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‘Oh, Doctor Yeager, I thought you had he day of. What are you doing here?’, Floch asked, as Eren attempted to scurry past the reception without being noticed. He wanted to make Mikasa happy, but as a doctor it was so humiliating that his wife thought he didn’t know about woman’s health to look after her. He could not have any of his coworkers know that he was attending the masterclass.
‘I forgot something in the office’, Eren mumbled.
‘You’re headed the wrong way’, Eren cursed at Floch’s nosiness. Why was he even at the front desk anyways, he was one of the nurses. He probably had something important to be doing. Eren didn’t even understand why Floch worked as a nurse, he hardly cared about the patients and he didn’t like it when the doctors told him what to do.
‘Don’t you have something to be doing?’, Eren snarled. Floch shrugged his shoulders and strolled off. Eren grumbled to himself as he walked over to the room where the class was being held, he was a few minutes late, but it was no biggie. He probably wouldn’t miss anything important. Eren pushed his weight against the door, opening the door nonchalantly and strolling towards the back of the class. He had hoped that his presence wouldn’t be noticed.
‘Nice of you to finally join us’, the voice from the front of the classroom called condescendingly. Eren was surprised to see that the teacher at the front of the class room was none other than Historia Riess.
‘What are you doing here?’, Eren asked.
‘I am teaching the masterclass, take a sheet of paper and a pencil and take a seat at the back of the class’.
Eren sighed and made his way towards the back of the class, it felt like being at school all over again. Jean and Armin sat front row, enthusiastically taking notes. Nicolo listened intently, nodding along as Historia spoke. Connie was sat behind him balancing a pencil on his finger tip. Porco looked like he was trying to focus, but he was clearly failing seeing as every few minutes his head would sleepily fall back. There were a few other men in the class, but it was predominantly woman who wanted to know more about their bodies. Once he took his seat by the rest of the guys, he considered listening to the class. But After hearing Hisroria prattle on about menstruation for ten minutes, Eren decided to take a nap. He had only showed up to make Mikasa happy, he didn’t need to listen to any of this. He literally had to learn about it and get examined on the subject just so that he could get his job. It was probably best to catch up on his sleep anyways, the past few nights Liv had been staying up later, because she insisted on having a cookie before bed. The sugar from the cookies always went straight to her head and she would be up for an extra hour running around the house. Mikasa would get pissed at him for allowing her to have a treat before bed, but how could he say no, she was so cute.
It wasn’t long before he drifted to sleep, dreaming about his gorgeous wife and his adorable little girl.
After a few minutes of peaceful slumber, he was rudely awaken by a loud thumping on his desk. He looked up to see Historia angrily staring at him. He sat up from his position lying on the desk, drearily blinking his eyes to remember where he was.
Oh yes, the woman’s hormonal health class. He couldn’t help himself but roll his eyes. Historia was now giving him a furious look, ‘Don’t roll your eyes, how rude, sleeping during my class’.
Eren felt fifteen all over again, ‘I wasn’t sleeping, I was just resting my head’.
‘Fine then, what are some symptoms of hormonal shifts’.
Eren scoffed at the question, how stupid did everyone think he was. He was literally a doctor. All the women in the room along with Armin and Jean were giving him judgmental looks. Armin was shaking his head like his mom did when she was disappointed in him.
‘Weight changes, irregular periods, sleep troubles and mood swings and the way to fic this is to prioritise sleep, manage stress and limit sugar. Or you can take targeted hormonal medications’, he smiled at Historia sweetly. He could probably be teaching this class right now if he wanted to. He was thrilled by the surprise on Jean’s and Armin’s faces. Historia let out a fustrated noise before heading to the front of the class. Eren smirked before putting his head back on his desk.
When the class was over, all the men walked out of the hospital together.
‘Damn, I think I’ve been scarred for life’, Connie said, eyes wide in fear.
‘It’s nothing to be scared of Connie, it’s all natural’, Armin beamed. He was carrying a notebook filled with his findings from the class. Eren had no doubt that he was going to show of the book to Annie in hopes of impressing her. What a nerd.
‘Yeah, but that video of the inside of a vagina during their period was disgu-‘, the guys all shot him warning looks before he could finish the sentence.
‘I for one, am never going to doubt Pieck again when she says that she has cramps’, Porco mused.
‘You doubt your girlfriend when she has period cramps?’, Nicollo raised his eyebrow.
‘No, but like I always think it can’t be that bad’, Porco explained, ‘After watching that video I’ll never doubt again’.
