Lips Like an Angel

Chapter 6-Hello Old Friend

[For this chapter it would be best to listen to the song, You Said You'd Grow Old With Me; I have no rights to this song, Michael Schulte owns the rights.]

"So you saw," Hange stated as they walked up to Eren who was getting ready on stage; maybe his grimace was too noticeable. Eren stopped hooking the microphone up, letting his eyes look up at Hange as he let out a long sigh.

 "I did, but that was after I found out he was engaged too," he muttered, trying his best to not make it sound like he was so hurt. Eren just started working here, the last thing he needed was to get too emotionally wrapped up in somebody else's problems; he needed to fix his first.

Hange nodded, bending down to their knees so they were eye level with the brunette who seemed to be making himself busy untangling the cords to the sound system and microphone.

 "He hasn't worn his ring in awhile. It's not my business to talk about his personal problems, but I can tell you that things aren't going well." Hange paused and pushed their glasses up, letting one of their hands reach out to ruffle Eren's hair which earned them a surprised, 'oof.' They could tell the other cared, hell by the way he sang his songs Hange knew that his heart was too big to handle and his soul tried to reach out to as many people as possible.

"It's not like I'm upset about the marriage..." Eren started, eyes searching Hange to try and see just what they were thinking.

 "I just.. I've seen abuse before and it..it makes me so angry to know that someone can just do that to another person, especially if they care about them." His words seemed rushed as if he was trying not to sound upset, his eyes drifting back to the ball of wires as he shrugged.

 "Sometimes I just care too much."

Hange only smiled, glad that their intuition was right about the boy. He was sweet, he cared. It was exactly what the shop needed, and if they were going to be honest with just themselves, Eren was something that Levi needed to. Now Hange wasn't a matchmaker, but something was telling them that just possibly, the two of them would be good for each other.

Instead, they only laughed, nodding as they pushed themselves up from their knees. "You're a good kid Eren, the world needs more people like you," they stated before giving him a quick salute as they headed off stage.

 "You're up in five."

 The comment only made Eren sigh again as he gave up untangling the wired mess and stood up, unlocking his guitar case as he tuned his guitar, making some of the strings a bit tighter. Since Jean, Eren's been on a row with writing songs. He found it almost therapeutic and writing songs was one of the only ways he could truly get his feelings across.

Connie came up from behind the stage, leaning over to Eren as he finished fixing his guitar, his brow raising as he listened to Connie's request. "Well I've never serenaded someone I didn't have feelings for.. but if you want me to sing to her for you I will," he stated with a faint laugh.

 Connie was a sweet guy; he's only talked to him a few times since this was technically his second day, but he could tell the guy wasn't capable of any harm. "I'll give you my number after the show and you can give me the details," Eren offered, and with that Connie bowed which amused Eren, and Eren pointed to the song he wanted Connie to play from his iPod.

 "Press play whenever you're ready."

As soon as the music started to play the cafe got quiet, people's heads turning in his direction as they stopped whatever conversations they were having prior to the music.

The beat was a bit different than his last song, but the lyrics had the same undertone of heartbreak, and Eren hoped that his message of feeling lost would get across.