The Ereri Project!

Cabbage

"Can we look at the toys Levi, please?"

"Eren, we came here to buy a stupid Blu-ray movie for Hanji. I don't wanna be here longer than I have to."

Eren pouts at him. "Please?"

Levi stares at him. "Do we really have to?"

"I just like looking."

"You say that but I know you."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"You're going to ask me to buy something if we go over there."

"No I'm not!"

"Oh really?"

"I'll bake you a coconut custard pie if it's a lie, I swear to it."

They stare each other down. "Fine," Levi says.

"Yes!"

Eren goes down the aisle with toy cars first. Levi follows, clearly already bored.

Eren leads him past action figures, board games, Barbies, and puzzles until eventually they're in the baby doll section.

Levi stares at the Cabbage Patch dolls. "Levi?" Eren asks. Levi picks one up, one of the classics with yarn hair, Eren knows why immediately; she looks like Petra with braids and a blue and yellow dress on.

"And you thought I was going to ask to buy something."

"But look how cute she is," Levi says.

"Oh my God," Eren says.

Levi tucks the box under his arm and keeps walking. "Well if you're going to buy a doll you might as well get a change of clothes for her."

Levi turns on his heel and looks at the selection of clothes for the doll. "Look at the tiny jeans," Levi says.

Eren grins and picks them up, they're in a set with a little purple hoodie with pink polka-dots on it. "And look at the tiny dress!"

Levi picks that one up as well; a blue and white checkered dress that looked like Dorothy's from The Wizard of Oz. "Oh look at this!"

...

They went home with the doll, three outfits, a stroller, and no movie for Hanji.

"Goddamnit," Levi says, picking up his keys again.

Eren just laughs as he sits with Petra and unpackages her new toy.