"Eren."
"Levi."
Time stood still. Usually, I prided myself on having quite the quick tongue, but right then, every single word I could've possibly uttered was stuck in my throat with no chance of ever making it out.
He was here, wasn't he?
After three days spent doing nothing but thinking of him, he was really here, in front of me, looking at me. Staring right back with those gorgeous charcoal eyes and the signature arched eyebrow—and god, I forgot that we were currently in the middle of a fight and supposed to be talking it out. All I wanted was to be close to him, to hold him in my arms, to feel his skin on mine. To kiss him until he couldn't imagine being without me ever again.
My legs moved of their own volition, carrying me away from the window at the truck's front and towards the backdoor. For some utterly inexplicable reason, I knew the door would open for me this time around. Levi would let me in. When the small backdoor swung open as soon as I reached it, my heart did a quadruple flip inside my chest and the wave of relief flooded me instantly. There were warm tears in my eyes when I saw Levi reaching out his arms for me, beckoning me closer, asking me to hurry. It was so unreal, I wanted to scream the happiness I felt right then out for the entire world to hear. I rushed up the single step that led into the interior of the truck, and Levi was there, waiting for me. A hopelessly embarrassing whine of joy left my lips when I collided with him, and I couldn't help but wrap him in my arms and sweep him right off his feet. The limited space inside the truck didn't allow for any overly exuberant movements, so I settled for holding him as close to me as I could and pinwheel around. He gasped and grabbed my shoulders, his legs wrapping tightly around my waist. I wanted to kiss, bawl and celebrate—all at the same time. The feeling of holding him again, knowing it wasn't just a beautiful illusion or a bittersweet dream, was overwhelming.
"I-I'm so sorry, Levi, it was my fault, I shouldn't have said—" I tried to catch my breath and bring some order into the gibberish spilling from my mouth, "I'm so sorry for what I did. I don't deserve you, I know that, but... I miss you so much. God, I love you more than anything, and those past few days have been hell. I love you. I love you. Don't leave me because... I can't be without you. I tried, and I can't. Please, stay with me. I need you. I'll always need you."
"Shh, stop," he whispered into my hair, his arms tightening around me until it was hard to breathe, but I wouldn't have it any other way. He could squeeze me forever if that was what he wanted. "It's my fault, all of it. I overreacted. I was just so... So overwhelmed with everything that I didn't know how to react and... I lashed out at you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for not calling or texting back, I just didn't know how to apologize for what I did... Eren, I—Oh god, I miss you too. It's all I ever do."
"Levi," I breathed. It was the only thing I could utter, and I held onto it like a lifeline, saying it over and over again, until the pain of the last days began to gradually dull. My hands found their way around his body by heart, touching every inch that had been withheld from me for what felt like half of eternity.
He moaned into my mouth when our lips finally met, too hungry to be anything but rough. My hands moved down along his spine, mapping out every slanted muscle moving beneath his warm skin, until they curved around the full swell of his behind. Just feeling it in my hands led me to dig in, a needy whimper spilling from my lips as soon as Levi pushed his cheeks back into my palms. While I kept my mouth glued to his, licking and sucking on every inch of him I could reach, I couldn't keep from grabbing him by his ass and lifting him up against the wall. His legs wrapped right back around my waist, his arms doing the same with my neck.
"Mh fuck, you feel so good," I whispered before I nipped his earlobe and drank in the sigh he elicited in response.
"Go on," he panted against my wet lips, making a delicious shiver race all over my skin, "Keep touching me."
His wish was my command. Even if he'd demanded I held back, I wasn't sure if I'd been able to. Right then, everything inside me was flooded with desire—the desire to feel the one person I needed more than anyone else.
When my hands slipped under his shirt to roam his soft skin, he didn't protest. No, instead, he pushed back into my touch, urging me on. I let my nails graze his back, his sides, his hips, filled my hands with warmth and softness and him. Yet still, it wasn't enough. I needed more than that—wanted him bare under me, wanted every inch of glorious, pale skin on every inch of mine. I was desperate, and I knew it. None of my touches were as gentle as they should have been. I wanted to cherish him in any way I knew how, but I was too overwhelmed by having him again, by feeling him holding me as tight as I held him. We crashed into a shelf that was pushed up against the wall, causing a few boxes of ice cream to tumble down on the floor to our feet. Neither of us paid it any mind. Levi breathed my name over and over again, every syllable making my desire flare all the more intense.
