Perfect Situation (High School Levi x Reader | Modern AU) [discontinued]

Chapter 9

Chapter Nine

Days pass like flashes of lightning and now you find yourself waiting for your teacher's arrival. The lesson that you are currently sitting in is Science and it has been a few days since you've done research and paperwork. You've submitted essays, memorized parts of the human anatomy including both male and female organs. Now that the hard part's over, you're somehow looking forward to the next assignment. You sat next to Sasha who had hid her face between the nooks of her arms trying to catch up with her lost sleep. You felt bad for her, with all her school work piling up, her family's bakery and her basketball team, it was like the girl hardly has time to study or let loose. She had just taken a break from working in her bakery just so she could focus on her schoolwork. Last night, you had stayed up tutoring Sasha on a skype call. You had decided to stop around 12 however Sasha kept on going until 3 am, which explained why she's currently sound asleep next to you. You looked at the clock and felt the class get fuller by the second and finally the last person arrived, slamming the door with her foot whilst carrying a thick pile of books, worksheets and a binder. She had her glasses hanging on the lower part of her blouse and her chestnut hair was tied in a messy ponytail. The books that she carried, along with her paperwork and binder was put on a neat stack on her desk and she rested the corner of her hips on the edge of her desk. Her eyes wandered at her students. Her hand went up her mouth and she cleared her throat in an effort of silencing her disarrayed students. "All right class, as you can see last week we've done most our research on the human anatomy. As I promised, you will be spending this week's lessons on trying to come up with a model of the human anatomy. You will be given ten minutes to choose your partners and to choose the organ that you and your partner are doing. You have complete freedom in choosing either your lab partner or somebody else to complete this project with. Remember, one group one organ also first come first serve. Choose your partners wisely," On that last sentence, you could've sworn that she gave the evil eye on you and Sasha. As soon as you looked at Sasha to be partners, Professor Hanji went over to the both of you and nodded sideways upon seeing the both of you teaming up together. "I'm sorry, that just won't do," The young professor said while putting on her glasses. "But why? We'll work cooperatively together I promise" Sasha assured, however you (and professor Hanji) both knew that that's not going to happen. One of you'll slack off while the other did the work. "No, the both of you needs to be separated. You did most of last semester's project together, as well as the year before that so for this and hopefully further projects, I forbid you guys to work together," "What!?" The fuck? She can't do that! You thought. You rolled your eyes and looked at Sasha pleadingly. "But Professor Hanji that's not fair! I work too, you know. I put enough amounts of effort and actual work; you can't do this to us! It's unfair!" You felt a small amount of seething anger starting inside you. "Then find other people to work with for goodness sake, I swear to god you guys are always stuck together like magnet!" But I don't HAVE any other friends, for god's sake. You thought, Well that's not true, there's him ...But heaven forbid you get put into one group assignment as him. You can't even start a proper conversation with him, let alone be in a group with him when you actually have to talk and communicate and be together. "I don't care whoever you end up with, as long as you both don't end up with each other," "Well what if we can't get any other partner?" Sasha argued, however she was quickly shut down by Professor Hanji who was quick with her remarks, "Well then I'd personally assign the both of you with other people to work with," You can feel Sasha roll her eyes, "Now scatter! Find other people to work with, you better be quick though, you only have a few minutes left". You sighed and looked around the room, you see Jean and Marco sitting together, of course they just have to be together. You saw Berthold sitting alone and you practically felt a gigantic wave of relief. You and Berthold aren't that close with each other, heck you never really talked to him personally but he was kind of your friend, kind of like a really close acquaintance. You walked towards him, "Hey Bertl.." You started, "Um, do you have a partner?" He looked away for a second and then back at you, "well, um, to be honest, yeah.. Sorry, I'm kind of stuck with Connie.." You laughed nervously, "Connie? Oh haha well," you trailed off a little, leaving an awkward silence to take place. "I'm sorry, he was my lab partner and we kind of chose each other last week." You nodded, well there goes my only hope. "Sorry (y/n), maybe next time". You bit your lips and gave him a pathetic sorry excuse of a crooked smile, "yeah, well, I-It's okay, you know," You walked away