Stein talks to Beverly: Friendship rebuilds?
A few days have passed since Maka and her friends learned about Beverly's secret talent in music and so far the relationship between Maka's group and Beverly hasn't been going so well to a point that the two groups don't hang out together anymore. Seeing that things between Beverly and the other students wasn't going so, Professor Stein decided that maybe he could convince Beverly in forgiving Maka's group for discovering her secret by talking to her. Meanwhile on the roof of the school, I was sitting by myself while holding my knees close to me when suddenly I sensed someone coming up the stairs. "Who goes there?" I asked defensibly. "It's me, Professor Stein," the mystery person replied.
I then watched as Professor Stein came up onto the roof with what looked like a bento bag. "Hello Beverly," the professor said as he handed me the bag. "What's this for?" I asked curiously as I looked at the bag in front of me. "Well let's just say that a little bird told me that you haven't been eating recently so I decided to bring you some lunch in order to make sure that you wouldn't starve to death," Stein explained/replied. Hearing this made me smile a little so I turned to Stein and said, "Thank you." "You're welcome," he said with a smile. After a few minutes of the two of us eating or so, I turned back to Stein and asked, "Is there another reason why you came up here?" Stein just smiled at my question and replied, "Yes there is." "What is it?" I asked curiously. "I want to talk to you about what happened between you and Maka's group and see if maybe you could forgive them for whatever it is that made you mad at them," the professor replied. Seeing that there was no way out of it, I decided to go ahead and tell Stein what happened between me and the other students.
"Well my so called "friends" confronted me after discovering that I could sing and got mad that I didn't tell them about it beforehand. I tried to tell them that they don't need to know everything about me in order for me to be their friends but they wouldn't hear it because they think that I should tell them everything about me even though I told them that I don't feel comfortable about it one bit," I explained. "I see so you think that it is okay to keep secrets from your friends no matter," Stein commented. "Not exactly, it's just that there are some things about me that I don't feel comfortable with tell people," I replied sadly. After hearing this, Stein could plainly see there were some things about Beverly that shouldn't be shared no matter. "I understand Beverly but don't you think that maybe you could forgive Maka and her friends because after all they didn't know that you feel uncomfortable with sharing your secrets," he said after a minutes of silence or so.
"I guess so it's just I wish they hadn't learned about my singing talent in the first place," I replied sadly. "Why would you say that, Beverly?" Stein asked curiously. "Because I enjoy singing to myself rather than singing to other people," I replied simply. "Hmm, I see well then maybe you should just sing at home rather than singing at school that way no one will be able to hear you ever again," the professor suggested. "Hmm, I actually might try that. Thank you, Professor," I replied happily. "No problem, Beverly and please call me "Stein" from now on, okay?" Stein said/asked. "Okay then," I replied. With that said, I headed back inside in order to find my friends, tell them that I'm sorry for the way I acted yesterday and that I really want to be their friend again. Thankfully, Maka and her friends forgave me and accepted my friendship once more so for the rest of the day the eight of us hung out around town but there wasn't a minute that went by that I didn't think about Stein, whom convinced me to forgive my friends in the first place.