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The ages for the characters so everyone can remember, including myself:
Tali is twenty-four.
Eld is Thirty-one.
Oluo is twenty-nine.
Gunther is twenty-three.
Petra is twenty-three.
Erwin here is twenty-seven.
Levi is twenty-six. /

Chapter 10:

Two fucking months to work; I have been working for two fucking months straight, do you guys understand how fucking stressful that is?

I have been thinking of Levi this whole two months straight as I haven't actually met up with everyone for fun for two fucking months now, they still don't know.

Actually, Erwin does, Levi told him like the day after we became official, and who knew Levi was such a gossip? Erwin was beyond happy for a month straight before getting used to it.

Levi's dates for me were literally him bringing me dinner every night. Isn't he lovely? Don't worry, that isn't sarcasm.

I yawn while stretching in my computer seat, after two months of less than six hours of sleep and quick baths and shit, I can finally send Jerry my work and I can be useless for the next couple of months… hehehe.

I happily sigh while dragging my work into the email for Jerry, watching with joy as it sends without any problems. I hum softly while getting up from my seat and happily throw myself onto my bed. I'm FREEE! No more work for me for a while unless I want to work~

I lie out on my bed for a moment till a horrible feeling comes into my stomach; Levi wants to tell the group as soon as possible, meaning, next time we're all together is probably when he is going to want to tell them.

I sigh softly while grabbing my phone from my pillow and roll onto my front, fingering my phone as I want to tell Petra and everyone that I'm done but I am scared to tell everyone, mostly Petra though. I can't even imagine her expression when we tell her this but truthfully, I don't want too.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

"It's open!" I yell while kicking my legs softly, staring at my phone while glancing to my bedroom door as I spot Levi walk in with a bag; it smells yummy, must be lunch.

"Food," he says with his normal bored expression while placing it down on my bed, glancing to my computer before back to me.

"I can smell," I say while throwing my phone onto my pillow before suffocating myself with my covers. "I've finished my book sadly."

"That's a good thing you brat."

"Yeah, I guess," I grumble while kicking the bed softly; I don't want to tell them, Petra and Tabby will throw a fit. Well, Tabby will, I really don't want to know what Petra will do.

I watch as Levi goes 'tsk' before placing the bag on my desk before walking over to the bed and lying in front of me, this little annoyed look on his face.
"We're telling them today."

"Can't we tell them tomorrow?"

"No," he says with this dead voice as I pout to myself, covering my head with my arms as I eye him, watching his eyebrow twitch slightly at my actions before sighing a little into his hand. "I've known you for five months now, stop acting like a damn coward."

"I am no coward!" I yell at the man, sitting up with a scowl as he shrugs his shoulders at me, watching me as I throw a jacket on from my seat on my bed before grabbing the food; it smells like Chinese. I step out my bedroom before freezing, turning to the man getting up from my bed with a smirk. He planned that… smart bastard.

I pout a little bit to myself before quickly grabbing my phone, following after Levi who walks out the apartment but holds the door open for me with a 'hurry up' look on his face. I quickly step out of the apartment door before locking it behind me, following Levi to Petra's apartment. Ahh, so everyone is there. Shit my life.

"We're here," Levi calls slightly while walking into the apartment; Petra didn't lock her door again. One day, Petra will get robbed and everyone will be panicking like headless chickens.

I walk in after him as I try to keep a normal expression of 'innocent, yet bored', which seems to work well.

"Tali! You're here! Levi said you both have news to tell us!" and cue me sending one hell of a pissed off glare to Levi, who pretends to look innocent by staring at the wall to his left as I am on his right. Bitch, fucking bitch-bitch-bitch!

I nod my head softly, before slowly going to hide behind Levi as he grabs onto my right arm, holding me in place as I huff to myself. Bitch, use your slightly tallness to help me! It's not like you can do it with anyone else!

"I… I need to drink," I say quickly while scurrying off to the kitchen but freeze before I get there.

"Tali and I are dating," I hear Levi says, him being the cause of my freezing as I stay frozen for a second before turning around to see everyone. Erwin looks like he is having a great day, Oluo looks pretty damn surprised, Gunther and Eld are smiling to one another with a 'about time' look on each of their faces, Tabby looks surprised with a mix of angry and plain out fine… Petra… Petra looks heart broken. "We have been for a little over two months now," and salt has been rubbed into Petra's wound.

"I'm… going to need a moment," Petra says in this emotionless voice while walking past everyone, including me without even glancing at us before heading to her bedroom.

"I'm going to check on her," Oluo says as I watch Erwin pull him back, shaking his head to the man who looks back to where Petra left, and a look of concern on his face.

