"L, Levi?" Eren muttered. He looked up but didn't see the teen. He frowned. He had gotten into coloring the picture and lost track of the guy. His front door opened. Eren scowled as Levi walked inside. Their eyes met. Levi's lips curved up as Eren watched him.
"I have what's known as an eidetic memory. If I see something I can recall it perfectly." Levi stated.
"You memorized the code to get into my house." Eren muttered.
"I'm sorry, I, didn't mean to, it just happens." Levi rubbed at the under cut of his hair on the back of his neck.
"It's OK, just don't tell anyone." Eren smirked. "Ha, now if I'm running late or hiding from those dicks who like to use me as their punching bag, I can text you to fed Blackie for me." Eren snickered.
"Ugh, you really need to think of a better name for that cat!" Levi snarled. Eren made a face.
"Yeah, not too original is it." He ducked down. He frowned. On his tablet was the picture of Levi. Eren had absently drawn Blackie in. The cat was sitting on the dark teens shoulder. "Odd." He muttered. He liked seeing the two together. He left the cat in.
"You should shower, it's after six." Levi pointed out.
"Oh, damn. Yeah. Thanks." Eren carefully set the tablet on his desk. He plugged it in. Not thinking about it he took his clothes off, tossing them in the basket in his room. He walked around the corner into the bathroom without anything on.
In the shower he did what he needed to. Working through his routine in front of the sink he only wore a towel. It was only when he went back to his room that he realized he was naked and Levi was standing before him.
"Oh, uh..." Eren muttered.
"When did you draw this?" Levi asked. He was standing by Eren's desk. The teen walkd up behind him. Levi found the picture of himself in Eren's sketchbook
"Um, well I've been working on that since I met you actually." He stated.
"You really have talent." Levi said. "And you're naked. Not that I wouldn't mind watching you get dressed, but I think we are not at that stage yet." He smiled. Placing one hand on Eren's bare shoulder, he slipped up on his toes to kiss him. Walking away, Levi made sure his fingers snagged the towel.
"Oopsie!" He chuckled as he left the room without looking back. Eren shook his head. Heading to his closet he shifted through some clothes. He tended to wear old baggy clothes to school. That way if he got into a fight, then he didn't ruin his good clothing. He pushed his school clothes out of the way. In the back he found a red long sleeve shirt, it hung on the same hanger with ripped black jeans. Eren pulled them both out. Behind them was a black open sports coat. He picked it up. He found some black biker boots on the floor of his closet. Stepping back out, he put on boxers and socks. Once dressed he walked out of the room. The security guard was just buzzing his apartment.
"Yeah, Hannes Send them up." Eren called.
"You got it. Happy what is it, 16?" Hannes asked. Eren chuckled.
"17." Eren always had to remind him how old he was. Hannes chuckled.
"17, well congrats for surveying another year." He said. Eren thanked him as his friends knocked on the door. Levi opened it.
"Oh, hey." Armin muttered trying to get past with his arms filled with stuff. Levi took some bags. Erwin and Hange were just as loaded with bags.
"What is all this stuff?" Eren asked.
"Well, This is for the cat. Where is he? It is a he, right?" Hange asked. "Here pspsps." She called walking hunched over. Eren chuckled.
"Yes, he is a he. But he likes to hide." Eren pointed out.
"Well I'll just put these in your room then." She marched in.
"Do I want to know?" He asked Armin.
"No." Erwin shook his head. He was carrying four pizza boxes and two grocery bags on each arm. Eren helped him set them on the table. "So, you're Levi. Armin's been filling us in. You always kiss guys in grocery stores?" He asked.
"If they are tall, green eyed, amazingly hot and its their birthday, yes." Levi answered. He still held the bags he had taken from Armin. "What is this stuff?".
"Decorations. Look could you take Eren out for say half an hour or so?" Armin asked. "It's the least you can do for traumatizing me this morning." He added when Levi just looked at him.
"Uh, sure. " Levi nodded to Eren as he put the bags on the table.
"Don't let the cat out if you see him." Eren warned.
"They probably won't. Cats don't usually like strangers." Levi smirked.
Outside, Levi reached over and threaded his fingers through Eren's. Eren blushed.
"Alright, what can we do for a half hour?" He asked. Eren shrugged.
"It's Sunday night most of the business close by seven. There's a park..." Levi smirked.
"We could continue that make out session." He winked.
"In front of little kids!" Eren gasped. Levi frowned.
"Fine." Eren laughed.
"Wow, that was too easy." He joked. Levi pushed him.
"Brat!" Eren caught himself on the stop sign.
"Taking up pole dancing fag brains?" A voice called out.
"Well, fuck me I guess." Eren mumbled.
