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      Published: 2018-01-08 Updated: 2018-02-26 Chapters: 5/? Words: 8811
****** Drama, Trauma and all that comes with it ******
by WhatdoyouwantJaeger
Summary
     A boy moves to a new town, new state after his mothers death. His
     older sister and her family taking him in. He has to endure summer
     school for sleeping in all his classes, which had him fail every
     single one of them. But it's okay, a certain raven is spending his
     summer at school also. But what will happen when their past comes
     back to haunt them? How are they connected? Will they stick together?
     Or does fate have different plans for them? All in the summer days of
     Levi and Eren.
Notes
     This is my remake on the other one that I have already deleted.
     Summer school just started? Or whatever the title was lol
See the end of the work for more notes
***** Chapter 1 *****
Monomania
-noun
an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea,
subject, or the like.
 
Eren was awoke at an ungodly hour from the sounds of drilling an hammering
right outside of his window. The hammering matching his heartbeat as he
abruptly sits up in the bed, covered in cold sweat. The noise didn't help the
nightmare he was having.
"What the heck is going on?" A deep sigh draws his wide eyes over to the
doorway to see Mikasa, his heart slowing instantly and the fear ebbing away.
"Apparently they're deciding to build an new apartment building next to ours,
this summer for you is going to be like this every morning." Eren's nose
wrinkled up in disgust as he glared out the window when the room filled with
drilling once again.
"What the hell, why?" He pinched the bridge of his nose with one hand and the
other wiped the sleep out of his right eye. A startled yelp was pushed out of
him though when he felt a hard yank on his left ear, his hands falling from his
face to glare at his older sister.
 
"How many times do I have to tell you, watch your language." His glare soften,
a deep heavy sigh pushing past his lips as he nodded.
 
"Sorry Mika." His hand was now on his sore ear, a slight pout on his lips but
he could see Mikasa smiling from the corner of his eye which had him grinning.
Eren moved to the edge his bed, watching Mika look down at her wrist to check
the time.
 
"Well it's eight, so come and get breakfast and then head to school. We'll be
gone when you get back." With that said Mikasa turned on her heels and walked
back towards the kitchen, leaving Eren to stew in anguish. He hated that he had
to miss the annual family vacation. With that he stood, his feet touching the
rough carpet as he dragged them along out of his room and all the way to the
bathroom to take a shower. He didn't waste any time, turning the water on and
ignoring the fact that the water wasn't even warm. Because even if he tried to
use the hot water it would be gone, his nephews using it all up. So he mustered
though the cold shower, shivering all the while. With the quick shower he
hurries back to his room, towel wrapped tightly around his waist as Marco and
Marlo rush by the boys hands flailing everywhere.
 
"No running boys." Jean's voice filtered into the hall as soon as Eren shut his
door, gagging at the sound of his brother in laws grating voice. He could hear
giggling while he pulled his dark green boxers on, a fond smile pulling at his
lips. Eren wasn't the cleanest boy on the planet, I mean if you looked around
his room you would know that. He wasn't sure if the pile of clothes by his feet
were clean or dirty but he still bent down and pulled a shirt from the pile. He
sniffed the black Ramones shirt and sighed in relief when he found it was
clean, quickly pulling it on. Pairing the black shirt with acid washed gray
skinny jeans and a black pair of vans, that weren't as black anymore, he was
good to go. With his backpack slid over his shoulder and wallet and keys in his
back pockets he heads out of his room and into the dining room where breakfast
was laid on on the table. His bag now situated on the floor and a piece of
toast in hands he looks up at his brother in law, brows furrowed at the smirk
he was sending him.
 
"This is a waste of summer." His eyebrows furrowing even more as he takes a
bite of the burnt toast as Jean chuckles at his disdain.
 
"I don't even give a fuck about school, it's a waste of my time." Jean laughs
at that, the newspaper forgotten on the table as he shakes his head at Eren.
 
"You would be coming to the lake house with us this summer but with that
attitude towards school I can see why you aren't." He shakes his head again, a
smirk pulling at his lips even more now. "You should watch your language, Mika
has good hearing. You know this." As the last bit left Jean's mouth he felt a
hard tug on his ear, cutting off any remark he had for Jean.
 
"Sorry Mika." She rounds the table and glares hard at Eren, sending a shiver
down his spine.
 
"You better be, because next time I'll wash your mouth out with soap." Eren
knew his older sister wasn't kidding, so the wince was warranted as he shoved
the last of his breakfast in his mouth. And the grin she was giving him was
Cheshire.
 
