Eren's POV

What was wrong with me and Levi?

Nothing, I guess... right?

"T-There's no problem with me and Levi. Everything alright." I retorted, my insecurity evident in my voice.

Armin looked at me with disappointment written all over his face, knowing that I hadn't told the (whole) truth. Wait, was that even a lie? I didn't really know. I mean, yes, I had my doubts about Levi when I was home alone today, but that wasn't something serious, right? Levi and I hadn't any problems, had we? Okay, Levi didn't have any anyway, he didn't have to care about me after all. But what was with me? How long can I go on like tha-

"Eren. You're spacing out." Armin interrupted my train of thoughts, making me startle a bit.

"Oh! Yeah, I'm sorry. I... I just thought about some nonsense."

He sighed lightly. "Was that 'nonsense' Levi?"

There we go again. Sherlock Arlert. Telling lies would be useless now. I sipped my coffee to waste a bit of time as I thought of how to answer. "What makes you think that?" Great, Eren. Well done. Now we'll talk about Levi more than ever!

"Eren," he placed one hand on my shoulder as he spoke to me with a concerned expression on his face, "do you really feel alright? Do you really think that you want a relationship like that with Levi? I mean, he may not have any feelings towards you or any other one, but can you accept that and go on like that?"

The things Armin had just asked me were a bunch of questions and I had to re-think all of them before I could find a final answer. I lowered my head as I took a deep breath and answered, "I'm fine, Armin. Really. I don't mind if Levi and I aren't in a proper relationship." I gave him a weak smile and on top of that... The worst thing now was that I didn't know whether what I told just now was really how I truly felt or not. It was, wasn't it? All that counted was to be by Levi's side, right? To love him, even though he didn't like me back. But... who said I was his only fuck buddy? Like, maybe there was another one that Levi fucked... maybe even a woma-
I shook my head. No, that couldn't be. Only I could be his sex friend. After all, we had agreed to not sleep with another one! Yes, there was nothing to worry about.

"Eren, your hands are shaking." the blond stated in a worried tone, looking down at my hands. I did the same now and eventually noticed that the coffee in my mug was shaking because my hands were trembling. I tightened the grip around my cup to stop the shiver.

"Eren-"

"I'm fine, really. You don't have to worry, Armin." I reassured him, sending him a brighter smile now, but again that didn't convince my friend in the slightest. My smile fell as I watched him, his sad expression making me upset, too. "I- I don't want to lose him." I admitted then.

"There is no way to you have or are going to lose him if- if..." it seemed that he didn't want to continue, but I knew very well what those unspoken words were.
He didn't want me to be together with the raven. "Oh, I know what your thoughts are," I rolled my eyes as I waved with one of my hands, "You want Levi and I to only be friends or should I say return to ones because like that it would be better for me." But I didn't agree with him at all.

"Wait, Eren. I don't want to force you to anything!" my best friend denfensed himself, slightly offended and pouting because of what I was accusing him of.

"You want to know how I think about that? I don't want that!" I spat as I raised my voice a bit. God, why was this making me so hot tempered and moody?!

"Eren..." the blond wrapped a hand around my neck and let our foreheads touch as he closed his eyes and spoke quietly, "Eren, I just want you to be happy. The worst thing for me would be you ending up sad and I don't want something like that. If you say that you are alright now, then I don't want to ruin that. I can sense that something bothers you a bit, but that might not be so important, right? After all, nothing can work out perfectly." he let out a chuckle and I couldn't do else than to do the same as him. I was relieved that the tension from before was gradually fading away. Only my best friend and me. When was the last time that we could be together like that? It was so long ago.

After a time, I wrapped one arm around his shoulder, embracing him as my other hand still held the mug. "Thank you for being there for me." I whispered, tightening the hug. I was really glad that I had a friend like him. He was so caring and always wanted for his friends to be happy, even if it meant to care less about his own happiness, but since he never had any problems, there was no worry that he would be upset at any time. Well, if he was then because he would see how his friends were sad.

"Of course, I'm here for you. I'm your friend." I could literally feel how he smiled now and so did I. This moment was so relieving that we both didn't even hear how a certain someone had returned back.

"You two are too close!" Jean yelled, making me wince and shriek in shock as I accidentally let my cup fall down on the floor.

