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I felt tears spring to my eyes, why am I crying? I never cry. But it was just so embarrassing. The way we looked at me with disgust, how I acted so highly just to fall on my face.
Once he was gone I placed my fingers over the keys and slammed down. I think I'm done with the piano for the day. I glanced around the room and saw a perfectly good guitar. I hobbled over and just sat on the floor, lugging it over to me.
I strummed and instantly I felt calm wash over me. I inhaled and strummed again and eventually found a beat. Hitting certain notes the words fell from my lips.
"There's something in the way you say my name
That makes me sure that
The feelings that you're feeling are different
As the ones that I have for you
I adore you
The times we spend together never last
As long as I'd like
And everyday the sun goes down too fast
Sit here for as much time as you can get
You and me watching the sunset
'Cause every time I see your face
My heart leaps and I melt inside
And every time you talk to me
I have a hard time seeing past those eyes
And all I want is for you to say
"Darling, I feel the same way as you"
"
I inhaled and opened my eyes, I gasped as I saw Kid standing there with wide eyes. His jaw dropped as I opened and closed my mouth like a fish trying to create coherent words.
"I um… This… Err… What… I… Why…" I stumbled all over my words.
"You can sing?" He asked dumb founded.
"Well I mean anyone can sing." I said like a fucking idiot.
"But you can sing great, like amazingly great." Kid said, walking over to me. "And I don't know that song, what is called?"
"Well I haven't named it yet…" I said and his head snapped up.
"You wrote that? Off the top of your head?" He began pacing, "Well that's…" I winced, worried of what he was going to say. "Incredible! Totally and completely incredible!" He said as he smiled.
I kept sneaking glances at him and he just stared at me, "How do you do that?"
"I don't know it just… Does." I said slowly and he stared.
"Really? Okay, do it again." Kid sat at the piano, his eyes bright.
I strummed but I couldn't find the beat, I kept on screwing up my notes.
"There's something... Uh.. In the way ..." My voice was cracking and squeaky.
Kid's eyebrows furrowed and watched me as I made a fool out of myself. I stopped and looked down blushing madly, humiliated.
"Hey…" I heard shuffling and all of a sudden he slipped a finger under my chin, I looked at him eyes wide at how close he was. "You're just nervous in front of people, like stage fright. But you do have talent." All of a sudden his eyes lit up, "Hey! What if you write songs for us? You won't have to sing or even let people see you. And, if we go big you can get money for your songs!"
I stared dumb founded at him for his sudden, and rare, outburst.
"Please Maka, you could be are chance to become famous." Kid said.
"M… My book…" I said pointing at my bag by the piano.
Kid nodded and grabbed my bag, he gave to me. I dug around for a moment before pulling out my music book. It looked like a spiral but inside it had staffs.
I opened it to reveal that over half of my book was full of music, the notes lyrics, time frame, instruments… Kid's eyebrows raised, "You wrote all of this?"
"Yeah… Sorry if it's not very good…" I mumbled and he shook his head.
"No, this is amazing. Maka, you are seriously exactly what we needed." Kid shook his head as a smile worked its way across his
"Oh this looks good… Stay With Me?"
I blushed, "I try to name my songs…"
"No that's awesome!" He said as he read the music, he hummed the tune. Soon he was mumbling the words and he looked up and smiled.
"This is perfect, no flaw. We have to tell the band, come on let's go." He stands and grabs my crutches and offers me a hand. My eyes widened and I shook my head. I don't know how I could face Soul, what did he already say to them? Oh god, what would they do when I got there.
"I-I can't, I need to… Uh… go and err… Find a job! Yeah, you know spare money so that I can by you know… stuff…" I trailed off blushing and Kid looked confused.
"You need a job? Well then that's even better, you can have a job writing our band songs. Say forty dollars per song?"
"Forty dollars!?" I squeaked. "They really aren't good enough to even be bought!"
"Yes they are, stop being so bashful." Kid said, "Why are you so nervous, Maka?"
"Well… I mean what if then they want me to sing it in front of them? Then they'll think that I'm lying when I make a complete idiot out of myself."
