A/N: I'm sorry for the delay, it's been what, months? Year? Anyway here is the last chapter of Sunlight Kiss. Thank you for all the encouragement, be it from the favourite, follow, or review.
sorry for grammar mistake, misspelling, or character OOC, seeing I'm still not used to English, after all this time, sigh.
Disclaimer: I don't own Soul Eater, that much was obvious lol.
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Chapter 4
Four months had passed since the incident, and I'm happy to say that things were getting better.
I still had to be the successor of my family business. Come on, you think life is as easy as afternoon drama that your dreams can easily come true? Of course that was just a wishful thinking. But now, at least my father allowed me to continue my part time work, as long as I didn't neglect my duties. For me, it's enough as long as I could still cut hairs and get a smile from my client.
I still can't get in touch with my runaway brother, even I doubt he still can be considered as my father's son. But at least my relationship with my adopted sisters were getting better. I just happened to find out that they felt the same as me, wanting to know their new sibling better, but to scared and feeling unworthy to approached me. When I approached them first, they looked at me like I've grown a second head. But after a few minutes of new introduction, I can safely assume that we're become closer as a family. We do still feels awkward toward each other sometimes, but hey, at least it's getting better. Liz even told me to trim their hair sometimes, how great is that!
And I'm happy to told you that Soul finally accepted as one of the new students at Julliard with of course music as his major. I also heard that his relationship with his parents were getting better. It was a misunderstanding after all, Soul thought he's inferior because people around him always compared him to his brother, making him going in a slump. His parents thought that he didn't have interest in music, thus the whole drama of Evan's family and how Soul work as a shopkeeper in this shop.
Oh yes. The good news is that because Soul didn't work here anymore next month, the Evans planned to sold this shop, and of course I planned to buy it. My father also had agreed to this arrangement, saying that perhaps it's better to expand our business in other field.
I can't help but think that no matter how hard we denied, it was all a part of how fate work. At least now I think I get a glimpse of how fate work in our lives. I thought fate work in wonder. We can't just sit by and let fate work completely controlling our live, no, it wanted us to also trying. When we took the steps, fate will work, following our steps and guide us so then we could get to the goals it wrote for us. What we should do is take the first steps, and enjoy how fate work the rest. Yes, fate truly work in wonder.
Everything went smoothly, except one.
After the incident, she didn't come to this shop anymore, not even walk across this shop. At first I thought she was busy, but after a while I started to think that maybe she avoided me.
After all I confessed to her that I loved her, even when I don't know her name. Oh no, I really sound like a stalker, did I? Does she become afraid of me because of it?
Or maybe she's been busy with her childhood friend? Do their relationship getting better? do they become lovers again?
Does she forget about me?
Thinking about it never failed making me feel down. No matter what, she's the one who helped me seeing lights in this garbage called life. Her presence makes me see that there's still something good in this life, that I had to learn to trust fate again. After all, she was my first love.
Truly, as they said, first love never come true.
I missed her, I want to see her again even if it's the last time.
Today was also goes by like any other day. Nothing special happening, well, maybe except Soul who now seems concentrated learning everything music related, seeing next month he goes to his new school. I just finished taking care of the last client before I went to lunch, while suddenly the door opened revealing the next client. Imagine my surprised seeing the person who walked through the door.
The girl… the angel who saved me.
Without hesitation she walked toward me, ignoring the welcome Soul gave her (at least he improved his interpersonal skill toward the client, maybe because his dreams were coming true). I could only look at how her emerald eyes looked straight toward my golden eyes, how her now long hair sway as she walked. There's only silence between us, well, there're a bustling sound of people talking around us, but I don't give a mind at them. After all, my mind completely focused at the girl in front of me.
She came! After a long while finally she came! Do I give a damn about the reason of her absence? Yes. I do wonder about it. I think I would care for the reason of her long absence, for the reason she would tell me, if she wanted to tell me. Reason why she didn't come this whole time, reason why I wait for her like a stupid fool. But seeing her now standing in front of me like this, I feel like I didn't need reasons. I didn't need anything.
As long as she's by my side, as long as I could see her like this, it was enough.
The first word between us was an apology, made by her. She then explained that she can't come to this shop during this 4 months because of her study for the upcoming exams which would affect her scholarship (by the way, if I haven't told you earlier, she's taking law, and I think it's wonderful that she could keep her scholarship, seeing that I know it means a lot to her. And law is a very difficult subject after all, I'm really happy for her).
She smiled when I congratulate her (that smile which always success melt my heart). What I didn't expected was how she told me the continuation of that day, the day when I told her to chase after her childhood friend. "As I ran toward him, I continue asking myself my feeling for him. Is it really love? When I looked at him with Tsubaki, I realize that yes, this is indeed love, but clearly this feeling was not as deep as what they had with each other. What they had, was a love as deep as the deepest part of world, maybe an entire universe. A love that no one could stop from. To be honest I got jealous."
When I asked her if she confessed, she giggled and said, "of course I confessed. No matter what I want to finished this unrequited feeling of mine. Besides, you're the one who told me to do it, and how could I not doing it with you yelling like that." She laughed seeing my embarrassed blush. "I know I would get rejected, and I was right. But on the other hand, I felt relieve to say it. I know it still not perfect, but I know my relationship with my two best friend were getting better. Yes, it still felt awkward sometimes, but I know we would be the same as before again, just you see."
"So here I am, ready to move on and say goodbye to my unrequited love. When I think how I proceed, I remember you and that haircut the other day. To be honest, this long hair was not only because of my negligence because I prefer my study, but deep in my heart I know it was because I was not ready to move on that fast." She closed her eyes. "but now I know I'm ready." The green hue of her opened eyes were so beautiful, it makes me mesmerized. Such determination felt foreign for me who just move along with fate this entire lifetime. "So I come here again wanting to cut my hair again. Maybe like that time? I find myself quite fond of it."
I just nod and procced to cut her hair. For a while, there's only silence between us, just a snip of a pair of scissor broke the silence. Her expression after I done her hair, that sincere smile that bloomed in her face, it just felt looked like she was born again. I swore it was the most beautiful thing I saw my entire life
"You know what, the last time I had this hair model, it really felt refreshing", she said. "But now, now is different. It felt as though all my burden were suddenly disappeared, like I'm ready to face another brand new day." She smiled at me. "Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Without you I would never be here feeling this way."
I could only dumbstruck hearing it. I would never think just once in my life since I met her that I could helped her like that. Even after all this time, I feel unworthy to her. I, who all this time been saved just with her presence, our interaction were quite limited. I, who could helped her and make her smile like that, I felt honored.
"You know, I still remember your word that day, and your love confession of course." Hearing it makes me blush, I could hear her laughter seeing my face which I'm sure looked just as red as tomato. "You're right, we haven't even introduced our self properly." She give me her hand. "My name's Maka Albarn. Nice to meet you."
"Maka… Albarn." I repeat it in a slow, soft voice, trying to taste it in my mouth. Seeing her raised her eyebrow, and her hand, I realized I haven't said my name yet. "My name's Death the Kid."
"Ah. Death the Kid. Can I called you Kid? You can call me Maka too if you want. Nice to meet you." She smiled. "About your confession, if you still feel the same way, I still need time to properly give my reply to you. After all, I'm still trying to get over my broken heart, and we just properly got acquaintance today." Ugh. I know it. After all it was an obvious answer, and an answer I've imagined all over my head ever since my confession. Seeing my dejected face, she could only laughed. "But I really want to get to know you better. I think we could become a very best friend."
I could only widened my eyes. Does this mean I still had chances. She smiled softly at me.
"So what do you say we start with a lunch? My treat."
