Just A Touch | Eren Jeager x Reader

Chapter 35: Question

You got in your car and drove to meet Eren at a Starbucks on his campus. You got there and saw him sitting at a table with a drink. You waved to him and then went to order. You got your drink and took a seat across from him.

"Hey! I'm glad you made it safe. Did you have a hard time finding this place or anything?" he asked.

"Nope I didn't have any trouble. This campus is really nice. It's so amazing being by the beach. The palms trees are so pretty." you said as you looked out the window at the line of palm trees nearby.

"Yeah I really like it here so far. My dorm is pretty nice too. You'll get to see that later. But anyways, after we're done here do you want to go to the boardwalk? They have all kinds of fun stuff there."

"Yesss that sounds so fun. I've never been to a beach boardwalk before." you excitedly said.

"Ooh you're gonna have a really fun time. It shouldn't be too crowded right now either since it's not rush hour where everyone will be out."

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You finished your drinks and Eren drove you to the boardwalk. He didn't have his car with him since he walked to Starbucks, so he drove your car.

You got to the boardwalk and just like he had said, it wasn't too crowded which made you happy. You didn't really like having to wait in big lines and being in big crowds. You went into a bunch of random little shops and played some random games that were on the boardwalk. Eren bought you a few little things here and there and you had a lot of fun.

"Hey there's an ice cream shop over there. Wanna get some?" he asked as he pointed towards a little ice cream stand.

"Sure!"

You both got an ice cream cone and walked over to where you could look out at the ocean. It was almost dark outside at that point, but you could still barely see the waves crash under the starry sky. "Hey can I tell you something?" Eren asked.

"Yeah what's up?" you questioned.

"I think by now it's pretty obvious that we have feeling for each other and I don't want to keep avoiding this so can we just say that we're dating already? Sorry that this isn't a very deep way to ask this but I'm not really that kind of person and I didn't want to have to try to come up with some super thought out way to ask." he laughed as he put his hand over his mouth and closed his eyes to try to keep himself from laughing too much.

You felt your stomach get butterflies as he said that. You started smiling and laughing because you really didn't expect anything other than for it to go this way. You knew that he would never be the type to ask in some deep and heartfelt way which was totally okay with you because you weren't that type of person either.

"Yeahhhh that's good with me and honestly I'm glad that you didn't try to come up with a super deep way to ask because you definitely wouldn't know what you were doing." you laughed.

"Okay now that that's over with, do you want to start heading over to the party? It will take about a half hour to get there."

"Yeah sounds good to me."

You were relieved that he finally asked that question and you were also glad that neither of you made it a big deal because it would be really awkward for it to be formal since that wasn't the type of bond you had with him.