I let my fingertips wander into the waistband of his uniform pants, feeling the warm cotton of his boxers and the smooth skin beneath. When my thumb brushed against the noticeable bulge straining against his underwear, a breath of hot air escaped his wet lips on a moan. My eyes snapped to his and I caught them getting wide, his usually pale cheeks dusting a deep scarlet.
I smiled and kissed him again. "Just how are you so darn cute? I want to eat you right up."
"Then why don't you?"
God. Keeping my cool was hard enough as it was, and I was pretty sure that with the way I was rubbing helplessly against him, he knew. Yet there he went, whispering things like that in this incredibly sexy voice of his. I obviously knew making out in the ice cream truck wasn't a great idea, but where this between us was heading right now was even worse. Especially knowing me, I wouldn't be able to stop once I really started, not even if there was a whole damn audience watching us.
"E-Eren…" Levi breathed into the crook of my neck, and it was this sound—this utterly gorgeous, little, almost desperate sound—that made me come undone. I didn't care where we were or who could see us; nothing mattered but being with Levi right here, right now.
Levi gasped when I gave up control at last. He knew what I was doing, what was about to happen between us, but he didn't stop me. Instead, he grew pliant and willing beneath my fingertips, following my lead. The moment made my head spin in the best way possible.
"I want you," I whispered desperately. He trembled in response and kissed me even harder.
I pulled him against me, holding him tight while I wrapped his body around mine and got down to my knees to lay him on the floor. That was when I spotted a rolled up blanket in the corner. Levi's half-lidded gaze followed my every move as I got to retrieve the blanket. When the soft dark fleece was spread beneath us, I placed my palms on his knees and looked at him. No words were necessary. Levi bit his lip, his cheeks flushing with fresh color, and then he slowly spread his legs and reached out to pull me in between. I leaned in and kissed the corner of his mouth, then nibbled my way to the middle of his bottom lip before licking inside. Small gasps and tiny sighs mingled with my breath, and I soaked them up as if they were water on my parched throat. I tugged on the bow at the front of his shirt and watched him arch his back, giving me the opportunity to take it off—which I promptly took.
"God Eren… More," he breathed. His hands fisted in my shirt, tugging hard enough for me to realize he wanted it off of me. I forgot how to breathe when I caught his reaction to my exposed chest. His eyes traveled over my skin, before following the trail with his nails. I groaned helplessly and took his hands in mine, keeping them just above my frantic heartbeat. His gray eyes widened when he felt it, and then flicked to mine, a dazed expression washing over his face.
"Take my pants off," he urged, fiddling with his belt.
"Is someone impatient today?" I chuckled before I bit down on his small earlobe.
"Hell yes I'm impatient! What do you think three days without you are doing to me?"
A surprised gasp left him when I leaned in and squeezed him tight, my lips pressed to his moist neck.
"Do you know how much I love you?"
"N-No," he moaned, his hips pushing up against mine, driving the hardness between our legs together and tearing a hot cry from my lips. "I just know that it can't be anywhere near as much as I love you."
I pulled back and took his flushed face in my palms, my eyes boring into his. "Then you have no idea."
He averted his gaze in embarrassment, instead fixing those gorgeous grays on the noticeable bulge between my legs, which was throbbing rather painfully at this point.
"Please, Eren… D-Don't make me wait any longer than this."
I sure as hell didn't plan on it, not with the way my cock jerked at his unfiltered plea. All I wanted was to be inside him; to feel him moving in tune with me.
We pulled and tugged on what was left of each other's clothes, leaving them where they fell, until there was nothing between us; until all we were wearing was each other's touch. The evening light filtering through the small window was soft, giving Levi's pale skin a tender glow. I took a few moments to look at him, watch him, how he trembled beneath me, his breath puffing out in warm clouds, his eyes squeezed shut, lush bottom lip caught between pearly white teeth. His legs rested on my thighs, spread, giving me a prime view of his perfect body. I was pretty sure that was the reason why he was too embarrassed to look me in the eye right now. It made him all the more adorable, all the more irresistible. I ran my thumb over his pink cheek and leaned in to kiss him once more, all the while using my other hand to draw soft patterns on his thigh. When I left his lips in favor of caressing his neck, he sighed, long and content. Then I bit him, just where his neck met his shoulder, and he moaned loudly, his legs squeezing me tight.
"Oh... Eren," he whispered, half of his face hidden behind his arm, though one eye followed my path down his body with rapt attention.
