Music To My Ears - Riren AU

Chapter 1

3rd Person

The concert hall had a deafening silence as Eren did a half-assed attempt to keep his hands warm from the cold air hugging around his body. Several competitors had already played their pieces but there was only one more person left until he had to play. His strong hands began to tremble.

Eren thought, Calm yourself Jaeger! You're a man! No time to chicken out now! He did his normal routine normal routine before he usually performs on the stage. He let my hands relax by my sides as I slowly, but confidently led himself to the steps of the stage, and eventually, to the piano. The tanned male took several deep breaths and lifted his strong hands onto the black and white keys.

It's ok Eren, this piano has a same number of keys as the piano at home, exactly 88 keys, there's not much to be worrying about.

He sung the tempo inside my head and a few bars after, he started immediately on the beat and let my hands do the rest. He let my hands dance over the keys and sway his body to the complex yet simple intertwining melodies singing out to the audience. He lost himself into the piece and closed his eyes and pour all of his passion into the playing. A mistake crept in and and he lost his train of thought for a while, but didn't let just one mistake bother him as he kept playing on. Eren finally reached the last few bars and slowed down to a slower speed to make the ending more suspenseful. Note after note the sounds dance in the room and he finally played the last chords trying with all his might oozing out every last bit of passion into the chord and the sound finally faded into a stop.

The audience cheered loudly for Eren as he bowed down to the crowd, hand on piano as a fan of his came up to the stage a gave him a gigantic bouquet of flowers. Eren thanked her and finally walked off the stage, still hearing loud claps from behind and lots of people chanting his name.

Eren! Eren! Eren!

Boy, he thought it felt so good Eren had a tingling feeling in his hands as he had my little exciting moment in his head as he headed back to the waiting room full of competitors but one certain competitor stole his eyes. He had jet black hair in an undercut, and dark, metallic, grey, piercing eyes and the organizer said to him,

"Ok competitor number 7, Levi Ackerman please come to the stage."

So that's what his name is huh, Levi Ackerman. Eren thought. Maybe he's justwas one of those people that just aren't up to his 'standards'.

Eren smirked at that thought and continued to mind his own business as short male walked up and pushed Eren out of his way by using his shoulder. Eren gave him a questioning look but the raven didn't look back. Levi  was quite short compared to me. He only looked like 5'3 and was quite short for his age group that Eren just happened to be in as well. He chuckled momentarily at the thought and soon enough sat back down on his chair to check any notifications on his phone and placed his earphones in to listen to some Beethoven. Levi made it to the stage and sat down on the cushioned stool.

Hmm, that Levi guy's butt don't look too bad..Wait, did I just mention Levi's BUTT!? What am I THINKING!? I'm not even gay... I think... Well, I never really took an interest in girls much since the past few years anyway so I don't know what that makes me. Eren thought.

Eren left that train of thought as Levi started playing these monstrous chords he knew very well that he couldn't reach to save his own life, it interrupted the piece momentarily playing in his headphones and Eren yanked the earbuds out to have a closer listen to the attention-grabbing music he was playing. Eren's eyes widened as Levi showed off his technical ability. Worry started seeping into Eren's mind thinking about not winning the prize money he yearned for so much. His technical ability wasn't all that was just amazing though, Eren could feel all the raw emotion pouring out from the song by the bucketful. It was tempting to lose himself into the piece that was played by Levi, but he didn't dared to resist, so he did so and it let his whole body relax and sway to the rhythm of the song.

The moment whizzed by so quickly Eren got woken up by the slowly fading ending of his piece that he played and then Levi walked back to the waiting room where Eren once was. His shadow was creeping in and seconds after that, his figure appeared and eyes looking at me with such content, followed by a smirk on his thin lips.

Eren felt the heat rising to his cheeks as he walked past me back to his own chair but the taller male tugged at the back of his shirt to get Levi's attention.

"H-Hey Levi, um you did really well with that piece." Eren stuttered.

"Tch, you didn't do so bad yourself Jaeger" He held a small smirk on his face before slowly going back to his almost emotionless expresson that seemed impossible to decipher.

|SO THAT'S THE FIRST CHAPTER! Whaddaya guys think???? Is it a good start? Pleeeeeeeaaaaaassseeee let me know so then I can improve it to your standards whether you guys want longer chapters or not! I don't think this book will get a lot of reads but if there are, I'll be jumping up and down on my seat! Thanks for all the authors that gave me inspiration to write this!|

Farewell Sama clan!

MaiMaiSama~♪