4: GEMINI
Saturday came and went. Soul and Maka helped me finish unpacking my boxes and helped set up some of my own pictures around the living room and my bed room. Maka and I even agreed to let Soul be a guy and put together my stereo and surround sound. As a thank you I made them dinner Saturday, with the help of Maka, and let Soul take my bike out for a spin, just to get him to shut up about it. It's a good thing that my bike was full of gas because he was gone for at lest two hours riding around.
It was Sunday night and instead of staying home Soul and Maka agreed to go out and eat with me. Maka seemed surprised when Soul was the first to say anything about it, as far as I could tell Soul was a pretty helpful person… We agreed that they would walk by my place, seeing I don't know where they wanted to go, so I took the time alone to take a shower and change from my baggy work short and shirt to a more…flirtatious outfit. My clothes were all put away (I gave it about two days before they end up on my floor) in my closet and dresser. I pulled out a pair of black ripped skinny jeans and a tight red halter top.
"Yo, Gemini, you ready?" I heard Soul call from the living room. "I'm starving!"
"Yeah just a minute!" I finished with my make up and slipped on my flats and ran out my bedroom door. I found Maka and Soul looking out the sliding glass doors in the living room, Soul had his hands resting on the back of his neck and Maka's were placed neatly behind her back. "Ok, so where are we going? Where ever it is, its my treat. You two have been to kind to me." I smiled.
"Oh, Gemini, we couldn't let you do that." Maka said turning around, her hair wrapping around her neck.
"Maka's got a-" Soul tried to say before he got a… nose bleed… "point." he finished holding his hands over his nose. I noticed his eyes were lingering over my exposed flesh, more so on my breasts.
"Are you ok?" I asked, tilting my head to the side, my hair tickling my neck and shoulder.
"I-it's nothing." Soul said averting his eyes from me.
"Oh, I get it." I laughed. "I can go change if it will make you feel better…"
"Oh, he'll get over it." Maka laughed. "He should be use to seeing girls dress nice."
"You don't count. Your too flat chested." Soul mumbled, finally letting go of his nose.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" Maka yelled. Before I could stop her a book wound up flying at Soul, hitting him in the face. I had learned the hard way (by watching Soul) to not piss off Maka, it would only end with a book to head.
"Damn, what do you need me for, just use the god damn book as your weapon." Soul complained, rubbing his reddening face. "So not cool."
"Maybe I will. I wouldn't have to deal with stupid comments from it!"
I could feel the corners of my lips twitching as I watched them. I had seen my fair share of verbal fights over the years, but what these two got into…well lets just say I would rather have the others combined then deal with the two of them. If I didn't intervene soon I don't know what would happen…the last time I let them fight it out, Soul ended up being nailed to a wall…outside the building…twenty feet in the air. While it was funny, it was a bitch to get him down, and I really didn't want to go through that again.
I sighed, I really didn't know how to stop them. This one fight seemed like it had been help many times before. 'How the hell did they stop fighting long enough to collect souls?' I thought keeping an eye on anything that could be used as a weapon. The it click… I knew how to get them to stop fighting.
"Hey Soul…" I asked in a seductive voice. His eyes wavered to me at hearing his name. I bent forward, crossing my left arm under my chest, pushing my boobs up and a little further out of my shirt, and licked my bottom lip slowly, while keeping eye contact with him. His eyes grew wide as he fell back on the floor, more blood bleeding from his nose. "Sorry about that. But I figured it was the only way to get you two to shut up." I laughed, standing up right and rounding my shoulders. "It was ether that or try to get him off what whatever you decided to nail him to next, Maka." Soul was still on the floor muttering something about me being a tease. I walked over to him, extending my hand. "Shall we go?" I asked, cocking my head to the side with a giggle. Ok sue me I was flirting a little.
After the incident back at my apartment I noticed Soul would keep looking at me, the funny part was, he did the little shy guy thing of turning away when ever I caught him. It was such a typical guy move, I couldn't help but laugh a little to myself.
"So, we have a surprise for you." Maka laughed as she climbed off the back of Souls orange bike, her hair a little frizzed from the wind. I raised an eyebrow at her as I put the kick stand down and took my keys. "We invited Kid, Patty, and Liz to come with us. We thought it would be a good time for you guys to catch up."
