𝚁 𝙴 𝙵 𝙻 𝙴 𝙲 𝚃 𝙸 𝙾 𝙽 | 𝙴𝚛𝚎𝚗 𝚡 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛

𝙵 𝙾 𝚁 𝚃 𝚈 - 𝚃 𝚆 𝙾

(Y/N)'s POV:

After my week long worrying festivities, Monday didn't prove to be any better. School was yet another weight pushing me down on top of the other million things going on.

Mikasa hadn't texted me the way she'd said she would, but I figured it had to be because she'd forgotten—though her strange behaviour from last night still nagged at me.

There was nothing I could do to stop my overthinking, and after I'd told her about the kiss Eren and I had shared... I didn't want to think about what her reaction meant.

But at this point it wasn't even about the kiss; more or less about the fact that Eren was still missing.

I'd given up on texting him a while ago—I wasn't going to spam him with texts and push him away even further. It was all up to him now, whether he was going to reach out or not. If ever, that is.

And so for the majority of the school day, I'd done my best to pay attention to my classes—knowing that even with everything happening, graduation was still approaching a lot sooner than I thought. It's not like I could stop time.

Eren and I still had our project... with was almost done—but if he continued to ignore me for however much longer, I couldn't shake the worry that we might not finish in time.

I made a silent promise that I wouldn't allow that to happen; we were graduating no matter what. Even if it meant he hated me or regretted every moment we'd shared together.

Even if I didn't regret it for a second.

Because I knew how I felt. I knew what I wanted—for the first time in so long, I knew, and found something that was maybe worth living for. And I meant actually living. Not just existing the way I had been before. It was a feeling I hadn't felt since Sasha.

But even if I knew what I was hoping for, with every passing day of silence from his end... I was beginning to lose hope of that fantasy.

That was until... lunch. Seated with my friends, I'd been zoning out like usual until I felt my phone buzz. Instincts had me reaching for it before I'd even processed the sound.

I'd assumed it would be Mikasa, but my heart really did stop for a second when I saw Eren's contact above the message. And even more so when I saw what the text said.

He asked if we could work on the project today after school.

I stared at it, my mouth hanging open slightly. My friends seated around me didn't seem to notice, which I was thankful for.

But before I could even think of a response to his message, the bell rang and everyone got up to go to their last few classes of the day.

I had math after lunch, and for the life of me, I could not focus on a damned thing our professor was saying. Not being allowed to use our phones whatsoever during class, I wasn't even able to respond to his text. What would I even say if I could?

My mind was screaming at me to say yes, to respond back right away even after him having ignored all my other texts for so long.

But as soon as I walked into my last period class—I almost stopped walking when I saw Eren seated in his usual seat the way he always did in History. Laid back and arms crossed over his chest, he didn't even look at me right away.

"You gonna sit down?" Annie asked; my eyes snapped to her, seeing a brow lifted on her face at me.

Aside from Mikasa, and most likely Armin, no one else knew about Eren and I, which I wanted to keep that way.