A Place To Lean On (SNK//Rivetra Modern!AU)

Chapter 1: Meet

Levi got up with a loud yawn. Sleeping gets him too exhausted to jump out of the bed. He looked around with the sleepy eyes. His bed was like a mess with pillows and his blanket lying at the edge of the bed and almost fall on the floor. Must because he kicked it around in his sleep last night. Luckily, the room was still neat and clean as usual, the light brown carpeted floor had nothing stain on it but the vague lights through the white curtains which was slightly blown up by the wind outside. The mirror near the glass window reflected himself, sitting on the messy sheets with messy raven-black hair, sleepy but sexy sharp steel blue eyes and his small figure in a grey shirt and forest green trousers.

Finally managed to get out of the bed, he grabbed some clothes and walked into the bathroom. The sound of water running down from the shower like little rain echoed from inside the ivory wooden door. Levi sighed in the water, being depressed, exhausted. Feels of the warm streams flowed down his cheeks and his back at least makes him feel a little bit more comfortable. In the cloudy steams, he thought about what he had last night. It had been like that for months, after something gone away forever from his life, this nightmare was like a ghost, no, a demon, haunting him.

But why did he has to feel the ache so deep in soul? What does that nightmare means? Why are things so strange but still, so familiar?

He couldn't stop thinking of it even when he got himself dried in a white button-up shirt and black pair of trousers, ready for work. His sleeves were rolled up to the elbows and a black tie neatly made underneath the collar. He stuck all of the paperwork his boss Erwin gave him yesterday in the backpack with his laptop, muttering and cursing him for giving him too much things to do. Levi quickly locked the house's door and quickly got into his black BMW, drove it into the street. Get a damn cup of coffee before going to school, he thought.

Coffee was the only which helps him to be not too grumpy every morning before going to work. Without it, no one could imagine how scary he would be everyday. The reason for him to live everyday with it, just because Levi was depressed all the time, he just being an asshole to mostly everyone. Plus the pleasures being a hard-working teacher who teaches a bunch of annoying, noisy and insane students like ones in Shingeki High. Coffee was a part of the things which helps him to calm.

The black BMW slowly parked in front of a small coffee shop. He got out of the car and walked inside the shop. The doorbell chimed as he pushed it opened. The man who has brunt sienna hair, wearing the shop's uniform, stood behind the counter noticed him coming in a pretty crowed area of the shop smiled brightly.

"Ah, Levi!" He cheered.

"Hey Moblit." The short raven-haired slightly waved. They had been friends for a quiet long time since Levi met Moblit in his co-worker's lab. He was a shy but strong and caring person, not to mention sweet, but quitted the job and went into this cafe, dealing with a bunch of people who come here everyday, including Levi.

"Looking so gloomy today?" Moblit asked with a gentle smile. He must noticed such a face Levi had made this morning.

"I always look gloomy." The short man grumbled.

Moblit slightly chuckled. "The casual Americano?" Levi nod. None of his calendar had ever missed a day without Americano, specially made by Moblit's shop, just how he understood his friend's taste. Levi patiently waited while Moblit went to the back to tell them to make it. He wandered his eyes around the shop, skimming the crowded people around him, wondered why they can stand their normal, boring, lame life. The doorbell chimed again as some more costumers came in, they all came to the counter and ordered their things, mostly breakfasts and the rest were coffee.

"Um, excuse me?" A female voice called out from where he thought that was next to him. He turned his head to the side and saw a young woman, about mid twenty, with short light ginger hair that looked really same to the sunset orange color, bright hazel eyes and a pretty look on her face. Levi felt a little light brightening inside of his mind, but also a bit of familiar.

"Can I, can I get an order please?" The young woman called, worried in her voice. Moblit quickly ran to her, he never gonna let a costumer go away from his shop without buying anything.

"What can I help you, ma'am?" Levi had to hold his chuckle when his brunette friend say the word ma'am. And the way Moblit raised an eyebrow and his look at the girl made him looked like he was flirting her.

"One cup of caramel latte please? And I'll take it away." She replied in a hurry. After the brunette man nod, she said they should make it quick because she was in a hurry. Even when he left, she just couldn't stand still and be calm. Her face looked incrediblely worried. He noticed light bags under her eyes and her messed up sunset hair. Maybe she had stayed up late last night and she was standing here absolutly exhausted but still had to hurry because she was late for something. "And please be quick! I'm in such a rush!" She added. He guessed right.

"Are you late for work or something?" He asked her, sharp grey eyes scanning up and down the young woman. He actually surprised himself with that, since he wasn't the socialable type of people. Her bright amber eyes turned to him in, also, surprised. But she still answered him anyway.

"Yeah, kind of. It's my first day."

"I see." Levi nodded. "Where do you work?"

"Karanes High. I'm gonna be a teacher there, well if I got the job though." She told him with a chuckle. Her voice was sweet but still, strong, like dark chocolate but less bitter. And the way she look at him made him melted, and her chuckle... Levi wasn't the cheesy type, but right that time, he thought that he had seen someone he'd been finding for such long time.

"What a coincidence, I also work there too." His eyes brighten when he said it, okay, he had to admit that he had been so weird this morning.

"Oh really?" She smiled brightly. "That's pretty nice I guess." That smile was like a bright sun in a rainy day to Levi, he thought he should really consider going to a clinic or something like that. They stayed silence for a short time before Moblit came back with their ordered coffee in his hands. Their both steaming hot, white little smoke flew up from the small hole of the plastic lid. He handed them to Levi and the young woman, she nodded him a thank you while Levi just took it and gave Moblit some notes. He was about to turn his heels back to his car when something hold him back, making him stare at the ginger girl who was searching for some notes in her purse and Moblit patiently waiting for her, still holding a gentle smile on his face.

"You know, I could give you a ride to our school if you like." Levi suggested after she'd given the notes to Moblit, pointing his thumb at the black BMW outside the shop. The ginger girl looked at him with widen amber eyes for some seconds, then a bright smile appeared on her bubblegum lips.

"Oh my god, really?" She asked. "That's so nice of you! Thank you!"

Levi couldn't help but crept up a really small invicible smile on his lips. She was honestly really, really cute in his eyes. He led her out of the cafe, leaving Moblit waving goodbye behind the counter. He opened his car's door for her then climbed into it shortly after. As the two sat together at the front seats next to each other, Levi could feel his heart warmed up. He could remember a bit of the familiar scenes came back to him after centuries of missing somewhere he could never find it again.

But now, he thought that he'd found it already.

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FIRST CHAPTER COMPLETED!

It felt weird when I was listening to Lean on at the same time I created this book.

OH WE NEED SOMEONE TO LEAN ON

*music playing*