Soul Eater.

.Slave To The Rhythm.

Chapter 8 - Desert Smash.


SOUL POV:

"Ugh crap" I murmured to the pencil that just broke, i, out of frustration didn't have time to sharpen it, so instead Ipicked up a new one.

The girl's first concert was a week ago, they're leaving to another state this weekend, since their Tour will first start from the U.S.

It's been like 3 days ago, a certain melody and words were stuck in my head, i was right now, somehow trying to put all the pieces together.

Truth to be told, it's been a while since last found himself in this kinda situation, and it scared him.

"Ah all done!" He cheered on himself and read the lyrics again, he then growled and hit his head against the desk, cause while re-reading the lyrics he couldn't help but think about those jade eyes that hunted his dreams and invaded his every thought, and that scared him shitless.

He banged his head a couple of times on the desk, he was screwed up big time, he's been writing songs for years now, but lately whenever he wants to write one its end up magically about his ash blonde headed band mate.

"This can't be happening, what the hell Soul, man up!" He whispered to himself.

"Hey Soul" a knock was head from the door, following with Kid's voice "Stein wants us to gather in the living room for a business meeting, hurry up"

"Yeah sure, I'll be down in a second" Soul responded, when he heard Kid walking away he gathered everything from the desk and set them on his bed, and then exited the room.

When he was down, he found that indeed everyone was there, waiting for him to hear whatever Stein had to say.

"Well, now that everyone is here" Stein started the moment Soul sat on the flour next to Black*Star. "As you a know our next stop is California, which we will leave the day after tomorrow, but tomorrow is quite special, I think you have heard of the Desert Smash event, it's a charity event which bring many popular and high profiles to play tennis and perform there, the money of the audience's tickets would be given to poor and homeless people, since I know that no one of you liked or have the time to play tennis, I made a deal with them so you guys would just perform"

"But I always knew that the Desert Smash event was located in California not Nevada," Tsubaki raised an eyebrow.

"True that, but they change their branch locations every now and then, so now that it's in Nevada, I took the opportunity" Stein smiled on of his kind but creepy smiles, cause it's Stein we're talking about, hes nice but creepy.

"That would be really great, all that money would go to people in need, it's like we're making a difference in this world" Maka smiled lightly from the couch, Patty, who was sitting next to her, nodded and smiled at each other.

"But I do wanna play some tennis though" I pointed out, it's true, I'm not a pro but I can still manage.

"And goes to your God, the mighty Black*Star!" The blue headed monkey jumped from his place beside me, I just rolled eyes and pulled him down again.

" well, it can be arranged, just a call and it'll be done, what about you Kid, do you want as well?" Stein tuned to the guitarist of the band, who just shook his head no.

"I'm not so good at sports, I don't want to make a fool out of myself" he laughed lightly making the girls giggle.

"Don't worry Kid I'm sure you'll be great" Maka assured offering him a small smile.

"Why thank you Maka, but I prefer not to" he smiled back and winked, Maka just laughed and nodded.

The blood in my veins began to boil for some unknown reason, Damn Soul, chill out, they're just bandmates communicating, nothing big right? Right.

"Okay it's settled, so I'll go make some calls, you have to rehearse for tomorrow, but I don't think the girl will perform, cause first it's a very small stage and the songs should be acoustics since there's no sound effects." Stein informed us and left to his room upstairs.

The room was dipped in a comfortable silence until a phone went off ringing.

"Oh that's my phone" Maka said and stood, and went upstairs.

After five more minutes curiosity took the best of me, so I stood up as well, when I was about to climb the stairs, I felt a pat on my back, I turned my head and looked into Black*Star's blue/greenish eyes.

I gave him the look that read 'what' which he, on the other hand, just smirked.

"Couldn't resist not going after your girlfriend? Ha Souly?" He whispered, that smirk still playing on his face.

"Bro, you don't want to end up with a bruised eye now do you?" I smirked back "shut up and leave me alone"

"Whatever you say man" he just shrugged and walked away.

If only looks could kill, he's be dead by now, what's wrong with him.

I climbed the stairs and opened the bedroom door, Maka sat there on her bed smiling whilst talking to the phone.

