The Ereri Project!

Sunglasses

Levi and Eren have only been going out for a little over two months.

Levi absolutely acknowledges that he doesn't know everything about his boyfriend, Eren has plenty of quirks he thinks are weird and probably has many more there will eventually come to light.

That said, Levi feels it is completely rational to question why his boyfriend came over wearing sunglasses. At night. In the middle of winter.

"What the hell are you wearing?"

Eren shrugs and tugs at his shirt. "A sweater?"

Levi rolls his eyes and crosses his arms. "On your face, brat."

"Oh," Eren drawls. Levi can tell he's nervous. "Sunglasses."

"Take them off before you hurt yourself," Levi says and turns to sit on the couch, but when Eren says freezes him.

"It's a teensy bit late for that."

Levi turns back toward the brunette sharply. "What?"

Eren reaches up and takes off the sunglasses, still trying but failing to hide behind his bangs. Levi is not fooled by the dark circle around Eren's slightly swollen right eyes. "Jesus, what happened to you?" Levi asks, nudging at Eren's chin so he could get a better look.

"I may have, possibly, perhaps gotten into a fight this morning."

Levi freezes again and stares at him. "You got into a fight?" he asks slowly, a hard edge to his voice.

Eren groans. "Please don't be mad. I can explain."

"Better talk fast," Levi replies, crossing his arms again.

"You know that asshat Jean I told you about?"

"Your ex-boyfriend? How could I forget?"

"I also told you that he's been talking shit on me since we broke up because I accidentally pulled him out of the closet with me and today I tried to tell him off but he punched me." Eren reaches up to poke at the dark bruising around his eye. "I didn't really even fight back, he hit me and then Marco dragged him off somewhere while Armin took me to find some ice."

Levi sighs, feeling a little bit bad for jumping to the worst conclusion. "You're lucky he didn't hit your nose. You would look awful with a broken nose."

Eren takes that as forgiveness and relaxes a little bit. Levi turns and gestures toward the couch. "Sit, I was about to get some ice cream. You want some?"

"Yes please," Eren says and sits on the couch.

When Levi brings him coffee mug full of chocolate chip cookie dough he only keeps in his freezer for Eren, he drops a kiss onto the brunette's forehead.

Eren feels his eye hurts a little bit less because of it.