One-shots & Short Stories [Levi | Reader]

Confession Time [Levi | Reader | Highschool AU! | Drabble]

"So, I think you know how I've been avoiding you for the past three hours yet seemingly wanting to tell you something?"

Nervous. Nervous. Nervous.

I've been trying to talk to my best friend for some time now all the while unsuccessfully literally running away from him every time he seemed to walk my way. That's a side effect of my nervousness. I lost a bet earlier the same day. I don't seem to be all too lucky with the placement of the pay-back either, but I have to do it now.

Rules are rules.

"... strangely enough yes I do know."

I look up at him, then back at the ground. I don't know what I'm thinking, but I catch myself blurting out:

"... do you wanna hear it now?"

Levi Ackerman. Not popular, not unpopular. Intelligent, good grades, unique personality and a set of killer looks. My best male friend. Been hoping to become my boyfriend even since I befriended him, but not all fairy tales end with a 'happily ever after'. Every day I talk to him and I even have a audacity to show off with him as my friend. He never questions my strange personality or my awkwardness. Today is the day I finally make him look at me like I'm crazy.

"How do you think?"

He asks with a tilt of his head. It's cute. No, it's adorable, he doesn't do it often and I rarely get to see it. I admire the gesture for a second before replying.

"With my brain."

I know he senses what I'm doing by the way his eyes narrow. He rolls them a second later.

"Dodging the question."

Levi sums up shortly before looking back into my eyes and making them naturally avert to trace the curve of the clouds in the sky behind his back. I've been avoiding this day for centuries now, but I just had to lose that stupid bet with Mikasa.

"So are you."

I retort, making him sigh. I know I've won, but I really want to prolong the interlude of my announcal.

"Well, let me hear it."

I make myself look dumb just to buy myself time.

"What?"

I ask and Levi is obviously irritated with how obvious I'm being - as if he wouldn't notice me avoiding the actual topic.

"The thing you've been trying to tell me."

He crosses his arms in front of his chest and even though the action is a gesture I greatly admire, it's a sign that he's soon to become annoyed with me beating around the bush. I scratch the back of my head and think of something else to say, just to make him hang around longer and stretch the abilities of my mentality to avoid a certain topic for a certain amount of time.

"Haha, about that... so, I don't really like Valentine's day, it's basically built upon the shopping industry wanting to find various ways to drain us of our money and I hate love as a whole, so---"

He scoffs and I stop talking, knowing it's his turn to finally blow up.

"Are you just here to rant about your hate for Valentine's day? I surely have more improtant things to do than listen to you at the moment if that's going to be the topic."

He says with a frown and I think of all the other important things he has to do. Surely, they are indeed more important than I am. Am I even important as a whole? I've never asked myself that before, but tolerating me and liking me are different things - does Levi only tolerate me because I'm friends with Mikasa? Does he even find our talks interesting? Does he trust me?