Eren:
I race down Main Street in my beat up green Beetle trying to make it in time to clock in at Sweetie Pi's, but manage to catch every fucking red light down any street I take.
At the fourth red light I tap impatiently on my steering wheel thinking about the lecture I'm going to receive from whoever I'm working with today for being late on my first day back from my break.
I bang my head on the dashboard, there's no fucking way I'll make it on time now.
There's a honk from behind me which makes my head raise up and notice the light took pity on how late I was and turned green. Finally, I think as I speed off further down the street, managing to dodge any more red lights and make it into the mall's parking lot only 13 minutes after I'm supposed to arrive.
I shrug to myself reckoning It's better than not showing up at all.
I hustle through the double doors, pushing past gaggles of teenage girls and trample up the steps, turning left into the shop managing to avoid running into a short man with dark hair.
Wait! Short man with dark hair? Could it be Levi?
I hesitantly tap on the man's shoulder while biting my lip, thinking of excuses in case it isn't Levi after all, but, I mean, how many people actually look like him?
Sure enough, when he turns around I'm met by a grumpy face that belongs to the sassy little man.
"Why the fuck are you touching m-" He spits out before noticing it was me. When he looks up and meets my eyes, his face relaxes back into his usual blank face. "Oh it's just a shitty kid."
"HEY!" I shout outraged. A few people turn to look at us, and I realize with a blush I forgot to use my inside voice. He chuckles at all the attention I drew and then turns and walks into Sweetie Pi's. Fuck now I'll probably have to be the one to serve him.
Speaking of serving.. I run into the store after him while barely sparing him a glance when I head into the back to put my apron on. But while back there trying, actually more like failing, to get a stuborn knot out of the clasped ties, when a certain midget- DON'T TELL HIM I SAID THAT- came strolling into the room.
"This is an employee only area, sorry Levi." His cheeks have slight color painting them, and I realize that due to me giving up trying to untangle the mess of strings, when I tried pulling it over my head, the apron caught on my shirt and had lifted it up, revealing half of my lower tanned stomach.
He quickly fixes his face before I can read too much into what the blush meant, and added in an amused tone, "I hate to break it to you, Sweetie, but I'm your new co-worker." He brushed by me and took a brand new looking apron off the hook three away from mine.
I blush at his sarcastic pet name for me and scramble to get out of the back before I can make a bigger embarrassment of myself, but quickly learn the world is shitting on me today, and end up running into the worlds largest potted plant, skinning my knee in the process.
Fuck you too world. Fuck you too.
"OH MY FUCKING MEATBALLS!" I scream and then turn even more red as I realize what I shouted.
Levi races over to me, lightning fast like The Flash, scoops me up, and carries me over to the bench placed under all of the hooks.
If it were possible my face would turn redder, but I'm already resembling a tomato so the only thing that changes is the heat radiating off my cheeks which is now burning hot enough to make Satan himself jealous.
Levi sets me down gently and pushes the bottom of my shorts further up my thigh to get a better look at the cause of my embarrassment.
Sasha, who I was supposed to be in the front working with working with 15 minutes ago, storms into the back room eyes filled with worry.
"I HEARD SOMEONE SCREAM WHAT'S HAPPENING? SHOULD I BE SCREAMING TOO?!" She spots my bleeding knee and slaps her hand over her mouth. "OMIGOSH, EREN! I'LL GO GRAB THE FIRST AID KIT!" She breezes past Levi and me to the employee bathroom, which is much cleaner than the one in the main part of the store, and comes back equipped with a white box.
"Sasha, If you're here," I point to her, "And we're here," I signal between Levi and me, "Then who's watching the store?" She pauses rummaging through the kit and looks up with wide eyes then proceeds to shove the box in Levi's face and runs out of the work room just as fast as she came in.
Levi has a faint smile on his beautiful face- wait fuck I just meant face. Yeah just his face, anyways, he starts pulling out hydrogen peroxide, otherwise known as Satan's piss, and dabs it on my gushing knee causing me to hiss in pain.
"At least warn a guy." I spit in an annoyed tone through my teeth. He just rolls his eyes and continues to dab my knee then finishes with Neosporne and a band-aid.
"Tch. Next time don't run into a fucking plant and I won't have to use that shit." He stands up and wipes imaginary dirt off on his tight black pants then grabs his apron and walks out into the storefront.
I take a moment to erase any left over blush from Levi lightly touching my leg, then proceed to put on my apron and brace myself for the awkward interaction that's likely to come.
Outside though I find it packed with costumers which saves any conversation I would be forced to have with him, at least until the rush died down. Finally something went right today, I think as I start filling out orders and limping around to scoop ice cream.
After two hours of non-stop hobbling around and serving at customer after customer, the rush dies down to only a few people here and there meaning I can finally sit down and take pressure off my stinging leg and rest my face which hurts from constant smiling. Working in retail fucking sucks.
I glance at the clock above the counter I'm sitting on which reads 6:46 meaning my shift's over in exactly 14 minutes, which is 5 minutes almost 3 times. But of course my day was just starting to chill out so the world was like, "Hey how about you not be happy and deal with this father and his screaming kids who can't decide what flavor they want." Yeah, did I mention retail sucks?
After serving them I nervously look across the mall where Reiner works, but notice he's not there even though it's his shift.
Levi's looking at my from the corners of his eyes while spraying down the glass case where the ice cream is displayed. "He's not there, Eren." I curiously look at him and he puts down the cleaning cloth to face to offer me further explanation, "It's simple really," He drops my gaze to pick up the cloth and start cleaning the glass again, "I warned him to stay away from you, and he listened."
My eyes widen to the size of saucers and I start stuttering, which I thought only happened in the movies, but ever since I met Levi I've known it to also be true in real life.
"Don't think about it too much brat." He motions for my apron so I pull it off and hand it to him. He disappears into the back room and returns with my wallet and keys along with another set of keys that most likely belong to him.
"Let's go, kid." Startled at the sudden demand, I follow slightly behind him out of the shop, stopping to wave and thank Sasha for helping me earlier then scramble to catch up with Levi, who walks surprisingly fast for someone with short legs.
He falls back to walk beside me and surprises me by sliping his soft hand in mine. I freeze up at the small, yet very intimate touch and start to sputter out words that don't make sense.
"My hands are cold." Is all he offers to my stuttering mouth. I nod and continue walking with my hand laced in between his until we reach my car.
"Uhm, thanks for uh- you know, helping me out with my knee and stuff. Like with Reiner I-" I'm about to spew a bunch of useless words when Levi lifts my hand up to his mouth and lightly kisses it probably to shut me up- and boy does it work. My mouth automatically shuts and a blush creeps onto my face.
"Goodbye, Eren. It's a pleasure to work with you." He drops my hand and strides toward his sleek black car a few rows down from mine leaving me a blushing, fangirling mess.
I get in my car and start to drive away when I realize it's June and 80 some degrees outside and my blush worsens tenfold.