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Eren smirked when they were in the club.
“Oh yeah, it was easier than I thought”, he said to Armin walking next to him. Jean looked over his shoulder and smirked.
“Your first time, Jeager?” The boy said teasingly. Eren opened his mouth, about to lie to Jean, that he did this every other weekend, but Mikasa was faster.
“Of course it’s his first time”, she said.
“Mikasa! You ruin everything, you make me look so uncool…”, Eren said annoyed. “Why are you here anyway? It’s not like you were asked to come along… This was supposed to be boys night…” Mikasa looked at Eren, hiding halfly behind her red scarf.
“I’m here to look after you. And Armin asked me to join”, she answered. It was so dark in the club, that Eren hardly saw Armin’s face, but he could swear he saw Armin blushing.
“Ugh… But you still could stop making me look stupid”, Eren said. Without Eren noticing, Jean had lead them to some of the darker corners in the club.
The club was full of people, after all, it was Friday night and people wanted to go party. That’s most likely the reason why their little group had gotten in, the porters were too busy to check everyone trying to get in. The music was on really loud, and there was neon lights everywhere. Eren had never seen anything as cool as this. Next to him, Armin was looking a bit scared. He hadn’t wanted to come along at the first place, but Eren had particularly forced him to come. He didn’t want to go to a club first time in his life alone with that Horseface and his boyfriend, not that there was anything wrong with Marco, but Jean in the other hand… Well, he was a dick but for some reason they always hanged out in the same group. Even he and Jean didn’t get along that well.
“Well, Jeager, now it’s your time to show off your hitting on talent”, Jean said waking Eren up from his thoughts. Eren looked at Jean for a while, having no idea what he was talking about.
“What?” He asked. Jean rolled his eyes and put his arm around Eren’s shoulder.
“Well, do you remember why we are here?” He asked. Eren gave a loud “Oh”, when it all came back to him.
“Yeah, um, right, I’ll get a drink and then I shall get a guy”, the brunette boy said. The reason why they were in the bar, it was because Eren had bragged about his hitting on skills and Jean had gotten tired of it and, well, challenged him to hit on a random guy in a bar. The truth was that Eren had never hit on anyone before, and he had never been into a bar. Eren looked at Mikasa nervously. If the girl would know the true reason why they were in the bar, it would be all over for Eren, and Eren would need to eat his lies and he’d look really bad. Not that he didn’t already look pretty bad to other boys, thanks to Mikasa who’s life duty seemed to be making Eren look as stupid as was possible. Gladly, some blonde girl had appeared from nowhere and was now talking with Mikasa, and she hadn’t payed attention on Eren and Jean’s conversation at all.
“Armin, do you want some too?” Eren asked almost shouting and turned to his best friend.
“Um… No, I’ll pass… I don’t want to drink anything alcoholic, you know, my grandpa wouldn’t be very pleased about it”, the blonde boy mumbled. Eren didn’t hear much of it, thanks to the loud music, but he knew Armin well enough to fill up the parts he didn’t hear.
“Well, how about something non-alcoholic then?” He asked again.
“Do they sell coke here? If they do, then I can take one”, Armin said.
“Okay, I’ll bring one for you”, Eren said and walked to Mikasa, who had somehow moved away from their group with the blonde girl.
“Yo, you wanna have something to drin-“, he started when she recognized the girl. It was Annie Leonhardt, a girl from other school’s MMA team. She had been Mikasa’s last opponent in the tournament. She looked at Eren with this really pissed look as she walked closer to the boy.
“Leave my girlfriend alone or I will kick your balls off and feed them to you”, she said. Eren moved back, the girl was crazy. Mikasa took Annie’s hand and pulled her away from Eren.
“It’s fine Annie, he’s my brother”, the girl said. Annie looked at Mikasa and then to Eren.
“Oh, so this is the little bitch… Sorry, I thought he was a random guy coming to hit on you”, she said and backed. Eren smiled weakly. He was a little offended of that ‘little bitch’, but he didn’t say anything. This girl was a true monster, she had given hard time to even Mikasa. And that was something.
“Yo”, Eren said and rose his hand. “So, a girlfriend, eh?” He tried. The girls didn’t listen to him.
“And do not say things like that to my brother, or I will do the same to you”, Mikasa said, showing her over protective side. The girls continued talking, and since they didn’t seem to want Eren to be with them, Eren went to buy the drinks for him and Armin.
“Thanks”, Eren said and took the glass of beer and the class bottle of coke, when he saw something. There was this guy, all dressed in black, sitting on a red bar stool smoking a cigarette. The guy had black hair, that was longer from the top and shorter from below. He had this weird look in his eyes, this look that Eren didn’t know what to call it. At the same time, it looked really focused, yet really relaxed. He looked like he was perfectly fine by sitting there all alone, yet he still looked bored. And now Eren knew, who he wanted to hit on. The guy was really interesting, and Eren wanted to see if he could get the bored look out of the guy’s eyes. He walked through the club, to the shadowy corner where his friends were.
