Attack On Titan Fanfiction (Incomplete)

Chapter 20: Adopted Sister

When Levi came back to his and Eren's room, he didn't look at the younger boy. He just went straight to his bed and sat on it, pulling out his phone. It had been damaged by the water and had not turned on for a couple of days but had miraculously turned on a few days after the incident after it had had a chance to dry out properly. It was just slower and had a few water bubbles under the screen. The sound also sounded a bit dodgy but Levi didn't really care, he was grateful for what he had. Eren was still in bed but had been too embarrassed to go back to sleep. Levi got back at 5.30 and Eren was still awake and blushing brightly. He watched the dark haired male sitting on his bed from under the covers, trying not to be seen. Levi was covering his arms with his hoodie again. Eren wondered how many cuts were there now, and what made him do the recent ones... Was it remembering about his friends? No, he had done more before he'd told Eren about that because when that stupid man had grabbed his arm, he'd bled and cried out... Eren sighed quietly in his nest of duvet. Levi could feel Eren's eyes on him and shifted uncomfortably. He didn't speak to Eren until 7am. Eren hadn't slept, he had just watched his crush on his phone and working. He wondered why Levi had got up so early, he hadn't done much. Eren heaved himself out of bed, his eyes tired. Shivering in the cool air of the bedroom, Eren reached for his clothes before heading out to get showered. Just before he left, he cast a glance at Levi round the door but the ravenette ignored him. Eren hung his head in defeat and closed the door. When the door closed, Levi let out a quiet groan and flopped backwards on his bed (he had been sitting on the edge on his phone for a short while) and put his face in his hands. That was so awkward... Why had Eren said that, now Levi was thinking about him even more and they were both too embarrassed to talk to one another. A couple more slices of a blade met Levi's wrist that morning.

While in one of Eren's lectures that day, a piece of screwed up paper landed on his textbook and he looked up behind him at the row above him to where Armin was. The blonde pointed at the paper and Eren turned back round and took it off his book, holding it in his lap. He opened it up and read Armin's neat handwriting.

Have you got Mikasa a present yet?

Eren's heart stopped. Mikasa was joining the college today, wasn't she? Mikasa was his sister (well, he was adopted into her family) and she was the same age as him. She had been doing a course elsewhere so was starting late. Fuck. He'd forgotten. Eren quickly scrawled Armin a reply and tossed it over his shoulder. If he had done it a split second later, the lecturer would have seen. He huffed. That was close. Armin waited until their maths lecturer turned around again before quietly undoing the ball of paper. Eren's messy handwriting read:

I forgot that it was today, what time is she getting here?

The two kept passing notes back an forth whenever they got the chance. It turned out that Mikasa was turning up in about an hour and Eren had not got her anything to greet her. Connie, Armin and Sasha all had, but Eren, Mikasa's brother... Had not. Shit. He would have to rush to town after this lecture and grab her something fast. As soon as the bell rang, Eren was out of his seat in a flash and out of the room. He ran up to his bedroom and opened the door, he knew that Levi was still in there as he hadn't had a lecture yet. Eren was still puzzled at why Levi had got up so early, he didn't even go to the canteen all that often, he would go out into the town if he wanted food so there would be less people, the only reason Eren saw for him getting up early when he didn't have a lecture was for him to go to the gym - But there was no time to think about that now. He caught Levi by surprise and he looked up from his wrist when Eren entered, hurriedly, pulling his sleeve down and hissed as his fresh, bleeding cuts stung. Eren was too flustered to notice and chucked his bag on his bed, hurriedly grabbing his suitcase from under it, searching every pocket for money. "Dammit!" He growled in anger and ran a hand through his already messy hair, pushing the suitcase back where it had come from.