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[Edited on 05/17/18: Hopefully all of the typos have been removed, but feel free to let me know if you find more. There has also been minor changes to the structure of certain sentences and improvements with the vocabulary used. 😊]
"Conversation"
[My thoughts]
"Character thoughts" [Since the characters are narrating their own POV whenever they have a thought that is not directed at the reader and is purely for the story it will be italicized. Examples would be Levi in the first paragraph narrating for the reader [not italicized] and Hanji in the sixth paragraph thinking to themself [italicized].]
(What they are actually doing or thinking) [An example would be the second sentence of the first paragraph where Levi narrated going willingly but in reality he was annoyed by Hanji until he gave in.]
Chapter Length without additional information is 1,591 words.
[Levi POV]
I honestly don't know why I was doing this. Willingly (completely and utterly forced against my will by Hanji's infuriating powers of manipulation) going to put up those imbeciles for a few hours. I sighed lightly, but here I am pulling on my boots getting ready to walk out the door and go over to four eye's apartment.
After pulling on my boots I walk over to the kitchen table to grab my keys and coat before walking out the door. Hanji's apartment wasn't far, so I decided to walk and use the time to get my emotions in check. I wouldn't want to accidentally (savagely with no remorse) kill anyone at the party. Imagine the mess (ew).
Anyway, it wasn't going to be a large party. The only people that are going to be there are me (obviously), four eyes (Hanji), eyebrows (Erwin), smelly (Mike), and the one who thinks we've been friends long enough for her to assume she's my girlfriend (Petra). Introductions and (cruel) nicknames aside, they're all fairly decent and I'm quite content with our friendships.
I take a turn left and see the apartments up ahead. As I approach the entrance I make sure my emotions are sufficiently in check before venturing inside. The short walk over to the elevator was luckily uneventful and I take the lift straight to the 27 floor. Exiting, I make my way down the hallway to Hanji's apartment. Standing directly in front of the door, I slowly raise my fist.
"Well no turning back now," I mumble before knocking on the door.
[Hanji POV]
I was standing in the kitchen with Mike, popping popcorn, when I heard a knock at the door. Shoving the now popped bag of popcorn into his hands, I tell him to put it in a bowl. I rush over to the door and swing it open to see my adorable little Levi standing outside tapping his foot and waiting (im)patiently for me.
"About time four eyes," grumbles Levi. "Next time don't take so long to open the door."
"Aw, Levi! You just couldn't wait to see me could you?!" I say as I lean down (heehee) to give him a hug. Levi dodges me and pushes his way inside. I close the door and follow after him to the living room. Before Levi's arrival, the others and I had just been finishing setting everything up for the night.
The first course of action involves watching a movie. After that has finished, we plan to choose from either board games, video games, and question games. "This is going to be so exciting!" I skip over to Mike and grab the bowl of popcorn from his hands, setting it on the coffee table. Wasting no more time I plop down on the couch, shimmy my way between Levi and Erwin, and hurriedly beckon the other two over.
"Hit the lights Mike and Petra get in here, we're gonna start the movie!" I shout.
As we settle onto the couch to watch the movie [order from left to right is Petra, Levi, Hanji, Erwin, then Mike] Levi's phone unexpectedly goes off. He nonchalantly pulls the device out of his pocket and proceeds to read the text. I don't think much on it and start the movie.
[Petra POV]
Just before the movie starts, I make sure to get a seat next to Levi. I'm hoping this will get him more comfortable with the thought of officially accepting me as his girlfriend. After all the years we've been friends it's bound to happen eventually, so I don't understand why he doesn't just accept it now. I've been playing it safe this far by not directly stating my feelings, but I did make sure my intentions were clear through subtle flirting. Nothing more than subtle, though. I don't want to scare him off. If sitting snuggled up (next to) each other while watching a movie together (with friends) isn't enough for him to accept our relationship by the end of the night I don't know what will. I suppose I will just have to give him the facts so he can understand that if he doesn't get together with me, he will be alone forever.
[Erwin POV]
Moments before Hanji hits play on the movie I hear a phone vibrate to my left. I glance over and notice Levi answering a text message. It doesn't seem like anything worth making a big deal over, so I just let my eyes return to the TV.
Throughout the movie, I continue to hear the vibration of his phone going off. Whenever I decide to chance a glance over at Levi, I see him replying to whoever it is that's continuously messaging him. I'm starting to get rather curious considering Levi doesn't like conversation. Whenever he does choose to partake in one he prefers to keep it as short as possible.
