We cleaned up parts of the house slowly packing up dad's things. I let Mikasa choose what we gave away and what we kept. A few times she would point at some stuff and tell me we were giving away, but she asked if we could leave it there a little longer. I knew she wasn't ready to let go of him, and I didn't want to push her. Two days ago at the funeral, she was a mess. I swore if she cried any harder she would have blacked out. I mean hell, if I wasn't trying so hard to stay strong for her I would have been a sobbing mess too.

When it was starting to get late I told Mikasa I was heading home. I asked her if she wanted to come with, but I knew her answer before I asked.

"No, I'd like to stay here," she said without turning away from the chair dad spent his free time in.

"Okay, keep your phone on so I can check in. If you need anything call no matter the time my phone will be on okay?" I had to make sure she knew I was there for her. I would stay in the house with her if I didn't have work in the morning.

Unlike most people, I actually like my boss. She knew my situation and decided to give me the easiest shift there was. I worked as a receptionist at a physical therapy center. Mornings are usually the slowest shifts surprisingly. It only starts to pick up around noon. It was her way of keeping my income coming in without stressing me out with some of the harder shifts which she was covering now.

Note to self send her some flowers or something as a thank you, or maybe I can take her out to lunch again. Last time we went we had a lot of fun, even though she had to leave a little earlier than expected since her girlfriend's car broke down.

Once I was in my car I was almost home when I remembered that I barely had any food in the fridge and man was I hungry. I got in the turning lane and headed to the grocery store. I knew I was making a mistake, never go to the grocery store hungry.

I grabbed a cart and walked through the automatic doors. I went straight to the junk food at first to check and see if they had anything good. Nope, not even those cookies with the good frosting. Lame, I headed to the fruits and veggies section. Well, might as well check here for stuff right? Now that I'm going to be taking care of Mikasa I have to actually act like an adult rather than just eating cups of ramen for breakfast lunch and dinner.

After picking up some rabbit food, I mean veggies, I headed to the cooking utensils realizing I only really had one pan for cooking. Usually, I used it as a makeshift cereal bowl when I get lazy enough. Oh man, I'm actually going to have to buy more dishes and silverware too. I think I only have like 4 of everything, and with how much I hate doing the dishes I probably need to pick up more.

While I was grabbing some new silverware I notice a face that I couldn't quite place. He definitely looks famili- "oh my god it's the hot guy from the car."

He looked at me like I was crazy and oh shit, I said that out loud. I gave him an awkward smile. Way to go Eren now he probably thinks you're creepy. Shit, he's coming over.

"So you think I'm hot?" he asked with that smug ass grin, the same one he gave me as he drove off.

"What's that sound? Oh, it's just my heart stopping," I mumbled awkwardly not knowing what else to say.

"You're funny," his smile changed to a nicer one.

"Funny? Me? No, just socially awkward," I laughed before realizing he was actually flirting with me and I was looking more and more like an idiot. "I mean, hi," I said my voice shaking a little as my brain powered down.

"Hi," he responded back rolling his eyes, "name's Levi what's yours?"

"Name?" I asked. My mind hadn't fully processed what he had said.

"You know what people call you?"

"Oh, my names uh my name is Eren." Smooth I mentally facepalmed. Now you sound creepy and stupid.

"You sure about that?" He laughed, "you sure had to think about it."

I can't focus, his smile is blinding, my mind is shutting down how do you people? "Yeah, I um, yeah." Words you know coherent English, can you speak it instead of blanking? I yelled at myself mentally.

"Well, Eren I have to get back to shopping, but if you want to get coffee sometime here's my number," he said pulling a pen and a little notepad out of his pocket. Does he do this a lot? He wrote down the number and handed it to me. I didn't move for a good minute I just stared at the piece of paper in my hand. Did I actually just get his number despite acting brainless.

"Yeah," I finally spoke up looking back up at him.

"Is tomorrow around 3 fine?"

"Yeah, I don't have any plans." Great now you sound like a loser.

"Good to hear," he smiled, "see you tomorrow," he said in a low voice that sounded almost like a purr. What the hell just happened.

Well, that just happened. Damn, I came here for a wine opener and picked up a guy instead. I didn't even grab the wine opener since I was to busy flirting. Which means I have to go back over to where he is. Nope, I'm just going to go home, I mean it's not like I can't find another way to open my wine. I'll figure something out.

