After Eren and Armin lose both of there parents they decide to live together. until Eren is Eighteen they live with Armins grandfather. they have not been to school but they both get a job when they turned sixteen at Ackerman music, run by Levi Acke...
"Eren you need to open your circle of trust." I sat there somewhat listening to my therapists words. The rain was hitting the window as I sat on the couch. The aroma of the room was lavender and a hint of vanilla. A bell rung signaling the end of that session. I sat up and looked at Hailey."same time next week?" She smiled and nodded.
On my way out I was thinking about how Armin and I where going to start school. I haven't been to a school for 4 years same with Armin. At least it's our senior year. I walked out with my hood on to see Armin in his car waiting to pick me up. "Hey Eren, how was the session?" I looked at him."a lot of the same. Her trying to cheer me up and look into the main problem." He nodded I put some tunes on and we drove to work. The store is more busy because of it being Friday. We walked in through the back entrance and saw Petra in her office. She looked up and smiled at us. Petra doesn't really know what happened in our past like Levi knows but she knows about our struggle with depression. Armin stayed in the back to repair instruments that where sent in. I met up with Levi at the front. He looked at me and smile at me. I usually just go around giving people instruments based on what they are as a person. And I also give information on what it takes to learn said instrument.
Overall it was a busy day. We opened at 7am and closed at 10pm. Before we walked out Levi had stopped us. "Hey kid, look my family is having a dinner with the family. Petra goes there because she is my fiance, but mom invited you guys. She says she wants to get to know you to. Since I see you guys as brothers. The dinner is in a few weeks." We both nodded and walked off. " Hey Eren...if we start school then you might have to start opening up, you don't even talk that much to me anymore." I looked out of the window to see it still raining." I know Armin but it's not that easy, it took me a year and a half to talk to Levi." He sighed. We finished closing up shop and ran to Armins vehicle. On the way home we stopped by a McDonald's to get food. Armin was going on about the new school. "Ar do you ever think about that day..." He looked down "all the time." After that short conversation it was quite the rest of the ride. We got to our apartment and sat down at the table to finish some stuff for school. Levi helped us out with getting this school since his best friends work there and apparently one is the principle.
Armin got done first and walked to his room. I sat there alone, I put my earbuds in to listen to music. When I got done I too went to my room but I got my guitar out of the closet and started to play chords for simple man by Lynard Skynard. I got pretty emotional. "Eren...". I looked up and saw Armin. " I haven't heard that song for a while...your parents would play and sing that song to us when we had sleepovers. "Yeah...this is the first time I had played it since learning it from dad." The rest of the night we talked about things we did as children. We eventually got tired and slept in our beds.
The whole weekend was uneventful. I played a lot of guitar but I always do. Sunday we went clothes shopping with what little we had. I came out with some jeans and muscle shirts. Armin had to get a new pair of glasses.
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The whole trip was pretty much to be free one last time before school. I got a cool hoodie with the logo of my favorite band the scouts on it. We ate and went home. Armin decided to get his keyboard out and start playing it with me on the guitar. We always had good chemistry when it came to music. We went through so much together we can just understand by looking at each other. We actually where having fun. I had smiled when Armin looked over, he bumped me with his elbow,"hey...your smiling, you should do it more" I understand what he says but it's hard to actually be happy, I could pretend to be fake fine but you can't when you have experienced the things we have. I still don't know how he hides it so well. I know he isn't as I can hear him cry at night but he hides it during the day so well. It was getting pretty late and we had school tomorrow. I walked in the bathroom with some bandages and an old friend. I got done in there and went to bed.
When I woke up I looked at the clock. "5:30 am. " I got up and heard Armin making breakfast in the kitchen. "Why are you up this early." He jumped a little bit and looked back. "I could say the same thing." I looked at him and sat down. "We need more bandages." He shook his head. Armin doesn't like what I do, but he knows why I do it and has tried stopping me but never has done it. He gave me a plate of bacon and scramble eggs. " it's still raining out..." Sure enough I looked out the window and saw rain coming down. "Wow....it has lasted almost a whe day."
After we ate we went to our rooms to get packed. I grabbed my bag and guitar that I need for one of my classes. I sat down on my bed and unwrapped my bandages. "It's starting to scab..." I whispered and opened my drawer with some disinfectants. I cleaned it well and wrapped the last of my bandages on. I hot up to get dressed. I grabbed my hoodie and put it on since I forgot to do laundry. I grabbed some skinny jeans and my converse I looked in the mirror. I saw a broken man. One who was tortured by his parents killers.
"Mom...Dad...wake up please." I looked at the lifeless bodies of my parents and Armins. "Ain't nobody going to save you especially your parents" I heard a loud man. He came over with a friend. They grabbed me chained me stading up by the hands. Hanging in the middle of a room, one man stood on a chair and got some pliers out. He grabbed my finger nails and pulled until they ripped off." Ahh..please stop...I want to go home." I cried. That was until the other man whacked me with a bamboo stick.
I shook my head." Get that out of your head Eren." I looked back at the mirror, I saw tears running down my face. I wiped my face, then I looked at the clock. "I have to get to the store to open and wait for Petra." I walked out of my room and saw Armin getting his shoes on. "Hey we need to get going. Petra called she will be there at seven thirty." I nodded and put my shoes on and got my stuff, put them in the back and got in the car.
The drive to the shop was pretty fast. It was still early so we beat the traffic. The breeze of the morning New York air. (Not the city.) The whole atmosphere here is different. The smell of pine and the moisture. It was starting to get chilly, we did eventually got there and opened shop and just waited there for Petra and when she got there we left for school....
