EruRi Short Stories

(In) tolerance

It was a breezy morning, the sky was slowly turning a lighter shade of blue as the sun shone through a window and its thin curtains.

There was an odd scent in the air, one of alcohol and a mix of raspberry and citrus fruit. It could almost be described as pleasant, if it was not for how unnatural it was for Levi to wake up to it.

It was warm yet chilly at the same time, an unordinary feeling to arise to. It was like feeling you were warm on the inside yet cold to the touch, but it was the one Levi had to experience as he opened his eyes slowly, weakly almost.

There was a small ache in his stomach, he rubbed his eyes and squirmed at the odd feelings of the scent in the air.

His bed felt, odd. He spotted a bottle of some type of alcoholic beverage on his side table, knocked over, spilled onto the carpet.

This made him groan, it didn't help to see his clothes scattered on the floor, and his closet left wide open, in which it's clothes seemed abnormally big for his size from the way he looked at them, and the fact that the flower in a vase from Erwin's room was in his room now.

Levi brushed a hand through his black hair and-

Wait.

...

Erwin's flower pot...

"How did that get in here..." he mumbled

Levi turned around to hear a voice coming from the other side of the bed.

"Morning, Levi."

"Hey Erwin."

...

"ERWIN"

Levi jumped up from the bed, Erwin didn't even flinch, he was flipping through a newspaper and sitting on the side of the bed next to where Levi was just laying. His legs were covered by the blanket, but his shirt was loose and unbuttoned, his hair messy, as if he just had woken up.

Levi slowly began to process what happened.

The party.

~~

The corps threw a party last night in celebration of a successful expedition. There were drinks and a lot of people.. and when there are a lot of people you need a lot of drinks.

Levi was intolerant to many sorts of alcohol and many large doses. Of course, it may have been the dare Hange made him to do that she considered an "experiment" to see how many bottles he could go through of certain alcohols to get a bit tipsy.

Clearly that must have set him off, at least one of those bottles had to.

~~

Levi scrambled to find his clothes off the floor as he realized he was barely wearing anything except pants, which were unbuttoned and sat loosely on his hips.

"Erwin, we slept together?" Levi asked, a shocked look on his face.

"Yes, that would be what you would call it." Erwin replied calmly, flipping through another page of the newspaper.

Levi held his head and walked around the room.

"Ah fuck.. did I really get that drunk ?"

Erwin turned with a quizzical look on his face, "Levi, you have done things much worse than this, but this is the most shocked I've ever seen you when reacting to something you did."

Levi studied Erwin's face for a moment more. Erwin's blue eyes were calm, collected, he didn't give much of a thought to the situation, unless he had previously had a panic like this before Levi woke up which had passed.