The Ereri Project!

Concert (Highschool)

Levi can't remember how Hanji managed to convince him to come to this stupid thing.

Erwin had been around earlier, though Levi suspects Mike dragged him off into a corner to get high with his other friends.

Hanji was off being her usually sociable self, leaving Levi down both his friends and a ride home. He wishes he would have taken Petra up on her offer to go with her family to the beach this weekend instead.

He hates the sun but at least then he would be surrounded by the most vapid and annoying people in their class.

It's just a stupid concert, he tells himself, as soon as it's over I can get Hanji to take me home.

Not that he has anything against loud music, he just doesn't like the idea of being pushed around in a crowd to loud music - or at all, really.

He stands toward the back of the venue, to more easily avoid the bands' preexisting fans, and waits for their set to start.

Hanji said they were called The Titans. As far as Levi knows only their lead singer, a boy named Berthoult, goes to their high school. He's a year behind them so Levi assumes the others are probably younger than him too.

Erwin had showed him a picture of them, but mentioned their lead guitarist had gotten a girlfriend and left the band recently so they had to find a new guy.

Apparently their fans preferred the new guitarist to the old one.

Levi has never heard their music before so he wishes he could make a comparison but he can't.

When they come out, he's surprised to their drummer is the smallest in the group of them, and a girl - he doesn't see female drummers often. The only one that comes to mind when he thinks on it is the girl from Scott Pilgrim for some reason.

It would surprise him less but when Erwin showed him the picture he had assumed the big, blonde guy was the drummer - he was the bassist.

When he looks at their new guitarist, he quirks an eyebrow at the kid's lack of stage pretense. He's taking up space but he isn't really commanding the room the way the others are.

But then they start to play.

Levi is surprised that it seems like he's instantly only looking at the guitarist. And he recognizes him.

That bratty kid from his art class. All that kid seemed to do was stare at him and write in his sketchbook.

Levi was in no position to complain about people taking an art class even if they didn't want to, he himself had only taken it for the credits, but couldn't he at least try to draw?

Levi felt his cheeks flush slightly, annoyed that he was suddenly attracted to this new information about the brat. When the first song ends, the crowd cheers and Berthoult smiles.

"Thanks, everyone, for coming." Another round of cheers. "This next song was written by our new guitarist, Eren."

Eren makes a face when they cheer, like he's trying to cover up embarrassment with arrogance that only really made him look constipated.

"He's too shy to tell you about it himself, so I'll tell you what it's about!"

Eren makes a face and shouts something over at him but Berthoult only laughs and keeps talking.

"He told Annie that he wrote it during art class about somebody he has a crush on!" There goes Eren's constipated face again.

"As soon as Annie gave it to me I knew we had to perform it for real, so, here's our new song: Dear Mr. L."

No way.

Levi's face goes completely red. He hopes to god Erwin's too high to listen and Hanji's busy talking so she's not hearing this. It's so blatantly about Levi he can barely stand to listen.

"Dear Mr. L, with your shiny black hair and you're lifts in your shoes and angry grey stare-"

Levi can't argue with any of that. He listens until the chorus almost breaks his heart.

"I wish you could see~ this hole in my chest, I, can't seem to fill with anyone else~. Dear Mr. Levi, won't you please come to me~, and, give me my wings and set. Me. Free~..."

On Monday, Levi walks right up to Eren when he gets to art class. "Hey brat," he says.

"Yeah?" Eren replies cautiously.

"That song on Saturday night was about me, wasn't it?"

Eren's expression goes sheepish and he's trying not to blush. "Well, you see - I uh, I was just, and I uh-"

Levi rolls his eyes, crossing his arms. "Was it or wasn't it?"

Eren braces himself and squeezes his eyes shut, preparing to be punched. "It was."

Levi smirks and leans in, planting a short kiss on Eren's pursed lips and slipping a paper into his hand.

Levi has already gone back to his seat with Eren opens his eyes and looks at the sheet of paper.

That song was incredibly flattering, thank you.

- "Mr. L"

P.S. 216-279-000

Call me, brat.

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A/N: I honestly have no clue if that's a real phone number!