Red, green, white and blue were the most outstanding colors that jumped out at Levi as soon as the door to Eren's home was opened.
Eren was the first of the two to step inside. He took off his jacket and hung it into a nearby closet. As he turned back he saw Levi standing outside on the same spot that Eren had left him when he had walked in.
"Hey Levi, I thought you wanted to come in." Chuckling, Eren walked closer to the man.
As he got closer he could see Levi's eyes staring off into the distance. Eren followed his line of sight to a picture of his mother on the small glass hallway table.
"That's my mother…" He smiled fondly as he looked at his mother's photo.
"I-I see." Levi had been broken from his trance to look back to Eren. "Y-You look just like her."
"Thanks, a lot of people say that." Eren walked back outside and pushed Levi slightly to head inside. Eren had come back in front of him and started walking further into the house.
"Would you like some hot chocolate?" Eren offered as he turned his head around to see Levi as he continued to walk. Eren stopped as soon as he noticed Levi's shaking body as he walked behind him.
"Are you cold? Hold on I'll be right back with a blanket." Without waiting for a response from the man, he was off to get a blanket for his make-up artist.
Levi stood standing in the hallway; he was unaware that his body had been shaking. He looked around the hall and saw a threshold to small living room. He aliped inside and took a seat on the small white loveseat. His body was still trembling, not from the cold, but from the touches that he loved yet hated with a passion.
"Oh! There you are Levi." Eren appeared around the corner of the threshold and into the living room. He held a scarlet red, thick as Hell blanket that Levi could of honestly thought was a fluffy dog.
Eren gently laid the blanket on Levi, making sure that there was no way any part of Levi was sticking out.
"Would you like anything to drink birthday boy?" The pop star asked as he was to head to the kitchen to get them both something to drink.
''Yeah there's totally something I want you to drink.' Levi cursed his 22 year old mind dirty ass mind at thinking such dirty jokes towards the 15 year old. "Do ya have coffee?" He asked.
Eren's thinking face was really a precious thing to see. His brows would slightly raise as he looked up towards the ceiling while the left side of Eren's mouth would pull back a bit into a somewhat smile. Levi was unfortunate that the whole world knew about this face that Eren makes. At least he still has the pictures.
"I don't think so, but I do have some black tea." He mentions. Levi perks up a bit at the mention of Eren having black tea. Eren turned away to leave the room as he got his response. "Black tea it is then."
Christmas music played in the background as Levi and Eren sat in the living room sipping on their black tea and hot chocolate. The clock nearby alerted the two of them that it was midnight.
"Ah, it's midnight. Every Christmas Eve at midnight my family and I would open one present each as seen as a tradition in my family." Eren had moved up from his seat and went into the next room to a present.
A minute later Eren returned back to the living room and shoved a present into Levi's face.
"Calm the fuck down. I'm not going anywhere."
"Yeah I know, just open it."
Levi rolled his eyes then set his gaze on the present in his lap. It was in a rectangle shape and covered in blue and green wrapping paper that shined from the light from the Christmas tree lights and topped off with a black ribbon that was tied around the box.
He slid off the black ribbon and placed it nest to him. He then started to unwrap the wrapping paper carefully because he wanted to keep the paper. It was too pretty to crumble and throw away.
As he unwrapped it his usual monotone face turned sour.
"What the fuck is this?"
"Your gift." Eren chuckled.
"This is a box of fucking Mr. Clean sponges you piece of shit!" Levi had taken out sponges one by one as he threw them at Eren.
"Hahahahaha!" He ran out of the room while Levi continued to throw sponges at the boy.
As soon as Eren left laughing his ass off while his ran out of the living room, he returned with small silver wrapped box.
"Here's your real present. Happy Birthday Levi." Eren charmed in as he handed the small box towards Levi.
Levi unwrapped the box this time to find a Rolex watch. His usual stoned eyes widened at the sight of this watch.
"Try it on Levi. It's meant to be yours."
Levi took it out of the box and turned the watch all around to view the whole thing.
"What's this say? I can't speak German."
"It says 'Ich liebe dichi Levi.'"
"And?"
"You have to find out on your own." Eren sent him a warm smile as he sat beside Levi on the armrest.
"Happy Birthday Levi and Merry Christmas."
"Thanks. 'Jun'."
"Stop that. You know I hate that people call me that when I'm not on stage." He pouted his lips toward Levi.
"Yeah, yeah. Well thank you for this small birthday party. It's nice to celebrate every once in a great while."
"What do you me-" Eren was cut short due to the loud ringtone of Levi's phone, alerting that someone was calling him.
Eren right away recognized the ringtone as one of his songs, "Turn the lights out".
Levi scrambled to grab his phone to prevent the ringtone from going on any longer as he searched through his bag.
"So, you're a fan Levi?" Eren snickered as a frustrated Levi searched for his phone.
He finally found it in the deepest part of his bag.
He immediately opened his phone and pressed talk, not caring who was calling. He just wanted the ringing to stop.
"Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Rivai! Happy Birthday to you!" Levi recognized the voice it belonged to as soon as their voice left the speaker of his phone.
"God damn it Hanji do you know what time it is?"
"Yup! It's time for you to grow a year older!" They chimed.
"Thanks." He sighed.
"Whatcha doin Levi? Are you asleep? Did I wake you up?" Too many questions came out of the speaker as Levi tried to catch every word that they had said and questioned.
Levi had leaned over and put his thumb and index finger in between his eyes and pinched there till he found a time to interrupt her. "Hanji can you call me later today. You can ask me all you want then alright?"
"Sure no problem!" With that said they quickly hung up and Levi was placed back into the reality where Eren was still sitting next to him.
"Well, she sounds super excited for a person at 12 at night on Christmas Eve."
"Yeah, well 'they'" Levi corrected him. " are always like that. They live out in California so you know, different time zones and shit."
Eren nodded in agreement at that and stood up off of the chair.
"Well it's time to go to bed don't ya think?" Eren asked Levi as he stretched his arms.
"Yeah I guess it's time for me to head home now." Levi stood up off of the loveseat and started to gather his things.
"It's too late for you to go home. Plus do you really want to go back out into the snow again?"
Oh god how Levi hated the cold weather.
"You can stay in the guest bedroom. It's up the stairs and on the left side of the hallway towards the end. There should be clean sheets in the closet int the room. You can use those." Eren had took both of their cup and was about to leave the room.
"You can go up right now if you want. I'll be right up after I put these two cups away alright?"
"Yeah, sure, thanks." Levi started walking towards the doorway as Eren gathered the cups.
As Levi walked up the stairs, he couldn't help but smile a bit at the thought of this being the best birthday he's had in years.