Sugar Sweet

Epilogue

Eren

"Can you pass me the wasabi?"

"Aht aht! I didn't hear a please."

"Every day I question why we are together."

I stifle a laugh as Jean's face immediately morphs from a smug smirk to puppy dog eyes, shifting to face his boyfriend and console him after being a douchebag. A buzz from my phone catches my attention, and I glance down to find a text from Levi, a small smile spreading across my face as I read it.

Levi: Your shitty cat won't stop bothering me

Eren: Don't act like you don't love Creampuff

Eren: I saw you guys sleeping together the other day, it was so cute!

My smile grows a little bigger as I think back to coming home to the penthouse after closing up the bakery, finding a sprawled out Levi asleep on the couch with Creampuff curled up on his chest. My heart squeezed at the sight, and I couldn't help myself from leaning down and pressing a soft kiss on his forehead.

Which woke him up and pissed him off, leading to me being fucked within an inch of my life because of his irritation at losing "beauty sleep."

But that's irrelevant.

Levi: You're lucky I love you, otherwise that comment would have gotten you severely punished

Eren: Who says I don't want to be punished? No fair Levi :(

"Holy shit, you are whipped." Jean's voice cuts into the small bubble I had created for myself, and I look up from my phone in confusion.

"What?"

"Ignore him, he's just being a dickhead," Armin says with a pointed look towards his boyfriend. "What he means is that it was obvious you were texting with Levi from the lovestruck expression on your face."

"Speaking of Levi, how have you guys been recently? We haven't seen you since you left for Aruba." Mikasa asks, and I turn to give her a bright grin as I think back to the week long trip Levi and I had taken, enjoying the tropical climate and having an almost concerning amount of sex.

"We've been great! Aruba was really fun, I'm going to try to convince him to let me take you guys at some point-"

"YES! Yes, yes! See, these are the benefits of having a best friend with a rich boyfriend, not all the other bullshit you give us-"

"The only one who gives us bullshit is you." Mikasa hisses, shooting Jean a menacing glare that makes him flinch slightly before turning back to me. "Anyways, continue."

"....I'll try to convince him to let you guys come. Also, I forgot to mention but Levi made reservations for some fancy restaurant tonight and only told me this morning, so I won't be at movie night."

Movie night had become a new tradition after Armin had graduated from graduate school and started working, leaving us all in varying degrees of business, and just a general difference in our lifestyles. We were all working and I was traveling often with Levi, and after almost a month of no contact, Mikasa had suggested we try to get together at least one night a week to watch a movie and catch up. We had all agreed, if there was one thing I knew with certainty, it was that none of us wanted to lose connection, we all had a place in each other's life that could never be filled by another.

"Oh, Big Daddy Levi decides he wants to take you out and all of a sudden you can't make time for us anymore?"

A collective eye roll goes around the table before I respond. "It's not like that, I already said this was kind of last minute...." I trail off as I think back to the conversation I had heard Levi having on the phone last night, his hushed words that had slipped through the crack of the bathroom door.