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promise

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1:35 AM

There was a knock on the door.

You were sitting on the couch on your laptop, completing some school work in the dark. You had a bag of chips next to you that you were eating from and you turned your head towards the door at the sound.

You got off the couch, confused as to who could be at the door. When you walked over, you left the bag of chips on the couch. You looked through the window by the door before opening it and saw Eren, you were confused but opened the door anyway.

Before you could even get a single word out, he hugged you. You were startled by him, his arms were wrapped around you tightly.

"I won my fight." He whispered to you as he held you.

"I told you you'd win," you said back to him excitedly and put your arms over him with your hands on the back of his neck.

You were smiling and he was too, you barely got a look at his face to see the damage but you hoped for the best. When he pulled away from the hug, you stepped back a little before inviting him more inside and cutting the foyer light on.

His face was bruised but not nearly as bad as you've seen it before. He didn't even have a black eye, just redness around his jaw. You smiled even bigger when you realized that, you shut the door after him with a smile.

"Here, I brought this for you." He pulled out a stack of cash from the inside of his hoodie pocket.

Not just one just. Another. And another. And another. There were four stacks of cash sitting on the table by the side of the staircase.

"Uh..." you mumbled and stared at the stacks of cash.

"That's what I made from the fight. I wouldn't have made it without you so...it's all yours." He explained calmly and you stared at the cash then at him, back and forth.

"All of it? No—that's your money, you earned it." You denied and slightly backed away as if the money would somehow crawl to you.

"You're right, I earned it so I get to decide how it's spent and I want you to have it." He shrugged while looking at you, you shook your head because you didn't take him seriously.

"Oh yeah. I also came here to tell you that you and Sasha are invited to Jean's summer house, we're all going up there once finals are done." He informed and glanced over to the living room where your movie was paused.

"Shit...I forgot your ice cream. Hold on, I'll be right—"

"No! It's okay, you've done more than enough for me lately." You insisted and leaned off the front door to approach him.

"I can't take all this money, Eren...that is a lot of money that you earned."

"It's not your decision. It's mine...goodnight." He said softly with a grin before walking around you and right out the same door, he came through, all in an instant.

You didn't even get the chance to grab the money and give it back to him before he left. You stood in the foyer, watching the door close and then looking back at the money he left for you.

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You didn't sleep that night. You spent hours searching online for that car poster Eren mentioned. When you were in his room at that party, you didn't see it on his walls, you didn't say anything on his walls. You could tell from how he talked about the situation that he probably took it down, you didn't think the bad memory he has around it should make him not want it anymore.

So you searched online for a car poster with a car in the same colorway as the one you gave him. You spent all night looking for one but you didn't find it and it was time for you to get ready for classes. Finals were next week so you were mostly wrapping up in classwork.