"...Sure thing, I'll miss you too as well, yes... Yes, sure I promise, bye... Take care of yourself" she hung up after talking with who called her, she just there totally unaware of my presence, so I cleared my throat.

"Oh sorry I didn't notice you standing there." She smiled and put her phone down, I closed the door and sat on my bed, facing her.

"It's no bid deal, to who were you talking to?" I couldn't help but ask and let the curiosity take over me.

"Oh it's was just Marie, she called to say if me and the girls could go see her one last time before we leave Nevada, I'm really gonna miss her" she sighed with a small smile playing on her pink lips.

"Yeah why not, I'm sure Stein won't mind"

"Hey Soul, would you mind if I asked you a question?" She looked at me hesitantly.

"Shoot away" I told her, she looked like she's struggling to get whatever she wanted to say out.

"The song that you preformed last week, did you mean it? I know it's random, and I don't even know I'm asking this, oh god I'm just making a fool out of myself and I'm just embarrassing myself even further now I just wanted-" she rambled/whispered so quickly I'm surprised I understood what she said, I placed my index finger over her lips, he cheeks turned red which I found very cute.

"You're cute when you ramble like this, and to answer you question, yes I did Maka, I really did, I don't know that night you told me about you, I don't know I just felt a ping in my chest, and ugh I'm so uncool saying all this, and I know we just got to know each other and this sounds so creepy and weird but-" a felt a finger on my lips making me shut up like a spell.

"You're cute when you ramble like this Soul" she repeated my line, which made me smile.

"Now the tables have turned huh?"

"Well, yes, I suppose" she said cool-y trying to hide a small, the thing is that it's never awkward between us and I think I like it.

"Oh so you want to pull of the cool act now? Am I such an influence on you, Dear?" I smirked, I like where this is going.

"Well, mister, you're not the only one who can play it cool here" she said grinning, I just smirked and lunged at her making her fall on the bed. tickling her sides.

"Oh my god! Soul!" She laughed as she squealed beneath me, trying to escape from my grip but failing.

"I won't stop till you surrender" I said cockily as she burst into a laughing fit.

"Never!" She semi yelled, trying to take a hold of my arms.

"Wrong answer, Maka" I moved my hand to her stomach, which made her loose any control she had.

"Okay! Stop! Please! Oh god! I surrender!" She finally yelled, announcing her defeat, as promised I stopped tickling her and wiped a tear that escaped her eye from laughing so hard.

"Well that was fun" I laughed as she glared at me.

"No it wasn't, my stomach hurts now" she said creating a perfect pout with her lips.

"Awww, I'm sorry" I said getting off her, offering her my hand, she took and stood up.

She just smiled at me, and walked up to me, stood on her tiptoes so her face was so close to mine, I felt hot breath on my face followed by a pair of lips making contact with my cheeks.

"Thank you, it's be a while since i last laughed like this" she smiled shyly and exited the room.

I placed my hands over my face trying to somehow stop my face turning red.


The Next Day...

Black*Star and I were in the lockers of the Desert Smash event, wearing our tennis white shorts and blue tank tops.

I was looking at the mirror placing the head band over my hair when Black*Star turned to me with such a serious look on his face.

"What?!" I said out of annoyance, he's being so annoying these past few days.

"Look I know I may be wrong and all but hey I'm just saying this cause you're my best friend and I don't want you to get hurt again okay? So listen close and don't interrupt" he said pointing at me with his finger, I nodded my eyebrows knitted together "you've been acting weird lately, your music changed, you haven't written anything like this since Cloey left, and I know that non other than Maka is the reason behind this, and man, Don't give me that look I'm just stating the truth! she literally got you wrapped around her finger in such a short notice, whatever she's doing, she's doing it damn right, she's a sweet and very nice girl, nothing unlikable, I just want you to be careful, okay? You haven't acted like this since years ago, You may not know but I notice! Like when she dances like I said before you literally eye-rape her, you keep sneaking glances at her, you get even jealous when Kid talks to her! I saw that yesterday! Damn Soul! Keep your chill man! Poor Kiddo doesn't even know or notice! But anyway, I just want you to be careful, it's not that I don't trust Maka but I just want what's good for my Best Friend."

