Freefall | Eren x OC

Chapter 13: The Tea Date

A/N: Out of the something like 140 chapters I wrote for the Freefall series, this chapter has to be in my top five. So there's that lol. Enjoy! ❤️

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Caught me by surprise,

Like seeing shooting stars in the sky

There's danger in the dark of your eyes,

But something 'bout you brings me to life

'Lightning' by Charli xcx

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Almost a week had passed since Yurie and Porco's weekend tryst and he hadn't come by her desk once, not even just to irritate her with his mere presence. There was a part of her deep down that knew they'd played with fire and each other's emotions every time he came over, but she couldn't stop. She couldn't get the feeling of his skin against hers, his lips against hers out of her mind. The way they hated each other but couldn't get enough of each other either; it was damn well intoxicating. Or at least it was until the cold, harsh light of the week began, and Yurie has to sit at her desk, replaying her terrible decisions over and over again in her head.

You're still my wife, you still belong to me...

Yurie replays that message in her head on a loop throughout the next few days, flushing from how she ever could have found that attractive. How on earth could Porco think that to this day? How could she let him? It had been well over two years since he walked out with some of his bags as she cursed him out, screamed at him to get out. Now he was saying things like this, acting like the two were simply on a break rather than fully separated. And Yurie hadn't even remotely helped matters by letting him back in the house and back in her bed. She sighs in mental exhaustion at her own flawed and skewered view on her marriage; how can she go before a judge and ask for a divorce with a straight face, knowing she still lets Porco in the house from time to time.

Yurie contemplates all of this while staring out the window on Tuesday afternoon. Her eyes lazily trail across the neighbouring office high rises of Downtown Shiganshina as the rain pours down and the sky turns dark before she returns to the mundane tasks at hand. She plans to spend the rest of her shift going over recording session timetables between producers and artists, one of her many, many responsibilities. She doesn't know why this task falls on her specifically; it seems like every chance Tengen gets, he drops more work on her desk, leaving with her barely any time in the week to train with Onyankapon.

Tengen himself is another complication in her life; he hasn't said much to Yurie since he kissed her on her birthday. Since then, he's spent the last week on a business trip to the mainland of Marley, telling her to keep at her duties while he was gone. He's another man, another complicated relationship that Yurie feels some sort of hubris for getting herself into. She can't help but shake her head, holding back tears of frustration over them and herself. She feels cheap and used and she has no one to blame but herself.

She's shaken from her heavy thoughts by her personal cell going off on her desk. She looks down and sees Eren's number is on her screen, setting her heart to skip a beat as she picks it up slowly and swipes to answer.

"Hello?"

"Hey, how've you been? Want to let you know me and the band are coming down today for that tour you promised to give us."

"Oh?" Yurie says in bewilderment, looking at the clock on the wall nearby. "I uhh, I didn't think you were actually serious about coming..."

"Excuse me," Eren says in mock offence. "Was that not a part of the deal? I mean that's not the kind of thing I'd—we'd like to hear. Maybe we'll take our business elsewhere."