‘The video wasn’t even bad’, Eeen shrugged.
‘Shut up, you’re only saying that, because you see stuff like that every day’, Jean argued.
‘I just think you guys are being over dramatic’, Eren said as they walked towards the hospital exit.
When they were outside, Connie turned to the group , ‘I think we need beers to recover’.
‘Definitely’, Porco agreed.
‘No can do, Miks says she wants to pick me up from the hospital’, Eren said trying to sound disappointed. He was not disappointed. He liked spending time with his friends, but nothing beat spending time with one of his girls. The rest of the guys waved him goodbye as they started heading over to the bar. He checked his phone to see if Mikasa had texted him. Nothing. He considered calling, but he knew that of she was in the car driving, it would only piss her of if he called her.
‘It’s you’, a voice from behind him said. Eren turned around to see a middle aged woman strutting towards him. He did not recognise her at all.
‘I don’t think I know who you are’ , Eren said.
‘Oh, I don’t expect you too, I was one of the women at the hormonal health class. I remember you answering that question’
‘Oh, okay’, Eeen wasn’t really interested in the conversation, he wanted to see his wife.
‘I’m Lara by the way’, the woman smiled.
‘Eren’, he responded dully.
‘So how do you know so much. I swear it’s so hard for me to understand all that stuff, but you explained it so well’
Eren really doubted that he explained anyrhing that well, he had said a total of two sentences and he had said the exact same thing Historia had said. After all, they both read the sentence from the same text books.
‘I’m a doctor so I kinda just know those kinds of stuff’, Eren said as he absentmindedly pulled the screen up on his phone, hoping that new texts from Mikasa would arrive.
‘That’s so cool, being a doctor must be so hard’
Eren didn’t want to be rude, but truthfully he did not want to be involved in this conversation,’ I’m sorry, but why are you talking to me anyways’, he asked.
The woman giggled, ‘I’m waiting for my cab, I just thought that as a vulnerable, single, woman, standing with a muscular man like you would ward of any creeps. I hope that’s okay’, she batted her lashes at him.
Eren mentally groaned. He certainly couldn’t tell a her to screw off now, then he would sound like an inconsiderate jerk, ‘Oh okay’.
‘If only all men were as kind and sexy as you’, the woman cooed, dragging her finger up his arm slowly.
Eren almost spluttered from what she said. He definitely had to end the conversation now, ‘Um, I have a wife’.
‘She doesn’t have to know’, the woman said trying to lean closer to him, Eren stepped back.
‘I don’t have to know what’, Eren was so glad to see his beautiful wife, who had finally arrived to pick him up.
She looked very pissed off.
Eren decided it was definitely best for him to stay quiet.
‘Oh, nothing, I was just on my way’, the woman answered.
‘No, if you had something to say, you can still say it’, Mikasa seethed.
The woman rolled her eyes, ‘Honestly Eren, I think you can do a lot beter’, the woman flipped her hair. She was about to walk away, but then Mikasa’s fist flew into her face.
‘Whore’, she snarled.
Mikasa had already been having a crappy day. Getting Olivia ready for school had been a hassle to say the least. Normally when Olivia woke up her dad was long gone, but seeing as he didn’t have work he had been at the breakfast table that morning. Olivia had been livid when she found at that her dad got to stay home, whilst she had to go to school. She had thrown a massive tantrum that had lead to Eren leaving the house to ‘go to work’. It was the only way to convince Liv to calm down. Mikasa sulked to herself as she dropped Liv off at school, she had been looking forward to school drop off with her husband.
When she got home, Eren had returned from his walk around the block. He was lying on the couch lazily scrolling through his phone. She would have loved to join him on the couch, but she had promised Pieck that she would go to the GP with her to pick up her doxylamine. Mikasa had to go anyways to pick up Liv’s allergy medicines, but she would much rather spend her time with Eren.
‘Baby, I’m leaving the house’, Mikasa called as she picked up her phone.
‘Where are you headed?’
‘Just the GP, I’ll pick you up from your class later, okay?’
Mikasa heard Eren’s hushed grumble, but she chose to ignore it.
‘Bye, baby, love you’, Eren called out.
‘Bye, love you’, Mikasa left the house and headed out to meet Pieck.
When she arrived at the GP, Pieck wasn’t alone. She was with two other women. Mikasa raised her eyebrow when she saw that the women were Annie and Hitch.
‘Hey Mikasa’, Pieck called over.