I take a small deep breath while looking to the door, clenching my hands; someone make the awkwardness go away already. It's unbearable.

I feel my shoulder being nudged so I glare to the person nudging to see Levi, holding out a fortune cookie to confirm that he has Chinese food.

I raise a brow at the dude while taking the cookie, snapping it in half as I read the fortune.

'All troubles will calm down after time.'

"Did you seriously go out and get a personalised fortune cookie?"

"You make my 'act of kindness' sound like a bad thing," he says while rolling his eyes at me as I chuckle slightly. I kind of did, didn't I? I shake my head a little bit before munching on the fortune cookie; after reading that, I do feel a little bit calmer. Must be Levi's aura, probably is since this happens to everyone when he speaks to them… that or he pisses them off even more.

"I'm going to make sure she's okay," Erwin says while walking past the group, walking into Petra's living room as I clench my fists; see this is what I was afraid off. Big time afraid of, more than anything afraid of.

"Well, I also have news for you all," Eld says as I glance to everyone before him, "Bella and I are finally engaged," he says with a smile as I search my brain for a Bella. Oh yeah, his lover / girlfriend is called Bella. I keep forgetting since he rarely ever mentions her.

"Congrats man," Oluo says to the blonde man who rubs his neck slightly, seeming to get embarrassed from the 'congrats' that Oluo, Gunther, Tabby and I give him. Levi doesn't really seem interested. Doesn't the dude want to get married one day? I mean he's like twenty six right? His years are running out. B-But that doesn't mean I want to marry the guy right away! There are many things I want to do before I settle down.

I feel my face heat up a little more before looking to Eld who is chatting with Tabby, Oluo and Gunther about the wedding while I glance to Levi, who is simply staring his food down which makes me laugh; what a hilarious sight.

"Are you hungry?"

"Yes," was Levi's simple response as he continues to stare at his bag of food, making me chuckle before sticking my hand inside and pulling out a box full of mini spring rolls. "Thanks," was his only reply as he takes a small handful of them before eating them one by one. I do the same as I notice they are vegetable spring rolls, Levi doesn't like these, he says they need meat in them.

I eye the man beside me as I chew slowly on one of the spring rolls; knowing he is forcing himself to eat these leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. I curl the bag opening up so I don't want to eat anymore, thanks for the bitter taste Levi.

After a couple of minutes, Erwin walks out with Petra who… looks a lot better. Like, it never happened better.

"Petra, are you okay?" I ask while walking over to her, watching her grin to me before capturing me in a hug. I exhale a little shaky as she pulls away with her grin on her face, tears staining her eyes but they don't look like they are going to fall.

"I'm happy your feelings are returned, Tali," she says with a small croaky voice as I feel my heart being toyed with. I feel tears appearing in my eyes as I hug her closer, whispering 'I'm sorry' into her neck as I feel her hug me back. "Its fine, I promised I wouldn't be mad remember. I'm just happy that Levi is with one of my friends instead of a random girl."

"I didn't! I don't approve of this!"

"Enough kitty, you're opinion doesn't count here."

"Get your God damn dirty hands off of me Oluo!" Petra and I chuckle while pulling away, watching Tabby and Oluo fight against one another till Eld and Erwin pull them apart, before anything serious happens between the two.

"We're good then?" I ask Petra, watching her eyes look to me before she smiles, a happy smile, not a fake one.

"We're good, sure, I'm jealous and a little mad but I'll get over it."

"You're an amazing friend, you know," I say while giving Petra a one armed hug as she smiles, giving me one back as I watch Tabby and Oluo trying to get to one another, making us both chuckle at the strain on their faces. They look like children in the playground trying to fight with one another while the teachers hold them back.

I smile to Petra as she smiles back; you will rarely meet anyone like Petra who will let something this big pass, I feel so lucky right now. An amazing best friend and an emotionless boyfriend… yay? My life is officially screwed up to fuck.

"I need a nap," I say while stretching out a little bit, watching everyone move round to the settee as the news comes on with a special thingy.

"This just in, the murders in Japan have now been located to a single breed of killers."

"Did he say 'breed'?"

"Yes, he did."

"Tabby, Petra, please be quiet," Erwin says with such a spine chilling tone as he watches the screen as the screen turns to some… disturbing photos. Some human like creature… oh my Jesus that is frightening. It has a huge head and it looks… in a polite way; retarded. It also has these huge mouths and HOLY MOTHER FUCKING LORD! Those creatures are bigger then houses! Like seven maybe six meters tall; Jesus fucking Christ. That's in Japan isn't it? The place looks like some broken down village.

