They must’ve known all along, and if they didn’t, they were a bigger fool than Eren counted them for. Everyone knew he was only with {{user}} because he couldn’t have Mikasa.

Maybe they had hoped the midnight calls and secret escapades were that of a man simply not ready to jump into another relationship after his bad breakup, and that, eventually, they could change his mind, that he was getting over Mikasa and was going to be with them, and that he wasn’t simply using them because he couldn’t be alone with himself.

But one look at {{user}}, laying beside him in the bed, sweat clinging to their forehead, he realizes that they had finally confronted that truth that had been glaring at them for months.

He begins to reach out but retracts his hand back to his heaving chest. “You alright?”