Partnership

Chapter 15: Road trip

Eren's pov:

I woke up to an empty bed. I yawned and stretched, let me just say that is a very bad idea when you're covered in bruises. I made my way off of Levi's bed. It was quite a struggle maybe because I was injured or maybe because the bed was just too damn high. How the hell did he manage to get up here every night. I chuckled imagining Levi struggling to get in bed.

I started walking out of the room, I didn't care for the fact that I didn't have a shirt on, Levi had already seen my bruises before. I looked at my phone that I grabbed from the table y the bed and looked through my messages while walking into the living room.

"Hey Levi, have you let Mika and Ar know I'm fine?" I heard him chuckle and looked up from my phone.

The living room was filled with people and not just any people but all my friends and my boss and I'm guessing her boyfriend. They had apparently stopped talking and were staring at at me with pity and I realized they weren't just staring at me but at also all the bruises on my body.

"Oh god...Eren" Armin stood up and came to me and hugged me tightly.

"That's it I'm gonna send Annie and Reiner to an early grave!" Mikasa stood up and Connie stood up with her, "count me in." I sighed and slowly unwrapped Armin from me and looked at the rest of the group.

"you guys let it go, it's in the past. Stop making a fuss, I understand you're mad and upset but if you don't see me mad or upset there should be no reason for you to be." I looked over at Levi to see him nod once encouraging me. "Look I know it may seem like cowardice but I forgive them." Everyone stared at me like I was talking in a foreign language.

"Why?! What the hell Eren look at what they did to you? How long has this been going on?"

Levi decided then would be the best time to jump into the conversation. "They've picked on him since elementary school." I glared at him and he smirked and shrugged.

Mikasa lost it, "What?! oh hell no!" She grabbed Connie and started walking to the door, I sighed and ran in front of her and stood between her and the door.

"Eren move or I'll move you." I gulped and shook my head

"Mikasa take a deep breath and calm down. Look at me."

"I AM LOOKING! WHY THE HELL DO YOU THINK I'M GOING TO BEAT HIM TO A BLOODY FUCKING PULP?!"

I sighed and grabbed her hands, "Mikasa...what's the first thing mom taught us? What's the lesson she always taught us?"

She looked away towards Armin before looking back up at me with tears in her eyes. "Eren that's not fair."

"What was it Mika?"

She took a deep breath as tears fell from her eyes, "Always forgive everyone who has ever done anything wrong to you, because they may just be having worse problems than you."

She paused and looked down at her shoes so I nudged her softly and saw that everyone was staring at us some with tears and some with smiles watching us reminisce over our mothers words. "And what else?"

"Always be kind to others even if they've done you wrong because they may need a friend one day. Always forgive but never forget so that you know when something that's happened before may happen again...always look out for each other and listen to each other because she was not going to live f-forever..." Mika choked on the last part now fully relaxed and looking up at me with tears streaming down her face, "I miss her so much Eren...I'm so sorry..."

I smiled and pulled her into a hug as she bawled her eyed out in my arms. Everyone was smiling and Levi winked. After a few minutes Hanji started talking and ruined the moment.