I'm sorry I've been gone for so long! So many things caught up with me, so I'm sorry! Anyways, here's the next installment. No belongs to me. Belongs to Atsushi Ookubo and Square-Enix!

Part 3: The Night's Still Young

"Mrs. Evans, this really wasn't necessary." Maka said as she looked at herself in the mirror. The twenty-one year old looking back at her was wearing a flowing peach dress, with her hair in a single ponytail with ringlet curls coming from it.

"Oh, please! It was my pleasure!" A woman with jet black hair that fell to her shoulders replied. Her eyes were a deep red, and contrasted her beautiful blue dress. "This is the first engagement party I've ever done for the family, so I want it to be perfect! And I told you to call me Mom!"

"R-right…" Maka said nervously. She honestly didn't even WANT a party. She had only told the Evans because she felt the deserved to know. She didn't know they would spaz out and arrange a whole party for them.

"I'm going to check on how things are going. You'll be fine on your own, right dear?" Mrs. Evans asked. Maka nodded and watched her future mother-in-law leave.

"This is exactly why I told you not to tell her."

Maka gasped and jumped. Turning around, she found her fiancée at the door. He was leaning on the door frame, giving her a frown.

"She needed to know, Soul. She's still your mom."

"Do you even KNOW why she's throwing us a party?" Maka shook her head at Soul's question.

"She's surprised that I'm getting married. I mean, how did I even get in engaged? They never thought this would happen, so they have to go all out. They never did this with any of Wes' engagement." Maka could not the bitterness in his voice.

She walked over to Soul and put a hand on his check. "You know that isn't true. And maybe she never threw parties because she knew it wouldn't last. He HAS been engaged four times…

"Because he keeps finding gold diggers…" Soul finished with a smirk. "He needs to find someone as clueless about music as you."

"Easy, or you'll be sleeping in Papa's room." Maka smirked. Soul chuckled and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Ready to get this show on the road?" Soul asked. "Or we could always fly away, right angel?"

"If after two hours it's a dud, we can leave." Maka said. "Deal?"

"How about an hour and a half?" Soul bargained. Maka gave him a look, mentally asking if he was serious. He sighed. "Fine, I get it. Two Hours."

Maka smiled and led her fiancée by the hand to the part that had been thrown for them. The first people to greet them were the members of their old team.

"I would have never thought of you two being the ones to throw a party like this." Kid said.

"We aren't, but Mom is. And Dad just goes along with anything she says if it's a way to boost his social standings…"

"Soul, don't start." Maka said. Soul just stuffed his hands in his pockets and grumbled something. She turned to her friends. "Anyways, it's weird. We live a little more than a couple hour's drive from Las Vegas, and this is my first time here…"

"Me too." Tsubaki replied. " I wish I could see a little more."

Liz and Patty started snickering. "Don't worry. You'll see more of it when we come back to Maka's bachelorette party! We've already started planning!" The former said.

"No!" Maka said. "I don't want one!"

"Too late!"

"By the way," Soul started. "Where's Black Star?"

"He said he would be here a little later." Tsubaki said. Kid made a face.

"Sounds suspicious…"

"Maybe he just wants to make an entrance." Maka offered.

"He can be such an idiot sometimes… No offence, Tsubaki." Liz muttered.

"None taken."

Soul was about to say something, but felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and found his older brother, giving him a kind smile.

"Excuse me interruption, Maka, but do you mind if I take you fiancée for a moment?" Wes asked politely.

"I don't mind at all." Maka said before turning to Soul sternly. "Be nice, Soul."

Soul smirked. "Don't worry so much. I can be nice." Maka just rolled her eyes, then smiled.

Soul walked away with Wes to a less crowded area. "So, what's up?"

"First of all, I want to give you my congratulations. It's a big moment when you get engaged to the right person. Or so I'm told." Wes smiled.

"Well up until this party, it's been a pretty awesome high."

Wes chuckled. "So, how'd you do it? I just have to know."

"Well, first off, don't go after every girl that comes up saying she knows everything about you. Because she knows everything about you. Including your paycheck."

"Even the ones that are my biggest fans?" Wes joked.

"Especially those girls. They're the ones that will tell you exactly what you want to get what they want." Soul said with a smirk.

"Is that so?" Wes asked. "What else should I know? You are the expert."

"Don't go straight into a relationship. Be friends with her first. Get to know her. That way you can start telling when she's lying or not. And don't go for the high social status climbers. If she can't leave the house without pearls or suggests that the day's activities should be shopping, leave her. Well unless it's grocery shopping. Ideally, I find the best ones are the ones that know nothing about you in the beginning, and vice versa. Then you can build a relationship." Soul said looking at Maka. "A genuine one."

"Well, like I said, I'm happy for you." Wes said. "Hopefully, when it's right, I'll get a party too."

"She only did this because she thought I'd be alone forever. I'm so antisocial and all."

"I'll admit, Mom and Dad were surprised that you got engaged before me. But they threw the party because they're genuinely happy for you. And they like Maka, too. They 're excited to have a daughter."

"Why can they never tell me these things?" Soul grumbled.

"Well, Dad's too proud, and Mom's over emotional. They fell it's just better to keep their mouths shut."

"That's-"

"YAHOO! The almighty Black Star has arrived! You may all come out and worship me!"

Everyone in the big room looked up and saw the blue-haired assassin swinging from the chandelier above the refreshment table.

