A/N:I felt like I should put a trigger warning here because this story is going to have a lot of suicidal tendencies along with anorexic problems. I don't plan on it being light, so if these things upset you a lot, I would suggest not reading.
"Eren." The sound of a light piece of paper was slammed down onto a desk. The brunette that was sitting at the desk flinched. His green eyes slowly dragged up the pale arm that belonged to the man who slammed the paper down in the first place. He was an unpleasant man, very short, and a very annoyed look was plastered on his face just about all the time. Eren, the brunette sitting at the desk let out a sigh as he prepared for the words that were soon to come out of his teacher's mouth. "This is embarrassing..."
The brunette looked down at his paper, realizing it was the test that he took a week ago, and saw all the red marks scribbled on it. His teacher- Levi- moved on to the next student, handing back their tests to the class. Eren rolled his eyes as he scanned over the comments his teacher made.
"Not even close," "What?" "Did you even study for this?" "How did you come to this answer? EXPLAIN." "Read the directions," "Try harder next time. This is sad."
"Douche bag..." Eren mumbled under his breath as he propped his hand under his chin. He heard some chuckling and chattering coming from students behind him, but no distinctive words could be made out. Levi had made his way back to his desk at this point, grading some other homework assignment. The bell rang loudly, startling some kids, while others were already heading towards the door as it went off. Eren put his paper away, and pulled his bag over his shoulders, getting ready to leave, only to be stopped by his teacher. "Eren." The brunette rolled his eyes, grudgingly turning his body towards his teacher. "Sit."
Eren glanced at the door, and then looked at his seat. He knew this would take longer if he didn't just suck it up and go with it, so against every whim in his body, he turned around and sat his ass back down.
His teacher was staring at him, silence filling the room as all the students left, and it was just the two of them. Eren avoided eye contact with his teacher, knowing that it was just going to be a lecture about how bad of a student he was.
The silence was finally broken as Levi set his papers aside and gave his full attention to his student now. "You do realize that you need to pass this class in order to graduate, right?" Eren rolled his eyes, already annoyed. Of course he knew that, he didn't need to be talked to like an idiot. "Your grades have done nothing but plummeted recently. You used to be one of the top students in this class, but now you're almost at the bottom. What's with all this?" Levi gave a moment of silence, hoping that he would get an answer, but there was nothing but an ignorant shrug. "That's not acceptable." He commented. "You've only got a few weeks left until the end of the marking period, you can't afford to take this class over again, especially when you're graduating this year." Levi sighed as he leaned back in his chair, flicking his pen between his fingers as he waited yet again for Eren to respond.
"What do you want from me? My grades are bad, I get that." Eren spat out.
"Your grades are going to cause you to stay behind at least another semester instead of graduating on time with the rest of your class." Levi retorted. "What I want from you is to re-do all of your homework assignments from this past marking period. Anything below a 60% I want re-done."
"What?!" Eren exclaimed. "How am I gonna find the time to do that?!"
"Two days a week, for another hour I want you to stay after class, in here with me. You'll spend it re-doing your homework assignments and studying for your final. As long as you get at least an 85% on your final, and you turn in all of your finished homework assignments, then you should be able to graduate on time just like everybody else."
"Why don't any of the other kids have to do this then?" Eren countered irritably.
"Because out of the students who have some of the worst grades in the class, you are the only one that can actually graduate from passing this class. The others will have to take another year regardless. And the rest of the students have their shit together, or have to pull their shit together for another class-which at that point, is none of my concern." Levi pulled his grading book out and grabbed out a folder with "Jaeger" scrawled across it. "In here are all of the homework assignments you never completed or just failed to turn in completely. I don't care what two days you choose, but it will be those two same days each week. Although, whether or not you choose to turn this around is solely up to you."
"What if I can't come in?"
"Then get that work done at home. And make sure you ace the final." Levi held the folder out towards Eren, indicating that the lecture was finally over. Eren sighed deeply, pulling himself out of his desk and grabbing the folder. They held a stare for a moment before Eren turned on his heel and headed for the door. "Jaeger.." Levi called out.