I tilted my head up to meet his gaze, but kept my lips on his skin, my tongue flicking across his delicate collarbone.
"I love how sensitive you are. I always have," I whispered into his skin before I blew across the moist spot I'd left in the hollow above his collarbone. He shuddered, and then his hands were in my hair, coaxing me to continue.
"Funny how I've never been like this before I met you, huh."
"Funny how I can't even remember what I was like before I met you."
The arm he used to shield his face with dropped when he looked at me, really looked at me, his expression puzzled.
"You're not being serious..."
"And what if I am?" I said, licking a warm trail along his pecs before stopping short just above one gorgeous nipple. "You're changing me, Levi. You've changed the way I feel about myself, about life... About everything. And I like that. I like it a lot."
He looked at me as if I'd just told him the sun wouldn't rise tomorrow, eyes wide, with that little wrinkle in between his fine eyebrows. I just had to smile. Chuckling, I pulled him against me and buried my face in the crook of his neck.
"You really are a sob," he whispered, but his voice was shaky and breathless. I had the feeling he knew exactly how serious I was about him, about us. Yes, us... Now I knew that there was still an us, and I'd never let that go.
I grabbed his waist and pulled him against me, my lips latching back onto his nipple to give a long, wet suck. The tip grew hard between my lips, and I bit down on it with all the tenderness I could muster, lavishing it with attention until Levi grabbed my hair and pulled me off his chest.
"E-Enough."
"Hm? You sure?" I teased, licking a wet strip across his other nipple. "These seem to be loving the attention they're getting."
"Shut up!"
His dick twitched against mine, drawing all of my attention in a matter of seconds. I wondered how long I'd be able to hold back like this. All I wanted was to be inside him, right now, but considering we hadn't been with each other in a while, I knew I couldn't just rush into things. He needed to be prepared with care, and in that regard, I planned on spoiling him rotten. My tongue slid down his stomach, dipping into his navel and further into the soft patch of black hair beneath it.
When I looked up, I could see Levi's expression was one of barely contained excitement. He was waiting for this; for me to bend down and take him into my mouth, to taste him until he spilled everything he had. His face alone made it impossible not to touch him where he wanted me to touch him, even if my plans for him tonight were different. So I leaned in and placed a soft kiss on his wet crown, before swiping my tongue at the bitter drops of precome inside the small slit on top. Again, Levi's impatient hands were back in my hair, but instead of running his fingers through the strands, he used them to push my head down on his length, making me gurgle in surprise.
"Oh god... Fuck, yes... Right there, Eren, don't stop—"
Fighting the urge to laugh at his fervor, I gave his cock another long suck before I released it with a loud pop.
"No... Why..." Levi began to sulk and tighten his legs around my neck, giving me the unmistakable hint to continue, but I only shook my head and playfully bit the inside of his thigh.
"Ouch," he smirked, his eyes half shut, an utterly irresistible smile lingering on his lips while he moved his foot between my legs and gave me a playful rub.
He watched me as I untucked his legs from their grip around my neck and got up to a kneeling position. I let my flat palms run over his chest once again, before I grabbed his hips and flipped him around with one fluid movement.
"Hey, what are you doin—Ah! Ahhh—N-No..."
If there was one way to make any protest disappear into thin air, it was me spreading his ass cheeks and burying my lips against his tight entrance—like I was doing right now.
"No, Eren, wait... Not there!" He tried to get away from me, to detach my mouth from him, but my grip was tight and I didn't even think about letting him go. My fingers sunk into the soft skin on his hips as I held him in place, continuing to lick along his cleft. It was exciting me in a way I didn't know before, almost so much that I couldn't bear it. I'd imagined doing this with him so many times, and that I was doing it now seemed too good to be true. What was even more was that the reality felt and tasted so much better than any dream I ever had.
"Ahh—! Mmmh, Eren, you... Y-You don't have to do this," Levi stuttered, embarrassment obvious in the way his voice trembled. "You can j-just use your fingers to..." The rest of what he wanted to say was cut off by his scream when I pushed my tongue past that tight ring of muscle to taste him on the inside.
"And miss the chance to finally eat you out? No way," I breathed against his hole, which was hungrily twitching against my mouth. The fact that it was already wet from my ministrations was sure to make it extra intense whenever I did so much as breathe against him.
"Ahh, Eren... This feels so... Damn..."
