The perfect match

Chapter 1

I was ripped from my dreams by the piercing shriek of my dumb alarm. What day was it? I drifted back into sleep after slapping the shit out of my phone, until the high-pitched ring stopped, not giving a shit what day it was. The alarm rang again, I groggily and reluctantly opened my eyes, tapping the stop button on my alarm, checking the time displayed on my lock screen.

"Shit!"

It was 8:30, and I had to be in class in 15 minutes. God I miss living with Mikasa, she always had my lazy ass up on time.

I got out of bed, obviously having no time to shower. I slipped on fresh clothes, grabbed a granola bar from the kitchen, and jogged to and out of the front door, to my car.

There was no point in speeding, I was already late, but it's better to be more late than dead or behind bars I guess. That's a bit dramatic but still.

I pulled into the school, and parked in my normal spot. The time was 9:00 o'clock on the dot. It's only 20 minutes, I've been later. I saw a ton of missed calls and messages from friends asking where the hell I was. We usually all met up in the costa inside the school before lessons started. I obviously wasn't there this morning, so they had questions. Whilst I was regularly late, the group was always curious at to how I managed to do it so frequently.

Ignoring the texts, I walked up the path to the front of the school, twirling my silver keys on my finger. They'd see me in a second anyway. I rang the bell to make the receptionist aware I had finally turned up. The door swung open, and I received a glare from the fellow brunette behind the desk.
"Morning Eren," she huffed "what's the excuse today?" She looked up at me from behind her glasses. Being late was a regular occurrence for me, poor woman was sick of my shit. I scratched the back of my head "Forgot it was a Monday, sorry Miss." I gave her timid smile. She wrote my name and reason onto the late register, and waved her hand out to me signalling for me to leave.

I began walking down the wide halls, having no idea what class I was meant to be in, until I heard a voice behind me.
"Hey Jaeger! Late again I see?" I turned. A mischievous smile graced Jeans lips. "Fuck off horse boy, you're late too," I hissed back. Jean is part of my friend group, but god was he annoying.
" yeah well, I wasn't the one who stayed up all night wanking." His smirk grew, and his brows raised. It was too early for this. "That happened once!" I angry whispered back to him, trying to avoid any unwanted attention. His smirk grew wider, if that was even possible at this point.

I brushed the ashy blondes remarks aside, and went on to ask him what class we were supposed to be in, as we shared all three of our subjects together.
"Crimo." He responded bluntly. Ugh yay. Fucking criminology. Major pain in my ass. I nodded to him, and we walked in silence to stroll in 25, almost 30 minutes late to our lesson. Neither of us really cared though, we saw it as 30 minutes off the 7 or so hours we'd have to spend here.

We got to the classroom door and let ourselves in. Jean walked in first, as much as I despise him 90% of the time, he had a charm about him. He knew how to get people wrapped around his hooves. It worked in my favour, as we often were late together.

We both tried to sneak into the room, as if no one would see us. Everyone's head turned to us. Connie started chuckling. "Oh look at you two, late once again," he raised a brow "were you both up late together again?" His laughing increased. "Shut it baldy!" Jean snapped. I thought it was funny. Although, ew.

The teacher sighed and told us to sit down, not asking any questions as to why we were both half an hour late, and after Connies comment, she didn't want to know. She didn't get payed enough for half the shit we put her through.

I took my seat next to Armin, and Jean next to Marco. "Where was you? Was you really up with Jean?" The blonde asked. "Really Armin?" I asked back, amusement in my voice. "Well I don't know what you get up to now you live alone." He held his hands up in defence. I rolled my eyes and chuckled at his defensive stance, turning my face towards the front of the class, my eyes skimming over the nonsense written on the board, longing for the bell to ring.

I was bored. Listening to a teacher waffling away, and knowing damn well she has no idea what's she's talking about either, didn't make me very motivated to learn anything. I sighed and tipped my head back, pulling my unbrushed hair to the back of my neck, and running through the knots with my fingers and tying it into a messy bun. It was unruly even when it was up.

The door swung open, and in walked the raven haired beauty, with only 15 minutes of the lesson remaining. I'd never really spoken to Levi before, only during group work in lessons, he's not particularly the approachable type, but damn was he gorgeous. His jet black hair, his striking silver eyes that could cut a man dead with a single glare. His perfectly placed tattoos up his arm, a cigarette tucked behind his hair. Shut up Eren.

The teacher gave no shits that he walked in 45 minutes late, she'd already dealt with me and Jean this morning, and if Levi wasn't enough to piss her off on his own, which it definitely was, but I had already contributed to her visual annoyance. She let out a deep sign and told Levi to take his seat, to which he did, on the desk next to me.

We were placed in these seats at the beginning of the school year, in an attempt to keep us away from our friends to keep the chatter and stupidity under control, but at some point during the last month, people had gradually started to gravitate back to their friends. I'm 18, I'm not going to be told where to sit. Levi had the same idea, as he had ended up in a seat next to his friend Hanji.

I'd spoken to Hanji a few times, they'd caught me sneaking glances at Levi a few times too. They never said anything though, to me at least. What can I say, Levi is hot. I'd never go there though, even if I wanted to, he'd beat the shit out of me before I even got the chance to say hello.

Wouldn't the?

Ahhhh chapter 1!!!
I've been wanting to write an Ereri fic for a very long time, and suddenly found the motivation at 1 in the morning 😂
I hope you enjoyed, any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading ❤️