Song: Sandy Weeds by Vertueux! This song is great, bro.

Important: this chapter includes offensive insults to obesity, a small bit of racism and the word cunt does show up near the end. If you have a problem with that, please do not point that out and make a big deal out of it. This is fictional story. I have nothing against different races or obesity. Just putting that out there before someone tries to start an argument. :))))

Levi's POV.

"Eren, no."

"Levi, yes!"

I groaned, throwing myself onto the bed. "Nothing happened. Stop asking."

"Levi, that's a lie and you know it. I saw the way you looked when you walked through that door." He argued back, sitting beside me. "You're a horrible liar."

I snorted. "I'm actually a great liar."

"There's another lie." He muttered.

"Whatever." I sighed, sitting up to remove my jacket. I folded it on the side table nicely, and looked over at Eren who was currently staring at me. "Quit looking at me like that."

"Like what?"

"Like you think I'm getting ready to tell you everything." I replied, rolling my eyes. "Because that's not going to happen."

"You're such a pain."

"I'm a pain?" I snorted again. "You're the pain, young one."

Eren decided not to reply but laid down on the bed, his legs hanging off the edge. He grabbed my shirt and pulled be down with him.

"Don't pull my shirt, idiot. You'll stretch it out." I grumbled, glancing at the area of the shirt he pulled.

"It's already huge, so why the hell not?" He asked. "You don't strike me as a guy who would wear big shirts, I would think you would wear skin tight ones." He chuckled.

"Shut up. I wear what I wanna wear."

"We should go shopping."

I looked over at him with a raised an eyebrow at him. "Shopping? Yeah, let's go get our hair braided as well, get our ears pierced with matching diamonds. We'd be hella pretty."

He laughed, and shoved my shoulder. "I actually would like to my ears pierced. We should go do that today!"

I sighed, once again and sat up, resting my head on my hand with my elbow on the bed. "You should get pink diamonds. They would definitely bring out your eyes."

"Oh ha ha." He replied, sarcastically. "Come on, let's do it. You could get your lip pierced or something!"

"Oh fuck no. I'm not letting some stranger touch my lip."

"You let me touch your lip." I could tell he didn't mean to say that by the way a blush flowed to his cheeks.

"You're not a stranger, though." I replied, cursing at myself for making it seem like he could touch my lip again. Sitting up on the bed again, I grabbed my jacket and looked down at him. "What are you waiting for? Let's go."

He smiled and shot up from the bed and quickly left the room to which I assumed to get ready to leave. I exhaled slowly, rubbing my face a bit. My face was a little warm, but I guessed it was because it was a bit warm in the room.

Leaving the room, I almost ran into Kira who was turning the corner. It's been a few days since I've even seen Kira; she's been extremely busy with her work which I still don't even know where she works at. "Hey, you." She said cheerfully, "where are you going?"

"Taking Eren to the mall. He wants to get his ears pierced." I said and shrugged. "I think he's going to get pink diamonds."

She chuckled, "how cute."

"What are you doing home?"

"I've got the day off. Hanji and I are going to go eat, and talk business stuff. Which reminds me, you and I still need to talk." She said, leaning against the wall.

I raised an eyebrow. "About?"

"About two things. One thing is about the whole moving situation, which I know you're aware about. Correct?"

"Right. I've gotta look for a job, and I should be set to find a place." I replied.

She nodded, "that's fine!"

"What's the other thing?"

She sighed, but smiled. "Answers. Remember I asked you about this a couple weeks ago?"

I furrowed my eyebrows. "Ah, right. About why we showed up in weird uniforms, why Eren used to call me Sir, and why we didn't know what a toilet was?"

She poked my shoulder, "Yep, that's the one."

I nodded, "Yeah, I suppose I can tell you. How about when we get back tonight?"

"Works good with me!" She smiled, and ruffled my hair before she walked away. I glared at her retreating back before fixing my hair.

I found Eren running around the living room, checking under the couches and under the pillows resting on the recliners. "Can I ask what the fuck are you doing?"

He poked his head up from under the couch to glare at me. "I lost my shoe."

"Idiot." I grumbled, sighing loudly. "It's right there." I pointed towards the door. "Right beside the matching shoe."

He looked towards where I was pointing and blushed. "Oh. There it is."

"I swear to god, you and Hanji can't see for shit."

"Well, she's the one that needs glasses." He shot back, slipping his shoes on.

I grunted. "Maybe you need to get some. I'm surprised you haven't ran into a wall yet."

We quickly left the house and started down the sidewalk. We walked in silence for awhile, shivering when the brisk wind past us.

