Boy Next Door: Bertholdt x Reader

Chapter 2

As you nibble on the muffin, you direct Bertholdt the way to school. He pulls into the student parking and parks closer to the classrooms.

"Do you have your classes?" You ask.

"Yeah, it was emailed to me," he shows you on his phone.

Pushing the car door open, you wave him over to follow you. Bertholdt quickly grabs his bag and hurried to follow. You toured the campus with him, showing the classrooms he would need to attend. Scanning his schedule you noticed that he has a class with you.

"Hey, we have a class together," you point out.

He gives a shy smile, "great, more time together."

The bell rings and you both walk to class. Entering the room, Reiner catches you standing close to Bert.

"Y/n, who's this?" He asks.

"This is Bertholdt. He's my new neighbor," you introduced.

Bert gives Reiner an awkward half-smile. He gives a quick examination before softening his facial expression.

Reiner pats Bertholdt on the back, "you seem like a cool guy, I hope you like it here."

"Thanks," He replies.

For the rest of the day, you attended your classes as usual. A few times you'd run into Bert on your way to your next class. The last bell rings to let everyone out to go home. Walking in the parking lot you see Bertholdt waiting for you next to his car. Once he noticed you were near the car he rushed to the passenger door to open it for you. Entering his side of the car, he starts the engine to leave. You watch him turn down streets to make sure he was going the right way. Right as he gets to the last turn, he passes it up.

You whirl your direction to the street you were supposed to turn down, "Bert you missed our turn."

"I know," he assured with a smile.

Giving him a confused look, you quietly watch him drive to a part of town you never knew existed. He pulls in front of a small tea shop.

"I felt like studying the class notes here if you don't mind," he gushed.

"Oh," you were a bit speechless.

"I'm sorry, I should've asked before coming here. I'll take you home if you're more comfortable with that," his tone sounds alarmed.

"No, it's fine Bert. I just didn't know what to say at first," you lay your hand on his arm to calm him.

His muscles relaxed under your touch. He gives a slight smile and exits the car with both of your bags. You follow him to a booth where he sets down your stuff.

"Would you like anything?" he asks.

"Sure, just get me (favorite drink order)," you reply.

He nods and leaves you by yourself. As you waited for him to come back you pull out your notes and school laptop. Papers spread across the table, you vigorously wrote down more notes. Bertholdt sets your drink in front of you. He continues to take out the same notes and check yours to see if his are accurate. You both stayed at the shop until your work was done. After wrapping it up, Bert drives you back home.

"By the way, I never got your number," he says as he parks his car in the driveway.

You were hesitant to say anything. As your mouth opened to say something he slowly starts to hand you his phone. Taking it, you insert your contact. Handing the phone back, you catch him staring at your contact with a big smile across his face. You interrupt his moment with a click from the door.

"I had fun today, thanks for being my first friend," he beams.

"Of course Bert," you say as you start to exit the car.

"Catch you later," he adds.

You bend down to face him as you grab your bag, "see ya."

Shutting the door, you walk back to your house. Opening the front door and trudging toward the bathroom you start the shower to clean up. You made it quick since you felt pretty exhausted. After getting dressed you collapsed on top of your bed and closed your eyes.

10:30 pm

A faint tapping came from outside your window. Getting up to see what was causing the noise you see Bertholdt tossing pebbles at your window.

"What are you doing?" You ask as you open your window.

"I can't sleep so I decided to come by," he whispers. "Can I come up?"

"What?" You uttered.

Bertholdt climbs the side of your house and sits on the roof next to your window.

"I have an idea," he blurts.

"What is it?" You grumble.

"Let's go on a late-night store run and watch a movie together," he suggested.

"But it's late," you protested.

"Please?" He begged.

You couldn't say no to him, so you went with it. Bert leaves you to go fetch his car keys as you throw sweats and a hoodie on. Hopping in the car, he starts to drive to the closest store. Arriving, you both make your way to the entrance. Walking next to Bert, you noticed him slowing down. He made small glances between a shopping cart and you. A smile crept up the corner of his mouth. Pulling on the cart he points at you.

"Get in," he instructed.

You let out a small laugh before climbing into the cart. Bert begins to push you through the isles. Reaching the food section, you sit up to pick out all your favorite snacks. Looking up to Bertholdt, you see him already staring down at you with a shy smile. Pushed through the check-out you paid and rode out the exit with Bert close by. The drive back was quick, soon enough you were quietly sneaking into his house.

"You can make yourself comfortable on my bed, I'll pick a movie," he says softly.

Sitting on the edge of his bed you watched him flip through DVDs. He pulls out a disc and inserts it into the TVs player. Turning in your direction he noticed that you were at the edge.

"You don't have to sit there uncomfortably, there's enough room for both of us," he assured.

You scoot yourself back on the bed until your back was against the wall. Bertholdt joins beside you. The title of the movie brightens the darkroom.

Something's Gotta Give

"I didn't know you're into romance movies," you mentioned.

He gives a bashful look, "It's one of my favorite genres."

You giggle at his shyness.

"A hopeless romantic, maybe?"  You thought to yourself.

You both munched on the snack from the store as the movie progressed. Bert would occasionally glance over at you to see if you're enjoying the movie. Eventually, it got too late for you to stay awake, so you fell asleep. Bertholdt catches you leaning over to the side sleeping. Considering it was too late to wake you up and bring you back home, he lets you rest in his bed. Carefully laying you down at the start of his bed, he pulls some covers over you. While you slept quietly, Bert collected some extra pillows and blankets so he could sleep on the floor next to the bed.

A/n: ok I'm sorry it took a week to publish another chapter. I was trying to write it but my schedule is all over the place rn. Anyways, hope you enjoyed 🥲