Chapter 2. Ashley's first day
Blair dragged Ashley up the never ending stairs that lead the students up to the DWMA, well they aren't ever ending but god they feel like it! Blaire dropped her off halfway up before turning into cat form and strolling back down complaining she was too tired to continue.
"Hey! What about me! Don't leave me here bitch!"
Blaire rolled her eyes and turned around to respond, "I'm not a bitch; I'm a molly! Female dogs are bitches for your information! Have a good day Ashley!"
She couldn't be bothered to throw a comeback, so she quickly jogged up the rest of the stairs at a constant pace to avoid getting tired.
"Hey, well done! I think you're the first new student to not collapse on the floor exhausted before getting to the top!"
Ashley turned around to see a girl the same height as her with blonde pigtails, emerald green eyes and a sweet smile in the sun's sport light of sunshine. Her long black trench coat glided out behind her in the wind as she held out a white gloved hand out to Ashley. Ashley went to shake the hand but instead out of nowhere received a sudden but warm friendly hug.
"I'm Maka, Maka Albarn, I'm a meister here. I was told you were joining my class so I wanted to meet you!"
Ashley smiled, "I'm Ashley, wait…Maka…oh your Sprirt's daughter right!"
Maka suddenly looked scared, "WHAT! Ok what did he do to you? Were you raped? Groped? Sexted?"
Ashley looked back concerned, "No…nothing like that, he saved me actually."
Just then she felt a shadow over her, blocking out the sun making her feel cold, "Ashley, that's a cool name. I'm Soul Evans, Maka's weapon partner it's a pleasure to meet you."
His voice was really cool and chilled, took Ashley's mind off the weird Spirit convocation with Maka.
"It's a pleasure to meet you to Soul, I have to say, your names pretty cool to."
Soon the partners lead Ashley up to the Crescent moon class room, Maka pointed to a seat in the middle of the second row of seats where Ashley would be seated.
"Don't worry, you're next to Soul and I'm next to him so we are here if you need help, and if Soul is asleep or I'm busy you can ask Kid for help."
Before Ashley could ask who the hell Kid was; a supply teacher wondered into the classroom and ordered the students to be seated. Ashley walked over to her seat, but as she reached it she tripped over Soul's chair as he tucked under the desk and landed face flat on the floor. Luck for her no one noticed because the majority of the students were looking out the window talking amongst themselves. Ashley felt a hand slip under hers, she looked up into a pair of beautiful golden eyes, and she started to blush as the boy helped her up off the floor and pulled out her chair so she could sit. Without a word he tucked her in and sat down next to Ashley only leaving her with a small smile that made her feel like she was sitting next to an angel who had fallen from the heavens. The supply teacher sat at the desk in the centre of the classroom and started to call out names of students for the register, but he was interrupted by a student who shouted down to him from the back row, "Sid, BlackStars fighting again!"
"Leave him be, he bought himself into this, if we ignore this behaviour it will eventually stop." Sid yelled back to the pupil.
Ashley felt uneasy, she turned to Soul who had already fallen asleep; she poked him with her pencil…well that didn't work. Ashley thought of something she had learned off a friend when she attended nursery school, only to leave a month afterwards of course, she sharpened her pencil and pierced it into her rubber so it stayed off the end; then making sure the handsome lad who helped her didn't see she licked the rubber which revolted her tremendously but this trick always works. Ashley reached across the desk and slowly placed the wet side of the rubber down on Soul's face several times until after about a minute he opened his eyes and yelled as her flung back his head and started a nose bleed.
"What the hell Ashley!"
"Hey don't worry I didn't kiss you, it's a trick I learned in my youth. It only feels like your being kissed on the cheek!" She giggled as she showed him the rubber.
Soul looked at her shocked, but calmed down after a while.
"So anyway, what's up?"
Ashley looked back to the front of the class with a slightly freaked out expression, "This may sound totally stupid but…is Sid a zombie?"
Soul whipped the blood from his nose and stared to laugh, "Yeah don't worry about Sid, he is a zombie but he's a good guy; nothing to worry about."
Ashley smiled, that's good to know, she thought to herself.
