(Eren's POV)
I wasn't able to go to sleep all night long. So many things kept going through my head. How did I get those bites on my back? I have no memory of getting bitten on the back so it had to have happened during the time I had blacked out. Was Levi trying to kiss me? His face kept getting close and closer to mine; I was actually tempted to just kiss him and I should have. If only horse face didn't interrupt us. I've already decided that no matter what happens I am going to hate him.
I could see the sun starting to come through the windows to the room, and only now do I start feeling exhausted. Well maybe I could get a few seconds of sleep; I start to close my eyes and I can feel my brain starting to slow down.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
I swear if it's Jean I will slam the door in his face multiple times.
"Eren. Levi. Everyone is going to the kitchen to have breakfast. If you're awake you should come too. It would be a good way to meet everyone; not that there are a lot of people here though." The voice was a soft woman's voice so it had to be Petra. I could hear Levi starting to get up. Well any hope I had of getting some sleep went away in that moment.
"Oi brat, Are you going to get up?" I really don't want to get up.
"Yah." I started to slowly get up when something was thrown at me. "What's this?" It was a shirt and some pants. Where did he get those?
"When you were in the bathroom Erwin gave me some clothes for us since the clothes we were wearing were dirty."
"Oh. Okay." I stood up and started putting on the clothes that Levi had thrown at me. When I got up I looked around the room to make sure that this room was safe out of habit. Nothing had changed about this room and the windows were covered. Which I am thankful for. I looked back to the bedroom where Levi was and found him wearing only his boxers. My face started heating up right away; I looked away so fast that it hurt my neck yet I kept on wanting to look back.
"Are you ready to go yet brat?" Levi had already finished changing and I haven't even started.
"No, you should just go and start meeting everyone." I started to get changed but I stopped. Levi was just leaning on the wall next to the door and was watching me get changed. I started blushing and turned around to get changed; there is no way I could get changed while he was staring at me. When I took of my pants and change into the new pair I could have swore I heard him mumble something like "Nice ass" or something but that most definitely can't be it. "D-did you say something levi?" I turned around to see his smug face.
"I didn't say anything." He said that he didn't but his facial expression doesn't convince me of that. I quickly changed after that and head toward the door to leave the room. "Took you long enough brat."
"You didn't have to wait for me shorty." The more he calls me brat the more it is starting to sound like a pet name rather than in insult, but I'm still going to call him shorty. That can be my pet name for him. We started walking down the hallway toward the kitchen, and the only way we knew where it was was because we could hear someone yelling and people laughing. We didn't have much farther to go thankfully. The voices were getting pretty loud. My first view into the kitchen had to be Jean's smug horseface. He was talking to Marco.
"Hey! You two finally made it here. I was actually scared that you got lost because you were taking so long and I was just about to get you." Petra said as she walked over to where we are standing. "So everyone is here finally." I looked around to see everyone here; which only ended up being Petra, Erwin, Horseface, and Marco. "Also Eren and Levi; that's Jean and Marco." she pointed to where they were sitting. Petra pulled somethings out of the multiple fridges in the room. "Do you two like parfaits?"
"Yah." Levi and I said in unison. Which actually sounded very weird. My energetic voice mixing with his expressionless voice was a very weird sounding combination.
"Petra, seriously we have been having parfaits everyday for the last week." Jean complained. Even though it sounded more like a whine to me.
"Well I like parfaits, and if you don't want any then just have cereal like Erwin." I didn't even realize that Erwin had cereal. He was sitting on the far side of the room eating and reading a book. How is the milk still good though? Or maybe he doesn't have any, but parfaits need yogurt which is also something that needs to be refrigerated.
"Do the refrigerators work?" I ask. I have never been to a place with anything electronic working, but of course all of the places Mikasa, Armin, and I would go to didn't have any inhabitants other than the ones who only care about eating anything living.
"Yah, we have generators that are able to keep them going, but we are running out of gas for them." Was Petra's response.
"No shit." Was Jean's response.
"I didn't ask you horseface." I took a step forward but a hand stopped me. It was Levi; I decided to let it go this time. I have no idea why I felt so much natural hate toward Jean, but it was there.
"Hey Eren, do you want to help me make the parfaits?" Petra asked.
"Sure, why not?" I walked over to where she was standing to see if there was anything I could help her with. She seemed to know what she was doing though, and I actually felt like I was just getting in the way.
"Do you think you could get me some strawberries from the fridge over there?" Petra pointed to the farthest fridge.
"Okay." I walked over to the fridge and got out the strawberries and set them next to where Petra was putting yogurt in bowls.
"Thank you Eren." She didn't even look at me when she spoke; she was too focused on what she was doing with the food. "I used to be one of the cooks here. Erwin was the manager. He knows almost everything about this resort; maybe he could show you around after breakfast, if you want. Where are you from? If you don't mind me asking?" It's nice to finally have someone who is wanting to talk. Levi wasn't a big talker ninety percent of the time so long conversations weren't a normal occurrence.
(Levi's POV)
While the brat was helping Petra with making some food I decided that I was going to talk to Erwin to see if he could give me any tips about the surrounding places.