“Here ya go”, Eren said and gave the bottle to Armin.
“Thanks”, the blonde said and smiled nervously. Eren smiled back.
“You having fun?” He asked and leaned against the wall, looking at the mysterious guy on the bar counter.
“Uh, yeah I guess”, Armin said and smiled bravely. Eren knew this place wasn’t Armin’s place.
“Hey Jeager”, Eren heard Jean’s voice, and soon he saw the boy coming holding his boyfriends hand. Eren made annoyed sound.
“Even your sister found someone faster than you did”, Jean said. Eren rose his eyebrow. Jean had a beer on his other hand and he walked closer to Eren. “Check that out”, he continued and pointed at the dancing people. It took a moment for Eren to notice what Jean was pointing at. There was indeed Mikasa, with Annie all over her face, holding her really close as the two girls were dancing.
“Um, I think they’ve had a thing going on for a while”, Eren said. “So it doesn’t count”, Eren said and sipped his drink.
“Well, it counts because you don’t have anyone”, Jean said with a mean tone in his voice.
“Hey, Jean, Eren doesn’t really need to do it if he doesn’t want to”, Marco said leaning his head on Jean’s shoulder.
“If Eren CAN’T do it, he doesn’t HAVE to”, Jean said, looking at Eren with daring eyes. For Eren’s own sake, it was pretty bad that he was, a daredevil. And Jean knew it.
“Here, hold my beer”, Eren said and gave his beer to Armin.
“Wait, what, where are you going?” Armin asked, but Eren didn’t answer, he didn’t hear because he had already started walking back to the bar counter. He didn’t see Jean’s smirk behind his back either.
Eren walked over to the black haired guy.
“Is this seat taken?” Eren asked pointing at a bar stool next to the guy and tried smiling. The guy rose his sharp eyes to Eren and inhaled from his cigarette. He didn’t say anything. Just looked at Eren.
“I take that as a no”, Eren said and sat beside the guy. The man didn’t say anything, he only turned his head away from Eren and exhaled the smoke. “So, I’m Eren, Eren Jeager, what’s your name?” After a moment of silence the guy put his cigarette on a plate.
“Levi”, he said. Eren smiled. Now he knew the guy’s name, that was something right?
“Oh, a cool name”, Eren said. He had no idea what he should say in a situation like this. He had never hit on anyone, nor had anyone ever hit on him. He simply didn’t know what to do in this situation. After a moment when they had sat there quiet Levi sighed heavily.
“What do you want of me kiddo?” He asked. Eren felt his cheeks going red. Did the guy know he was underage?
“I… I want to dance with you”, he said. There wasn’t any confidence in his voice, unlike there had been when Eren had bragged in school how he’d get any man he wanted. Levi chuckled.
“Oh you do? Then get lost. I dance only with interesting people. And not with kids like you”, Levi said and shook his head a little. Eren bit his lip.
“No, I won’t, I will get lost after I’ve had a dance with you”, the brunette said. He couldn’t give up on this. Beside the fact that he would lose his face in front of his friends, he really wanted to dance with this attractive man. Levi rose his eye brow and looked at Eren.
“What a kid like you does in a place like this anyway? How the heck did you get in?” Levi asked.
“Dance with me, and the kid will tell you”, Eren said. Maybe he’d get Levi interested in him like this. Levi only shook his head.
“You’re a brat, I won’t dance with you. I’m not interested in you, just leave me alone and go somewhere else to play”, Levi said. Eren looked at Levi.
“Then I will just sit here, and annoy you until you come to dance with me”, Eren said.
“How mature of you”, Levi said and lighted a new cigarette.
“I am not mature, I am a teen, so, doesn’t really matter does it?” Eren said. He actually enjoyed this. Levi didn’t say anything to that, and so, they sat on the bar counter silent, for quite long time.
After about five or six songs, Eren opened his mouth again:
“Dance with me, Levi.” Levi threw an annoyed look towards the boy.
“Will you leave me alone after a dance?” He asked. Eren nodded eagerly.
“Okay then, just one dance okay? But not this one… The next one… Wait there”, the man said and rose up. He was much shorter than Eren had thought. The man was probably shorter than Eren himself. This was a bit of a surprise to Eren, since Levi was obviously older than he was. “I’ll be back before the song starts, okay?”
“Yeah, sure, okay”, Eren said. He followed Levi with his eyes. He went right to the DJ, a brunette woman with glasses and she looked really excited about her job, and soon Levi came back. The song changed not long after that and Levi took Eren’s hand, leading him to the dancefloor. Eren had a slight memory of this song, it was ringing his bells, but he couldn’t think what song it was. Then came the lyrics, not that Eren could hear all of them, but he could hear enough to realize what song it was.
“Well, boy, does your mother know that you’re out?” Levi asked and Eren could see this grin in his face when the neon lights swiped over it.
“My mother’s dead”, Eren answered and turned away. He wasn’t in the partying mood anymore.