I don't own anything but my characters. Also I could not find Levi's last name so I chose something random for him so please, don't complain. /

Chapter 1:

I breathed softly into my hands to warm them up before clapping my hands, rubbing them together with a bit of force. For the last hour, I've been unpacking my shit into my new apartment which I brought a little over a month ago. For the next five years, this will be my apartment, my home, my little den of evil.

I compress a small smile while leaning over my balcony to feel the rush of the winter breeze softly caress my face, while I hold back a small sneeze. I hate catching colds. They are so troublesome.

I feel tired after cleaning all of my shit and putting it in the correct places. Thankfully, the only place left to clean and put into order is my bedroom.

"Looks like someone had mad animal sex in here," I say to myself while kicking over a box of mine before doing the same to every other box. With a small nod to myself, I start to unpack everything of mine before putting my clothes into my newly brought closet. You have no idea how hard it was to convince the apartment owner to let me turn the… sexual entertainment room into a walk-in closet. I am thankfully the chains from before didn't leave a mark on the walls when I removed them.

Now… I feel like calling someone over to visit my newly done apartment. Thankfully the place doesn't smell like wet paint anymore; the reason it took so long for me to move in was because I painted and redecorated the whole place before moving in. I had saved up enough money from my job to redecorate the whole damn place which took a huuuugeee chunk out of my bank.

"Alice, where is your number," I mumble to myself while scrolling through my contacts till I hit her contact near the bottom, marked under 'Wilson Alice'.

I press the call button before putting my phone between my shoulder and chin to listen to the call as I walk around my apartment. I feel hungry now. Maybe I'll make some pasta or something.

"The number you have dialled is currently out of service or not within reach. Please call back later."

"Fuck sake," I say to myself while walking into my bedroom to throw my phone onto my bed, before walking over to my accessories box which holds most of my necklaces and shit. I pick up the light sliver locket that has my name engraved on the front of it: Tali Smith. Yes-yes, I know my last name is popular, get over it. Bite me.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

"I'm coming!" I call to the door as I grab a small headband to pull back my just above shoulder length dark brown hair as it irritates me a little. I start walking towards the door while pulling my hair back and thankfully, it is mostly back with my side fringe still blocking my left eye as my fringe is called an Emo Fringe, meaning it completely covers one of my eyes as it is swept to one side.

I pause from walking to glance to the television to see another report about another death in Japan where the bodies of some missing people / victims have just been found, smashed together in some sort of gel, which only reminds me of puke.

I shiver a little bit and I rub my arms a bit, as if it will stop me from shivering; although I know I am shivering at the thought of someone eating another person. That seriously freaks me out.

*Knock* *Knock*

The knocking seems to be getting louder so I just sigh loudly to myself, before walking over to the door while doing my necklace round my neck.

Once that is done, I look through the peephole to see two men standing outside the door; one looks friendly while the other doesn't look like he wants to be there.

"Who is it?" I question while placing my hand on the lock as I wait for a response from the unknown men outside my door. Damn, I sound like a cop from CSI.

"My name is Erwin Smith, I am your neighbour to your right," the man says, the blonde hair with really striking blue eyes man that is… his eyes kinda remind me of Rock Lee from Naruto though, being bushy and thick.

"Levi Rivaille, I'm to your left," the much smaller man says, he seems to have short, straight black hair styled in an undercut and he also has grey eyes though they look quite narrowed and annoyed.
I stare at the two for a moment or two longer before deeming them safe. I unlock my door before opening it to see the two men in front of me. Erwin seems to look quite confident, which I can tell by the way he is standing with his straight back and the fact that he is looking me straight in my eyes. Levi, he seriously doesn't look like he wants to be here but he gives me the 'grace' of his appearance by standing in front of me with crossed arms as well as giving me this look that says 'This-is-time-wasting' which I find quite insulting. But, hey-ho, I was not put on this earth to please this bastard.

"We would like to welcome you to the floor," Erwin says with a small smile before presenting me with a small gift welcoming basket from the look of it, "We are happy to have a new neighbour beside us," Erwin says with his smile as that makes me question who lived before from me… then again… whoever did had some extreme S&M toys in the closet before I changed it, "Levi helped pack everything while I chose what would be appropriate for your welcoming gift."

"Thank you very much, my name is Tali Smith, like your last name, Erwin," I say to the two while being handed the small basket that looks about the size of my head, maybe. I stare at the two for a moment to see that Erwin looks about six foot something, while Levi isn't that much taller then me, maybe five foot three, maybe four.

"We are having a small welcoming for you at mine, five o'clock, no later, wear something nice and clean," Levi says before turning to his right, and walking in the direction of his apartment as I watch him turn the doorknob, and enter his apartment without a second glance in Erwin and my direction.

It's decided, I don't like him much.

"Please don't mind Levi," Erwin says from my right as I turn my head from the left direction to see the giant standing above me with a frown on his face before looking in the direction of Levi.

