A Beautiful Façade┃Reiner X Reader

Chapter 12: Suburbia

Your first time waking up in you and Reiner's actual bed is a moment you expected to be eventful. Perhaps you'd end up sleeping together again like the first time you woke up side-by-side, or gain a massage after last night's adventures, or simply just spoon to start the day.

But, you woke up to none of those things. Instead, you shuffled in bed and awoke to empty sheets. No trace of the infamous Armoured, outside of his disheveled side of the bed and the disappearance of his shoes -which were previously placed at the doorway. Expecting that he'd just run off to complete some errands, you disappointedly pulled yourself out of bed. 

After putting on clothes and freshening up in your bathroom, you calmly walk past the doorway and into the hall. There's nothing to your stroll; no mission outside of scouting out a morning coffee, yet what you heard quickly turned you to alert.

Voices. Not one, but two.

From such a sudden revelation, you stay completely silent, frozen in surprise. Another person is in the house.

You pick up on their feminine tone of voice and for a second, you feel your heart snap in half. Immediately you believe this is a woman who's come over to sleep with him, yet the other side of your inner monologue seems to derail that point as soon as it comes to light.

Reiner doesn't lie. He said he doesn't bring women to his place anymore. So, this must be someone here for work, right? Right? No, it's a Saturday morning. No dickhead would wake up this early on a weekend to pay their coworker a friendly visit. Let alone the fact that you don't know many women at the job, there's really only Pieck and yourself.

"Is someone here?" asks the woman, causing you to hold your breath tightly.

Reiner's distinct voice answers, "pardon?"

"I can hear someone."

Well, time to meet your competition, there's no getting out of it now. You step past the wall and into the wide kitchen, heart pounding as you imagine what the woman will look like. Definitely beautiful, young too, curvy with long hair and the most loving smile possible. A supermodel.

But, all your suspicions and worries die in a second when your eyes fall on two people standing up by the counters side by side. One Reiner, and the other, a middle aged woman. She's got shoulder-length blonde hair, brown eyes and is wearing a modest dress that stops at her ankles.

Suspiciously, just the right age to be his mother.

"Hi," you say, feeling your cheeks heat immediately.

Reiner stares at you in surprise, wide eyes completely devoid of thought while the woman gives you a look of confusion. His expression quickly turns into something welcoming, though.

"Ah, you're awake," he says, hand out, gesturing you to walk over and stand with them. You do, of course. "I thought I'd have to get you up myself."

"Oh? Hello," she says slowly before turning to him. "Who's this?"

"Ma, this is Y/N." After speaking, he turns to you. "Y/N, this is my mother."

"Hold on, Reiner," her eyes brighten. "Wait. Is this a girlfriend?"

You stare in a sudden confusion. "Girlfriend?"

"Girlfriend," Reiner grins, pulling his arm around your waist. "That's right."

She smiles in excitement. Reiner looks at you with a warm expression and it finally hits you- you're meeting his family. His actual, genuine family. And what other partners would his mum have met before? He was twelve leaving Liberio and after which, slept around aimlessly. This would be her first time...