We made it to the tea shop. It was right around the corner, but even that walk felt like forever. My body was swaying a little and I knew that it was a warning of what was to come. When we got into the tea shop it was quiet and I felt a little better. Especially since the smell of the shop was so calming to me.

I took a deep breath and felt a little better. Eren and Mikasa had started talking about something when I excused myself to go look down a row. "Oh, I'll come too," Armin said before happily trailing behind me.

Wow, did his personality do a 180? Not even 10 minutes ago he hated me and now he's following me around like a lost puppy. Even his thoughts seemed to change for the better. Rather than insulting me in his thoughts he was complimenting me.

Levi's so cool, Eren was right he's actually really nice. He has really good tastes in books. Maybe I can talk to him some more. Armin's thoughts flooded into my head. It was a nice change from earlier, but it was weird. I'm used to the insults the negative comments. I'm not used to compliments.

"Um, actually I came with you because I have a confession to make," Armin started and I turned to him. I already heard what he was going to say because his thoughts have been saying it for the last two minutes, but I never thought he'd actually say it out loud.

"Um alright," I said giving him the go-ahead to continue.

"Well, I wanted to say that um, that I'm sorry. I heard some rumors about you and I believed them without a second thought. Then you were nice to me and I realized that I was being an idiot. I shouldn't listen to rumors and as much as Eren and Mikasa have tried to get it through my head I've never listened, but I think the message finally got through, and that's because of you. So thank you and I'm sorry." He rambled on speaking rather quickly and keeping his eyes to the ground.

"It's alright. I'm used to it," I said without even thinking.

"Oh." His tone changed. Shit that was the wrong thing to say. His guilt stabbing me in my chest like several daggers.

"I'm glad that you won't be listening to rumors anymore," I said trying to change this back to a more positive note.

"Never again," he nodded giving me a little smile. His guilt hadn't fully gone away, but it lessened a little. I picked out some of my favorite tea as well as a new flavor I've been wanting to try before making my way to the front to pay. It seems I was the only one really interested in this store since Mikasa and Eren already looked done. When I got closer to them their thoughts confirmed that theory. Neither of them really drank tea it seems.

I heard in Armin's thoughts that he does like tea, but he's already stocked up in his favorite flavor. We all headed to one more store by Mikasa's recommendation. She said it was fairly new and that they didn't get to check it out last time. I smiled and told her we should go despite feeling worried that I was going to collapse at any moment.

I took a deep breath and Eren gave me a worried look. His thoughts started to get worried. What's wrong? Is something wrong? You're looking a little pale. Are you feeling okay? His thoughts flooded into my head.

I just gave him a little smile and a tiny thumbs-up before trying to tune out his thoughts. I know he was just trying to help, but my head was throbbing and his thoughts were pounding at my skull.

We made it to the shop. It looked like one of those weird knick-knack shops that sold a little bit of everything. Just looking at the front of the show I could already see a lot of weird things.

"You guys sure you want to go in?" Mikasa asked looking at us.

"Yeah, it looks cool," Armin said before looking to me and Eren.

Eren just looked at me, he still seemed a bit worried. "I mean it looks interesting from out here might as well check it outright?" I said and Mikasa nodded.

I followed her and Armin as they walked into the shop. Eren's arm caught my wrist before I could get very far. "You are okay right?" He asked and I just gave him a smile.

"Never better," I lied. I mean it wasn't a total lie. Like yeah, I feel like shit right now and like I might drop at any second. However, at the same time, I feel great. This is the first time in years I've actually let myself talk to people and have a good time. Eren let go of my arm but stayed close to my side throughout the store.

Armin walked up and showed Eren and me a little knick-knack before saying, "Hey look it's Mikasa," he held up a black cat wrapped in a red fabric that kinda looked like the scarf she was wearing.

"Ha, very funny," she rolled her eyes before a grin slid over her face.

"Hey look it's you," she said, pointing at a little painted picture of a baby.

Armin just rolled his eyes and pouted. "Not even close," he huffed.

"Mikasa you're obviously mistaken," I said with a little smile, "this is obviously Armin," I said before pointing to a glass knick-knack of a little blond girl.

Mikasa and Eren burst into laughter. Armin just looked at the knick-knack then back to me. "I'm not even going to say you're wrong. Just get me a dress and we could twin," he said before bursting into laughter too.

We walked around the store looking at all the cool decorations before a few more people started to come into the store. There were too many people in such a close proximity to me. There were always people down a row and there was no escape from the growing headache. I started to feel dizzy and when I felt a little off-balance, I finally gave up.

I took a deep breath and whispered, "I can't do this anymore," so Eren could hear me, but it seems Eren wasn't the only one who heard cause Armin and Mikasa turned around to look at me.

I pulled my headphones out of my pocket before quickly connecting it to my phone. I kept the music low so I could hear everyone, but loud enough to silence everyone's' thoughts.

Mikasa just kinda shrugged, but Armin had to ask. "What's with the headphones? Is something wrong?" He seemed more worried than offended which is good, but I still felt bad. I didn't really know how to answer without telling them about my power.

"Oh, Levi gets nervous around big crowds of people and the music helps him calm down. He can still hear us perfectly fine it just helps him relax," Eren said. Man do I need to thank him later because he really just saved my ass. He gave me a smile the second their eyes were off of him.

"Oh alright, if it gets to be too much you can tell us and we'll head back," Armin said and Mikasa nodded. We continued walking around the store and Eren grabbed my hand when we fell behind the other two. I gave it a light squeeze as a thank you. He just smiled and we kept walking.

"Anyone getting hungry?" Mikasa asked,

"I'm starving," Armin answered.

"Alright, should we head to the garden?" Eren suggested.

Everyone nodded and we headed off to the garden. Apparently there was a lot of food vendors back here that made some pretty good food for a reasonable price. We all found something and spilt up for a moment before meeting back up at a table near the fountain.

My headache had gone away and I was feeling great. We were in a quieter area and I thought it would be okay to take off my headphones. Besides, I didn't want them questioning why I still had them on even if it was just them. Anything to make sure they didn't figure out the real reason my headphones were on.

I was starting to get used to their thoughts. It was still a little much for me to handle completely but it wasn't so overwhelming this time. Probably since I've been dealing with it all day. We started talking about stuff and soon enough someone had brought up school.

"Hanji says she's going to try and help me be able to control my phasing even when my emotions take control," Armin said.

"That's cool," Eren sighed.

"What's wrong?" Mikasa asked him. Even if I couldn't hear his thoughts I would know what was getting Eren down all of the sudden.

"The teachers are keeping something from me. I'm not sure what all I know is that it has something to do with my powers. They even are keeping their notes and findings to themselves."

"That's strange," Mikasa started, "are you sure? Could it be just in your head?"

"No, I thought it might be at first until a teacher flat out told me that he wasn't allowed to tell me what he knows and that I have to figure it out for myself."

"That's really strange," Armin said before turning to me. "Don't you think so?"

"I mean yeah it's weird, but the teachers usually know what they are doing." I shrugged. I heard Eren let out a huff. I know that's not what he wants to hear, but maybe it's what he needs to hear.

Slowly my headache started coming back the more time I spent with them around me the more their thoughts rattled around in my skull. I took a deep breath and let them continue on with their conversation as I slowly faded my voice out until I was just listening to them talk. I needed a break from talking because talking meant thinking about what I had to say and that meant more thoughts cramming into my mind.

I heard different voices once I didn't recognize started to appear. That's when I noticed a huge group of people who came and sat at the table next to ours. I shot straight up and was about to pull my headphones out of my pocket when the world went black.