He was breathing hard, gasping and moaning in between. It was almost impossible to go slow. His legs began to shake and when they finally gave in, I was there to hold him up. I wasn't done here after all. First hesitant, then eager, did I raise my hand to lick two of my fingers from top to bottom.
"Touch yourself," I whispered lowly, giving his hole another wet kiss.
"Mn, fuck, you... You drive me crazy," he mewled, but did as I told him, his hand reaching in between his legs to wrap around his fully erect cock.
He began to stroke himself just as I pressed one finger inside him, watching greedily as it got swallowed, listening to Levi whining in response. I noticed that his hand had stopped moving, so I slipped my free hand between his legs and gave his balls a teasing pinch—not enough to hurt, but surely enough to leave a tiny sting.
"Ah!" He mewled, "What was that for?"
"I didn't say you could stop, did I?"
Goose bumps began to bloom all over Levi's skin, moist from my lips and the heat of summer, and I knew he was enjoying this just as much as I was.
Slowly, he took his length in hand once more, setting a slow rhythm while he rocked his behind back against my face.
"And I haven't told you to stop either, right?" He said, throwing me a cheeky look over his shoulder.
I smirked at him and dove back between his luscious cheeks, licking and sucking until he was wet enough to take two of my fingers. While I continued to pamper him with my fingers and mouth, I spotted the box that had fallen down earlier when I'd pinned Levi up against the wall. There was a large sticker reading "Cherry Lemon" on top of it. That sticker was enough to spark an idea in my head. Before I had the time to think it through, I had let go of Levi—not for long though—and reached for the box. From the corner of my eye, I watched Levi sinking down onto the blanket beneath him, his face turned away from me, breathing heavier than before. Smiling, I ripped open the box and reached inside to retrieve a metal container filled with cool, pink ice cream. Just thinking about where this was going to go in a few moments made a literal firework of arousal go off throughout my entire body. Levi would kill me for this, that much was certain. Which made me want to do it all the more.
I dipped two fingers into the velvety ice cream and closed my eyes when I put them into my mouth to have a taste. God, this was amazing. And it would taste even better on someone else. Smirking, I crawled back over to Levi, the box of ice cream in hand.
"I hope it's a condom you're getting," Levi huffed. "Can you just do me already? It's all I thought about for the last three days, and here you are, making me wait. Seriously, Eren, if you continue to be like this I'll just do it myse—Oh, god! What the fuck is this?"
Him complaining was the perfect opportunity for me to put my plan into action, which was exactly why I took it without hesitation. And now, Levi's gorgeous little hole was covered in sweet ice cream, which was tenderly melting and leaving a mouth-watering trail from his cleft along the inside of his thigh.
Levi shuddered and moved away from me, but I held him in place.
"Please... Tell me you did not just put ice cream there?"
"Mh, but I did. And it looks so fucking beautiful," I sighed, spreading his ass cheeks for a prime view.
Levi's face buried against his crossed arms, and with the way he was bending down, he offered me even more of his behind. I was pretty sure he was too far gone to notice at this point.
"Dammit, Eren... Ahh, s-stop it..." he moaned, even though he tried to suppress it.
I watched as his blush spread from the back of his neck all the way down to his shoulders. He was so cute, it was unreal. I gathered more ice cream and continued to coat his most sensitive spots, each barely-there sound he made arousing me even more. I sucked at every bit I put on him, relishing the incredible taste of him mixed with sugary ice cream. Before long, he was a mess in front of me, his legs shaking, his breath rushing out of him in unsteady gulps. His skin was sticky and sweet. Slowly, I let my fingers slip back into him, and as soon as the second pushed in, he groaned and came onto the floor. I kissed him through his climax, until he sunk down onto the blanket with a quiet curse. Chuckling, I leaned in to place a kiss on each of his ass cheeks, savoring how they quivered after he'd reached his peak.
"I can't believe you put ice cream on my ass and ate it," he whispered after some time, an incredulous smirk on his face. Then he blushed, and it was so pretty that I wanted to do it all over again.
"I'll have you know that now I can finally say with certainty that every inch of you tastes heavenly. Without the ice cream even more."
He snorted and I laughed. Then, because I couldn't stop myself, I took one second to rub my stone-hard dick in between his cheeks, drawing another sweet moan from him, before I kissed his shoulder blade and flipped him around on his back. My palms wandered down along his sides, to his thighs. Gently, I lifted them so they'd be wrapped back around my waist. Levi squeezed me tight. God, how I loved when he did that. Him, under me, his shapely legs clenched around me, his arms slung around my neck to keep me close enough to kiss me whenever he wanted to. His eyes locked with mine, not missing a single moment of me watching him; of how I couldn't even stop watching him if he wanted me to. When he was with me, he was the only thing worth looking at.