"Now hurry up, or you'll be late." Eren left the table and walked back into the
bathroom, quickly relieving himself and washing his hands before brushing his
teeth. He walked back out, picking up his bag and planting a kiss to Mika's
cheek and a two finger solute to Jean. Marco and Marlo having perfect timing as
usual, rushing out of there rooms just as he was about to open the door and
hugging the life out of him. When he was finally released he had to rush out of
the small apartment, quickly taking the stairs by two and the sight of his bike
parked on the other side of the parking lot had his long legs moving even
faster. With his keys pulled from his pocket and in his hands he slides onto
the his motorcycle seat, shoving the key into the ignition and then he finally
pulls on his helmet and tightens his back pack straps. He pulls out of the
parking lot as quickly as he can, the sound of the bike echoing in his ears has
him relaxing abundantly. He hates how he has to head back to that vile place
while everyone else gets to enjoy their summer, even his sister and her family.
He noticed he was speeding when the school was already insight, having him slow
down immediately. "Man this is what I get for sleeping in class." Eren grumbles
under his helmet as he parks his bite, turning the keys and taking them out of
the ignition. He eyed the school before pulling his helmet off, his hair
poofing up even more now and his fingers weren't gonna be able to fix it.
 
"Well let's get this over with." His helmet secured to his bike after getting
off of it he makes his was up the sidewalk to the school. He wasn't paying
attention as usual, deep in thought as he runs into something. That something
having to be a boy which he didn't see until he looked down. He was sprawled
out on the floor, his books and papers spread out all around him. He sees him
rubbing his forehead, a small glare in between his thin eyebrows. Then the boy
looks up and Eren felt his heart go in over time, the molten gray of the boys
eyes having a blush erupt on his cheeks. "Sorry I didn't see you there." He
says, quickly shooting his hands around to grab his things. Eren bends down to
help but the boy shoo's him off, picking up the last paper in front of Eren.
Eren stands and offers his hand to him, the boy eyeing it hesitantly at first
before taking the appendage.
 
"It's cool kid, if anything I should be apologizing."  Eren takes in the boys
small structure, covered in layers of clothing. His eyes wondering up to the
inky black strands of hair that was styled in a undercut, his bangs falling
over the cut hair and on his pale forehead.
 
"I've never seen you here before." Eren spits out before he realizes it, his
eyes widening a fraction. "But then again I've only been in this school for a
couple of months and those months were spent sleeping." The boy gives a little
chuckle, alighting a fire in the pit of Eren's stomach and stopping his
breathing when the boy looks up and showing him those beautiful eyes once
again. The molten gray now looked like the sky before it rained, lightening
splitting the sky with deep blues and purples. There wasn't a name you could
call the color of his eyes and if Eren tried he would be doing it for the rest
of his life. And that's when Eren realizes he still had the boys hand in his
own, his face heating up in a dark red blush as he snatches his hand away like
it was on fire, it shooting to the back of his neck to rub at it
embarrassingly.
 
"Sorry." Eren mumbles, looking at him again his skin an porcelain white and
lips pink and plump, delectable and very kissa-
 
"It's whatever, now if you'll excuse me I have things to do." The boy says, his
voice monotoned and bored as he walks around Eren. Eren frowned, turning around
and watching the boy go. Then his ears were assaulted by the shrill ring of the
bell ringing in his ears.
 
