The Ereri Project!

Self-Esteem

WARNING!!!!!!!

Eren is a female!!!

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"You want me to wear that?"

Levi nods at her. "C'mon, you'll look fabulous."

Eren pouts, pulling her sleeves down over her hands self-consciously. "But it's so short."

"And you have fantastic legs," Levi says, smirking gently. "Come on babe, I even picked one with long sleeves, you've gotta show off a little bit. I bought you black stockings to put on with it."

Eren takes the hanger from her boyfriend gingerly. "It looks so expensive."

"You let me worry about that," Levi says, picking his towel back up from where he left it on the bed earlier. "Start getting ready, the party starts at seven."

Levi goes into the bathroom for his shower and Eren lays her dress on the bed before going to close the door.

The dress is this weird blue-green color Levi says matches her eyes. It has long sleeves, an open back, and probably won't reach mid-thigh once Eren puts it on.

The wrists, collar, bottom hem, and around the opening in the back are decorated in black beads.

It's beautiful, to be honest, and Eren thinks she won't do it the justice it deserves.

It will make Levi happy though, so she strips out the jeans and sweater she'd worn to school that day and takes a moment to stare at herself on the mirror.

Levi says she's beautiful but Eren doesn't know if she believes him all the time. Mikasa is beautiful; her hair stays perfectly straight when she wants it to, she doesn't make goofy gestures when she talks, and she always, always looks perfect.

Plus her boobs are bigger and her waist is tinier. Eren spent a lot of high school silently comparing herself to adoptive sister/best friend; for a short time toward the end of middle school Eren thought she was actually supposed to be a boy because she was so lacking in anything resembling a feminine shape.

Mikasa always said she was beautiful then to. That a lot of models would kill to be as skinny and tall as Eren was then.

Eren didn't like it, she wanted actual hips like other girls their age. Seven years later and all Eren has to show for the time are breasts that don't quite make it to a B cup and hips she wishes were a little rounder.

Eren knows she pretty, in the conventional sense, but she's not beautiful.

She sighs and sits on the bed to start putting on her stockings. She takes off her bra when she's ready to put the dress on.

When she looks in the mirror again she tries to focus on her face the way Armin is always telling her to do. She does have very nice eyes.

And a nice smile. And a smoking hot boyfriend. And she's a great baker. And she's pretty good at video games. And she graduated third in their class in high school.

She's pretty awesome when she thinks about it.

"Told you you'd look fabulous," Levi says when he comes back in from his shower.

Eren smiles and kisses him. "Thank you for the new dress."

"Glad you like it 'cause it's coming back off as soon as we get home tonight."