Sooo, even though I haven't finished any of my other fanfics, I started writing another one. Mostly because it was Kisacohmacookie's 18th b-day (PAAAAARTY!) on wed, and she really wanted to write this with me. So here we are. Writing this. Yep, some gooood writing. Now on with the story!
Disclaimer: not mine. Never will be. If it was, I would've ended the anime MUCH differently.
God Damn It Stop Biting Your Nails!
"So, what's your view on the oil spill?" a very nervous Meghan asked as they sat down for their first period class.
"Well, I think that they should fix the damn problem and not point fingers, but I know that's not going to happen. I also know that asking insignificant questions like that will not make the E period test on soul resonance go away," her friend, Laura, told her with a smirk. This immediately prompted Meghan to put her music on thus tuning out the world, and began biting her nails. Laura looked at her worried friend, debated trying to calm her down or laugh, but laughing won out in the end. Little did either of them know, a certain OCD kid was about to have a nervous breakdown.
Death the Kid heard the biting nails. The small, repetitive gnawing of cuticles grating on his every nerve set him on edge faster than anything Patty had done in the last five minutes. Which was saying something. The day hadn't even lasted five minutes, and he was already spazzing out over this noise. At once, he stood on his desk, and began searching for the source.
"Kid, could you sit down?" Liz asked, not knowing the cause of this, but not attempting to know the cause either. Even if she knew, she would not get it. Therefore, it was useless to try to understand.
"Ooh, ooh, are we looking for birds?" Patty asked, also jumping onto her desk, and began searching fiercely for any kind of animal with wings. Even a pig.
"No, I am not looking for birds. I am trying to find someone biting their nails," Kid responded.
"Aww," Patty said with a sigh, giving up her quest and not helping Kid with his.
"You mean that girl in the back with the black braid?" Liz pointed out.
Kid followed her finger and found the girl she mentioned. Funny enough, Kid had never seen this girl before, or the girl beside her with a high brown ponytail. The girl who was the source of his irritation had green eyes hidden behind black square-rimmed glasses. She looked reserved in a black sweater too large for her, and the sleeves would be past her hands had she not been biting them. Her friend was the exact opposite. Brown eyes matched her hair, and she wore a sporty polo in white and blue stripes. Her feet were propped on the desk and her arms were crossed, giving off an air of arrogance. These two people could not be any more different.
Without hesitating Kid bounded to the back of the classroom, using other people's desks as steps, and stopped indignantly on the desk in front of the offending biter.
"Stop that biting right now! It makes your nails horribly gnarled and unsymmetrical!"
Unfortunately, Meghan could not hear this because of her headphones and she did not posses the ability to read lips like Justin Law, so she opted to just blink stupidly up at him as he continued.
"Why would someone even bite their nails! I don't understand, they could do something else to calm their nerves! Instead of biting your nails, you could use a file to make them symmetrical!"
As he continued to pace on top of their desk, muttering little things under his breath, Laura decided she should try to mime what he just said to her friend, partly because it would get rid of her friends obvious confusion, and next because it would be funny.
Still wondering who was the weirdo making foot-tracks on their desk, Meghan turned to see her friend move her hands in various gestures and faces towards her. The spazzing faces and pointing at said weirdo only made Meghan's eyebrows narrow further.
"You know, I can just take out the ear buds if you ask me too..." Meghan said this taking them out as she did, giving her friend a weird look.
"Eh, it was too much fun making faces," Laura shrugged.
Realizing the two girls where not listening to him, Kid decided to continue ranting to regain their attention. The two girls turned to him in mild confusion as he ranted quickly. Neither took in a word he said. Finally, he stopped to catch his breath.
"Sorry, I was having a momentary spazz attack at your rant, what'd you say?" Laura mentioned with feigned politeness to the boy.
"Soo...who are you?" Meghan asked, and Kid's mouth dropped.
"Oh! Oh I know! He's Black Star!" Laura chirped in a way vaguely familiar to Kid, reminiscent of a certain annoyance (Patty...)
Kid could no longer make any coherent words, so he just stood there and flapped his arms at the prospect of being called Black Star.
"Hmmm, no, I don't think that's it, maybe he's that Soul guy?" Meghan asked, looking questioningly at kid.