"He seems a little uptight, this is coming from a girl who spent four hours organising her apartment to the tiniest detail of her design," I say while looking up to Erwin as I stand at one hundred and fifty-five centimetres. I check my height once a month, just in case I grow a little. Sadly, I haven't grown for over a year now and I turned twenty-four last month.

"He is, he is quite the neat-clean-freak," Erwin says with a slight chuckle as I nod my head a little, I only clean when I feel like cleaning, which is rarely, "he grew up quite rough, he isn't one for physical contact so I would like to ask if you could try… to befriend him," he says as I give him one hell of a 'with-him?' look as he just gives a small tiny smile to me which causes me to sigh a little, using two fingers to keep my forehead from dropping down in defeat.

"Fine," I say while crossing my arms with the basket still in my left hand, it looks like it has wine in it, and I'll be having that later. Okay… maybe once Erwin is gone, I'm in a whiny mood. Okay that was a horrible pun but don't bite me, I've been cleaning for hours.

"Thank you, I really appreciate it," he says with his normal small smile before nodding his head to me, "I must be going, I have business matters to attend to," he says with a small nod of his head, before walking in the direction of his apartment, before opening the door and giving me a small wave bye, before walking in.

"Well, that was eventful," I say to myself while walking back into my apartment as I still eye the wine and French bread thingy in the basket. Truthfully, I'm more interested in the wine as I am a huge Italian food and drink fan. Okay Tail, stay sober, at least till that welcoming party is over. Heck yeah! Wine after it! Wine for the God damn fucking win!

I place the wine in the fridge as I close the door and walk away, only to glance back at it. Fuck my hormones! NO WINE FOR YOU!

I groan softly to myself before head butting the nearest thing to me which is a wall. Poor wall, you get head-butted.

'We are having a small welcoming for you at mine, five o'clock, no later, wear something nice and clean,'

I roll my eyes slightly at the echo of an annoying voice as I look up to the wall clock, which rests above my television, three pm. Another two hours till this welcoming party. The temptation to be late is sooooo there but I wouldn't want to disappoint the people who are coming to greet me.

I pause for a second in my train of thought; wait one moment, what kind of apartment floor has a party for a new comer? Oh fucking great, its some prank. Fuck my life, should I even go now?

I quickly jog over to the welcoming basket to see what is in here that isn't a prank.

I start to empty everything out while making a small list of everything: a small box of chocolate devil cake which looks fucking amazing; a small cluster of white roses; that bread thingy; the amazing grape wine which I plan to drink all at once tonight cause I'm a badass like that; a card which has lots of people signatures on it, showing that it is a welcoming card from different people and lastly, a list (more like book) of recipes I have never heard of.

I give the list a small 'weirdo' out look before putting everything else away as well as putting the roses in a spare vase with water.

With time to burn, I go and take a quick shower, using my favourite apple and orange shower gel and matching shampoo before standing in the hot water for a couple of minutes before getting out.

I dry myself before putting my necklace back on as well as putting each stud back into each hole in my ear. I have three lobe piercings in each ear which looks pretty good.

I towel dry my hair for a couple of moments before blow-drying the rest of it till it is completely dry. With that sorted, I pick out a simple outfit of black jeans and a black and white tartan dress-shirt on top of it before adding some fish netting gloves to complete the outfit. Epic; extremely epic if I don't say so myself. Beat that you fuck-tard, also known as Levi. Fucking said weird as well. No le-vee but le-vI like the actually letter I. It's weird as hell but Tali isn't such a normal name either.

I add a little bit of eye liner to my look to make my blue eyes stand out a bit, before skipping the mascara since I don't feel like wearing it.

With a small nod to myself, I tug on my studded converses before yawning a little. I glance to the clock to see it is a little bit past four meaning about another forty minutes till it starts.

"Four more doors," I say to myself while tapping my foot against my table before sitting down at it to stare blankly at the news. It is mostly about the weather tomorrow, they say it is going to rain tomorrow. Fuck my life, I like rain. "One door to my right, beside Erwin and another three on the left, after Levi," God damn it, if it is a floor party, it means that there are another four people coming then.

I lean my chin on my palm as I hum softly while staring at the super cute weather-girl which makes me grin softly. I am so happy I'm Bi. It means I can date girls and guys without feeling at all awkward.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

"I'm coming!" I call from my seat at the dining table before standing up and slowly walking to the front door, slowly leaning up to the peep hole to see Erwin outside the door, smiling a tiny bit while looking between the door and a small bag in his hand.

I simply raise a brow to him to his action before unlocking the door, opening the door and looking the man straight in the eyes like he does straight back with me.

"You knocked?"

"Yes," he says with his tiny smile before holding up a small bag which has something either purple or purple-blue in it. "My friend, Petra, asked me to bring this round to you. She would like you to wear this tonight," he says while handing me the small bag as I raise a brow to him as he simply smiles a little at me before giving me a short nod as I just continue to stare at him.

"Like any other sane person, I question these motives of yours as well as your friends," I say to him as I watch his smile slowly turn into a thin line. He seems to stare at me for a couple of moments, like he is analysing what I am and what I'm thinking. I wish him luck doing that, even I don't know what I'm thinking at times.

