A Lifetime Friendship (ErenxLevi)

Chapter 3: Gay Baby

Well, this fic is getting no reads! But I don't care! Early update, longer chapter, apologies for typos!
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"Hey, Levi?" Eren began, his voice small with hesitance. The two 11-yr-olds were at Levi's house, alone and cuddled up together on the couch. Levi's parents were gone out on a date, leaving the two boys to themselves, trusting them to be in each other's company without anything bad happening. They did this often, as well as being snuggled together under one blanket and lazily messing with each other's hands, examining each fingernail and knuckle as if it were a craft made from a glass maker, afraid that if handled too roughly would result in breakage.

"Yes, Eren?" Levi inquired, grey eyes meeting turquoise almost lazily, taking their sweet time to meet.

"Have you ever...um..." Eren's voice trailed, as if he wasn't sure how to word the situation, his cheeks flushing red in embarrassment. He tried to swallow down the thick lump in his throat, to no avail. Why was he even nervous about this? It was Levi, for goodness sakes, as if they didn't know everything about each other. And by that, he means everything that could be possibly known without actually being that person. He took a breath. "Has your... thing... ever felt weird before? Like..." His voice trailed again, biting his lip subconsciously while thinking how he should word this. "Has it ever gotten hard?"

Levi stared at Eren for a moment, his face as impassive as ever. "Do you mean getting a boner?" he deadpanned, his tone as even as his features.

"If that's what it's called, then yes."

Levi couldn't help the small scoff that escaped him. "Eren, it's normal to get a boner. It happens to all guys. It just means that we're growing up. You know, becoming adults."

Eren looked at him a moment, letting the information sink into his head and filing it away. "But, that doesn't really answer my question," he stated, eyes boring into Levi. "Have you ever gotten one?"

"Well, yeah, I mean, everyone does. A lot of the time it's from pictures of people or celebrities. It's completely normal," Levi explained, his voice quieting down to a murmur, a small hint of a blush making itself known on his cheeks.

"So, celebrities like Channing Tatum?"

Levi stared at Eren, silence taking over the two of them.

Eren became aware of the rising awkwardness in the atmosphere, beginning to involuntarily curl in on himself, trying to appear smaller that what he was.

"...Eren?" Levi looked at him, one eyebrow raised slightly in question. "Did you pop a boner from a picture of Channing Tatum?"

Eren quickly averted his gaze, cheeks flaring up once again in red. He shifted away from Levi slightly, his cheeks only getting darker the longer the two sat there. After several moments of silence, he gave a small, subtle nod.

Levi sighed, shaking his head in exasperation. "Eren, come back here, I'm not going to judge you. You know that." Without warning, he grabbed Eren's arm and pulled him close again, snuggling back into the familiar warmth that they both knew by heart. "Though, you're supposed to get boners from looking at girls and boobs, not guys."

Eren tensed, a shiver of worry riding down his spine. "You mean, guys aren't supposed to get boners over other guys?" His voice was timid, telling Levi exactly how he felt. Eren was always one who boasted his attitude, and not really caring what others thought, but he was always sensitive about what people called 'normal' these days. He just wanted to fit in, yet he was still counted as an outcast, really only having three friends, Levi being one of them.

Levi sat up, looking at Eren as an idea popped into his head. "I know what we can do." He shoved the fleece blanket off the two of them and stood, stretching his legs and arms before pulling Eren up as well. "My dad has pictures on his computer, which he doesn't know that we know about. That should help out."

Going down the hall into his father's study, he turned the computer on and immediately went to the pictures, opening a file that was titled, 'Private'. There resided dozens of pictures of both clothed women and topless women, each in some seductive pose.

Eren looked at each photo carefully, fear striking him in his gut more and more as each picture clicked by. He hit his lip again, harder this time, before shaking his head and turning away. "It's no use, Levi. Nothing's happening now." He paused a moment, seeing if maybe the next picture would prove anything, but it did nothing. "What if I'm broken?"

Levi exited from the pictures, closing out all the folders and files that were opened. He turned to Eren beside him, who looked like he was on the verge of tears. Instead of replying, he stayed quiet, opening up the Internet browser before typing in a few things to Google Images, pulling up various images of guys modeling clothing.

Eren's stomach practically dropped when his body almost immediately reacted. He shut his eyes, shaking his head as a single tear fell down his cheek. "Am I really broken?" His voice cracked with fearful sadness, beginning to shake lightly as he suppressed his tears and sobs.

Levi pulled him into a tight hug, forcing the brunet's head into the crook of his neck. "That's not true at all, Eren. You're not broken, don't think that." A small sniffle and wet tears on his shirt explained to the raven that Eren was crying, but still trying to hold back. "Hey, it's okay to cry, you know. It's just me here, you know I'm not going to judge you." A sob came from the other, hugging Levi tight, clutching his shirt in his hands. "Eren, you're my best friend, never hold back anything from me."

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"So what does this mean?" Eren asked Levi, sometime after the sob-fest.

"Um, I think it means that you're gay?" Levi wasn't quite sure, but considering Eren's reactions, it was the only solution. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're gay. But, like I said, that's nothing to be ashamed of, and I'm not going to think different of you. You're still my Eren, you aren't any different because you like guys instead of girls."

Eren nodded numbly, no words forming at his neutral mouth. He simply stayed silent, trying to let the new information leak in.

"Also," Levi continued, "I think it would be best to keep this between us for now. For all we know, it could just be a phase, so don't let it get to you."

Another nod from the quiet brunet.

Levi looked at him for several silent moments, before huffing a sigh. "C'mon," he stated, closing out of the browser and turning off the computer, "let's go watch TV in the living room. Hey, if we fall asleep before Mom and Dad get back, I bet you can stay the night."

Cheering up the slightest bit, Eren gave a small smile, nodding and following Levi back to the couch, where they curled up back under the blankets in the same position as earlier.

Needless to say, they were both asleep when Levi's parents returned home, and Eren did, in fact, stay with Levi that night.

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Hey again, all you people who are reading this (in my imagination)! Got an early update, or I guess an extra update! Oh well, no one has read this, so idgaf. Feedback appreciated!