Band- It College Years

Fall dreams

The late evening sun shone down on them, leaves crunched under foot. Eren danced a little on the sidewalk. The girl beside him stomped her feet making the leaves crunch more. Her wavy blonde hair was hidden under a thick pink cap. Her body was covered in a black leather jacket, Elmo hoodie, and red pants. Her black boots were clunky on her tiny feet. One pink mittened hand held on to her uncle's. The air was just turning cold. Eren had to laugh at how bundled up the girl was.

"Maria, you warm?" He asked. She lifted her head up to look at him, pushing the hat back a little, Eren saw the blonde hair plastered to her head in sweat. He sighed. Armin over did it sometimes. Kneeling he yanked off the hat, and pulled her warm hands from the mittens.

"Better?" He asked.

"Better!" She responded leaning forward to kiss his cheek. She giggled wrapping her arms around his neck. Laughing he stood, picking her up with him. At eighteen months old, the little girl was proving to be as smart as her father. Maria cuddled into Eren's chest as the red pickup truck pulled in. He waited on the sidewalk for it to stop.

Moving to the back passenger door, he heard the lock click open. Pulling the door open Eren instructed the girl to get in her car seat. "You know he is going to have a fit when he sees you took her hat off!" Erwin warned.

"She is sweating. It's not even winter yet, poor kid." Eren fastened the girl into her seat then hung up the garment bag he carried before closing the door. He got in front.

"What's Armin doing? I thought he was picking us up?" Eren said.

"You know how he is. The chef has to make sure everything goes well, right?" Erwin rolled his eyes at how erratic his boyfriend could be. "Of course Mikasa thinks she is in charge and is ordering everyone about." He laughed as he pulled the truck around and out on the main road.

"How did you get roped into getting us?" Eren asked. He had spent the day relaxing and watching over his favorite girl.

"I needed a sanity check!" Erwin cried. "I volunteered!" He laughed. Eren joined him.

"Papop!" Maria cooed from the back seat. This was her name for Erwin. He reached down to a bag he kept in his truck. It was filled with toys he rotated out to let her play with. She never knew what she was going to get. He passed her a pink elephant and an Easter egg. She giggled finding them funny as she played on her arm rest with them.

"That girl just steals your heart, right." He smiled fondly at her in the mirror.

"Yeah, she does. She is so spoiled." Eren laughed.

"How are you holding up?" Erwin eyed him.

"I'm good. Can't wait to see my kids, but Levi needed something to distract him." Four months ago Annie had delivered a girl and a boy, twins. The girl looked just like her. Same blond hair, piercing eyes and, Yona had the same pissy attitude. The boy was something else. His hair was a dirty blond color. His silver eyes matched his fathth's. But that was were the similarity ended. Akashi Yeager- Leonhart was a smiling happy boy. He would laugh and coo at anything. It was hard to feel down around the chubby ball of baby fat!

Just over two weeks later, Mikasa had given birth to identical twin boys. They both had Eren's bright jewel green eyes with the dark Ackerman hair. Whenever their fathers took Rey and Ragin out, they would undoubtedly get stares. Many people asked how they got babies that looked like both of them. Levi would just smirk at this saying isn't life a wonderful thing or some other shit. Eren would often just laugh at the bewildered looks.

"You took to becoming a parent easily. I'm shocked, with everything you've been through..." Erwin looked outside at the setting sun. The pink, blue and golden sky was dimming even more.