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It wasn’t until I pulled into the driveway that, “Shit! I forgot my ears!” I slammed my hands on either side of the steering wheel, accidently honking the horn in the process. “Shit!” Getting out of the car, I slowly walked up to the door and entered. Mom was waiting right there, arms crossed, foot tapping.
“Where were you mister!?”
“I told you, at a party. A work party, no big deal.”
“I know, but it’s the fact that it’s almost 2:00AM and I haven’t heard from you until I CALLED you.”
“Sorry mom, I didn’t mean to.” I started to walk past her but her arm had wrapped around my torso, pulling me into a hug. “Mom!”
“Hmhm, as long as my baby is safe I can’t stay mad.” She kissed my fake blood filled cheek and chuckled. “Go clean up, you smell like werewolf.”
“Thanks.”
I made my way upstairs to take a quick shower and to dress in my sleep pants.
Only a few hours until Jean’s dumb party.
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“Eren let’s go we’re gonna be late!”
Mikasa was once again yelling at me to hurry up.
“For someone who hates Jean you sure can’t wait to go to this party!” I was putting the last splatters of blood on my cheeks in the bathroom. I have to remember to clean the red droplets from off the counter when I get home.
“Eren, free food, free candy, potential of meeting new people, it’s not that bad! All I have to do is keep myself occupied by talking to people OTHER than Jean. Now let’s get going!”
Sighing, I left the room without my ears and followed Mikasa down the stairs and out the door. Armin wasn’t interested in join us tonight so he opted to hang with his grandfather. We’ll see him tomorrow so it’s okay.
The drive to Jean’s wasn’t too long since he lived not too far from the school, like us. We parked in the only space available which was a few houses down. At least I got to look at outdoor decorations on the way. Some people go all out, others simply put out a half rotten jack-o-lantern and say “happy Halloween you fucks”. Okay that might be a bit exaggerated but we get your message people.
We walked up Jean’s driveway and rang the doorbell, though no one could probably hear it because of the loud music that was blasting from inside.
“Hey Mikasa, looking gorgeous as ever,” Jean sweet talked as he opened the door. “Eren.”
“Jean.”
I really don’t like this kid and I swear if I see him making a move on Mikasa, I will not hesitate to kick him where it counts and leave this damn party.
We walked in and were greeted by other teenagers, some I recognized from school and some I didn’t recognize. I immediately spotted Marco dressed in a toga and golden halo.
“Hey Marco.”
“Oh, hey Eren! I didn’t actually expect to see you come! Nice costume by the way!”
“Thanks. The only reason I’m here is to make sure Jean keep his dirty paws away from my sister.”
“Well that’s very nice of you, Eren.”
“I Try.”
Marco and I pulled up a spot in the living room where it wasn’t too loud. There was a bowl of candy on the coffee table so I had something I could snack on while we conversed.
“Eren, there’s something I want to tell you.”
“Yeah?”
“Well, I trust you a lot and I’m convinced you won’t tell anyone what I’m about to tell you that is I hope you won’t…”
“Okay? What is it?”
“Well, I uh,” Marco’s cheeks started to turn bright red. “I-I-I-“
“Marco, spit it out,” I took a bite of a Snickers bar.
“ISORTOFHAVEACRUSHONJEAN!”
“…!” I started to choke on my candy bar. “You WHAT?”
“Is that bad?”
“Well you’re allowed to like whoever you want, but Jean?”
Marco nodded. “He’s not that bad I guess. I mean he does pick on me but I feel like there is something more to it.”
“Or he’s just that big of a jerk and likes to tease you.”
“No I’m really convinced otherwise, Eren.”
“I’ll believe it when I see it, Marco. Until then, I’m convinced he’s just being a jackass.”
“Believe what you want, I just-,“ there was a thump onto the couch next to where Marco was sitting. He looked horrified. I got up and pulled at Marco’s arm.
“Come on, let’s go.” I pulled Marco out of the living room where we left Jean and a random blonde girl to make out on the couch.
Marco’s eyes looked, misty. “Hey, Marco. It’s alright.”
“No, you were right. Why do I even like him? Clearly he’s into girls and I’m just reading into things wrong.”
“Marco.”
“No, its fine,” he said, pulling his arm away. “I’ll see you Monday.”
“Where are you going?”
“Home.”
“Marco, I-“
“Its fine, I promise,” he smiled and walked out the front door.
I sighed. Whelp looks like I’m going to sit my butt into a corner and wait ‘til Mikasa’s ready to leave.
That’s exactly what I did.
I didn’t care to socialize with anyone at the moment. I just want to head home. Where’s Mikasa anyway? She’s not with Jean, that’s for sure. Ah well, let me see what Armin’s up to.
“We’re leaving.” My arm was tugged on sharply by Mikasa.
“Ah wha-?”
“We’re leaving!”
“Finally… but why, what did Jean do?”
“Not what Jean did, but his asshole friends.”
“I swear, Mikasa, I will rip their throats out, what did they do!?”
“Nothing,” she grabbed my wrist and pulled me out the door. “We’re leaving.”
All I could do was follow Mikasa back to the car. She asked me to drive because she was too upset to drive. No biggie.
But the ride was quite. I tried talking to her but she didn’t want to speak. I’ll give her space since I could see the steam pouring out of her ears. In fact, as soon as we made it home, she took a shower and lock herself in her room. Hopefully she’ll be okay tomorrow.
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“Mikasa, knock it off!”
“I’m sorry, Eren, you look so adorable!”
Mikasa was currently laughing at my girly pigtails, dress, and Frozen attire. Hey a promise is a promise.
Armin was holding in a giggle as well. “Eren, you look so different as a girl!”
