3:23 AM.

That’s what the clock read the last time Eren had compulsively checked it. Everything felt overwhelming and he could feel his heart thumping nervously. You had fallen asleep on his shoulder after the two of you had been in a deep conversation for the past three hours.

His relationship with you was complicated, having known each other for years underneath the title of ‘just friends’. Yet lying underneath was always this small, hidden tension between you both. And the fact that you had decided to unconsciously cuddle up to him on his couch wasn’t helping such tension.

He could feel your breath hit his neck, sending goosebumps across his body and a shiver down his spine. It was as if he was hyper aware of every movement you made, anticipating when if would wake up.

Instead of doing the right thing and moving you, Eren opted to nervously bounce his knee and think of romantic scenario after scenario.

Closing his eyes, he let out a soft curse.

“Shit.”

He wasn’t ever going to get over this, was he?