Ordinary Hero (Attack on Titan // LeviHan)

Chapter Seventeen

Friday afternoon movies quickly became Hanji and I’s new favorite way to spend time with each other. We would have made them Friday night movies, but it wasn’t every Friday that I could skip work. Eventually our little movie sessions developed into all Saturday afternoon movies and Sunday morning movies. Occasionally, when Hanji got all of her work done on weeknights, we’d stay up and rewatch some of our favorites together. The laptop charger became a vital accessory to the both of us, I had memorized Hanji’s Netflix log-in, and eventually we watched G.B.F., which actually turned out to be better than we expected. After a while, Grace got sick of us eating all of the popcorn, so we had to invest in our very own supply. Nothing could have been more perfect.

It seemed that ‘Miss Zoe’ and the current state of her love life had become quite the gossip topic back at the high school. At first, just a few of the students were aware, but it seemed that the subject had been distributed among the students. Hanji told me that she had overheard students discussing that they caught her ‘on a date’ over the weekend between passing periods the following Monday. She explained that she considered giving them detention for meddling in her personal life. What surprised the both of us was that it was April, a whole month since the incident, and students were still talking about it. One of the seniors, a blonde that she referred to as Braun, apparently got the guts to ask her if she really was on a date with ‘that shrimp’. Automatically, I realized that he meant me. Then, which Hanji found the most ridiculous of all, a girl she called Lenz asked her if her boyfriend was doing well, which only led Hanji to being red-faced and embarrassed the next period.

“Boyfriend! She seriously, honest to goodness thought that you were my boyfriend, Levi!” Hanji exclaimed, her voice drowning out a song snag by the several skeletons in The Corpse Bride. When we first watched it together, Hanji brought up that I looked like one of the main characters, Victor. I had seen the movie prior to that, but I never noticed any similarities between us. I protested and continually told her that I shared no resemblances, but she was persistent about it. “I just wish the kids would drop it, I don’t want them discussing my nonexistent love life,” Hanji whined, smashing her face into the pillow in front of her.

I shrugged, popping another piece of popcorn into my mouth. “Why don’t you just tell them to stop?” I asked, glancing at her with a puzzled expression. Honestly, I didn’t mind it when Hanji told me about her students questioning her love life, whether she said it existed or not. I personally liked the idea of Hanji and I being boyfriend and girlfriend, and it amused me that some teenagers actually believed it. However, I could never admit that to her. “I mean, they shouldn’t meddle with your relationships, right?”

Just then, the door to our shared guest room swung open, allowing the light from the hall to shine into the room. Hanji insisted we pull the blinds shut and turn off all of the lights so that we could make the room more like a movie theater. As the door opened wider, Hanji made a noise similar to a cat hissing and shielded her eyes, rolling off of the bed. I paused the movie as I watched her roll onto the floor with a thump before looking up to the empty doorway, only to see Eld and Grace. I sat up on the bed, re-adjusting myself as Eld and Grace shot concerned glances over at each other. “Did they forget?” Grace asked Eld in a hushed tone.

Eld’s eyes shot from his fiancée to the room, his expression concerned. I felt the opposite end of the bed dip down a bit, and I glanced back to find Hanji kneeling, leaning into the bed. I looked back to Eld, who was smirking and snickering under his breath. “They forgot.”

"Forgot what?” Hanji and I asked in unison.

“We’re doing fittings today,” Grace explained, making Hanji and I have an ‘aha’ moment. Eld had asked me to be one of the groomsmen, along with Gunther and Oluo. Since Hanji and Grace had become so close while we resided with them, Grace wanted her to be one of the bridesmaids, to which Hanji happily obliged. However, it had completely slipped both of our minds that we were doing tuxedo and dress fittings today. “Come on, come on, let’s get going!”