So like this is more of a filler but it includes something that follows up to stuff. Also today is my birthday so I felt I needed to publish something. Idk. Whatever. Happy birthday to Evan….

ALSO ABOUT THE OC PEOPLE THAT HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE PROMISED CHARACTORS IN! calm yo tits. I'm working on it. I keep getting freaking messages all like "why hasn't my character been added yet? You promised!" SHUT UP. I'm working on it. Calm yourself. The battle of the bands in, like, three chapters. If you keep annoying me, I may just make it FOUR chapters though. I mean, you want the story to be good, so give me space. Calm. Down. Honestly.

~xxXxXMysteriousWriterXxXxx

SOUL POV

This quite unbearably painful, but I can't just let her walk. Maybe I should've put her on my back. I'd still need use of both hands though. My right hand was screaming in pain, but I kept a straight face.

"S-Soul, I-I can w-walk" She said, obviously still freaked out. I sighed and kept walking.

"Your stutter says otherwise. I'm so sorry I wasn't there sooner, the gang dragged me back inside, I practically had to fight my way to the door." I laughed a little "But they had to put something over the cast so I wouldn't get it wet. I mean, it's pouring." I laughed a little more, trying not to think about how kissable she looks right now. fight back against your feelings, Soul.

"Oh, Gosh…I'm so sorry, Soul! I f-forgot about y-your hand! Put me down!" She said, panicking in my arms, making the pain slightly more agonizing.

"Nonsense, I can handle it if you stop wiggling" She stopped moving and curled up more into my chest, clinging to me "Ok, that's better" I laughed, hiding my nervousness of her close proximity.

I walked her over to the bus and brought her inside, both of us dripping from the rain. I set her down on the couch, my wrist burning. I'm glad I was due for pain medication in like five minutes…

I glanced at the clock, looking at the glowing time. 11:30pm? Yeah, pain medication was ten minutes ago. I walked over to the cabinets and took down the little bottle of my pills prescribed to SOUL EATER. I grabbed a glass of water and gulped down one of two pills I was supposed to take every night. I felt Maka's stare on my back and I turned around, second pill still in hand.

"Soul, you said you were beginning to not need those. We usually have to fore those down your throat. Did I hurt you? Tell the truth." She said firmly, burning holes in my eyes with her stare.

"N-No…" I said, looking away from her, and then promptly gulped down the second dose of pills.

"You're lying. And I'm SO so sorry. You should've just let me walk." She said with a hint of sadness. I rolled my eyes and sat down on the couch next to her, hearing the others snore in the room next to us and I sat down silently.

"Listen, Maka, I would've carried you no matter how much my arm hurt. Yes, I admit, it felt like I was being shot repeatedly in the arm, but my arm could be falling off, and I still would've carried you, stupid." I ruffled her hair, trying to seem more friendly than romantic. If I keep doing these sort of things or saying these things, I'll start to fall harder and…I can't. I can't fall in love again. BUT I am in love with Maka Albarn. I leaned away slightly, not wanting to freak out anymore than I already am.

She scooched over and hugged me tightly, bringing her arms around my neck and resting her head on my chest. Dear lord, Maka, you're NOT making this easy, are you? I hugged her back and we stayed like that for a while, I nearly fell asleep in so much pure happiness. She pulled away and yawned, stretching out cutely, and stood up.

"Goodnight, Soul, and…Thanks" She smiled tiredly at me and walked into the bedrooms, then I heard another door close, meaning she must be changing. I decided to change in the sleeping room, concidering all I have energy for is taking off my shirt, pants and shoes, then putting on pajama pants. Screw shirts.

I was crawling into bed, slowly to avoid my hand, when Maka walked in. I yawn and said "Night'" and Smiled a lopsided faint smile down to her red face. Maybe she just like, washed her face or something.

I pulled the covers over myself up to my bellybutton, being too lazy to pull it up all the way. And turned in my side, facing Maka, and fell asleep before she even got on her bunk.

MAKA POV (around 2:35am)

I woke up with a start after the nightmare I just had. Z…touching me…Soul, dead….Calloway…dead…nobody can help me. I felt a couple tears stream down my face, I wiped them away, and heard a crack of thunder and silently yelped a little. Rain? Ok, fine. Thunder and Lightning? Not so great.

My lip quivered at my dark secret. I hate thunderstorms. I'm so scared of thunderstorms.

I glanced around the room, I saw BlackStar snoring, kid peacefully sleeping, looking like he hasn't moved, liz, patty, Tsubaki, soul, crona, EVERYONE. Was sleeping. Except me.

I glanced over at Soul. He looked so peaceful…

I calmed down a bit and gave a quick faint smile to him. He looked like an angel. I heard another round of thunder and a huge flash of lightning, lighting up the bus for a quick second, illuminating through the windows.

I ducked under my sheets and breathed quick and heavy. I bit my lip. I knew what I really wanted to do right now. I quickly climbed down from my bunk, being careful not to wake Liz who was asleep under my bunk, on the bottom. I started to climb up Souls ladder, also trying not to wake BlackStar who was underneath Soul's bed on the bottom bunk.

I lightly poked Soul and he cracked open an eye. What a light sleeper.

"S-Soul?" I whispered through the darkness.