"Hey, we should take the bus. It's a bit chilly for the long walk." Eren suggested, pointing to the bus stop.

I grimaced at the sign. "I hate vehicles."

"I know you do, but it'll be a quick ride." He said, grabbing my wrist from my jacket's pocket and pulled me over to the bus stop, under the plastic covered area. The wind didn't hit us under the bus stop, which was nice but I wasn't looking forward to getting on the bus.

"I bet you we could make it to the mall before the bus even stops here." I muttered, sitting on the uncomfortable chair. I was sure it was covered in disgusting debris, but I just wanted to sit. My ass hurts.

"Oh, stop complaining. This beats having to walk in the wind. Plus, I don't like my hair getting messed up by the wind." He replied, using his fingers to fix his wind blown hair.

"Oh please. Don't tell me you've grown conceited, you cocky shit."

He rolled his eyes, sitting beside me. "Not wanting my hair to get messed up is not being conceited."

"You didn't answer the question, therefore I will take that as a yes." I chuckled, looking down the street for any sign of the bus, but didn't see anything besides a rusty, ugly car slowly go by.

"Asshole." Eren muttered, bringing his knees up to his chest. "I'm actually thinking about growing my hair out. Should I?"

Rolling my eyes, but keeping them on the street. "Do whatever your heart desires."

"Will I look like a girl at all if I do?" He asked. I could tell he went back to messing with his hair, only messing it up even more.

I shrugged, looking over my shoulder to get a look at him. I imagined him with longer hair, and didn't see much feminine. "Nah. Just unmanly."

He scoffed. "You'd look girly with long hair."

I furrowed my eyebrows at him. "How do?"

He shrugged. "You just have soft features like a girl. Not a bad thing."

"That wasn't something I would have liked to hear." I muttered, glaring at him. I stuffed my hands back into my pockets, trying to warm my fingers up that were slowly turning purple.

"I didn't mean that an insult. I actually meant that as a compliment. You, uh - you look nice." He whispered the last part, probably wishing I hadn't heard. I probably wouldn't have heard if we were outside of the bus stop, where the wind blew. Part of me wish I hadn't heard.

"Thanks." I decided that to be my response, not knowing how else to reply. My cold hand shakily reached for my cigarette box, picking one out by my mouth and cupped my hands around it to light it up. I offered the cigarette box towards Eren as I raised my eyebrows as my way of asking. He looked at the cigarettes for a long moment before shaking his head, declining. I shrugged, "Fair enough."

"You know what you remind me of?"

I looked back at him. "What's that, Eren?" I rested my elbows on my knees, leaning down while taking a hit from the cigarette.

"A drag queen."

I snorted at his response. "Alright." I wasn't sure if I was supposed to take it as a compliment or an insult. So I stuck to neither.

"I'm serious. I don't know, it's just the way you come off, I guess. You'd make a good drag queen."

"I'm not going to become a drag, Eren."

"No, I'm not saying you should become one, I'm just saying you remind me of one."

"How would you even know? Who was the last drag queen you've hung out with?" I joked, knowing it was none. We never had drag queens in the walls, and it's not like we've seen any here in Indiana. He probably looked them up online or some shit.

"Well, none. But you just give off that vibe."

"Eren. That is not something I would like to come off as. Can you drop the subject?" I snapped. I wondered if I hadn't woken up with these new body parts, that he would be saying all these things. Thinking about that pissed me off.

"Yeah, yeah. I was just voicing my opinion."

"Some opinions shouldn't be voiced." I replied, almost happy when I saw the bus getting closer. Anything to get away from this conversation. I took another hit from my cigarette before throwing it on the concert and rubbing it with my boot. We quickly jumped on the bus, I wrinkled my nose as the stale smell. "Let's just sit in the back, where no one is." There were a few people on the bus, but all spread out. They all looked like stoned and like they didn't give a shit about anything, and they stunk. I sighed, what did Eren just get me into?

I looked back at Eren from behind me as we walked towards the back, giving him a hard glare. He knew exactly why I was glaring at him. He sheepishly smiled and shrugged, before we sat down on the plastic seats. I chose to get the one by the window so I could have some sort of view instead of the view of the people.

We rode in silence, besides Eren playing a quiet game on his phone and his quiet cackling when a funny thing happened in the game. "Look at this." He muttered before leaning closer to me to show me the screen. It was a game of an alpaca eating other small alpacas so the bigger one would grow. A short way to summarize it, it was really creepy looking. The big alpaca had six legs, one sticking out of its back.

"Hey, that kinda looks like you." I whispered, smirking at his offended expression.

He held the phone up to his face, "which one of us looks better?"