"As long as Black*Star doesn't show up, it should be rather peaceful." Soul said walking up to the door of the restaurant not even waiting for us. Ok so Soul might not be as helpful as I thought…
"Black*Star is one of your friends as the Academy right?" I asked stepping through into the air conditioning. "Why would it be 'rather peaceful'?"
Soul and Maka stopped in front of me. Death hadn't told be about any crazy students to watch out for…but then again he didn't tell me much to begin with a few days ago in my bathroom.
"He's Soul's best friend, but he's a bit of a hot head. And thoughts putting it nicely." Maka said looking around the restaurant, probably trying to see if Kid, Liz, and Patty beat us. "There they are!" Maka pointed to our right. I could never forget the strange white stripes in his black hair and the same black and white symmetrical suit that he always wore. "Kid. Liz. Patty."
"Ah, Maka, Soul. Gemini…its good to see you. Your looking symmetrical." Kid said standing from his seat at the table set for six.
He extended his hand to me, but I slapped it away. "You think that after three years of not seeing each other I want a hand shake from you! No give me a hug." I said throwing his arms around his neck, he relaxed and put his arms around my waist hugging me back. "God, I missed you Kid. You to Parry and Liz." Kid and I pulled apart so I could hug Liz and Patty, who was stringer than she looked. "I see your still on the whole 'symmetrical' kick of yours."
"I see your still on the who 'punk girl' kick." Kid jabbed at me. I laughed, I had always dressed a little edgier sense my first day of the Academy and kid was bent on teasing me about it every chance he got…so I got on him about the symmetrical issues of his. "So what made you decide to come back?"
"I don't know. I just had a feeling that I could learn a little more here." I giggled cocking my head to the side.
"What I wanna know is how to stumbled upon Maka and Soul…" Liz said handing patty some paper and crayons. Same old kindergarten minded Patty, same old parental Liz.
"We were heading home when I spotted this sick motorcycle, just so happened that it was hers." Soul said leaning back in his chair on two of the four legs, his hands resting on the back of his neck. "At first I thought it had to be a guys."
"Of course knowing Soul we had to stop and check it out. Then he decided to help her carry the rest of her boxes in from her dads truck." Maka said, sending daggers at Soul, who didn't really care what she did at the moment. "But I'm glade we did, Lord Death asked us to show her around Monday anyways. And it was fun rearranging every thing."
"You did what!" Kid asked, anger in his face. "I had that all set up to be symmetrical. And you moved stuff around? Please tell me you still have the same wall color and furniture."
I blinked a few times, taken aback by Kids reaction. So he had designed the apartment…not a big surprise there. I didn't expect his to get so worked up about moving a few things around, but then again its Kid, you never know how anything is going to end. "All we did was put up a few of my own pictures and photos around. A colorful blackest and pillow here and there. Nothing big, we left the color of the wall alone and the furniture is the same. Don't freak out." I said taking a drink of water. I could see a signed of relief on Kids face. He should have known that I'm the fun, crazy, get you into trouble friend for the two of us.
The rest of the time we spent laughing about almost nothing, just catching up and being filled in on what has happened while I was gone. Although I left out becoming a two star meister and how I had turned my partner into a Death Scythe. Speaking of partners, I still didn't know who my new partner was. Death had called while I was on way and told me that he would meet up with me at school on Monday.
We had been at the restaurant for nearly an hour and I could already tell that Kid was starting to chill out of his symmetrical kick. Which was what Death wanted me to do. Kid didn't try to fix everything that was taken out of place, but he did have to realign his silverware most of the time.
"So how close were you two?" Soul asked, draining down the last of his soda.
Kid and I looked at each other for a second. We had been very close years ago, he was my best friend, he knew almost everything about me, and I use to know every thing about him. We spent almost all of our free time play with each other in either mine or his back yard. I had convinced him eat a worm the first time we meet, I guess that's what really kicked off our friendship. I wonder what would have happened if I had not befriend the crazy son of Death…
What Kid said I really didn't expect to come out of his mouth. "She was my first kiss." I chocked on my water. I could not believe he had said that in front of two people I barley knew.
