𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘦. 𝘫𝘢𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘳

VIII

"𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣"

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𝙁𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣 to express how you felt at the moment. You were sitting across from Eren in his office attempting to complete the work you'd started with him yesterday. Since your session got cut short you asked him to meet you here before everyone else clocked in. It wasn't ideal, but it was most efficient if you wanted to get started on the next step.

In all honesty, it was too early to be focusing on math, but you needed it.

He was no help in calming you down. The more he spoke the more annoyed you became and were ready to wreak havoc on everyone in the building. It's true that you might've been overreacting but in the moment it was all you could do. You put your head in your hands and looked at your shoes on the ground trying to tune out Eren's voice.

"Just relax y/n." He sat back in his chair and looked through a few loose papers that were sitting on his desk. Eren's body fit perfectly in his chair, he had on a black suit and his hair was pulled back into a neat bun. He looked as if he hadn't a care in the world and like he wanted to be anywhere but here. He stood up to grab a folder and you admired his back in the suit jacket, "You're staring." He announced, pulling his phone out.

Your eyes darted back to your work, "I'm not." You tried to change the subject, "This doesn't make any sense. I should be able to do this perfectly." The notes from yesterday sat in front of you with eraser marks everywhere on the page. At this point it made more sense for you to scrap the whole thing and start it again.

Eren's attention pulled away from his phone, "You don't have to be the best at everything right off the bat." He told you sternly, "It doesn't seem like you're even trying to be honest."

Standing up from your chair you responded, "Maybe if the person who said he'd help me wasn't too busy playing games on his phone I'd be able to do this a little faster. The whole point of me being here is so you can tell me how to do this." You gathered your items in your hands and walked to the door.

"Y/n wait, where are you going?" He called from behind.

"My bad for taking up your time, this was dumb, I can figure it out myself."

He fell silent and let you walk out the door without another word. Connie's tall figure passed you on the way out of Eren's office, his eyes followed you going down the hall and he muttered 'yikes' under his breath. You shot him a look and he hurriedly walked into Eren's office and closed the door.

You didn't have a chance to get breakfast before meeting with Eren, so you headed over into the lounge to grab a muffin and drink then proceeded to go back into your office and shut the door behind you to avoid distractions.

While browsing back through your work you ate your muffin and had low music playing in the background.

A brisk knocking on the door tore your attention away from your papers and to the figure that was now standing before you. Imani pulled out a chair and sat in front of you, "What are you working on?" She peeked over at the work in front of you.

"Logistics for the BraunX project. I need a group of people to help, you want in?"

She smiled, "Of course, anything to make your life easier boo."