cry

chapter 1: YOU

A/N: hi guys welcome to cry! i just wanna say a few things before you read the first chapter. first of all thanks so much for reading! it really means a lot to me. this is the first time i'm sharing my work publicly and i'm honestly so nervous. there's a playlist for this story (in the photo above) and i'll add more songs as the chapters progress. it's optional to listen to the songs but i highly recommend;). i also wanna give a big thanks and a lot of love to retroackerman  for helping me with many of the ideas in this story, she also has her own story going on so if you're a jean simp, i highly recommend to read her story "when we were young"! without further ado, thank you again and i hope you enjoy the story! :)

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-eren

(play rehab (winter in paris) by brent faiyaz)

closing the textbook he had for school, the dark haired man couldn't help but turn his head out towards his window. at this point, it was just a natural reflex of his. he sees the familiar house across the street. the rays of the morning sun were hitting the house, giving it a golden hue.

he walks up to his large window leaning his body against it, staring into the house. the window he usually looks into had a glare on it. he knows it'll go away within a few minutes though, he's watched that window plenty to know when the glare disappears. soon, he spots the movement of a silhouette, a smile creeps onto his lips while chills crawl down his spine. he knows it's you.

as the glare withers from the window he can see through the glass. you were making your bed. he watched your every movement. how you moved all over the bed, the way you laid your blanket out, how you'd lay your pillows on the furniture ever so delicately and watching how gently you'd place your stuffed animal you've had since you were a kid in front of the cushions as if it were alive. though making your bed was an innocent, everyday act, he couldn't help but notice the way you arch up while spreading a certain sheet on your bed and how the strap of your tank top started to loosely lay off your shoulder. you were absolutely beautiful to the dark haired man.

he hears his phone repeatedly go off but he couldn't take his eyes off the sight he was seeing. he knew it was probably the girl from the night before trying to reach him, he didn't care. he watched you finish making your bed and stretch and embrace the sun shining into your window on this Monday morning. it was too early to be thinking the way he was.

there was nothing he wanted more than to slut out his neighbor from across the street. he watched you everyday whenever he had free time, he constantly thought about you, and when he'd hook up with other girls he'd even pretend it was you. it was never good enough. he wanted the real thing so badly. there was only one issue though... you were in a relationship. you had been in one for about two years now.

he couldn't do much but just think about you but that was starting to become too much to handle as he grew impatient. he wanted you now and he was willing to do whatever it took to have you.

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-y/n

(play me and my husband by mitski)

i feel the bright sun shine on to my eyes causing them to flutter open. i get up and yawn while i stretch. it was the first monday in october. during the fall, there was always a ray of sun that would kiss my face waking me up so gently. it was one of the many reasons why i loved fall.

i turn my body over and grab my phone that was under my pillow. i scroll through looking for a specific notification from the man i love dearly. after scrolling for a few seconds i finally spotted it.

reiner<3- good morning baby, happy fall<3

i smiled at the sweet text from him. i responded back with a simple good morning, adding a smiley face. i put my phone down and get up to start to make my bed and get ready for my day.

as i make my bed i couldn't help but think about how my two year anniversary is coming up with my boyfriend. it's coming up in about a month and a half now, i'm not sure what we're going to do for it yet. i hope we go out to a nice dinner because we didn't get to do that last year due to... unfortunate events.

it's been nothing but a dream with reiner though. the popular cheerleader and the popular football player, that's like every high school girl's dream. what more could i ask for? to top it all off, he's really great and super sweet towards me and makes me really happy. just the words he says make my heart flutter.

i place my pillows on my bed and i take my childhood stuffed animal and place it on my bed gently, i always felt like my stuffed animals had feelings ever since i was a kid so i treat them like they're a real person. it's dumb and embarrassing, i know, i'm well aware but i can't stop it. it became a habit all of a sudden.

after i was done with my bed i turn towards the sun to embrace it and stretch. i go into a deeper stretch than usual for today. it felt really nice, especially with the warm beams of the sun coating my skin. i walk towards my window to admire the outside.

everything outside looked golden due to the sun rising. some of the trees were getting ready to change from green to either red, yellow, or orange. my eyes shift from the many trees and look across and see the jaeger home.

the jaegers, i'm going to be honest, even though we're neighbors i don't know much about that family except that they have a son my age. which is weird because we've been neighbors for our entire lives really.

i go to school with him and if i see him in the halls i smile, wave, or sometimes even a quick hello and head nod. we don't talk or interact other than that. his name is... eren... i think...? yeah it's eren. i don't know him personally but what i do know is he always has girls over constantly, and then he ends up breaking their hearts. why do i know that much? because of the girls crying in the hallways at school, and there's always a different car parked outside of his house late at night. it's really shitty and low. he makes them think they can change him and then he dumps them or ghosts them. i don't blame the girls though for getting with him, you cannot deny eren's beauty.

eren also happens to be one of the smartest kids in school, so i hold an academic respect for him and that's it, other than that fact, i've jumped to the conclusion he is a shitty person.

i have one class with eren and it's honors english with mr. ackerman. i'm completely failing that class and it's embarrassing for me to admit because it's english, you'd think english would be easy right? wrong. with mr. ackerman it is absolute hell. the teacher isn't bad himself... actually... i change my mind it is the teacher. i don't understand his teaching style and i can't get my class switched. so now i'm stuck. it's not that i don't pay attention, i do. trust me i do. it's hard to not pay attention to such a fine and gorgeous individual talking at the front of the class.

i really need to get my grade up soon though or i'm in for it. my parents and my boyfriend have been on my ass about getting my grade up and i know they mean well but i'm trying my hardest. i wish someone would acknowledge it.

i quickly shake the thoughts off of me as i come to the realization that i feel like i'm being watched. my eyes focus, and i see a figure standing in the large window of the jaeger home in the room directly across from mine. i continue to let my eyes focus and once they do, through the glass, the figure i once saw shifted into eren jaeger himself staring directly at me. he was wearing just plaid pj pants, no shirt, with his dark hair tied back in his usual messy bun, and he had a stupid smirk plastered across his lips.

i feel my breath hitch as i turn around swiftly with the image i had just seen burned into my brain.

i feel embarrassed, i really hope he didn't think i was watching him. that would be creepy. i do my best to not think about anything else and go ahead and get ready for my day at school.

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