"Hm?" He grunted, rubbing his eyes and propping himself up on an elbow to look at me.

"C-Can I-I-" another bang of thunder and a huge dose of lightning and I flinched and squeezed my eyes shut. I opened one eye to see him tiredly smiling at me, and he scooted over and patted the space next to him. I smiled a little and whispered a quick thanks and crawled in next to him.

"Afraid of a little storm?" He said quietly. I blushed and looked away from him "Shut up" I whispered back sharply.

"I can help you with that." He said, cuddling up to me, pressing his chest against my back and bringing his arm around my side, then his other arm snaking through the space between my neck and the pillow and holding onto the shoulder on the opposite side of me. I felt so secure in his strong arms.

"next time yo hear thunder, count how long it is between each bang, okay?" He said quietly. I nodded a little and heard a huge bang of thunder.

"o-one…t-two…three…four…f-five…six…seven…e-eight…n-nine…t-ten….eleven…twelve…t-thirteen…f-fourteen…f-fifteen…sisteen…s-seventeen…eighteen-" I heard another huge bang, flinched and looked over my shoulder at him, our faces only two inches away, not even. More like an inch. He smiled charmingly at me.

"That storm is 3.6 miles or 6 kilometers away. There's nothing to worry about. Also, if you were in any danger whatsoever, I would protect you. I'm not going to let you get hurt again." He said and kissed my nose comfortingly, then gave a quick look like he was guilty of doing something wrong then his smile returned.

"Now go to sleep, I'll be here with you." He said softly, like a small lullaby, and my eyes fluttered and closed, and I drifted off, thinking about Soul and counting numbers.

Narrorator POV (in the morning, about 6:00am)

Liz and Black*Star looked up at the sleeping couple on Soul's bunk.

"I totally called it. They're obviously going out now." Black*Star whispered to Liz. Liz sighed.

"I doubt it. I think Soul is the only one who realized how much he likes her. Maka probably hasn't thought about it so deeply yet. Plus, Soul doesn't have the balls to ask her out yet. Plus, he'd make it a big occasion when he asked her out. " Liz said as-a-matter-of-factly "Plus, you'd see him ignore her first or something. Soul is afraid of being hurt again."

Black*Star rolled his eyes and took out his phone and took a picture and sent it to Soul's phone. "Hah, blackmail." Liz laughed.

Black*Star nodded and smirked. "We have to wake them, don't we, Liz?"

"Oh," Liz smirked also "Oh, yes we do."

The devious two woke up everyone and discussed the plan. They all took a deep breath and started to sing loudly and obnoxiously.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!" Soul and Maka shot up from their peaceful slumber. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SOUUUUL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!" Soul sighed and rolled his eyes as if saying 'seriously?' and Makas eyes widened and looked at Soul who shrugged in return.

"HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW? HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW? HOW OLD ARE YOU NOOOOW? HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW?" they counted up to 19 when Soul said Stop. He was the third oldest in the group, Kid being 20 now was the oldest, Liz was also 20 now, and now Soul was 19 and the rest were 18 going on 19.

"HAAAAAAPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU" they finished, screaming. Soul sighed and said a quick thanks before waiting for Maka to climb down the ladder and he climbed down after then groggily walked into the kitchen for something to eat.

"How come nobody told me today was his birthday?" Maka said, pouting a little.

"You never asked before because you hated him, and you never asked so…" Patty reasoned out.

They all poured out into the living room with gifts for Soul. He sighed and sat down with a piece of toast with a lot of peanut butter on it.

Liz and Patty had given him a gift card to hot topic with he smiled at. Kid had gotten him a simple silver ring with the words "Soul 'Eater' Evans" carved into it and he smirked and slid it onto his index finger, jokingly saying "look at dat bling" before laughing and saying thank you.

Black*Star gave him a porn star magazine which Soul promptly smacked Black*Star in the head with then stuffed the magazine down Star's shirt telling him "no thanks, dude. You're just sick" shaking his head, much to Maka's relief.

Crona had given him a pad of paper with blank music sheets in it instead of regular paper to which soul gave a faint smile to and a quiet thanks.

Tsubaki handed him a scrapbook filled with pictures of all of them doing stupid stuff, fun stuff, shows, hanging out, and everything in between. It started in the beginning when they all met, then to the forming of them bands, then to the pictures where they met Soul. Soul smiled, remembering his audition for Soul Fire very well. Back when the band's name was still The Grim Reapers. Soul's face went blank at the picture of him and Lilly first meeting. That stupid picture of him smirking and rolling his eyes while she fumed at him for being stupid and not trying out for keyboard also.

He sighed as he saw more and more pictures of all of them, even a picture of Soul in the hospital.

And a picture of the place where Lilly was hit by a truck.

She never really did look both ways before crossing, did she? Soul quickly flipped the page to a big heading that said FAME! And MEETING AN ANGEL! Starting with a picture from onstage, then a picture of Maka smiling. Must've been the headshot she turned in for the audition. The pictures followed in a timeline and Soul looked back up at Tsubaki and smiled faintly.

"Thank you. Very much. All of you, really." He said finally, then stood up and walked back into the bedroom, slamming the door behind him a little.

MAKA POV

I have to make this his best birthday. EVER.