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Armin : I like your ass. [7:55pm]
Grammatically correct. Punctuated. And he had made sure it was Eren’s profile photo, which was of course his favorite Titan from his favorite manga.
Sent.
“See? It wasn’t that hard.” Connie grinned at Armin’s grimace face.
“How on earth are people entertained from this kind of Dare?” Armin questioned his friends as he locked the screen of his phone, heart racing unnoticeably for what he might receive back as a response.
“C’mon, Armin. This isn’t even quite a dare. It’s just Eren. You need to have more courage and start some love story. Otherwise it would make you too boring for any Truth, so it leaves you to play Dare until you have some dirty secrets to share,” Sasha added.
“Get it done before college starts this summer, or you’ll remain a kid.” Jean shrugged at him.
Armin only tapped nervously on his cell-phone, hoping that the screen would lit up the next second.
It usually didn’t take that long for Eren to return his message, but he was dragged to some experiment with Hanji today which was also why he wasn’t here with everyone else. He was the only one that Armin could afford to tease and talk dirty with although Sasha and Connie insisted this wasn’t even dirty.
On the other hand, Armin somehow was looking forward to his reaction. He was seventeen and craving for love. Eren didn’t seem too bad for first love after all.
Just then, Eren called. Armin’s hands were shaking as he picked up his phone.
“Hey, Min.” He sounded delighted and undisturbed, strange enough.
“Where are you guys? I finished. Coming over now.”
“Well...”Armin looked at Mikasa as if asking help from mama bear.
“Did you get the message, Eren?” Mikasa took the phone and cut it short.
“What message?”
Nice for playing dumb.
Except that Armin opened his message box and found the message for the wrong recipient.
Levi Ackerman.
The group of kids were unbushing in front of his office door, hearing his voice rising coldly inside.
He was a co-worker of Armin’s elder brother Erwin, who was a history professor at Maria University. The kids had met him during a home-made dinner at Armin’s house, and he was the kind of person that one could never forget. His eyes were sharp as knives and his voice low as the murmuring of drums. The angle of his jawline was impressive as he had just walked out from drawing, but most of all it was the coldness that wrapped him within - it wasn’t fear exactly. It was one would be meticulous about their next move when they were around him, as if feeling the glimmering silver light of a sword shining across the edge of one’s eyes.
He remained “Mr. Levi” to everyone even though he was about the same age as Armin’s elder brother.
Armin didn’t think they had spoken more than greetings, yet he just complimented Mr. Levi’s ass by text. No one would believe him it was a dysfunction of the app. For God’s sake, he hadn’t even dared to look at Mr. Levi’s ass! Now he didn’t know what to do, except for hoping Levi hadn’t had a chance to look at his phone yet so he could sneak into the office and delete the message.
That was the plan. Everyone hiding in the hallway was wishing him good luck with eye contacts as he knocked the door open.
“Hi,” was all he managed to get out.
“Looking for Erwin?”
Levi tried to pull up a smile for his best friend’s little brother, apparently failing.
It seemed that he was too normal to have seen the message. Good.
Wait, what?
Armin’s eyes widened for surprise as he heard Erwin’s name, but he had to say “Y, yes...”
The raven man stared at him, holding up the teacup in his hands. It was weird. Armin couldn’t explain how. Finally, he moved away and exposed the tall blond man sitting on the edge of the office desk. It seemed Armin was too nervous when he was outside to notice his own brother’s voice.
“I was going to pick you up.I thought you friends would want to hang out a little longer.”
“Yeah…”
Armin was terrible at lying. This was a terrible, terrible idea. He was crazy to agree to the Dare and what was he thinking of?! He should never....
“Hey, you free?”
Mikasa showed up suddenly, reminding Armin of their plans. As a distant cousin of Levi, Mikasa would try to lead him away from the room so that Armin could find his phone, but now it was all for nothing.
Mikasa stuck with the plan though she was so surprised to see Erwin that she forgot to stay completely calm and reasonable.
It left Armin and his elder brother, staring at each other in the all too quiet room.
“Something happened, Armin?”
Fear crept in as a chill went across his spine. Losing their parents at a very young age, Erwin had raised his ten-year-old-younger little brother like a rigorous father almost. Armin loved him but he also learned to fear and to discipline.
“It was nothing...”
Right then, his eyes fell on Levi’s phone lying on the top of the desk. His eyes so gripped on it that he felt he could grow out a pair of hands from his eyes and just take it.
He forgot Erwin was too keen and too sharp to let that happen.
Armin was completely stunned as he saw Erwin picking up the phone.
“I like your...”
Erwin wasn’t able to make it to the end of the sentence. His face fell heavily as though the end of the world was coming.
Armin seemed to forget to breathe as he took a step back. His brother was too decent and serious a man that sometimes Armin was afraid he would forget he was human who had natural, dirty instincts.
It was everything how Armin was raised up not to be:
To comment on a man who was ten years older than you about his ass.
“Armin...”
Erwin frowned, and Armin was already blushing to death.
Erwin brought his knuckles to his mouth to lighten the awkwardness. He cleared his throat, “Armin, I don’t want to comment on your sexuality because I respect you. Clearly, you are at the age for love...”
Erwin had to read the message again and found out that he couldn’t handle it.
“Okay, let’s make a few notes while you are looking for someone.” Erwin stood up as he spoke, “No. 1, be careful with your language. No. 2, be careful with the people you choose - no junkies, no alcoholics, and NO LEVI.”
