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“They hate me.” Isn’t a funny sentence, it shouldn’t be as funny as it is now. Principal Erwin Smith saying “They hate me” regarding a handful of kindergartners is down right hilarious to Levi, much to his husbands dismay.
Levi snorted as he sorts through poorly drawn pictures stamping different phrases on the top, “Good Job”,“Awesome”, “You Rock,” sparing him a glance, “They’re children, they’re going to forget about why they are upset over night. Why do you care so much anyways? Its not like every kid has to like you. Im sure you can handle 15 mad little children.” Erwin frowned softly, “I think I ruined their lives.” He leans back dramatically against his seat looking over at him, “You’d think I committed a crime by the way they stared at me changing Mr. Ackerman to Mr. Smith on the sign, for Gods sake i think one of them wants to kill me!”
“It was totally Eren.”
“Not helpful Levi.”
“He’s got a biting streak, I’d watch your ankles tomorrow.”
“Levi-!”
He was met with a snicker as his husband fixed his stack of papers slipping them back in his work bag. “Relax, they just need to adjust to the change. Do you know how long it took for them to understand that me taking a vacation didn’t mean I was leaving forever? They’ll forget about it if you give them cupcakes or some shit.”
“Im not bribing your students to like me, Levi.”
“More like persuasion.”
“You find this amusing!”
“Of course I do.”
Erwin glares as he pulls out some papers from his desk. “Look what was dropped off at the office for me.” The blonde cleared his throat holding the first paper up. “ ‘You stole Mr. Ackermans last name! You suck! You traiter!’ traitor isn’t even spelled right! And its in red crayon- with a very impressive drawing of my face with no eyebrows-“ Levi plucked the letter from his hand reading it over cracking a smirk. “I taught them so well. Look look, Armin must have corrected Eren’s sentence. Jean has really perfected his drawing skills too, I’ll blink once and these brats will be sending proper death threats by fourth grade graduation.”
“You’re terrible.”
“Im being a supportive teacher Erwin, these youths are our future.”
“I’d like a supportive partner.”
“I’ll make a new class rule ‘Go easy on Principal Smith’ how about that?”
“I could fire you-”
“if you want a kindergartener riot on your hands be my guest. My bet is Mikasa could beat your ass easily.”
Erwin blinked and chuckled softly shaking his head. “You’re lucky I love you. You know that?”
Levi rolled his eyes. “Mhm, enough of that mushy crap, let me see the other notes- I want to give them extra playground time for their creativity-“
“Oh come on!”