These series of actions continue to repeat themselves throughout the entire 2h 42min of the movie. Alongside the novelty that was Levi seemingly enjoying conversing with someone, I think I just saw a small smile on his face a moment before he put a piece of popcorn in his mouth. Of course, I'm not sure if I imagined it since it happened while I was glancing over.
With the movie now finished, Petra suggests we play spin the bottle. Levi, Mike, and I aren't to keen on it, so Hanji suggests a compromise. We all (Petra grudgingly) agree and move off of the couch to sit on the floor and play truth or dare spin the bottle.
While we play the game, Levi continuously receives text messages. When I looked around to observe my friends expressions I see that they are starting to notice as well.
I return my attention to the game and see that it is now Hanji's turn to spin the bottle. Hanji carefully held the glass and gave a skillful flick of the wrist. When I looked up at Hanji's face I take notice of their mischievous expression as the bottle slowly stops it's rotation and comes to rest on Levi.
[Levi POV]
I look up from sending my text message to see the bottle spinning before it comes to a stop, pointing directly at me. The others exchange a glance with one another before facing toward me. Hanji clears their throat while drawing themself up straight. With the light glinting off of their glasses paired with a smile that could rival that of the Cheshire Cat, I start to get slightly (highly) uncomfortable.
"So Levi," Hanji speaks slowly, "truth or dare?"
The way Hanji said it sounds reminiscent of a death sentence, but I'm not letting that unnerve me. After all, it's just a stupid game.
"Dare."
Once again, they all exchanged a knowing look. Gazing (up) at Hanji's subtle triumphant look, I knew I made a mistake in my decision.
"I dare you to call whoever it is you've been texting this entire evening and invite them over to join our party!" Hanji says rather loudly while smiling like the cat who just caught the canary.
"Oh, that's it." I mentally grumble. "How anticlimactic." I pull my cellphone back out of my pocket and quickly read the text message I had just received before calling the number. While I'm waiting for the call to be answered I look up at the people, who for whatever reason call themselves my friends, only to find them staring at me in a way that is far too intense to be considered healthy.
RING ... RING ... RING ...
"Hello?"
"Hey, you know that party I said I was going to?"
[Petra POV]
I stare at Levi closely while he is talking on his phone. All night he has been focusing on that thing rather than me and I'd like to know why. The way he periodically checks his phone messages while he is waiting for an answer is almost identical to the way I act when he and I are texting. That in itself is frightening enough. What if he managed to get a girlfriend? Or even worse, a boyfriend! Then, even if I managed to break them up, I wouldn't have a chance with him because he'd have no interest in women. Perhaps I could deal with bisexuality, but it would only give me slight reassurance. I'd always be too worried about where my competition is coming from. "Calm down Petra, don't get carried away." I take a (supposedly) calming breath. " It could just be his hairstylist or something. He wasn't happy with his haircut and is now having to anxiously argue over a refund." Just as I thought this his phone call was answered.
"Mumble"
"Hey, you know that party I said I was going to?"
"Mumble mumble"
"Yeah, that one. Anyway, these imbeciles dared me to invite you over, so will you be coming?"
"Mumble"
"Great, now I won't have to listen to Hanji pitch a fit. Oh, and to answer your text, I do remember my promise. I'll tell them all sometime before the end of the night."
"Mumble mumble mumble"
"Right, so the apartment building is called Maria's Rose. We're on the 27 floor, apartment 3 in the 2nd hallway."
"Mumble mumble"
"You too, bye."
After Levi finishes speaking on the phone he looks up at us, inquiring with a raised brow the reason as to why we are acting so strange. I look at the others through my peripheral vision before I decide to ask the question I knew we were all wondering.
"So Levi," I ask cautiously, "who were you texting?"
[Sorry if i made it seem like I'm Petra hating, but I always found it funny in Ereri/Riren stories when she was jealous. Well, as long as people didn't take it overboard anyway. I do like her character though. I would also like to apologize if this is awful, but this is the first story I've written since elementary school and I'm finishing school soon, so yeah. This was actually supposed to be a oneshot, but while writing it I decided it would be better for me to make it multiple parts with tolerable writing skills rather than force myself to finish it now and have my writing slowly decline like I think it did after Levi's first POV. Oh, and please tell me if I made any grammar mistakes or anything, it would be greatly appreciated.]
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