"No, Soul's the one with blue hair!"
At this point, Patty had burst out laughing, pounding the ground underneath her in pure hysterics. Liz just sighed and took out her nail polish to paint her nails. Thankfully, none of their other friends were here yet, so they did not have to suffer the embarrassment.
Finally, after being ignored for way too long, Kid proceeded to stomp his foot in a tantrum to bring back their attention.
"My name is Death the Kid! I am not Soul, who has white hair, and I am most definitely not that imbecile Black star; he's the one with blue hair!"
"Oooooohhh." both girls chimed in understanding and Kid resisted the urge to tear out his hair when Meghan resumed biting her nails.
"I said stop that!" he cried.
"Stop what? "Meghan asked confused.
"He wants you to stop biting your nails." Laura whispered, "I tried telling you that earlier, but apparently you're not very good at charades."
"Yes, so if you would be so kind as to stop biting you nails..." He trailed off, with icy politeness, not daring to go further less his temper get the better of him.
"Sorry, but I've been biting my nails since I can remember, it's just something I do out of habit."
"Why?" He cried in despair.
Meghan shrugged, "It just is, whether if I'm thinking, I'm nervous, or even just bored, I just unconsciously start biting them, it doesn't really bother anyone as long as they ignore it, so I suggest you do that because this habit isn't going away any time soon."
"I gave up a few years ago on trying to get her to stop. It bugs me, too, but nearly as much as it bugs you," Laura commented with a shrug and a smirk.
"I will make you stop biting your nails," Kid said dangerously.
"For some reason, that makes me scared," said Meghan flatly.
"It should," Liz said coming over to collect her meister, "class is about to begin, and you don't want to ruin the symmetry of the classroom, do you?"
Meghan mouthed a quick "thank you" as Kid sped away, eager to correct the symmetry that he could. By now, the rest of the crew had joined him and were eager to know why he was bashing two girls he didn't know.
"One of them refused to stop biting her nails," Kid explained, the thought still annoying him.
"And you felt the need to stop this because..." Soul asked wondering if he should really be asking, but decided that more explanation was needed.
"It's absurd! First, since you can't bite both at the same time, you put yourself out of symmetry. Secondly, your nails are shaped awkwardly and thus out of balance. Lastly, the sheer noise of the nails is annoying enough to cause my head to snap backwards."
"Glad I asked," Soul remarked.
"Really, Kid, you're just going to bother this poor girl who you don't even know!" Liz said exasperatedly.
"You don't know their names?" Maka asked with surprise.
"I, the great Black Star, obviously know their names, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to know them."
"So, what are their names?" Tsubaki asked. Everyone waited for a moment for Black Star to tell them that he was too great to let this be their knowledge, but they were in for a surprise.
"The one with the black braid is Meghan Kennedy. She's a hammer and battle axe weapon, and the girl next to her is Laura Lorenzo, her meister. They transferred in a little while back, so it's not too surprising you don't know them," Black Star explained.
Cricket. Cricket. (add as many crickets as you think it would take for everyone to realize that Black Star just said something intelligent. I wanted to put in a thousand, but you might get angry with me.)
"How the hell did you know that?" Soul exclaimed in disbelief.
"Well, Laura likes to spar with me sometimes. She's pretty hard to beat when she's in a bad mood."
Before anyone could respond to this statement, Stein rolled in, literally, five minutes late. He began class promptly so they had no time to discuss Kid's further irritation. Little did they know, Kid spent most of that class and all of the others making a list of things that would stop Meghan from biting her nails. The war had just begun.
Aaaand we decide to stop her for this chapter. Why? Because I'm evil and I like leaving cliff hangers. That and it just makes sense to stop there. Anything to say, Kisa?
Kisa: the last names that we came up with aren't real. We pulled them from the phone book at random. Our first names are real, me being Meghan, and diva being Laura. We didn't put out last names in because of creepy stalker people.
Me: no one likes creepy stalker people. We hope you liked this chapter, though. Next chapter is all about kid and his random plans to try and get Meghan to stop biting her nails. Actually, that's what the rest of this fanfic is about. Ah well, c'est la vie.
C ya l8r!