Chapter 6 - This Darkness

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"How long till my clothes are ready?" He asks, still standing by the bathroom door.

"Few minutes." You shortly respond.

He stands there for a minute longer, rubbing his hand through his hair before cautiously making his way to the couch, joining you where you sat.

"Thanks for..." he starts. "Thanks for bringing me here."

"I could only hope you'd do the same if you found me passed out drunk." You joke.

"Yn I'm not a monster."

"Sometimes you act like one." You shoot back. "Lately it's been hard to tell the difference."

He doesn't reply to that, he just sighs and points his gaze towards his feet.

"I've got some things going on yn.." he eventually breaks the silence.

Funny how humans have such an innate urge to break the silence.

"It's not my business Eren, nor am I particularly interested." You don't look at him, you keep your eyes forward.

Why is he being kind? Did he hear what I said to him? There's no way... he couldn't have, but this seems ultra characteristic for Eren, fuck up, make it better, get me right where he wants me, fuck up again, and the cycle repeats. Funny it's almost like I've lived this before.

"I don't blame you yn, for anything...'' he faces you now. "I know things can't go back to how they used to be yn, but I've almost got shit figured out and once I do... I'd like to try."

You're flabbergasted. Completely and utterly speechless.

"I know it's a lot to ask, you've seen sides of me I'm not proud of but.."

"Don't finish that sentence." You cut him off. "If you think you can redeem yourself, you're wrong."

He doesn't continue, instead he changes topics. "Can we just chill for a bit, I'm way to fuckin hungover to do anything, let's just watch some movies or something and then I'll leave."

"You want to "Netflix and chill" right now?" You scoff. "I can't believe you."

"No no! It's not like that" he laughs. "Nah, I just want to put our nasty shit aside for.... Let's say like 3 hours and just chill. My head is pounding, I'm too tired to argue about unnecessary shit that won't fix our problems, I just want to lay here for a while."

The dryer goes off signalling Erens clothes have dried, and realistically you could tell him to get dressed and send him on his way, but you told yourself today was the last day, you'd treat him kindly, you wouldn't bring anything up anymore, and once the day is over, once he's left your dorm, that's it.

"Fine." You respond. "What movie?"

He perks up from the couch as you toss him his clothes.

"We could binge the Conjuring series, those movies are good?" He suggests as he stands up and makes his way back to the bathroom to change.

"Sure." You reply and click on the first movie of the series. "Snacks?" You yell out to Eren.

He exits the bathroom fully dressed now. "Hell yea, where do you keep them?" He walks over to the kitchen.

"Bottom cupboard beside the sink."

Eren grabs a bag of chips and a few other things, and brings them over to the couch, he rests his feet on the coffee table in front of you both and makes himself comfortable.

You don't converse when the movie gets boring during some parts, you don't even really acknowledge each other, you just sat quietly watching the movie, occasionally eating some chips, you make it to the 3rd movie, and once that's over you start watching the Annabelle movies because Eren said "you can't watch one without the other" and by the time you check your phone it's nearly 7pm.

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