The One that Got Away • Zeke Jaeger X Reader

Chapter 6

As I stand up someone hold my wrist to stop me.

I tilted my head to see the face of the person, and I'm surprised when I saw it.

"W-what are you doing?" I asked Zeke while he's still holding my wrist.

"Y/N, I heard it all. They were threatening you." Zeke said and you can see in his face that he's so worried.

"H-huh?" I can't say any better word than that. My eyes are already shredding into tears.

"Earlier, I heard that if you give up becoming a warrior they'll kill you. And I h-heard you crying and talking to yourself." Zeke said.

I let out of his hold on my wrist, and I hold his wrist to pull him and check the place to make sure no one is listening.

"I-I wanna give up so bad." I rant to him while crying on his shoulders.

He's just caressing my hair and listening to my rant.

"D-do you think I-I should give up?" I look up to him to see his face while my tears still dropping into my eyes.

He stayed silent for a minute and then he speak up.

"If you think you have no reason to be alive, you're wrong, because I'm here." He said while his smiling to himself. "If you don't have anyone to lean on, I'm always here, I'll understand you no matter what happens." He said while still caressing your hair. "Plus, you know that life is very important. If you really have hard times about giving up on your life, just think about the things that motivates you to keep living. You have me, you have us your comrades, so don't give up." Zeke said.

"T-thank you Zeke, for always being there for me, thank you because you're the only one who understands and know about me." I said and looked up to him to smile.

He looked down to me to see my face and he warmly smiled at me.

"You're always welcome, Y/N." Zeke said and warmly smiled.

I already stopped crying and we talked about our life.

Zeke told me about his parents.

"I got my mom and dad arrested, because they were an restorationist." He said while looking down.

"They were probably turned into a titan, because of me." He sadly said.

I just listened to him quietly.

"I was 7 years old back then. My reason I also did thay was to save my grandparents." He added.

"You were 7 years old back then, maybe you just really think what they are doing is wrong. Besides, it's not your fault though, because you just did that to save your grandparents." I said to him.

"Yeah." He replied.

"H-hey I'm sorry if I'm not relly good at comforting." I said to him and apologetically smiled. It's true that I'm not used at comforting people, especially I've never had an friend before. Oh wait, I had one, It's Levi, but he already forgotten about me for sure.

"It's fine, you, listening to me, it already comforts me so much." He said and I blushed a little so I looked away. Why am I blushing?

"H-hey, I think we need to go back to them, they will at me again for sure." I said.