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As the lesson continued I wasn’t really able to focus, to curious about the boy behind me, so every now and then I kept on turning around to see what he was up too. He seemed to be concentrating on his notebook rather, pen in hand and writing a few words before stopping again. At this point the teacher was just talking to us about some equations that went over my head, and I figured maybe Levi was taking notes, but as I turned around again to have a look at his notebook, I saw words, lots of words, which clearly is not maths.
I leaned in a bit closer trying to make out what he was writing, but Levi noticed and quickly slammed his book shut, causing the class to stir. He glares at me and I just smile.
“Levi, May I ask you to be quite please” The teacher sternly asks, I turn back to face the teacher giggling to myself that Levi got a telling off. After that Levi focused more on the lesson trying to get rid of the blush that settled on his cheeks. The lesson dragged on for what seemed liked forever and when the bell went I was very relived. Levi got up and left the classroom, probably to go to the bathroom or something, so I took this as my opportunity to peek a look into his notebook. I quietly made way to his desk, looking around hoping the other classmates didn’t see what I was up too, it’s always a silly thing to look around, because it defiantly makes you all the more suspicious.
And what can you do when the most annoying kid in the class notices and takes the notebook from your hands “Hey, give it back” I shouted trying to grab it but the kid just pulled it out of my reach.
“Haha, give it back? What do you mean, it’s not even yours” the kid laughed boisterously and opened the notebook to look at its contents.
“Give it back” I continued to shout but the kid just wasn’t giving in, in fact he started to read out some of the words that were written.
“I remember the first time I saw you, sat alone in the corner, your head in a book…what the hell is this, some corny love poem or something” The rest of the class burst out into laughter, I pleaded at him to stop it and give it back, but by that point Levi had already came back to the classroom. A crash of something dropping to the floor, made the room go silent and everyone turned, there stood Levi his eyes filled with angry and his cheeks flushed with embarrassment.
“W-who said you could look at that?” Levi shouted, his fists clenched making his knuckled go white.
“Oh yeah and what you gunna do about, lover boy” the kid teased, but it was enough to tip Levi over the edge, and he lunged forward connect his fist to the kids face.
“STOP IT, please god, stop it” I cried trying to pull Levi off from the kid, as he kept punching the kids face. Levi turned to look at me, and let out a angry sigh, he gave one last punch before storming out the classroom.
“That new kid is going to get it, just you watch” The kid cursed, getting up off the floor, his friend helping out the room, taking him to the nurse’s office.
Levi never came back to class after that, or for the rest of the school day. When school was finally over, I waited back a little, waiting to see if Levi came back to pick up his things but he never did, so I decided to gather his things and go find him. Well I wasn’t expecting it to be that easy to find him. As I got out the school and headed out the gates I heard a lot of yelling, and banging, so heading towards the sound, turning a corner to an alleyway, I was witnessed to a group of boys ganging up on some little kid. I’d never not been one to stand for violence so I ran up and threw myself into the fight saving the kid, only realising that it was Levi.
“What the hell?” I panted pushing some guy off of me “how’d you get into this mess?”
“I don’t need your help” Levi insisted throwing a punch to another who came up beside him. We fought together pretty well to be honest, and it was kind of fun, until we were caught by a teacher.
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The little girl giggled “I bet you got into loads of trouble right?”
“Indeed we did, it was also the trigger prompting us to become friends” Eren turned to look at the clock, “your parents are not going to worry about where you are?”
“hmm no its fine, they are at work anyway, hurry up and continue, sir”
“aha” Eren chuckled “alright then”
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I and Levi where back in the school, sat in the head teacher’s office, we had our wounds bandaged and awaited for our parents to pick up us. Levi’s mum was the first to arrive, at least I thought it was his mum, but she looked rather young. She pulled Levi into a hug, tears prickling in the corner of her eyes.
“It wasn’t your fault, you’re OK, and it’s alright, mothers not angry” I heard her say and Levi nodded “Let’s go.” They didn’t even look my way once, either his mother didn’t notice I was there or she just didn’t care, I found it a little rude but didn’t dare say anything. Not soon after they left Levi peeked his head round the door and made eye contact with me,
“Thank you” He whispered, and he smiled, it wasn’t a big smile but none the less he smiled, and my eyes lit up at the sight and gave a toothy grin back at him, Levi then hurried back to his mum. My Dad came and picked me up, much to my surprise as I thought he was still away working, I mean he wasn’t happy though and I did get a good scolding in the drive home.
Back at home the air was pretty tense, I could tell mum and dad had been fighting before he left to pick me up. I scurried into the living room muttering a quick ‘I’m home’ to my mum, and headed to my room but before I could enter my mum stopped me
“Eren, can you please come back here, Your father and I need to have a talk with you” Her voice was stern but a bit sad too, I swallowed I knew what this was going to be about, I wanted to just run, leave know, but one way or another no matter what I did the outcome would still be the same, so I made my way back into the living room, sitting down in front of my parents
“Eren, your dad and I have come to a decision, and I know how hard this will be for you, you’re still so young, but it had to made and will be for the better” Mum started her eyes diverting away from me, she could tell I didn’t want to hear it, and I suppose it made her feel guilty.
“We are getting a divorce” My dad continued, the word hit hard causing my chest to hurt “and as we can’t decide who will have custody over you, we have decided to leave it too you Eren” I looked at dad with a puzzled expression I had no idea what the word custody meant
“Dad what do you mean?” I asked hoping my voice wouldn’t break, Dad also averted his eyes and sighed
“Eren, who do you want to stay with, me or you mum?” My eyes widened in shock, I had to choose between, what, how, that’s impossible, I started to panic
“No, no, NO, I can’t choose, you can’t make me choose, NO” I shouted getting to my feet, I wanted to get out, how do they expect me to choose, I love them both, I want them both. I bit down on my bottom lip, and rushed out the room
“Eren, Eren, please” I heard my mum sob but I just ignored her and went into my room slamming my door shut.
The air was much more manageable in my room, but It still wasn’t right, it wasn’t the same, and for the first time I felt very alone. I could feel my eyes start to well up, I didn’t want to cry, I really didn’t, but after one tear fell, the rest kept on coming and I fell to the floor, pulling my knees towards me and letting my head rest against them and just sat there, sobbing. After a few moments, I heard a familiar sound, I knew what it was Immediately, Levi, I wanted to hear him sing, so I jumped up from the floor wiping away at the tears and hurried to my window, threw it open and closed my eyes.