I looked between him and the alpaca. "Definitely the alpaca." He shoved my shoulder with a grunt and went back to playing the game. It was quiet after that, besides the sound of the snoring obese lady a few seats in front of us. Her head rested on the window, and her mouth was wide open. I wrinkled my nose at the annoying noise. "I think I'm gonna get a tattoo." I muttered after a few moments of mentally making fun of the lady in front of us.

Eren turned his attention from the phone and towards me. "Of what?"

I shrugged, "I dunno yet."

"Do you know where you want it?"

I shrugged again. "Maybe my back or something, I dunno. I know tattoos weren't really a popular thing at all in the walls, but I see them a lot now and I think they're neat. They're art."

He nodded, closing out of the alpaca game before locking his phone and slipping it into his jacket pocket. "Yeah, I get that. I think they're neat, too. I may get one, maybe."

"Hmm, growing your hair out, getting pierced, and inked? You going through a phase?" I joked before sending him a joking grin.

"It's just a phase, mom." He replied with a sarcastic tone in his voice. I rolled my eyes, ignoring the thought that came to mind when he said I looked a little feminine. "Would I look okay with my hair grown out and inked a bit?"

"Why does my opinion matter to you? Look the way you want." I replied, pulling my phone out of my pocket.

"Because you're always honest with your opinions and I'm curious."

I looked at him for a moment, and shrugged again. "Yeah. You wouldn't look too bad. Don't grow your out below your shoulders though, I think your hair would grow out curly and I think you'd look trashy." I said honestly.

He nodded and smiled. "Thanks."

I sighed, "yep." I unlocked my phone after I replied and looked through my notifications. I had an unread text message from an unknown number that was sent to me a few hours ago. I was curious and went to the message.

Hey, Levi.

I furrowed my eyebrows, wondering how the hell anyone got my number and knew who I was. I never did give my number to anyone besides Eren, Kira and Hanji. Unless one of them is playing a trick on me, or gave it to someone.

I decided to reply to the number, curious of who it was.

Who is this?

As soon as the message sent, I saw three dots pop up, telling me someone was typing. Whoever this was, must have been eager to reply.

You'll figure out sooner or later. Don't do anything stupid today, I don't want you getting into trouble.

Who the fuck is this-?

"Eren, did you give my number to anyone?" I asked with a stern voice.

"No." He answered. "Wait, yeah, Armin asked for it."

"Why the hell would he want my number?"

He shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe he wanted it in case of emergency. Why?"

I groaned before putting away my phone angrily. I knew exactly who it was now. Fucking Erwin.

"Did you tell coconut what we were doing today?" I asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Genius." I muttered sarcastically. Now Erwin knew exactly where we were going and what we were going to do.

"What, why are you wondering?"

"It's nothing."

He looked at me questionably, but dropped the subject before returned to messing around with his fingers.

"You know what, yeah, I'm gonna get my lip pierced or some shit. Maybe my ears, too." I quickly said. Eren's head shot up towards me with wide eyes. I didn't decide this because I wanted to, I decided it to piss Erwin off, knowing he would totally unapproved of this.

"Huh? Wha- why? I mean, that's cool and all, but-"

"Because fuck it. Why the hell not? I don't know if this is going to my last life or not, so why not?" I said before standing up when I realized we were parking in front of the mall's entrance. "Come on, get up."

I quickly pulled him out of the bus and ignored the old driver who slowly nodded towards me, his white beard rubbing against his white button up shirt. I practically jumped off the bus' steps and entered the mall quickly. "Slow down! You have tiny legs, how the hell can you even walk this fast?!"

"Shut up, and keep up." I said before letting go of his wrist. He kept up a few steps behind me before we entered a piercing shop. "You need to relax." He said, out of breath.

I rolled my eyes before finding one of the shop workers. I motioned her over as nicely as I could without speaking a lick of English, not in the mood to think of the correct words. I'd leave that up to Eren.

She happily jogged over to us and introduced herself. She was a tall lady who was covered in tattoos and piercings. Half of her hair was dyed bright red and the other half was black, and tied up two low pigtails. She stuck her inked hand out, quickly shaking mine and Eren's hands.

"What are you two getting today?" She asked, looking at me. I looked over at Eren, waiting for him to reply.

He rolled his eyes before sitting down on one of the chairs that was pushed up against the wall. "I'm getting my ears pierced, and I guess he's getting his pierced too, along with his bottom lip." I found myself gritting my teeth in jealousy of perfect English slipping through his teeth. His accent was still there, but it was easy to understand him.