"Jean!" Armin shouted back at his husband, giving him a glare.

"Oh, God. I'm sorry, Armin. I dropped the mug and now coffee is spilled over the floor." I apologized to him as I scowled at Jean as well.

"Don't worry about that. Jean will clean it up, right? By the way, why on earth are you already here?!"

He huffed in anger as glared at me, not taking his eyes off of me. "Reiner and Bertholdt got a call on last minute, saying that they have to go to their work place because of some urgency. They're co-workers and so. And actually, I'm pretty glad that I arrived here now because one second later and he would have laid a finger on you, Armin!" Jean exclaimed as he pointed at me furiously, making me stand up abruptly and approaching with rising wrath.

"Godammit, you fucking horseface! Armin and I are best friends and I am not trying to seduce him! Calm the fuck down!"

"I am calm! You need to calm yourself!"

"Oh, no! Stop it, you two!" Armin tried to hold us apart, but his efforts were useless, of course.

After all those years, Jean and I couldn't behave like normal friends. We had too different point views on everything and would have fights about every little damn thing and that was why we hated each other over the years. I think the biggest thing now was his jealousy, although there was no reason to be jealous of someone. Right now we had grabbed the collar of the other as we clenched our fists of our free hand and were about to punch the other. Horseface and I were so close to hit the other in the face when suddenly something of rather someone stopped us to do so.

"Stop it!" We heard Armin scream before he punched us hard in our guts.

Both of us fell on the floor of the sudden impact, clutching our stomach as the pain was running though our bodies.

"Urgh! A-Armin that hurt." I said in a cracked voice, attempting to endure the pain in my abdomen area.

"Where did you learn to hit that hard?!" Jean questioned, his body rolled in a ball.

Armin looked down at us, shock overcoming him. "Oh, God! I'm so sorry. I didn't intend to knock you two out. Does it hurt much?"

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"Again, I'm sorry, Eren." Armin apologized for like the one hundredths time already as I was about to leave.

"It's okay. I'm not seriously injured." I smiled at him to reassure him that I was really alright.

His face showed relief. "Good. Next time we will talk for longer and I'll make sure that Jean won't be close to us. You two still have so much to work out before you can talk to each other without having the urge to punch the other. I'll go inside now. Jean seems to be on the edge of death, I hope I didn't hurt him too much. Bye, Eren." He waved at me as he went inside, closing the door at the same time.

I hope Jean will choke on his spit... I MEAN-

"Bye, see ya." I waved back and started to walk away.

I then put my hands in my jacket pockets, sighing as I made my way to the city. I needed to buy something. Short time after, I realized that I hadn't heard of Levi today yet. I saw him for a few minutes in the morning, but that was all. He hadn't called me nor did he send a text. I kmew that itwas the day off of both of us, so that he didn't make efforts to hang out with me or to release his sexual needs and desires on me, made me somehow wonder.

Looking at my watch, I realized that it was only 4 PM. Geez, what shall I do for the rest of the day?! Meet with one of my other friends? Nah, not in the mood for that. Cooking? It was too early for that. Waste my time by going through all the shops that I spot? Maybe.

No, what I wanted was to be with Levi. I was pretty sure that he could light my mood up. So I pulled my phone out and went through the contacts to tap on his number. By the time, I had already reached the city and right now I was walking on the shopping street with all the malls and Cafés. It was so full since now was the time when most of the people would go home -or in this case- to the city from work. Fuck this shit, why did I decide to go shopping now at this time?!

My mood got worse after I waited for like half a minute for Levi to answer my call, but he didn't. His phone was off. With an annoyed sighed I put the device back and headed for a specific shop, when I suddenly spotted a certain guy with raven black hair on the other side of the street.

It was Levi, waiting in front of a Café as he looked towards a certain direction. I smiled at his sight as I began to run to him, but stopped in my tracks immediatly when I saw something that I would have never expected. My eyes took in the sight of a red-haired girl with two pigtails rushing over to Levi and hugging him. My smile dropped and my eyes widened when they saw how Levi smiled widely at that girl. Levi smiled? He rarely showed off a smile to anyone, me included.
Having to see how she kissed the raven on his cheek now and how Levi didn't mind, broke me inwardly.

Wait...

No... Or, maybe yes...

H-He...

Levi was really cheating on me?!