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The thought rushed through his head all night. Ever since he thought of it, the idea never left.

"What if I had a crush on Armin? Would that change things between us? Would he like me too?"

Eren could not sleep from the thought. He didn't have a crush on Armin. Why would he have a crush on Armin?

Why Armin when there's that cute girl that he works with at the library, or that other girl at his favorite coffe shop he goes to? He definitely doesn't have a crush on Armin.

"No. I don't have a crush on Armin. Haha. I don't even know why I was thinking about this." He said out loud to himself.

"That would be ridiculous.." he laughed as he finally felt himself being pulled away by sweet slumber.
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The two boys had been walking. But there was a tension between them. The tension was unspoken but it was well known. Eren couldn't take it. He wanted badly to bring it up but it was so hard.

It was hard to look at Armin chew his lip and pick at his fingers as if he was uncomfortable.

". . .Eren..."

Finally. One word so far had been spoken between the two. But still, the tension in the air was still there. It was still growing. No where near leaving.

"Yes, Armin?" Eren spoke slowly.

Armin balled his fist and bit his lip before looking up at eren.

"Do you remember the time you asked me about something? You were talking about how much you..uhm..admired me?"

Oh. Armin brought that up.

"Yeah..of course I remember." Eren said putting his head down not facing armin.

"Well, have you figured out what you were feeling about me?" Armin said. There was this slight tone of hope in his voice. But eren paid no attention to that.

"No, actually. I haven't.." eren said.

There was only silence before Armin bursted out into tears. Armin was crying. Oh no. He was crying and eren had no idea why or what to do. What could he do? There was nothing he could do to stop him from crying because he had no clue why he was in the first place.

But armin feelings were revealed.

"Eren, it's been long enough. . .I've waited for you to tell me, but you just can't figure it out."

Eren looked wide eyed at his best friend, hating the way tears slipped down on his cheeks. "Cant figure out what?" He asked.

Armin stepped forward, grabbing erens collar. "Eren. . .do you like me?"
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Erens eyes jolted open.

That was a weird dream.

A stressful dream actually.

Why was Armin crying? Was it because he thought eren didn't like him? Or maybe he didn't want eren to like him? Well it's all fine because eren does not like Armin. Totally.

That's what eren told himself.  He had figured out a long, long time ago what his feelings were. But he was scared.

Scared of rejection. Scared of heartbreak. Scared of ruining his and Armins precious friendship.

So he denied those feelings. And pretended that he didn't know.

He figured out he was in love with Armin the day he came back from college. When they met in the library and hugged for a long time.

The long, warm embrace with Armin made eren feel all bubbly and made his cheeks heat up. It made his world go pink and red like roses and he wanted more of that every day.

But he couldn't. He was to scared.

It wasn't that he had known exactly what it was since then. But he knew there was some spark between them. But he thought nothing of that spark and kept going on with his life.

But now.

He needed to tell Armin.

Armin should know the truth.

And he will.

In the next four hours of course, for eren had woken up at about five in the morning due to his dream, and armin usually is awake by nine.

Eren smiled to himself. Happy that he was finally going to tell.
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Look at Eren finally being smart🤦🏾‍♀️