I looked at him completely astonished, Black*Star rarely shows this side of him, and it's just, I don't know.

"Oh man." I moved to him and gave him a hug, which he returned, saying how he's so awesome, the caring and mature Black*Star faded away, it's was too good to be true.

"You are growing so fast Soul!" he said when we pulled away from our brotherly hug, I just smacked his head.

"I don't know what you're talking about?" I asked adjusting my headband, he just laughed and walked to the door, twisting the knob.

"I'm going, hurry up" he yelled unnecessary and exited.

I just looked at my self in the mirror and thought what Black*Star said, am I that obvious? No I can't, right?

I shook my head and exited the room.

As I walked through the field to where Star was standing, a round of cheers and applause was heard, I looked around and spotted Kid and the girls, watching and waving at us, I waved back.

"Trying to to show off those biceps to your crush huh? Smooth move bro, smooth move." He laughed, my eyes widened, I looked around thanking god no one was near.

"Black*Star get off my back! You're worse than Stein! I swear I'm gonna punch you in the face" I hissed at him, he's returned back to his annoying self.

He was going to say something, but was cut off when someone said that the game was about to start, we took place and gripped on our tennis bats, as the game started.


Two hours passed of playing tennis and fooling around, it wasn't a bad idea after all.

We were now getting ready to perform, the girls would be in the audience since we will do acoustics.

"So" I adjusted the mic, as I sat on the stool "I really wanna thanks Desert Smash for having us today, we couldn't be more happy to be a part of this awesome act, so as an appropriation to our amazing fans for participating in this as well, here's, a new acoustic song, and which it goes by the name of Imagination, hope you enjoy it"

(Imagination by Shawn Mandes.)

As Kid began strumming on the guitar strings, Black*Star, who is siting in the audience as well since he won't play any instrument, gave me a huge grin and a thumbs up.

Oh there she goes again, every morning it's the same
You walk on by my house, I wanna call out your name
I wanna tell you how beautiful you are from where I'm standing
You got me thinking me what we could because

I had my hands on my jeans covered thighs, as I sang into the mic.

I keep craving, craving, you don't know it but it's true
Can't get my mouth to say the words they wanna say to you
This is typical of love, I can't wait anymore, won't wait
I need to tell you how I feel when I see us together forever

I sang the pre-hook and took a glance at the crowd, fans crying and swaying to the beat of the guitar Kid is playing.

In my dreams you're with me
We'll be everything I want us to be

And from there, who knows?
Maybe this will be the night that we kiss for the first time

Or is that just me in my imagination?

Kid picked up the pace of the his instrument as I began singing the hook,, I held back a smirk as I sing the second verse.

We walk, we laugh, we spend our time walking by the ocean side
Our hands are gently intertwined, a feeling I just can't describe
And all this time we spent alone thinking we cannot belong
To something so damn beautiful, so damn beautiful

As I sang I looked at our fans and raised my arm and sway it side to side, they, without hesitation copied my action, which made me genuinely smile.

I keep craving, craving, you don't know it but it's true
Can't get my mouth to say the words they wanna say to you
This is typical of love, I can't wait anymore, won't wait
I need to tell you how I feel when I see us together forever

In my dreams you're with me
We'll be everything I want us to be

And from there, who knows?
Maybe this will be the night that we kiss for the first time

Or is that just me in my imagination?

Imagination imagination

Maka looked up in my direction with a confused look in her eyes, I just smiled, and looked back at Kid, smirks reflecting one another.

In my dreams you're with me
We'll be everything I want us to be

And from there, who knows?
Maybe this will be the night that we kiss for the first time

Or is that just me in my imagination?

For the last part of the song I looked directly into Maka's eyes, the colour of the most precious Emerald stone, her mouth was slightly open.

I keep craving, craving, you don't know it but it's true
Can't get my mouth to say the words they wanna say to you

The sound of the guitar faded away as the song came to an end and the crowd applauded loudly.

I stood up from the black stool, unattached the mic from its stand and walked around the small stage, shaking some hands.

