Our Dirty Little Secrets

Cinderella

Genre: Humor/Romance/Drama

SoulMaka, Black StarTsubaki, KidChrona

Disclaimer: Soul Eater belongs to Atsushi Okubo

Summary: Maka is in the richest school with the biggest scandals and everyone just loves to blackmail her. Life is hard when everyone's against you.

--xXx--

Previously

After a tiring day of cooking, serving food, cleaning, dissecting and listening to lectures I was glad it was all over. I sat in my dorm, doing a bit of studying. I had missed part of English and Maths the day before.

I couldn't really sleep but I was too tired to study anymore. It felt like hours, me just staring at the ceiling thinking about everything that happened.

I heard tapping at my door. I picked up a large book and made my way to the door.

"Soul?" I checked the time. "Why are you here at one in the morning?"

--xXx--

"Here," He handed me a bag of clothes. "I got you a new uniform."

He smiled sheepishly.

"U-um, thanks..." His crimson eyes were half closed and puffy. He yawned and ran a hand through his messy white hair. "Want to come in?"

"That would be cool." He stepped in and lay down on my bed. He closed his eyes and yawned.

"You never told me, why are you here at one in the morning?"

"I would've been here earlier but Marie and Stein were drunk, trying to walk down the hall. Then there was this red head guy in a suit that opened your door slightly and pranced around singing 'Maka'."

"Papa..." I hope he doesn't do that every night. I walked over to my windows, shut and locked them, then shut the curtains. Soul stretched and sat up.

"Why are you still up?"

"Couldn't sleep,"

"What, still upset over your flat chest?"

"MAKA CHOP!" I found the nearest book and slammed it on his skull.

"Ow." He rubbed the big dent in his skull.

I sat down next to him on the bed, we didn't say anything to each other anymore. The silence was nice, it wasn't awkward at all. I rest my head on the wall and eventually fell asleep.

--xXx--

"Has everyone heard? The coffee lover and the social worker are together now! I'm not sure what happened to the science teacher though. Rejected boy has been, you guessed it! Rejected again."

Hearing the irritating voice of Fine Fate was a horrible start to the day.

"Today all the second years are going to be acting in a play! Yes I love to ruin the announcements, too bad. The play will be Cinderella, is this the Hermaphrodite's time to shine? Or will it be Blair's? We'll find out later. Some people have been trying to find out my identity. Who I am? You'll never find out."

I looked around again and found Soul asleep on the corner of my bed. My lips curved into a smile, he looked so peaceful. His white hair was ruffled and he didn't snore. I watched the way his chest move up and down gently as he breathed. This way there were no insults being thrown at me, I liked it. I could even call him cute.

"Watching people sleep is perverted." He opened one eye. I jumped up and yelped.

"Well you look at people's chests! How else would you know it they're flat or not!"

"So you're admitting you were watching me sleep?" His peaceful face now an ugly smirk.

And I almost called him cute.

I decided to ignore him and walked into my little bathroom. I looked into the mirror, my face was all red, I was always getting so flustered around him. It's annoying. He's annoying.

I closed the door and got prepared. Cinderella for an orphanage? I hope I'm not the lead role, I hope I'm not a stepsister or stepmother either. Hehe, Liz as the stepmother. That could be good.

I stepped out of the bathroom and Soul was nowhere to be found. He could have told me he was going. Or at least said a little goodbye. Stupid Soul, so typical of him.

"Did you miss me?" He burst in through the door and gave another smirk. I jumped up and gave a small yelp.

"Let's just get to class."

--xXx--

"This year's charity event is performing Cinderella for the orphans and the grandparents in the homes." Sid announced.

Azusa walked up to the front with a hat with everyone's names. Everyone's nervous chatter quietened once Sid pulled a piece of paper out.

"For Cinderella... we have Patti." Sid said and stepped back.

Patti, who was eating snacks made by Tsubaki, turned around wiping all the crumbs off her face and looked at the teacher with shock. Anyone could tell she wanted to be anything but the princess.

"And for Prince we have... Ox!" Marie announced.

"NOO! Only if Kim is Cinderella. She's deserves it!" The mostly bold guy cried. Soul's nose crinkled in disgust, thinking something on the lines of 'that's not cool'.

