Fall (Ereri)

Chapter 1

     I lazily opened my eyes to be greeted by morning sunshine that lit up my room. "Eren! breakfast!" My mother yelled from the kitchen. I sat up and stretched, it was shortly followed by a deep yawn. I slowly got out of my bed, then made my way to the kitchen and sat down at the table. I looked up and saw my mom smiling down at me as she set down a plate of food. "Goodmoring, kiddo! I made pancakes because you're father and I will be leaving to the airport soon and I know you love them! "

I thanked her before I started stuffing my face with the most delicious pancakes ever. I looked up again to see my adopted sister, Mikasa sitting down and staring at me. "Eren, eat politely."

I apologized for my messy eating. Mikasa kept an eye on me, making sure I wasn't eating like a slob with my mother around. My parents adopted Mikasa when she was about ten her because her parents got brutally murdered and our father's were close friends, so my father took her in. Mikasa scared me sometimes, she was an incredible athlete, and extremely overprotective of me. I never understood why she was so overprotective of me, but I liked having her beat up all my bullies.

"Glad to see your finally up, Eren."

I looked over my shoulder to see my dad crossing him arms and shaking his head. I sighed, he never truly understood the beauty of sleep. With such a commanding career as a doctor he was always under alot of stress, which led to little or no sleep at all. I did feel bad for him, but on a second thought, I hated him. He never had enough time for his family, he was never here, and to be honest I don't think he even cared about us. He was all work.

"Eren, Mikasa, it's 9:45, our flight leaves soon, so we'll be going now."

Mikasa and I got up and walked over to my parents waiting at the front door. Mikasa hugged both parents while I just hugged my mom.

"You two kids better behave, we'll be back in three days, not any longer. and no parties. " My mom said as she let go of me and laughed a little. "I won't, Mom, I promise."

She laughed a little more, "Eren dear, I'm not worried about you, only people you hang out with is Armin and Connie, occasionally Sasha. Mikasa's last party ended up bringing all the seniors in our house, that was 'fun' cleaning up."

Mikasa and I laughed, Mikasa wouldn't bring to many seniors into the house anymore because she graduated last year.

My mom picked up her stuff and headed out the door with a faint 'bye bye,be good', my father followed and closed the door behind him without saying anything.

Mikasa stretched out and yawned, "That was a fun party, though, oh, and, Eren, before I forget, Annie will be here to pick me up in half an hour, you okay staying here by yourself?"

I yawned and nodded.

half an hour later

-DING-

The doorbell rang, I got up off the couch to answer it, but Mikasa got there before me. "Hey, Annie!" I smiled politely. She awkwardly replied with a quiet hey."Alright, Eren, see ya in a couple hours or so. Remember call me if you need anything." Mikasa said happily as she shut the door in my face before I could reply.I sighed,"Will do." as I half assed attempted to wave goodbye.

About 10 minutes later I found myself sitting on the couch flipping through T.v. channels. I thought to myself 'why don't I call Armin and see if he's up to play some FIFA, just for gits and shiggles'.So that's what I did. I dialed his number and waited patiently for him to pick up his home phone. By the 3rd ring, I heard a click as it was picked up on the other end. An old, rusty voice answered; Armin's grandfather.

"Hello?"

"Hey is Armin here?"

"No sorry. This is his grandfather, Armin is helping clean up the debris of the car crash"

My stomach twisted a little, Armin's house was on the way to the airport. But I doubted that my parents would be in a crash, my dad was a pretty safe driver.

"Car crash? When did it happen? "

"About 20 minutes ago, it was pretty bad I hear."

"Oh, that's not good.. are the people who were driving okay?"

"Well they know for sure that the male driver died instantly, and a female was sent to the hospital in critical condition. They said that if the women survive this that'll she'll be paralyzed waist down for the rest of her life."

"Oh.. that's terrible. . well anyways tell Ar that I called"

"I will, goodbye, Eren"

"Bye, Mr.Arlert"

I hung the phone up, only to have it ringing again. I picked it up and casually said hello. On the other end was Mikasa sounding frantic and out of breath.

"Eren!..."

"Mikasa! What's wrong?!"

My heart started pounding. You could hear her voice on the other end choking back tears as she struggled for words.

"Come to the hospital by our house now!"

I dropped the phone to the ground and watched it shatter in shock. It was them. I desperately hurried to tie my shoes and get there as soon as possible. I ran out of the house, forgetting to lock the door, but at this point I was drowning in too much anxiety to care. I ran three blocks till I reached the hospital that was closest to my house, out of breath and continued to run through the emergency entrance. Mikasa was crying and Annie was holding her. I felt my lungs about to explode, on top of that my heart was slowly being ripped apart. I could this happen? Out of all people, why her? I didn't care about my father, my feeling for him stung, but not for long. Mikasa looked up at me, shaking, and eyes swollen from tears. She shook her head as she buried he face in her hands.

"Eren.....she's"

Mikasa got cut off by her own sobs.I felt tears running down my face and whole body beginning to tremble.

She took a couple sharp breaths. Before screaming "Gone!!!! Eren. She's gone!!"

I walked up to her slowly before falling to my knees and wrapping my arms around her. I felt Annie's hand gently rubbing my back in an effort to comfort me. All I could think about was the fact that I had just lost someone so close, so loved, and yet so distant. I never listened to my mother, I felt rebellious, but now I regret it. I hated myself so much at this moment. Mikasa lifted my face up and stared into my eyes before wrapping her arms around me in a tight hug.