"This next song, is quite special, I may be a known kid, famous and all of that jazz, but in the end of the day I'm still human with feelings" I chuckled when I heard some girls in the crowd giggling. "So without anymore further embarrassment, here's the next song" I smiled and caught Maka's gaze for a split second and then turned my head to Kid.

(Kid In Love by Shawn Mandes.)

He nodded and began playing on his shiny brown acoustic guitar.

I know that we just met, and maybe this is dumb
But it feels like there was something from the moment that we touched
Cause it's alright, it's alright
I wanna make you mine

The way you're lighting up the room caught the corner of my eye
We can both sneak out the back door, we don't have to say goodbye
Cause it's alright, it's alright
To waste time tonight

I stood in the middle of the stage, and then made some feet dance tricks.

Maybe I'm just a kid in love

Maybe I'm just a kid in love, oh baby

If this is what it's like fallin' in love

Then I don't wanna ever grow up

Maybe I'm just a kid in love

Maybe I'm just a kid in love, oh baby

It'd be cool if it was the two of us

But I don't ever wanna grow up

Cause I got it all

And I got it all

But I don't ever wanna grow up

I walked around the small plate form and shake some hands while singing the chorus, I accidentally made eye contact with Maka for a split second, then carried on with singing the second verse.

Said your place is kinda close, your parent are out of town

Baby there's no pressure, but if you're down I'm down

Cause it's alright, it's alright

To just talk tonight

If you're feeling kinda crazy, turn down the lights

We can take our time, do whatever you like

It's alright, it's alright

I wanna make you mine

I went back to the black stool and sat down, the mic still between the grip of my fingers.

Maybe I'm just a kid in love

Maybe I'm just a kid in love, oh baby

If this is what it's like fallin' in love

Then I don't wanna ever grow up

Maybe I'm just a kid in love

Maybe I'm just a kid in love, oh baby

It'd be fine if it was the two of us

But I don't ever wanna grow up

Cause I got it all

And I got it all

But I don't ever wanna grow up

Cause I got it all

And I got it all

But I don't ever wanna grow up

I closed my eyes and sang into the mic, singing is my way of expressing my feelings that's why I do it with so much passion.

You make me feel

Like I got it all

And you make me feel

Like I'm just a kid in love

And you make me feel

Like I got it all

And you make me feel

Like I don't ever wanna grow up

I walked to Kid and placed my elbow in his shoulder and kept on singing, the small eye rolling he did didn't got unnoticed.

Maybe we're just kids in love

Maybe we're just kids in love, oh baby

If this is what it's like falling in love

Then we don't ever have to grow up

Maybe we're just kids in love

Maybe we're just kids in love, oh baby

When we're alone and it's the two of us

I can't get enough

I've got it all, yeah yeah, I've got it all, yeah

And I've got it, and I've got it

And I've got it, and we've got it

And I've got it, and I've got it all, but I don't ever wanna grow up

As the guitar sound and my voices faded announcing the ending of the song, the crowd went wild as I high fived Kid.


MAKA POV:

The second and last song ended with the boys highfiving, Soul then walked to the microphone stand and picked the small bottle of water that was beside it on the ground, somewhat trying to catch his breath.

"To all of you who are present here today, Thank you again, this really was a very cool experience, God bless you all" he smiled whistle waving his other hand that holds the bottle, Soul then placed the mic in its original place and exited the stage, with Kid tagging along.

"Cmon guys! Let's go!" Black*star semi screamed telling us to go backstage, we nodded and followed him to where Soul and Kid where standing.

"You guys did great" Liz high fived them.

"They did well just cause I blessed them with my presence in the audience, which is kinda obvious" Black*Star declared his voice full with pride which made all laugh and chuckle.

"No really, you really did amazing" I told them as Black*Star slung his arm over my shoulder.

From the corner of my eyes I saw an in a hurry Stein walked to us.

"Come on kids, we should get going, the way to the bus is crowded, so just keep your head down from all the cameras and don't answer anything" we nodded as he paved us the way to the tour bus.

As Stein said, we got mopped by many paps and photographers, all asking questions and flashes blinding our sights, I felt a hand placed on the small of my back, I panicked for a second immediately turning around only to know that the owner of the hand is Soul.