"Hey Erwin." I took a seat next to him. He was reading a book and seemed very interested in it because I didn't get a response for a few minutes. It annoyed me and I just wanted to take the book away from him so we could fucking talk already, but I need his help and pissing him off would not get me any help. Finally he put the book down and looked at me. "Do you know anything about the surrounding areas, or have you been locked up here the whole time?"
"I don't know much about anything that's going on off of the resort grounds. If you are planning on leaving you should do it during the day though; there are a high number of the infected around the resort. Most of them used to be guests here." Well that isn't a lot of help, and I already knew that it is safer to travel during the day because you can see farther than at night.
"Have you ever tried to leave here?"
"We tried once. There used to be a lot more of us, but we didn't even make it all the way down the street. I looked at the list of all of the people that were staying here when this happened and all of the workers; there must be almost two hundred of them around outside, and they just aren't leaving." His face got strained at the last part. Normally zombies move around a lot to look for more 'food'; whatever it ends up being, so the fact that the zombies are not leaving either means that there is a lot of stuff they can eat around here or that there isn't anything they can eat for miles. "I do suggest that before you plan on leaving that I at least show you around the resort so if something doesn't go as planned for you then you can have a plan B." That would actually be helpful if there are as many of them out there as he says.
"Hey Levi! here's your parfait. It's really good." Eren ran over and set a bowl down in front of me. He was smiling and was actually jumping with excitement. I couldn't help but feel very fond of that boy, no matter how annoying he can be. I could feel my lips twitching into a smile but I quickly turned and started eating the food he placed in front of me. No way was I going to smile today. "Also Levi, could we stay an extra day? The food here is really good and it isn't going to be often that we meet new people." I could tell he was prepared to do whatever it took to convince me to want to stay.
"I'm fine with that, but I think we should probably ask the people who were here before us if that is okay." I wanted to stay too, but for a different reason. An extra day would give me more time to plan where we are going and to be prepared for whatever might happen. Erwin nodded in approval.
"Yes!" Eren exclaimed then ran over to where Petra was standing. Stopping to glare at Jean on the way. I heard Erwin chuckle, and I turned my head toward him so I could find out what was so funny.
"Normally it is love at first sight, but for those two.." he pointed toward Jean and Eren. "... it's more like hate at first sight." Erwin's calm and collected expression returned as he stood up. "Well I should probably show you around now. Do you want Eren to come too?"
"No, I can explain to him everything later today." He seemed to be having a lot of fun talking to Petra, and he was right that meeting new people; especially those that want to talk, doesn't happen that often anymore. Erwin and I started walking down the same hallway that Eren and I used to enter the kitchen area. We then took a turn that lead to a stairway. After a few more turns we made it to a room where one of the walls was all windows. It gave me a very good view of the resort. This side of the resort was the one facing the lake. There were a few places outside of the resort but no place Eren and I could hide out if we needed too. Another observation I made was that there were a lot more zombies walking around then I had previously thought; the fact that we didn't die last night seemed to be a miracle. The ones we saw last night were not even a fraction of how many that are really out there.
"This is where most of the infected are. The other side doesn't have as many there, so if you leave you should go out that side and stay quiet." Erwin said looking out the window. We both looked out the window for a few more minutes in silence. Then Erwin finally turned to leave and I followed him. Leaving here is going to be harder than I thought.
Our next stop was a hallway with some smaller windows that showed the street entrance and a view of the golf street was almost completely clear of zombies but the golf course had around twenty; by what I counted, zombies there. It's starting to seem that if we just stay away from the lake we might be able to make it out of here.
The last stop we made was another hallway with some windows in it that showed the side that faced away from the lake. Erwin was right that there was a lot fewer on this side but there were still a lot of them that Eren and I would have to deal with. I was almost done planning out the escape when something caught my eye; there was a pickup truck parked not to far from the resort that looked like it had minimal damage.
"Erwin, what do you know about that pickup truck there? Do you know if it works?" If we could use that we could probably make it far enough that we could lose the zombies and get closer to where we are heading.
"Hm that used to be one of my friends trucks. I know for sure that it works, but I have no idea how much fuel is in it."
"Do you have the keys to it?" If we have the keys then starting it would not be a problem; however, if we do not have the keys then I am not sure how well the plan to take the truck will go unless someone knows how to start a car without the keys.
"Unfortunately no, I don't have the keys to it." Well I guess that is out of the question unless the brat knows how to hotwire a car.
~time skip, to night time~
Erwin had talked to everyone about the car that was parked outside of the hotel. We found out that Jean actually knows how to hotwire a car; he would not tell us how he knows how to do that though. The plan was to have Jean be the driver because he is the only one who could get it started and Erwin would be in the passenger seat telling him where to go, and the rest of us would be in the truck bed holding off the zombies. Unfortunately our plan had a few things based on ifs; We don't know how much fuel the truck has, or how long it would take for the zombies to start trying to get to us, or how long it would take Jean to get it started. It's too late today to go through with the plan though, so tomorrow is when we will go.
