Soul's POV
As I went to grab the milk I could hear a thud in Maka's room, I look toward her door and thought there could be no way she was up at this time it's 4 in the morning. I shrugged it off and drank the milk but I couldn't help but wonder what was going on. I closed the milk and headed back to my room walking slowly in front of Maka's room wondering if I could hear anything else, surprisingly I could hear her whispering, no quietly singing? I pressed my ear up against the door and I could hear her voice and laughed, so that was where my IPod went. I continued walking back to my room as everything went silent and her door opened slowly, I turned so I could face her, she looked so cute in her pajamas…wait.. I did not say that she's just my tech that's all right?. But she did look cute even in the dark.
"hey" I said she looked at me and said "I um found your IPod" she looked at the ground and held her hand out "nah maka, you can hang on to it if you want to," her head shot up in surprise "really? Don't you want it back?," she looked at me, even in the darkness I could feel her eyes looking at me and the scar on my chest…how could she see that in the dark? "yeah, but it sounds like you know most of the songs on there anyways, you can hang on to it till the morning" I walked over and turned on a light, she covered her eyes and blinked a few times "to bright for you?" I asked "oh no I was just in the dark for so long, couldn't sleep and I found your IPod on the couch so I took it and then I could hear you out here so I thought you were looking for it." She mumbled, I patted her head..even though she hated it whenever I did that "its alright get some sleep though you need it." She smiled at me and nodded. I headed into my room and closed the door, laid down on my bed and fell fast asleep, unfortunately.
Maka's POV
That was weird, why didn't he take it back? I wonder. I glanced at his door, then headed over to the couch, I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight not after the dream I had. I turned the light off and laid down playing with his IPod, he's got so many songs on here, and whats this? You can keep a journal on this little thing? I really want to read it but that would be invading his privacy, if he ever had something to tell me…he would tell me wouldn't he? I stared at the 'Journal' shaking my head, why would I even think about that? I found a song and stared out the window, next thing I know I was back into the dream.
Not this, Not this again. I couldn't move, the only thing I could see was darkness I could hear people talking but it was faint and I couldn't make out whose voices they were or what they were saying. I tried to get closer, but it was like swimming in mud. I could make out one voice, it was Soul's.
"I've gotten so many letters from fan girls saying that they would be so much better then Maka as a partner. I don't know what to say"
Would he really just trade me? Am I that bad? I wanted to scream that the easiest thing to say was NO. I managed to find a mirror but when I looked into it I saw Soul. He was sitting at the table in our apartment looking at the stack of letters and smiling. "look at this one , she looks pretty good maybe I wouldn't have to work so hard to protect her…" he smiled that devious looking smile of his. I could finally say something at least; the only thing I could manage was "Soul"
I sit upright on the couch and looked around, I'm awake, at least I didn't fall this time. The clock said it was 6:14 AM. So I managed to get at least 2 hours of sleep? Great. I got up and walked toward the bathroom to take a shower, I have another hour and a half till school I needed it. I sat soul's IPod down on the table as I walked into the bathroom.
Soul's POV
I could heard the door shut, she's up but why am I? I looked at the time 6:35AM. I could sleep for another few minutes, but Maka would throw a fit. I slowly got up and got dressed. I walked out of my room as Maka came out of the bathroom, she was just in a towel? Dammit Soul don't get a nose bleed. "hey I didn't know you were up yet." She mumbled but she smiled at me. "I uh, could hear you up" I said scratching my head. "oh well, I'm sorry. I'll make breakfast in a minute" she walked into her room. I glanced down to see my IPod on the table, I picked it up. 30% battery? What was she doing all this time? I played with it in my hand until she walked back out. Her hair was still down, I loved it when it was like that; she looked at me "did I kill it?" she asked I looked down at the IPod "no its still got some battery left, did you listen to this all night Maka?" I asked, she looked down "um…what do you want to eat?" she's trying to dodge the question? Is she hiding something? Before I could say something she walked over to the stove and started cooking.
I watched her, she didn't say another word about it even after we left. Although, I could figure it out, she was up all night. Poor thing can't even stay awake through class, I looked at her as she sleepily looked down at Stein teaching. What is she hiding from me? This isn't like Maka..