Partnership

Chapter 8: First Consultation

Eren sat at his desk after lunch doodling on the corner of his notes while ignoring the lesson Mr. Zacharius was going on about. He understood everything being taught so he decided to take a break and relax. Images of the previous days events kept circling around his mind, especially the blush and slight smile that Levi had before he turned and ran back to the store.

God he was adorable...I'm actually pretty nervous for today... He looked up at the clock. Only 12: 57 p.m. just a couple more hours and then I can try to go convince Mikasa to go with me and Ar to the gym to sign up. Now that I think about it I feel so bad for Armin... he definitely looked so embarrassed yesterday... oh well. Eren smiled to himself and decided to pay attention the rest of the time.

**Flashback**

Eren's pov:

I looked back one last time to see Levi start walking back into the gym. I smiled and shook my head clear of thoughts and ran back into the store and stopped as soon as I stepped through the store.

What the hell?! I looked towards the counter to see Armin tied to a chair struggling under a girl straddling his lap. "Hey! what the hell is going on here, get off him!" I ran behind the counter and pulled the girl off of my best friend before looking down at him shocked.

He looked up at me and blushed looking down and I stood shocked before I started laughing.

"Hey you ass! help untie me stop laughing you're such a douche!" Ar, struggled at the duct tape binding his wrists.

I covered my mouth and tried to speak between my laughs, "pfffft....dude...I-I'm so sorry....hahaha you just....look..." Before I could finish someone pushed me out of the way and peered closely at Ar with what I assumed was makeup in her hand.

"ADORABLE!!! right Eren?!" The girl turned to me and only then did I realize it was our crazy boss Hanji. "I walked in to check some paperwork in my office and saw him sitting there reading and looking bored with his hair half way up so I decided to test my hand at making him beautiful!! What do you think?!"

She looked over at me with a huge grin and waited for my response, I smiled and took my phone out and caught Armins attention before snapping a picture and chuckling again. "Oh yeah, he looks great, hey Ar, this is totally going on Facebook."

"Eren you asshole! delete that picture!! Hanji you've had your fun untie me already please!!" Ar looked close to tears.

"Awww but Armin you look so cute, you can't even tell you were a guy. Oh and Eren that wasn't very nice of you to pull your boss like that. I landed on my butt it hurt. Don't forget I own this store and I am your boss be careful next time." I watched as our boss complained and pouted as she slowly reached for scissors to cut the tape.

"That doesn't make me any happier Hanji!" I nodded to Hanji so she knew I understood and smiled at Armin.

"Hey Ar, just saying if I were into chicks I would totally go after you!" I smirked and chuckled holding onto my stomach and side feeling my bruises start to hurt.

"Ereeen!!! knock it off!!"Armin, finally free, got up and went to go wash his face. I smiled and got back to work as Hanji went back to her office. We finished our shifts a couple of hours later and Hanji got ready to close the shop for the night.

**End of flashback**

I looked over to where Armin was sitting taking notes of every word that escaped our instructors lips, and chuckled.

"Mr. Eren Jaeger is there something amusing to you?" I jumped and looked back up at Mr. Zacharius and shook my head.

"n-no sir, nothing at all I'm sorry"