Not really spoilers, but a bit of post-game shenanigans!
Honestly until some server friends pointed it out I didn’t even think of how MUCH blood Howard lost due to the flowers! Must’ve been a shock for Phillip after dealing with the police see Howard on the ground 😭 or losing consciousness
fratboy!eren who claimed he was just being a good friend and that these little dates were nothing more than “study sessions,” when you both knew that couldn’t be farther from the truth. and you, of course, went along with this “truth” because you couldn’t have your friends know where you really disappeared for hours, obviously.
fratboy!eren who couldn’t think about anything but you, and he felt so shitty for it. he’d agreed to help you with your homework, and here he sat, unable to even think about math when you were sitting right in front of him. you droned on and on about the topic you were learning in class, and although he’d rather talk about anything else right now, he couldn’t help but listen in awe to the sound of your sweet voice.
“what the fuck is wrong with me right now?” he thought. math. that was the reason he was here. he was here to help you. that was the reason you both sat in this library, wasn’t it? surely you wouldn’t have made up some excuse to have him come help you just because, right?
“eren?” you spoke softly, realizing that he most likely hadn’t heard one word you said. “did you happen to catch any of that?”
“fuck,” he says, snapping back to reality. “no… i’m sorry.” he wonders how you would react if you had any idea that he’d been thinking of you the whole time. the softness of your voice, the way your lips moved when you spoke, the way your hair framed your face so perfectly.
“yeah, i know,” you said, laughing. “maybe you should stop staring at me and read this problem so you actually know what it is i need help with, jaeger.” you replied as you suddenly met his gaze.
“what–i wasn’t staring at you.” he immediately shoots back, his face flushed pink. “don’t get a big head just ‘cause i’m helping you with your homework.”
“mm whatever, just help me.” you muttered dismissively
fratboy!eren who couldn’t believe you’d just caught him. and more than that, he couldn’t believe how embarrassed it made him. little did he know, you felt the same exact way; you were just much better at hiding it than he was. he thought you were completely oblivious to the way he’d been acting around you, but you’d always been pretty sharp. you noticed all the times when his eyes stayed glued to you a little longer than they should have, you noticed when he’d subtly glance at your lips when he assumed you weren’t looking, and you’d even noticed the subtle changes in him, as well. at first, you’d just assumed that some of your good habits seemed to be rubbing off on him because of how often you were now around each other. then, you realized how much time you actually spent together. it wasn’t like you were complaining– you’d actually initiated quite a few of your “study sessions.” of course they were mostly excuses to see him, but you get it. to put it truthfully, you liked being around eren, you found him interesting. you actually found yourself thinking of him quite a lot. and before you could fully admit that it was a crush, you had told yourself that it was just because you guys had gotten quite close in a short amount of time, of course. but you knew yourself too well to brush this feeling off, and you found it even more enthralling when you’d began picking up on the subtle hints that he’d drop, whether he actually meant to drop them or not.
after a long and sort-of-successful studying session, he finally began to drive you back to your dorm. a comfortable silence filled the car as you two sat in each other’s presence. he kept his eyes on the road, pretending that he didn’t feel you glancing at him here and there. well, he tried to pretend.
“why do you keep looking at me?” he asked, interrupting the silence.
“because i wanted to see how long it would take before you realized and snapped.” you giggled. “almost eleven minutes, thats one minute of mighty progress!” you added sarcastically.
without a word, eren pulls over to the side of the road.
“what are you doing?” you questioned, looking around for a few seconds before returning your eyes to the gorgeous man.
he continues as he turns his body to you. he didn’t utter a word as he sat, looking directly into your eyes. you had no choice but to stare back, the air grew thicker; the atmosphere of the car heavier.
fratboy!eren who studied your face as he stared at you with such softness in his eyes that it made you forget everything you knew about him. his reputation, his flaws, his cocky attitude. none of it mattered, because when he looked at you with that look on his face, you felt your insides turn into pure glitter. he took this as a chance to really take in your features: your loving e/c eyes that stared back at him partly in confusion and partly intrigued, your plump lips that he hadn’t stopped thinking about since the first time he’d spoken to you. the way your eyebrows furrowed, your perfectly sculpted cheekbones. he even noticed the way your face began to redden as he continued to observe you. your lips finally began to curl into a small, awkward smile.
“forty-seven seconds.” he announced, silky voice cutting through the silence.
“what?”
“took you forty-seven seconds to snap.” he chuckles as he turns the car back on and continues to drive back to your dorm, “you’d better work on that.”
“oh, shut up, jaeger.” you retort, lightly slapping his arm away from you as you attempt to hide your blushing face. “i didn’t snap.” you could still hear your own heartbeat in your ears. honestly, you were surprised you even lasted that long.
໒꒰ྀི っ ⸝⸝ ˂ ꒱ྀིა / ໒꒰ྀིっ˕ -｡꒱ྀི১౨ৎ
for my daylight @wave4hyka
part 2 since literally two people asked for it haha
probably not fully proofread so excuse me and why does this lowk give slow burn like okayy
have we considered miyeong being really into the fact that she’s the unnie of the group and both of her lovers are (a year or two) younger than her when she’s alive, and then when she comes back to life and those lovers are now 59 and 60 and even hotter, she has a moment where she’s like “am i into grandmas?”
and then after an…interesting…internet deep dive, she, still sweating from that search, goes to celine and poppy where they’re sitting on the couch in their living room and tells them “guys im into gilfs” (she just learned that term).
(they are not back together yet. this is both a friendly confession and an attempt at reassurance that she thinks they’re really hot still even though they’re much older.
they do not take it as such. they instead spend ages stewing in jealousy every time she even looks at an old lady.)
