This chapter's is longer than the others so far. Its full of Levi x Alice. Read and review.
~Alice pov~
Me and Damian's prank war carried on and this morning I woke up and fell on mouse traps, that covered every inch of my floor. The number of injuries kept going up when I walked out of my room and stepped on Damian's next prank, the floor covered in some slippery substance, needless to say I fell down the steps.
Despite my efforts to cover it, the bruise on my face was still visible. Damian may not have intended for me to actually get hurt, but I'm a klutz, so of course I did. Hopefully people wouldn't question it, it would be so annoying to explain. I would tell them I fell down the steps, it would be true. The likelihood of people believing that was low, I used that excuse a lot when I lived with dad. The teachers and staff knew what happened and all my excuses, it's on my record.
Jeez Damian, causing us problems.
I grabbed my keys and got on my motorcycle and headed to school. This was going to be a long day, and I figured it wouldn't end well.
I pulled up and took my helmet off and brushed my hair in a way to try to cover the bruise. Then I began my walk over to Armin, Eren, Mikasa, and a few more of their friends. They waved and I smiled and kept my head down.
"Hey Alice!" Armin said in a very cheerful voice.
"Hey, hows everyone today?" I asked, still keeping my head down.
"What the hell happened to your face?" It was their friend Sasha who asked.
She had stopped eating and was now messing with my hair to move it out of the way.
"Oh, that," I gave a little laugh and rubbed the back of my head, "I fell down the steps this morning."
They all looked at me, looks I was tired of receiving, the ones that said they didn't believe me. Their eyes were full of pity and hurt, hurt from thinking that I lied. I hated that look.
"Well, you are a klutz, so its pretty believable." Eren was the one who broke the tension.
"I better go, I have homework I didn't do." I lied, then left without another word.
I walked into first right before the bell rang. I quickly took my seat next to Levi, who paid no mind to me at all. I pulled out my sketchbook and continued my drawing of a little girl and her brother sitting at a gravestone.
Today was a day when Pyxis actually taught us, he was saying something about great walls and how they fell. I was thankful he had the attention of most of the class. I had been so absorbed in drawing that I had forgotten all about the bruise, until Levi spoke.
"Oi, what happened to your face?"
The question made me jump, I wasn't expecting anyone to speak to me. I had been so zoned I hadn't even noticed Pyxis had stopped teaching. I just sat there, not fully grasping that Levi had just indeed asked me a question, so I chose to ignore it.
"I asked you a question, I expect an answer." He didn't sound happy.
"I, um, fell down the steps this morning after I woke up."
Why the hell does he want to know, he never talks to me unless I annoy him.
Levi just looked at me long and hard. I didn't dare turn to look back at him, for fear that those eyes of his could read everything about me in just one glance. Those deep eyes, they seems to hide so much, yet give away nothing. So blank yet full of hidden emotion. Unlike mine, You can tell everything about me just by looking into my eyes.
~Levi Pov~
I had been sitting in first period, next to Alice, when I decided to look and see what she was drawing. Curiosity had gotten the best of me, so I looked, but when I looked over my eyes didn't land on her drawing, no, my eyes drifted towards hers. They were so full of emotion and concentration, yet there seemed to be more, something deeper that I couldn't read. Thats when I noticed it. There was a big, deep bluish purple, bruise on her cheek. I don't know what came over me. My mouth acted on its own.
"Oi, what happened to your face?"
She jumped, I must have caught her off guard. She wouldn't look at me, she didn't answer me. For some reason that made me mad. Why did I care so much? Why did I even ask to begin with? It was none of my business.
"I asked you a question, I expect an answer." I know she could hear that I was annoyed.
"I, um, fell down the steps this morning after I woke up." She sounded scared, maybe worried.
She still wouldn't look at me, she actually made a point of looking the other direction, just a bit, to hide her eyes from mine. I just watched her, her long silver hair covering the bruise and hiding it from my sight.
Her hair is so beautiful, I've never seen someone with such pretty silver hair. She has beautiful, deep, silver eyes to match. WAIT! Did I really just think that?!
