𝚁𝚎𝚗𝚘, 𝙲𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚊
𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚢, 𝟽:𝟹𝟽𝚊𝚖
𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦; 𝘈 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢
𝘼 𝙊𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙨
﹏𓊝﹏ Morning called like nothing before. The soft patterns of the fresh morning rain pattered against your window, reminded you of the tears you shed the night before.
Against your bed frame is where you placed your head, watching eren shuffle in with bags upon bags of your belongings.
He kept his promise.
The scent of breakfast washed over your face, and the sizzling sound of bacon could be heard from downstairs.
You crawled out of bed, the cold hard wood floor sent chills down your body at the sudden change of temperature.
Looking through your green duffel bag you pulled out a soft pair of fuzzy socks, since you hadn't had your house shoes.
Cracking the room door you peeked through it for some odd reason. You crept down the stairs trying not to make up their roommate.
"Good morning n/n," Atiyana beamed while flipping what seemed to be like a burnt pancake.
"Ati the pancakes are burning," You giggled as her face turned into complete shock. "But good morning to you too."
You sat right in front of ati on the kitchen bar table that was placed right behind the stove where she was cooking breakfast.
Hearing the sound of the door open you leaned backwards from the stool you were sitting at and watched as Eren appears from the entrance.
He took off his muddy slides and set them on the welcome mat. His hair wasn't in his usual bun or ponytail, but was laid flat and wet due to the heavy rain.
"Mornin' n/n" Eren spoke in huffs, dropping all your belongings in front of the door.
He walked over to Ati and gave her a few kisses on her cheek before taking a seat next to you.
"Oh my God Eren, your face!" You shouted now seeing a few scratches on his upper nose and bruised knuckles.
"Yea Flotch is actually insane," Eren chuckled while leaning against the bar table. You looked over at Ati who seemed un amused by it. Maybe she saw already.
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"Thanks for bringing my stuff" You said with a warm smile while folding and putting away your clothes.
"No problem, I know Naz woulda called me a 'bitch ass' if I didn't" Eren replied with a low chuckle.
You laughed at the mention of your older brother. "I'm pretty sure he would."
Eren sat at the edge of your bed watching as you neatly put things away. You were always organized, you were the type of person to un pack all your things when going to a hotel even if you were only staying one night.
You loved that fresh and untouched feeling of a room, you enjoyed having your space looking like nobody even lived there.
"I wanted to ask you somethin' " Eren started.
"Hm?" you replied setting your canvas neatly in your closet.
"You know we have a roommate, right?"
"Duh, you act like i've just never been here," you laughed while walking out the closest.
You knew Eren's best friend; Armin lived with them, you also knew for a fact if he wasn't living there the bills wouldn't make it each month.
You heard Eren chuckled, then the door open and shut with him leaving.
Looking around your room you mentally patted yourself on the back since you believed you did a good job of making it your own.
You sat on your bed and grabbed your phone from the night stand, it took a few minutes to turn fully on so you waited. once it turned on you saw several messages from Flotch. You didn't really read them but you saw one that read 'don't send that bitch eren to my house no more'
You quickly blocked him, and looked through the other messages from your inbox. some were from your family group chat and others were from flotche's parents asking why would you even cheat on their son.
Giggling a bit then blocked them. You looked through your socials you noticed nothing new since you didn't make your break up public just yet.
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It was a great thing you didn't have classes on Friday's, because today wouldn't be a great day for studying.
You sat on top of an old blanket that you placed on the floor. You had a few primary colors of pant splatted on your palette.
You mixed in red and blue, which gave you a vibrant purple, then added a bit of white since you needed it to be more of lighter.
Taking your brown wooden liner brush you began to draw little Iris flowers.
Iris flowers were your favorite flowers, you loved how light they were, yet how bold and beautiful they were.
Your hair was tied back into a semi-high ponytail and you wore your black square glasses that framed your face perfectly.
You were still in your pajamas because you didn't have any plans on going out any time soon and wanted to feel comfortable.
"Shit," you murmured as a bit of paint splashed against your cheek as you tried to push out more white paint.
