✘ "You have a new match!" [Riren] [R-18] ✘

22: A ride and a ride

Eren's POV

The sun shone through a few gaps in the blinds of their dorm room. It was the Saturday morning, the day after Eren and Levi had talked on the phone and today Eren woke up feeling happy. Not only had they had a great talk (and great sex) over the phone last night, but Levi had by the end of the call also revealed that it was very likely that he would be able to come visit again this coming weekend, which would mean that he would get to see him again in less than a week.

He stretched out his limbs and turned around in the comfortable warmth of his bed. He smiled to himself from thinking of how Levi probably would have wanted to kick him up by now if he had been there with him, that impatient early rising bastard. Better enjoy the lie-in while I can, he thought and snuggled further down into his blankets.

However he soon realized that he was too wide awake now to get back into sleep, so instead of fruitlessly trying to stifle his thoughts he willingly let them travel through everything that had been said last night.

Hm, wait just a minute, he interrupted himself by thinking and sat up in the bed to look for Armin before he said something embarrassing out loud again that his friend wasn't meant to hear. The blonde bob sat in the far end of the room with his back facing him. He was reading something while wearing in-ear headphones.

Well that's good and all, but it still wasn't quite enough to make him relax yet - in fact, this very situation had embarrassed him badly once before: Armin sitting with his earphones, Eren believing that he couldn't hear him. Only to realize that he just had them in without actually listening to anything at that moment. What a trap! Like, who does that?

"Armin?" he said, half silently. No reaction... He tried once more, a little louder this time but still with no response. Phew, we're good, Eren thought and snuggled back into his bed smiling to himself.

He closed his eyes and let out another happy sigh as he again started to remember the night before. Unfortunately, the relaxed kind of happiness didn't stay very long. In fact, his expression was quickly replaced by a cringe as he suddenly started to remember how fucking emotional and also daring he had been. Fuck that cheap beer, ugh... Why Eren, why? He groaned and started flailing around in his bed, feeling both happy and embarrassed. After a while he finally calmed down and his thoughts shifted to the new information he had learned about the man.

Firstly, he never went to college? That kind of made sense to him, he had never been able to imagine Levi in college anyway. Secondly, he is the COO at a watch brand? And thirdly, he has 'quite the bunch' of employees under him.

...That's cool, not gonna lie, Eren thought, trying to not smile too broadly. He definitely didn't care about the position of a partner for the sake of power or money in itself, in fact, he would usually avoid people in such positions since they in his experience tended to be assholes. He stopped to snort at his own thoughts as he realized that Levi definitely would be classified as an asshole by most people. That's ironic. But anyway, while he didn't care very much about those kinds of things, he had to admit that it just suited Levi so well to be an authority career-wise as well, plus it made their relationship feel kind of forbidden somehow, forbidden in the exciting way.

Damn, he really was starting to sound like some racy late night novel for 55+ year old ladies. He definitely would have cringed at himself if it wasn't for that Levi in fact was so very real and he considered himself so fucking lucky that the situation wasn't even funny. A thought suddenly struck him and he hurried out of bed to go get his computer. Armin turned around in his chair upon noticing the movements in the corner of his eye and took out one of the earphone buds.