Capture the Moment

Capture the Moment a modern ErenxArmin fanfiction

        The last bell of the day rang signifying the end of another school day. Seeing as how summer was just around the bend, most of the kids were rambunctious and ready to end the school year. Armin however, was more occupied with the final terms coming up along with his grades.

        Ever so slowly, Armin exits the room and heads down the stairs for his lockers.

        Reaching his destination, Armin grabs his books and puts them up. Considering he had finished all the assignments last hour, he needn't bring them home. Finally grabbing his bag, Armin shuts his locker, turning around to find bright teal eyes starring back into his own.

        "Eren!" Armin takes a step back from the little bit of space between them, slightly blushing a soft pink. 'Too close, too close'.

        "Armin! Glad I caught ya. I got something I wanted to show you."

        Looking down, Armin finds a new camera in his friends hands. A sleek black Canon camera along with a neck strap and flash. Whoa that lens was huge.

        "Eren, where did you get that! We both know your birthday was last month."

        "Well, Dad got me a new present, I guess for the heck of it, when he came back from one of his business meetings last week."

        Armin continued to stare at the camera. Armin himself loved photography including wonderful scenery pictures. It was alway calming affect. With that kind of camera, anything could be captured by picture. 

        Armin speaks up. "Oh ... so is this what wanted to show me or was it something else?"

        Wordlessly, Eren grasps Armin's hand in his own and juts them out the school doors into the court yard and soon past the front gates.

        Going down a familiar sidewalk, Armin knows exactly where the two are heading. And that place just so happened to be their local park. Armin, betting by Eren's excited step, thought that they were probably going to photograph something.

        Not a minute later they reached the park and went in past its large iron gate and down the concrete sidewalk. Armin could smell it. It was the hinted scent of flower blossoms from the trees that captivated him so much in early summer.

        Glancing at his friend Eren, Armin was enticed by what he saw. His dark hair reflecting the sun in such a manor and his tanned skin softening in effect. Everything was slowly making Armin light-headed, so he let himself be dragged up a slight hill, soon stopping abruptly in front of a large and massive apple tree in bloom.

        "Ok Armin, we're here. I knew you liked the park because of all the sights so ... uh yeah."

        Eren scratched his head feeling bashful, cheeks tinting a slight pinkish hue. Armin turned and smiled at Eren.

        "Thank you Eren, but one question. Why did you bring your camera if this is what you wanted to show me? Couldn't you have taken photos of it and showed me that?"

        Silently Eren let go of Armin's hand. 'When had they been holding hands?' Armin asks quietly to himself. Walking up to the tree, Eren hops on the first branch and extends his arm.

        "You coming?"

        Silently without words, Armin joins his friend up the tree till about halfway where both boys sat on a fairly large branch.

        "Ok Armin you just sit tight and I'll be right back."

        Eren leaps off and goes down a few branches before landing on the bottom. Running some distance away from the tree Eren stops and holds out his camera. Snaps from the camera are the only sounds Armin hears until Eren speaks up.

        "Hey Armin, rest your back against the base will ya. Look relaxed."

        Armin does as instructed and slowly slides forward, snapping noises come from the camera, and finally turns around to rest against the tree. Instinctively, Armin shuts his eyes and takes in an intoxicating breath of the scented tree.

        He hears a few more snaps until everything its tranquil. He turns to face Eren's direction slightly opening his eyes. One final snap and Eren comes bounding back up the tree to sit with Armin once more.

        "Well? May I see them?"

        Armin shifts asking the question. Eren holds up the camera and goes to its picture menu. When he reaches the first set of pictures, Armin is stunned. They are all zoomed in on his face and with such high quality. It looked like it wasn't even a picture anymore. Armin gazed at all of his pictures, awed by how good he looked in these photos. (Eren skipping a few in the process that he would keep to himself.)

        "What do you think? I did a pretty good job at taking these huh?" Eren smiled brightly at Armin, that pinkish hue still dusting his cheeks.

        "I ... Wow Eren. I really don't know what to say. They're just so amazing." Armin shrugs back a bit, slightly embarrassed at how good he really looked in those pictures.

        "Do you care to take one more with me this time, Armin?"

        "Ah, not at all, Eren. So what do you-"

        Cut short of his question, Armin finds a pair of captivating lips on his and is taken aback by this. Never had he been kissed really, and more so a guy. But slowly, ever so slowly, Armin inhales and closes his eyes, pushing back on Eren's lips, somewhat smiling into the kiss.

        Eren brings a slightly calloused hand to Armin's cheek and Armin returns the favor by placing both hands on Eren's shoulders. Soon after Armin here's a slight click noise and is released from the kiss, cheeks painted a rosey red and breath heavy.

        "So Armin ... do you ... like the picture?"

        Armin shifts his gaze from Eren's eyes down towards his camera, starring at the photo. A beautifully captured picture of them, lips on one another. A sweet sensation runs over Armin and before he can react, he leans over and sweetly kisses Eren's cheek.

        "I love it. You did well to capture this wonderful moment." Armin's eyes soften as he looks at Eren, who has been taken back for once by Armin's bold action.

"A-Armin, do you maybe want to, um, start ... dating me?" Eren rubs his neck slightly and looks up towards Armin, looking for the answer he desires.

        "A-Ah, yes Eren, yes. I would love to go out with you." Armin smiles in a shy manor and looks away.

        Eren slowly leans back in once more and kisses Armin, more passionately than before, soon leading into a heated make-out with tongues slipping past opened lips and moans eliciting from the two boys. Armin is the first to pull back and raises his quivering voice.

        "W-We should get down before we fall off or something."

        Eren clears his throat and nods, untrusting of his voice at that moment, and slowly climbs down with Armin following suit. After picking up his backpack, Armin turns around to find Eren leaning down, arms outstretched behind him.

        "Wanna ride?" Eren smiles and Armin nods shortly and hops on knowing it was futile to refuse.

        With arms hooked under Armin's bottom and his pale arms dangling around the others neck, Eren starts walking back home. Armin takes a breath in, still being able to smell the scent of the tree's blossoms on Eren's neck. Armin nuzzles into the scent, enjoying this moment and savoring the trip back to their neighborhood.