Glass Heart- Cinderella AU[Ereri/Riren]

~Chapter 8~

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I lead levi into the house and call Dina down the stairs. She groans and walks down the stairs grumpily untill she sees prince levi. Her eyes widen and she quickly looks her self up and down before making a quick dust of her clothes. I walk out of the room but levi grabs my arm.
"Stay" He says softly but firmly. I bite my lip again and nod. I hear more steps coming down the stairs and I see Jean. He smiles at me but then goes wide eyed when he sees prince levi grabbing my arm. I look at him pleadingly, he runs outside.

"P-Prince Levi! How may I be of service??"
"What is this young man's name?"

I flinch and Jean enters before he then walks up to me.
"Prince Levi I hate to interrupt but I need this boys assistance now, there has been an accident out in the garden with the allotments and I'm afraid if we don't get it fixed years of plants and gardening will be nothing more than compost" I look at Jean.
"Prince Levi could you excuse me for a moment. I'm sure Dina would fill you in on everything you need to know i will return once I have fixed the problem in the garden." I smile at him. His eyes soften for a moment and his grip on my arms go away. He nods staring at me as I walk off with Jean into the garden to see the allotments actually broken.
"Jean! Now I actually have to fix this!" He huffs and glares at me.
"Be happy that I saved your sorry ass!"
"Right right yeah your right thank you Jean!"
"I personally don't see why you are nervous"  turn to him while beginning to fix the allotments.
"What? Are you kidding me? He thinks eren is a girl! And he's in love with her!"
"Okay...? Well rumour has is prince levi is bi so would it really matter?"
"Well yes, I was a girl! How do I explain that?"
"Eren, he's the fucking prince, you can't tell me you don't like him because I know you do" I huff and continue fixing it. Jean helps me since he felt bad for smashing the thing up.
"Eren this could be your ticket out you know..."
"Why would you care, all I'm here to do is cook clean and be made a fool of" I say harshly but then feel bad because Jean has been nice to me the last few days.
"Eren you are like the brother I never had. Zeke is not my brother. He is the most cold hearted human I've ever met" He grits through his teeth.
"B-brother?" He sees me like a brother. He smiles.
"Yeah!" I smile widely and start fixing the shed up. I see Dina and levi walk out but I pretend they aren't there. Armin and mikasa fly over and sit on the shed. I grab a few seeds from my picket and feed them on my tip toes to reach.
"Eren what are you doing?!" I jump at the words and trip over my feet falling to the ground.
I see Dina glaring at me with levi watching in the backround. I gulp and see armin and mikasa  fly behind her. I stand up at dust my trousers down.
"I collect seeds from the market, they are free from a woman I met called Hanji, I swear I didn't steal them!" Levis head shoots at me with the mention of the name hanji and he walks up to me.

"Hanji? Hanji is in this village?" I smile again and  nod.
"She's by the-"
"Can you take me to see her?" I go red once again
"Or I could direct you in the way of-"
"No please I don't know this area very well" He takes a step forward. "I'd also like to talk about your 'sister' who your step mother seems to know nothing about?" He whispers. I feel heat rush to my cheeks before be lifts my chin and stares in my eyes softly. I take a few steps back and quickly walk over to the gate. Jean is smirking watching me and I glare at him earning a muffled laugh from the horseface.

I motion for levi to follow me and he follows me silently. "So, who are you"
"Do I need to answer such question? I am but a useless maid"
"If I ask you a question as the Prince of trost I have every authority to make you answer"
"Eren," I answer. He stops walking."Eren Jaegar" I answer fast before heading faster through the streets. He chases after me.
"Look, I need help, you know who I'm looking for correct?"  I bite the inside of my cheek and nod sheepishly. He grabs my arm.
"Great, now take me to hanji please" He smiles at me and I can't help but feel heat rush up my neck. I quickly turn around nodding.

He's not very quick is he? I'm sure I would have sussed this out by now. I'm thankful though.

"You look a lot like her, but you're a boy, not that I have anything against boys but eren was a girl" I let out a breath I didn't know i was holding and nod.
"Actually.... turn around" I curse under my breath and turn around politely. He takes my chin and examines my face.
"You look almost identical to her actually..." He takes my right hand and puts it on his left shoulder. He takes my right hand and holds it in his left.... this is how we stood when we danced at the party
"W-wait!" He looks at how I'm standing and raises an eyebrow suspiciously. I take my hand away and grab the cuff of his sleeves and take him to the market. I see all the stalls but spot a familiar brown haired woman sitting a bread stall. A yellow and blue bird flies infront of me and I put a hand out while he sits himself on my hand. When birds are around I just feel at peace.
"Hanji!" I wave and Hanji looks up smiling when she sees me. She looks at levi and her eyes widen.
"Levi!! It's been forever!!" She jumps up and hugs levi, who awkwardly pats her back. He looks at me kind of how I looked at Jean when levi showed up.
"Hanji I'll brought the birds again!" She snaps up and runs over to me.
"Armin! Hello!" Levi looks at me.
"Again...? But I thought you said the birds were only given to you last night when eren left the ball" Hanji looks at me wide eyed. I give her the same eyes and she awkwardly turns around to levi.
"Oh! He came around.... this morning! Yeah! He brought this little cutie!"
"You're lying, what am I missing??" How can he tell when people are lying.
"Hun, you aren't missing anything, it's plain as daylight but you're too slow to get it" I hit hanji on the shoulder. She gave 1 too many hints there. I don't want him to know!
She touches where I hit her and I growl slightly and levi huffs.
"Thank you eren you can go back home now i need to catch up with hanji, it's been too long. Thank you for the help on helping me locate the maiden from the ball" I nod slightly before picking up my legs and running back home. I see levi turn around and watch me go soon to talk back to hanji again.

That was too close.

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