The girl jumped a bit before clapping her hands once. She smiled and looked at me. "Awesomeness! Go ahead and have a seat, I'll get everything ready for you." She said before wandering off deeper into the store, which I assumed was the back where only the employees were allowed. The store was full of dark items, rings for the piercings and had a few dark clothing items. The music that was playing wasn't loud, but it had loud singers screaming.

"Nervous?" I heard Eren ask, removing his jacket as he looked at me taking a seat in the chair that had two arm rests.

"No." I replied. I wasn't lying. Only thing I was halfway worried about, was the pain. I've been through a ton of pain throughout my life, but that didn't mean I took pain well. "Just wanna get it over with."

"Well, I'm here if you wanna grab my hand." He joked, crossing his leg and chuckled.

"How sweet."

The girl returned with items in her hands. She quickly put them on the table that was beside the chair I sat at, and pulled out a selection of diamonds and rings. "Which ones?"

I looked through them, and just decided to get two black studs for my ears and a black ring for my lip. Eren leaned in towards me, trying to get a better look at how she does it, probably preparing himself what to expect.

Amanda, who was the piercer; what an odd name, quickly wiped my ears with some sort of cleaning liquid which I didn't mind at all. If she was cleaning, it was a-okay with me. "I bet you're gonna cry." He said after watching her grab a marker to mark a dot on my ears and lip.

I rolled my eyes and thumped him. "Where are you guys from?" Amanda asked, smiling as she leaned in to get a closer look at my ears. I saw Eren freeze a bit and I knew why. We were from Germany, yes, but we obviously weren't speaking German. But we weren't from Japan, but currently speaking Japanese. "Is that Chinese you're speaking?" She asked.

Lady, no.

"Ha, no. Japanese." Eren answered with a chuckle.

"How cool. I would have never guessed you two were Japanese." She replied as she finished marking my face.

I sighed loudly, not even bothering to reply to her. I knew we must look a bit weird, speaking Japanese but not looking the part. But I shrugged it off, and wished another question of the sort wouldn't return.

"Alright, ready?" She asked excitingly as she pulled out a small item, that resembled a gun. I could tell it was some kind of piercer gun.

I nodded, relaxing into the seat. I wasn't nervous, honest. I just wished she would hurry up and get it over with, this wasn't something on my list that I was excited about. Actually, it wasn't even on my list. It just kind of appeared there when I saw the texts from Erwin. God, I hardly even wanted to say his name.

She quickly pierced my ears, only a small pinch and sting appeared but nothing to make me flinch. "You know what you should really do, after a few weeks with your ears? Stretch them. You'd look good with stretched lobes." Amanda told me, looking at my ears, double checking that they're even and such. I didn't catch everything she said, but I got the gist of it, and felt a bit uncomfortable when she said I would look good. Even though I knew it was just a nice thing to say, I didn't like her saying that. And Eren's next words let me know he didn't either.

"Yeah, I was saying the same thing! He would look amazing." He said, carrying out the word amazing. I rolled my eyes, but didn't interrupt.

Amanda glanced at him and then at me and a realization expression crossed her face. Fuck, I bet she thinks we're a thing now. I inwardly groaned, but didn't bother to waste my breath on correcting her thoughts.

After she pierced my bottom lip, and Eren making grossed out noises when he saw blood, he was in the seat next. I was glancing in the mirror at my lip and smirked. Erwin would be furious, and that's exactly what I wanted. I sat down, chuckling at Eren's scared noises when Amands approached him with only her damn marker.

My phone vibrated in my pocket and I picked it out with my finger. It was lit up with an unread text message, from the same unknown number from earlier. I gritted my teeth as I opened up the text.

Will you come over tonight?

I snorted. He seemed like he actually expected me to possibly say yes.

No.

Was my quick response before stuffing the phone back into my pocket and returning my attention back to Eren. He was backing away from the piercer gun, sinking into his seat.

"Eren, don't be a pussy." I said, shaking my head at his immaturity. My phone vibrated again, and I was reluctant to looking at it again but ended up doing so.

Please? I only want to talk to you, nothing else.

I rolled the ring around with my tongue as I sat and thought. I cursed at myself for even considering it.

Fuck off.

I held the phone in my hands, not bothering to put it away, knowing he would be quick to reply.

I know you miss me, Levi. Don't act like you don't. You know you can't be mad at me forever.

I glared at my phone like it would burn Erwin away. I didn't reply, but went to the number's information. I saved him in my contacts as Oaf, and slipped my phone back into my pocket and didn't reach for it again.

Eren finally let Amanda finish up with his ears, we quickly paid after she gave us information on how to clean the piercings and what to use and whatnot. I ignored what she said, relying on Eren to inform me on on the how-to's later on. I had too much on my mind to make room for the boring lecture of how to clean ear and lip holes.

