The Ereri Project!

Album (High School)

When the boyfriends get to Levi's house that afternoon, they find Levi's mom sitting with two boxes on the floor in the living room. "What're you doing?" Levi asks, going to the kitchen for a water bottle.

Eren sits on the couch while Celia looks up from the book she's holding. "I was cleaning out the attic and I found the boxes with our old photo albums."

Eren's eyes light up and he gets on the floor with Levi's mom. "Can I see?"

"Sure," she replies and leans the book toward Eren. She points to the picture on the top left. "Levi was in preschool there."

"Mom~" Levi says warningly, standing behind Eren.

Eren grins at the photo. "Oh my god," he says. "You look so cute with long hair."

Levi frowns while his mother grins. "He hated getting it cut," she says. "He would scream every time I tried to take him to the barber until he was in second grade."

"Aww," Eren coos, turning the pages.

Levi grumbles to himself as he sits down as well, cleaning his glasses with the edge of his t-shirt. "Which of these books has the pictures from when you were pregnant?" he asks his mom.

"The purple one that has "Baby Levi" in rhinestones on the cover," she replies.

Eren hands the book back to Celia and picks up a different one. He breathes an extended gasp and grins conspiratorially. Levi looks up and grimaces. "No," he says.

"You had an emo phase?" Eren asks.

The first picture on the first page on the album is Levi with crazy long bangs hanging over his left eye, thick eyeliner, a black My Chemical Romance t-shirt, tight black jeans, and a crazy number of multicolor jelly bracelets on his wrists. Levi shakes his head looking disgusted with himself. "Middle School was embarrassing."

"How old were you here, twelve?"

"Thirteen."

Eren keeps flipping through the pages, unable to stop grinning. Levi finds the album he was looking for and pulls it out of the box. This particular book is more of a scrapbook than an album, the first picture is from his very first ultrasound, after that are some progress pictures of his mom, the pictures from the baby shower, more ultrasound pictures, and finally the picture he was looking for. 

He shows it to Eren, a picture of his mom, his tiny, skinny mom with her stomach sticking out almost disturbingly far. "See that? I was bigger than average once."

Eren laughs. "No, you were probably normal size, she's just really small."

Celia leans over to look at the picture. "Oh yeah, I was really tiny then."

Levi frowns. "Can you let me believe I haven't always been undersized?"

Celia pets her son's hair. "Sorry, sweetheart."

Levi frowns. "You're so mean."

Celia cocks an eyebrow and holds up the album Eren was looking at. "I let you have this ridiculous haircut, I am not mean."

Levi blushes and gets up. "Bye."

Eren chuckles and follows Levi.