his mouth was hanging open for so long.

"Why?" Eren's voice cracked, but that didn't stop him from staring at Levi right in the eyes. He noticed that those grey orbs were a lot less intimidating than yesterday at the cafe.

Levi felt that Eren was the type who wouldn't take (expensive) store-bought presents no matter what, so he half lied about his true intentions.

"This is an apology for yesterday. I didn't mean to scare you, I just had a hard time finding the right way and time to talk to you." Eren raised an eyebrow. "And also an apology for poking into your business, I realized soon after that it wasn't something you'd want to remember nor talk about." And also because you are Eren Jaeger and I want to give you anything and everything.

Eren heard sincerity behind Levi's usual harsh voice. Even though he said he wouldn't think about it anymore, one night just wasn't enough to harden his determination. Quietly, but surely, he told Levi that he was fine.

"It's an old story now, I don't want to let it bother me anymore. And you shouldn't apologize for something you didn't do on purpose, especially apologies like that." Eren glanced back at all the fancy, bagged, designer clothes. The younger didn't know the big picture behind 'a President that owned the largest company within Wall Rosa', he couldn't believe anyone would be able to afford all this without hurting their wallet at least a little.

"Don't underestimate me, Eren. That kind of spending is like dropping half a cent on the floor. Though I wouldn't compare that kind of things with you, since you are worth so much more to me than mere digits."

Eren blushed at Levi's confession. He was confused, he wanted to ask but he was afraid of the answer. I mean, it has only been two days since the two met, what can he possibly feel and expect? What can Levi possibly feel and expect? Would I be happy to become closer to him? Do I feel repelled? Scared? Do I feel nervousness? Uneasy? Friendship? Love?

Eren's eyes squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head, that was way off the chart. He can't believe he was questioning that with a man he barely knew. Heck, the man was probably straight like the majority of the population here. Coming down with a satisfied conclusion, Eren nodded at himself that they were probably just becoming friends, and decided to stop thinking about it.

Levi, watching him closely from the corner of his eyes, just smiled at his every body movements and every expressions. Cute.

Both satisfied but hungry due to their recent shopping spree, Levi drove down in search for an appropriate restaurant to impress the youth even more. Levi was never proud of his wealth, in fact, he never really cared about it. Though now, he was glad that he could give the poor boy a wonderful time. It was almost like showing off, he hated to admit, but right now Levi was willing to do anything to get on Eren's mind.

Eren Jaeger, think about me more.

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