"Damnit." Eren rushes the rest of the way to the front doors, knowing he was
going to be late on the first day. And summer just started?
***** Chapter 2 *****
Evocation
-noun
an act or instance of evoking; a calling forth: the evocation of old memories.
—-Flashback—-
The alarm rang in the quiet room an hour early, drawing the brunet from
dreamless slumber irritably. His hand blindly searched the nightstand, padding
around until his finger wrapped around the alarm clock to bring to his face.
The numbers bright in the dark room, the green glow of the numbers coloring his
face in a sickly shade of green. He had to squint, even the light glow of it
was still to bright and the dark room wasn't helping that much. It read 6:15,
having the teen groan because he was sure he set the clock to blare at 7:15 not
an hour earlier. The brunet slammed the damned thing back down on the
nightstand, pulling his legs free of the thick blankets to the chilly hardwood
floor. He brought his hands up to rub the sleep from his eyes, a yawn ripping
through him as he blearily took in his room. As he went to stand his bedroom
door opened, revealing his mom, her hair braided and draped over her shoulder.
Smile too bright for the early morning. "Ah so it worked!" And Eren knew now
that the alarm was originally set 7:15 but his mother changed it. He scowled at
the women, going to lay back down on his bed to see if he could get sleep to
take him once more but his mom had crossed the room and stopping him. "Now,
now. We had plans before school and I knew you would forget. Don't give your
mother that look." The look on his moms face had him grinning despite the early
hour. He knew what she was doing, even taking time out of bust schedule to make
sure she could do this for him.
He let his mom pull him down the stairs, the smell of chocolate chip pancakes
freshly made tickled his nose and as he walked into the kitchen with his mom he
grinned wider. "Thanks." He whispered, cause he knew if he said it any louder
his mom would hear the crack in his voice. Even knew he was getting a little
emotional, especially over a birthday breakfast it was just he knew his mom
works hard. Too hard and now even on her day off she'll do anything to have him
smile. So he sniffles, leans down to place a kiss to the crown of his moms head
and walks the rest of the way to the table.
"Anything for my birthday boy, I can't believe you're seventeen already. Oh how
the time flies." He feels his mom kiss his cheek as she takes a seat next to
him, a bright smile still on her delicate features. "So what do you want to
after school? Are you gonna have some friends over?" Of course he wasn't, never
felt right doing so. It was there day and he didn't want his rowdy friends
ruining it.
"I was thinking we could just make dinner together, put on a bad film and make
fun of it while we eat a shit ton of that birthday cake you're trying to hide."
He grins and says around a bite pancake, his mom laughs and shakes her head
fondly. Even cuts another piece of pancake and shoves into the corner of his
cheek while points the now empty fork at his mom. "And you better not pop out
another present, you woke me up midnight to already give one." He tries to say
matter factly but only co es out jumbled because of the food in his mouth. All
he gets in return is a smirk and quick pat on his cheek as he watches his mom
stand up and walk to the fridge. "I mean it mom, you don't need to spend money
on me as long as I get be with you I'm fine." Eren is still watching his mom as
she stills in the fridge and then she's turning around with a shit eating grin
on her lips as he clasp both hands over her heart.
"Such a mommas boy." Which of course he rolls his eyes to and goes back to
eating. "I'm only kidding, I love that you want to be with your old mom. But I
want you to be happy experience your birthday how normal teenagers do and not
have to worry." He glances up at his mom and sees that she's that the fact that
he doesn't do much on his birthday really bothers her. "I don't want you to
worry about whether or not if I can afford a present or you to go somewhere
with your friends baby." Eren pushed himself up and off of his chair, walking
ove to his mom and engulfing her into a hug. Of course he's gonna think all of
this but he doesn't need his mom to know, he doesn't want her stressing mor
over him.
"Okay mom, but I do really want to just stay home and spend my birthday with
you." With that said and his mom nodding he went back to his breakfast. After
some good light conversation with his mom and two more pancakes he found
himself back in his room, the clock now reading 6:57 as he looked at the
unopened box sitting on his dresser. It was weird to get a gift from his dad,
so many years later and Eren couldn't bring himself to open it. So he ignores
it once more, tripping over a pile of clothes and falling face first into the
floor. He let out a groan, his nose tingling and smarting at taking a lot of
the impact. He shoves himself up into a sitting position and glares at the pile
of clothes before standing up, grabbing ahold of his towel and heading to the
bathroom. As he flips the switch the room swarms with light, his reflection
showing the skin on and around his nose red but he ignores in favor of hanging
up his towel on the rack and turning the water on.
It doesn't feel like he's been long in the shower until he hears his mom
knocking at the door, saying something about it already being like thirty
minutes and to stop playing with himself. He turns crimson under the warm water
because one he hasn't even done that and two it's obvious his mom has heard him
