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Chapstick

"But Levi..." Eren whines.

"No, not until you start wearing some damn chapstick. Your mouth is one thing I don't need scratching me."

"Then let me use yours."

"Ew, sharing chapstick is unsanitary."

Eren just stares at him. "It is literally one step below kissing, which we do frequently."

Levi crosses his arms. "Nope."

Eren throws himself off the couch and grabs his keys on the way to the door. "I'll be back."

"Get ChapStick brand in the strawberry flavor," Levi calls as he turns on the TV.

Eren rolls his eyes but goes downstairs and gets in his car anyway. He goes to the pharmacy down the street from Levi's apartment building, most of their chapstick is on an endcap and there seem to be dozens of brands and flavors. Inclined to not ignore Levi's preferences on this, he looks for ChapStick brand.

It mostly comes in blue, the original flavor that his mom made him use when he was little, since she used it herself. Besides that there were green ones, which were spearmint, dark pink ones, which were cherry, and ones that were light red, almost indistinguishable from the pink, that were strawberry.

As a final act of defiance he picks up a three-pack of cherry instead of strawberry.

He puts some on in the car and drives back.

Levi is right where he left him when he gets inside. "Happy?" Eren asks, flopping onto the couch.

"Very." Eren makes a move to kiss him again but Levi backs up. "Nope, your mouth is still going to be crusty until, like, tomorrow, still gotta wait."

Eren groans and rolls off the couch, onto the floor. "I hate you."

"If you really did you wouldn't wanna kiss me so bad," Levi says, focusing his attention back on the TV.

.......

The next morning, Eren wakes up to Levi kissing him.

It was worth the wait.