Break from the Stress
We all decided to sit outside the gym for lunch. Everyone left to get their food and slowly made their way back. Everyone was pretty quiet. I guess we were all trying to figure out what Shadis could have meant. I mean easy? This was the hardest lesson I've ever done. Then again I'm not like Levi, or anyone else. I just figured out what my power is and I have little to no control over it.
"You'll get there," Levi said, placing his hand on mine.
I just gave him a smile and nodded. I didn't want to think about anything knowing he could hear it but at this point, I really wasn't sure if I ever would get there.
I Knew Levi could hear my thoughts his grip on my hand tightened but he stayed quiet. He leaned over and placed a kiss on my cheek.
"Well," Sasha started finally breaking the overall silence between everyone, "that was a stressful class," she said with an awkward laugh. "So rather than talking about that and the next thing they could have planned for us, why don't we talk about this weekend."
It took me a moment to figure out what she was talking about until I remembered that this weekend we had planned that we would all go and hang out as a group. Damn, I forgot all about that.
"So did I," Levi mumbled giving me an awkward look.
"So we all are meeting up tomorrow at the front of the school right?" She asked clarifying.
"Yeah, and then we are going to walk over to the mall," Marco said giving her a smile encouraging the change of topic.
"Alright, everyone be ready and at the front by 10 or we are leaving without you," Sasha said with a teasing tone.
I felt Levi's hand give mine a squeeze and I turned my attention to him.
"I should tell them," he said instantly I felt him get really anxious, but he took a deep breath. "I mean, I trust them all, and I don't think they would judge me... well, I hope they won't." Levi said and it finally clicked to me that he meant telling them about his powers.
"I think they will accept you," I let out a little laugh, "I think it might bite you in the ass a little bit though. Sasha might decide that she wants to talk to you in class and she is just going to none stop throw thoughts at you," I laughed.
"Oh god I didn't even think about that," He laughed a little.
When they stopped talking about the plans for tomorrow Levi finally spoke up. I could tell he was a little nervous about telling them, but he seemed confident enough when he spoke. "There is one thing I would like to tell you guys before tomorrow," Levi said and everyone turned their attention towards him.
"So I never fully told you guys about my powers, most of you probably just think that telekinesis is my only power," he said and already I saw the looks of confusion on everyone's faces. Well, almost everyone. Jean and Marco had big smiles on their faces since they were already in the know.
"Wait you have more than one power?" Sasha asked with a confused expression.
"Three to be exact," Levi said and everyone just kinda looked around at each other. Some people looked at Jean and Marco who were laughing a little.
"You guys know?" Sasha said trying to figure out what exactly they know. Sadly she's not the mind reader.
"Yeah, he told us a few days ago, well he kinda had to but we aren't going to get into that right now," Jean laughed before turning back to Levi letting him finish what he was saying.
"Well, the only reason I bring it up is because you all saw the backlash my powers can have if I get overwhelmed." He said and everyone seemed even more confused than before.
"When I collapsed in the gym on Monday, that was due to my powers, not anything else the teachers might have told you."
"Wait what?" Sasha said scratching her head.
"Wait so does that mean when we all were hanging out your powers overwhelmed you then too?" Armin asked remembering the first time Levi collapsed from his powers overloading.
"Yup," Levi responded and I watched as Armin and Mikasa both instantly looked at each other even more bewildered than before.
"I think you're just going to have to tell them they are never gonna guess it," I said trying to hold back my laughter.
"I think you're right," Jean joined in.
"Alright, then," Levi smiled but I felt his hand squeeze mine as he got nervous. "Well, the first one obviously is telekinesis," he said, stating the obvious probably to try and give himself a little more time before blurting out something that scared him so much. "And the other two are a little more, um, complicated."
I could feel him start to lose his nerve. "You got this babe," I whispered giving his hand a squeeze.
He took a breath and decided to just blurt it out, "Well, I'm an empath, and a mind reader," He said quickly.
