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They met when Eren accidentally sent a sleepy message to Levi one night. Jean had just sent a group message to everyone on his contact list and had proceeded to flood their inboxes, asking for confirmation and Eren, still muddled with sleep, texted him to fuck off before he turned his phone off and tossed it in his laundry hamper.
The next day, there was a reply and Levi asked, “who the fuck is this?”
Eren was eating lunch at the cafeteria when he got it. He spat his egg salad sandwich (lovingly made by his mother) on the table, much to Armin’s disgust, then, he wiped his hand on his jeans to reply.
“Dude, sorry! Thought you were the douche I call my friend!” Beside Eren and reading over his shoulder, Jean yelled in outrage but the message was already sent and Eren didn’t receive a reply anymore.
For whatever reason, he saved the number. And called him “Angry Dude”.
Then, he forgets all about it.
Eren is in bed, lying on his back as he tossed his stress ball hard enough for it to bounce on the ceiling. He’s grounded after beating some kids up at school and landing in the Principal’s office. It really wasn’t his fault. The assholes were picking on Armin and Marco for being at the top of their class and Eren (with Jean, but… mostly just Eren) taught them a lesson.
Armin and Marco looked both worried and grateful and Mikasa arrived just in time to scare those dumbasses away but that didn’t stop his mom from giving him a lecture and his dad from giving him this silent “I’m disappointed in you” look that he really, really hates because he’s usually on Eren’s side.
He sighs. He doesn’t have anything to do except read or do his homework and he really doesn’t want to do either. Good news is he still has his phone. Bad news? No internet access.
Well, better than nothing, he supposes. He begins to read through his messages and deletes those from Jean before he came across a message that’s marked with “Angry Dude”.
With nothing better to do, he replies to the message.
And that’s how everything started.
After days of needling and whining, Eren finally learns Angry Dude’s name. His name is Levi and he lives in another city. He doesn’t tell Eren anything else and Eren is careful, too, because he isn’t dumb enough to give personal information to someone he just met. They start talking about random things. Or, more accurately, Eren starts talking about random things, asking how Levi’s day is going or what he’s up to. He usually gets a snappy reply back asking him to stop asking pointless questions but with enough curses to make his mother blush (and his mother curses a lot).
The thing with Eren is if you start telling him to stop doing something, he finds something else. In this case, he starts talking about things that he usually doesn’t talk to with anyone else because sometimes, it’s a lot easier to confide to a stranger than to family and friends.
Levi seems to understand that he needs an ear that doesn’t argue back or try to make him see how things could be better even if he does grumble about it all the time. He knows all about Eren’s insecurity, how he’s afraid to tell his dad that he doesn’t want to be a doctor, that he really doesn’t know what he wants to do yet. He knows about Eren’s friends (though he gave them different, “shitty” names, just for the heck of it), how Armin is very smart and that he should be the doctor, not Eren, how Mikasa might get a scholarship from a university because she’s the best volleyball player they have and her spikes can kill people or how Jean might be a jerk but he’s one of Eren’s best friends.
He’s a jerk about it, telling Eren he doesn’t really care and he doesn’t have any say in the matter anyway, but, when the hour is late and Eren is close to falling asleep, he texts Eren that it’ll be alright, that it’s okay to feel the way he does.
It takes weeks, but Eren finally gets Levi to tell him a little something about himself. He finds out that Levi is an engineer (for what company, Eren never asked) and that he’s stressed with planning and designing a new luxury hotel in Trost City (which is where Eren lives but he doesn’t mention it). He finds out about Levi’s crazy colleagues like Shitty Glasses who is their architect and his Boss who is a “manipulative, arrogant son of a bitch”, though he talks about them like how Eren talks about Jean.
Before Eren realizes it, Levi has become an important part of his life. And he doesn’t know it, but, Levi thinks the same about him, too.
Eren should be fine with it. Until he isn’t.
“I want to see you,” he texts. He doesn’t tell Levi that he saw him, that he visited the construction site without him knowing. He doesn’t tell Levi how cool he looked when he was there at the construction site, barking orders like he’s in the military or something. He doesn’t say how he thought it was cute when Levi crouched down to feed a stray cat. He doesn’t mention Shitty Glasses (who is named Hange) and The Boss (who is Erwin).
“No, I don’t! Why don’t you tell me?”
“It doesn’t make any sense! I like you and I know you like me, too!”
“We’ve never even seen each other, you little brat.”
“It should. I could be a serial killer. I could have only one arm. I could be anything and you wouldn’t even know.”
Levi doesn’t text him anymore. But he does leave him a final message.
“Ten years. In ten years, if you feel the same way about me, if you want to give this a shot. Then, on this day, ten years from now, I want to see you in the Hotel Maria’s lobby. Wear a red scarf.”
Eren feels his heart pound, his gaze landing on Mikasa’s red scarf. The scarf he just wore.
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