Smiling isn't that Easy

Chapter 15- How the hell?

Levi's POV

There's an annoying buzzing, vibrating inside my pocket and it looks like it's not going to stop until I shut it off. I reach in and with my eyes still adjusting to the light I turned my alarm off and tossed it to the half couch nearby.

Wait....

How the hell ?

The last time I checked I was on the beach. How did I end up in Kari's room? I turned my body to the sleeping body next to me and to my surprise it's Kari sleeping. I can kiss her right now. She's so cute. She has the most kissable lips I've seen ever.

Oh shit! My eyes widen when Kari shot her eyes wide open.

"Hey sleepy head. Slept well?" She smiles before she starts to move and stretch out, trying to wake herself up. Honestly, I don't want to get out of the bed so I pull her back down on the bed, letting her head hit the soft pillow and pull her closer to my body and u let my face rest on the crook of her neck, inhaling her sweet vanilla scent.

"10 more minutes please. ..." I whispered.

"Mmmmkay...." she hugged me back and caress my back, soothing me and putting me on a spell of relaxation.

I look into her Hazel eyes with my blue-ish gray ones, then look at her lips. She leans in and kiss my nose. I scrunch my face and she giggle.

"I have lunch waiting for us..." she tap my nose with a  'boop'.

"How did I end up here?" Finally asking after trying to remember anything.

She gets up and put on pants. My hearts starts to beat faster than a normal person when I realized that she's been in her underwear all this time and she and I have been close and she didn't say anything. Is that mean she likes me too?

"How bout I tell you over lunch? " she turned around after she puts on her sweats with a smile and walk out of the room. 

I pop out of the bed and rush to my room to brush my teeth and wash my face and head to the kitchen.

Act cool.. no idiot, just be yourself...

I smile as she walk, no dance gracefully around the kitchen as she prepare Lunch. I look at the wall clock and it's 2pm. I slept all those times with her? And not remember it? Fuck! I might need to see Hanji, I'm going crazy.  I wanna know what she's thinking. I want to hear her voice and the way she looks at me when she talks. I am addicted to her smile, it's like an Angel is smiling at me.

"Oi! Ackerman! Aren't you going to sit down so we can ear or you're going to stand there and smile like a dork?" Is she imitating me. I look at her with Kari glaring me with her arms crossed across her chest. I chuckle and smirk walking towards the dining table and parking my Acker-butt down. She sits next to me and we both starts eating.

"Well, you passed out and I didn't know how to bring our ass home until a patrol cop was walking with a dog and I asked him to help me to get you to the car. He was huge and cute, oh man he was muscular and tall." She starts her story. Raising my eyebrow and look at her mid-bite, she smiles and go on. "So I buckle you up and put the basket in the trunk then I dug the keys in your pants and drove us home. Then when I got us home, i help you inside the house and made it to my room cause I couldn't walk all the way to your room . I let you sleep and I put on something in the over for lunch and slept next to you. That's how I got you home Mr.Ackerman." she says as I eat. It all makes sense now.

"Who's the cop? Did you get the name? What station is he working at? I need to talk to him to stay away from the people I care about." I say in a neutral voice and I can't get over that a guy might have flirted with her.
She chuckles and hold on to my forearm. "Chill out, he helped me get you to the car remember."

That's it! I can't keep pretending and finding ways what I don't like about her, I like everything about her, her smile, the way she looks at me, the way she speaks and the way she makes me feel after I eat her food and the way she makes my heart beat all at the same time. I want to protect her from anything and anyone. I can't like to myself anymore.  I'm falling for Kari Lancaster.

She waves her hand in front of my face.

"Levi?  Levi! You still tired? That's the second time I catch you staring." She reach and cup my face in her soft hands and I lean in and close my eyes.

"You're not sick are you? I asked if you want some dessert? " she caresses my cheeks and I take her hand and plant a soft kiss on it.

"No, just processing how lucky I am to have met you. There are so many emotions that I've kept inside for so many years that I didn't think was possible for one person to bring it back up in the surface. Kari, you're single handedly showing me and letting feel all theses emotions that I thought isn't possible anymore. Thank you." I softly smile at her. There's tears teasing to come out of her eyes, she blink and that's when the tears start to fall. I get off my chair and pull her up in a hug and caress her back.

"You've accepted me, who I am, no questions about why. You just took me as I am. I'm so lucky to know you. Please don't cry. I'm sorry." I whispered softly. I pick her up and I walk to the couch and sit there, still hugging , she's seating on my lap.

She pull out of the hug, her cheeks are pink and she wipe her tears with the back of her hands. "No, don't be sorry, I am the lucky one to have the privilege to see all these emotions when you hide them from everyone else. You have a reason as to why you act the way you do in public and I don't need to know, that's your business but you still told me. I don't know why I deserve to know you. You're the one who accepted me when everyone else is rejecting me. Yes, I have my friends and I know they care about me, but the care you show to me is different, I never felt so true to myself until I've met you. You've shown me that it's okay to be me, that Kari Lancaster is more than enough for you. When my own family doesn't want any of me, you came out of nowhere and told me again and again that I'm perfectly fine just way I am. Thank you." She leans in and rest her head on my shoulder and softly kissing it.

That's when I realise that she's giving her head to me and as a return I'm giving my heart to her.

I'm ready to love again.

A/N: thank you all so much

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