Chapter Twenty Four

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An: I just want to say Arlen is NOT another love interest

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An: I just want to say Arlen is NOT another love interest. Eren is too in love with Mizuki to even notice  Arlen.  Also I hate love triangles so I wouldn't do that

"Come on, one more time." Arlen encouraged Eren who was hunched up with his hands pressing against his knees and deep breaths leaving him.

"I'm tired." Eren whined as he straightened his position and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

When Eren had agreed to train with Arlen he truly didn't realize how gruesome it was going to be. But here they were two weeks after and Eren still wasn't used to it. They had now been at the training room for three hours and Eren was ready to call it a day.

"Just try to get one punch in on me and I'll let you go." Arlen bargained and Eren nodded with a sigh and then they got into position once again.

They circled each other and Eren moved towards Arlen with his arm raised but Arlen dodged and swiftly moved aside.

"Come on, you can do better than that." Arlen taunted and Eren glared at him.

Eren charged towards him once again but this time he didn't let Arlen dodge and before the taller man could even think of a way to get around this attack Eren's fist met with his face, a little harder then necessary.

"Ow! That was mean of you." Arlen exclaimed as he rubbed his sore cheek.

"That's what you get for torturing me." Eren muttered and then he turned around and walked towards where he had left his water bottle.

He grabbed it and started drinking from it, feeling Arlen's eyes boring into him and he frowned.

Arlen was...weird.

He was a very good trainer but other than that he had a habit of staring at Eren when he thought he couldn't notice and if Eren wasn't so busy thinking about other things then he would have figured out that there was  something behind those stares.

But all Eren could think about these days was his fight and Mizuki.

Mizuki.

His heart clenched at the thought of Mizuki. He really fucking missed his prince. The thought of the man that was on the other side of the border filled Eren with the need to simply forget everything and go to him.

His nights were plagued with nightmares and screams of terror with no one to come and comfort him. The only thing that would help Eren stop crying when those moments would come were the reminder of Mizuki's soft breath against his ear as he used to reassure him that everything was fine and that he wasn't alone and that it was never his fault.

Sometimes he wished they had never left the middle ground. That they stayed at that little house by the border and spent their days together, soaking in each other's presence.

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