He closed his eyes when I leaned in to kiss him, and so did I. My hands moved into his hair, brushing along his undercut and holding him close to me.
I felt the remaining slick from earlier between his legs rubbing against me, making my desire go through the roof. I should be more than satisfied with what he'd just allowed me to do, yet I knew I wouldn't be able to leave tonight without making him mine. Entirely.
Levi gasped, his lovely eyes snapping open when he felt my wet tip press against his entrance.
"Uhm... Bare?" He asked, cheeks flushing a delectable shade of hot pink.
"Only if you let me," I whispered, kissing the spot on his lip he was just worrying between his teeth.
"Do it," he said, "I want you. And I'd rather drop dead than pass on having you right now."
I choked on air and felt my face go hot. God... The things he said. What was control? What was keeping my cool and abstain from taking him here in damn public?
I didn't remember, and I sure as hell didn't want to. All I wanted was him.
I caught his hand in mine and interlaced our fingers while I gently pushed into him. His eyes squeezed shut, multiple gasps leaving his lips as I continued to press in inch after inch until I was fully embedded inside him.
"Ah yes... God... How I missed you," I breathed when the familiar intimacy began to surround me.
Levi cupped my cheek and looked at me, tears in his eyes, his gaze so incredibly devoted. I thought I must be a second away from blinking out of existence just from happiness alone.
"I love you, Eren. I want to be with you always."
"Me too, Levi. I love you so much."
After that, the last thread of control I had left tore to pieces. I grabbed him almost roughly, ramming into him again and again. It was like a high I could do nothing to break free from, like the addiction I couldn't satisfy for three long days.
"Ah, Levi... You feel so good, I c-can't... I'm sorry, it's so hard to hold back," I breathed desperately, even while I was still thrusting into him hard enough to make him slide along the floor along with the blanket we were on.
His nails sunk into my back, leaving long scratches.
"D-Don't," he gasped, "Don't hold back."
My heart was about to jump through my chest and into his hands, where it belonged. I smiled as I bent down and took his kiss-swollen lips again. My hands held onto his hips as I rammed into him without pause, until he tightened noticeably around me. I knew he was close, so close.
"Eren, I—" Without another word, I wrapped his cock in my hand and began to stroke him, just the way he liked it. His head kicked back, his nails continuing to scratch along my back. I'd be sure to be well marked by tomorrow, and that was exactly what I wanted.
"Come for me," I whispered in his ear. He trembled again, and then I felt warm spurts of his release all over my hand.
Smiling, I wrapped him in a tight hug and rocked my hips into his, even harder than before. My name left his lips on loud gasps, his fingers tugging wildly on my hair. One of his hands slipped down to sneakily flick my nipple, and that was all it took for me to let go. I spilled myself into him, unconsciously giving two more shallow strokes to chase after the addictive feeling, before I collapsed on top of him. Right then, I was floored with the intensity of my feelings, and just stayed where I was, pressed to Levi's chest, inhaling his scent. The fact that he began to gently comb his fingers through my hair made me want to stay there forever.
"I think I've pretty much managed to get all the tangles out of your hair," Levi mused after some time. I'd blissfully dozed off on top of him in the meantime.
"We should probably clean up," he said. "I mean, we're still outside."
He tried to get me off, but I only sighed in contentment and refused to let him push me away.
"Mh, just one more minute."
"Eren, we really need to get up. What if somebody comes?"
There was anxiety in his voice, and I knew he was right. It was too dangerous to stay like this. We'd already pushed our luck with going as far as we had.
And then, the luck we'd had until that point was used up.
Voices.
There were voices outside. They were too close for comfort, way too close. I fumbled for my boxers in the fading light, and quickly slipped them on before I pulled my discarded T-shirt over my head. Levi was still searching for his clothes in the pile we'd left all over the floor.
"Here, take this." I wrapped him up in the blanket and pushed him back into a dark corner. It wouldn't help much though if whoever was out there decided to approach the truck. The interior was too small to hide something or someone. I was in the middle of hastily stepping into my jeans when someone gasped at the front of the truck.
"Eren?! Oh my god, Eren, is that you?!"
