The Ereri Project!

Sketch (High School)

Levi notices Eren's been sketching around him a lot.

There was a time when the brunette would hide his sketchbooks whenever Levi came over but slowly, they've been strategically lain in places he knows Levi will see.

Of course, that's not to say the shorter male will look at them, he wants to ask but isn't sure how; the books are obviously personal to his boyfriend so he thinks it might be intrusive to just start looking.

Sitting on the couch one day, Eren finishes a sketch and closes the book. Levi glances over, expecting Eren to have put it on the coffee table, a gentle suggestion for someone to pick it up, but instead he holds it out for Levi to take. "Eren?" Levi asks.

"I want you to see," Eren replies. "You'll look, won't you?"

"If you want me to," Levi replies, hesitantly taking the book from his boyfriend.

He'd expected it to be heavier for some reason, but it's just bound paper, not a brick.

He opens the cover and the first page is lyrics to a song Eren started writing scrawled across the page, all jumbled and smashed together.

When he turns the page, there's a small drawing of a cartoon sunflower. Levi smiles and turns the page again, his mouth opens slightly.

It's a sketch of him, a little rough around the edges and missing a few details but he can definitely make out his own face. "You drew this?" Levi asks.

"That's just the first one," Eren replies, watching Levi's expression closely.

Levi flips through more pages, there are drawings in all sorts of styles (some better than others but all of them infinitely better than anything Levi could really do), many of them are of characters from TV shows, or still lifes, but the one subject Eren always goes back to is Levi.

The quality of the drawings of him just goes up the more of them Levi finds in the book, and there are so many subtly different expressions and poses.

One in particular made Levi blush because he was naked and asleep, his comforter bunched at his hips the only thing protecting his modesty.

Eren had drawn every detail about the way Levi looks; the way he holds cups, the way he stands, the way he sits, his resting face, his lively face, the way his hair falls both before and after he combs it.

Everything.

The last sketch in the book is Levi's profile watching TV just a few minutes ago.

He kind of thought he looked like shit today but something about the way Eren drew him made him rethink that. "Wow," he says, closing the book.

Eren is still watching him. "I know they're not that great bu -"

"Not that great? Are you kidding me? You're fantastic!"

Eren stares at his face for a moment. "I thought you'd think it was creepy I watch you so much."

"Well, maybe a tiny bit," Levi replies. "But mostly I think it's cool you can draw like that."

"Really?"

"Why don't you show everyone your drawings?"

Eren shrugs. "Well I can't show my mom this books cause you're mostly naked in that one drawing and I don't want her yelling at me."

"Then show her one of your other ones," Levi says, getting up and walking over to Eren. The brunette stares up at his beautiful boyfriend as he gracefully moves to sit on his lap, handing him his sketchbook back. "You really are wonderful."

Eren kisses him. "Thank you."