Faults ~Levi x Reader AU~

Chapter 18: Cold Black Tea

~Levi's POV~

I took a sip of my steaming black tea, relaxing as the warm liquid slid down my throat while my eyes devoured the words on the page I was reading. I was enjoying my free hour, embracing the calm silence before my next class when the door to my office flung open, the brass doorknob banging against the wall with an audible thud. I sighed, well aware of who it was without even glancing in their general direction.

"What do you want?" I mumbled, still not looking up as I turned the page.

"I am so pissed at you!" she nearly wailed, slamming my door shut behind her. "I don't even know how to express all this anger I have towards you right now!"

"You can give me the silent treatment," I suggested, still barely paying her any mind.

"Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you?" she snickered. She slammed the palms of her hands on the smooth wood of my desk, continuing, "But, ain't happenin', shorty! I have a bone to pick with you!"

I sighed, slightly annoyed and closed my book after marking my reading place before turning to finally face her. An angry Hanji stood in front of my desk, her tall frame towering over me. Her cheeks were dusted over by a scarlet tint as her nostrils flared. Her chestnut orbs were glued on me, most likely throwing daggers at me as if I had done something wrong.

"Tch," I breathed, massaging my temples with my fingers. "What is it, shitty glasses? What could I have possibly done to piss you off?"

She scrunched her face up, pure anger drenched across her features as she snapped, "When the hell did you and Petra get back together?"

I lifted a brow, answering, "We're not." I laced my fingers together and rested my chin on them. "Besides, whether we are or aren't is none of your business."

"Oh, it's definitely my business," she spat back, once again hammering her fists at my desk.

By that point, I was more than a little frustrated. She was acting like a child -like a spoiled brat. She was abusing my property, raising her voice for no reason, and just getting under my skin. She was testing my patience which was the last thing I wanted.

I breathed in and sighed heavily, "First off, stop assaulting my property. You're acting like a damn fool. Secondly, my personal life is none of your concern whatsoever. Regardless of what you think. And thirdly, you're an adult, act like it."

She puffed her cheeks out and plopped down in one of the chairs across from me, crossing her arms firmly over her chest, mumbling, "Stupid shorty."

I rolled my eyes at her and pressed, "Now, why are you so concerned about my personal life, anyhow? Don't you have your own life to live?"

"Trust me, I have my reasons," she murmured. "I don't enjoy this either, but you're both so damned hardheaded that I'm forced to do this."

I knitted my brows in confusion. "What are you going on about?"

She inhaled sharply through her nose, closing her eyes as if to gather her thoughts. I wasn't going to rush her and chose to relish in the absence of her annoying voice. I opened my book and resumed reading, doing my best to lose myself in the indulgent of the story when shitty glasses interrupted my efforts...yet again.

"You and Y/N are both so stubborn," she whispered, her tone dark.

That caught my attention. The sound of...her name rolling off Hanji's lips and through my ears. Shitty glasses had all my undivided attention, my curiosity fueling me to meet her stare. She was already staring at me, her arms still crossed over her chest. Her expression mocked me, telling me that she knew she had won.