Hey, it's Maria! I'm back again with another chapter!

I hope the first was decent :3

Alright here we go!


Soul heard the door knob turn and he stopped laughing immediately.

"Shit." He simply said as he shifted nervously in his bed.

"What's wrong?" the female next to him asked, her brown eyes full of worry.

He smiled halfheartedly knowing he had to watch what he said,she was standing right outside his door after all. All he needed was a good old Maka chop to the head while he was already feeling crappy enough.

"It's nothing it's just-"

He couldn't finish his sentence because Maka had just walked in the door, a fake smile plastered on her face.

'Oh boy, here comes Little Miss Sunshine now' Soul thought, a look of fear plastered to his own face.

He looked over at the girl sitting next to him. She stared at Maka, who, in return, stared right back at her.

Finally, the girl broke the silence.

"Maka! How are you? I haven't seen you in ages!" the girl got up and hugged a very confused Maka tightly.

"Hello Malory. I've been fine. And how have you been?" Maka said monotonously, not looking too happy to see this girl-Malory.

'So that's her name!' Soul thought. When she first came in she didn't give him the chance to recall who she was. But now he remembered. He froze. Wait…Malory.

The memories all came flooding back to him now. She was the girl who was always picking on Maka back when they were younger. She used to publicly humiliate her all the time; push her around, call her names, and spread rumors about her.

He chuckled, thinking back to the times when Maka wasn't as headstrong as she was today.

He looked up suddenly to find that both girls were staring at him expectantly. Shit. What did he miss?

"Earth to Soul! Anyone in there?" Maka asked walking over to him and playfully smacking him on the head.

He laughed a bit as he playfully shoved her away. "Stop that. That's not cool at all." He said still smirking at her.

"I was just asking if you remember Malory." She said. He nodded his head yes, and detected a slight look of darkness in Maka's face as she said, "Ah. I see. Interesting."

He swallowed. Oh boy. Is she going to lose her temper? That wouldn't be cool at all. He could all too well imagine an enraged Maka kicking an unsuspecting Malory out the window at any minute.

Instead, what happened next surprised him.

"So Malory, would you like to stay for dinner?" Maka asked sweetly smiling at her old rival. 'Hmm.' Thought Soul, staring intently at Maka, 'Maybe she's had a change of heart. Maybe she'll start fresh with this Malory chick. That'd be nice.'

Malory smiled before shaking her head no. "I'm sorry Maka. I'd love to stay, but I have to go home now. It's getting late, and I have to prepare dinner for my own family."

Maka just smiled and said okay before excusing herself from the room.

Soul shifted once again in his bed, feeling a little uneasy all of a sudden. He didn't know why but suddenly being alone with Malory felt a little weird.

He looked at her. She smiled back at him.

He took the time to really look at her. She was a really pretty girl. She was medium height, with long, wavy golden brown hair, chocolate brown eyes, medium skin, nice body, soft looking lips…

'Whoa!' Soul mentally screamed at himself. 'What the hell was that?' he looked away from her quickly, feeling a blush come to his cheeks.

" Good God…this can't be happening…" he whispered.

"Did you say something?" Malory asked him, a cute, curious look on her face.

"I…umm….I" he stuttered, mentally slapping himself in the face.

'Come on Soul!' he yelled in his head, 'You're a cool guy! Cool guys talk to pretty girls all the time!'

After his mental pep talk he blurted out the words, "Will you go out with me?"

Actually, he kind of yelled the words, because Malory staggered back, a hand on her chest, obviously taken aback by Soul's random outburst.

He squeezed his eyes shut. 'Shit. I was not planning on saying that. How uncool. Now she's gonna reject me like the loser I am and-"

"Sure I will!" he looked up cut off mid-thought to see Malory smiling warmly down at him.

"You will?" he asked more surprised than anything. He wasn't expecting this. Then again, he still didn't know that Malory used to like him, and that she'd been waiting for this moment a long time.

"Of course I will silly!" She smiled, cocking her head slightly to the side.

"That is, after you fully recover of course." She said, playfully sticking her tongue out at him.

He smiled. 'So, a date huh? Well it's worth a shot. Maybe I'll enjoy myself more than I think I will.'

"Alright then. So I'll call you?" he asked getting up and slowly walking towards her. He had a massive headache and it hurt to move a little, let alone walk across a room. He sucked it up though, wanting to look tough in front of his date.

"Yeah! Here's my number!" she said, magically pulling a piece of paper out of seemingly nowhere.

He stared at it for a second, wondering where in the flying fuck that came from, and finally took it from her smiling; he wasn't sure what else to do.

"Cool." He simply said, honestly not knowing what else to say to her.

"Well, I better get going then! Will you walk me to the door Soul?" she asked, extending her hand out to him.

He nodded his head and took her hand, opening the door and leading her down the hallway, past the kitchen where Maka stood at the stove preparing dinner for the two of them.

'Please don't turn around and see us. Please don't turn around and see us. Please don't turn around and-DAMN!'

Maka swiveled around when she heard the sound of feet scuffling on the floor. The sight in front of her almost made her scowl and Maka chop the both of them with her frying pan-almost.

Instead, she kept her cool, and simply smiled warmly at Malory saying, "Bye Malory! Hope you come to visit us again soon!"

Malory smiled sweetly…too sweetly for Maka's liking before she said, "Oh. I think you'll be seeing a lot of me from now on. Isn't that right Soul?" she playfully ruffed up Soul's hair before going out the door.

Maka simply stood there, a closed eye smile frozen on her face, frying pan held up.

'Crap.' Thought Soul, 'This isn't gonna end well at all.'


And now the real story begins ;)

Once again, please review! I appreciate you staying with me thus far!

See you in chapter three!

Peaceskies! :3