before. So he shuts off the water, tugging his towel around his hips after
trying to dry his hair and quickly makes his way back to his room. He probably
takes too long getting ready for school, but his hair always gives him trouble
and he couldn't find a clean pair of boxers for about ten minutes. So it really
shouldn't surprise him when his clock read 7:59 when he was finally done and
heading towards the bathroom to brush his teeth. He heard his mom yelling about
him taking longer than a girl to get ready but he decided to just ignore it in
favor of brushing his teeth then running his fingers through his unruly hair.
Eren was done the stairs with his boots in hand and backpack strung over his
shoulders at 8:16, stopping to sit on the last few steps to pull on his boots
and stomp his way back into the kitchen. "Bye mom, love you. See you after
school." Was said against the brunette women's cheek quickly as he ran back to
the door knowing if he didn't hurry he was going to be late.
When he arrives he may have been about a minute late but that didn't matter
with his first period teacher, the woman despised Eren already but she hated
late students more so you can guess how she feels about the brunet as he's
trying to sneak in unnoticed. "Mr. Jaeger, it seems like you enjoying
interrupting my class every morning. I'll be seeing you for lunch detention."
Eren wanted to groan, cuss the old hag out and flick her off but he doesn't.
Instead he walks the rest of the way to his seat.
"Sorry ma'am it won't happen again." He hears the old bat say it better not as
she returns her attention back to the board and he sends a glare at the people
trying to cover up there snicking with coughing.
"Man Jaeger you're always late." Eren rolls his eyes and flicks John off, not
really in the mood to here the Hispanics mouth so early in the morning. He
fixes his hood on his head and pulls out his earphones, plugging them into his
phone and pressing play. Eren lets the music wash over him, he feels his own
eyes closing as the lead singer of the band he was listening too rasp in his
ear. Then next thing he knows there's someone shaking his shoulder, he peeks
one eye open to see it was John.
"What the fuck do you want Johnny?" John crunches up his nose adorably and if
he wasn't so tired Eren would have said something about it, probably would have
drag the Hispanic off somewhere they could be alone. But he didn't, didn't feel
like being bothered regardless who it was.
"The bell rang and you would've known if you didn't have your headphones in the
whole time." Eren could tell the other teen was upset because of that, he could
never take being ignored. Eren normally took his clingyness in stride, even
found it cute and he should be happy it's his birthday.
"Okay, whatever John," He stands up, trying to ignore the frown that pulls on
John's face and walks around the other brunet, slinging his bag over his
shoulder. "Let's get to our next class."
———time skip to end of the school day———
Leave it to him to get detention for lunch and the end of the day on his
birthday, it didn't help John was ignoring him either. Eren couldn't hold it
against him, he was in a bitchy mood this morning and practically took it out
on the other brunet. Though John did whisk him away before he was heading to
detention for a make out session in the broom closet and the other teens hands
down his pants. John promise more tomorrow, knowing he wasn't planning on
leaving his house again when he got home and fuck Eren almost decided to go
with John instead. But he didn't, he kissed the other teen goodbye and quickly
made his way to detention. But as he made his way out of the school he finally
pulled his cell out, surprised by the amount of missed calls and texts from his
mom.
He knew that they made plans and he was going to apologize for being late but
he didn't expect his mom to call at all, knowing her son was one to get in
trouble more often than not. So it worried the brunet, a lot, so he starts
running as he listens to the voicemails she left behind. The get more and more
worrisome the more of them listens too and closer he gets home. As he listens
to the last one he has the house key in the keyhole but his mom tells him not
to come home and Eren freezes, his hands sweaty way too much and his eyes are
wide. He couldn't just leave, not if his mom is in trouble so he pushes the
front door open, letting it click behind him once he steps in. Eren doesn't
like how quiet it is in the house, the normal humming or music playing wasn't
heard as the when stepped into the kitchen and found it empty had his heart
hammering wildly in his chest.
Eren wanted to call his mom, just so he can put all this behind him but he knew
not to because there is definitely nothing right about what's going on. But
then he hears a cram from upstairs and almost deflates because that has to be
her. "Mom?" He asks as he grabs ahold of the banister to the stairs and begins
the trek up and I'm halfway up when I hear a whimper that way to much like his
mom. He quiets down pulls out his phone and sends a text to John, telling to
call the cops and send them to his address quickly. Eren knew he should
probably leave but he slides his phone back into his pocket and continues up
the stairs. As he pushes his moms door open he hears a thud, but then his eyes
are on a man hovering over his limp mother and he finds himself unable to move.
Even as the man turns towards him, knife poised in the air and charging towards
him.
***** Chapter 3 *****
Disquietude
-noun
the state of disquiet; uneasiness.
 