Muffled voices could be heard from downstairs but you didn't bother with going down. Why would you purposely put yourself in an embarrassing situation?
Your hair was in months old braids, you were still in pajamas and to make your case worse they were mitch match ones covered in paint, and your face was so puffy from crying.
Going down stairs was an automatic no go.
Getting up from the floor you began to play some music not wanting to hear Eren and his friends scream over the game.
A few knocks on the door came from your door, "who is it?' you softly shouted over your music.
"Ati," atiyana said while pushing the door open.
"Ion want to be alone," she pouted while making herself comfortable on your bed.
"I bet, yo ass haf to deal with this every weekend huh?" you laughed turning down the volume of your music.
"Mhm."
You went into your bathroom to clean yourself off while Ati just laid in your bed watching youtube and scrolling tiktok.
You decided to change into a sweat suit but still kept your braids in a ponytail.
"I need my hair done," you sighed
"You wanna get our hair done tomorrow?" she asked not looking away from her phone.
"Uh, I don't know maybe," you hesitated for a second, "actually yea I'ma book us an appointment."
"Okay bet," Ati smiled seeing you were slowly coming back to your normal self.
"Let's watch a movie," you suggested while grabbing your remote and turning the tv on.
Scrolling through netflix was like swiping through tinder, nothing good was on there, and the ones that were good you had already watched or Ati refused to watch.
"Okay fuck it let's watch 'IT' " you gave in and turned on the movie you and her watched about a million times.
This was Ati's all time favorite movie so when you put it on she practically chucked her phone at the end on the bed.
The sound Ati's gasped made you jump up in terror. You felt your heart skip a beat or two and you felt your feet grow cold underneath the warmth of your socks.
"Bitch!," Ati bellowed with wide eyes as if she just saw a ghost, "We need snacks!"
You rolled your eyes and smacked your lips, giving her a soft push you laughed, "I den thought you saw somethin'. "
Ati laughed and swung the blankets off the two of you. Now in new attire you weren't as embarrassed to walk down stairs.
Ati held your hand while you guys rushed into the kitchen.
"Bro armin stop shooting at bots and fuckin' rez me!" you heard Eren scream.
You sat on top of the counter while Ati ransacked the pantry. She grabbed two big bags of chips, Eren's gummy worms you knew he was going to cry about later, gatorade that read 'armin's' in black ink and a bag of chocolate covered pretzels.
You peeked over and looked into the living room and saw there was about two guys you didn't know.
"Ati!" you whispered as she held candy bars underneath her chin.
"Huh?" she whispered back
"Who are they?"
"Uh, eren's friends, only one of them live here."
"I know that but the other two?" you rolled your eyes and smacked your lips while jumping down from the counter and grabbing some of the snacks from her hand.
"The bald one, connie, went to high school with us," she replied penguin walking out of the kitchen. "And the horse lookin' one Eren met through connie."
The two of you tired sneaking past the living room but Ati's chips kept crackling causing all attention from the boy on the two of you.
"Babe?" Eren questioned with his eyebrows scrunching up
You just stood there with a bag of pretzels and a huge soda in your hand frozen like an ice block.
"What?" she answers with a rude mug.
You could hear here trying to catch her breath as if she had run a marathon with weights tied to her legs and a big coach screaming in her ear.
"Why do y'all have all that food?"
"We watchin' a movie mind yours," she spat
Your eyes peered towards armin's gaze. You could feel how hard he looked at you even when focused on Ati's argument with Eren.
His gawking was almost like he was stabbing into your soul, his eyes never left your figure.
For a second it felt like your brain shut down, you tuned out Ati's screams and focused souly on Armin.
He's the boy you bumped into at the store, but this time his long hair was chopped. He had a visible septum, and both sides of his nose were pierced. How did you not recognize that it was Armin that evening?
That question slipped your mind when the thought of how hot he looked. How could he, after all these years go un-noticed to you?
He had perfect rosy lips, abs, and was tall as hell. He kept him self clean and well put together, the total opposite of Flotch.
It was almost like fate did this, why did you bump into him on the same day you got cheated on, then end up having to live under the same roof as him.