‘Hey, Annie, Hitch I didn’t know you guys would be here’, Mikasa said as she walked towards them.
‘Oh well, we had errands to run so we figured we could join you’, Hitch smiled.
Mikasa shrugged, she didn’t mind the extra company. They finished up at the GP relatively quickly and then they headed to the supermarket. They walked up and down the aisles with shopping trolleys filled with snacks for children.
‘So Mikasa, on Saturday, your mom is visiting, right?’, Annie asked.
‘Unfortunately’, Mikasa groaned, she had been dreading Saturday ever since her mom invited herself over.
‘I know you don’t want your mom to see Liv, if you want she can come over to mine while you’re busy, me and Louis would love to have her over’, Hitch suggested. Mikasa noticed that Annie gave her a nasty look in response.
‘Mikasa would ask if she wanted any of us to care for Liv, and if she asked anyone it would probably be me and Armin’, Annie snarled.
‘Well I was only suggesting it, because Liv and Louis get along so well’, Mikasa rolled her eyes. She had hoped that her friends were just being kind, but of course it was about this ridiculous feud between Louis and Alex. Mikasa didn’t know the exact details, but she knew that the two boys had a crush on her daughter and their squabbling had lead to several disagreements between Annie and Hitch.
‘You guys don’t need to fight, Liv’s going to stay with her grandmother over the weekend’, Mikasa said.
‘I thought you don’t get along with your mom’, Pieck raised her eyebrow.
‘She’s not staying with my mom, she’s staying with Eren’s mom, Carla’.
‘Oh’, Annie and Hitch mumbled.
Mikasa analysed the shelves next to her, searching for ingredients for meals for the rest of the week. She looked down at the list she had on her phone and when she looked up, she was shocked to see a familiar face nearby.
‘Speak of the devil ’, she muttered to herself.
‘Carla’, she beamed waving over to her mother in law. Carla looked up at her and narrowed her eyes.
‘Mikasa, so you remember my name’, Carla said sarcastically.
‘Huh?’, she was confused by Carla’s snarky reply. Carla had always liked her.
‘Seeing as you didn’t invite me to your wedding, I just presumed you had forgotten all about me’, she replied.
‘Carla, I didn’t have a wedding, we just got married’, Mikasa tried to explain calmly.
‘You know, I spent 18 hours in labour. 18 hours and I didn’t even get invited to my own son’s wedding’, Carla said as she wiped a fake tear away.
‘18 hours in labour’, Piecks eyes widened.
‘Yes, but it was all worth it when I got my baby boy’, Carla cooed, ‘I don’t believe we’ve met’, Carla said turning towards Hitch and Pieck.
‘This is Pieck and this is Hitch, they’re my friends from the parents support group’, Mikasa said.
‘How lovely, it’s nice to meet you and it’s nice to see you Annie’, Carla beamed.
‘It’s nice to see you, I hear your looking after Liv on Saturday’, Annie smiled.
‘Yup, even though her parents don’t seem to appreciate it’
‘Well, Alex really wanted to hang out with her on Saturday so I wouldn’t mind taking her out of your hands’
Mikasa snarled at Annie. To be honest, she didn’t want either Alex or Louis to be hanging out with Liv.
‘I’m afraid I’ve already made plans for Liv on Saturday, but I don’t mind looking after Alex, he’s free to tag along’, Carla smiled.
‘Oh well, would it be okay for you to look after my son as well’, Hitch asked, smirking at Annie.
‘Why not? The more the merrier’, Carla smiled. Mikasa grumbled under her breath. She already had to worry about seeing her mother and now she was worrying about the ‘love triangle’ going on with her 4 daughter.
She spent the rest of the day in a bad mood. She was mad about her mom coming to visit, she was mad about Liv’s upcoming play date, the cherry on the top of the cake was when she saw some random woman coming on to her husband.
Eren held her back as she tried to chase after the girl who had been flirting with him, ‘Miks, it’s not a big deal’, he insisted.
‘That bitch was trying to touch you’, she growled.
‘She’s gone now’, Eren said trying to calm her down, ‘let’s go home’.
Mikasa rolled her eyes, but complied anyways. Mikasa grumbled as she followed Eren to the car. Her knuckles were red from punching that stupid woman. When they arrived home, Eren insisted that she stayed home to rest. She knew that what he had really meant was that she should stay home and calm down. He rushed out to go pick Liv up from school. Mikasa sat on the couch dreading the weekend to some.