Eren thought he was going to die here, it looked like his mom might be and he
didn't want to think that. Not one bit but he couldn't help it. He was sure he
was crying as the man came closer and closer and thankfully his body decided to
react and throw his arm up to block. Though he was sure it would have been so
much better to try and dodge it or move. He screamed as the blade embedded
itself into the flesh of his arm and it doesn't stop there, the impact of if
knocks him down which has the blade that is still in his arm move with the
movement. Slicing up his forearm and his back collides with the hard wood
floor, the man now looming over Eren like a predator would a prey. He never
like that saying and here is why. Before the brunet knows it the man is lunging
down, the blade making itself home in his side instead of his chest as Eren
tries pulling himself away. The pain isn't any better of course and it has him
crying out in pain once more, he just wants this to be a nightmare. He just
wants his mom.  Eren tries to continue his trek of pulling himself away from
the man, his side bled profusely and his arm was way worse. But Eren didn't
give up even as the man took slow steps towards the brunet and he uses the
railing to the steps to finally pull himself up, then taking the steps as fast
as he can to get away. As his feet his the first floor he races for the front
door, his breathing slightly erratic and his eyes wide, his hand closes around
the doorknob but as he goes to pull it open he's slammed into it. His head
smacks loudly onto the wooden door, having his vision blacken for a second.
Eren uses the door to push back, shoving the man back with him and almost
whoops in victory when he hears the man fall. Eren has the door open then, one
foot out the door when he's suddenly yanked back into the house and slammed to
the ground. His head makes a loud crack when it connects with the floor, his
vision swimming again and the sir knocked from his lungs. Eren's vision
continues to come back and forth, one minute he can see the man clearly next
he's blurry and then goes black for a second. He knows he going to lose
unconscious and he hopes Johnny called the cops. But then as his vision swims
again he notices the man pull something out, and his ears ring at the loud bang
the erupts around him which has him lose complete consciousness before he could
register what has happen.
Eren awakes with people looking and moving around him frantically, he's sure he
must be dead because he was laying on his living room floor before and it was
just that man there. But before he could think to hard on it his eyes are
slipping closed again.
He awakes later to the sound of repetitive beeping and tries to reach over to
his bedside table to turn off the damned alarm clock to only stop short because
he couldn't even lift up his arm. He doesn't know why his body feels so heavy.
Eren goes to open his eyes to see that it was just a difficult, which pulled a
gargled groan from his lips as he finally does and surprisingly he only really
see white. Eren realizes how weak he feels and how dry his throat feels, it
didn't help how hard it was just to turn his head towards the left. The pain
shot through his head, which of course a,rested his whole body how much it was
in. It seemed to be coming from everywhere.
As his eyes finally took in what he was seeing he realized he was actually in
the hospital, the beeping wasn't his alarm clock but the heart monitor. Eren's
eyes slip down his arm to see an IV sticking out of it, having him groan and
want nothing to pull it out.  Because honestly he hates needles. But then he
hears rustling come from his right and there is no way he was going to be able
to over that way. "Eren?" He recognizes it immediately, even he hasn't heard
since the wedding and rarely when he talks to his nephews. Mikasa. Eren goes to
reply but finds more than difficult to do so, but then she's coming in view and
he can tell she's been crying. "Oh thank god you're awake."  Relief is evident
on her face and in the way her voice wavers, and finds comfort in the warm hand
she places on his cheek. He realizes then how much he missed her and forces
himself to speak even though it hurts.
"Mikasa." Eren doesn't even recognize his own voice, the way it sounds all
scratched and hoarse like he hasn't spoken in days. He sees Mikasa crying then
and he feels his heart ache at the sight of the tears flowing down his sisters
cheeks freely. But he had to know, wanted to make sure he wasn't here because
of what happened at the house. Maybe he got hit on the way home from school.
"Where's mom?" He hates how the tears seemed to flow down his sisters cheeks
faster, practically telling him what he wanted know though now he's second
guessing himself. But Mikasa doesn't answer, and the pain, anger, and the
sadness constricts around his heart way to painfully. He asks again. "Where's
mom?" It comes out more of a demand than anything but he can't bring himself to
care. He wants to know, he needs to know, need to hear regardless what the
answer will be. But then Mikasa's eyes finally meet his again and there's just
way too much sadness residing there. Way too much.
"Oh Eren, she's... she's... she is.... she's gone. She didn't make it Eren." He
feels angry tears well up in his eyes because if he got home in time, then
maybe his mom would still be here. But he's always fucking up in school, always
causing shit and if only... if only... if only he was actually a good son. The
anger that seemed swell up in him dissipated completely, leaving him in a
swirling mess of emotions he doesn't want. It was making it hard to breath. The
sound of the heart monitor seemed to be coming from a distance, his sister
voice and the oncoming nurses and doctors voices seemed to be coming from a
distance. Eren could get himself to breath, it didn't help that all the pain he
was barely feeling decided to rear its ugly head and he knew as his vision
swarm with black the nurse or doctor injected some shit into him to calm him
down. Soon his sisters face was nothing but blurriness until it was swapped
with black and unconsciousness consumed him.
***** Chapter 4 *****
Scintilla
-noun
a tiny, brilliant flash or spark; a small thing; a barley-visible trace
 