“Why?” Armin almost said furiously, not knowing the reason exactly, as chuckles rose from behind him. He turned around to see an amused Levi.
He did have nice smiles. The angles his lips lifted were just perfect. Too less for an angle but too much for a devil.
“Coz I have a sexier ass than your brother.”
Levi raised his teacup for small sips as he walked to stand next to Erwin. His facial expressions remained still but Armin could feel the delicacy that told a different version of Mr. Levi.
He did read the message.
Armin was all tomato-red. Suddenly, it all made sense. The way Levi talked dirty explained to him something he never understood. He wasn’t able to pay attention to anything else, only finding himself staring at those lips when Erwin announced that he would leave for some work emergency.
“God, it’s snowing outside. Will you take him home, Levi? I might have to stay late.” Erwin said as he rushed to grab his coat. It seemed he still trusted Levi, just not Armin.
“I’ll be home a bit later. Ask Eren and Mikasa to stay over if you are afraid.”
Armin would always be a kid to Erwin.
The snow was blowing hard all the way home. It was freezing cold in the old car even with the heat on, but Armin felt his face burning, though he knew Levi wasn’t looking. He somehow hoped he would.
“It was Truth or Dare.” Armin broke the silence with a statement, hesitating about mentioning the fact that it wasn’t meant for Levi.
“Figured.” Now it was back to step one. Levi still sounded like strangers, focusing on nothing but the steering wheel.
It gave Armin some time to shift his eyes, to the nice ass that they were talking about all night. Unfortunately, the sitting position wasn’t too good for viewing.
“You do drugs?”
Levi frowned at him.
“Alcohols?”
“I’ve never been drunk, if that’s what you’re asking.”
Levi had one hand turning the steering wheel. He was a too typical bad-boy type, the type that Armin swore he would never go near. Yet, he didn’t seem to do anything actually “bad.”
“Cigarettes?”
“No.”
“Well, then why did Erwin--”
“Because--” Levi began to lose his patience until his eyes fell into the ocean blue ones. They were similar to those of Erwin’s, but something less, and a lot more.
Less maturity and less dirt. More space - it could be everything. The boy must have lots of unbelievable dreams, just like the ocean was without edges.
Levi swallowed whatever he had to say, and he drove quietly until they reached the big stone house that Armin called home.
“Thank you.”
Armin didn’t expect Levi to escort him to the front door after the car was parked.
“Armin,” he liked how his name sounded between Levi’s lips, it was soft as raindrops lowering on rose petals.
“You are Erwin’s precious little brother. You’ll always be too good for anyone.”
For once, Levi seemed to expose some part vulnerable of him that he would rather not showing to anyone. Armin heard from Erwin he didn’t have any family, knowing only a little about his unspeakable past.
“Just...don’t be afraid.”
He tried his best to be gentle, even lifted up the edges of his lips briefly. He turned around to leave before Armin caught him by his wrist.
“Wait!”
Armin could feel the other’s breathing on his face. He had never been so close to someone his whole life, but all he want was closer.
“Just so you know, this isn’t Truth or Dare.”
Armin closed his eyes and leaned himself forward. His lips were the softest thing that Armin could ever imagine about. For a moment, he didn’t know where they were. He didn’t care.
“And it’s my first.”
Armin told him as he pulled them apart. It wasn’t exactly a kiss, more just touching of the lips, but everything’s screaming for love.
Before he could speak of anything else or look at anything else, Levi pulled him in tight. Their lips crushing like burning flames licking each other. The hand on his waist gave everything Armin thought he wouldn’t own - passion, wildness, and the feeling of wanting to strip another human being.
For the first time in his life, Armin felt reason did not matter. For the first time, he knew love.
So they went inside, kissing, touching, and making love.
Armin: where r u [4:15pm]
Levi: office [5:11pm]
Levi: wanna come over? [5:11pm]
Levi: dinner at my place tonight? [5:12pm]
Levi: I fucking miss your cute little ass [5:15pm]
“Hey, there you are.”
Levi heard the door creaking before a pair of soft, small hands came from behind for a hug. Armin left a small peck on his face as he threw his heavy bag filled with textbooks on the floor.
As Armin came to sit on the couch beside him, Levi pulled Armin in so that he sat on his lap. Their lips started to intertwine out of nowhere.
“You are horny. And I’m tired.” Armin murmured, though it was unclear what he was saying since his tongue was too occupied.
“I’ll make you the best dinner ever.”
Levi kissed along his ear, making him giggle, his hands slipping in Armin’s T-shirt to feel his smooth skin.
“So we are having dinner at your place?” Armin closed his eyes, smiling.
“You didn’t get my message?”
“What message?”
Armin buried his fingers into Levi’s dark hair. It was when they heard the huge noise of the door bursting open.
It was one scene Erwin Smith could never forget for the rest of his life.
“Erwin...”
Armin was petrified.
“Shit.”
Levi pulled his shirt down to cover his almost naked upper body, running to his phone only finding out the messages to the wrong recipient. Again.
Erwin was too furious to let out a word for a second. He only squeezed his phone as if he could kill the flirty words with his hand. For another second, he was in denial and he wanted to run away. Finally, he let out a breath and stared at them quietly, as if deciding which one of them he would educate first.
“Levi. Outside. NOW.” He finally decided.
And they never found out how the message got to the wrong recipients.