The Devious Maid

The One With The Surprisingly Pleasant Lunch

You can do this Eren. It's only a quick lunch with your maid who is pretending to be your friend and your two bestfriends. No. I can't do this. What if something happens and then Hanji & Erwin found out I lied and that Levi is actually my maid? I sighed to myself and tried to get rid of these slightly worrying thoughts and focused my attention back to the clean clothes laid out on my bed. I had picked out a simple knit jumper and jeans for todays outing, comfy and casual yet warm since it's still pretty cold outside. I quickly put my clothes on and walked out of my room and into my living room where everyone else was standing ready waiting for me.

'Are you ready now, Eren?!' Hanji grinned at me and bounced around excitedly. I swear that woman has more energy than a duracell battery.

'Uh yeah just let me grab my wallet.' I nodded a little and picked it up from the counter, shoving it into my pocket. 'Okay now i'm ready.'

I looked at Levi and noticed something I hadn't actually seen before. He was wearing very casual clothes. He had on a plain black t-shirt with a leather jacket on top, some slightly ripped jeans and a pair of combat boots to top off the outfit. He looked.. Good?

'You know that jumper really matches your eyes.' Levi smirked in my direction and folded his arms across his chest. Shit. He had clearly saw me checking him out a little and now he had decided to embarass me.

'Oh uh well thank you.' I said softly and looked down at the jumper I was currently wearing. It was a mossy green colour and true enough, it did really compliment my emerald eyes. 'I didn't even notice..'

'Alright you two enough chit chat lets go i'm hungry!' Hanji declared and rubbed at her tummy to prove this.

After making sure no one had forgotten anything we headed out of my apartment and began our walk to a little cafe not too far that according to Erwin makes the best soup but I beg to differ. While their soup is great i've had better. We spent the most part of our walk debating this but we both decided we were too hungry to care who's soup was better. Erwin held the door open for everyone to walk inside of the little cafe. As soon as the door opened I was hit by the smell of fresh coffee and sweet bread. As if on time my stomach made a grumble of approval and Hanji began walking to our usual table by the window.

'Tch these chairs are filthy.' Levi complained as he took out a tissue from his pocket and began to wipe down his seat with it carefully.

I tried to keep myself from laughing by covering my mouth with my hand and faking a cough. If there was one thing I had gotten used to in the past few months it was Levi's severe hatred for anything dirty and his disgusted attitude whenever he had to clean something to get rid of germs. I had also gotten used to his sarcasm, terrible jokes and over usage of the word brat. It was like his nickname for me. At first I hated it but in a way it sort of grew on me. Levi shot me a glare to stop me from laughing which only made me want to laugh more. He reminded me of the really angry book publisher guy from that one christmas movie Elf. Of course I never told him this because that would take away all my fun and I can only imagine how unamused he would be with me for that. I picked up my menu and glanced at it for a moment. I didn't really have to do that since I was going to order my favourite. A chicken melt panini.

Hanji and Erwin spent most of lunch asking Levi questions about himself and his life. He put on such a very convincing award that even he could beat out Leonardo Di Caprio for an Oscar but then again that wouldn't exactly be hard. He answered all of her questions as best as he could and made up some very believable stories about us such as how we met and some things we used to do together. I never thought she would actually believe him but she did and it was sort of worrying me a little. Levi made a damn good liar. What if he's ever lied to me? How well do I really know him?

'Well we had better be off got some important things to do today.' Erwin said and excused himself from the table with Hanji following him. 'It was good to see you Eren and Levi, nice to meet you. Maybe we'll see each other again.'

Hanji nodded and said her goodbyes before the two of them headed out of the door. Lunch had already been paid for courtesy of Erwin so we didn't have to worry about that.

'Uh so shall we go?' I asked Levi who was picking at his nails a little nervously. 'I should get back to write my paper..'

'Yeah lets go. Oh and we need to stop by the store. We're out of bleach and almost out of grocerys, brat.' Levi said without even looking at me and got up from his chair, wiping down his butt as if he had just sat on something really gross and sticky.

'Okay that's fine yeah we can get some stuff for dinner..' I nodded and began walking to the door. Levi walked in front of me and held the door open for me to which I was a little shocked. 'You know you don't have to keep up the charade now. You can drop it.'

'I know, kid. But I am your maid so it's only right that I hold open the damn door.' He grumbled as he took a small bottle of hand sanatizer out of his pocket to rub onto his hands. 'You know you worry too much.'

'I know.. I get it from my mother.. she always worried..'

'That's just a normal motherly thing. Well unless you're my mother. She worried about no one but herself. Always was that way.'

'I'm guessing you weren't very close to your mother?'

'Kid, my mother was a prostitute and my father was never around. The only men in my life were the countless drug abussing ones my mother brought home with her from some sleezy club.'

'I'm sorry Levi..'

'Save your sorrys. I don't need pity. I raised myself and look at me I turned out just fine.'

'Yeah if being a clean freak is fine.' I laughed out loudly and Levi rolled his eyes before shooting me a glare.

'Hey watch it or you might end up doing all of the cleaning yourself because you'll be maidless.' He smirked at me and began walking towards the store with me following closely behind.

Well this was going to be interesting. Now I was curious. I wanted to find out more about Levi and his life before he became a maid for a living.

How did he even end up as a maid? What happened in his life to make him end up with this job? These were all questions I was going to ask but they could wait till later. For now, we were going to focus on getting some groceries for the rest of the week and honestly, I'd be lying if I weren't a little excited to see what delicious meal Levi would whip up for dinner tonight.