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As the sun was ready to dawn and the sky becomes to grow darker by the seconds, the footsteps of horses race down the road. The bells rang, alerting everyone that something has entered their area.
"Food has arrived!"
The squad walked out, with Sasha and Levi following soon after to catch the soon-to-be-dropped food. As the men with horses came running to their main station, they handed all of their bags filled with foods to the members. Levi, being the head of the Squad, nodded at the main leader of the hunting group before they left once again. Hopefully, to return after 8 months for restock.
Jean, Connie, Armin and Eren all worked together to put the bags back into the kitchen and leaves Sasha and Levi to cook as they're on duty for today's food. The two stayed quiet, no words exchanged with each other as they start to put their aprons.
"You know," Sasha started as she washes her hands. "They shouldn't have put you on cooking duty with me, Levi. You'll just make a mess in here."
It wasn't unusual for Sasha to call him by his first name, he was the first one to tell her to call him that when they're alone. Levi scoffs, as he starts to cut the potatoes they'll need to cook and boil.
"Sounds more like a you problem, potato girl."
"How many times do I need to tell you to never call me that?"
"I still won't listen, brat."
Sasha dried her hands with a towel as she rolled her eyes playfully before starting to work alongside Levi. He took his time to look at her and when she's too focused, he placed some flour in her left cheek. Sasha was shocked as her mouth was opened by the sudden surprise and Levi couldn't help but smirk. Sasha frowned by his expression as she puts her hand in a fist but Levi stopped her from punching him by kissing her.
It wasn't a secret, though it used to be, that the two formed a close relationship over time and started a much more deeper one. The two grew closer after Levi helped Sasha on her injury. Hange knows that Levi has developed feelings for the girl, so they were the one who forced their best friend into helping the girl. As Sasha broke the kiss, she slapped him lightly on the shoulder before chuckling. Levi wipes off the flour in her cheeks and gives her a light kiss there, not noticing Sasha blushing from the sudden care and attention he's giving her.
After awhile, the two argues on who should boil the potatoes, who should cut some of the other ingredients and all of those but also immediately continues without the will of trying to kill each other. The two - mostly Levi - is mostly the over-protective one but arguments with Sasha, he lets her win but not without any fair points from both sides. That's just how he makes his games work.
As the two cleaned and washed up, everyone was already at the cafeteria waiting for the food. They rang the bell, indicating for the others to go ahead and grab their food. Several people line up and grab theirs as Sasha and Levi watches. Eren, Armin, Connie and Jean comes by and seeing the opportunity, Eren winks at Sasha. To which she only rolls her eyes for while smiling back. Levi notices it and payed it no attention, though he was curious about what she's smiling about. He admits it, it's cute to see her like that.
He looked up from looking at her and sees her friends : Mikasa, Connie, Jean, Eren, Armin. There were a few missing but still, he knows they're somewhere in the cafeteria. Though he won't say it out-loud, he was thankful for Sasha's friends for making her happy like this, other than him. It's a heart-warming feeling for him to always see her being the hyped, lively, talkative village girl who sometimes steal food for her and others to share. She was brave, selfless and that's what he liked about her : not her pretty face like some people thought he only liked about her.
When he saw Hange smile at his direction, he couldn't help but tug a small (almost not visible) smile. He liked it here. Not only does he get to shout at those stupid brats for not listening to him but for also being able to sometimes teach them how to be a clean freak like him and most importantly ;
because he likes his squad. And if forever was real, he would want to spend it with them. Sasha, him and his Squad.