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"Uncle James… please… just tell me… is Soul okay? Is there something wrong with him?"

"Maka… Soul is suffering from Spinocerebellar Degeneration."

"Sp- Spine what?!"

"Spinocerebellar Degeneration, Maka."

"Wh- What's that?"

"It's a disease…"

"I know that! I want to know what does it do?!"

"It's a disease that has to do with your nerves and spine… It- It slowly affects your body until you lose all physical functions. It starts by slowing your reflexes… then it demobilizes your legs and arms… and then you lose your function to speak…"

"And then what?! There's a cure though right? There's gotta be… right uncle James?!"

"I'm sorry… there's not been cure discovered yet…"

"Since when did he have this disease?"

"Since this summer…"

"Why didn't you tell me about Soul's condition earlier?! Then… then I wouldn't have been so cruel to him…"

"This is a doctor to patient confidential information Maka… and Soul didn't want anyone to know about it…"

Maka didn't look back at her uncle after that. She grabbed Soul's hands in hers and held onto it firmly. Once they arrived at the hospital, Soul was taken to the neurology department for an examination. After about half an hour, A nurse came out to tell Maka it was okay for visitors to come in now.

"Are you sure I can go in nurse er…" Maka squinted to see the name on her name tag. "Nurse Joy?"

"Yes." she said smiling. "You may go in now." Maka walked into Soul's room.

"How are you feeling?" she asked, not making any eye contact with him.

"I'm totally fine. Sorry for making you worried." he answered smiling at her.

"Why are you smiling?"

"Why wouldn't I be smiling? I'm alright now! That's a good enough reason to smile right?" Soul asked Maka.

"What about your disease…?"

"Oh…" Soul waited a moment before answering her. "Sorry about hiding it from you… I didn't feel like you needed to know about that…"

"Do you not trust me, Soul?"

"That's not it Maka, and you know it…" Soul looked down at his hospital sheets. "I didn't want to make you worry…" There was s few minutes of silence before either of them began to speak again.

"Are… are you going to die?" Maka felt stupid for asking this, who actually asks if you're going to die? She still didn't look up from the ground.

"I don't know."

"Then how can you be so stupid?! Why do you treat life like it's so beautiful? Like it's something special… yet it treats you like you're nothing…" she didn't know why she was yelling at him.

"If you think like that Maka, it'll really blind you from seeing all that life has to offer you…" Soul looked back at her.

"Why did you of all people have to get this disease… it's… unfair…" Maka's eyes widened and she covered her mouth with her hands. She didn't mean to say that outloud.

"There's no such thing as 'unfair' in life Maka, everything happens for a reason."

"So are you saying that this happened to you for a reason?"

"…yes" Maka didn't reply to that. Instead, she ran out of his room. She ran towards the exit of the hospital and then to the outside of the hospital.

She walked to a bench, sat down, and did something she hadn't done for a while. She cried. Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably. 'Why am I crying?!' she scolded to herself. 'Why am I crying for HIM?!' and that's when Maka realized. 'I love him… I LOVE Soul… but why? Since when?' Deep inside her, already knew the answer to that. Ever since they met, ever since he first looked at her with those loving, crimson eyes. She's been stupidly denying it all this time because she didn't want to be hurt again. She didn't want to be left alone again. But he'd be leaving her soon too. She didn't know how much time she'd have with Soul now, but one thing was for certain. She knew what she had to do, no, what she wanted to do. She would not waste the time she had left with him.

Maka took out her cell phone from her purse to check the time. She had 54 missed calls. 'Oh my gosh! I completely forgot about the party!! What am I supposed to tell them.' she thought to herself, panic-stricken.

"Just tell them the truth." she heard a low voice coming from behind her.

"What?!" Maka said as her face turned red. Soul took a seat beside her.

" 'What am I supposed to tell them? Should I tell them the truth about what happened?' isn't that what you were wondering?"

"Yeah… how did you know?"

"I didn't. I just guessed."

"What do you want me to say to them?"

"Just tell them the truth. There's no good in lying to people."

"You lied to me…"

"No. I never lied to you. I just didn't tell you unnecessary things that wasn't your business."

"Okay then. I'll call them." Maka dialed the Kidd's number and waited for them to answer.

'Hello?'

"Kidd? It's me Maka, Sorry we couldn't come today."

'It's fine, did something happen?'

"Well, kind of. If everyone's still at your house, then we can come and explain."

'Well, everyone's here so if you still want to come, you can.'

"Okay then I'll see you soon."

'Kay, let me know when you're here.' Maka hung up the phone and looked back at Soul.

"Do you still want to do this?"

"Yeah."

"Did uncle say you can leave the hospital?"

"No…. but it'll only be for a little bit… I promise."

"Okay then." Soul and Maka walked from the hospital to Kidd's house since it wasn't to far away.

When they arrived just minutes later, Maka rang the bell. Tsubaki walked outside to open the door for them.

"Maka! You came!"

"Yeah, sorry we're so late Tsubaki."

"It's fine, did you guys eat yet? We still have lots of food left."

