(✵✦) ~𝓖𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓟𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓼~ (Eren Yeager X Reader) (modern au)

𝓣𝓲𝓶𝓮 𝓕𝓵𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓓𝓸𝓮𝓼𝓷❜𝓽 𝓘𝓽, 𝓜𝔂 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮?

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆. 𝑨𝒈𝒆 17

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It's been 8 years since me and Eren decided to become and to say that things had changed would be an understatement. Me and Eren were 17 now, seniors in high-school and were graduating soon. Over the course of those 8 years we met a blonde boy with eyes as blue as the sky named Armin and a girl (who I was pretty sure hated my guts) named Mikasa. I like Armin quite a lot because of the one thing we both shared a strong passion for, the ocean. I could spend hours talking to him about it and another I liked about was his intelligence, he had a lot of promise for sure. Now Mikasa on the the other hand wasn't my biggest fan. Though we were all in the same friend group and the friendly feeling amongst us was supposed to be mutual she always distanced herself from me. Her coldness ranged from long and hard stares from across the room, to completely ignoring me in the middle of conversations. She always looked at me as if she wanted to say something but never did and instead replaced it with hard stares and glares. 

Anyways, like I said things had changed a lot and the main thing that changed was Eren. He had grown to be 6 foot (which pissed me off because he was  taller than me so he always is lookng down at me) and he had grown his hair out to be a few inches beyond his shoulder. Me on the other hand grew to be around 5'6-5'9 and gained sharper features aside from the normal changes that happen during puberty (which was a sucky time). 

Now to the more serious point of this internal recap..

 I had developed a small-well bad and inevitable  sickness or as mom said it "A crush."  Why I call it a sickness you may be asking, well because I hate it and like any bad sickness it won't go away. Anytime we hangout I feel sick to the stomach and want to bang my head into a wall and I can't even go through with simple interactions like hugging without my face burning. I do a good job at hiding these feelings but I can't help the impulse I have to just bluntly say "I love you" out loud. Dear god it felt like the world was punishing me for something, making me deal with all this shit and still make it impossible to distance myself from the beautiful son of a bitch, but nonetheless here I am standing in front of the Yeager's household at 8am with Armin standing beside me. 

It was a cold early mid December morning and the streets were still lined in snow that hadn't melted from a couple days ago. I enjoyed snow days because it meant I could have a reason to avoid Eren but just like any good moment, it's short lived.

"He can never be out on time can he?" The blonde sighed beside me. I chuckled and swung my arm around him, "Yup, it's been that way for the past five years." I said. It was true, me and Armin had taken it upon ourselves to ensure that Eren woke up on time every morning and that's been our routine since...well forever it seems. There was one thing that made today stand out in particular, knowing Armin he probably noticed as well, Mikasa wasn't here. Which was highly unlikely considering she took over the role of being Eren's personal body guard leaving me and Armin behind. That's how pretty much all our interactions went these days. me talking to Armin and Eren and then suddenly Mikasa kidnaps Eren despite him cursing her to let him be. 

It's reasonable to say that me and Armin had became best friends over this time period.

I would be lying to myself if I said I didn't miss how things used to be, when it was just me and Eren spending our days together but I knew that was selfish and wrong of me. Anytime we do get a moment together it doesn't last long but I still take what time I can get with him away from the others.

Armin's phone started ringing so he pulled away with an apologetic smile. I nodded in understanding and stepped to the side. After a few minutes he hung up and looked to me with raised eyebrows, "Well there's been a change of plans, Mikasa and Eren are already at school." He said walking towards my side. I was shocked, What was such the rush? Did something happen? Why didn't they let us know? "Did they say why?" I asked now walking beside the boy.

He looked deep in thought for a moment but shrugged, "Surprisingly, no. I'm not sur what's up with those two but it's none of our business." He answered, not meeting my eyes. Armin's not curious in the slightest way? Yeah something's up for sure. "I beg to differ, Mikasa and Eren are our best friends therefore it is our business and plus, they're the reason we are now gonna get detention for being late so we have every right." I argued. Armin simply shook his head and looked ahead.

"Armin~ you know I'm right! This isn't like either of them-I mean what version of the Eren Yeager we know wakes up 6am?" I stated. His silence and the confusion of it all was pissing me off. Finally after a moment he spoke up, "Y/N if you're that worried maybe we should ask them ourselves, I'm as lost as you are so let's just calm down and wait till we get to school." he said calmly patting my back. I jokingly swatted his hands away and rolled my eyes, "You're lucky I love you Armin because if you were anyone else I would hurt you." I said. "I love you too!" 

"Whatever let's just hurry and get to school before professor Hange has our head on a platter."

"I have no objections on that one."

Afyer completely dusting Armin our race we both burst through the door of Professor Hange's 12th grade Theatre class. Everyone was seated buried in books. Two  familiar heads sat in the front, Mikasa and Eren. 

"Ah Ms./Mr. L/N and Mr. Arlert! Fashionably late I see, you guy's look a mess! Two day's detention...Two weeks if you don't hurry to your seats eh?" And that's all they had to say to have us immediately seated. I slid into the desk beside Eren and threw my head onto the desk. 

"Ok my lovely students! Today we will be starting our yearly film projects! Get with your partners and we'll get rollin'!" They announced. Everyone scattered across the class to find a partner. You were dead set on snagging eren but before you could turn to him, the class door opened.

"Y/N L/N Please report to the main office"