Living Together: Extras

Josée

Rating: G

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There was light music playing in the background of a small casual business party within an accounting department of a company firm. A small girl of about a year and half waddles around the legs of adults standing around engaged in conversation. It wasn’t much but most of her soft black hair was gathered up in an itty-bitty bow on the top of her head. Her sea-blue puffy dress adorns her tiny form, as her pitter-patter feet stops at the foot of a serving table. The tail of a table cloth hangs down the ends, catching interest in her large dark eyes, keenly shaped like that of a cat.

With one finger in her mouth, the other hand was extended reaching for the hanging table cloth. She gripped it and gave it a sudden jerk wobbling a light-weight bowl of potato chips and sloshing the lemonade in a glass pitcher.

“Gawh-ha-ha~” she gurgled, and gave it another couple of tugs.

Her actions caught the attention of her father who by some innate instinct looked over at the precise moment the glass pitcher was nearing the table edge where she stood.

“No no no nononono,” Levi muttered cutting abruptly his conversation with Erwin to dash across the room and snatch up his daughter. As the baby girl was scooped up in his arms the pitcher crashed to the ground and shattered, spilling the lemonade all over the floor.

Levi sucked his teeth seeing how it juice got over his polished shoes, and stained his left pant leg closest to the impact. He glanced up at small child and found her poking her chubby fingers into his cheek. She smelled like baby powder and her mother’s perfume.

“Now look what you did, Josée,” He lifted his foot and the girl in his arms tilted her head down staring, “These are new pants—now they’re all sticky with this lemonade shhhii-bibi,” 

She gurgled in laughter enjoying the annoyed look squiggled across her father’s face.

“Shi-bibi?” Erwin mused with as smirk as he ushered janitors to clean up,

“Really?”

“Shut it or I’ll sow your mouth shut.” Levi growled.

Josée playing with Levi’s tie gave it a yank tightening it around his neck.

Erwin snorted a laugh as he took her from his arms, so Levi can loosen his tie. Josée writhed and complained, pushing her hand upward against the bottom of blond’s chin. She whined and stretched her back so her legs straightened out like rulers, “Gah, she hates me, I think,” Erwin manage to say while she kicked about.

“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhh!”

“Here, here give her to me.” Levi quickly urged as he took her back in his arms.

He had taken off his tie and stuffed in his back pocket. Yes, a sixty-five dollar tie, roughly crammed in a small pocket space. Past-Levi would of cringed towards such behavior, but priorities change when a baby comes around.
Josée quickly settled in her father’s arms, resting her head on his shoulder and cuddling her arms on his chest.

“It’s not you, she doesn’t trust anyone besides me and Mikasa,” He explained.

“That’s sounds quite like the both of you, to be honest.” Erwin added, as he observed the babe giving him a stink eye. Her head remained cushioned against bend of her father’s shoulder.

“You worry too much, what I want to know is how the hell, did she escaped from the kid’s area?” Levi questioned. He looked around some more. “And where’s Mikasa?”

“That’s a good question. Auruo might have dragged her out to meet more people.”

“That does sound like something he would do,” Levi groaned.