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I drunkenly stumble into the house and Armin laughs as he trips coming inside, "shhhhhh old man is sleeping" I say before I burst out in a hushed laugh.

We make our way to the kitchen and I grab all the snacks out of the forbidden pantry. All Levi's stress food.

Chips, cookies, peanut butter, pretzels, chocolate bars, pop, and a can of ....peaches.

I place the can of peaches back in the pantry before slowly backing away while whispering "No! Bad healthy food! You don't belong! You'll never be one of us!" I close the doors and take the rest of the good food to the living room where Armin is currently searching through the Disney channel.

"Eren, what would you like to watch?"

"Kim possible!!" I say striking a karate pose and dropping all the food on the floor with a loud thud.

"Yes!!! She is my soul mate!" Armin reaches for the chocolate and plays the show.

We start singing along to the theme song, ending back to back with our fingers shaped like guns,
"Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me!"

We go through multiple episodes and multiple bags of chips and cookies.

"Hey Armin, if you were ever stalked or something, but telling Erwin would cause him unnecessary stress, would you tell him?" After a brief pause he looks over to me.

"Yeah. I mean I expect him to come to me with his problems, and if he hid something like that from me, I'd feel like he didn't trust me or think I was reliable. Of course I'd tell him. We're partners. My problems are his, and his mine." He goes back to stuffing his face and watching tv.

"Hypotheticals huh."

Armin isn't wrong, but even so, I need to wait him out.
Getting my big bad wolf of a boyfriend to deal with it would make me look like a child who can't handle his problems.

And I want Levi to be proud to call me his.

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I was woken up by the sound of laughter, and the smell of pancakes.

I get up but I'm stopped by the pounding in my head, "fuck me, I shouldn't drink that much. Ahhh" I slowly make my way to the kitchen to see Armin and Levi making food.

Ever since high school that kid could bounce back from a hangover like nothing.

"Looks like sleeping beauty is up," Levi says as he leans against the wall. His loose grey shirt hanging off his shoulder as his (my) sweatpants are tied tightly to his waist. While Armin sat on the counter flipping pancakes.

"I wouldn't say beauty. Have you seen his sleeping face?" Armin laughs.

"Every night." He smiles and I walk forward kissing his forehead.
"You scared me Eren. You weren't answering your phone and you didn't come home until late. Luckily Erwin sent me photos of you two when I called him to see if him or Armin had seen you. Apparently Armin blew his phone up with selfies".
He takes a sip out of his coffee never breaking eye contact.

"Sorry, what were you worried about though?" I walk behind him wrapping my arms around his waist, resting my head on his shoulder.

"That you were cheating and that tonights the night I go to jail for murder." He says in a monotone voice. I laugh nervously scratching the back of my head.

"Funny Levi."

"Ha. You think I'm joking. I love you." He turns around and kisses me before heading upstairs, probably to get changed.

"Okay Eren. What's going on?"
Armin crosses his arms and stares at me.

"What do you mean?" I grab the spatula and continue flipping the pancakes.

"Eren, don't lie to me, the drinking? The 'hypotheticals' the food? All those are your signature cry for help when you're too stubborn to actually ask."

"Damn Armin. Well you're wrong this time. I just missed you. Can't a guy miss his best friend and hang out with him and treat him to drinks every now and then?" Armin scoffed and hopped off the counter he was perched on.

"Yeah, but this is you we're talking about Eren. I know you. Too well if you ask me. If we were girls we'd totally have the same period days by now." Gross.

"Well this time you're wrong Ar, I'm fine."

"Eren, my dear stupid boy, everyone knows the scale goes great, good, okay, not okay, worst day of my life, I'm fine. 'I'm fine' is the thing you say when you have no idea what else to do," he sighs and hugs me, "listen, if you don't want to talk about it now, call me when you are, okay?" I nod and hug him back.

I'm glad I have friends I can rely on. I don't have many friends, but I'm also very particular about my friends. I have many acquaintances that I'd talk to in passing, but friends are the ones you know no matter what, will have your back.

And Armin always does.

Right now there is too much on the line. School, the competition, the work change, I need to get through this before I try and tackle another problem. 

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Okayyyyyyyy so a lot of questions! Yayyy!!!!! I will do the video soon! And a lot of people asking for an update..

I work two jobs and started volunteering at a hospital as well as going to school and finding my apprenticeship, so I'm a little busy, I will try my hardest but updates will start coming once every two weeks.

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