Just Five Days // REMASTERED (IN PROGRESS)

Chapter 1

I woke up way too close to Levi for comfort. Letting out a disturbed gasp, I scooted as far away from him as the bed would allow. He shivered a little and looked up at me, sleep still heavy in his eyes.

"Oh. Right," he groaned. "I was hoping it was a dream."

"Well, good morning, sunshine," I muttered sarcastically, glaring at the idiot in bed with me. We didn't move for a minute, but I could tell we both wanted to. Eventually, we both sat up and swung our legs over the edge of the bed.

"How am I gonna shower?" Levi complained. "I already feel so gross." I nodded and fell back into the bed, closing my eyes again. I heard a knock on the door. It creaked open and Sunni, one of the dorm managers entered the bedroom.

"Rise and shine, sleepyheads," she smiled, shaking Levi's arm. He quickly swatted her hand away and looked up.

"Sunni! Oh thank God! Please unlock us!" Levi sprang out of bed, yanking me out with him.

"That's a very clever punishment, actually. Staff shopping is wrong, Levi," Sunni said in a singsong voice. "But Reagan did say that you two can be unhandcuffed for ten minutes to shower and change, and if you two quit with the pushback, maybe I'll be nice."

"Ten minutes?! How can I shower in ten minutes?" I cried.

"Yeah, not cool," Levi griped, lifting his upper lip in disgust, exposing his white teeth. "That is not enough time to get all the germs off! I slept with this nasty motherfucker!"

"I guess you'll have to figure it out," Sunni gleamed. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small silver key. She unlocked our handcuffs and sent us on our way. "Ten minutes and I'm going in after you. And, Levi, maybe while you're in there, your mouth could use a good scrub."

"Shut up, you hag," Levi retorted, "see you in ten minutes."

I bolted into the bathroom as soon as I had collected my soap and change of clothes, closing myself into the first shower stall. I stripped and turned the shower on. I realized a few seconds in that I had forgotten to change the sign outside from "vacant" to "occupied." I silently cursed the lack of locks at this boarding school and continued showering. Of course, the one time I forgot to change the sign was the day the none other than Levi Ackerman walked into my shower stall.

"AAH! Get out!" I shouted. Levi whipped around, startled and we made eye contact for far too long. He stumbled back towards the door, a horrified look on his face.

"Maybe you should witch the sign on your door!" he stuttered before scrambling back out the door. All I could think about was the way his eyes locked onto mine. They were so intense, like something serious was going on in his head as he slowly backed out of the shower stall.

I was rinsing the soap off of my body when a knock came at my door. "It's uh, been ten minutes," Levi said through the door.

"Okay. Let me finish up." I finished showering and drying off before getting dressed and leaving the shower stall. I noticed that somebody had switched the sign to "occupied," so I switched it to "vacant" again. Levi was waiting outside the door to my stall, his hand rubbing the back of his neck.

"Hey," he said, stepping outside of the bathroom with me. His black hair looked even darker wet.

"It's about time," Sunni chided. "You're both blushing, what is it?"

"N-no! We are not blushing!" Levi defended immediately.

"Yeah, we just had really hot showers, so our skin's all red," I backed up. Levi cocked an eyebrow at me as Sunni refastened us to each other.