The Lab Rat (Ereri)

Chapter 2

LEVI'S POV:

Eren Jaeger, huh? I smile to myself. (Obviously I wouldn't show any real emotions in public. I have a bit of a reputation to uphold. After all, I hate it when people crowd around me.)

I swear, I liked this brat from the moment I saw his oceanic, green eyes in that McDonalds last night.

I was initially going to ask him his name this morning. After all, he IS in my home room. But noticing that asshole,

horse-face beating on my man, it looked like that question would come sooner than I expected.

"Oi!" I had called out. Jean turned towards me and his expression quickly changed from pissed-off, to surprised as hell. I had told horse face to back the fuck off and it worked. Maybe being a school celebrity can be a good thing at times.

When Eren and I were left alone in the hallway, I decided to ask him his name right off the bat, unfortunately, he seemed to be in shock, so I pulled him out of his trance or whatever.

"Eren Jaeger." I whispered to myself in the middle of class. It's fourth period. Next is Lunch. If I can find Eren there, I'll ask him for his number. I want to know more about this kid. And who knows, maybe the brat could come to like me too. I smiled outwardly at the thought and was torn from my thoughts by a piece of folded paper flying at my head from Erwin, who sat next to me.

I unfolded it to see the question he wrote. 'Levi, you just smiled. In PUBLIC. What has you in such a good mood right now?!' I look over to him and turn it over.

'I'll tell you later. Kay, Eyebrows?' (seriously though. He lives up to his nickname. Those eyebrows are massive.) He nodded back At me and continued paying attention to our teacher's lesson.

Oops. I guess I wasn't being as sneaky with my emotions as I thought... I spent the remainder of the class period daydreaming about Eren and his messy brown hair and those fabulous green eyes.

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EREN'S POV:

"He did WHAT?!" Hanji yelled loud enough for the rest of the cafeteria to hear. I clasp my hand over her mouth.

"shut the fuck up Hanji! You don't need to tell the entire school!" I scream-whispered. "Now, if I remove my hand, will you behave?" she nodded to the best of her ability while my hand was still on her face.

I removed my and and she squealed. "Do you like him?!" she grinned. I looked around the room to see if anyone was paying attention. Like usual, no one was.

"No, of course not. Falling for someone like Levi is out of the question. You should know this best of all." I said. Pain colored my face and my heart stung as the words came out of my mouth. There was no way that someone as perfect and sexy as Levi would ever go for a nerd who works in a human studies lab on a daily basis.

Hanji's eyes were filled with understanding and then the emotion changed to excitement.

"Speaking of prince charming." She says in a tone only I could hear. I turned around in my chair to see a figure coming my way.

"L-Levi?" I stuttered. Why is it that I only stutter around him?! Levi smiled at me and pulled a chair from another table and placed it at our table and he turned to me.

"So, Eren, who's this?" he asked. Pointing a thumb towards Hanji.

I broke out of my thoughts and shook my head in disbelief. Hanji was watching my reactions like a hawk. "Levi, this is Hanji my roommate and best friend, Hanji, this is Levi." Levi nodded at her and noticed the lab coats we both wore.

"what's with the lab coats? He asked. I smiled at him brightly and genuinely.

Hanji and I work in a lab. We study the human body and mind. Yesterday, we had this blood sample and we were checking it out during lunch. But then, Hanji mistook it for ketchup and ate it. I still don't understand why this is the fifth time it's happened this year." Levi listened intently on my words. It made me feel special.

"wow." he said simply, smiling slightly, amused by my enthusiasm.

I blushed. "sorry. I kind of just started rambling. Was there something you wanted to talk to me about?" I ask. He smirks at me.

"Can I have your phone number?" he asked. I'm sure my face was more red than a tomato.

"S-sure, L-Levi." I said. Damn this nervous stutter. He handed me his phone and I punched I the numbers and created a contact, putting my name down as "Lab Rat". When he looked at the contact he chuckled.

"Alright Jaeger, I'll talk to you later." he smirked and walked off into oblivion.

"Oh. My. Fucking. God. Eren." Hanji said in shock with a huge grin on her face. "He TOTALLY likes you!!" she exclaimed. I just rolled my eyes and ignored her. There's just no way in hell that someone so perfect could want me.

LEVI'S POV:

Mission accomplished. I got his number, found out his main interest, got him to blush, yup. Today was productive. And GODDAMN! How does this kid make it possible to be both incredibly sexy and Kawaii as FUCK?! Damn. I swear. This kid will be the death of me. Shit. This is only the first day i've actually talked to him and I'm already falling for the kid.

The rest of the day went excruciatingly slow. All I could think about was the brunet with the stunning green eyes.

When I got home, I put my bag in its respectable place in my spotless room and plopped onto my bed with my phone in my hand staring at the ceiling. When I finally got the courage, I unlocked my phone and went to Eren's contact, which he titled,

Lab Rat:

LEVI: Hey, Brat.

EREN: Levi?!

LEVI: Why do you seem so surprised?

EREN: Well, the only other person who even has my number is Hanji so I was surprised to see a text from anyone at all.

LEVI: oh. Well, okay then. Did

horse-face bother you at all for the rest of the day?

EREN: No. Thanks again for saving me this morning. More than once I've been held up for the entire first period just so he can torture me further.

LEVI: why does he treat you like that in the first place?

EREN: Maybe it's because he knows that I won't fight back do to my internship at the lab with Hanji. Shit. That reminds me, I was supposed to meet Hanji there to get the new blood sample from Armin!

LEVI: Why did you need a new one in the first place?

EREN: Hanji ate it again.

LEVI: oh, okay. Wait! Did you just say AGAIN?

EREN: yeah... We end up having a lot of meals there and she always puts her ketchup right next to it in an identical dish...

LEVI: She's a special kind of stupid isn't she.

EREN: lol! You should see her back at home. (^-^)

LEVI: you two live together?

EREN: Y-yeah..

LEVI: why?

EREN: um, it's a long story. Anyway, I should probably get over to the lab. I'll talk to you later, Shorty.

LEVI: See ya later, Lab Rat.

I'm not sure if I was imagining it, but Eren seemed to act strange. Was it something I said?

I thought to myself staring blankly at the ceiling. Wait did he call me Shorty?