Memories [SnK: Ereri]

Chapter 2 - Monday

I gave him the money and sat down on the chair.

"Is it you first tattoo?" The man asked, dipping the needle in the ink. I nodded, far away with my thoughts.

Was Eren alive? Maybe it was him...

"How did the man looked like?" I asked.
"Well, he was tall. Brown hair and big green eyes."

I smiled, looking at the needle, wich was brushing over my skin.
"Do you know him?" I was asked.

Stupid question.
I knew almost everything about him.
The life we had together was real.
Yes, it was. I never forgot how he looked like... But I slowly forgot how his soft skin felt.
How his lips felt on mine.
His voice, beautiful like the the sunrise after weeks of rain.
All these memories slowly drifted away and got blurred.
I didn't want to him to fade. No, I wanted him lying next to me when I wake up, like he did many years ago.

"Well, I have never met him but yes. Yes, I know him. More than everyone else."
I said, smiling sadly while I gazed at the outlines of the tattoo.
The man didn't answered, just continuing dipping the needle in the ink again and again. He looked confused and uncofortable, so I decided to stay quite.

He was here a few days ago?

I could't believe it but I knew it was him.

Does he remember anything?

He had to, because he knew the Wings of Freedom.

Maybe he would remember...
I don't know.

I felt tears burning in my eyes and I swallowed to hold them back.

We didn't talked much after that and when the man finished the tattoo, he told me how I had to maintain it.
"If the boy comes here again... Please hand this to him." I took a pen and the piece of paper with the Wings of Freedom on it, wrote down the adress of the café under the symbol, we both had on our wrists and gave it to the man behind the counter.
"I will." He smiled friendly and I left the studio.

He's somewere out there in the city.

After 20 years it was the first sign from him.
I got into my car and drove home.

Tears were running down my face and when I got into my house, I fell on my bed, curled up and closed my eyes.

I didn't know what to to.
If I should search for him or if I should wait.
I didn't know anything, exept Eren was alive and I wanted to see him.