Protection *Ereri*

Chapter 8

         The rest of the night, considering, went by without any problems. Of course there was a couple sarcastic comments from the both of them to each other occasionally, but it wasn't as bad as it had been before when they were shopping and eating. Now, Eren was sitting on the couch, his head resting against the armrest with his feet tucked up under the blanket that covered him while Levi tidied up the place a little bit. In all honesty, Eren wasn't paying too much attention to whatever show it was playing on the television. He was more focused on his tablet with the game that he was playing.

Ironically, while most people would get mad for the other person not helping them clean up or anything, Levi was actually pretty thankful. It meant that he didn't have to worry about Eren coming over and ruining anything that he had just finished up doing. Call him rude or whatever you want to call him, it's not like Eren cared about not helping out, anyways.

Eren glanced over to the time after he had ran out of lives on his game and noticed that it was pretty later, getting closer to 11:30. He then looked over to Levi and stood up as he shut the TV off. "You are way past you're bedtime, you know." He said to him.

Levi looked over to the clock as well and grunted a little bit. "I didn't even fucking notice, great. Now my sleeping schedule is all fucked up." He mumbled to himself. Eren let out a small yawn and waved his hand around a little bit at him.

"Yeah, that's nice. Anyways, I think I'm going to head to bed now, so maybe you should, too." He said to Levi. Levi nodded his head a little bit as he finished up what he was doing and put everything away, of course, neatly.

"I'm going to." He said to him and looked at Eren.

Eren looked back at him momentarily before nodding his head and turning, making his way down the hallway and towards his room. Levi walked along behind him and headed over to the room that was his. He turned to Eren before he headed in and looked at him. "Goodnight, brat." He said to him and before he even had a chance to turn around to respond him, Levi had disappeared into them room, the door shutting behind him. Eren shook his head a little bit, amused as he headed into his own room and shut the door as well. He started to strip out of his clothes so he could put on his pajamas and once he had done that, he walked over to the bed and laid down on it.

He stared up at the ceiling for a little bit, the light from the mooning shining in. As he laid there, he couldn't help but to think about everything that had happened over the last couple of days. About the fact that he now had to have a bodyguard just to keep him safe from his psychotic ex. What kind of a fucked up world were they living in?

Shaking his head a little bit to himself, he rolled over onto his side and grabbed his blanket, pulling it up and over his shoulder. Despite it being quite warm out that night, he had to have the blanket on him. What if some monster tried to grab his foot? Or worse, what if that desperate horse face broke in? Either way, he was not taking a chance. It was better to be safe than sorry.



When the next morning came around, Eren did not want to get up. However, the sound of the vacuum running was enough to drive him insane despite his futile attempts to cover his ears with his blanket, pillows, and his own bare hands.

After a while, Eren quickly shot up in the bed and looked over to his door. It was closed, so he obviously couldn't see Levi through it, but that didn't stop him from glaring at the door as if holes would melt through it and he would magically be able to see Levi through it.

Tearing the blankets off of himself as fast as he could and getting out of the bed, he stormed over to the door and opened it to find Levi standing in the living room, vacuuming the carpet as and not caring about anything else. It was almost as if he didn't realize that he was disturbing some people (Eren) from their beauty sleep. Eren quickly went over to where the cord was plugged into the wall and unplugged it, the apartment now going quiet.

Levi rose an eyebrow in confusion as he looked down at the vacuum that had just out of the blue stopped working. He turned around to find the source of the problem when his eyes landed on it: Eren.

"Brat, what the hell? I'm trying to clean." Levi grunted, leaning against the vacuum as he narrowed his eyes at the younger boy.

"And I was trying to sleep, but that got disrupted as well! Why in the hell are you cleaning so early in the morning!" Eren shouted at him. Well, it wasn't exactly a shout, just a louder than usual talking voice.

"Early?! It's almost 1 in the afternoon! You've slept through nearly half of the day!" Levi said back to him, glaring slightly. Eren stopped yelling for a moment and looked over to the clock to see that Levi was indeed correct. 12:49PM shown in bright blue on the clock.

"Well, holy damn." Eren said, crossing his arms over his chest and putting all of his weight onto his left foot.

"Yeah, you fucking brat. Now put the plug back into the wall and then get ready to join the fucking rest of the world." Levi demanded. Grumbling, Eren bent down and plugged the cord back into the wall before retreating back to his room again. He walked in and shut the door behind him, looking over to the clock that was in there as well. Once again, numbers flashed on there that stated it was no longer morning, but rather the afternoon.

"I still say he changed the clocks." Eren mumbled to himself as he went over to his closet and opened the door. He searched through it, trying to find an outfit that would be good for the rest of the day. Luckily for him, he didn't have to work that day, so it wasn't like he was late or anything.

Once he had picked a pair of pants and a shirt that seemed good enough for the day, he headed out of the bedroom and to the bathroom where he quickly washed up before going back to the living room. By the time he did return back, Levi had finished vacuuming the carpet and was now dusting the stands that were in the living room. When he heard Eren walking in, he glanced over to him for a split second. "When was the last time you truly cleaned this place?" He asked him, shaking his head as he looked back at what he was doing.

Eren shrugged a little bit and headed into the kitchen. "I don't know, probably sense when I moved in here a couple years ago. Occasionally I pick everything up and vacuuming or mop, but that's about it." He said as he found some left over food from the night before and warmed it up.

"That explains a lot." Levi said, stepping back from what he was doing and turning to Eren. "So, what are your plans for today?" He asked him.

"I was thinking going out to the park or something being I don't have work today." He said, looking over to Levi. Levi wrinkled his noise at the mention of that.

"You mean dirt. Going to where a bunch of dirt." He corrected Eren, who rolled his eyes at him.

"It's nature, Levi. There's nothing wrong with it. If you're that worried about dirt, I don't recommend going outside anytime because you'll be in for a rude awakening." Eren teased him playfully.

Levi rolled his eyes. "Shut up, brat. The park just seems like an odd place to go being you're grown and not a kid."

"There are many things that teens can do at the park." Eren defended.

"Oh? Like what? Smoke? Deal and do drugs there? Have sex in the bushes where no one can see them?" Levi said sarcastically. Eren grabbed his food when it was warmed up and set it on the counter, looking at Levi.

"I mean, you're technically not wrong, but I was thinking more like swinging on the swings." Eren said before taking a bite of his food.

Levi blinked as he stared at him. "That sounds completely childish." He stated.

"And that is the point." Eren said, laughing a little bit as he shook his head and took some bites from his food.

"I don't get why we don't go there and do what the adults do, go for a run or something. That sounds much better and healthier rather than just sitting there on your ass when you can do that at home." Levi said.

"But when you swing, you work your leg muscles being you have to pump them back and forth." Eren chuckled.

"Still not as much of an exercise as running is." Levi said, shaking his head a little bit at Eren.

"Fine, how about we make a deal? We go to the park and I'll head over to the swings to work my leg muscles while you go for a jog around or something. Sound good enough to you?" Eren suggested as he finished up his breakfast and put the dirty plate away into the sink.

Levi kept his eyes on him the whole time as he nodded his head. "Alright, sounds like a plan. You better be planning on washing that, though. I'll kick your ass if you don't." He said. Eren tipped his head back and groaned loudly.

"Yes, sir." He said, getting to work on washing the plate.