Just A Touch | Eren Jeager x Reader

Chapter 24: Care

You and Eren got in the sheets and settled down in bed. He brought your head to his chest and held you as you both drifted to sleep.

About two hours later, you woke up to the sound of a glass being sat on the nightstand beside you. You sat up and saw Eren putting a glass of water beside you. "Oh sorry did I wake you up? I woke up and thought that I would get you some water and go make some food." he said as he took a seat on the bed beside you.

"Thank you." You smiled at him and took a drink.

"Are you showering soon? Because if you are then I'll make food while you're in there so that it will be ready for you when you get out."

"Yeah I'm getting in the shower in a minute, so that will be fine. Did you already take a shower? Your skin seems dewy." you said as you gently ran your fingers down his bare chest.

"Yeah I did and I'm surprised that you didn't wake up from that, but woke up from me sitting a glass down." he laughed.

"I was really tired so I guess that I was sleeping really hard earlier when you took your shower. You really wore me out but I'm rested up now." you said as you held onto his arm and laid your head on it.

"Yeah I was pretty tired too. And just so you know, I could've gone longer." he said as he looked over at you with a smirk.

"If we had gone much longer I probably would've passed out." you joked. "It was intense."

"No shit. You were on your deathbed." he said as he closed his eyes and laughed again. "Ok I'm gonna go make some grilled cheese or something." He pecked your cheek and got up and went out to the kitchen.

You grabbed your nike pros and went to the bathroom. You opened the linen cabinet and grabbed a towel and a washcloth and turned on the shower. You quickly cleaned off and then put on the spandex and your baggy shirt again. You left the bathroom and could smell the grilled cheese in the kitchen. You walked in and saw Eren putting the sandwiches on plates.

"Here you go." he said as he handed you one of the plates. "Wanna eat on the deck?"

"Sure." you smiled.

He opened the door and you both went out and took a seat on the stairs and looked out at the ocean. "Can I tell you something?" he asked as he kept his eyes towards the sea.

"What's up?" you asked as you turned to him.

"A few days ago I told you that I don't usually go for girls. That's because my last relationship a year ago was a mess. But for some reason when I first talked to you on the beach, I got this weird feeling. It felt like I was being drawn to you. And then somehow we ended up being at that restaurant at the same time. I don't know if this sounds stupid, but I feel like being with you is what I'm supposed to do." he admitted.

"That's not stupid at all. I mean, I think it's pretty clear that we didn't just cross paths multiple times out of coincidence. I think that there's a reason that we met."

"Can I ask you something else?"

"What is it?"

"Would it be okay if when you leave this trip, we meet up sometime. I want to take you out for real. I don't want it to end at you sneaking here every night and then we never see each other again." He looked right at you when he said this, with sincerity in his eyes.

"I'd love to do that. This summer is it okay to make it a goal to see you at least once a week? We only live like 2 hours apart so that isn't unmanageable, right?"

"Fuck I'm so glad that you want to do that. I was afraid that you might fade away from me after you left. Let's make it a priority to see each other every week. I don't care if I go to where you live or if you come here. All I care about is spending more time with you." He wrapped one of his arms around your waist and gripped onto you.

You both ate in the darkness of the night. You felt at peace with him. "Do you want to come over again tomorrow. We don't have to do anything like what we did today if you don't want to." he said.

"Of course I'll be back over tomorrow. And I honestly don't care if we do anything like that or not. No matter what we do, I'm happy."

"Okay. We'll just have to wait and see what happens tomorrow then."

"Oh and by the way, Armin told me a little bit about Annie. They did fuck in the bathroom. I don't know who started it though." you laughed.

"What?? He really pulled a girl like Annie without even trying. He must be pretty good with girls then."

"Well that's the thing. Armin usually isn't really into expressing his feelings so I was pretty shocked that he could pull something like that off."

"I hope you don't mind me asking and I honestly don't care if you answer yes, but I'm just curious. Have you ever done anything with him before since you know... you're always together?" Eren had a somewhat mischievous smile on his face with his eyebrows furrowed.

"Nooo I wouldn't do anything with him. We kissed once but it was just for fun like how friends kiss each other for fun sometimes."

"Friends kiss each other? Is that like a thing that girls do with their friends?" Eren had apparently never heard of doing something like that.

"I guess I can't really see guys doing that together for fun but yeah that's something girls do with our friends. It's pretty funny because it doesn't mean anything so you just start laughing really hard when you do it."

"How come you don't laugh when we kiss?" he asked as he cocked his head at you.

"Because I'm not messing around when I kiss you."
you said as you confidently raised your brows at him.

"Oh?" Is that so?" he said with a jokingly serious face as if he hadn't already realized that you liked him.

"You're such a bitch I swear." you jokingly said as you shoved him over a little bit.

You sat under the stars with him and talked for a little while longer. "It's probably about time for me to go. Tomorrow at midnight I'll be back." you said as you stood up and stretched beside him.

"Oh hold on you left your sweatpants inside. Let me go get them." Eren said as he hurried into the house to grab your black and white adidas pants for you.

He came back out onto the deck. "Here go you." He handed them to you and simultaneously kissed your lips.

"Thank you." You took the pants and headed back to the house.

At this point, you weren't worried about being caught since you got away with it every single time. You did the same thing you did every night and went to the bathroom and then laid down and went to sleep.