The sun shone light on my sweating face. Since I was in the Captain's special operations squad, he used this as an excuse for why he could push me harder than anyone else in training, which did make sense, but honestly, sometimes he'd take it too far. Like right now. I don't think a 16 year old boy should be continuously sprinting until instructed to stop. My breath is raggedy and short, I had already sprinted 2 laps and I was already exhausted. I'm in shape, but sprinting for as long as the Captain tells you to? No way can I do that. As I reach the starting point where the Captain stands, I look down at the ground and my feet, doing my best to avoid eye contact with the Captain while I'm running. It's not that I don't like him or anything, we've gotten as close as we could get, and yes, there's a certain limit I'm staying at with our friendship, only because I don't know how he feels about me. Anyway, I'm just embarassed for him to see me so fatigued. I took a small glance towards him and noticed that he wasn't looking, so I looked back down, deciding that I'd look at him once more. In this short time that I look down, however, he managed to turn to gaze to me, causing us to lock eye contact when I had looked up to him.
"Crap .." I muttered to myself as I passed by him, "gah!" I exclaim as I fall back onto my behind, rubbing my lower back as I groaned with pain. My eyes fluttered open to see the short Captain staring down at me.
"Up." He simply instructed.
I ignored him and frowned, "I don't remember tripping .." I say, looking at him.
The Captain only extends a hand out to me, "Up. I pulled you down."
I gladly take the hand and use his surprisingly strong arm to pull myself up, somewhat frowning at him, "Why'd you go and do that?" I asked, brushing myself off.
The Captain walks behind me and unclips my cape, beating it mutliple times, clouds of dusts flying about from my fall, not answering me. This somewhat irked me, causing me to frown harder. As I spin around to face the Captain, I lightly gasp. When I had spun, I spun to reveal a short Captain extremely close to me, our torsos touching. I had gotten used to keep my head tilted down so I could speak to the Captain, and the Captain had gotten used to keeping his head tilted up, so he could talk to me. This was unfortunate, seeing as whenever we had our heads at the specific angles, our bodies seemed to naturally tilt forward a bit as well. Seeing as when I had turned around and took a small step forward, I had gotten our sectrums to accidentally touch, but hey, I wasn't complaining, but I wasn't so sure about the Captain.
Levi frowned, "What are you so shocked about?" He asked, perking a brow at me. He didn't seem at all bothered by our bodies touching.
I only shook my head, "N-Nothing, Captain."
Levi didn't react, he only pushed the nicely folded and dusted cape into my chest, grabbing a hold of his right side cape and flinging it to his front side when he turned away, slightly pushing me with his shoulder. When he had walked past, his hand slightly brushed over mine, but that could've just been a coincidence. Or could it? I only question this because I slightly jerked my hand away at the surprise gesture, taking a look at the Captain, who was also looking at me. His face was somewhat reddened, but when he noticed me staring, he stiffened and turned away. I sigh. One of these days, I need to tell him how I feel, I can't go on like this. It's killing me. Every time I see him do something adorable, I get a huge, fuzzy feeling inside and I just want to run up to him and squeeze him, and kiss him, and snuggle him. That would be perfect. We'd be perfect together. I imagine myself running up to him, taking a hold of his hips by wrapping my arms around his waist, causing Levi to blush and smile, but look down so he could hide his features, his own arms wrapped around my neck and his hair slightly touching my chin.
"Eren."
I would dig my face in his clean hair, the scent of cleaning products mingled with shampoo and various types of teas would fill my nostrils. That'd be the cutest thing ever. Then, Levi would eventually move his head up, and-