"Oh okay, thanks."

"No prob. Oh! Sorry! Come on in!" Tsubaki moved away from the doorway to let the two late guests in.

"YAYYYYYY! More people!" Patty shouted.

"About time you guys came, the cool God-sama waits for no one!" Black Star said pointing at himself.

"What were you guys doing?"

"Wellllllllll, we watched all the Harry Potter movies and Twilight." Kidd answered.

"Ooooooooooh! Kidd cried during Twilight!!!" Patty chimed in.

"Shut up Patty! I wasn't crying! I just had something in my eyes!!!" Kidd yelled, his cheeks turning red. "Oh and now we're watching music videos."

"I get to choose the next song!" Liz proclaimed while snatching away the on-demand remote controller from Kidd's hands. Liz went to the section under Rock and Greenday, then clicked on the song 21 guns.

"Oooooh, this song always make me want to cry!!!" Liz said tearing up already.

"Wait, uh, we have something we need to tell you." Maka interupted.

"Shhhhh! After the song!" Liz and Patty demanded.

Do you know what's worth fighting for,

When it's not worth dying for?

Does it take your breath away

And you feel yourself suffocating?

Does the pain weigh out the pride?

And you look for a place to hide?

Did someone break your heart inside?

You're in ruins,

One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your arms into the sky,

You and I

When you're at the end of the road

And you lost all sense of control

And your thoughts have taken their toll

When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul

Your faith walks on broken glass

And the hangover doesn't pass

Nothing's ever built to last

You're in ruins,

One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your arms into the sky,

You and I

Did you try to live on your own

When you burned down the house and home?

Did you stand too close to the fire?

Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone

When it's time to live and let die

And you can't get another try

Something inside this heart has died

You're in ruins,

One, 21 guns

Lay down your arms

Give up the fight

One, 21 guns

Throw up your arms into the sky

you and I.

"Kyaaaaaa! That was so sad!" Patty yelled.

"It was!!! Wasn't it sis?!" Liz agreed.

"Um, can we tell you now?" Maka asked.

"What?" everyone turned to Maka and Soul.

"Uh… Soul?" Maka nervously turned to Soul.

"Guys, I have something I need to tell you…"

"What is it Soul?" Kidd asked.

"I've been diagnosed with a disease called Spinocerebellar Degeneration."

"What?" they asked.

"It's not common, and it's not contagious either… but it's a disease that's already affecting my body."

"What do you mean?" Tsubaki asked.

"I'm going to slowly start losing functions of my body. Like my reflexes will get slower, I won't be able to write or walk. And I won't be able to speak well after a while too."

"But, it can be cured right?" Tsubaki asked. Soul didn't answer her. Instead he looked away. Black star stood up and walked up to Soul. Unexpectedly, he punched Soul hard in the face.

"Idiot, since when did you know about this?!" Black Star asked.

"This summer, but apparently, I had this disease for about a year now."

"Is that why you kept on blacking out?" Liz asked.

"Yeah."

"Why- why didn't you tell us sooner?" Black Star asked. "Cant you trust us Soul?" Maka could tell that Soul was holding back his tears now.

"Because I knew you guys would all react this way… That's why!!" This was the second time Maka witnessed Soul losing his composure.

"We're sorry… We're sorry we didn't notice all this sooner Soul…" Tusbaki said gently as she sat next to Soul, giving him a hug.

"I'm sorry too…" Soul said.

"We're going to try our best to help you in any way that we can Soul… we promise." Tsubaki said others joined her in hugging Soul.

Maka felt immense jealousy at that moment. Why couldn't she have said something like that to Soul. All she did was deepen the wound already in his heart. She couldn't help but to think that she needed to learn more about being compassionate.

YESSSSS. Done with another chapter! I was sooooo busy the past week. I went to Indiana for four days and then got back. (It was very tiring and I barely got any sleep…) And then I had a singing contest Saturday and Sunday (this past weekend) and I had to practice right after I got back from Indiana!!! HAHA. I'm very tired… and OMG, for the performance, I had on like fifty billion layers of performance make-up (Thanks to my friend…) and I had to wear heels for the first time in my life… not a very good experience… So anyways… back to my commentary of this chapter…

Oh and Teehee. I cheated! I inserted a song to make this chapted longer haha. But Greenday is my current music obsession (since I went to their concert last month) so I felt a need to include my favorite song from their new album into this fic… somehow… Okay, so in case you haven't noticed, I'm really bad with naming my characters… so I decided to borrow some names from POKEMON!!! Like uncle JAMES and aunt JESSE and nurse JENNY and nurse JOY. :D TEEHEE. And I know Jenny is supposed to be officer Jenny, but I was too lazy to change my mistake in chapter five so I just kept it and changed it on here. Ooooooh, and here's a shout out to my favorite singer right now! Listen to Moon Hee Jun! He's a Korean rock singer that was previously part of a super famous Korean boy band in the 1990's called H.O.T!!! His newest mini-album is called last cry and my favorite song from it is called 'Toy'. So listen to it and thanks for reading my story!