One-shots & Short Stories [Levi | Reader]

A Poem For The Wrong Person [Levi | Reader | Eren]

You sighed through your nose and made your way through the halls, quietly mumbling rhyming words in a weak attempt of finding the perfect rhyme for the end of your kinda-poem thingy.

You'd been working on it for two days now and your mind could be nowhere else but right there, inside the pages of your crappy old notebook, inbetween the lines, sneaking around the curved letters of your words and avoiding the smudges from the many times something has been erased and completely replaced by something else.

Saying that it was an actual poem would be an insult to the art itself because you started it simply to make the rhymes disappear from your mind and stop making you shake your head in the middle of training. So maybe if you wrote the phrases down, they'd disappear from your mind along with the thoughts of the person that got them there in the first place.

"Kiss, miss, bliss, this... Ugh." 

You mumbled and mumbled, your eyes darting towards the ground, then the windows and the heavy sun falling upon the empty training grounds as your feet quickly moved across the floor. You knew you had to think of the rhyme fast and write it down before it was gone from your brain, then you could finally find some peace of mind.

You considered actually sharing the reason behind your nervous behaviour these days to your close friends, but by some coicidence you got cut off every time you'd try - God was giving you a chance to shut up before you messed something up by telling them, so you listened and snuck out of the mess hall instead, determined to finish the kinda-poem and do your victory dance.

"More, before, shore, sore, core... Oof." Another sigh left your lips.

This wasn't working out that well, but you couldn't really get angry - you weren't a writer after all, just a teenager with a hopeless crush and a strange way of solving your problems.

You turned the corner of the empty halls and were about to run into someone before they spun and made you trip into them instead of collide with their body. You fell to the ground and looked back at the person that had tripped you. 

Squad Leader Hanji's face entered your view and when she realised who she'd tripped, she apologised a few times in a hasty manner before helping you off the ground and quirking an eyebrow at you.

"(Y/N) (L/N) if I'm not mistaken?" She asked, making you bite the inside of your cheek before nodding. You hadn't expected a superior of yours to actually notice your plain existence, much less remember your whole name.

"What are you doing here at this time? Isn't it lunch time?" She asked and you sighed slightly.

"I had some work to do, Squad Leader. I apologise for almost bumping into you." You bowed your head slightly, making her wave her hands around and chuckle.

"Not your fault, cadet. I know the feeling of being in a rush. And please, just Hanji is fine. Now that we've officially met, I can't let you call me Squad Leader anymore." Her grin was nice and it made you smile back, now calmer in comparison to a minute ago.

"Thank you for the understanding, Squad L--- Hanji." You corrected yourself and she snorted at you with another small smile. 

"No problem, (Y/N). Now go ahead and continue your urgent business." She shooed you off before you could tell her anything else, but just as you actually started walking away, you had the unfortunate luck to bump into someone this time for real. 

You could distincly feel your nose colliding with the person's chin and a small 'oof' left your lips upon the weak numbing pain speading over your nose.

The person clicked their tongue and briefly grasped your forearms with their hands, making you almost jump back as if stung by their touch. However, the grip on your forearms didn't cease, which made your eyes widen when you heard Hanji's comment.