"These humanoid… monsters seem to only have one goal… to eat humans," cue everyone in the room going into complete silence, "they do not need to eat as our scientists at the army say, they do not know the purpose of these creatures… Japan is currently evacuating all citizens to America, England and many other welcoming counties. All army, navy and air forces are being drawn to Japan to eliminate these monsters. Further information will be provided when this information is known to the public. The army has a name for these monsters… they are called Titans."

I feel myself shaking, slowly reaching for Levi's hand as I stare at the images and videos on the screen. People, people like me are being eaten right before my eyes by these things. These… Titans.

I feel him squeeze my hand a little as I cannot tear myself from watching them getting eaten; the screaming, the cries, the fear… it's consuming me yet that isn't me getting eaten.

"We'll be going out for a bit," I hear Levi say before dragging me towards the front door of Petra's, snapping me out of my daze as I look to him with a surprised look.

"Hey, I was interested in that."

"No, you were panicking and thinking shit weren't you," he questions while closing the door behind him, before turning around and giving me this serious look which sends shivers down my spine; I rarely get this look from him.

"No… okay maybe a little bit."

"Don't. I promised I'd protect you, even from those… things," he says while placing his hands on my shoulder, feeling me flinch as my nerves are still on edge; those images still won't leave my mind.

I feel my eyes water a little bit as I drop my head down, staring at his black shoes as I soon feel him wrap his arms around my back, pulling me closer as I feel the tears threatening to fall but I won't let them. The Titan aren't even here, I have no reason to cry.

I lean my forehead against his shoulder, feeling my body shake even more as I try my best to calm my nerves; what a crappy feeling this is.

Levi doesn't say anything and truthfully, I don't want him to. I just let myself calm my nerves before pulling away from his shoulder to look him in the eyes, his calm, dull yet bright, grey eyes.

I give him a small smile which he frowns at, probably knowing it is forced before leaning towards me. I close my eyes when I feel his lips press against mine gentle for a moment before he pulls away, this almost… dazed look on his face. The look doesn't last long as it is quickly replaced with his normal stern expression which makes me chuckle, feeling him release me from his grip as he puts his hands into his jacket pockets.

"Where do you want to go then?"

"A movie," his reply is as he grabs my right hand and pulls it into his jacket pocket as he starts walking, letting me quickly follow him as I don't want to trip because I no longer control my right hand; he owns my right hand now… perfect.

It doesn't really take that long to find a movie theatre which plays good movies. Levi being the fucking dick he is, chooses a horror movie which makes me glare; the fucking asshole is asking for an ass whooping though he is most likely much stronger than me so it would probably be the other way round.
"I hate you for doing this to me."

"The feeling is mutual," he says back as I stick my tongue out at the bastard. Bitch that is my comeback you just stole! Levi only smirks at me as I cringe, walking into the pitch dark cinema as the movie is just started. It's an old movie called the 'House of Wax' but just from the picture of it outside I know I am not going to enjoy this.

And with that said I am completely correct. Within the first fucking half an hour of the film, I am now hiding in Levi's jacket as he hugs me with one arm while watching the movie with interest. You are a very MEAN person! May Tabby dance on your grave you prick!

I soon peek up to the movie, only to quickly hide back into his jacket as the weird brother comes out with an axe. Hide me hide me hide me!
"Calm down, I'm here," I hear Levi say as I continue to hide in his jacket. I am NOT falling for that again ya twit.

"I don't like horror," I say into his jacket, looking up to the man as he looks down to me, tearing his interest away from the movie and to me for once. He gives me a small sigh before leaning down, kissing my forehead lightly before grabbing my left hand.

"Do you want to leave?"

"No, it's fine," Levi only sighs before grabbing my other hand, pulling me up as he stands up. Damn it all, I should have said something else.

Without another word, he tugs me out of the cinema and turns to me as I give him a blank look in reply to his blank look. Two can play at this you know. "You're pale."

"I have always been pale," I say back as he simply rolls his eyes softly, grabbing my left hand with his before again tugging me out of the cinema, heading off somewhere as I look round at all the places.

We soon start heading into a dangerous neighbourhood which scares me even more, I squeeze Levi's hand to reassure myself that he is with me as he squeezes my hand back. I take a deep breath before looking up to him as his eyes are darting everywhere, but he seems to know where he is going.

Levi soon stops walking as we stand outside of a large abandoned building, sending shivers down my spine as I cling onto his hand; I really don't like the fucking aura of this place, it almost screams murder.

