The Ereri Project (#2)

Cart (Teacher/Student)

Eren groans.

"C'mon you big baby, I'm hungry."

Levi holds both of Eren's hands and tries to pull him off the couch. "No, I'm tired," Eren whines.

"Too bad, you need groceries and I want breakfast."

Eren groans louder and gets up. "I hate you," he whines.

"No you don't," Levi replies, handing the elder his keys. "Now let's go."

"I don't even have a list," Eren says as they walk out to the car.

"Good 'cause you need everything anyway."

Eren drives them to the stupid grocery store while Levi starts planning what they should have for breakfast in his head. By the time they get there, it's started to rain and Levi doesn't have a hood much less a jacket. "Here," Eren says.

Levi looks at the jacket dangling from the brunette's hand. "What?"

"Wear it or you'll get soaked."

"I'll be fine."

"You're wearing a white shirt."

"So?"

"Do you want all the people in that store to see the metal in your nipples?"

Levi goes rigid at the realization. He takes the jacket. "Fine."

Eren pulls the hood on his hoodie up over his hair. "Ready?"

"Thank you," Levi says, zipping the jacket up.

Eren grins. "No problem."

"Let's go."

The two of them practically race up to the doors, wanting to stay as dry as possible. Of course their jeans were sticking to them by the time they got to the door anyway. "Alright," Eren says, pulling his hood back off. "Where do we start?"

"Get a cart," Levi says. "And meet me in the cereal aisle."

"Alright."

Levi walks down the aisle looking for which cereals he remembers seeing in Eren's cabinets; it's probably Eren's favorite food given how much of it is always lying around so Levi wants to make sure he picks the right ones.

Ah, there, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. What were the other ones? Eren sneaks up behind him with Honey Nut Cheerios and Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. Levi puts the box he was already holding in the cart.

"Hey, you remembered, that's my favorite."

Levi's cheeks go pink, trying to make it seem like he didn't actively try to memorize things like that. "I only noticed because you always have it in the house."

"Sure," Eren says with a grin.

Levi takes the cart. "If you eat granola or cereal bars picks them now while we're still in this aisle."

Eren picks up two boxes of Nutrigrain bars and leans over Levi to drop them in the cart.

He stays there, hands on either side of Levi's, chest to the smaller man's back, and resting his chin on the raven's shoulder. Levi makes a face. "Stop, people are gonna stare," Levi says quietly.

Eren shrugs. "So? It's not like anyone from school'll be here; we're playing hooky remember?"

"You should feel honored, by the way; it's a special, special day when my mom doesn't ask me where I'm going when I sleep out."

"Why should I feel honored? She doesn't even know we're together."

Levi frowns at that. "Sorry," he mutters.

Eren shrugs. "Don't worry about it. School's out on two months, right?"

"Right."

Eren kisses behind Levi's ear as they walk into the next aisle. A woman picking up peanut butter smiles at them and Levi blushes.

Levi leans over on the cart while Eren picks up a container of honey. A warm, butterfly feeling in his chest reminds that in two months, they can do things like this all the time.

His ears heat up when he realizes how much he can't wait.