The rest of that lesson was pretty plain sailing, they were simply studying a new topic about the anatomy of souls which was really rather boring to Ashley, she almost fell asleep like Soul. The bell rang, thank god, and all the students grabbed their bags and ran to the cafeteria. Ashley went with Soul and Maka, they told her they wanted her to meet some friends which made her a little nervous; she wasn't the best person at giving good first impressions. As they entered the cafeteria Ashley slipped backwards on some wet floor that had been cleaned letting gravity pull her backwards, but to her horror she felt she was landing on someone. Ashley closed her eyes and shrieked as she fell crashing down into the person behind her. After a few seconds she sat up and looked behind her to see a boy dressed in black and grey which a mass of spikey blue hair and under him was a girl who was much taller than Ashley with a long black pony tail trailing down her back and was also wearing a matching dress to the boy's outfit.
"Listen here newbie! Don't you ever think about falling into me again, it'll be the biggest mistake you've ever made yo…." He was interrupted by the girl who had gotten up off the floor and held her hands over his mouth.
"I'm awfully sorry about BlackStar, he can get a little carried away; don't worry about apologising you're already forgiven by both of us. I'm Tsubaki by the way, I believe your Ashley?"
Ashley nodded with a smile, she was slightly embarrassed by falling over again but it's in the past now, and you can't change the past. Maka, Soul, Ashley, BlackStar and Tsubaki all walked up to a table that the group always sat at together; after Maka put down her bags she offered to take Ashley up to buy food. As the two girls reached the queue, Ashley didn't know what to get there was so much food; this was incredible for her since she had spent most of her life on the streets. She quickly grasped a BLT and a fruit salad and attempted to reach up to get herself a bottle of water, but trying to reach the top shelf was hard, and her balance wasn't a strength. Ashley went on her tip toes as high as she could before falling backwards, but this time she didn't feel the ground beneath her…she opened her aqua blue eyes and peered over her shoulder to see she was inches away from the floor. Wait…if I'm not on the floor…something is holding me up, she thought; then she realised the hand holding hers. She looked up, her eyes widened with surprise as she was gazing into the same golden eyes that helped her up in her previous class. She felt her cheeks getting warmer, as she realised he was blushing; it took her a little time to realise she was blushing as well, but when she did realise with his help she was pulled back up to her feet. Maka handed Ashley her food tray and giggled, hinting he a wink. Ashley pulled a face at her as they paid and sat back down at the table.
Ashley looked around her as they ate, BlackStar was picking up chunks of food and stuffing them into his face as fast as he could until he looked like a chipmunk, Tsubaki was delicately slicing her food into tiny sections and eating with lady like manners, Soul was eating casually appart from when he talked with his mouth open every now and then which wasn't exactly cool while Maka was just silent reading her book while eating with manners but not exactly chatting with the group. Ashley was seated a seat away from the window, so she gazed out while listening in until something blocked her view.
She stuttered, "G-golden eyes…"
He smiled again and Ashley's heart melted in her chest.
"T-thank you…again for um…"
"Don't mention it, you're the new girl right? I'm Death the Kid, but you can call me Kid."
So this was Kid, Ashley started to get butterflies. Maka, who still had her eyes on her book leaned over and whispered to Ashley, "Your first day and you're mixing in the guys, go girl; talk to him its obvious Kid likes you."
Ashley turned to Maka and muttered back, "I'm not good at talking to cute guys; I've never had a crush before I've never had the chance!"
"So you do like him," Maka giggled.
Ashley rolled her eyes and turned to Kid, "I'm Ashley."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, are you joining our group? It would be brilliant to have another person on the team, are you a weapon or meister?"
"Meister, you?"
"Meister, but I'm actually a grim reaper, I'm Lord Death's son."
Ashley's jaw dropped…literally. Kid smiled and placed his hand under her chin and propped it up again to close her mouth, leaving her cheeks scorched a vibrant red.
"So Ashley, tell us about yourself, where'd you grow up?" Tsubaki said sweetly.
Ashley got nervous; she had to think of a lie fast, she had lived on the streets for five years…not her whole life. If she could lie once she could lie again, she'll tell them the truth later.
"I have lived homeless all my life, my mother died when giving birth to me so I only had my brother with me when living homeless…but he was killed to."
Ok that was partially true, my mum did die in labour and I did lose her brother…that's all I'm going to say, she thought to herself.
"That's awful, we are sorry for your loss." Maka said sorrowfully, she had taken her eyes off her book so she could sympathise.
"It's ok, but I think you guys should tell me more about yourselves, tell me everything!" Good distraction…for now.