"Some day, I just might, but let me deal with these fuckers first." Levi stepped in front of Eren. Reiner glared down at him.
"Move it runt." He muttered. "I feel like working on my favorite punching bag." He laughed. Bertolt and Jean were behind them they laughed as well.
"Jean, really are you such a two face wanna be that you pretend to be his friend but beat the shit out of him when you're with these cheese dicks?" Levi asked. Jean flushed.
"I'm not that asses friend." He yelled.
"No. I have higher standards than horse fuckers." Eren stated. Levi frowned looking between the two. Eren shook his head slightly. Jean hung out with Bertolt and Reiner, but he usually tipped Eren off as to where they were so he could avoid them. In return, Eren and him had a playful rivalry going. Yeah sometime Jean did have to beat on him, but it was fine. Eren took it.
"I told you to move it." Reiner yelled in Levi's face now.
"Do you even know what toothpaste is?" Levi asked. Reiner was too stupid to come up with anything. Instead, he took a swing at Levi's face. Levi didn't duck like Eren thought he would. The tall teen had braced to take the punch. Levi caught the huge fist.
He flipped it over, as he swung around the boulder of a body. He was behind Reiner and yanking his arm halfway up his back. Reiner screamed.
"What the fuck, let go!" He cried.
"Tell your dickhead friends to walk away." Levi ordered. Reiner tried to buck Levi off. When that didn't work he tried to ram him into the pole. Instead Levi kicked him hard in the chest where his legs wrapped around. Reiner coughed stumbling he fell to his knees. Levi continued to kick him as he jerked up on the arm. There was a popping sound from Reiner's shoulder. He cried out.
"Go, go leave." He wailed. The other's ran away. Jean smirking back at Eren. Levi stood up. He let the blond go.
"Don't come back around me, or my boyfriend, got it." He kicked Reiner in the ass as he tried to get up. The lug face planted at Eren's feet. The teen laughed at him. There was the sound of a camera shutter going off. Reiner looked to Levi. He cried something neither teen understood, before running off. Levi pressed some buttons on his phone.
"There you go, your birthday present." He smiled at Eren. Eren frowned. His phone dinged. Eren took the device out of his pocket. He had a school message. Opening it, there was the picture of Reiner at Eren's feet. Eren was laughing down at him and you could tell Reiner was crying.
"Oh my god. This is awesome." Eren chuckled.
"Yep, and it went out to the entire school body." Levi smirked. He tapped his head when Eren looked up at him. Eren's mouth fell open. Then he was scooping the shocked teen up. Eren swung Levi around, pushing him into the building. He planted a wet sloppy kiss on the short man's mouth.
"Oh that is the best!" Eren cried. He rubbed his face against Levi's hair, a soft purring sound coming from him. Eren didn't see the shocked wide- eyed panic look in those silver eyes.
"Did, did you just purr?" Levi stammered.
"Huh? No!" Eren pulled away. "I'm not a cat." He teased. Levi looked concerned.
"Yeah, uh right." He muttered. Taking Eren's hand again the walked around the corner. Levi didn't say anything more about the cat. Instead they discussed art. Eren had been taking classes ever since he was in middle school. He told Levi about some of the awards he won. Once back at the building, Levi checked the time.
"It's been about forty minutes." He said.
"Levi, I know you did all of that cleaning. Don't uh freak when you see the decorations. Armin goes overboard for me. He thinks I don't get enough attention." Eren tried to warn him.
"Neither do I." Levi smirked. He took Eren's hand and walked in the building. They went up to Eren's apartment. Eren opened the door. Levi stepped through.
"WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK!" He yelled. Eren's hand came over his mouth.
"I warned you!" He hissed in his ear. The walls were covered in crepe paper. Strands of it hung from any place Erwin could reach to hang it down from. There was a giant banner that was poorly written to read Happy 17 Eren!, stretched above the table. Plastic door decorations covered the doors and windows. There were table center pieces with 17 on the table counter and basically every surface. That didn't even begin to include the balloons. The entire apartment was filled with balloons!!
The worst part was, they weren't even color coordinated. It looked like a clown car exploded. The streamers were yellow, green red and blue. Some of the table pieces were silver and black or white and gold. The balloons were every color you could think off. The sign wasn't even written all in the same color. It started out Hap in black the py was purple the 17 red Eren was written in three different cored oranges.
"You all better be cleaning this crap..." Levi looked down. "IS THAT FUCKING GLITTER CONFETTIE!" He screamed.
Just then the sound of noise makers went off. Hange, Erwin and Armin yelled Happy Birthday. Eren saw the new girl before Levi did. Petra waved happily from behind the large blond man's shoulder. Levi glared at her.