Servant

Chapter 18

Eren P.O.V

"Are you kidding me?!" Isabelle exclaimed as her eyes glistened with overdramatic tears. "First, Armin leaves for a whole month, and the day after he comes back, you're telling me you get to leave for Stohess tomorrow?!" She exclaimed and finally smacked her head down on the table, so hard that I anticipated blood to start pouring out of her skull.

But thankfully, it didn't.

Furlan sighed and rubbed Isabelle's back before looking up at me. "I wish you good fortune as you embark on your journey." He said with a kind smile, and I smiled in return. "Thanks, Furlan."

I replied, and Armin smiled. "So, you get to spend the whole thing with Levi, right?" He asked, and just like last time, I started choking on my food.

When I finally stopped hacking up my organs, I stared at Armin as if he had grown a second head. "What does that have to do with anything?!" I asked in a whisper, which made him chuckled."Oh, come on Eren! Do you like the guy or not?" Isabelle asked as she stopped fake crying. "No!" I exclaimed, my face red, from annoyance or embarrassment, I didn't know.

"Your face says all I need to know," Isabelle concluded, and I sighed in exasperation. "Believe what you want to believe." I grumbled and Isabelle smirked."Oh trust me I will..." she muttered and stared at me with a weird glint in her green eyes, making me want to shrink back.

Furlan got wide-eyed and shook his head. "Isabelle, we don't need to go that far-" he was abruptly cut off as Isabelle got up and ran around the table towards me before sitting beside me. She placed a finger on my neck and asked me a question."What do you think of Levi?" She asked, and my face reddened. "What are you-" she cut me off with a 'hah!'." Your heart rate increased! He fell into the valley of love and he fell hard!" Isabelle finished, and I practically felt my soul leave my body in embarrassment.

Armin tapped my shoulder as if to bring me back to reality as I stared off into the distance, my mind in a dreamy state. Isabelle smiled and walked around the table before sitting next to Furlan again, and I eventually set my head on the table.

How come every time I hear about him, my heart rate increases and my face heats up? Why do I feel so warm and bubbly when I'm near him? Is Isabelle right? Do I like him as more than a friend?

Levi's face filled my vision as I thought about him, and I blushed.

No, I can't think like that! Besides, even if he did like me it's not like that's ever gonna happen! He's the kings's nephew, I'm just some servant who he happens to like a little more than the others.

My face wouldn't tone down its red colour, not even after Mr Smith rung the bell, telling everyone to throw away their food and get back to work, and not after we got to Levi's study.

Because the realization had hit me, like a brick to the face.

I have indeed fallen for Prince Levi Ackerman.

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After hours of telling myself that having intimate feelings for him was ridiculous, I eventually started to believe the voices in my head as I laid down on my bed.

For some reason, sleep seemed so out of reach, and that made me a little mad. I sat up with my boxers on and walked across the room before reaching my chair and grabbing the book on it.

I flipped to my page but dropped the book as a knock was heard at my door. I yelped in surprise and when I finally calmed down, I opened the door.

There stood a frantic Armin.