Attack On Titan Fanfiction (Incomplete)

Chapter 8: A Helping Hand

It was another day and Eren and Levi had been sharing for a short while now. The brunette glared at his page. His lecturer was speaking and Eren was completely confused. He looked at the complicated symbols on the paper, desperately trying to make sense of it. He had a computing exam next week and had no idea what he was doing. He was so confused by it. He sighed in aggravation as the bell rang sharply to signal the end of the lecture. His class started to pack up their things and exit the room. Armin looked down at his friend as he slung his bag over his back. He tilted his head and frowned at him. He walked down the stairs and stood beside him.

"Eren, are you ok? Come on, we've got a free period now, we're meeting Connie and the others by the gym."

"Yeah, yeah I know..." Eren grumbled and screwed up his sheet, shoving it into his bag without care. He moodily put his bag over his shoulder and waited for Armin to leave.

"What's up? Do you not understand the topic?" Armin asked quietly as he started to walk down the rest of the steps towards the door.

"Nope, not at all." Eren growled, his hands in the pockets of his jeans. He was fed up, Armin was good at everything. Why couldn't he understand it?

"I can help you later if you like." Armin offered kindly, looking up at his moody friend with soft blue eyes.

"No, it's fine." Eren grumbled through gritted teeth. If Armin helped him he would feel even more stupid and useless than he already did.

"Are you su-"
"Yes Armin, just leave it!" Eren snapped in frustration and Armin looked taken aback. He swallowed as Eren shouted but did as he was told and didn't mention it again.

Computing. Eren's worst and least favourite subject, why oh why had he chosen to take this bloody course! Eren scribbled out yet another page of notes and screwed it up, tossing it into the bin he had placed on the end of his bed. It was full to the brim of screwed up paper and crumpled torn pieces. Eren leaned back on his dark green pillows, his fist clutching the crinkled sheet of information he had been given for revision. Why couldn't he do it? Levi looked up from his laptop and glanced behind him from his place at the small desk. He watched Eren moodily glare at his paper. His hair was a dishevelled mess from where he'd run his hand through it numerous times in frustration and helplessness. He'd shared a room with the brat for 3 weeks now, so he knew how angry the boy could get, but he'd never seen him so panicked and stressed over one piece of work before before. Looking at the full bin, he twisted his lips to the side and furrowed his brow.

"Eren? What are you doing?"

"Nothing, I can't do it!" Eren snapped, screwing up his sheet and tossing it in the bin. It bounced out and landed on the floor. Levi looked down at it and then back up at Eren who was glaring darkly at his knees as he sat hunched with his arms folded. Eren huffed as he glared at his legs, he was completely useless. He was going to fail this exam and be a laughing stock. The brunette felt the bed move slightly and heard the crunching of paper. He frowned, looking up. Levi was sitting on the edge of Eren's bed, unravelling the tight ball Eren had screwed his sheet into. The male flattened it out and read it in silence as Eren watched.

"What don't you understand Jaeger?" Levi asked, turning to him once he'd finished.

"All of it! I don't get any of it, I have no idea what I'm doing!" Eren glared back at his knees, his eyes flashing. He knew that Levi took computing too. Not only did he know that Levi took computing, he also knew that he was exceptional at it. He was probably laughing at Eren's stupidity right now... 'What an idiot, this is simple shit.' He could imagine him saying that. Eren heard him shuffle closer and he avoided his eye moodily, not wanting to hear what he was going to say, knowing the next words out of his mouth were bound to be sarcastic or offensive. He turned out to be quite wrong.

"Let me help you then." Levi grumbled, watching Eren blankly. Eren looked up at him in shock. Help him? He'd never thought Levi was the type to offer help to anyone, although in all fairness he had been wrong about quite a number of things about him.

"W-what?" He stammered, looking up at him with a shocked, unsure frown. Levi crossed his right leg over his left as he sat on the edge of the bed.

"Come on, pass the pen. Hurry up brat, I have my own work to get back to." Eren fumbled about on the sheets, frantically looking for his biro. Levi glared at him impatiently until Eren held it out for him. He wiped it on the sheets before he clicked the pen and Eren watched him curiously.

Levi explained the topic thoroughly and Eren watched over his shoulder as he drew arrows and wrote key words on the sheet for him. He listened in silence for half an hour as Levi went through everything and wrote some revision notes out for him on paper. Levi explained it so much better than the lecturer did, and he was starting to get the hang of it.

"So... If I switched the code around, er, here, it would do the opposite?" Eren pointed at the writing on the sheet and Levi pointed to the line underneath, tapping it with the pen.

"Not quite, it would be there because otherwise the variable will do the wrong function." Levi said and Eren nodded in understanding.

"Levi..."

"What brat?" Levi sighed, writing down a couple of words.

"I think I understand it..." Eren practically whispered. He looked up from the paper and watched Levi with shining green eyes. Levi grunted in approval and met his eyes with his moody grey ones.

"Good." He handed Eren back the pen and sheet along with his new notes.

"Thank you so much... Seriously, I don't know how to thank you. I was so confused and the exam is next we-"

"Don't thank me brat, I didn't do anything special, I just wrote words..." Levi grumbled as he got off of the bed.

"But why? Why did you help me?" Eren asked quietly, frowning in confusion as he looked up at the handsome ravenette.

"You're my room-mate, that's what room-mates do Jaeger... And you were annoying me by making a noise, screwing up paper." Levi added, turning and going back to the desk.

"Well thank you Levi, I really appreciate it..." Eren breathed, looking down at his notes with wide eyes. It made sense. The topic actually made sense to him now. He lifted his head and looked at Levi's back, he was so mysterious. The more he thought about it, the more he realised that he knew practically nothing about him, Levi was so secretive and kept his reasons hidden. Eren appreciated it so much and he couldn't believe that Levi had actually come to help him. He hugged the notes to his chest, having to hold back from rushing to hug his crush. God he loved Levi, even if he was moody and shared little. He really fucking loved him...