"Why don't you come over to my place? Have some tea?"

"N-no... really I'm fine..."

"Tch, just follow me brat," he takes my arm, the one that was hurt, and I flinch, but hopefully he didn't notice, and he lightly starts dragging me towards his house.

———

"U-um... I really should be getting back..."

He's been staring at me for the past ten minutes while sipping his tea, and I have no idea what he's thinking, dad's probably home by now too, oh I'm in for one hell of a night.

He gets up and takes my arm and I bite my lip, trying not to scream out in pain. He rolls up my sleeve, oh no, he's going to see the scars...

My arm has bandages around it but even with it you can still tell it's bad condition.

"How did this happen?" He asks, he hasn't showed much of a reaction, he still has his normal bored face.

"U-um... I bumped into a lamp with my arm..."

"Liar."

He's looking directly in my eyes, but I'm trying to avert my eyes so he couldn't tell I was lying, but I guess he knew I was.

"Levi-san, I should really get going..."

"First tell me how this happened, then I'll let you go."

I suddenly get up, "I should really get going." And I quickly get out of there before he could say another word.

———

I lay on my bed with the window open, letting in the cool night air. I examine my arm in the moonlight, and it's still pretty bad, hopefully it'll just get better and nothing else will happen to it.

I think about Levi-san, Levi... that name sounds familiar, I feel like I heard it somewhere...

———

"Eren!"

"Hm?" I turn around and Armin is running towards me.

"Eren! Are you okay? You seemed like you got hurt pretty bad yesterday, Mikasa and Annie can be pretty scary sometimes..."

"Oh that, yeah I'm fine-"

"Hey Eren." It's Mikasa.

"I just wanted to apologize about Annie, about yesterday..." she says while putting her red scarf over her mouth, she never takes that scarf off.

"Oh that, it's fine Mikasa," I say smiling, I've been closer to Armin and Mikasa, though Mikasa is way more popular than us and is usually surrounded by others, though she still talks to us every now and then.

"Well we should probably get to class now." Armin states.

We nod, and we head to class.

On the way, Armin's talking with Connie and Mikasa is arguing with Annie, and I kinda just trail behind, spacing out, so I don't notice that I bump into someone.

"Oh, sorry-" I look up, since I fell on the floor, and it's Levi.

I try to get up and run away, but he grabs my arm.

"You're not going anywhere brat."

"S-stop..." I say in pain, since he's holding my injured arm.

He looks at me, then at my arm, and he squeezes it a bit tighter.

"S-stop it!" I say trying to get out of his grip, but he's holding me tightly, and trying to escape only makes my arm hurt more, so I give up and fall to the floor on my knees.

Levi let's go of my arm and walks in front of me. He crouches down so I'm facing him, and now I remember,

Levi Ackerman,

The most popular boy in school.