"I'm heading off to Armin's! I'll be back before dinner starts!" Eren shouted before shutting the door and hurrying down the stairs that led to the sidewalk. Lately he's been "going to Armin's" a lot, which really means going to Levi's house.
He's been telling this lie for the past weeks and is afraid that his parents or Mikasa might see right threw his lies and find out about him and Levi.
But it was worth lying as long as he got to see his boyfriends gorgeous face.
It didn't take him long to get to Levi's apartment since he only lived about 15 minutes away. Eren's usual walking pace always increased from his unhurried walk to walking like his was being chased by zombies.
The more time he got to be with his boyfriend, the better.
A second after Eren knocked, the brown wooden, chipped door swung open, revealing the 5'3 man, glasses sitting on the top of his nose and wearing black sweats with a long sleeved shirt with a picture of a kittens face plastered on the front.
Eren's eyes averted from Levi's face to his kitten shirt and he slapped his hand over his mouth, trying to muffle his laughter from escaping his mouth at the middle aged man wearing a kitten shirt.
"What?" Levi said, crossing his arms. "It was on sale!" He defended himself, which only resulted Eren's laughter to increase. "Just get in here you shitty brat."
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Carla dialed the Arlert's home phone "Hello?" Armin's voice called into the phone. "Armin! How are you doing?" She asked
"Can you put Eren on the phone?" She asked "Eren?" Armin questioned "He said he was going to your house, he says he has for the past few weeks." Carla returned in concern. Was her own child lying to her?
'Eren's been lying?' Armin thought. 'I wonder why.'
"Oh yes, I forgot! He fell asleep on the couch." Armin lied. 'Oh god, what am I doing. This is bad, very bad. What if this goes on my record. I won't get into college. I'll have to work at McDonalds. I'll be arrested cause I'll get caught stealing French fries because I can't afford food. I'll end up changing my name and selling illegal air fresheners for a living.' Armin thought. "Do you want to leave a message for him?"
"Ah yes, thank you Armin! I was going to tell him to come back and get his phone cause I don't want him to walk later out at night without a phone."
"I can come get it!" Armin added, hoping if he said this, it would be more convicable that Eren was there at his house.
Armin hung up after telling Carla that it was fine and he had nothing to do while Eren was "asleep on the couch."
He quickly went to the Jaegers household and picked up Eren's phone from his mother and walked out of the house, a little away and out of site and sat on a nearby bench. He had decided he would question Eren why he was lying when Eren came back home.
He started at the silver phone in his grasp which had scratches all over from being careless with it. Curiosity was sneaking up on him. He wanted to look through the phone. He knew he shouldn't be doing this but curiosity got the best of him and he pressed the button on the side of the phone, which lit up the screen and displayed a selfie of Eren, hand's in peace sign formation and a random dog that he's never seen in his life. He swiped the lock screen to the right and he was inside, no password that he needed to figure out.
He opened Eren's messages first and clicked on the first one which displayed the name "Levi." Who was Levi? He looked at the last message that was sent over less than an hour ago. "I'll be over in a few!" Was the last message Eren sent and this Levi guy sent back "Hurry brat."
He looked at the text styling of Levi, and it seemed familiar, he just couldn't put his finger on it. He exited out of the messages and went to his gallery. He clicked on the first picture which was a picture of the sunset. He scrolled through the pictures, most of them including nature in them.
His finger stopped scrolling when he landed on a picture, his eyes widened. 'No way, no way, no way, no way.' He kept repeating to himself. The screen displayed Eren, lips locked with Mr.Heichou.
"Armin!" Eren called as he saw the blue eyed boy sitting on the bench looking shocked. Being lost in his own thoughts, Armin didn't even hear Eren. Eren walked over to Armin, following his gaze which led to Eren's phone and the picture he took of him and Levi.
Eren's expression matched Armins and snatched his phone out of Armin's grasp. "Why are you looking through my phone?!" Eren shouted.
"Why were you kissing Mr.H-" "Shut up!" Eren shouted, fearing someone would hear even though there was no one around to hear them talking. "Why?!" Armin shouted, surprising Eren. "Why are you getting me in this and lying?!"
"I-I.." Eren stuttered. "I'm sorry. Just please don't tell anyone!"
Armin sighed "Fine. But why didn't you tell me?" "Well Levi being a teacher and all, it would be bad if i-"
"No, about you being gay?" Armin cut off Eren mid sentence.
"I know... I just thought... That you would treat me differently if you knew." Eren mumbled.
Armin sighed "you of all people should know that I wouldn't care."
Eren didn't have anything to say to that. "I'm leaving." And just like that, Armin left. He felt betrayed. That his own friend couldn't even trust him.
Eren climbed up the stairs to his house, fishing out his key to the house and opened the door.
But there stood a scene he never wanted to see.
His Dad slapping him mom.
NEW CHAPTER! Thank you to emmelinn, bhillier, TaBird, hetaliasherlock778, InsomniaNightTerror, jamjelly12th, Caged_Nightmares for the idea of someone finding out! And katiebug2002 for the parents fighting idea! Sorry if I left out anyone who pitched in ideas similar to these! Just tell me and i'll include you in the next chapter!
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