"You saying I deserve to be treated like a maid!?'

"No, I meant—" Kim turned away and ignored him after that.

"W-we have...C-chrona as stepmother." Asura muttered. He stepped away from hat nervously. Everyone in our year was here. Chrona jumped up confusedly, she didn't know what to say or do. She sat back down and smiled nervously.

Stein stepped to the hat and picked out a name. "Soul as the King,"

"Sounds cool," He muttered.

"The prince's loyal servant... Hiro!" A large group of girls giggled. Guess he was pretty popular.

"The fairy godmother shall be... Black Star?!" I looked at Soul, he looked at me and both of us laughed.

"The great Black Star shall be playing an almost equally great role!"

"Black Star has always liked the fairy godmother in Cinderella." Tsubaki muttered.

"Kim is an ugly stepsister." Azusa cleared her throat.

"NO!!!" Ox said. He was on his knees crying. Soul rolled his eyes again.

"I get to be mean to Patti," Kim shrugged and resumed talking to Liz.

"The other stepsister is... Maka!!!" Papa read out. "NOO!! Maka should be the beautiful Cinderella!"

"Isn't that your dad?" Black Star asked me.

"I have no papa."

"Everyone else will be acting as royals and peasants in the background." Marie said over papa's cries. She adjusted her eye patch and smiled.

--xXx--

We split up into a few groups and were given the scripts. English, History and Art classes had been cancelled for the next week to practise the play. Marie helped Chrona with her stutter and papa tried to teach Ox how to be more of a player. Azusa taught everyone how to act serious and snobby. It turns out Kim was a very good actor but the rest of us sucked.

Liz, Soul and I had to leave an hour early to start with the lunch preparations. We had finally cleaned the disgusting black walled cafeteria, it turns out the walls of the cafeteria were actually white.

The teachers had bought twenty boxes of pasta and fifteen boxes of sauce.

"We need more pots!"

"Okay!" I jumped up in an attempt to reach the cupboard but completely missed. Soul and Liz had no problem with the cupboards, they were tall enough.

I walked out of the kitchen area and into the seating area. There were already people gathering at the entrance of the cafeteria. I grabbed the nearest chair and took it with me into the kitchen area.

I placed it in a good spot and climbed up onto it. Now I could open the cupboard, but there were only pots on the highest shelf. I reached and...

Crash!

--xXx--

Soul had just been boiling the pasta and putting it onto the billions of plates when it was cooked. He lifted the plates and placed them in the serving area. Soul made it so that the people could just grab the plate and go. He was pouring the sauces in when he heard a loud crash.

He ran into the kitchen area.

"Maka! Are you alright...?"

He found her on the floor, the chair was overturned and there was a large pot hanging lopsided on her head.

There was a long silence, neither of them moved.

"Ow..." Then she started to giggle.

Soul gaped at her, and then started to laugh with her.

"Here," He offered her a hand, still laughing. She took it and pulled him down with her. They rolled around on the floor laughing, with pots scattered all around.

"That was so not cool," Soul said. Maka leaned against him and got up.

"Let's go," She offered her hand.

"Thanks," He took it.

--xXx--

After lunch we were back to rehearsals.

Marie brought out the costumes for those who didn't have such big parts.

Tsubaki stepped back into the room from the change rooms. She dusted off the poufy shoulder part and swivelled around. She looked wonderful in the old fashion Victorian style dress. It was a cream colour with light blue frills.

Black Star stepped in with a neglected suit. He sneezed and the dust from the suit covered everyone standing near him. A lot of girls grimaced and moved away.

"What? You should be grateful for the magical dust of Black Star!"

We watched them practise dancing in the background. Black Star shot angry looks at the tall boy that danced with Tsubaki. But Tsubaki looked like she was enjoying herself... in an uncertain way.

--xXx--

The week had passed actually passed very quickly. After many rehearsals no one's acting got any better. Well except for Kim.

