Eren's thoughts were all over the place, but they all had one thing in common. none of them were good. They hate me. I should have known that they never stopped coming here. I'm just an annoyance they probably can't stand to even look at-.

"Eren shut the fuck up." I finally blurted out. "You're thoughts can be so toxic sometimes. Don't believe any of those things. I said sitting down next to him.

"Sorry, I just-" His voice faded to nothing his words dying out in his throat. He just leaned his head on my shoulder.

"It's-." I stopped talking hearing thoughts that rang out loudly.

Where did he go? No, he's probably going to take this the wrong way. I have to explain. I sighed knowing Eren isn't going to want to hear this. "Eren."

"Yeah?"

"I think you should talk to them, maybe hear what they have to say."

"No I can't I-," he started to argue.

I cut him off as the thoughts from the other two flooded my head. "Eren, I don't think it's what you think. You should really hear them out." I already knew what had happened by piecing their thoughts together into a coherent timeline. However, Eren was still in the dark.

"Fine, but only if you come with me." He said taking my hand in his and looking e in the eyes.

"Um," I couldn't help but hesitate. "I'll be right behind you," I answered. I didn't want to hold his hand in front of them. I mean hell my reputation is trash no need to tank his.

"Okay," he said giving my hand a light squeeze before letting go. He stood up took a deep breath and walked to the front of the restaurant.

I followed behind him and stayed a few feet and just leaned up against the wall.

I took a deep breath and headed to the front of the restaurant. I don't know how they could explain this, but Levi seems sure that it's not what it seems. I wish he would just tell me so I didn't have to figure everything out myself. What if it really is what it seems. What if I don't like what they have to say.

"Eren!" I heard Mikasa say as she spotted me.

I just stood still and waited for them to walk over to me. "Thank god we thought you left," Armin said as he made his way over to me. " We just want to explain since you left really quickly."

"Okay, so explain," I said blankly. I didn't want to show any emotions I wanted to know what they had to say before I made any judgments, however, I couldn't quite get rid of all of the anger I was feeling at the moment.

"We were going to invite you," Armin started, "but when we went to your room no one answered."

"What do you mean no one answered?" I asked. There was no knock on my door this morning.

"No one was in the room," Mikasa said and a lightbulb turned on in my head.

"What door did you knock on."

"Yours," Armin said and I wanted to laugh but held it in. Armin no.

"No, I mean what was the dorm number."

"Oh it was the one you told us, 209," Armin said and I just started laughing.

That's right I never told them. Well, I guess it's my fault after all. "Well, that was my dorm, but I switched into dorm 210. Jean wanted to share a room with his b-best friend so I switched." I caught myself before saying boyfriend since I promised I wouldn't out him. Then again, I'm sure almost the whole school knows they are dating anyway.

"Oh," Armin said with a little laugh.

"We were so confused when you didn't come to the door since you almost always spend the weekends in your room unless we come to get you," Mikasa smiled.

"Yeah, we just assumed you made new friends and had forgotten about us," Armin said with an awkward laugh.

"I could never forget about you guys," I said pulling them in for a hug. Armin smiled so hard he lost control of his power and phased out of my arms.

"Oops, wait, can I have another hug I missed that one," he said and I just laughed and opened my arms for him.

"Wait so you have to fill us in on your new roommate who is it?" Armin said practically bouncing with excitement.

"It's Levi," I said looking behind me to look and see if I could find him... He wasn't there. He told me he would be right behind me. Where did he go- oh there he is. I saw him leaning against the wall the corner of the restaurant. I guess he felt awkward getting to close?

I turned my head back and they didn't seem to see him. "Levi?" Armin gasped. "I'm so sorry, Eren," Armin said. "I don't know who of you has the worst roommate I mean Mikasa has Annie and you have Levi geez, the only other bad roommate you could get is Reiner.

"Levi's not a bad roommate, he's actually really nice, people just spread a lot of fake rumors about him," I said quickly. I'm sorry Levi, Armin likes to believe gossip sometimes. I thought and turned my head slightly to see Levi nod at me as if to say it's okay.

