Chapter 17

                                    

                                          
Hello my people. It's nice to see you... Talk- write to.. For you?? This has me thoroughly confused.... 
†††† (Levi) 
I wanted to slap him. 
Really hard. 
                          
Then I wanted to hug him and hold him how stupid he was being. 
                          
If I slapped the brat then maybe he would get it through his thick skull that I don't care how many other people hate him. 
                          
He was standing at the door holding it open. The hall that leads to the living room felt surprisingly alien. Why would I ever leave? 
                          
Eren just stood there looking down even when I walked up to him. He was stone still, head down. Not even reacting to me. 
                          
I wanted him to stop that and hug me. Even fall down crying. I'd even prefer that to being ignored. 
                          
When I finally picked up my hand to slap him, or pull him to me in not sure, he jumped. Flinching and almost cowering away from me.
                          
Pain lashed threw me. Why was he so scared of me? It physically hurt for him to be like this. 
                          
"Eren I look at me" he flinched and started shaking when I spoke. What was he expecting from me? To beat him to death? "Eren" he shook his head no. Still refusing to listen. 
                          
My hand shot out and I grabbed his chin. Forcing him to look at me. "I won't hurt you" 
                          
His eyes widened, why was he so damned surprised? I groaned in annoyance and closed the door. Probably slamming it unintentionally because he flinched again. 
                          
I pulled him to me. "Eren calm down please." He was trembling in my arms. 
                          
I suddenly realized how small he was, how easily he could break. How easily he could get hurt. How quickly he could fall. How fragile he was. And most importantly, how I would do anything to keep any of that from happening. 
                          
"W-why.... I-i don't understand..." My shirt was slowly getting wet. He was crying again. And I'm pretty sure it was partly my fault. 
                          
"That's alright." A strangled sob excaped him. I guided him back to the bed and we layed down. I pulled the covers over us and he snuggled close to me. 
                          
"Why?"
"Eren do you remember what I said last night?" He looked up to me slightly confused. And nodded yes to me. "I ment every word I said. And you just have to deal with that. I'm not going anywhere." 
                          
His eyes glistened over and he bit his lip. Tears slowly spilled from his eyes. Slowly, then more quickly. And a cry came from him as he full on sobbed. The brat was so worked up over me. The thought was slightly comforting. So was the fact that he was not flinching from me. 
                          
He was crying holding on to me. I hugged him back. 
                          
I didn't really know what to do in a situation like this. But I figured some sort of comfort would help. So I simply hugged him to me. 

                          
It took quite awhile for him to cry himself out. By this time i was midly uncomforable, and i had to imagine it was around noon. And neither of us had fixed anything to eat. He was reduced to a runny nose and bright red, puffy eyes. I kissed his head. "Eren?" He looked up at me. Strange. I'm generally not looked up to. Eren is actually a bit taller than me if he would stop slouching. "Food?"
                          
He was surprised for a moment and I saw something flash in his eyes. His ears dropped slightly and he nodded. "I'll go make you some." He went to get up and I tugged him back in bed. 
                          
"I was merely asking if you where hungry. I don't want you to cook for me. In fact I was thinking about going out for food." 
                          
Eren was even more surprised now. And stuttered quite a bit more. "I-i... Y-your taking m-me out to e-eat?" I nodded. "Me?" 
                          
"Who else am I going to take, brat? The damn lamp?" I rolled my eyes. "So are you hungry?" 
                          
I saw a partial nod before he suddenly found the cover to be very interesting and shook his head. "N-no"
                          
I knew he was hungry. Be had to be. "Bullcrap." He jumped still looking down. "I know you are. And even if you weren't you're so damn skinny you're going to eat anyway." I paused for emphasis, "I don't give a crap what rules you had before. They are gone with me. Got it? You eat with me. You eat. You can look at me, you don't have to shy away from me all the time. And you freaking tell me if your hurt or hungry or any damn thing." I looked down at him. "Okay?"
                          
He nodded, "a-alright"
                          
"Good, get up. And dressed in your own clothes. I'll be downstairs." I went to leave and turned back. "Oh and pack a bag with some of your stuff." 
                          
He was confused. I was doing that a lot... Confusing him. But all I'm doing is being even remotely kind to him. I sighed. "W-ww...." He stopped and I waved my hands for him to continue. 
                          
"You can ask questions too, Eren." 
                          
He nodded. Glancing between me and the floor he said "w-why?"
                          
"You'll be staying with me for a while. Make sure you have what you want and need." 
                          
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Heyyy there it is. I kinda like this one. But I think I could have done better. I'll maybe rewrite some of it later.