After walking out the store, which I learned the store's name was Hot Topic, Eren stopped me. "Want to go anywhere else?"

I shook my head quickly, just wanting to get out of here and get the hell home. "No, let's go now."

We left the mall, and I was halfway relieved when I saw the bus there. After jumping on, we returned back to our original seats in the far back, I rested my head on the glass window.

"My ears burn." Eren said beside me, playing with his ear lobes.

"You make my head burn." I replied, resting my eyes shut. My head felt good on the cold glass.

"Rude ass." He muttered, chuckling.

I heard some loud lady sit right in front of us and I felt the the whole seat shake, as if she slammed her ass down on the seat. I sighed loudly, knowing my headache was definitely not going to get better now.

The bus started to move, and I mentally prayed the ride would go fast and straight to our bus stop. Of course I was wrong. The bus went on the other side of town.

"I swear to god, I'm going to go insane." I muttered, sitting back into the seat, crossing my leg over my other.

"You're already there." Eren said, smirking. I reached over and thumped him. I'm surprised he didn't see that coming.

"What the hell did you just say about me?!" The lady yelled, who sat in front of us.

I furrowed my eyebrows at her, "We didn't say shit about you." I snapped, folding my arms across my chest.

"Don't you dare talk to me like that. Go back to your country!" She threw back, sending me an ugly look.

"Bitch, shut the fuck up." I growled, leaning forward in my seat. "You should go back to the sea, you whale."

"Levi." Eren whispered beside me, surprised with my words.

"Don't make me slap you!" She was standing up now, turned around in her seat to look at me. "I will pound your face."

"Fucking do it then, fat ass."

"Why are you here?! Go back to your cat eating country!" She yelled, putting her hands on the back of her seat to lean forward even more, trying to get in my face.

"They eat whale there, too. They'd love to cut you up and serve you." I replied, rolling my eyes. "Sit your ass down, bitch."

The next thing she did was grab at my shirt and pulled me forward before raising her hand. Before she could even lay a hand on me, another hand came to view and to her face, which had her flying backwards to the floor. The bus  came to a quick halt and I didn't even care that the driver kicked Eren and I out.

"I will find you, and I will pound your face in, you little asshole!" I heard her yell before we left the bus.

"Oh, fuck you, cunt!" I yelled back just as the door closed behind us.

"What an ass." Eren muttered, glaring at the back of the bus.

"I hate people like her. Good punch you threw there, though." I commented, chuckling as he rubbed his sore fist.

"That bitch may have had a fat face, but that fucking hurt." He said, glaring at his knuckles.

"Thanks, by the way." I muttered. He nodded and smiled. "Just remember to put some ice on that, it'll swell if you don't."

After we returned home, I made sure to grab a plastic bag and fill it up with ice from the ice machine and grabbed a clean kitchen rag to fold it up in and made Eren keep it on his fist. Kira came bouncing in the room, smiling at our piercings and asking to touch them.

"What the hell happened to you, Eren sweetie?!"

"He punched a whale for me." I replied, chuckling at her reactions. We told her the story and she made a small fit that violence wasn't the answer, but quickly applauded the both of us for standing our ground.

A few hours and small chitchat later, Eren fell asleep in the bedroom and Kira soon after went to her room. She decided her and I could chat tomorrow, before she went to work. She was too tired to hold a serious conversation.

I decided I wasn't tired, so I threw myself on the couch and messed around on my phone, occasionally messing around with my lip ring with my tongue. My phone vibrated, and a text message notification popped up with the name from Oaf. Groaning, I opened up the text.

Will you come over? Let's just talk for a bit.

Under the message was his address. I looked at the message as if it was the most stupidest thing. Like I would even agree with it and go. Besides, it was nearly midnight. I guessed Armin would be asleep by now, which would leave only Erwin and I awake at his house and no way in hell does that sound like a comfortable visit.

I didn't reply, but went back to messing around online. But he texted again.

Give me just an hour to talk. You're free to go home after that hour.

I bit my lip, but quickly stopped when I felt a small amount of pain come up in my lip from the ring. My hand was grasping on the rectangular device hard, halfway wanting it to crush in my hand.

I swore at myself at what I found myself typing the next moment.

I'll be there in five.

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Aw heck yeah, a chapter that's on time! Even a bit early, I believe. Go me, dude.

I apologize if anyone was a bit offended by what what was said between the lady and Levi. I figured I would just through in a bit of drama. But there will definitely be some drama and such happened in the next chapter, heh.

And btw, yes I know Hot Topic doesn't pierce. But hi, I'm the author I will make up things :->

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~Anna