A week passed by before he knew it, school seemed to be more hellish than when
he had to attend during the school year. It probably had to do with the fact he
was wasting his summer away because of it. The only plus side to the whole
thing was he saw the short beautiful raven twice that week, even though they
never talked because it was always in passing. The raven would be leaving just
as Eren would be walking up to the front doors to the school. Eren always
wondered why he was there so early and left right before summer school started,
it nagged him to not know because he just wanted to know everything about the
raven but mainly his name. Though this is how he ends up running into the raven
again, literally, he wasn't paying attention. His focus on his phone, a text
from Mika open that said they were staying an extra two weeks and he found
himself felling fine with that. Having hot water was a thing he was gonna take
advantage of. But since he wasn't paying attention he walked right into the
raven, the boy sprawling out on the ground which was still wet from the early
morning rain. The boy was glaring up at Eren through his glasses and Eren's
eyes were wide, his phone clutched tight in his hand as he looked down at the
raven. And Eren wondered when if that last times he had seen the other teen if
he was also wearing glasses then.
"Fuck!" Eren found himself saying, noticing that the raven not only fell in one
of the many puddles scattered about on the sidewalk but also all the shit the
teen was holding was everywhere. Some in other puddles and some were lucky.
Eren took in the ravens now soaked jeans and the papers that were most likely
not even salable before he leaped into action, he shoves his phone into his
pocket and then goes to help up the raven. But then there's a hand stopping him
from doing so, the raven glare seems to darken as well.
"I think you've done enough, you shit." Eren's eyes widen again at the such
rudeness coming from a small teen, his eyes squinting a bit when he takes a
step back and cross his arms across his chest.
"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention which I guess you can tell since I walked
right into you. I was checking a text, you know family.." Eren found himself
rambling a bit but when he looked at the raven he was collecting his stuff and
looked like he could honestly care less. He found himself placing a hand on the
back of his neck and a nervous chuckle passing his lips, his eyes watching as
the teen had all his stuff already picked up, even though most of the shit was
ruined. Just like the poor teens very wet and very tight pants. "Uh, I really
am sorry. I have a pair of sweats in my backpack if you want use them. I mean
they might be a little to big for you but it's better than wet jeans." Eren
notices how the other teen looked up at him in thought then down at his wet
jeans as he sighed. Eren had to hide a smile behind his hand when the other
teen pulled a adorable grimace at the sight of his jeans and it only got worse
when he noticed the mud. Then his eyes shift to the ruined papers in his arms
and his nose crunches up adorably, and Eren swears his heart swam with warmth
and his began doing somersaults. "So, the sweats?" Eren grins when the short
teen nods, Eren then uses his hand to indicate towards the door and nodding his
head in the same direction as well. As the teens began walking towards the
front doors Eren hears the other teen tsk, and Eren finds it quiet sexy.
With the shorter teen leading the way Eren can't help his eyes gluing to the
ravens ass, the jeans being wet squeezing the teens butt in all the right ways.
"Like what you see?" The brunet startles a little, his eyes drawing up to the
stormy eyes that seemed to pierce his very soul at the ravens voice and allows
himself to smirk. His eyes gluing themselves right back to the short teens
butt.
"Actually yes, yes I do." He makes the freaking noise again with his tongue and
walks the rest of the way to the front doors, pulling one open and slipping in.
Eren has to jog to slide in before the door shuts, his eyebrows pulling into a
slight frown. The brunets eyes draw away from the short teen and to the
bathroom doors that luckily wasn't too far away from the front ones, so that
means the raven doesn't have to stay too much longer in those wet jeans. Though
if Eren was being honest he wouldn't mind if the teen stayed in them just
little while longer. He watches as the raven walks the short distance too the
bathroom and Eren follows, eyes now locked onto the hand that is outstretched
towards him. Demanding silently for the pair of sweats. The brunet lets out a
slight annoyed huff as he pulls off his backpack, unzipping it and pulling out
the gray sweats. Eren holds them out towards him but pulls them away when the
teen goes to grab them from Eren's hand and holds them just out of reach. "Can
you at least tell me your name?" Then the scowl that seems to live on the short
teens face contorts into a deadly glare and Eren is quick to shove the sweats
into the ravens hands, rolling his eyes all the while. "Or not, you don't
really need to be so pissy about it." The brunet swears if looks could kill
then he would most definitely be six feet under right about now.
Eren shoots his hands up in surrender, using his hands to motion to the
bathroom. Only to get that glare off of him. The glare ebbs away a bit when the
raven rolls his eyes and then he's turning and walking into the boys bathroom.
He sniffs, rubbing the back of his neck and then walks over to the bench that
wasn't too far away from the bathroom. As he sits he pulls out his phone,
unlocking it to the text from Mikasa and sending a quick reply. Not two minutes
later he feels a tap on his shoulder, his attention being brought to the raven
that stood in front of him. The teen seriously looks way too fucking adorable
in Eren's sweats. "I'll bring them back clean tomorrow." The brunet just nod
and shrugs his shoulder, not really caring if he brings them back.
"You don't really have to do that." The ravens face shifts into something a
keen to disgust and looking offended at the same time. Eren thinks it's cute.
"Of course I do. What do you think I am, a barbarian?" He finds him chuckling,
shaking his head but grinning widely at the same time.
"Okay, Okay. So are you going to tell your name or not?" Th ravens reply is
quick and sharp, arms stretch tightly across a small chest.
"I think you should introduce yourself before asking ones name." Eren rolls his
eyes, stands up but outstretches his hand with his grin still intact.
"Eren. Eren Jaeger." The ravens eyes look down to Eren's hand momentarily but
then he feels the ravens hand elapse his. Chills run up his arm, leaving
goosebumps in their wake and Eren really doesn't understand why they seemed to
be doing this now.
