The Ereri Project (#2)

Caps (High School)

"Graduating with honors, Levi Ackerman."

Eren cheers from his seat among the other graduates. Annie also graduated this year but she goes to a Catholic school with Reiner so she graduated a few days before. The two of them are sitting with Bertholdt and Eren's mom in the bleachers.

Since starting counseling, he's come to accept that his dad is never going to completely accept him for who he is.

He doesn't like it, of course, but he knows he can't really change his dad's opinions.

He came home one day, a few weeks ago, to find Mikasa watching reruns of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Initially he didn't really like it, but one thing he really connected with was something one of the queens, Jinkx Monsoon he thinks he remembers her name was, said, "Water off a duck's back."

She repeated it all the time to herself so she wouldn't take criticism to personally, like water running off a duck's back.

Eren started using it to keep himself from getting too upset about the things his dad said. He was surprised how well it worked for him.

"Graduating with honors, Eren Jaeger."

Despite not having been in honors classes like Levi, Eren graduated with a three-point-five GPA so he technically still got to graduate with honors.

He walks up to take his envelope and hears Annie screaming louder than Reiner or Bertholdt.

He smiles and waves to them while walking back to his seat, winking at Levi as he passes.

Levi just shakes his head, smiling. Several boring minutes later, they're all being told is make a big circle in the other part of the field to throw their caps.

They're supposed to stay in line but Levi and Eren look for each other on the short walk to the other part of the field. "Hey," Levi says.

Eren grins and kisses his cheek. "Ready to not be a high schooler anymore?"

Levi shrugs. "I guess."

They hold hands while standing in the circle, waiting to take their hats off.

They watch the valedictorian and salutatorian take their hats off and suddenly there is a sky full of square hats and hundreds of voices shouting and cheering.

Eren goes look for his hat but Levi pulls him down for a kiss before he can. When he pulls back, he smiles at Eren. "Ready?"

Eren doesn't know what Levi's asking him to be ready for but, "Always."

...

They next day, on the front page of the newspaper, is an article about all the local graduations of the week.

The picture beneath it is of Eren and Levi, surrounded by caps still falling and dozens of people running around, kissing.

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A/N: I am in love with RuPaul's Drag Race! I was Sharon Needles (hopefully I spelled that right) to WIN!!!

Anyways I hate High School, drama, dating, people, and anxiety.

But I'm not the only one! I also figured out that you don't need to be in honor classes to get the honors diploma.

Well, just another 3 years of school before college or university.