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Getting distracted

"Wait if Armin liked Hitch then why would he suggest you sleep with her?"

"Don't know. How come you don't seem bothered by it? Most people start acting weird about it,"

"Because I hear a new side to the story every day it's hard to decide what to believe," you responded.

He thought about that for a moment and just looked to the side whilst walking next to you.

"Mmm, change my mind." He grabbed your hand and started walking in the other direction near his dorm.

"Changed your mind about what?"

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"You'll see," he responded, he continued to walk you to his dorm and you thought he had something to give you all of a sudden.

You followed behind him and when you got to his dorm, he sat down on the couch and started playing the video game from before.

"I found my other controller," he tossed it to you and moved over so you could sit next to him.

"Remember hit X not hold and no jumping under bridges," he mocked jokingly.

You rolled your eyes and formed a smile once you started playing with him.

"Wait what if Jean comes back-?"

"He's not here most of the time. He lives in one of the frat houses, his stuff is just here," Eren explained while moving your finger to the right button.

He paused the game and put his hands back over yours on the controller.

"X is to slash down, O is for jumping, Square is for gliding and Triangle is to collect items. Click O twice to double jump and when the purple bar is filled up on the screen, you can do power-ups. Got it?" He explained again to you, moving your fingers and simultaneously speaking.

The feeling of his hand touching yours, sent a different type of nervousness through your body. Normally you would have been nervous that he was about to make fun of you or something but you were nervous for a different and unexplained reason.

You stared at him with a blank expression, He looked at you a little confused because he thought you didn't understand.

"Yeah...thanks," you nodded in sync and went back to playing the game with him.

You started laughing at the screen because his character was glitching, you made a joke but he wasn't paying much attention. You caught him looking at you with a little smile on his face but not saying anything.

"What?" You laughed after turning your head.

"Mm, nothing. Switch controllers with me," he insisted while reaching for yours.

"No, it's not my fault your character is glitching! Why should I be stuck with it?"

"Because I introduced you into the game so you have to give it to me by default," he persisted while trying to snatch it from you.

"No, I don't," you moved back onto the couch and kept your arm away from him so that he couldn't get the controller.

He leaned above you, keeping himself from pressing against you but he was still on top of you after you leaned back with your head on the armrest of the couch. You put the controller above you and dropped it behind you onto the floor.

"Now yours is definitely gonna be glitched," he chuckled as you looked up at him.

He was smiling at you and you did the same, his arms were near your head since he was trying to hold himself up instead of crushing you. He gazed at you with those eyes of his that couldn't keep off you the entire time you'd been here.