Everyone was quiet as they processed what he said. Armin was the first one to do anything. He just started laughing. After a minute he just shook his head before looking at Levi. "Your a sneaky asshole," he said shaking his head and crossing his arms, but leaving a smile on his face.
What does he mean by that? I asked Levi mentally.
"I kinda read his mind to figure out what books he liked to get on his good side," he whispered to me.
"Also, sorry for anything you may have heard," Armin added realizing Levi heard everything he was thinking.
"No worries," Levi said and I instantly followed it up mentally with he's heard worse, without even thinking about it.
"So wait, what does empath mean?" Connie asked.
"Well, I can feel people's emotions if they are strong enough, as well as if I have any strong emotions the people around me tend to feel them too," Levi explained and Connie nodded starting to understand his powers.
"So wait, you could read all of our minds this whole time?" Sasha asked kinda angry. I was about to cut her off when she continued. "You knew how badly I wanted to be friends with you and you still ignored me?" She asked before shaking her head and in a very joking tone saying, "the nerve," before laughing. "No, but in all seriousness," she said clearing her throat, "Is that why you never wanted to make any friends?" She asked getting more serious.
"It was part of the reason," Levi said. "I try not to listen to people's thoughts cause it's a violation of privacy, but at the same time, I can't help it at times. The whole empath thing, I didn't want to influence anyone's emotions." Levi explained. "There was more to it than just that, but it was a big reason."
"Well, I hope you know that even with us knowing that I think I speak for everyone when I say that we don't care what your powers are we are still your friends," Sasha said looking around to make sure everyone agreed. They all did everyone nodding along with her as she spoke.
"Thank you," Levi smiled.
"Now that being said, you said your power can overwhelm you," Sasha said going back to a previous topic. "How does that happen?"
"Too many thoughts or strong emotions at once that I can't tune out," Levi said simply. Not to mention if he tries to do too much at once like what happened on Monday in the power trigger lesson.
"I see," she nodded. "So the headphones?" She asked still trying to get the full picture.
"Helps to tune out those thoughts and some of the weaker emotions. It acts as a sort of wall since my powers can't go through walls either," He explained and she nodded.
"Okay, everything makes so much sense now," she said with a smile, "so you never were ignoring us when you kept your headphones in you were just trying to stop from reading our thoughts and possibly getting overwhelmed." She said and Levi nodded. Ph that makes me so happy. "Do you know how many times I thought you were just ignoring me?" She said with a laugh.
"Well, some of the times it might have been me ignoring you, but then again that's a whole different long story, but it's another reason I didn't want to make friends," Levi said rubbing the back of his neck hoping she wouldn't take it the wrong way.
"Oh, still, I'm just glad it wasn't because I was annoying or anything," she said with a big smile before walking over and hugging him. "It doesn't matter now, all that matters now is that we are friends," she said practically squeezing the life out of him. He just laughed. I could only imagine the joy radiating off of her to make him smile that big.
"Group hug," Connie yelled before everyone practically tackled Levi myself included.
After we all backed off of him Jean looked back to Connie before saying, "wait I still have to melt you," before Connie took off.
"Hey wait, don't melt my boyfriend," Sasha said before everyone stopped including Connie.
"Boyfriend?" Everyone asked. I mean we knew they slept together, but were they officially dating? That's news.
"I said what I said," Sasha said without taking it back. Connie just calmly walked over to her before giving her a kiss.
"Ew straight people," Jean said before pretending to jump in Marco's lap for comfort. We all just laughed at their silliness before the bell rang. Everyone got really quiet as we realized we were going to have to go back into the gym.
"Who's ready for the hardest class of your life?" I asked and everyone's faces answered the question for me. No one.
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AUTHOR NOTE~ There are not many chapters left, probably around 10 could be more could be less. This is just a general estimate with the notes that I have for the last few chapters. Thank you for reading, hope you enjoy the rest of the story.
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