"This is where I grew up," he says while glancing down to me as I look around the building till this small sign near the door catches my eyes, 'Saint Maria's orphanage'. My heart stops for a moment before looking up to him, this annoyed expression on his face as he glares at the building in front of him. "A fucking crappy childhood, my whore of a mother left me here along with my little brother when we were kids. Now, right now, I can look at this old fucked up place and laugh," he says as I see the corner of his lips twitching, almost turning into a smirk as he stares at the place.

"You don't want to find her?"

"Oh, I found her years ago. Doctors say she either died of HIV, Gonorrhoea or Hepatitis C. I couldn't care which one it was, she was a horrible mother, a selfish whore," he says, tucking his hands into his jacket while taking my hand along with his. I stare at the man for a moment before looking up to the building; the roof is collapsing inwards while almost all of the windows are broken, either from rocks getting thrown at them or natural causes I would guess.

"You… you mentioned a brother."

"He's dead," I can actually hear the bitterness in his voice as he speaks. I glance up to Levi to see him staring at the building, like trying to drag out unknown answers out of it. "Died age thirteen, sixth of December, fire at this orphanage. We had an argument before hand, causing me to storm out about an hour or so before the fire started," he says as I spot a strong tint of regret in his voice. I hold onto his arm tightly, feeling him lean into me slightly as he rests his cheek against the top of my head.

"… What were your age differences?"

"Three years."

I clench my jaw together, clenching my hand as I feel his thumb stroke against my smaller hand in a soothing motion as I simply frown, staring at the building before freezing up on the spot as I hear yelling in the distance.

I look up to Levi with a 'let's leave, NOW' expression as he stares back at me for a moment before turning around, pulling me along again as he starts leading the way out of this dangerous neighbour.

What scares me the most is when a group of scary looking adults are walking in the same direction of us, all wearing hoodies with the hoods up; walking to one another till their gaze rests on us.

"Levi? Is that Levi?" The one near the back asks, moving towards the front of the group as I look up to Levi who is holding a glare on his face. He doesn't look at all happy.

I give Levi's arm a small squeeze as I watch the taller man run over to us both, a happy expression on his face as he pulls the hood down.

"Levi! Long time no see, right?" the man says with this grin, bright blonde hair and blue eyes, he looks like he is in his teens, maybe early twenties. "Who's the girl? When did you ever consider dating someone?"

"This is my girlfriend, Tali," he says through slightly grinded teeth as I watch him send this boy one of the meanest glares I have ever seen, yet the boy seems to be completely obvious to it; maybe he is used to it or something?

"Well nice to meet ya Tali, I'm George O'Neal," the boy says with a grin to me, he has such a sunny aura for a street rat, "didn't think Levi would ever settle down with a girl, he's all business and no fun at all-"

"George, we're busy, if you have something to say then say it now," Levi says while actually growling a little in his voice. He does not sound happy at all.
"Is that really Levi?" a girl questions while walking up behind George with a slightly annoyed expression as her eyes land on me. Well excuse me for living then you whore.

George only nods his head happily while looking to Levi before looking to me then back to the unnamed girl who is giving me a bad aura. I don't like you either so let the hate rain like skittles~

"I haven't seen you in a while Levi, still wearing cravats I see."

"Yes, I enjoy wearing them," Levi retorts, his grip on my hand getting tighter and tighter as more people from the group gather round us. It surprises me how happy they look to see Levi although none of them look friendly, like you'd run away if you saw them in a dark alley scary. "We are leaving, goodbye," Levi says, tugging my hand along as he walks around the group as I glance back to them, giving them a petite smile and wave which the younger people of the group return.

I look back to Levi to see him looking pissed beyond belief, as in, he looks like he would murder a child if the child was disagreeing with him.

The rest of the journey home is spent in silence as the apartment building comes into view as it is quite large, after all. I take a small breath before exhaling, leaning against Levi as he stops for a moment. My feet hurt from all the walking. The walk to the dangerous neighbourhood and back was way over an hour. So I am damn sure we spent over three hours out today, including the movie that I didn't want to go to.

I follow behind him with a small bit of lag, letting him tug me along as he stops outside his apartment. He pulls out his keys from the door, pushing them into the door with more than enough strength as he opens the door, slamming it shut as I walk inside. Why the fuck did meeting those people make him so pissed?

I seriously don't understand. He is such a damn confusing mother fucker you know.

I watch the short man remove his shoes before putting them in the shoe rack, walking into his apartment with a small sigh while pulling his jacket off.
I quickly remove my shoes with a yawn before placing mine beside his, 'his and hers' rushes into my mind as I shake my head. I don't plan to get married for another year or so or whenever. Shut your God damn imagination!