"Oh no…"

"Dammit Black Star!" Soul cursed walking quickly to where the table was.

Tsubaki was already trying to coax him down. "Black Star! You really shouldn't be doing that!"

"You know I always have to make an entrance, Tsubaki!"

"At OUR engagement party?" Maka yelled.

"DUH! Where else?"

"I'm gonna kill him." Maka stated. She turned to Tsubaki. "I'm sorry but you're about to become a widow."

"You'd think after twenty-one years he'd have grown out of that stage…" Kid mused. Soul just shook his head.

"He'll never outgrow that."

All the former students Shibusen were laughing their heads off, while socialites were gasping with shocked faces. And Black Star… well he was just being Black Star, swinging from the ceiling ornament.

"Okay, Maka," Liz started calmly. "I know you're probably embarrassed, but-"

"I'm not embarrassed! I'm just angry! She put in all this work and he's ruining it!"

Just then, Black Star lost his balance and fell right on the table, splattering all kinds of things all over himself. And not just himself. Red wine flew onto Liz's light-colored dress.

"Oh, what the HELL, Black Star? I paid seventy-five dollars for this dress and you just ruined it!" Liz screamed before picking up a piece of cake that had fallen to the ground during the crash, and carefully aiming for his face. "I don't miss easily, remember?" She said forming a malevolent smirk. She launched the cake at Black Star's face, but he ducked and the cake instead hit Ox in the face.

"Uh-oh…"

Ox twitched, but said nothing as he picked up another piece of cake and threw it in Liz's direction. She ducked and it hit Patty.

"FOOD FIGHT!" Patty cried. Soon after, food was flying everywhere, leaving no room to dodge. By the end of the night, every guest was covered from head to toe in one food or another. But everyone left with a smile on their face.

That evening, Maka came out of the bathroom in her room and sighed. She had finally gotten all the cake icing out of her hair. She sat on her bed, still towel drying her hair, when she heard a knock come to the door.

"Come in."

Evangeline Evans came into the room with a soft smile.

"Oh, hi, Mrs. Evans. I mean, M-Mom…"

"How are you doing, honey? I'm so sorry about your party… I just wanted it to be perfect…"

"You can only be so perfect when Black Star is involved. But it's fine. I still enjoyed myself."

"We- my husband and I- are just so excited that one of our boys are getting married. Wes just finds women that say things that people want to hear. And Soul… he looked like he was content with staying alone. Then he went away to become a weapon, and he found you. And you're amazing for him. I'm just so happy for you both…" Evangeline said, starting to well up. Maka just smiled.

"I hope I can be a caring mother like you. You obviously love them very much." Maka smiled. Evangeline just shook her head.

"No, we were too strict. And we didn't realize how bad we were until it was too late. And we've missed out on so much of Soul's life… We just wanted him to be the best he could be…" She replied. "But now I realize we went about it all wrong…"

"But it's not too late. You can still start over."

"How?"

"By starting from the beginning. Getting to know each other. Making an effort. That's all you need."

"That's a good plan. Thank you." Evangeline said with a smile, standing up from Maka's bed where she had sat down. "And I think you'll make a good addition to this family."

"W-well, thanks." Maka said, trying to hide a small blush. Her future mother-in-law nodded and left the room.

A couple hours later, when she thought the house was asleep, she heard a knock on the door. Answering it, she found her fiancée on the other side of the door.

"What did you do?"

"What are you even talking about, Soul?"

"Mom came up to me saying that we're having a mother-son day tomorrow to 'start our relationship over' or something. The hell does that even mean?"

"It means she wants to get to know her son. And she wants YOU to get to know her."

"That's a load of bull and you know it."

"MAKA-CHOP!"

Soul bent over, holding the area that was injured.

"I've had about enough of your stubborn attitude. You may THINK you don't care, but somewhere deep inside, I know that you want to do this. But you think you know best. That all your parents want to do is control your life. But you're grown. Now, all they want to do is be the parents they never were. They know they did wrong. But now they want to try to make it up to you."

"How do you even know?" Soul asked stubbornly.

"Because she told me, stupid. And if I can make up with my Papa, you can make up with your parents."

Soul stood up and sighed. "Fine. I'll try, okay? Now come on. I came by to show you something."

"What could you possibly have to show me at one in the morning?" Maka asked tiredly. Soul held his hand out to her.

"Something cool. I promise." Maka smiled and took his hand, following him to a balcony with a piano set up. He sat down at the piano, and beckoned her over to sit next to him, which she did.

"I wrote something for you. Something I think you'd like." Soul said with a smile. He started a slow, steady melody in the key of G. It was one of the prettiest things she had ever heard. When he was don't, he looked at her nervously.

"So, what do you think…?"

Maka gave him a soft smile. "It was beautiful. I loved it."

"Well, that's good. Now I can have Wes play it at the ceremony." Soul said with a smile. Maka leaned on Soul's shoulder.

"Thank you. Now it'll be perfect." Maka said happily.

"It was always gonna be perfect. Because I'm marrying you." Soul replied as he put an arm around Maka. They sat looking at the night sky.

I am so sorry I took this long… I probably don't have any fans left… But I still want to finish this and I hope to be done by next week if not sooner. Anyways, I really do love you, but I fell out of love with Soul Eater for a second, and I just got a renewal, so… yeah. I hope you aren't too mad at meee… Lots of Love~!