"Levi." The raven, no Levi says quickly and pulls his hand away. Then before
Eren knows it Levi his already walking away and Eren swears his heart is
beating way too fast because damn. He knows he'll never want to hear anyone
else's name ever again. The brunet turns quickly though, his eyes gleaming with
joy as Levi pushes the school door open.
"It's nice meeting you Levi!" He yells shut before Levi slips out and the door
closes. He watches as Levi walks down and towards the parking lot, then the
tardy bell pulls him from his amazement. Reminding him exactly where he his and
where he needs to be, groaning he runs to his class.
***** Chapter 5 *****
Chapter Notes
     Sorry about the late update, last Sunday I had to go up to Ohio for
     family business. I have decided I’ll be posting every other Sunday.
Illecebrous
-adj.
alluring, attractive, enticing
Sitting through yet another lesson could possibly be the most pain in the ass
ever, it could honestly be counted as torture or at least to Eren it could. He
hated how he had to sit through class again, during his summer at least. He
could be doing something way more entertaining than this bullshit. But if he
was also being honest it could be worse if he hadn't ran into that raven, Levi,
the first day and all those other days he happened to do it again. Just the
thought of Levi had him smiling like a fool, his skin and bones thrumming like
it never had before. In a way he can thank himself for sleeping through his
classes.
The sound of the bell pulled him quite quickly from his thoughts, and quite
frankly he wasn't paying too much attention to anything Mr, Smith was saying.
Eren found himself groaning quietly, hands running down his in slight annoyance
because he was literally here because he was sleeping during his classes and
now he's daydreaming through them. With that he shoves his notes and homework
into his backpack, trying his hardest to avoid all contact with Mr. Smith. But
once he looked up the blond teacher was hovering over him, his muscular arms
crossed over a brad chest and Eren seriously thinks this might just Mr. Smith's
day job and he does some other shit once he leaves the school. Eren stands, a
sheepish on his lips as he slinks his bag over his shoulder.
"Mr. Jaeger, I seriously think you should be paying more attention in class.
You are here because you slept through your other classes." Eren looked away,
feeling a little guilty about that because he was right and if he didn't drink
a shit ton of coffee before coming here he would most likely be sleeping
through it again.
"I'm sorry Mr. Smith, I promise I'll start paying attention." Eren's smile was
still sheepish as Mr. Smith ushered him out of his classroom, he did however
send a wave and another sorry over his shoulder as he walked out of the
classroom. He was quick to walk through the halls, hands in his pockets as he
whistled a random tune and ignored the weird looks some of the other students
were sending him. As he pushed the school doors open with his hip a sense of
remembrance, the day his mom picked him early from school because his father
was back home from a trip and apparently he wasn't alone this time. The way his
mom was leaning on the side of the beat up 1980's impala, her face pinched in
concern and a whole lotta other emotions. The way the ride was quiet other than
the soft music coming from the radio, Eren wasn't sure what to think then with
only being six years old. Now though, after dad showed up with Mikasa and left,
never returning it made him angry. Not with Mikasa becoming part of the family
but with the fact his dad seemed to fall of the face of the planet. Eren shook
his head, wanting to get rid any thoughts that evolved his dad and how
everything practically went to shit after left.
He plucks his keys out from his pocket as his eyes lands on his bike that's not
too far away, twirling them around his finger while he then glances down at his
watch. Which of course read 1:35 which only left him about twenty-five minutes
to get to work on time and that's if he doesn't stop to get something to eat.
Eren lets out a huff in annoyance as he slings his leg over his bike, starting
it up and tightening the straps to his back pack before taking off out of the
parking lot. He knows he shouldn't speed, really he does but he wants to be
able to stop at the gas station to pick up a snack or some shit that a way he
doesn't have to worry about his stomach making all kinds of noises while he's
working. So he speeds just a little and when he pulls into the station with
only a couple minutes to spare he rushes, grabbing a few bags of chips and a
stick of jerky before grabbing some Gatorade. As he makes his way to the
counter he catches something from the corner of his eyes that makes him turn
around. Eren was sure he saw someone standing there watching him but he just
shakes his head walks the rest of the way for he counter and tries not to think
about the chill that traveled down his spine. With that he pays the cashier and
quickly makes his way back to his bike as he shoving the bag of snacks into his
backpack.
He takes one look down at his watch to know he's late and curses under his
breath as he slings his leg over the seat of his bike. With the key in the
ignition and the bike purring under him he takes off and thanking the gods that
the library wasn't too far. The white bricked building brings relief to him as
he spots it, pulling into the parking lot and into a space next to a beat up
station wagon. Eren hurries inside after that, his long legs briskly taking
across the small parking lot and to the front doors. As he's walking to the the
check out counter he sees a head of blond hair and as he stops in front of it
and clears his throat the biggest bluest eyes look up at him. "Can I help you?"
The boy smiles, so big and kind it had Eren smiling along.
"Yeah, I'm Eren. Eren Jaeger. The older man I talked to told me to come
straight to the counter when I got here. I start working here today?" If
anything the boys smile seemed to widen and then he was standing up, his hand
outstretched towards Eren in a greeting. Eren takes the boys smaller hand into
his larger one, giving it a firm shake and then releasing it.
"Armin!" He sorta yells and then a blush rises to the blonds face. "It's nice
to meet you, I'll show you around."He then says, his voice reasonably lower
now, but smile still big. Eren watches as Armin types something into the
computer before making his way from behind the counter, walking past me and
indicating me to follow him with his hand.
The tour wasn't too long, him just showing Eren where each section was and how
to put the books away before they make it back to the front. "So that's how
that works, is there any questions?" Eren shook his head as he followed behind
