You fell backwards onto your bed, body slightly bouncing off the mattress from the impact. You groaned as pain throbbed through your legs. It'd been a week since you joined the corps and boy was it rough. You'd spent the last 3 days learning how to ride a horse and you'd started off loving horses, I mean your best friend had a face like one but now you cursed their very existence. Pain shot through your thighs reinforcing your feelings towards the damn horses. Even Mikasa had looked uncomfortable after riding so at least you weren't the only one having trouble. You thought about the good moments from this week too; Jean slipping in horse mess when he was on stable duty, slyly stealing food on kitchen duty with Sasha, seeing Captain Levi with his shirt off. You felt your face warm up as you thought back to that.
Yesterday it had been insanely warm and you were helping out Hanji. You were glad to be inside the cool walls of her lab and you were one of the few cadets who didn't mind her kookiness. Hanji seemed to have taken a liking to you too.
"Can you run on over to shorty's office and get a report for me [first name]? He'll know which one it is" she said to you as she was prodding at something gross in a dish.
As soon as you left her lab you felt like you'd walked into an oven and you decided to hurry up so you could get back to the coolness of the lab. You passed Armin on the way to the office and his face was as red as a tomato. You felt a twinge of guilt that you got to be somewhere cool and your friends had to suffer with this blasted heat. You resolved to ask Hanji if she'd ask one of them to help out next time.
You arrived at his office and your hair was plastered to your head from the sweat. You were getting straight in the shower after you finished your duties. You knocked on the door and a familiar cold voice asked for you to come in. You'd never been in Levi's office before and the first thing you noticed was the smell, it smelt like lemons. You knew Levi was a tad on the obsessive side about cleaning but this took the cake. The smell was overpowering. Then you noticed him and your jaw almost hit the floor. He was learning back in his chair, his eyes half shut like he was tired or bored and his shirt was undone. Now, you'd seen Jean shirtless before and you'd checked him out but Levi's body was so far off the scale compared to his. His chest and stomach looked like they'd been carved by an artist. Sweat gave his body a sheen that seemed to accentuate his muscles. You felt your face burning and tried to blab out why you were there "H..Hanji sent me for a report, Sir". He smirked and opened a drawer and pulled out a pile of papers then handed them to you. You hoped he mistook the redness of your face as a result of the weather.
"Thank you Captain", you turned round and couldn't wait to be out of that room but before you could shut the door you heard him say "Cadet, it's rude to stare".
You sprinted back to Hanji's lab wanting to bury your face in sand.
At dinner that night, you felt eyes burning into your back and you turned around and he was starting at you with that smirk still etched on his face.
You giggled to yourself as you lay in bed, thinking about that. It was hardly your fault you were staring, he was the one with his shirt undone. It didn't help that you idolised him either.
A content sigh left your lips as you realised how happy you were in the corps.
You fell to sleep, a smile still on your face.