"TJ you-" Alex went to speak, but she was cut off by Eren who placed a hand on her shoulder.

"TJ, why don't we go for a little walk?" Eren suggested with a smile and an outstretched hand. He knew these feelings and he knew how he could help TJ understand that others just care about him.

TJ hesitated but nodded and took his hand anyway and got up following Eren out of the class. He knew that he brought him out here to talk to him alone. He wanted to make a point but didn't want to speak in front of everyone, or at least that's what TJ thought.

They began walking the halls in a peaceful silence until Eren finally spoke up, "TJ?" He said getting the boy's attention. His voice sounded like he was going to get a lecture, but not the boring naggy kind.

"Yeah?" He said looking up at him. He was thinking 'here it comes.' 

"Do you like your long hair?" Eren asked with a normal tone. Just an easy question that he already knew the answer to. 

"Yeah of course," he said looking down where he was twirling the end of his hair in his fingers. He wasn't expecting a question, he was expecting a lecture. So he was a little caught off guard. 

"Then why would you ever want to cut it off?" Eren asked trying to get TJ to realize something.

"Well it causes me to be a burden to other people," TJ said looking down and dropping his hair from his fingers feeling guilt ping in his chest.

"You're not burdening them, they just care about you. When people care about someone they will usually go out of their way to show that person that they care. That doesn't mean you are being a burden, it just means you are loved," Eren said looking at TJ, but he didn't only see TJ, in the boy's eyes he seen himself.

TJ went to speak but didn't know what to say instead he just stared at Eren and nodded. "But, people make fun of me?" He said looking down at his fingers as he nervously played with them.

"So what, are you going to do? Get rid of a part of yourself that you like to please people who don't care enough to get to know you for who you are?" Eren asked raising an eyebrow.

TJ stopped walking for a second as he processed what Eren just said. "You're right," he mumbled.

Eren gave him a smile and reached his hand out and patted his head lightly. "We should head back to the classroom before everyone else shows up," he suggested.

TJ nodded and they started making their way back to the classroom. When they opened the door they were meet with a room full of eyes that had been anxiously awaiting their return.

TJ sat back down in his seat as his sister's eyes followed him she wanted to ask what they had talked about, but she didn't want to be nosy.

Thomas, on the other hand, had no problem asking him, "what did you guys talk about?"

"He just told me something I should have realized ages ago," TJ said with a smile as he looked over at Eren with a nod.

After that students started trickling in one by one. As the classroom started to fill up the three students made their way to their seats.

"Alright, class is starting," Levi announced standing up as he watched Hanji staring at him from one of the chairs by his desk making no effort to move. "Get out," he mumbled as he passed her. "Today we will be working on sentence structure," he said passing out a sheet of paper that gave the students and example.

"I don't wanna," Hanji whispered back to him as he passed by her to pass out the papers.

When he finished he walked up to her and whispered "I'll make you," before hitting the back of her head with the papers knowing he was blocking the student's view from seeing his childish act.

He walked up to Eren and told him to text Erwin. Eren nodded and shot Erwin a text to forcibly remove Hanji. It only took him a few minutes to arrive and call her out into the hallway.

"What have I told you about disrupting Levi's class?" He said with an annoyed sigh.

"But I sit in there all the time while he teaches," Hanji whined.

"Yes, but you were sitting in a student desk in the front row blocking the students behind you, instead of at a teacher's desk," Erwin said rolling his eyes.

"I'm sorry you're right, anyways I have to go set up my classroom," Hanji said skipping to her class.

"Why do I feel so old when I talk to her," Erwin groaned at the thought. "She's so immature," he sighed before going back to his office to finish his work that he was pulled away from. He told himself he never needed to have kids because he always had to be the parent to Hanji and Levi. After Eren joined the group it made him think that not all of "his kids" were bad. 

Eren sat there tapping his pencil against his thumb as he struggled to keep his focus on the class. He had marked up his notepad in front of him with anxious doodles. 'What am I going to do?' He kept asking himself as he kept remembering what he had heard in the bathroom. 'I love you,' he heard again. All of his fears had just been confirmed.

'Levi had said he loved another person and had been meeting with them recently. Not only meeting with them but lying about meeting with them. He had told that person 'I want us to be happy,' and then telling them that he will tell me something tomorrow or he will lose his mind.' Eren thought, 'The only explanation I can think of is that he is unhappy with me, and will break up with me tomorrow to be with that person.

Eren didn't realize he had gone so far into his thoughts until Levi had walked up to him and slightly shook his shoulder. "Hey, Eren are you okay?" He whispered leaning down next to him.

When Eren snapped back to reality his eyes were watering and a tear had slipped down his face. A few of the students were staring at him and Levi was looking at him concerned.