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Vocal Training

Levi's POV

His voice was so much better in real life than it was through the speakers of my phone from a YouTube video. It was angelic, magnetizing, entrancing. I couldn't even describe it.

"Well?" Eren said, eyebrows raising in expectation. It was beautiful, heart wrenching and relatively sexy, but I wasn't going to tell him that.

"Well, usually artists suck without auto tuning, but hey kid, you're a natural" I said without letting anything on my face slip. He grinned, a bright and beautiful smile that lit up the darkened room. Thinking of which...

"Eren, why are the blinds closed?" I asked simply. He became slightly more fidgety and sat o the edge of the large oak desk.

"Not really a fan of the sun" He said quietly, for some reason it seemed like a touchy subject, so I let it slide.

"C'mon brat, we have vocal training to do soon" I said walking towards the door. I heard him get up and follow behind me. I was told by Erwin that vocal training and recording studios were on the fourth floor, so that was where we were headed now.

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This floor had the same layout as floor eleven but was much more full with the activity of other people, whereas upstairs the main receptionists area was dejected and empty, this one was full of phones ringing and the sounds of fingers on keyboards. I walked up to the receptionist.

"Hey uh," I read her name tag. "Petra" Her ginger blond head perked up from where it was glaring at something scribbled on a sticky note.

"Oh, hey, hello how may I help you?" She said with what I think would be described as a flirtatious undertone.

"I am looking for where I can find vocal training for Eren Jaeger" Petra's eyes glanced beside me for the first time since arriving. Her amber eyes widened in surprise.

"You must be Eren Jaeger" She said while standing up and reaching across her desk. Erens hand shook hers and than they both retreated to their original positions. Than Petra told us where to go and off we went.

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The room we had entered into consisted of a mic stand, a shelf full of records and a CD player. Though the CDs were all instrumental so that whoever was working could sing along without getting distracted by the original voice. There was also a wall that had different instruments mounted along it. I could see three different types of guitars, acoustic,a bass guitar, and electric, complete with amps. A ukulele, two different sized violins, and a drum set in the corner. Eren made a beeline for the acoustic guitars, he picked up a light brown one with a black leather strap and slung it over his narrow shoulders. He strung a few chords and then looked at me with his beautiful blue/green eyes.

"Do you sing Levi?" Im sure my eyes widened a bit in shock. Nobody has ever asked me that, even though singing and playing instruments was my passion, I preferred staying out of the spotlight. Though something about Eren made me feel comfortable, though I didn't think I could sing as good as him so I just decided to let him believe I couldn't at all. I walked over to the wall and pulled off the wooden violin. Erens eyes widened.

"Are you going to sing?" Eren asked with curiosity. I glanced over at him with a mischievous smirk.

"No, but you are free to sing along" I brought the violin up to my chin and raised the bow. I placed it on the string and started playing the first few notes of 'Radioactive'. I than heard Eren join in with his melodious voice. I smiled at how good we sounded, to bad we weren't recording, actually we were here for the point of vocal training and I don't think this counted. I lowered my bow and Eren stopped singing along and drumming on his knees when he noticed that I had stopped.

"Levi?" I looked over at him with a half grin on my face.

"We are here for vocal training, and that is what we are going to do" I walked over to the mic and handed it to him.

"C'mon, give me an F" His voice flowed through the room.

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I looked at my watch, 1:39, and we still hadn't eaten anything.

"Eren, C'mon, lets go get some lunch" He smiled and began to get up before a brief flash of realization crossed his face and he sat back down. He looked away.

"Not hungry" He said quietly. I walked over and grabbed his arm and pulled him up. I than proceeded to drag him out of the room and into the main plaza where I asked Petra where we could get some food. She said floor nine was where all the food was so that's where we went, Eren grumbling about how he wouldn't eat anything.

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Petra was right, there was definitely food here.

The floor had a completely different layout than the others, it was more open concept. It had a dining area, a large buffet and a huge kitchen, people bustled all around us with food stacked high on their plates.

I walked over to the food bar and loaded up a plate and got a hot cup of tea. I noticed that Eren had moved to sit in the darkest part of the room to sit. I walked over to him.

"You sure you don't want anything?" I said after his stomach growled, at which he flinched.

"Yes" he said through gritted teeth, as though he was angry at me. I took the hint to stop talking to him, and bent over to eat my meal. I took a quick glance up. He looked so uncomfortable, he was even paler than he was this morning, his jaw muscles were tight with tension, and his knuckles were white from clenching his fists. I threw my glance back downwards, he must not be feeling good. I heard a faint groan and a chair squeak. I looked up.

Eren was gone.

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