We struggled to move our costumes. Soul's was a pinstriped cape and fake armour. Patti wore a dirty blue ragged dress and for the ball a beautiful golden dress that shone in the light. It already had several stains on it. My costume and Kim's were similar. Hers a blood red frilly slightly revealing dress. Mine was bright green but not revealing at all. Chrona's costume was hilarious. They used hairspray to make a tower with her hair, they used dark make up and she wore an outrageously poufy red, black dress.

In a last minute decision Liz was chosen was as the narrator. As she introduced the story we stood around at the cardboard set.

"Once upon a time there was a young girl named Cinderella." The red curtains were drawn and a single light was on Patti while we were cast in the shadows.

"Her mother died when she was little and her father remarried. But soon he also passed away and she was left with her stepmother and her two daughters." Now the lights above us were turned on, the bright white light half blinded me.

"Her stepmother was jealous of her beauty and treated Cinderella like a servant."

"I... er—c-clean this!" Chrona stuttered.

Patti was on her knees in the stained pinafore dress and scrubbed at the shining wooden stage.

"Her two stepsisters weren't any better."

"I expect this clean, repaired and very soft to the touch by tomorrow." The spotlight shone and moved with Kim.

"I want you to make the most beautiful dress from this material," I half said, half giggled and dumped the cloth over Patti's head.

"This happened while there was once a hot prince that was forced to marry," The spotlight was on Soul and Ox on the other side of the large stage.

"Dude... you need a wife." Soul muttered.

"Then I shall hold a ball in search of one," I thought that was Soul's line?

The light flashed back to us, Patti was scrubbing the floor again when a Hiro the messenger came.

"Here milady, an invitation to the ball,"

"What does it say?" Kim and I said at the same time. We both rushed up to Chrona, Kim in a way a lot more convincing than mine.

"We're invited to the prince's ball."

"I'm going! There's food right?" We all gave Patti a strange look. "Ahem. I mean... can I go?"

"Of course. Not!" Kim spoke harshly.

"You're going to finish my dress."

"But—"

"If you finish a-a-all your w-work then m-maybe," Chrona said. The three of us then walked out behind the curtains and watched while they showed Patti cleaned and pretending to sew. She swapped the cloth for a dress stuck beneath the table.

We stepped back in, Chrona explained that Patti could never go to the ball and we left. The next scene was of Patti and Black Star the fairy godmother. He turned a pumpkin into a large cardboard carriage and cardboard rats to several people in a horse costume and into some people. I felt bad for those in the second half of the horse costumes.

The scene went to us at the ball. Kim and I would have to ask Ox to dance.

"Hey there, um, how's it going?" Ox tried and failed at being charming. He looked at papa who gave him two big thumbs up.

"Prince... would you like to dance?" Kim saved the play yet again.

"Sure!" Ox took Kim's hands and pulled to the middle of the stage.

Patti made her entrance and I saw the some of the boys did look at her in a dreamy way. But Kid couldn't keep his eyes off Chrona. Her strange costume suited her in a weird way.

Ox walked to Patti and they started to dance.

"Only Kim... only Kim..." Ox sobbed.

For the rest of the play I talked to Soul, he made jokes about Ox and about how everyone completely failed at their role. The last scene was of Ox and Patti getting married. Ox cried throughout the whole 'wedding'.

I looked at Soul who ran a hand through his white hair. He'd been doing that a lot lately. Surprisingly I actually enjoyed hanging out so casually with Soul. This play was actually a lot of fun.

"And they lived happily ever after..."

I spotted Noah in the audience.

--xXx--

I know it would make more sense if I wrote in Soul's POV for the where Soul finds Maka on the floor with the pots. But I'm only writing in Maka's or in the third person.

Thanks for those who've bothered to read and/or review my story.

Here are the replies.

TheNextAliceOwo- thank you,

SoulForAnime- well a lot of the time it depends on my mood, lol, I'll try to update sooner.

SingerToPotatoes- wow!! Thank you!! Great idea, I'll put that in a later chapter though, I want to keep their relationship happy! Other than some Maka chops and some teasing.

vreni- thank you! I'll try to

Midnight Ghost- lol

LooksknOweVenhEy143 L.O.V.E- the one in the morning thing was probably disappointing though XD

SilverStella- OMG! I never thought about that. Oh well, maybe it is, lol