I rub my eyes a little bit while walking into his front room and see it is pitch black in here. No light whatever. I strain my eyes as I glare at the living room clock, seeing it is almost eleven at night which surprises me; damn fucking damn, how time flies.

"Levi?" I call, looking around with narrowed eyes as I clench my eyes shut for a moment, glancing in the direction of the bedroom where the light just flashes on. Jesus fucking Christ, that fucking BURNS! AHH LIGHT!

I blink my eyes painfully before walking over to the door, only to have some clothes thrown at my face. I freak out for a moment before catching them, a laugh lacing my breath as I look down on the clothes; a white tee shirt and navy shorts.

"Those may be a little big," Levi says while throwing his shirt into the basket near his closet, glancing to me in his very sexy half-dressed form. "But it shouldn't matter," he says while stripping to his cotton boxers, making me look away but steal glances as he grabs some dark green sweatpants from his drawers before pulling them on.

"You need a Japanese slide thingy."

"Excuse me?" Levi questions plopping down on his bed, staring at me with a raised brow as I put the clothes on my shoulder, before describing to him what I am mentioning to; maybe he'll understand if I describe it in a better way.

"You know those large paper Japanese thingies? The thingies that people change behind… do you understand what I'm talking about?"

"Not a clue," he says, sighing and falling back onto his back. Aww, he looks so sexy.

I shake my head a little bit before walking to his bathroom, quickly changing before walking back into the room with his tee shirt on, having to pull the strings on the shorts to keep them from falling down.

I stare at the half naked man as he reads another one of Alice Cadman's books. I really do think he's obsessed with my books.

"Don't you have any other reading material that isn't by Alice?"

"I do, but most of the books I own are either by her or Kurt Zuckerman."

"Who?"

"See. He isn't that well known and has only written one series but the one series alone is pretty well written," damn, I love having a boyfriend who actually reads shit. Unlike most boys now a days who are more interested into physical things instead of written things.

I nod my head slowly to him before jumping up onto the bed, standing up while stretching before plopping down beside him; dude, what is with your weird-ed out look?

Without saying anything, Levi shakes his head before putting this little white bookmark with two wings on it into his page, closing the book as he places it down on his nightstand.

"So," he begins, turning to me while crossing his legs on top of the covers, "what do you want to do?" he asks, leaning his chin on top of his palm as I blink my eyes a little. What DO I want to do?

I shrug my shoulders to the man as he eyes me with this 'seriously' look, sighing a little more before flopping backwards onto his back.

"You are a shit loads of help."

"Who the fuck said I wanted to help you?"

"Touché."

I laugh slightly at the smirk that appears on his lips as I yawn a little, stretching out in my seat while falling backwards as my head barely reaches the pillow. Fuck my life; I really need to grow more.

I glance to Levi, staring at him as I think one thing; short bastard.

"You're short."

"You're fucking short as well."

"I'm a girl, being short makes me cute."

"Since when were you ever cute?"

"When I was five I was, then I turned into a beast that picked on her older sisters."

"What a 'lovely' child you were."

I laugh slightly at that, pulling the covers over myself before turning on my side to see the man. I watch as he pulls the covers over himself before facing me, lifting up his head as he uses his palm and arm to support his head. I blink my eyes a tiny bit while pulling the covers closer to me as he looks to me, this small tiny smile on his face as I stare back.

I expect him to say something about now but he doesn't; which doesn't irritate me at all. Nope, not at all… okay that is a fucking lie-

"The moonlight looks nice on you," he says blankly, watching me as I feel my cheeks warm up a little. I glance down to the black silk covers before looking back to him to see him smirking at me; bitch-boy. He is soo teasing me right now.

"Thanks," I murmur slightly, looking back and forth between the covers and him, watching as his teasing smirk turns into a cute little smile.

I yawn softly, feeling my eyes fall heavy as I feel two large arms encircle themselves round my waist, pulling me closer as I force my eyes open to stare up at Levi who places his chin on top of my head.

I slowly wrap my arms around his back, tracing the defined muscles on his back as I feel his thumbs rub circles on my skin. I run my fingers along every traceable definable muscle on his back as I feel my mind tugging me off into dream land. Oh, look, they installed a chocolate fountain. They God damn fucking finally read my suggestion.

"Night Levi," I murmur softly, pulling my arms back to rest them between our chests, one under my chin while the other is wrapped around his back.

"Sleep well," he whispers to me as I lean my head against his pillow; oh Lord, I thank you for Levi and this amazing bed… and also Levi's warmth. He would make a perfect water bottle.

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