I woke up to banging on the door and it took me a minute for my brain to register what was happening. I sat up in a panic when it hit me. It's Mikasa and Armin, they told me they were going to wake me this way. Levi jumped up and quickly made his way over to his side of the room.

I made my way towards the door to answer it when I heard Levi quietly say, "wait."

I stopped and watched as he pulled the collapsible wall across the room. I gave him a confused look and he just walked over gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, "sorry it's too early for me to deal with people," he said and I could tell that it was a little more than that.

I just let out a little sigh before taking a calming breath. I opened the door and Mikasa and Armin gave me a nice smile. "Good morning sleeping beauty," Armin said laughing as he looked at my bed head.

"Someone slept in," Mikasa added. I ran my fingers through my hair and tried to clean it up a bit.

I peaked at the time for a second before rolling my eyes, "well sorry but not everyone is up by 9 am on a weekend."

"Hey Mikasa woke me up too I was perfectly happy to sleep in until 11," Armin rolled his eyes.

"Alright well, you're going to have to give me a few minutes to get dressed," I said inviting them in.

"Is the coast clear?" Armin asked and I took a deep breath. He needs to learn not to listen to damn rumors I swear.

"If you mean Levi, then no he's here."

Armin froze up and Mikasa just rolled her eyes. "Armin you're back on your bullshit," she said and I agreed with her.

Again, I'm really sorry about Armin. I thought trying to get my thoughts to him.

I made my way to the bathroom and changed before coming out. I walked back over to Mikasa and Armin and out on my shoes. "Before we go anywhere I'm going to talk to Levi."

"You should invite him to come along," Mikasa said, and Armin looked like he nearly had a heart attack.

"No no, please don't." He said quickly but keeping his voice low so Levi couldn't hear him. I knew Levi did hear him as long as he didn't have his headphones on of course he heard him.

"Armin, honestly you need to stop being so judgmental." I rolled my eyes, "I'm going to invite him along, I don't know if he will come or not but I hope he does just to prove to you how nice he actually is," I said before walking over to Levi's side.

I gave a polite knock on the wall. "You're good," Levi said and I poked my head around and walking over to him.

He was sitting on his bed with his legs pulled up under him. He didn't have his headphones on and I heard myself mentally apologizing for Armin yet again. I sat down on his bed next to him.

"Hey it's fine I've heard worse about myself," Levi said with a blank expression. I could definitely feel some of his emotions betraying him. He definitely was upset about it whether he would show it or not I knew he felt it.

"I want you to come with us, but I mean if you don't want to I understand," I said grabbing his hand.

"I really don't want to, but I can feel how much you want me to go," he sighed before taking a deep breath. "I do want to say I don't want them knowing about our relationship, at least not yet. I don't want them forcing themselves to like me because we're dating." I could tell there was more to it than that. He's been really worried about other people knowing about us.

"Okay," I nodded.

"I'm sorry, I'm just worried, I know you're not but I am and I just can't help but be worried about it," Levi said and it all made more sense. He's still worried about people judging me because of him. Even though I don't care about that sort of thing I'm not going to argue if that's what makes him comfortable then I won't go spreading it around.

Levi nodded and took a deep breath, "That being said, I guess I'll tag along for a little while. Only because you really want me to. But I am going to bring my headphones just in case."

"Really," I said more excited than I should have. "Okay, I'll let them know," I said jumping up. I watched him close his eyes for a second and take a deep breath.

I leaned in and placed a kiss on his lips. He looked up at me and I gave him a smile. He rolled his eyes and headed back over to my side of the room where they were waiting.

"Okay," I said walking back up to them. "He said he'd come." Is aid happily and I could already see the fear in Armin's face. Armin I love you to death man, but right now I just want to knock some sense into you.

"That's great," Mikasa said giving me a nod, I asked Annie if she wanted to join us, but she already had plans."

"One homicidal person is enough," Armin shook his head.

"Seriously Armin I swear if you keep this up I will end up punching you," I rolled my eyes, "just come into this with an open mind. Don't listen to rumors other people have made up. Okay just give him a chance."

"Fine, but if he ends up killing me-."

"Armin if you keep it up I'll kill you," I said and he took a deep breath and nodded.

"Fine. I'll try to be more open-minded," Armin took a deep breath just as there was a knock on the wall.

"You're good," I said and Levi walked around the corner. He looked more awkward than usual. He had his hands in his pockets and his muscles looked more tense than usual.

"So where do we want to go?" I asked and Armin shrugged.

"Do you want to go anywhere specific?" Mikasa said asking Levi. She was always good at trying to include people.

"It's up to you guys," He mumbled. I could already tell how uncomfortable he is.

I'm sorry Levi. I kept mentally apologizing knowing he was only going because I wanted him too.

"Well, we can go to one of the restaurants in town if you guys are hungry, if not we can just walk around for a while." She said.

"I'm not hungry how about you guys?" I asked.

Both Levi and Armin just shook their heads. God this is going to be interesting. Levi's too awkward to talk and Armin is too scared to talk.

"Well if nothing else we can walk around and just stop at a vendor or a small little place around town," Mikasa suggested and we all gave her a nod.

"Alright let's go," she said jumping up. She helped Armin to his feet and we walked out the door. I locked up while everyone waited next to me. Mikasa and Armin started walking and Levi and I slowed down a little.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked you to come I can tell you really don't want to be here," I whispered to him.

"Hey, it's fine, if I really hated it I wouldn't be here. But I like you more than I hate people."

"I think that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me," I said placing a hand over my chest with a teasing smile.

"Shut up," He let out a little laugh and bumped my shoulder with his.

We weren't far behind Armin and Mikasa. I could see them talking but I couldn't hear what they were saying.

"She's really nice," Levi said giving me a little smile.

"Mikasa?"

"Yeah, she's trying to convince Armin to be nicer to me." He let a little chuckle slip, "She just told him that you seem to get along with me so for your sake can he pull his head out of his ass."

"Sound like something she'd say," I laughed. "I think you two would get along if you really got to know each other. You have a similar sense of humor and both of you guys are very blunt about stuff." Maybe you two could become friends? I asked mentally not really sure how he'd take that.

"I don't know about that. I've never been good at making friends," Levi smiled.

"We became friends," I said and Levi shook his head.

"No, we skipped straight to boyfriends remember."

"You say that, but I clearly remember us being friends before that," I smiled and he rolled his eyes.

"Well, that's different. You forced your way into being my friend, which thank you for that, but not everyone is as stubbornly persistent as you."

"Hey you two are falling behind," Mikasa said turning around. She gestured for us to catch up and her and Armin stopped and waited for us. We were more than a few steps behind them but when we caught up I realized there would be no way for us to whisper anymore since they could hear anything we would say.

"So, where are we heading? Should we head down to the shops or towards the park?" Mikasa asked looking to us.

"Wherever is fine," I said with a smile and Levi nodded.

"Guess it's up to you, lead the way to whichever and we'll follow," Armin said to Mikasa and she nodded. "Well, why don't we go to the shops first and then if we want then maybe we can head down to the park."

"Sounds good," I said and she nodded before having us turn the corner up ahead.