Soul X Maka Mini-Story

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Note: I'm so sorry! Very sorry! I had to go through all this school work! Sue me! I don't deserve to be happy. Lol, just kidding! Here's the next chapter! Enjoy! Read and Review! :D

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"Maka. Hey, are you... Crying?" Soul grabbed her arm and spun her around. Answering his question when he saw the tears collapsing to and fro on her face. She was embarrassed to look at him either way.

"Maka... Why? Who did this?"

"Soul... I-I just want to be alone and I want to go home" Taking a chance of walking away, Soul wasn't convinced anyway so he turned her around one again.

"Tell me. Why?" She shrugged her head a couple of times, not wanting to answer. "No. Just... Go back with them" Hardly enough for him to understand, he was hell confused. In the first place, he dedicated himself to his work and even invited her. So what is she crying about?

"No... Not until you tell me why" With that, Maka completely faced him. "Soul, no matter what I do... People would just... Judge... Judge that I'm not good enough to be with someone who's talented. I'm not like these people around me. Critics, Violin players, Saxophone players. Soul! I'm just Maka! A bookworm from the library!" Soul was stunned for a moment.

"So what? It's their problem not yours. Maka, that's the reality. Every now and then, there will always be someone judging. You can't stop it... Stop being so low of yourself and come here" He opened both of his arms but she never walked forward. She just shrugged her head more.

"No... Soul, maybe... They're not the problem. Maybe... I am. Maybe, I just can't accept the fact that I'm not good enough. And... I want it to happen. I want to accept myself... Without your help. I want to do it by myself, I don't want other people doing it for me" With that, Soul lets her go. With a state of shock, he never left until he figure disappeared.

Walking away, she rubbed the tears away from her eyes before it could sting her once again. Not until, the critic walked with her. "Maka... Maka, hey!" Maka didn't stopped walking and she knew that voice. The words that hurt her so badly enough to make her cry once again.

"Maka, if you don't turn around and go after him... I am not hesitating to get him back. And he won't turn around and think that it's his fault to let someone like you go" With that, Maka was in the verge of anger. Mixed and numbness.

"You know what... Blair, right? I don't care if you go run and desperately push yourself to someone who's in the past. Don't think of me as a competition, because I am not. My mom told me to never waste your energy to someone who's desperate to do anything to win. Even if she has to cut her fingers. Now, go and run like what you do best" Blair, who was shocked just walked away from her sight enough for Maka to cry in peace.

Not until, someone interrupted her once again. "Maka?" A warm hand grasped on her shoulder. She immediately turned around and saw Kid. "Kid?"

"Maka, why are you-" Before he could finish, Maka instantly hugged him tight. Tears collapsed more and more in every passing second.

"Kid, just... Just take me somewhere not here" Without asking anything, he followed what she said.

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Soul was about to caught up with Kid when Blair suddenly popped up in front of him. "Soul-kun! You were great back there!" Blair hugged him tight. Maybe a little too tight to push her chest against his which worked when they were dating back then. But maybe not anymore.

"Blair, can we talk later? I need to go somewhere!" But before he could go away and dodge her, Blair grabbed his wrist and kissed him wildly. "Soul-kun... You have no idea how long I have been wanting to do that... And... I want to do more" Blair grabbed his hand and then tried to reach for her chest but Soul pulled away.

"No"

"What?"

"I said no. I am not just someone who walks around saying we're okay if we have sex right now. I'm not that guy. And right now, I am not looking for someone who's pleading and thought I respected your decision of breaking up with me. Now, who's running after me?"

"Soul... I was wrong for letting you go. And now, I have the chance... To get you back"

"Not to me there's not. You are not that simple girl with green eyes and blonde hair. Damn, you are not even her who uses a book as self-defense" He chuckled on his own joke and walked away. Leaving the rejected high-classed critic.

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"So... You mean to tell me... That... You walked away because you don't belong?" Kid asked for the fifth time. Maka nodded irritatedly for his repeated question. Maka, no offense but... Why are you so stupid sometimes?" She cocked her head to the side while Kid laughed.

"Do you not get it?"

"Get what?"

"Have you observed that... I don't ask you anymore to go with me or whatever, because I can see Soul. Really really in love with you or at least infatuated" Maka made a funny look of disbelief. "No kidding, he is not in love with me. That's just too good to be true. Come on, we just share the library"

"Maka, why are you so dense! I noticed how Soul glared at me in so many ways every time he sees me, how he looks at you as if you're the only girl in the world, and do you know that he 'normally' never talks to anybody. Unless it was you" With that she was just silent.

"Don't play jokes on me, just... I want to have someone to talk to"