𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 [𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘹 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳]

008

you start to push your way towards the studio door but are stopped by the familiar face of your roommate.

"can you believe this?" she says exasperatedly. you look forlornly over her shoulder before nodding in agreement, surrendering yourself to conversation.

"it's so fucking unfair," she continues and you try to pay attention but can't seem to stop thinking about what eren could be saying to reiner. since reiner was also missing from the room you could only assume he'd been cornered by eren based on the blazing look aimed his way.

you quickly try to appease her worries and relief floods you as another dancer steals away her attention. you take the opportunity to sneak out to the hallway.

you quickly shuffle out the door, glancing around to take in your surroundings. you quickly spot the familiar blonde and brunette duo— reiner is trapped under the intense gaze of the man who's been plaguing your thoughts.

you can't hear them— eren whispering into reiners's ear— but you can see reiners eyes gradually increasing size in reaction to whatever he's saying.

you start to move towards them to break up whatever's going on but reiner sees you and stills, unintentionally notifying eren of your presence. you hadn't noticed before but eren had reiners shirt in a tight grip, knuckles white and holding him in place.

eren looks at you with a stony gaze and reluctantly let's go of reiner's shirt. reiner takes the opportunity to clamber back into the studio.

you watch reiner enter the room and walk towards eren who's still watching you warily. it's hard to read the emotions on his face.

"did you say something to reiner about me?" you ask him, he shrugs dismissively.

"so what if i did," he responds, brushing off your question. one thing that pissed you off were people that tried to fight your battles for you. you didn't need eren's help and you definitely didn't need him threatening people on your behalf, especially if word could get back to your instructor. 

you glare at him and open your mouth to start telling him off but he grabs your wrist before you can start. his grip is firm and demanding as he pulls you after him to god knows where. you're too surprised to initially resist his pull but after a second your mind catches up.

"let go of me," you demand, attempting to pull your wrist from his warm grip. seeing his hand wrapped around your arm puts his size into perspective, his hand easily envelops the entirety of your wrist and more. seeing those fingers up close again ignites a small lick of heat deep inside and you quickly stifle it. 

his grip doesn't waver and he continues walking as if you hadn't said a word, making you even more irritated as you round the corner near the physical therapist's office. 

"eren you asshole let me go or i swear to god i'll-," you're cut off by eren quickly turning on you, his free hand not gripping your wrist coming up to tightly grip your jaw, manhandling you and trapping your body between the wall and his looming presence. 

you're shocked to silence at first, eyes widening in surprise and rising to meet his own. his gaze is turned down towards you and he's glaring at you in annoyance. 

"do you ever shut up?" he says, and your irritation increases tenfold. his thumb and forefinger are squeezing your cheeks and jaw, essentially silencing you so you do the only thing you can think of and spit on his face.

eren's eyes widen in shock and you instantly regret your actions. he releases and slowly brings the hand gripping your wrist up to wipe his face, taking a moment to look at his hand as if he still can't believe what you just did-- you couldn't believe it either.