It was weird to you and shaking that thought was proving to be rather difficult when his eyes never left yours.
He wore a white wife beater with low sweats that should off his Calvin Klein underwear. He wore some white crocs that were kept overly clean and had a few ocean charms on them.
"Aye, stop eye fuckin' her and help me!" a guy yelled while clicking on random buttons.
The guy had a clean buzz cut. His eyes were a warm hazel color and he had a mild accent. He wore all black with silver jewelry. He had a stud in his nose and a small face tattoo of a rose.
"Connie stop your going to embarrass him," another guy spoke
He had a softer tone in his voice, it was like he was talking to a child when referring to Armin but you knew he was being shady in some type of way. He had a shaggy mullet and a septum. His eyes were almost like forest green but leaned more to a brown color. He wore black sweats and a grey sweater with a random pair of dad slippers.
"Jean shut the fuck up!" Connie shouted while smacking his lips.
"Ain't nobody eye fuckin' nobody, that's not even a real thing," Armin broke eye contact and focused back onto the game.
"Anyways, me and y/n are gonna watch OUR movie, and eat OUR snacks!" Ati shouted while shoving Eren's head in the cushion of the couch.
She grabbed your wrist and pulled you up the stairs without any warning forcing you to run at her pace.
"I swear to god Eren just pisses me off," she grumbled underneath her breath while slamming your door shut.
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The movie began playing and you were cuddled up under the fluffy white blankets. The soft crunches from Ati's chips echoed into your ears while she held a soft smile on her face.
You reached into the bag of chocolate pretzels and ate them one by one. The soft chocolate taste filled your taste buds and the sweet sugar taste hit your teeth with each bite.
"n/n we forgot the popcorn!" Ati gasped while swinging her body upwards "Can you please make it?"
Your first response was to say no, but you knew that would lead Ati to pester you like a homeless dog for food and that was one thing you didn't want as of right now.
Without saying anything you got up and walked down the stairs. The air was extremely cold down there. It was almost like there was Antarctica themed party in the living room and kitchen.
In the kitchen sat all the boys from before. They all stood around the counter talking about girls and other random shit you could care less about.
"n/n?" Eren called you out as you peeked from the side of the kitchen.
You mentally cursed Eren out and fully showed yourself.
"Hi," you said quickly with a short wave.
You were never really the shy type, but one thing you did hate was a group of boys, and fine ones at that.
Your glasses sat at your nose as the guys all looked at you. "Hey," Eren laughed at you and gave you the same wave back.
"I need popcorn," you mumbled pushing past Eren and walking into the pantry
"aye ma!" Connie called to you causing you to look back
"Hm?" you said looking at the tall boy.
"what's good with you?" he laughed showing off his silver fangs in his mouth.
How were you supposed to answer this question? It was so confusing, in this moment you felt like a kid who just got introduced to letters in a math problem; brainless.
You shrugged your shoulders and pulled out a microwavable bag of popcorn. "she speaks english?" Connie laughed to eren who just laughed while nodding his head yes.
"She actin' all shy now, but she'd be quick to beat my ass if I say sum outta pocket shit."
You ignored all their comments and placed the popcorn into the microwave.
It wasn't necessarily that you were shy. You were in a new environment, around, new people, got cheated on yesterday, and now they were asking you un-answerable questions.
"I'm jean," Jean said with a smile planted on his face. "This is connie," he pointed at the two other males in the room. "i'm assuming you know our boy Armin already?"
"Yea I do" you replied with a slight smile. "I'm y/n by the way, nice to meet you guys"
Armin didn't say anything but just kept watching his phone in silence. You didn't really care though, you couldn't force words out of people.
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"What took so long?" Ati asked taking the popcorn from your hands
"Eren's friends are weird," you formed a thin line with your lips and jumped back into the bed.
"Yea, but Armin is okay," she laughed and opened the freshly made popcorn. Steam spilled out of it and the buttery goodness suffocated your nose.
"Where does Armin sleep?" you asked out of pure curiosity.
"Right across from you," she babbled with a stuffed mouth.
"oh."
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