What the hell was I even thinking? I've never done something like that before just giving my number out to a guy I barely met. Shit, maybe the cheesy romantic singing did work on me. What is he a male siren? Nah, siren's are actually good at singing they aren't half tone deaf.

Looks like I'm going on a date tomorrow. At least I was right about one thing, he's cute. Well, cute in the lost puppy sorta way. That's just his personality, but his looks hot damn he's fine. A little taller than my usual taste, but I'll make an exception.

I headed home empty-handed. Maybe I won't drink tonight. I could always save it for tomorrow. Who knows if our date goes well enough maybe I'll need it. Damn, I just met the guy and I'm already thinking about how he would look under me in bed. Stop, don't be that guy.

When I got home my lights were on? I grabbed my keys and held it between my knuckles. Someone's getting punched either it will be a criminal who broke into my house or my annoying friend who used her spare key... again.

I opened the door and sure enough, she's sitting on my couch. "How many times do I have to tell you I gave you that key for emergencies only." I half expected her to be here even before seeing the lights on, but I can't let her know that.

"It was an emergency!" she whined.

"Being bored isn't an emergency Hanji," I sighed and made my way over to the couch sitting next to her. "Besides don't you have a girlfriend you can annoy?"

"No, she's out of town for the next to weeks, and with the time difference she's already sleeping," she groaned laying her head on my shoulder. "So I thought I would annoy you instead," her disappointment turned into a smug smile.

"Great," I rolled my eyes. "I was going to partake in some wine but I don't have a corkscrew."

"Oh," she dug in there bag and pulled out a travel size one. "Here."

"Only you would carry one with you."

"I never leave the house without it."

Alcoholic much? "Well care to join me?" I asked heading into the kitchen.

"I thought you'd never ask," she smiled and followed me into my kitchen. She slid herself up on the counter. Well isn't she right at home.

"You know I would prefer you to not put your ass on my clean counter," my complaint fell on deaf ears.

"You going to open the wine or not?" she groaned impatiently.

I poured us each a glass and she held her glass up. "Cheers to being alone," she said sarcastically.

"Cheers," I said before downing my glass. Should I tell her I have a date tomorrow? Damn, I'm not drunk yet where did that thought come from? If I tell her then she will blow my eardrums out an proceed to make me tell her everything about the guy I'm seeing. Come to think of it I only really know his name. Shit, I don't even know how old he is. He has to be over 18 at least, oh damn is he even old enough to drink. I started panicking this is what happens when I make decisions without thinking.

"Don't tell me you're tapping out already?" She asked.

"No what makes you think that?"

"You looked a little green there? You sure you feeling okay?" Her hand went up to my forehead. I quickly shooed it away.

"Yeah I'm fine, don't go all nurse one me," I rolled my eyes.

"Speaking of-" her voice trailed into a smile. "Storytime," she brought her legs up and crossed them underneath her.

"No shoes on my counter!" I cut her off.

She quickly kicked her shoes off onto the floor before pulling her feet back up under her. I rolled my eyes, there was no winning with her. "Proceed," I said defeated.

"So you know the student from your class who you thought was faking it? Well, he was... kinda. He really did vomit, but it wasn't from him being sick like he said, it was from him trying to eat paper." She laughed. "These kids are so inventive nowadays.

"That's one word for it," I rolled my eyes. "Not necessarily the one I would choose though." Dumb, stupid, moronic, foolish, vacuous, the list goes on and on. I've literally made a mental list while sitting in class of all the things my students are the negatives far outweigh the positives.

I heard my phone go off and sure enough so did Hanji. "Who's that?" she asked as I checked my phone.

"Hey it's Eren just realized I forgot to text you earlier," the message had said.

"It's no one," I clicked my phone off not even daring to respond with Hanji watching me like a hawk.

"Sure," her voice raised in a mocking tone.

"Believe what you want, it's just this wrong number that keeps messaging me," I let out a sigh. She seemed to believe me. Good, I don't want to deal with her nagging.

After we finished the wine Hanji asked a question I was already prepared for. "Can I spend the night here?"

"I don't know," I teased. I was going to give in. As much as I pretended the be annoyed by Hanji's antics I love her to death and her company is always better than spending the night alone.

"I brought movies," she tried to bribe me.

"Sold," I smiled and we went back into the front room with a bowl of popcorn. After the movies, we headed into my room and went to bed. Fridays were my favorite since Hanji usually hung out here after school whether I'm here or not. Her girlfriend usually works so Hanji chills here even when she isn't away.