Kid was suddenly in front me, "Don't say that about yourself. Ever." He whispered, "It makes me very unhappy."
I gulped and nodded. He backed away again, "But I can understand what you're saying. But we'll just have to find a way."
"What if you just take credit for them?" I suggested.
"What? No, Maka. I can't do that, it's wrong."
"It's not that bad if I want you to."
"But still, they know I can't write songs."
"Just say that you got inspired and you had some ideas." I shrugged, "It's really okay. You're band can go big, I can just keep writing you songs. Then my songs won't go to waste, I can go unnoticed, and you guys become famous. It's a happy ending for everyone."
Kid's eyebrows furrowed, "But it's like plagiarism. I don't like cheating, you need to take credit for the songs you composed."
"Kid," He looked at me and our eyes met, "Please, just do it."
He looked conflicted but finally nodded. "But whenever you want to tell, tell. I don't want you to hide because someone wants you to. I know you're strong so I think you're just not very self-confident. But until you want to share I will keep it a secret. I won't let anything happen to you, you can trust me."
For the next couple weeks I gave Kid my songs, each time he asked things like, "Are you sure?"
"Remember, you don't have to do this."
"Whenever you're ready to tell, I'm here for you."
As for Soul he continued to act as if I were a phantom. Not talking to me, or looking at me. I hated how each time I would walk past him I would get my hoped up, just hoping that he might just say something, anything to me.
I started going to the music room after school, I never saw Soul there. Thank god. I was actually quite happy, I was making someone else's life easier. Making other people happy, it was nice.
I walked into the room and closed the doors. I sat at the piano bench and dug through my bag for my book. Today I was actually trying to tweak a song. The melody was sometimes of and so were the notes. I finally found the sheet and began playing. Singing the notes I began singing, pausing every now and then to fix what was wrong.
"How do you know Kid's song?" I heard a voice snap.
I slammed the keys and shut my mouth I quickly closed my book and held it to my chest. I turned and to see red eyes glaring at me. I choked up as he snatched my book for me. I reached out as he opened it, "You can't have that!"
He held his hand out blocking me from him as he read, "These are all Kids songs. How did you get these."
"He… Uh, told me…" I lied, terribly, and stamped my foot, "Give those back!"
"Wait, this says you wrote 'Stay With Me' seven months ago… Why is that?" Soul questioned, cocking an eyebrow.
"I told her to." Kid said walking in; he gave me a reassuring smile. "I told her the songs and I used her as a backup if I ever lost them."
"You told her the songs?! You know that you cannot tell people the songs before we sing them on stage or put it on an album!" Soul said.
"I trust Maka," Kid spoke evenly as Souls obviously bad temper flared.
"Well I don't trust you, and until I do consider yourself kicked out of the band."
"I wrote it!" I shouted, Kid looked surprised until he looked guilty then back to his calm ambiance.
"You?" Soul scoffed, "You can barely play the piano, how—"
"Could you not just hear me playing? And look, those notes are different, I changed them. And the date is because I did write that nearly a year ago." I hated how I had to pretty much tell all my secrets.
"But the last time I heard you playing you were terrible." Soul said which caught Kids attention.
"Stage fright. I can't play in front of people." I whispered.
Soul blinked and turned to Kid, "You stole her songs?"
"No I gave them to him, trust me he didn't want to." I cut Kid off.
"Why?"
"You needed songs to get famous…" I muttered and Soul scoffed.
"So you just did it to be nice? So that later you can leave us high and dry?"
"No, I promised I would always write songs for you guys."
"But, why?"
"Because that's what friends do. Everyone been amazing toward me and I can do this for them." My temper flared. "Except you."
Soul glared and let out a breath, "Fine, but on one condition." I raised my eyebrows and Kid tilted his head. "You become a member of the band."
True this is a rather short chapter but there ya go! Cliff hanger? Sort of I guess…. So yeah a lot kinda went down in this chapter
Songs:
Feel The Same Way – Poema
Stay With Me – You Me at Six
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