False Pretense [EreRi/RiRen AU]

Chapter 3: Moment Ruined

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The next day, I woke up to the smell of pancakes and tea. Wanting to know where the smell came from, I opened my eyes and sat up, rubbing my eyes to remove my sleepiness before looking around. Confusion took over my groggy mind when I saw two plates filled with fluffy and delicious smelling pancakes and two cups on my study table.

Who the fuck did that?

My question was answered when the door of my room opened, a guy with a shaggy chocolate brown hair and amber eyes entered. A smile blossomed on his face when he saw me, lighting up my dark and cold room.

"Good morning, Levi."

"Good morning." I stretched and yawned, my yawn stopping midway when I realized that he's in my room. How the hell did he got here inside my fucking room?

"Oi, Rein."

He stopped doing whatever the fuck he's doing on my study table to look at me.

"What?"

"Don't you "what" me, brat. How the fuck did you get in? As far as I can fucking remember, I locked the goddamn door last night."

He chuckled and gave me an unsure smile, looking everywhere but me. "I may or may not use a hair pin to unlock your door."

"You what?" I looked at him with wide eyes in surprise before slowly narrowing my eyes at him. "You entered my fucking house using a damn hair pin?"

He visibly swallowed, shifting uncomfortably on his feet. "I may or may not."

I rolled my eyes in amusement, getting off of my bed and walking towards him. His body became tense when I raised my hand and he threw both of his hands up in defense.

"Sorry, Levi! I'm not going to do it again! Please don't hit me!"

"Who said that I'm going to hit you?" My voice came out sounding amused, making him relax and set both of his hand down. I tiptoed to reach his head—this brat is so fucking tall I don't know how he did that—and ruffled his hair. "You're as childish as Eren before. What did he fucking do to you?"

He laughed and rolled his eyes, bumping me in the shoulder lightly. His laugh is something I missed the most, loud and carefree, making the butterflies in my stomach which was dead before flutter crazily inside. "Shut up and let's just eat."

He gave me a plate of pancakes, the one which is only topped with a bit of butter while he took the one which is overflowing with syrup. I grimaced, thinking of how Rein's going to eat something that's that sweet and sticky. I heard him chuckled so I looked up from his plate to see his face, seeing him with an amused look on his face before he replaced it with an offended look when he saw me staring.

"Don't look at my pancakes like that, Levi. Syrup is like, ambrosia for normal people."

"I fucking doubt that. If syrup is like ambrosia, the gods and goddesses should have fucking diabetes."

Responding with another laugh, we both sat on the couch that I have in my room with the plates on our laps. He also took took the tray which held our cups, mine is tea while his is coffee, and we soaked in a comfortable silence as we eat.

"This is good."

He looked at me with a wide and proud grin, showing off his perfect white and straight teeth. "Thanks. Mom taught me how to cook."

"Carla? Then it isn't surprising." We continued to eat and engaged ourselves in idle chats, asking things about what happened in the past years. From what I heard, he is still as intelligent as before, having himself a girlfriend who cheated on him and other stuffs. Eren is still the troublemaker that he is but he also excel in school despite the fights that he's been in.