A Broken Act

Act XIII

I didn't know what to do. All I could do was to stare at him as he sat comfortably on the couch, my couch, talking with Izzy as if they had been the best of fucking friends. Farlan was standing beside me, his eyes also set on the pair talking happily on the couch, Isabel more so than Eren.

"So, do you know who that person is?" I didn't even have to look at Farlan to know the suspicion on his face. His voice gave it all. I nodded at him in response, letting out a barely audible 'yeah' before Isabel saw us, her teal eyes bright and a wide grin fixed on her face. She stood up the moment she saw us, catching her company's attention, causing him to look back and landing his gaze upon us.

"Levi! You're home!" Isabel's enthusiastically greeted us. "Eren came here searching for you earlier. He told us that he was working with you so we let him in!"

Farlan bent down a little until his lips were close to my ear. "It's not we, she let him in without asking for my decision."

"Hey, Farlan! What did you tell him?" Isabel shoot Farlan an accusing look.

Farlan shook his head and said nothing more. Shifting my gaze between Eren and Isabel, my eyes met with Eren for a minute before I directed my eyes on Isabel.

"Isabel, will you bring this to the kitchen? I have to talk to him."

"I want to talk to him more. He's funny." 

I glared at her. She pouted at first before she made her way to me, grabbing the paper bags that I held in my arms before she went to the kitchen, Farlan following after her, but not after giving Eren a look. When the two were out of sight and earshot, I turned my head to look at Eren who's blatantly looking at me.

"What are you doing here?"

He didn't answer me. He just kept on staring, which made me huff an annoyed sigh before fixing a glare at him. "I'm asking you a question. What the fuck are you doing here, Yeager?"

"You didn't tell them who I was? You didn't tell them about us?"

The question caught me off guard. I couldn't believe my ears. Was he out of his fucking mind? I couldn't believe how incredulously foolish he thinks.

A scoff made its way out of my lips and I shook my head in disbelief. "You're really asking me that? Why didn't I tell them about you, about us, huh? Let me think first." I stopped talking for a few seconds, looking at him straight in the eye. One thing popped up in my mind as I stared at his eyes--no matter how fucking beautiful those eyes were, they belonged to a cheater. And that fact alone ruins it all.

I snapped my fingers, acting as if I finally got an answer to his questions. "Why, you ask. Maybe it's because you're not someone that I would spend my time talking about, considering how fucking shitty the thing you did to me was. I also think that what I said answered your second question." I walked closer to him, looking at the direction of the kitchen to make sure that Izzy and Farlan weren't close before looking at him again. There were only a few inches separating us two. "Did you really think I would spend my time gushing about you to them? If yes, then you're fucking wrong. I left whatever shit we were and everything we had before when I went away. Talking about you with them would be nothing but a goddamn waste of time."

Stepping away from him, I crossed my arms and gave him an annoyed look. "Now tell me why the fuck you're here."

Eren, who never removed his eyes on me, finally gave me the right answer. "I told you earlier, I was worried when you didn't went to the shooting today so I went to ask Erwin about your absence. Erwin said that you weren't feeling well and I had a feeling that it was about what happened yesterday. I decided to give you a visit."