#and my teacher who hates everyone and also grams b/c disturbances

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Could I possibly ask for a EreAni valentines day thingy? I'm thinking something like Eren goes over the top with buying gifts for Annie, not expecting anything in return? And then Annie surprises him with either a super special gift, or with a kiss out of nowhere (maybe even in public which makes it more surprising and shocking)? Idk something along those lines. Please and thank you!

At my hs they sold grams with doughnuts and stuff but no one ever bought me those :c I feel like Eren would be very over the top always with any holiday that allows him to give gifts to Annie~

Valentine’s Grams

EreAni. High school AU. 

1229 words. 

“Ah, Valentine’s Day,” Mr. Smith smiles as students dressed as cupids and devils scramble around the classroom as they pass out gifts. Mr. Smith himself has an impressive pile of chocolates piling up on his desk and Annie suspects that most of them come from hopeful schoolgirls and not grateful students like Mr. Smith probably thinks. “I remember what it was like to be young and in love.”

Annie would have preferred being in Shadis’ class during this time. Shadis absolutely hated any classroom disruptions – once even yelling at a newspaper student who had requested a short interview of class president Marco Bodt – and he definitely wouldn’t have tolerated these silly Valentine’s grams.

Does she hate Valentine’s Day? No, but she can’t bring herself to like it either. She always finds herself running into five times as many, er, affectionate couples and it makes it all the more difficult to run to class. Then there are the gifts. They were so much more practical in elementary school. Candies and cards, simple and sweet. Now it seems like everyone’s trying to one up each other with various giant stuffed animals that people can barely stuff in their lockers and bouquets that are way too fragrant to be allowed into class without being distracting. Maybe she should have skipped school. Thinking about all of this was making her feel nauseous.

“Oh wow!” Mr. Smith says when he sees a giant teddy bear as big as a person walk into the door.

Connie Springer’s face appears behind the bear. “Hey, Mr. Smith. Just the usual V-Day delivery again.” In addition to the bear, he has bags filled with flowers and boxes of chocolates. He even has a boombox with him for some strange reason.

“Do you need any help?” Mr. Smith asks. He looks concerned and for good reason. Connie looks as if he’s about to get crushed by the giant plush toy at any minute.

“Nah, it’s cool. It’s all for one person anyway,” Connie assures him, already walking towards Annie’s side of the room. He finally stops at her desk and plops the bear down beside her before dropping the bags on her desk, not even bothering to wait for her to clear off her textbook and notebook beforehand.

“Connie, what the fuck are you doing?” Annie hisses, horrified at the pile of gifts on her desk. It almost rivals the mountain of chocolates sitting on top of Mr. Smith’s desk right now. “Sasha’s not in this class. And I’m not Sasha.”

“Oh, Sasha and I are going out to a new restaurant that opened up recently, so don’t worry about it. It’s nice that you’re concerned though,” Connie tells her. Unlike her, he speaks at a normal level and, because everyone’s attention was currently on her, everyone can hear every single word he’s saying. “Eren wanted to get all of this for you. I owe him a lot of money.”

Mr. Smith, in typical Mr. Smith fashion, grins widely and says, “Looks like Mr. Jaeger cares about you quite a bit, Annie! You must be thrilled!”

She’s actually mortified and would murder Connie right now, but she knows he’s only the messenger.

“This is great,” she mutters. She looks up to see that Connie’s still there, fiddling with the boombox. “What are you still doing here? Aren’t you done?”

“Almost,” Connie replies, not noticing her murderous glare. He presses a button and his face lights up as the music starts. He pulls out a pair of shades from his front shirt pocket and slips them on, shooting a finger gun at her in a pose that would be comical if it weren’t directed at her. “Alright! Get ready for the grand finale, Annie.”

Oh God, she thinks when she realizes that the song’s introduction is disturbingly familiar to her.

“As he came into the window, was a sound of a crescendo,” Connie warbles off-key. “He came into her apartment. He left bloodstains on the carpet.” He’s even moonwalking, very poorly Annie might add, as if his out of tune singing wouldn’t be enough to embarrass her.

Reiner, that bastard, is singing along with Connie (although he admittedly has a much nicer voice than Annie would have guessed) while other students clap along and bob their heads.

“Annie, are you okay, you okay, you okay, Annie? You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by a smooth criminal!” Connie finishes before Mr. Smith walks over to hit the “stop” button on the boombox.

“I think Annie’s had enough of that for today,” Mr. Smith laughs. “But I do appreciate the gusto with which you delivered her gifts, Mr. Springer.”

Annie doesn’t know if she should be grateful that Mr. Smith finally ended her misery or hate him for not ending it earlier.

“Thanks, Mr. Smith!” Connie beams, giving the math teacher a quick salute. He turns to smile at Annie. At this point Annie thinks he’s stupid because he doesn’t even flinch when she glares at him. “See ya, Annie! Hope you and Eren have a nice Valentine’s Day!”

When she walks out of class, she hears the faint hum of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal.” She continues to walk forward, planning on ignoring the cruel the person responsible for the horror she endured just ten minutes before, but she feels a hand grab her arm and pull her back.

“Hey, Annie.” Her boyfriend grins at her even as she glares at him. “You okay? I almost didn’t see you behind that giant bear.”

She shoves the enormous plush toy into his arms. “If you hum or make any more mentions about ‘Smooth Criminal,’ I will murder you.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll stop,” Eren says. He’s already taking her bags from her even though she has no trouble carrying them herself. “But did you like everything?”

To be honest, it’s far more than she would have liked, but she doesn’t want to crush his soul. And she actually is fond of chocolate and the bear is rather cute even though she has no idea where she’ll put it in her room.

“It was very sweet,” she finally says. “Except for Connie’s singing. Did you know he was tone deaf?”

“Yeah, he’s terrible,” Eren says affectionately. He shifts the bear so he can take a look at Annie better. “I’m going to drop everything off at your locker now. Do you have anything else you want to give me?”

Did she? Not really. She didn’t think they would be the type to exchange gifts on Valentine’s Day, so she didn’t get him anything at all. Now she was feeling a bit guilty, especially since he had bought her so many things (that she didn’t particularly care for but that didn’t make her feel any less bad about it).

“Yeah, just, um.” Annie brushes her hair out of her bangs before leaning up to kiss her boyfriend. It’s difficult to tell who’s more surprised when they pull away. But it must be her because she immediately bolts in the other direction after her lips leave his.

“Hey, Annie!” Eren calls as she speed walks away. She should have known better than to run away from him. He’s raising his voice now, the other students in the hall stopping in their tracks to stare. “Annie, did you just kiss me?”

She could turn around and tell him to shut up, but she knows he’s going to be far too gleeful in seeing her blushing face so she flips him off instead.