I must have shown a slight bit of panic, because those deep emotional silver orbs were now locked on mine. They were wide, as if I had just confessed to her my thoughts instead of thinking them in my head. She said nothing though, she just looked at me.
Stop looking at me like that, I could drown in those eyes, I feel like if I stare into them much more I will get lost in them and won't be able to come back out.
"What the hell are you staring at?" I said.
I had to stop looking at her eyes. I was getting lost, losing myself. Her eyes got wider and she blushed, I wasn't expecting that. She quickly looked away and closed her sketch book. I looked away and remembered that I had wanted to see what she was drawing.
Oh well, its not like I actually care.
~Alice pov~
Levi had suddenly jumped and it got my attention. I didn't even realize I had been staring when he got mad at me. Thankfully the bell was about to ring so I closed my sketch book and about 10 seconds later the bell rang I was happy to get out of there.
In second period I was called to the office. Someone had told them I had a bruise on my face. I spent all of second and about ten minutes of third telling them I fell. Did they believe me? Hell no. Pissed me off. Then I had to go to the nurse, to get 'checked up', which made me miss more of third. When I finally made it down there Hanji ran up to me and pretty much tackled me. She was wearing her normal clothes sense there was only like three minutes left of class.
"Alice! Me, Mikasa, and the guys were wondering if you wanted to hang with us and some friends after school!" Hanji was way too enthusiastic.
"Uhm, sure why not." I couldn't help but be nervous of her plans for the afternoon.
"Good meet me at the park."
The bell rang after that to go to lunch. The rest of the day flew by. Damian explained to the office about our prank war, and told them thats how I got hurt. They finally gave up after that. Soon the day came to an end and I went to the gym to see Damian.
"Hey Damian!" I called for him. The taller black haired male looked out from behind some equipment.
"Yup, what is it Alice?" He walked to me.
"Hanji invited me to hang with her and some others this afternoon."
"Okay, when you going to be home?"
"No idea."I said and Damian sighed and nodded.
"Be safe." Then he walked away.
I ran out of the school and got on my bike after slipping on my helmet, and started it up. I started on my way to the park, weaving my way in and out of cars. I may have been a klutz, but I knew how to ride a bike. I used to race with Damian and win, until one day I watched his bike go out from under him. Scared the shit out of me, him too. Thankfully he wasn't severely injured. He still has the bike, but he only rides it once in awhile.
I pulled up next to a purple car. I looked over and saw Hanji driving and Mikasa in the front, then Armin and Eren in the back. Hanji looked at me and I smirked. I pulled two fingers to my head and kind of salute waved at her. I knew she couldn't see it was me through my tinted black helmet. When the light was green I stayed next to her. When she would speed up I would easily stay right next to her. I knew it was driving her crazy. I passed her and she sped up to pass me and in no time we were racing. I quickly sped past her and beat her to the park. She pulled in next to me and got out of her car.
I looked around and saw a bunch of people I knew. Jean and Sasha were there, Jeans boyfriend Marco was there. Connie was off climbing up a tree, trying to show off. Christa was there with Ymir standing behind her protectively, but the face that really stood out to me was a male with cold dark gray eyes. Levi was currently walking toward Hanji.
"Who are you?!" I turned my head and saw Hanji in my face. I smirked and shrugged.
"Hey, shitty glasses, why the hell did you bring us all here?" Levi had the group around me's attention. Nobody was looking towards me.
I decided to go ahead and get off the bike. Hanji and Levi were arguing about something that I wasnt paying attention to. I pulled off my helmet and let my long silver hair fall down my back. I started to comb it out with my fingers.
"Uh, Hanji," Eren was pulling her sleeve like a child, "Look!"
"What is it ere-" Her eyes got wide when they landed on me. "Your shitting me?"
"Sup?" I gave an innocent smile.
Hanji started shaking me back and forth. She was yelling something about me being crazy but I wasn't paying attention, because, for the second time today, my eyes were locked on Levi's. He seemed less than pleased.
I wonder what made him mad. Maybe it was Hanji, or someone else. If so why is that death glare locked on me? What did I do?
I was starting to hurt from being shaken around, so I grabbed Hanji"s arms and pushed her off of me. She was laughing and turned to look at everyone.