"Yes..?" Eren gritted.
"What happened to your lip?" Levi asked, returning to his paper work.
Eren ran his tongue over his lip, eventually reaching the split and scabbed part on the right side of his mouth. His tongue caused a stinging sensation to jolt through him, but he ignored it. "Boyfriend." He responded bluntly.
"Am I to assume that was from rough housing, or do I need to report that?"
"...It's fine..." Eren scoffed, finally heading out the door. Levi stared after him for a moment before slouching in his chair and getting back to correcting papers.
"Hey." Eren turned his head to the side, seeing the man that cooed the greeting at him. Eren returned the greeting with half a smile, and then extended his hand out to his boyfriend, who had been waiting outside the classroom for him.
"Sorry, Jean..." Eren apologized, looking over his significant other., the bruise that swelled under his eye socket somehow made him feel better "That teachers a dick.."
"What took so long though?" Jean questioned as the two finally headed off to their homes.
"He was lecturing me about my grades again, gave me a bunch of homework now, and he wants me to start coming to his class after school now too to work on all of this." Eren groaned, holding up the folder his teacher had assigned him.
"He's letting you make up your work?" Jean asked looking over the folder in Eren's hand.
"Well... Yeah technically. He said I have to get at least an 85% on the final or I won't pass."
"I don't really see what's wrong with that. Most teachers don't let their students make up any work. You should be a little thankful to that guy man." Jean shrugged.
"Yeah, but it's really none of his business."
After walking through the school building and making their way out towards the parting sidewalk, the two stopped. Eren yawned as Jean pulled his hand away. "Gonna wait for Armin and Mikasa?" Jean asked, shifting his belongings into his other arm.
Eren nodded, looking over his shoulder hoping that they might be there. "You going to go see Marco?"
"Nah, he's already back at the dorm, I'll see him some other time."
"Oh. Does that mean you're free then..?" Eren asked, his eyes once again fixed on the bruise he had left on his boyfriends' face.
"Eh, I mean, for like an hour. We're taking our exam early in my Psychology class, so I was gonna study for that, but if you wanted to chill for a bit.." Jean trailed off, his eyes drawing in on the split lip he had given Eren the other day. The two fell silent as they both tried to ignore the marks they had left on each other. Jean sighed, shrugging his shoulders. "Ah, fuck it, I've got all week to study, did you want to hang out?"
"Are you sure?" Eren asked, raising an eyebrow. "I can't picture you failing a test."
"Eh, that's cause I barely study anyway." Jean smirked, leaning in and placing a soft kiss on Eren's cheek. "I'm just kind of born being this smart and devilishly handsome, so the good grades and babes just come naturally."
Eren shoved Jean away playfully, rolling his eyes. "Shut it, Jean."
Eren looked over his shoulder to see if his two best friends had made their way there yet, but they hadn't. He pulled his phone out and typed a quick 'hanging out w jean' text and sent it to them so they knew not to wait up for him. After slipping his phone back into his pocket, he intertwined their fingers and made their way back to Jean's dorm.
"Jean I swear to God-"
"-What, are you gonna give me another black eye?"
"UGH, You are literally the most insanely difficult person I've ever met!" Eren threw his hands into the air, giving up on his argument with his boyfriend. He was so mad about it, because it literally started over the dumbest thing. They were just trying to make a sandwich to eat while they talked, and they literally just disagreed on what order to put the food on. Eren said it was meat and veggies on bottom, any condiments on top. Jean said it was meat on bottom and any veggies and condiments on top. Now it was somehow completely blown out of proportion, and the two were arguing back and forth, threatening to kick each other's asses.
"You act like you're easy to please..." Jean mumbled under his breath.
Eren ended up throwing the food in his hand down. "Well I'm fucking sorry I'm so damn frustrating to you!"