“I know. I’m uncomfortable. Let’s just get this over with, okay?”
“Alright,” Armin chuckled.
It was Halloween night, we were dressed as Frozen characters and Armin was He-Man. The neighborhood had a bunch of snotty kids in their costumes as parents walked with them house to house. It was pretty late and mom opted to hand out candy since she had nothing to do. After plenty of pictures taken from mom’s camera, we were finally out, pillow cases slung over our shoulders.
“Alright so candy trade when this is over?”
“Like always!”
It didn’t take long for our sacks to start getting heavy. Hey, we have a lot of houses in our neighborhood and most of them were actually home this year. The sky got dark and the streets started to clear so we opted to head home as well. I probably don’t need any cavities anytime soon. We sat at the table and dumped our candy in each of our own piles.
“Okay, I don’t like this, this, this and Twizzlers.”
“Eren, how dare you not like Twizzlers! They are delicious, gimme!”
“Take them. I want your Snickers in return!”
“Fine.”
“Mikasa, give me your Whoppers, I know you don’t like those.”
“Then give me your Reese’s in return.”
“Alright kids, I’ll see you tomorrow. Armin, it was nice seeing you.”
“You too, Carla.”
Mom, hugged both me and Mikasa before heading upstairs for bed. She had an early day at work tomorrow so she needs her sleep.
We sorted our candy, stuffing our faces as we went. Armin had to head home so he packed his sack and we watched him walk to his house. We locked the front door and Mikasa called dibs on the shower. So I stuck around in the kitchen, stripped myself of my wig and waited for her to finish.
DING-DONG
“The fu-? Damn brats, don’t they know that Halloween is over?” I began to walk toward the door, undoing the latch and unlocking the bolt and swung the door open. “Don’t you brats know it’s-“
“Eren.”
“L-Levi? I-uh-wha-what are you doing here?” There he was, standing there, in front of me, looking handsome as ever, in his stupid purple button up shirt and stupid slacks. And a bowtie. A fucking bowtie.
“Well, you kind of littered my house on Friday.”
“I-I did? I’m sorry sir!”
“Levi. And I’m only messing with you. Here.” He held out the only thing I left at his house. My damn ears.
“Oh, sorry about that. I didn’t realize I left them until I got home.”
“It’s alright. I didn’t find them ‘til yesterday so it’s not a big deal. The house is large, especially when only one person cleans it.”
“You don’t have maid or anything?”
“No. Don’t need them.”
“So it’s just you who lives there.”
“Yup. Me and Hades.”
“Must get lonely. It’s such a big house, you know?”
“Well, I did buy it so yes, I do know.”
“Hm.”
“Anyway, hope you enjoyed your Halloween. Nice costume by the way.”
Believe it or not but my face was blushing underneath all this makeup Mikasa out on earlier. “Th-thanks.”
“You’re welcome. Now go get some sleep, you look like you need it.”
“Right. See ya.”
Levi turned away with a wave and unlocked his car, getting in the driver’s side. I shut the door and heard the car roar to life. I waited until I couldn’t hear the car anymore to move. I sighed and leaned against the door.
“What’s wrong with you, Eren. He’s your boss for fucks sake… an extremely handsome boss.”
I locked the door and shut off the outside lights. Mikasa should be done by now.
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I didn’t have work until Tuesday so Monday was just school, then home. But here I was, standing behind the register, helping along this long ass line that somehow formed. Don’t worry, Petra had her own line that she had to take care of as well. One that was over with, I had to get back to stocking the shelves with dog toys. I couldn’t help but squeak each and every toy I hung up. Gotta keep myself entertained somehow. Anyway, I kept my eye on a certain shorty manager who kept walking past the aisle I was currently in. Some important manager shit was going on because he had a clipboard in hand that he kept flipping papers back and forth on.
That bird was on his shoulder, per usual. His shoulder, held high as always. Those hips, damn those hip looking fine as always-
“Jaeger, get back to work.”
My train of thought was broken by Levi staring at me from the end of the aisle.
“Sorry, sir.”
“Levi.”
“Right, Levi.”
I watched him walk away and I continued to put away those damn toys. How the hell am I going to survive this place?
Once I was on my lunch break, Levi had called me from his office.
“Eren, please come here.”
“What is it, Levi?”
“You want your paycheck?”
“Oh, of course!”
He pulled out his desk drawer and filed through all the documents. He pulled out my check and asked me to sign off for it.
“Thank you,” I said getting up and exiting the office.
“Eren, how well do you clean?”
“Excuse me?”
“Do you clean a lot at home?”
“I mean I do when I have to, but why?”
“Hm, just wondering, I guess.”
“Levi, I don’t understand.”
He sat back in his chair and sighed, taking off his glasses.
“How would you like to clean for me? My house that is.”
“I-uh.”
“I’d pay you under-the-counter.”
“I don’t know, sir.”
“Levi. And it’s only be once a week. Just think of it as extra money in your pocket.”
“Will it be only me?”
“No, I’ll have you come on a day off. So How about Sunday’s?”
“Can I think about it?”
“Sure thing. Get out of my office, your break is over.”
“Yes.”
I finished out the rest of my day by taking care of customers, putting away toys, and cleaning up after a dog who decided to pee right in the middle of the store.
I grabbed my things from my cubby and made a quick stop to Levi’s office.
“I like the way you clean kid.”
“Thanks sir.”
“So?”
“I’ll do it. But only if you promise I won’t have to come here on Sundays.”
“Sound fine to me.” He adjusted his glasses and began reading whatever important information he was reading before.
With that, I walked out of his office.
“Have a good one Jaeger.”
I said goodbye to my co-workers and head towards the car.
What the hell have I gotten myself into…