Armin the counter, the blond toying a few things on the computer before looking
back up at Eren. "Well, let me show you how to check out and return books."
Armin beamed up at Eren and then launched right into how do just that. Not long
after that Armin wondered off to the break room, leaving Eren behind the desk
with confidence that the brunet can do this. And if Eren was honest he was a
quick learner, he wouldn't be in summer school at all if he didn't sleep
through them and if he pays attention this time round he should be good. He'll
be joining his other peers in senior year.
It was while he was still behind the desk when he spotted inky black hair that
reminded him of the mysterious raven from school, Levi, and everything in Eren
wanted to follow that head of hair just to see if it belonged to him as he
disappeared behind a bookshelf. But the small line and a stack of ever growing
books wouldn't allow, at least not yet. So Eren smacked on a friendly smile and
greeted the tiny old women in front of him, scanning the books she had and her
library card. Then it was on to the next one.
As he finally helped the last person in line out, his eyes were on the two
stacks of books he'll be returning before he can wonder the shelf's to see if
he can find that inky head of hair. He whistled quietly as he made his way from
one shelf to the other putting the books away were they belonged until he was
left with one. His eyes raking the cover as a grin pulls at the corners of his
lips, he used to read Stephen King all the time. Before that night on his
birthday last year, after that it didn't feel all that fitting. Not before long
his grin turned into a small sad smile and before he could think more of it he
bumps into something or more like someone. With a quick look downward alerted
him of who he happened to knock over in the collision and he really shouldn't
be all that surprised that it happened to be Levi
"Oh shit, Levi. I'm so sorry, I wasn't paying attention." Before Eren can offer
his help Levi was sighing and standing back up, seemingly wiping off imaginary
dust. Then he was glaring up at Eren, his lip curled back in a slight snarl.
"You don't pay attention a lot, huh?" The raven practically growled out, eye a
lot more stormy than usual as he huffs out yet another sigh. Eren feels a
nervous chuckle bubble up and out of his mouth as his hand instinctively goes
to the back of his neck and a slight flush reddens his ears.
"Uh, yeah I guess so." Eren thought it would lighten the raven up a bit but it
only had Levi's glare intensity. Levi shook his head then, stepping around Eren
and continued his way down the aisle. "Wait!" Eren was quick to catch up to
him, his eyes slightly widen at how fast someone so short could walk so far so
quickly. He smiled when the raven stopped, looked over his shoulder and raised
a perfect elegant eyebrow. "So uh, what cha doing here?" As soon as the
question left his mouth he idiotic, because Levi was obviously at a library for
a reason. Books. Sadly Levi turned back around, walking once more towards
wherever he was going.
"It's a library, what other reason would I be here for?" Eren pursed his lips
at the condescending tone Levi was letting slip into his voice but continued to
follow the other teen until Levi came to yet another stop. "Why are you
following me?" He blinks a few times, willing the blush that wants to creep up
his neck to not do that and then looks down at Levi slightly.
"Because I want to talk to you?" Eren finds a little unnerving how many times
he can make Levi sigh, hating a little bit to be honest because obviously he
was annoying the raven.
"Are you asking or telling?"
"Telling? Yeah, telling." Levi shook his head and then reached up to grab ahold
of a book, or at least try to grab ahold of a book. The book happened to be on
a shelf I bit too high for the short teen though and Eren went to grab ahold of
it to only be elbowed in the ribs. Which had Eren grunting in pain because fuck
could Levi elbow someone.
"What the hell man? I'm just trying to help." Levi just glared up at him then.
"I don't need your help." Levi was reaching up for it once more, and despite
the slight throbbing he giggled at how cute it was.
"Stubborn ass." Eren mumbled, grin pulled at his lips as he continued to watch
the raven try and fail at reaching the book. Every time his fingers would just
barely brush against the spine of the book, then he turned around to face Eren
with a scowl quite prominent on his very elegant features. Eren wonder briefly
how Levi would look if his features look more relaxed. But then Levi was point
towards the floor, it had him raising a questioning brow.
"What?" Eren really was confused and he was damn sure it was written all over
his face.
"Get down on your hands and knees." If that didn't sound sexual then he wasn't
sure what did, Eren knew it really wasn't but it still had him flushing bright
red. Eren also knew Levi wasn't joking, specially the way Levi just kept
staring at him practically demanding him to do so with just that look.
"What, why?" But all he got was an eye roll, the raven still pointing at the
ground in front of the bookshelf. Eren huffed, placing the book he still had in
his hand down on the shelf then huffing again as he got down on his hands and
knees. Levi's boot cladded foot found purchase on the middle of Eren's back and
the other joined too. "Fuck, you weigh a lot more than you look." He grunted
out and all he got was Levi's heel digging more into his back but he jumped
down with the book he wanted in hand. Before Eren could get up though Levi was
already walking away. Of course Eren's lips slipped down into a frown, a sigh
coming out from his nose as he grabs ahold of the book that he placed down
earlier and walking towards where it belongs.
Work came to a end a few hours later, Eren and Armin making there way out of
the building and out into the brisk June air. He waited as Armin locked the
library doors behind them, his hands in his pockets while he found himself
whistling once more. Eren was disappointed that he didn't get to see Levi
again, the raven left before Eren could make it back to the front. Armin turned
around and stepped beside Eren , beaming as they both made their way towards
their vehicles. "I'll see you later Eren!" Eren nodded, slinging his leg over
his bike as he watches Armin stop beside him. "Here my number, just in case you
ever need to call in or whatever you can." He smiles lightly at the blond,
nodding once more before shoving the key into the ignition.
"Thanks Ar." Armin giggles at that, waving his hand and then making the few
steps to the beat up station wagon. Eren slips on his helmet, the tiredness
sinking into his bones as he finally pulled out the parking lot to make his way
back to Mikasa apartment.
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