"But I heard he's horrible, I heard he hates everyone and that he is rude and that he is crazy," Armin said and I rolled my eyes.

"Again all bullshit rumors. He keeps to himself and is actually really funny. He's not crazy and he's not rude." But you do hate everyone. I thought to Levi and flicked my eyes over towards him to see him smirk at me with a little nod.

"Oh."

"Yeah, and I told you guys Annie's not that bad either," Mikasa rolled her eyes. "She just keeps to herself too. She's really nice when you get to know her." Mikasa said and we both nodded at each other before turning towards Armin.

"So not every rumor you hear is true." We both said at the same time. I swear I don't know how many times we have to tell him this, but it still never stays in his head for more than a few hours.

"Okay okay," Armin said raising his hands in surrender.

"Anyway, we're going to head back to the school and since you're just getting breakfast. How about since we missed hanging out today, we all hang out tomorrow?" Mikasa suggested.

"I'd like that," I said and Armin nodded.

"Okay, we'll come to wake you up, well if your roommates okay with us banging on the door."

"I don't think he will mind too much since he doesn't sleep," I said and I could almost feel Levi rolling his eyes from here.

"See he doesn't sleep what kind of crazy person doesn't sleep," Armin started up again.

"Armin I was kidding. I just meant he just doesn't sleep like a million hours a day like me, and he actually wakes up at a decent hour most days." If decent meaning waking up at 10 pm and never going back to sleep then sure, I thought flicking my eyes over to him again to seem hi shrug.

"Oh," Armin mumbled.

"Sorry, I guess the rumors went straight to my head.

"They always do."

They started heading back to the dorms and Levi came out of hiding and walked up to me. "So what happened? Why were you hiding behind the wall?"

"I just wanted to give you guys your space," he shrugged.

"Oh. Again sorry about Armin he's a little um-."

"It's okay, I'm used to it."

Ouch. Levi said that and my heart broke. He shouldn't have to be used to such hateful things being said about him. Then again, he can hear thoughts and he probably hears what people think about him all the time and... ouch.

"Hey don't worry about it," Levi said putting a hand on my shoulder, "I can take care of myself. What other people think of me doesn't matter. I know who I am and I know what I am capable off so people constantly bad mouthing me doesn't really affect me," he shrugged. "I mean I know what they're saying is a lie so why should I care?" He stopped for a moment and looked up at me with a more serious look. "The only thing I care about is how it will affect you. I don't want my bad reputation dragging you down too."

"Hey let me worry about my own reputation," I said giving him a smile, "You don't have to worry about it. If my reputation gets trashed because I'm with you then I won't care do you know why?"

"Why?"

"Because I'd rather have a bad reputation and be happy than a good reputation and be miserable," I said, taking his hand in mine. That and I mean a bad reputation means people leave you alone right? So that means I won't have to deal with people anymore so that's a plus," I teased.

"I don't know about that," He laughed, "I had a bad reputation yet you still came around bugging me."

"Well, that's just because I'm an asshole," Is aid leaning in and giving him a peck on the cheek.

Levi's cheeks turned red and he stammered out really quickly, "Weren't we getting breakfast?"

I love how awkward you get. I thought before saying, "Sure, let's go get food."

He just let out a defeated sigh as we walked into the cafe. We were sat instantly despite it looking so busy.

We got the menus and I didn't even need to look at one to know what I wanted. The second this cafe came to mind I knew what I wanted and I could practically already taste it.

"Do you know what you're going to get?" I asked as Levi put his menu down.

"I'm just going to get what you're getting you really sold me on it." He smiled.

Oh oops sorry.

"It's fine," he laughed. "You just helped me decide faster.

The waitress came and put in our food and brought our drinks in no time. She brought our food and we got straight to eating. I didn't even realize how hungry I was.

We ate and talked a little before heading back to the dorm.