"So, I figured that sense we haven't hung out as a group sense Alice join us, that we should go do something." Her grin was huge.
Everyone grinned with her or nodded, with the exception of Levi, who was now looking off at my bike.
"So what are we going to do?" Connie was the one who spoke up.
"I was thinking we go to the ski resort the next town over. I can pay for everyone." Hanji smiled big and everyone, except Levi agreed to go.
"Okay, so go get ready and meet me there." Hanji said.
As we were all leaving I noticed Levi wasn't going anywhere. He just stood there looking behind him as if there was something there that I couldn't see. I started up my bike and waited a bit. He turned back and looked at me. I took that as my sign to leave. I looked back and saw he was still watching me.
I had gotten home and gotten ready and was halfway to the ski resort when I realized I had no idea where this place actually was. So I pulled into a gas station and opened up the GPS on my phone. After about fifteen minutes of dealing with the stupid thing, I figured out where it was, I had already passed it like three times.
Go fucking figure that I would get lost on the way there.
I finally pulled up in one of the parking spots in the resort and took my helmet off, and dropping my head between the handle bars. I smiled mentally, thankful that it was over, until I remembered that I still had to go home. I knew I probably wasn't going to get home until three in the morning at this rate. I let out a long sigh and about pissed myself when I felt someone touch me.
Levi stood behind me looking very irritated. He was wearing a black Lincoln ski jacket, on his hands he wore black and white Dynafit ski gloves, he was wearing a pair of black Spyder ski pants that were kind of tight, but not too tight. He had on a black toboggan with a pair of goggles pulled up to sit on his head. To finish it off he wore dark gray and black Sorel Joan of the Arctic. He was definitely dressed to be out here. That whole outfit must have at least cost $400.
Wow, he looks good dressed up like that.
"I thought you weren't coming." I said as I got off my bike.
"Shitty glasses made me." He was looking off at the cabin, as if waiting.
"Ah well why are you out here?" I asked,
"Hanji made me come wait on your slow ass." That voice full of annoyance came back.
"Sorry, I got lost." I walked past him toward the cabin.
As I walked I stepped on a overly slick patch of ice and, me not having proper boots on for winter time, slipped and fell backwards. It was almost like I fell in slow motion. I closed my eyes and prepared for the pain from contact with the frozen ground. Instead I landed on something soft and warm. I opened my eyes and looked up to see Levi, he had caught me. He was kneeling and holding me just inches from the ground. His face was so close to mine I could feel his warm breath on my cheek.
"Thank you." I stood up and without looking back ran toward the cabin.
~Levi Pov~
I watched Alice pull up at the park on her bike, when I saw it was her I got mad.
Why would she do something so reckless, she could get hurt.
I didn't understand why I cared so much. Hanji had started talking about where we were going to go, I kept getting this feeling of being watched. She said we were going to the ski resort, I refused to go but there was something in me telling me to go. As everyone was leaving I turned and looked behind me. There was a man there, he was giving me a bad vibe. He was looking past me, I followed his eyes and mine landed on Alice.
I got home and texted Hanji to tell her I was coming. I had a bad feeling, I was worried about Alice. Why, I have no idea. I quickly got ready, I got out my snow clothes and got in my car and left. I got there right after Hanji. She had picked up Eren, Mikasa, and Armin. I sat in the warm cabin, drank hot chocolate and waited. Everybody was there, they had been for awhile, some had even started skiing or snowboarding. I got up and walked out the door.
"Where ya going Levi?" Hanji walked behind me as she asked.
"I need fresh air, the amount of brats in here is suffocating me." Then I left.
I stood outside for about ten minutes, and I was starting to get irritated at her lack of appearance, before I heard the bike, I turned and saw her park. I had to resist the urge to run over to her. When I got to her I touched her shoulder, she jumped and almost screamed. She looked at me and didn't take her eyes off me. She was looking at my clothes, which was a lot more than what she was wearing. She had on a black hoodie, black and white sweat pants and white fur boots.
"I thought you weren't coming." She said getting my attention again.
"Shitty glasses made me." Saying that made me remember the warm cabin. I wanted to hurry and get her out of this cold.
