Bloom Later- Eren Jaeger x Reader [nsfw]

-2-

Two months passed since you moved into your space. You had spent a lot of your time between the coffee shop and your neighbors apartment. On occasion you would invite the two over to your place and cook them dinner- or at least make an attempt to. You and Eren- to your surprise, had quickly become close friends despite your rocky introduction to each other. If you were to tell yourself that day that you'd make one of the best friendships that you ever had, you wouldn't believe a word of it. But there you were regardless. Eren was at your place giving himself space from his roommate who had recently developed a new habit of bringing girls around what seemed to be every other day. You watched him as he did work on his laptop on your couch beside you as you took a sip from your wine glass. He always had a funny habit of mumbling to himself when he was completely focused, and he would always scratch the side of his neck- which was your sign to lend out a helping hand.

"What's up?" You asked, knowing that he was too prideful to initiate the conversation that he clearly wanted to have. You became really good at reading his body language from the amount of time that the two of you spent together. It was almost like the two of you had your own secret language that nobody else understood- or at least bothered to try to understand. You watched as he tilted his head back, rubbing at his temple as he let out a long sigh. You knew this wasn't going to be work related- there was only so much stress a small coffee shop could bring him.

"I can't do work in my own apartment without hearing Jean fucking, and you ask me what's up?" You rolled your eyes as the two of you shared a small laugh.

"Sounds like jealousy if you ask me."

"Great thing I never asked, did I?"

"Why don't you just start seeing people too, that way it might not bother you as much, plus you're attractive I don't see how that can be hard." He held his chin with his right hand as you spoke, muling over your words with a slight grimace on his face.

"I could, but that would be too easy, there's no fun in that." You took another sip from your drink, mentally preparing yourself for whatever direction the conversation was going. You watched as he looked at you from the side of his eye. You and Eren recently developed a new part of your relationship with each other where you turned everything into a competition to see who was better. It was your way of killing your boredom and his way of boosting his already massive ego, since he was the one that won the majority of the time. You could almost see his thoughts in real time as you watched his face break into a mischievous smile. You knew what he was going to try to propose and you wanted no part of it. You knew you were being set up for failure yet again by the brunette that you called your best friend.

"What would be fun..." He started, closing his laptop before turning to face you directly. "Let's see who could get with more people by the end of the month." You downed the rest of your drink, grimacing in response to his proposition as you shook your head violently in protest.

"There's no way in hell I'm doing that."

"Why not it's just another competition." You stood up from your seat and made your way to your kitchen to pour yourself another glass. Hookup culture was something that you had decided that you were done with the moment you graduated from College. The concept of it exhausted you more than anything, and you found yourself losing sight of who you were- which was partially why you were so excited to move into your new place. It was a completely new start in every sense of the word. It was your chance to rebuild yourself and rediscover who you were, and you knew that if you agreed to Eren's proposition everything that you worked for would be pointless.

"I don't do hookup culture, you know that." You yelled from the kitchen.

"Okay then...." You heard him shuffle into the kitchen behind you. You turned towards the direction of the sound and saw him leaning against the island, looking at you with furrowed eyebrows as he contemplated a way to compromise. "What if it was just us then?"