"You literally just told me that's what I was!" Jean yelled standing out of his kitchen seat. "How the hell are you gonna use that against me?!"
"Why does it always gotta be against you!? Why the fuck do you act like I'm always out to get you!?" Eren yelled back, stepping closer to Jean.
"Are you fucking serious?! Do you listen to yourself talk? You have got to be the biggest fucking idiot on the face of the planet!" Jean screamed.
"I'm still above you on that!"
"Yeah? Is that why you have to have a teacher baby you to pass fucking schoo-"
Jean was cut off when Eren couldn't take it anymore and slammed a fist into the taller man's jaw. Jean looked back in anger, holding onto his cheek and then letting out a frustrating growl and jumping at Eren. The two began rolling around on each other, punching and kicking at one another, screaming insults in between each punch.
"FUCK YOU-!" Jean screamed as he threw his fist against Eren's cheek. Eren retorted by kneeing him in the stomach and kicking him off of him. Jean rolled over, and then crawled away, trying to catch his breath.
The angry brunette gripped onto Jean's leg, and started punching him on this thigh. "I fucking hate you so much! You piece of shit!"
"GODAMMIT THAT HURTS-" Jean shoved Eren's head, trying to push him off of his leg. He threw his free leg at him, hoping it would weaken his grip while Eren kept punching him.
"-FUCK Y-"
"-HEYY!"
The two stopped dead in the their tracks, turning their attention to the door and seeing Armin standing there with his school bag over his shoulder and a bitter look on his face. "Knock. It. Off."
Eren looked to Jean and then let go of his leg, standing up. Jean started to stand and in the process shoved Eren, in which the brunette toppled backwards. After regaining his balance, Eren pushed Jean's shoulder, nearly knocking him over.
"Seriously, guys?" Armin sighed, throwing his bag to the ground. "You two are like kindergartners..." He rolled his eyes as he walked over to them. "Eren... You should probably leave..."
Eren bawled his hands into a fist and then stomped off towards the door. He grabbed his school bag from behind the door and walked out, slamming the door behind him.
There was a silence in the air for a moment, Armin rolling his head towards Jean with a look that said What-The-Hell-Did-You-Do-This-Time? Jean huffed, not saying anything. "Jean..." Armin sighed.
The taller man turned to his blond room mate and rolled his eyes. "What? He started it!"
"You guys can't keep doing that! That's seriously so bad!" Armin pulled out a chair and sat down. "How are you two even still in a relationship at this point?"
Jean let his shoulders slump with a sigh. "I..I don't know man... I just..." He looked off to the side before deciding to sit with Armin. "We just keep getting into fights lately.."
"Have you guys tried... You know, talking? " Armin asked with a sarcastic tone.
Jean shot Armin a mean look before continuing. "He doesn't really talk anymore. Everything we try to talk about just ends up turning into a fight, and then we're both covered in bruises, and everyone's assuming we're in some kind of abusive relationship.."
Armin rose an eyebrow. "You know, you are in an abusive relationship right now...You guys are both abusing the hell out of each other." Jean didn't have any response for the blond, and just groaned. He didn't really know what to do, he honestly wasn't even sure if he still liked Eren, but the idea of them breaking up sounded horrible, so he guessed that he must've if he couldn't leave him. "Look, you're my friend, and you're also my room mate, so I have this obligation to side with you on things, but you need to understand, Eren is my best friend. Eren is really close to me, so I swear if I see you hurt him again, Jean.."
Jean waved a hand in the air. "Yeah, yeah, I know.. I can't keep my temper around him, I don't know. Something's wrong with him and it just pisses me off that he won't do anything about it.. So I just get mad instead of.. Well.. Being more like you."
Armin's face didn't change any, he placed his fingertips on the table and tapped them lightly on the table. "Well maybe you should stop getting pissed off over someone else's emotions, and actually try to be there for them." Before another word could be said, Armin stood up from his spot and walked off towards his room, leaving Jean staring after him with a pissed off look on his bruised face.