"Ah well why are you out here?" She asked, which caught me off guard.
"Hanji made me come wait on your slow ass." I was getting annoyed that I kept lying to her.
But if I don't lie, what will happen if I don't. The worse thing that would happen is she reject me. If I told her I chose to come to watch out for her, and that the reason I'm outside is because I was worried about her, the worse to happen would be she laugh at me and walk away.
"Sorry, I got lost." That pulled me out of my thoughts. She sounded upset.
Great, now I upset her.
She had walked off without me, when I looked up I saw her slip. I ran forward and caught her right before she hit the ground. She looked up at me, her eyes showing shock, fear, and something else. I could feel her breath, and I saw a light pink color on her cheeks.
I want to kiss her.
Despite that thought I didn't dare attempt it. She thanked me and got up and ran off. I watched from where I was kneeling as she ran into the cabin. I fell back and sat on the ground for a minute.
Why the hell can't I think straight around her. I'm not acting like myself.
I stood up after while and went inside where I saw Alice desperately trying to warm up by the fire. Christa brought her some hot chocolate Hanji was fussing at her for not wearing enough.
"Its all I have though, me and Damian can't afford anything like what y'all are wearing." Alice seemed upset.
"If you had said something, someone would have let you borrow some. Maybe with enough pressure we could have even got Levi to buy you some." Hanji said
"Would have taken awhile to convince him though." Mikasa added.
Normally that would have been the truth, but if they told me she hadn't had enough to wear I would have gone and bought her the warmest I could find.
Everyone started to ski or snowboard and I stood off to the side, because I hated this kind of thing. Alice stood a few feet down, unable to participate because she would most likely freeze to death in the process. I watched her out of the corner of my eye, she was cheering the others on and laughing. At one point she made a snowball and nailed Eren in the head as he was skiing, making him fall and tumble down the hill.
After awhile I noticed she was cold, her body was trembling and her lips were turning a light purple. Hanji and the others had gone off to do the bigger hills and left me and Alice here alone. She stayed outside to wait on them, I stayed for her, of course she didn't know that.
"Hey brat, if your cold go inside."
"Huh, oh no I'm fine."
I looked at her hard for a minute before sighing in defeat, she wasn't going to listen. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes. I tried to keep my thoughts on warm things and not Alice. If I thought about her I might get caught staring. After about ten more minutes I looked back towards Alice. She was shivering, her lips where dark blue.
"You need to go inside, your going to get frostbite or hypothermia, if you haven't already." I said without looking. She didn't respond.
"Oi, are you listening!" I looked up and jumped back.
Those silver eyes were locked on me, it was creepy. She looked so cold, her lips were cracked and her cheeks were red. She seemed to be trying to talk, but was only mumbling. She tried to take a step but ended up falling into the snow. I ran over and took off my jacket, when I reached her I dropped it over her, then I lifted her up bridal style and carried her back to the cabin as quick as I could. She fell asleep on the way there, it scared the shit out of me.
Hanji and the group returned laughing and giggling. I was freaking out, Alice still hadn't woken up and she still felt cold. I sat in front of the fire holding her with two heaters next to me. I had taken off the jacket and her first layer of clothes. I was rubbing her arms through the blanket, trying desperately trying to warm her.
"H-Hanji, h-help me." I said panicking.
"What is it?" Then she came around the corner, "Oh my god, what happened?"
She ran to where me and Alice sat. She touched Alice's cheek very gently and pulled it away.
"She's so cold. Levi, take her to your parents, your dad's a doctor right?"
I nodded and carried her to my car. Hanji was gathering everyone together so they could leave. When I got to my car I laid Alice on my hood as I opened the passenger door and laid the seat all the way back. Hanji came up behind me and told me she was going to go tell Damian, then bring him back to my house. I nodded as I picked up Alice and put her in my car. I put a seat belt on her and closed the door.
"See you at my place then." Then I got in my car and left.
Damnit little brat, why didn't you just go inside. I don't know what I would do if I lost you, even though I don't really have you.
This chapter wasn't as funny as the first two but it definitely has a lot of build up on Levi and Alice's relationship. Hope you liked it. :)