"Trust. Giving a good impression is the first step to gaining another person's trust. The last person who lived here," he pauses for a moment while looking to me, straight in the eyes, probably to show he is telling the truth, "He was hated by everyone on this floor, especially Levi and I."

"What was he like?"

"He was… a disgrace on human kind. He only thought about himself. Slept with different women… strangers, played others against themselves for his enjoyment. He respected no one and seemed to think he was better then everyone."

"Jesus Christ," I say to myself while looking down to the small bag. So they are trying to befriend me, like what you do to the new kid to make them feel welcome and to also make sure that they do not go into the wrong crowd.

"I apologise if we may all seem a 'little bit too nice' or overly friendly. Please do not hold it against everyone or let it mould your opinion of us all," he says with a small sad smile as I stare at him for a second before looking down to the bag.

I ignore him for a second before pulling out the purple container which has a 'To Tail, From Petra' on it which makes me hide a small smile. I open the box with my spare hand to see a small note inside as well as a charm-bracelet which has four charms on it: one snowflake charm, a small pink heart charm, a smiley face charm and lastly, a little white and black wings charm.

The note reads,

Dear neighbour,

I hope when we meet that I can be your favourite female friend (as I am the only female on this floor at the moment),

I hope we get along and have lots of fun together; we can cook cookies for everyone! It will be lots of fun!

I hope you like the charm-bracelet, I chose all of the charms since I think they are really pretty and nice, I hope you like them as well!

I hope we can be great friends,

Love from, Petra.

I smile to the small letter before looking up at Erwin who still has this slightly worried expression on his face as he watches every small movement I make.

"It won't," I say to him as I watch his facial features relax a little as he hears this, "I won't judge you all till I've met you all."

"Thank you," he says while taking the small bag from me before stuffing it in his military styled jacket. I place the small charm-bracelet round my left wrist and make sure it is tight but not too tight. "Shall we both arrive early for the party, if you want to that is?"

"Sure, I was bored waiting anyway," I say while taking a step inside my apartment to throw the little box and note onto my settee from there. I walk outside and close the door behind me, making sure to lock it before putting my keys in the pocket of my jeans.

I give him a small nod which he replies with his tiny smile back before walking to my left to see Levi's door. It is pure black which makes me glance to mine as it is white, only for me to notice that everyone's door is a different colour.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

I let Erwin knock on the door as I lean to the left to check his watch to see we are about fifteen minutes early.

Within seconds of the door being knocked on, Levi opens the door with his normal expression on his face… along with a white apron on him.

"You're early."

"Better then being late," Erwin says back to Levi as Levi only gives this look like he wants to sigh before nodding his head softly before walking away from the door, going off to whatever he was doing before.

"Make yourself at home; just don't get in my damn way."

Bloody charming fellow he is.

I narrow my eyes at his back before following Erwin inside the house as I notice some thing that stands out the most in his house. Every-fucking-thing is in order, even the rug looks like it was just cleaned and washed. Just hot damn, clean-freak is a light thing to call Levi.

I look around the room till I spot a bookcase in the corner of his living room, spotless white everything as you can guess. I glance to Erwin to see him walking over to the black leather loveseats before plopping down in them, watching the program that is showing on television.

I slowly yet confidently walk over to the bookcase and skim through the books till I find a complete collect that I am familiar with.

"Hmm… 'One bullet short of a headshot'," I say the title of the series as I count the volumes of it. Yep, all ten. I tap my finger against my chin as I spot another book series I am familiar with, "and, 'Crime is for the psycho'."

"So you actually read. That's very surprising," I hear a smartass remark as I turn to my left to give Levi a bad look before looking back to the series. He has all eight volumes of it as well.

"I read, I've read all of the books from this author."

"I doubt that," he says while stepping to the side of me before pointing at some series, "have you read, 'Scarlet knife', 'House beyond the hill', 'One down on Death's list' and 'Life is short so let us murder'?" he questions with this smirk as I simply smirk back at him.

"Yes, I have, as I have read ALL of the author's books," I say with slight pride as I watch the man glance to me before walking back to his kitchen.

"I'm still surprised someone like you can read," he calls back as I glare at the kitchen before giving it the middle finger. I stomp over to the loveseats and plop down beside Erwin, who just chuckles and ruffles my hair a bit as I pout. That was mean. The fucking prick! I finished college thank you very much. I got a degree in English Literature and Language you prick!

Erwin pulls his hand away before standing up and giving me a reassuring pat on the shoulder. Still doesn't change the fact that Levi is an evil prick.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock* *Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

"Sounds like everyone else is here," Erwin says while walking to the door as I breathe in a little bit quicker then I wanted. No need to get nervous Tali. They are just people. Strangers if I must say. People you have never met before. Oh shit, now I'm getting nervous.

"Try not to get nervous," I hear the voice of Levi say from behind me as I glance back to see him behind me, staring at the door with his arms folded over his apron, "they won't attack unless threatened."

Charming, I've got a lunatic behind me. How could my day get any better?

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