A Day At A Time - EreRi

Chapter 7 - Last Resort

It was a month or so after their day of cuddling and having fun, and not much had changed between them expect growing farther apart possibly. After the first two weeks Jean and Eren had broken up because the beans were spilled on his moment with Levi and all that they had done; but really the only thing that upset him was that Eren didn't tell him sooner and waited a few weeks. Eren had grown upset that such a thing would happen and almost went off on Levi and blamed everything on him despite it being his fault for making the first move -- sure it was partially Levi's fault for not stopping him, but Eren was the one in a relationship. Levi had proceeded to start missing days at a time now, the first day his excuse was being sick, the second day was the same, the third was just in case. He didn't miss anymore until the next week, missing four and a half days since he tried to come one day but was sent home. The third week he managed three days, the fourth week he managed to only miss one day. It was now the fifth week and Eren hadn't heard anything from him since last friday, it being the second day of the week/Tuesday. Eren sighed as he walked through the hallway to his last class of the day, Levi being the only thoughts running through his head as he mostly stared at the ground but occasionally glanced up to make sure that he didn't run into anyone since that was a scenario he'd rather not be a part of. Pulling out his phone he kept checking his messages even though he knew there'd be nothing from Levi, he just wanted one response to know if he was okay. He didn't care if it was a hate letter at this point or a letter of confession, he just wanted a message. None of them were even read, not checked, nothing posted, completely empty. He couldn't understand what was happening, Levi had no excuses for the past weeks of no school except being sick or anxiety was one that was occasionally thrown around. He wondered how long it would be until people stopped believing the anxiety excuse, considering you can't use that for everything. Eren knew very well of Levi's anxiety, but he knew for a fact that Levi didn't let people know of his anxiety too often; at least not using it as an excuse to get out of school since he believed that people wouldn't listen or care; which he was kinda right in that sense. None of the teachers believed his anxiety excuse, small conversations between the teachers heard every now and then but they never said anything directly to the students; they knew something that nobody else knew and Eren was growing desperate to know. In three days it would be a week since Levi's last message and the last time Eren had seen him, and as little as that sounded he really didn't want think of such a thing. The fact that his best friend wasn't talking to him and that it was almost a week since they had talked, and even then they didn't talk that much due to everything that had happened between Jean and Eren and then Levi suddenly missing a shit ton of school. That's when something occurred to Eren; could it have been his fault that Levi started missing? That he seemingly was just skipping school because he was in a bad mood? He hadn't thought about it until now, but after Eren started blaming everything on Levi..well he had grown a lot more distant and stopped giving shits about anything or anyone around him. So there's potential that it could've been his fault, and just that thought made Eren want to try harder to figure out where he was and why he was gone.

Levi was so tired even after sleeping all day, laying against the bed and listening to the soft yet so annoying beeps. Looking around the empty room he sighed slightly, not daring to say anything even though, again, he was supposed to be working on his voice and speech. He now had regular therapy and speech therapy after what happened, and it was extremely annoying since it felt he never got any alone time anymore. Sure he knew why he was smothered, but you'd think that they'd have a little understanding and let him be alone every now and then. Lifting his head as he heard someone walked in he was hoping for someone that would actually keep him company, and it was Erwin. Sure it wasn't the worst possibility, and no one else knew he was here, but someone different for once wouldn't be too bad either. Sitting up a little and as much as he could manage he watched as Erwin came over with a bag of food that Levi was allowed to eat since the food here was shit. "I'll give you your devices by the end of the week depending on how well you're doing, okay?" He asks while watching him carefully, "They've hooked up an Apple TV for you so you can watch whatever you want, so you've got that. And I can even bring you something to let you play games, but I just can't let you get on social media right now." He explains as Levi only nodded slightly before looking ahead of himself, pale skin looking even whiter under the bright ass lights in the room. Erwin sighed as he scooted onto the edge of the chair a bit, "Levi are you uncomfortable?" He asks as Levi shook his head no, already knowing that he was going to ask him to speak. Looking towards him he furrowed his brows slightly, "I'm as comfortable as can be in this place." He mumbles while glaring slightly at the blonde male, leaning back against the pillow so he could sit up, Erwin only nodding slightly and glancing towards the tv. "I know, but you only have to be here until everything's better, then you can come back home." He says, Levi only nodding as he stared at the tv despite nothing interesting being on; only commercials at the moment. Until everything's better? He thought to himself, if they truly meant everything then I'd be here until they learned that I can't be fixed.