My eyes snapped to the truck window upon hearing my name, and then the penny dropped. I knew this voice. I'd known it all my life.
"Mikasa?! What are you doing here?"
I stared at her in shock, just like she stared at me. Dammit, could there be a worse moment for her to show up? I was well fucked and looked the part, what with my jeans dangling undone on my thighs, and Levi was... Levi was naked and trying to cover himself using only a flimsy blanket. Mikasa was too smart not to connect the dots. Fuck, why was this happening? I'd been meaning to tell my friends once they came back from vacation, but this? This was nothing like I'd planned. Nothing like I'd wanted them to find out. It was a disaster.
"Eren, what the hell... Are you doing here? Who is this?" Mikasa pointed an accusing finger at Levi.
"Uhm, I-I... I'm just... Armin?"
A short blonde head had appeared beside Mikasa, and a huge pair of pale blue eyes looked inside the truck, going wide as baseballs when they took in the scene inside.
"Eren? What's going on here?"
Fuck, I had to get out of here. I had to explain everything, but I didn't want to do that with my jeans down and Levi naked on the floor. Both Mikasa and Armin looked about ready to blow up, and I couldn't even blame them for it. I'd probably react the same way if I caught one of them in such an obvious situation, and with someone of the same gender, no less.
"I c-can explain," I stammered. "Just give me a minute."
"You better!" Mikasa roared.
I finished getting dressed in my rumpled clothes and then I dropped to my knees in front of Levi, who looked ten times more shocked than anyone else did. All the color had left his face; he looked almost ghostly pale.
"This can't be happening..." he whispered in horror. "Please tell me your best friends did not just walk in on us?"
He pulled the blanket tighter around himself. I blocked him out of view with my body, but didn't touch him.
"I have to go," I said, sounding strangely detached.
I had to explain this to my friends. They were shocked out of their minds to find me here like this, and I could absolutely not let them go without telling them all about what had happened this summer. They deserved this much. It was all I could think about.
"What?" Levi said forlornly, "You can't go now. Eren, you... You can't just leave me like this."
"I'm sorry, but they deserve an explanation. You know that! I can't just send them away. Not after they've seen us... Like this."
"P-Please, don't go... Don't do this to me." He wrapped his hand around my wrist and held me tight, his eyes pleading with me.
"Levi, please... They don't know about me. This is more important right now." With a heavy heart, I pried his fingers off me and pushed his hand away.
"Eren, who is this?" Mikasa asked. I threw her a glance over my shoulder and found her gray eyes fixed on Levi with obvious suspicion.
"He's... Uhm, he's a—a friend. I'll explain everything, just give me a moment. Please."
Levi's expression was one of pure hurt when I looked at him. My heart splintered a little just seeing him like this, and knowing I was responsible for it. What I really wanted was pull him in my arms and stay with him, but I knew I couldn't. Not right now. My friends were important to me as well, and they needed an explanation for everything that was going on.
"A friend?" Levi whispered in a torn voice. "That's what I am to you? Just a friend?"
"Levi, please... I don't have time for this right now. You have to understand that I need to talk to them, now. This cannot wait. I... I'll call you later, okay? I'm sorry."
There were tears brimming in his beautiful eyes, and it hurt me more than anything to turn away from him right now, even while I knew I had no choice. I wanted to stay and beg him to understand, but Mikasa and Armin were waiting for me. I needed to set things straight with them. What I was doing was unfair to Levi, but I just had to trust that he would understand. I'd make it up to him a thousand times over after I'd made it out of the conversation with Mikasa and Armin alive.
"I'll come back, okay?" I said, brushing my thumb briefly over his cheek. He turned away from my touch, and for a moment, I felt as if all the air was ripped away from me.
"Don't bother."
"What?" I asked incredulously. I must have misheard.
"I said, don't bother."
"You... You don't mean that."
"I do. After everything that just happened between us... After what you just said..." He averted his gaze and moved farther away from me. "You know what? Just go."
"Levi..." I reached out for him but he slapped my hand away, a single tear falling from his eyes.
"Eren, come out here already!" Mikasa yelled. "You have some serious explaining to do, right now!"
"Dammit... Levi, I really have to go. Please understand how important this is to me. We'll talk later, okay? I'm really sorry."
He didn't say anything. He didn't even look at me. It ripped my heart in two, but I got to my feet. With a last look at him, I stormed out the backdoor and led my friends away from the truck.
Away from Levi.