Just Five Days // REMASTERED (IN PROGRESS)

Chapter 2

I'm officially a dumbass. This is the chapter that didn't save, I think. Whatever. I give up. This whole transferring bullshit is too much for my two brain cells to compute most days.

Levi led us back into the noisy mess hall. We closed the door behind us and Levi elbowed me hard in the ribcage.

"What was that fo-" He grabbed the collar of my shirt and backed me up against a wall. He winked at me when he had caught Trevor's attention.

"Just go with it," he whispered.

"Just go with what?" I asked, and was immediately answered by Levi's hands pulling down on my neck. I obliged him by bending down until I was at his eye level. In one fluid moment, Levi's lips met mine and he pushed me back into the wall, more forcefully than he had ever done when we were fighting. His previous words replayed in my head and I found myself kissing him back. I noticed a surprising amount of chemistry between us, probably because we were constantly trying to kill each other. Hatred is a form of passion. I could hear every conversation snap closed and feel every set of eyes bore into us. My hands lowered onto his hips and he moved one of his legs between mine. Everybody was frozen in shock as I let out a quiet gasp. Levi pulled back, his expression unreadable, looking first at me and then at Trevor, who had an unfazed look on his face.

"How's that for getting along, Trevor? Did that show you?" Levi asked vindictively. Trevor shook his head. "Cuz I'm pretty sure that showed everybody else." Levi turned back to me and licked his lips. "Not bad, Jaeger." I turned bright pink.

"Intervention still stands," Trevor called over to us, a stupid grin on his face.

"God damn it! I totally thought that would work. Or at least get us put on distance." Levi stormed back to our Dorm table. We sat down, and all that anyone did was stare. The other students, especially Sean, were looking at us with their jaws on the floor.

"That was quite the display," Sunni said, cheerfully. Levi rolled his eyes. I was visibly shaken, unsure what to do with myself. I was dealing with the fact that I might have liked it.

"I need some air," I murmured under my breath. I didn't think anybody heard me, but Levi turned around and looked at me, a worried gleam in his grey eyes.

"We're gonna take some space outside and regulate," Levi said to Sunni. I bolted for the door.

"Space is five minutes!" She called after us as I ran outside. I plopped down on the porch steps.

"What is it?" Levi asked. There was an odd emotion on his face. It looked unnatural, different from his usual scowl.

"I don't know. It was just really hot and crowded in there." The rain had started coming down hard. Lightning flashed and thunder came right after.

"Whatever." He snapped back to his normal glare. He looked down. I took a deep breath. We sat in silence until my eyes caught something on his arm. I grabbed his wrist and rolled up his sleeve, revealing thin, raised white scars decorating his ivory wrist. He yanked his arm away and pulled his sleeve back down. "Tch. Before you freak out, those are old. I've heard all the speeches and shit, so don't fucking say a word."

I blinked. "Hey. I won't say anything, but if you want to, feel free."

"I fucking hate it when people say they're sorry or act like they get it! I was in a really dark place when that happened. I tried to die a couple of times. I don't ever talk about this shit, so I have no clue why I said anything. Forget this ever happened, brat."

"Forget what?" I asked sarcastically. Levi rolled his eyes. I couldn't help the empathetic look on my face.

"Get that stupid look off your face. You look like everybody else, and I don't wanna see everybody else. I wanna see- ya know what, never mind, shut up, fucking Jaeger." Levi was bristling, obviously uncomfortable with his sudden vulnerability.

"But I didn't say anything."

"That's not important. Now, shut the hell up." Levi's cheeks were a light pink. We sat in silence after that, looking at the rain tumbling down, making the ground muddy. After a while, Levi stood. I shivered. "Let's get inside." I stood up and walked with Levi back inside. We sat back on the end bench of our dorm table.

I felt sick, like something was fluttering around in the pit of my stomach. I started to see double, so I closed my eyes, planting my head on the table.

"Don't be such a baby. All I did was kiss you," Levi whispered brusquely. I squeezed my eyes shut, deciding that I had not, in fact, liked the kiss. I was not gay. Fuck all that. I tried to picture girls I had been with, but I couldn't get Levi's face out of my head. I couldn't get the smell of his shampoo to leave me, or the way his hands roamed my body during our kiss. He was driving me insane, and I couldn't just move on. I was stuck and I hated it. I hated him. I hated Levi Ackerman with my entire being.

"One two three, eyes on me!" A staff from another dorm called, standing from his dorm table and raising his hand.

"One two eyes on you," everybody mumbled back.

"There was a fallen tree a little ways north, blocking our school off from all vehicles. The teachers won't be in today." Sighs of relief echoed in through the mess hall. "Instead, we'll all be deep cleaning our dorms." The sighs of relief turned into reluctant groans at the blink of an eye. "That's all."

"Yes!" Levi whisper-shouted. "Our dorm is disgusting. I've wanted it clean for so long!" I looked up at him, not speaking. Shooting me a glare and looking away, a part of me knew that he would be the death of me.