Sitting on the bed, Kid and Soul were smoking of the cigarettes that Soul sneaked away from his father. Smoke filled the room as the boys breathed it out.
"So," Kid began. "Let me clarify what's going on. Your parents set up a marriage with you and Medusa Owens?"
"Yeah," Soul spat bitterly. "Out of all the women with great family assets in London, they choose this one."
Kid chuckled, "Well, you'll have plenty of time to get to know one another. Maybe it won't be so bad, forcefully getting married off."
Rolling his eyes, Soul shoved Kid. "Shut up!"
Kid laughed and then suddenly froze, muttering incoherently under his breath. Just as Soul was about to ask, the young man moaned loudly, "My curtains. Oh God, I drew only one curtain closed, and I forgot about the other one."
"Ugh, you're so weird. Quiet down! My parents are going to hear your sobbing, and they'll want to come up," Soul complained as he took another drag of his cigarette.
"Soul, this is going to bug me. I need to go home," Kid moaned.
His eyes widened. "What? You're going to leave me with my parents and the other fat cats in my house?"
"I must go! You can come with me," Kid offered, jumping off the bed and opening the window. "Let's go."
Soul rolled his eyes again and said, "Fine." Coming in my direction, Soul jumped on the window sill and hopped into the bushes.
After a spell of silence, Black Star said, "If we had lungs, don't you think we would die from all this smoke."
"He really should watch his health," Tsubaki chipped in. "This stuff is bad for a human, you know."
"I agree," I said.
But then I began to see a figure amidst all of the smoke.
"Wait," I began to say. "Do all of you see someone?"
Liz and Patty looked in the direction I was paying attention to and replied, "Yeah…"
"It's a ghost!" Black Star yelled, standing at attention. Suddenly becoming terrified, Tsubaki shrieked.
A new voice entered the room. "Calm down, everyone. I'm not a ghost." And the figure emerged from the smoke.
A lady dressed in white robes and fitted with feathery white wings walked through the smoke and towards us. Breathtakingly, she was a beauty. Her fair skin looked flawless, and her wavy blonde hair framed her face. Like jewels, her emerald green eyes shimmered. Smiling, she stepped towards me and picked me up, cradling me in her arms. However, against her breast, I felt no heartbeat.
I looked up at her and asked with a bit of fear in my eyes, "Who are you?"
Smiling, she said, "I am a mere angel of sorts with a mission on my hands."
"What kind of answer is that, lady?!" Black Star called out.
"Black Star!" Tsubaki scolded. However, even the ballerina had some sort skepticism.
Liz remained alert and even Patty stood her ground.
But the lady claiming to be an angel ignored them and asked me, "What would you say if I had a way to make you a human?"
Like a lightning bolt, all of us were struck with a shocking silence. Without any more hesitation, I was the first to break the quiet. "If you really did have a way to make me human, I would ask if you could grant me it."
The lady smiled once more and said, "That is why I am here." Carefully putting me down on my window sill, she explained, "When a toy is made, a soul within the toy is born. You are born of the love that your toy maker had for you." She paused, taking the time to caress my cheek. "But there comes a time when an owner outgrows his playthings. Maka, you have a choice: would you become a human and start a new life or would you stay a doll and live the way you always have?"
I thought for a moment and asked, "Why are you granting me what I want? This is something extraordinary, is it not?"
She laughed, "Indeed. However, I have been watching you, Maka, and I want to give you this…present, I could say."
After another silence, I said, "Then make me human." But just as the angel could say something else, I quickly said, "And also the other toys here, please." Looking back at them, I watched their stunned faces.
Stunned for a moment, the angel replied, "I suppose that's all right. Here we go."
A blinding flash filled the room. Unbelievably, it may have been less than a second. The next moment, the lady was gone, and I could feel warmth fill my whole body.
"Ow," I heard Black Star say. "Wait… Wait, I'm human! Look!"
When I lifted my head, the former dog was looking himself all over in Soul's mirror. As I looked around, I took note of what everyone looked like. Black Star had shocking light blue hair and a star print on his shoulder. Tsubaki had a long jet black ponytail, and the former rag dolls were now twins with blonde hair and blue eyes, one being shorter and more voluptuous and the other being taller.
And when I looked at myself in the mirror, I almost looked like my former body. Emerald green eyes and faded blonde hair. It didn't help that I was still wearing my doll clothes like everyone else.
My appearance reminded me of the lady that granted me my wish, but even though her presence was here only seconds ago, my memory of her had already started to fade away.
