I didn't expect Maka to be in much of a forgiving mood so I stayed in my room; did my exercises, got my things ready for school, and headed down to the kitchen to make us breakfast. I owed her that much for being such a dick earlier.

To my surprise, Maka was already sitting at the table with two servings of breakfast made. She was reading a magazine of some kind and twirling her fork around in the syrupy goodness.

"There you are lazy. I made you some French toast." She acted as if nothing had happened between us. I mean… I could tell from her voice that she seemed a little nervous. Was I the cause of her being nervous? Did I scare her?

I sighed and sat down beside her, waiting for her to look up. It took her a minute but she finally met my crimson eyes with her emerald ones.

"Do you need something Soul?" she asked quietly. I shook my head and sighed.

"Listen Maka, I…I'm sorry that I keep snapping at you the way I do…I just get so angry sometimes…" I looked to the floor as though it was the most interesting thing I'd ever seen. I didn't like having to apologize for losing my temper…It made me feel so weak.

I felt Maka's hand touch mine very gently, almost like she was afraid to do so.

"Soul… It's ok. I understand that you've had a lot of stress lately… I can see that, we are partners after all…And we kind of live together so good luck trying to hide your feelings from me." She smiled at me and I felt my face warm slightly. Why did she have to be so girly sometimes? Normally I just counted her as one of the dudes because she hated doing anything that made her seem like a princess.

"Yeah…alright." I broke the connection of our hands because it started to feel a little awkward. I mean we were not in battle so it was unnecessary.

"So are we cool Maka?" I asked with a smirk.

"Totally." She gave me thumbs up and I grinned wickedly at her.

"Alright bookworm, you ready for class?" She nodded eagerly and followed me out of our apartment.

It was a sweet pad provided by the school to the student partners. Any normal human would've shunned the idea of a teenage boy and girl living together, but this is just how they ran things at the DWMA. We had to be in contact all the time so that nothing could potentially affect our soul wavelength. I don't really understand it much myself, I just think Lord Death is a big perv and finds enjoyment in watching all of us struggle with our hormones.

I grabbed my bike and handed the helmet to Maka. She gave me a look that said she wasn't happy with the decision. I smirked.

"Maka, cool guys don't let their hair get messed up by helmets." She and I both knew this was just my excuse for not going out and buying another one. I can't help it, those things are expensive! It also doesn't help that I can't bring myself to remember to do so.

"Soul, cool guys wear helmets so that someone doesn't have to come behind them after an accident and scrape their brains off the asphalt." I cringed at that thought and she smiled sweetly at me, knowing she'd won the argument.

"Alright fine, I'll buy one after the next mission! Geez…" I grumbled under my breath. Her smile only got wider and I looked away as I got on the bike and revved it to life. I loved my motorcycle even if it initially came from my parents' house. It was the best gift they'd ever given me…Hell, it was really the only gift they'd given me and it was originally gifted in hopes that I'd crash it and end up dead. Or at least that's how I saw it. My parents and I don't see eye to eye, never have honestly. Regardless this bike is what got me here and I really can't be more grateful to it for that one.

The ride to school was short and as usual Maka and I spent it in silence save for the usual 'Soul, slow down' or 'Soul, watch outs' that Maka always gave me. Just let me drive! Next time I'd let her do and we'd see how far we got! Not really, if I let her drive my bike we would both be dead…no questions asked. We arrived at the school with 15 minutes to spare before first period and that's were Maka and I split to go and talk to our friends.

"Soul! How are you today?! Not as great as I of course!" Black*Star…my dearest pain in the ass friend a guy could as for.

"I'm good Star, I kinda screwed up with M over there but whatever." I shrugged and glanced toward Maka who was talking to Black*Star and Kid's partners, Tsubaki, Liz, and Patty. Black*Star slapped me on the back really hard and made me clench my teeth as a flash of anger hit me.

"Oh don't worry about her! She'll come around! They always do!" He cackled loudly.

"Dude, it wasn't Maka's fault, I was the idiot." I don't know why but it always made me mad the way Black*Star would sometimes refer to girls. I know he didn't mean it, but all the same, it still was just another thing that would get under my skin.

"Whatever to you mean Soul?" The calm, collected voice of Death the Kid suddenly came from behind me.

"Ah, it's really nothing guys…I've just been having a lot of anger issues lately as you guys well know." They both nodded their heads at me.

"Well, this morning I really snapped at Maka, I didn't call her anything mean but I was still really harsh…Shit like that can get under her skin and could potentially make some hassle in our wavelength and that can't happen." Black*Star gave me a dumb look before shouting.

"Come on man! The angrier you get the better of a fighter you are!"

"On contraire my blue friend, if Soul cannot be calm and collected in the battle field we would all be screwed. I suggest you either take this up with my father or Dr. Stein." Kid retorted. He gave me a wicked stare down with those creepy yellow eyes of his.

"Listen, that was the plan, alright? I'm not an idiot…I know when I need help. I know Maka has been worried about me lately and I don't want her to know that I'm seriously struggling with the issue of the black blood so could you guys just kinda keep her distracted for me? I won't be in first period; I'm going to Stein's." They both nodded and surprisingly Star didn't have anything he wanted to add to the situation. The first bell rang signaling that the students needed to head to class. Stein didn't have a class first period so instead of taking the stairs to class I walked down the hall to the nurse's office to find Stein.