and continued your search for a partner. You went over to Armin, who declined you politely saying that he already has a partner. You also tried to get Annie as your partner, but she was already taken by Reiner who had asked her moments ago. Of course you considered asking Krista but she was already discussing about which organ that she and her partner, Ymir, was going to do. Then you went over to Mikasa, but of course you didn't have to ask since she already claimed her partner, Eren, by sitting next to him. Eren however, upon seeing you look his direction stood up and tried to engage in a friendly conversation. "Hey (y/n)" You gave him a friendly smile, "Hi". "Heard you're looking for a partner," he started. "Yeah," you let out a nervous laugh. "Well I've already gotten myself a partner but if you've got any trouble in trying to finish the project, I can help you out" He said while subtly pointing at Mikasa. "Well I'm pretty sure it's something that I can handle, I mean, I did study" You were kind of flattered by his sudden change in attitude (considering the fact that he'd almost try to 'get with you' the other night and that he's been slightly avoiding you for the past few days). "Yeah but look around, everyone's got a partner. You're the odd one out. I'm pretty sure you're gonna get paired up with absentee," He made a gesture for you to look around the class. "What do you mean?" You fidgeted with your hands; there was only one person who was absent on that class. Eren let a small laugh escape his lips, "I mean, you're going to get paired up with Levi." "What are you getting at?" "For starters, Levi doesn't do shit. He gets people to do his work for him. Look, I'm really sorry for what happened the other day, I was intoxicated and I drank more than I should have. Just let me help you with this one project. Please. I feel like I really owe this to you," Eren pleaded, his tone and eyes reflected a trustworthy sentiment. Well he does deserve a second chance... you thought. You looked at Mikasa who had overheard your entire conversation. "You know, if I were you, I'd accept his apology and let him help me. I'd just get the project over with and let Levi claim some of the project credits. Better lie then get my ass kicked over nothing. But hey, that's just me. It's totally your call if you'd rather do this thing alone." Well, she's right.. you thought about it for a while. "Yeah, you know what, you're right. Fuck it, you can help me. I don't, whatever." You chuckled nervously. "That's great," Eren ripped a small part from the edge of his notebook and scribbled a few combination of numbers with a pencil, "Here's my number. You're welcome to call or text me. Just give me your house address, if you want, and I'd tell you if I could come over and help you out; or we can do it in my place, whatever floats your boat" He folded the small piece of paper and handed it to you. You then pocketed the small piece of paper and thanked the brown haired boy. You turned around and saw that Sasha had found herself a partner, a girl with large amber eyes along with short, shaggy wavy light brown hair. You knew who she was, everyone knew who she was. Her name was Hitch Dreyse, one of the popular bimbos that ruled the school with their pretty hair, layered makeup, expensive clothes, catty expression and shit attitude. Unlike most popular queen bees, Hitch is actually quite decent as long as you don't get in her way and just stay as low and invisible as you can. If this whole shithole of a place was a radar, Hitch and her girls belonged be in the center dot. She was the complete polar opposite of you, she was head cheerleader until she got caught hooking up with a varsity team captain in school grounds; then for some reasons her popularity ranked up after the fiasco and now she rules the cheerleading team, the cafeteria and the entire school. She was also prom queen, homecoming queen and she allegedly won every beauty pageant that she has ever competed in. There were also rumors that she slept her way to the top of the food chain but knowing Hitch, those are probably true. Sasha and Hitch aren't really the best of friends, but Sasha has quite a reputation of being in the sports team so that makes her probably noticeable enough so that Hitch had chosen her as her partner. You felt sorry for Sasha, but again Hitch would probably just get someone to do their work. You walked to Professor Hanji stating that you don't have a partner to work with only to get laughed at. "Well that's too bad, looks like your gal pal over there had found herself someone to work with," the eccentric professor said in between laughter, Well excuse me for not having a broad list of friends, you thought. "Well there is one student absent today, his name is Levi and seeing that everyone had already established partners, you're stuck with Mr. Ackerman". Your eyes went wide and you felt a warm fuzzy feeling start inside of you, you said nothing and instead nodded and inaudibly thanked the professor and went back to your seat. You looked behind and saw Eren mouth 'I told you so' before going back to his seat.