Fall (Ereri)

Chapter 2

        

  I sat there feeling lifeless, letting the numbness consume me. It's been a month now, lots of things have happened since then. I graduated, and I even got accepted into Columbia University in Manhattan, mainly because during school I excelled in anything that had to do with art, as for the rest of my classes I nearly failed them all.

"Eren"

Mikasa caught my attention. I looked up at her, then back down to my tea that I had just made.

"It's been a month now"

I looked up at her again. "And?"

She sighed, "Dad told me..." She paused

"If he and mom were to ever die, that we were supposed to sell the house and split the money so we can go to university and start our lives."

I wasn't surprised, my father was always looking for successful children, even if it cost a fortune. I let out a sigh,"How quick do you think we can sell this.. and how much?"

She looked a bit puzzled," dad said with a nice house like this it'll easily sell for over 700k.... and it'll sell quickly, I called the real estate agencies this morning, they'll be sending someone over here tomorrow at noon"

I was astonished, I never knew that this house that I have been living in my whole life was worth that much. I was also a bit caught off that Mikasa would call someone without telling me first.

"It would give us approximately $350,000 each, plus some extra if we're to sell some things, in which we should."

I looked at her and nodded in agreement. It felt like it was going to be a challenge to get rid of certain things, like things that reminded me of my mother. I looked back up at Mikasa, "Mikasa, what things should we sell and what should we keep?"

She thought about it for a moment,"Well.. we'll keep some furniture, like our beds, you'll have the upstairs couch and I'll have the downstairs couch, uhm.. any little knickknacks you'd like to keep.. but not too many, we still need to sell stuff. I think that we can sell all of the kitchen stuff, the t.v, and some drawers.. and anything that we don't want to sell, but won't have enough room to keep, we'll put in a storage unit."

She seemed awfully okay with getting rid of some important stuff, but I guess we were getting money from it so I really don't have anything to complain about. I looked at her and nodded again.

Next Day

"Eren!! Wake up, Eren!!get ready!"

I bolted up from Mikasa yelling and shaking me. I sighed as I crashed bak into the soft nest of blankets and pillows. "Eren get ready!! She'll be here any minute, you gotta look appealing, and right now you look like death! god, what time did you go to be-" I cut her off by placing my fingers over her lips, "Shhhhhhh, Mikasa, I'll get ready if you leave."

She got up and out of my room slamming the door behind her. I thought to myself 'oops.. oh well she'll get over it'. As I had told Mikasa what I'll do, I actually had to do it now. I slowly sat up and yawned shutting my eyes and stretching. Something strange happened when I closed my eyes, I saw someone. It wasn't anyone I had ever seen before. It was a very short man, who looked around the age of 20, he had short, straight black hair styled in an undercut and parted slightly off the middle to the right. He looked bored, like really bored, he also had intense grey eyes that could pierce through your soul. I opened my eyes and brushed off the thought as if it were nothing.

I walked out of my room, across the hall to the bathroom. Did my morning business, started the shower, got undressed and hopped in. The warm water that was pelting my skin was so amazingly warm, almost like I had been embraced the warm arms of my mother. I instantly snapped back to reality after I had thought about her. Great, now I couldn't enjoy showers either. I rubbed my temples out of frustration, this was nearing the millionth time I've thought about her in the past month. I didn't even tell her how much I even appreciated her existence. Or I could've at least listened to her for once! Oh god, I was terrible son! I yelled out with tears flowing from my eyes "You should've raised a baby girl, I could've been a better son!"