Nicotine (Eremin)

Chapter 1

(A/N: This fic is dedicated to my internet friend Olivia. I don't really ship Eremin all that much, but it's her OTP and I knew I was going to write one for her eventually, so here goes!)

January

Chapter 1

Eren's POV

        I always thought Armin's eyes were his best physical quality. They were bright blue, and really pretty. 

        They were inches away from mine. 

        At least on my laptop screen they were. In reality, they were over a thousand miles away.  

        Armin and I met on a website called 'Tumblr' when we were thirteen. Since then we texted, skyped, basically did anything that was close to actual interaction.

        I lived in California and he lived in New York. And I have never felt a worse pain than living so far away from my best friend. I was skyping with him now, and we were trying to watch a movie. 

        Trying being the key word. We would try to start the same movie at the same time on our two different tv's, but it was always a few seconds off. We usually ended up watching on our laptops with headphones. Plus we would finish at about the same time, so it worked out. 

        Armin yawned. "Hey Eren?" he asked, groggily. I paused my movie. We were watching the sixth Harry Potter movie. Armin's favorite. Mine was the third. 

        "Yeah?" I pushed a brown lock of hair away from my face. 

        "I think I'm gonna turn in. It's almost 3 a.m here. As much as I love talking to you, I gotta sleep sometime." he said, pulling his blonde hair back into a small ponytail. He looked years older with his hair pulled back. 

        "Okay. Goodnight, Ar." I said. He smiled and I closed our video chat. 

        We've been friends for close to five years now. I can't even remember the details of how we met, I'm just glad we did. 

        We were both pretty much outcasts. My only friend being my sister, and he told me about his friends, Marco and Jean, but they got together and he felt like a third wheel. 

        Basically, I'd pack my crap and move to New York right now, but my senior year is almost over and I want to go to college. 

        Armin and I applied to all the same colleges. He was accepted into University of Southern California. He applied in his Junior year, so I still had to wait and see. 

        He cried so hard when he got accepted. The University was still hours from where I lived, but I would get to finally meet Armin. We already had plans for me to pick him up at the airport. 

        I was going to ask my dad if he could come out to California sooner and stay with us, but I don't think he'd be down with the idea. 

        I pushed my laptop off my knees and rolled out of my bed. Mikasa's room was across the hall from mine, and the light was still illuminating from under the door. I knocked four times. 

        Mikasa answered wearing pajama shorts and one of her mom's t-shirts. When we were nine, she used to tell me her mom was a superhero who flew up to heaven. 

        "What?" she asked? 

        "So, you know how Armin is going to college in California?" she was the only person I've told about Armin. 

        "Yeah. What about it?"

        "Well, he is coming out here anyways and I thought maybe we could ask dad if he could come out to California earlier and stay here. He could sleep in my room and-" Mikasa yanked the door open. 

        "Eren, I understand how close you are to Armin, but I'm tired, and it's not my fault you're gay for your internet bestie. Goodnight." she shoved me out of the room and slammed the door behind me. 

        "I'm not gay for Armin. He's just a close friend, nothing more." I thought, storming back to my room. 

        "But, he does have those pretty blue eyes..."

        "Oh my god, I'm gay for Armin."