His jaw was clenched as he helped me and himself walk through the sea of people.

"Soul! Soul! Is it true that you're in a love affair with a girl?!"

"Soul could you explain what you sang out there?!"

"Soul has Cloey came back into your life?"

"Soul Evans!"

"Soul!"

"Will you colab with any other artist on your new album?"

And countless other questions came floating all at once, we've somehow made it to the bus, Crona quickly closing the door from the driver seat and began driving.

"Those idiots!" Soul snarled through clenched teeth "just waiting for one little answer so they can go and write millions of articles which ends up being all a bunch of lies"

"How Do you deal with all those cameras shoved in your faces everyday?" Pattie asked from where she was sitting on the couch next to Stein.

"Oh, you'll get used to it Pattie, trust me on that" Kid sighed, shaking his head while stroking his scalp.

We than sat in silence for what seems like ten minutes until Stein decided to speak up.

"You have like 3 hours left before bed time, we're going to have a long day tomorrow so do whatever you want right now but I expect you all to be in bed before midnight, you're gonna need all the energy you can get" we exchanged good nights, even though I'm sure no one will sleep right now.

With a small wave to the others I went upstairs to my room, changed my clothes and sat on my bed, my own thoughts eating me inside out.

I was so deep in thoughts, i didn't know until I felt a hand on my shoulder that startled me for a second, I looked up only to mean crimson eyes and long, White eyelashes.

"Hey" he said in a low voice and a barley there smile.

"Hi" I replied, he gazed in my eyes for a moment before his small smile turned upside down into a frown, he then walked away to face the small window, now looking at the almost empty street.

I curiously looked at him for a few seconds, when he didn't looked back nor spoke a word, I lifted myself off the bed and walked to him, and placed my hand on his upper arm, feeling him getting tense.

"Hey Soul, what's wrong?" I didn't intend to speak this sentence as a whisper.

He pretty much just ignored me, just like I wasn't standing right next to him , what's wrong with him?, i thought to myself, wasn't he just smiling?

I gentle shook his upper arm out of frustration.

"Soul, what's wrong?" I asked again, a little more louder this time "look at me, why are you ignoring me like this?"

He -finally- turned around, making my hand drop in process, he looked into my eyes for a second and vise versa, his eyes where now a darker shade of red as he looked at him with his lips pressed in a flatline.

"Why this sudden change of attitude?" I asked quietly, his darkening eyes never leaving mine.

After what feels like forever he finally opened his mouth to respond.

"I-" his breathed "fuck it"

Everything happened so quickly, in a swift motion he had his left hand gently resting on my waist while his other hand find its way to the back of my head.

And then I felt a pair of soft/chapped lips crashing into mine.


Both knew in that very moment, nothing's going back to the way it was.


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Okay! Put all your weapons down!(anime pun not intended (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) lol) I'm sorry I haven't updated, and I'm sorry as well to tell you that I don't have any excuse, blame it on my laziness sorry, is it too late now to say sorry;)

So without further delay, I have something to tell you guys, #1. Is that I'm gonna update more frequently (let's hope so) since I got my inspiration back. #2. And I wanted to tell you that guys, we have been blessed, like 2015 was such a blessing, music wise, few artists kept dropping banger after banger, what an amazing time to be alive, like wow thanks 2015, so the reason why I'm saying this is because since my story is kinda musical(?) I'd appreciate if you guys don't go and insult or complain on my song/artist choice in the upcoming chapters, like you, my beautiful fellow readers, are here to read my story and judge my craft and my work, right? Not to go in the comment section and start an unnecessary debate over a certain artist, and keep in mind that I will use the song/artist that will go with the flow of my story, like if I find a 2015 song that goes really well with the story I will not hesitate to use it, but if you're not fond of the artist or song you can just simple skip the song and continue reading the rest of the story, without putting unnecessary hateful comments out there, your negotiation would mean a lot ;) thanks for reading this :)

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Btw are yall happy that our favourite couple finally kissed? ;) and I know it's kinda going fast but don't worry everything happens for a reason and I got everything planned out.


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