SOUL

I smile at Maka to try to get someof the tension off of her facefrom the massive secrets she just letloose.

"Well after we spliti went down a dark rabbit hole for awhile too. I gotin with a bad crowd when I started dating this crazy girl Medusa. She was into some really hard drugs and she took me down with her."

I feel Maka straighten up next to me and turn her head towards me. She's deathly quiet and so tenseshe looks like a cardboard cutout in my peripheral vision.

"She got me to do some stuff with her that I'm not proud of and I was also heavily drinking at the ripe of age of 19. Though the drinking was my own doing because I needed theliquor to get you of my mind."

I let out a shuddering sigh because I hate thinking back on this crazy year of my life, but Maka wants to hear it so I'll bare my soulfor her.

"I dated her for 1 entirely too long year before I finally realized that I put myself in a shit hole and I needed to dig myself out of it. Black*Star had been trying to get me away from that witch forever, but I was so depressed that I didn't listen. Thought I really deserved to be with someone like that since I had hurt you so badly."

Maka slowly puts her hand on my hand and gives it a small squeezeandgives me the tiniest smile.

"Soul..."

"S'ok Maka really, I'm not blaming you. I know it wasn't your fault, I let my jealousy band lack of self confidence get in the way of us when we first dated and that is what also took me down that dark hole."

"I finally ended things with Medusa, moved in with Black*Star, before Tzubaki was officially moved in, and got clean. Then once I was clean and had my head straight I started working with Black*Star at the machinery rig and saved up to get myown place. That's basically it, after all that I've just been living on my own and hanging with the crew on the weekends I don't work. My life isn't all that exciting, I don't even have a pet to come home to."

I shrug at Maka because it's all I can think of doing andputmy hands in my lap. She'sstaring at me so intently and it's making me get antsy.

"What? Something on my face? Is my hair falling out? Have my eyes finally become a normal color? What woman stop staring at me like that!"

I scoot away on the couch to give us some space from each other because my soul feels naked.

"I'msorry it's just you opened my eyes."

*HUH*

"Opened your eyes to what? I just told you my story from these past couple years. Nothing that would open anyone's eyes except maybe the dangers of drug use and psycho bitches who can and will drag you down."

Maka smacks my arm softy muttering about men and they derogatory words for woman, then muttering that she was a psycho bitch for getting me into drugs.

"No smart ass, you opened my eyes in that I really thought I was the only one suffering alone. I really thought you had just moved on and forgotten about me and that you are living your best life without me in it."

"MakaI can't live my best life without you, whether your my friend or more I need you around. You center me in a way that no one else ever has or ever will. Black*Star is my best friend, but sometimes he doesn't get me either. You've always been the one who understands me without having to say anything. Granted it's been a long 3 almost 4 years that we've been apart, but I want to be in your life. Any way you'll have me."

Damn Soul chillwith all that I want you in my life crap. Shit Maka looks like she's ready to run up out of here. Way to goEvansstrike 1, how much longer until strike 2?