Angel or Demon?
I would love to tell you the details on how word spread around DWMA about Ox's, "hot," confession to Kim, and how he was grilled out by guys who teased and pocked fun at his crush. But it had gotten to a point where no one cared anymore, and so do you...
Anyways, it has been an agonizingly slow week, as summer began to drip in through the seems of nature and I was still a Freshmen, without a Weapon, Tsubaki already partnered up with BlackStar, Kid had Liz and Patty as Weapons sense they liked to tease him about his OCD from time to time, that and Kid wanted symmetrical Weapons.
I began avoiding Soul only when needed, this pain in my chest won't go away, and it gets worse every time I see him or even think about him, so I'am just going to try and avoid it all.
"Maka? Did you hear me, I said that we should go to this club I found, were people do all sorts of dance battles, you wanna go?" Tsubaki said, snapping me back into focus.
"Oh, um sure, I could use the excitement," I replied half heartedly.
"Ok, just meet me at the abandoned train stop a nine tonight, ok?"
"Yeah sure," I said.
Ugh I had to be in bed at nine and it was a school night, wait this would be great, papa still thought of me as his little girl, I wonder what he'll think when he hears me come home at midnight. I cracked a grin at that, I almost forgotten my whole purpose of being here at this school, but having a destiny and having two black lines running across my palm and all can be distracting.
( Nine )
"Good night dad," I said loudly as I closed my bedroom door behind me and locked it shut.
I went through my summer clothes and found a dark gray baby doll, a black jean jacket with some dark blue jeans and a black belt. After changing, I lifted my window up, greeting the slightly warm April night air, sliding myself out my window to climb the fire escape.
My James Bond sneak out was a success, I thought snickering while walking into the night. The moon was the only witness to my sneak out, with it's face all smiling and bright.
The abandoned train stop, used to be a train stop here in Death City, but due to a certain Kishin incident, we had to say goodbye to a train from ever coming by again. The tracks now were littered with many people, mostly teenagers, filling the empty tracks with pumping music that even got my hips moving around with excitement to dance.
There were circle groups of people surrounding two people, who were dancing like animals. In the distance I saw a familiar frame of Tsubaki bobbing her head while looking around until she spotted me.
"Hey, you came, I thought you were just ignoring me," Tsubaki said with relief.
"I don't ignore people like that, only people I don't like," I grinned at her.
The whole night I just stood there looking cool while others around me danced their hearts out, like savage beasts. Like I explained way back, dancing is my mortal enemy, so being here was not a big parade for me. Everyone here danced like water, so fluidly and flexible, that I envied them. Why was I here in the first place, did I really want to show up my dad, or did I just come on natural instincts? Who knew?
***
The night was still going strong at ten and I was bored. I couldn't find Tsubaki as I was engulfed in a crowd of bobbing dancers. All they were doing was bobbing their head and making small dance movements, while I was confused and dumbstruck. Sweat and the rust on the rails of the train track, was the aroma around me, that and Axe body spray and some other mixed up perfumes. I tried pushing against the bodies around me, but they must of miss interpreted my actions, that I wanted to go in the, one of many, dance off circles.
I was alone and stumbling as a nervous mess in the circle, with a guy all dressing in baggy pants and all black clothing. As that person danced, I turned around and tried getting out of it like mad. But people kept pushing me back, urging me to dance.
"No, let me out!" I said in frustration.
"C'mon girl, dance, do ya thing," a guy in the crowd urged.
"C'mon, show us what ya got, pigtails," the dancer said.
Oh no. No one calls me pigtails.
I turned on the guy in the circle whom called me pigtails, and swung at him. He bobbed down, came back up, I swung with my other arm and he repeated his actions. He lifted up his leg to kick me in the head, even though he made it too obvious, I ducked and dove over to the other side of him. He turned around.
"I didn't pin you as a krumper girl," the guy said as I threw punches and kicks at him.
Wait what was krumping?
I used a low kick, and the guy flipped backwards, like he was dancing. He got up and made a hand gesture. I was about accept it and advance on him, when a hand clapped on my shoulder and held me back. I looked up at the person who's hand was intruding my fight when I froze dead in my tracks.
Soul.
"Stay here," he said coldly, guiding me to the sidelines.
"Yo bro, why you go interup'in our battle, ya her boyfriend or something?" the guy asked with hands in his pockets, with a stupid look on his face.
"Just shut up and battle," Soul said, throwing a punch at the guy, but as usual he dogged with a head sweep to the opposite side that Soul tried punching him at.
Then it started. It was like a street fight, but with dance moves. And Soul was good. Then the guy went down to a low kick, and Soul stepped up to put one foot on his back and jump up, avoiding the kick, making the guy land face first into the dirty ground.
"Next time don't act so rude to a girl who doesn't want to battle," Soul said, returning to me and slinging an arm over my shoulders and steering me away from the scene.
When we were away from it all I turned to Soul. "Why are you here?"
"I got a text from BlackStar, he said that you and Tsubaki went to a dance club by the tracks, so I came to get you guys out of here. Its a school night and those guys are girl poachers," Soul said.
"Where's Tsubaki?"
"She went home after I said that BlackStar was worried, now I'am taking you home," he explained quickly as the music faded in the distance.
"Your dad must be flipping out," Soul muttered to himself.
After a while of walking the lone streets in silence I spoke. "What's krumping?"
"Huh? You never heard of krumping?"
I shook my head for no.
"Its like combining fighting with dancing, so were you trying to beat him up?"
"Yeah."
"Ha, what am I going to do with you?" Soul said, tightening his grip around me tighter.
I felt my heart pang sharply. This was the closest and longest time talking and being by Soul in a while, I missed our chats.
When we were at my house I parted ways to the side of my house. Soul followed confused.
"I sort of snuck out," I explained getting on my tip toes and jumping to get the ladder down from its secret perch by my window. My dad had put up that ladder when I was eight so I could get up invade of fires or emergencies, though we did live in a slightly suburbanized neighborhood, I doubt a burglar would climb into my house this way without getting spotted by Mrs. Peers, my neighbor.
Then I felt hands grip over on my hips and I was lifted onto Soul's shoulders.
"Here, can you reach now?" he asked.
I reached up and grabbed the edge of the foldable ladder, then it unfolded down. I gripped a wooden plank and lifted myself off Soul's shoulders and onto on other wooden step for my feet. Once I was back in my room, with the ladder folded back in it's perch. I peered down my window at Soul.
"Thank you," I said in a loud whisper.
"I'll see you tomorrow Rapunzel," Soul said, leaving me alone with my thoughts.
