"Patty, where did Crona go?" Liz asked her sister. They were standing behind their mansion, waiting for Kid to come out. Tonight they were having a pool party, the hype of the year. There was no better time than to have one when it was so close to summer on a weekend night.

Everyone was invited. But even with that said, some would be forced to go.

"Patty!" Liz called again. Where in the world was she now? First Crona and now Patty. She wouldn't be surprised if Kid would disappear into thin air now. She heard a thud and a giggle behind her. Turning around quickly, she found Crona on the ground and Patty giggling with a giraffe float around her waist.

"Crona fell!" The younger sister clapped her hands together. Liz gave Patty a smile before sighing as she helped the poor Crona up.

"Great job Patty you managed to get Crona into a bikini... Or a one piece, what did you actually pick out?" Liz looked at Crona from head to toe. "..Nevermind. Now where's Kid? He should have been out an hour ago. The party's going to start soon." She walked over the pool and was sent into a trance. It was wide and deep but sure enough pretty. Hawaiian lights were hung around it with two long tables were sitting by the back doors, waiting for delicious food to be set upon them. Hopefully Black*Star and Patty wouldn't eat all of it this time. There would be waterproof balls that would be sitting at the bottom of the pool to change the colors of the water.

"I dunno but this is going to be awesome! Right Crona?" Patty said. She stood and the edge of the pool, dipping one toe in and watching the ripples float across it.

"Uh… I t-think so Patty." Crona wrapped his arms around himself. He looked around for Kid hoping that he would show up soon.

"You can drop the stuttering now. You're with us, not with whoever you stutter around." Liz said before she ran into the house. "Don't be afraid!" she called over her shoulder.

"T-Thanks! I'll try" Crona dropped into the chair. She watched Patty mess with a plant until she heard some yelling coming from the house. Maybe he should go check it out?

"But Liz I can't go out! My trunks aren't symmetrical and the party isn't even finished! Everyone won't care enough to fix their clothes and hair. Liz, Liz no, I don't want to do this! Not anymore!"

"Kid... What? Then don't come out, see if we care. We can have a perfectly fine party without you." Liz shouted back. There was a crash and Crona assumed that Liz must have pushed a flower pot over. Patty was giggling out some words. Was that something about Kid going to die?

Liz shuffled out and straightened herself. Chin high and arms crossed, she said. "Well then! Let's get this party started!" Right on cue honks and yelling echoed out from the front yard. This party would definitely be the party of the year. "Hiro's here! And so is Excalibur... Kid! Get your butt out here! There's a kish-!"

"Fool! If you must know I am no kishin. I am Excalibur. Perhaps you would like a song?"

"No thanks but-"

"Very well then, and a one and a two and a-!" He was interrupted as more people were beginning to crowd around. Kid who finally listened to Liz, came out.

He was holding a megaphone and wearing his sunglasses. It was night though; did he really think that the sunglasses would make everyone look right? "Attention everyone, if you go inside the house please try not to get so drunk that you'll go upstairs. My father said that if I did have a party and someone messed up anything upstairs, then everyone at school would be assigned to difficult work. Keep that in mind." Kid looked out into the silent crowd and gave an approving nod. He snapped his fingers and music started and soon everyone was partying.

Tsubaki appeared beside Kid after a few minutes of following Black*Star around.

"Kid, what you said, did you mean it?" She looked down at him and put her hands behind her back.

Lord Death's son smiled and shook his head. "Course not Tsubaki, father doesn't even know that I'm having a party." You could tell by his face that he was proud of what he was doing. Being so sneaky around his dad was actually fun, unless he got caught. To Kid, he was an awesome spy. The best around and possibly better than Black*Star, maybe he could try being an assassin on his next mission. No, Black*Star would just talk about how he couldn't be one since he was the only person who could.

"Black*Star, Hiro, get your asses back here!"

Both boys were running around the pool with an angry Maka on their tails. She was dripping wet and covering her chest as she went after them. The boys on the other hand were laughing hard and Tsubaki knew that Maka wouldn't be able to keep going. Black*Star could though. He trained a lot and could probably run around the whole house more than fifty times.

There was a short scream followed by an annoyed grunt. Maka had slipped and if Hiro hadn't had caught her then her head would have collided with the rim of the pool. Maka did do the screaming but not the grunt. In fact no one actually knew where it came from.

"Oh wow, you ok? Good thing I was here right?" Hiro said as he sat Maka up.

"Yeah… But I could have caught myself thank you very much. I don't need help, especially not yours." She said quite bluntly. Hiro looked at her and started laughing again. "What?"

"Nothing, it's just, you haven't hit me yet. You know, like you do to everyone that comes into your little box." He held his chin up and placed a hand on her shoulder. Another awkward mumble went out into the party but it was too quiet for most to hear. "I am special dear Maka?" Hiro said. The way he said it made Maka feel a little small.

"As if!" She pushed his hand away and eyed him. "Do you ever shut up?" She got up in his face about to smack him. The she remembered where she was. Too many people would be able to gang up on her. She wouldn't be able to run away of course since she rode with Soul on his bike, despite her protest of even showing up to the dreadful place. It was a nest full of her enemies. "Besides, I wouldn't be able to in this damn bathing suit… I didn't even want to wear this thing."

Maka's thinking distracted her again. She should really stop thinking so much. "Then why did you? Why did you come?" Hiro was three inches away from Maka's face. He was a bit taller so he had to bend over a little bit to see her face to face. The boy grinned evilly and wrapped his arms around her waist, trying to bring her closer.

"Don't you dare touch me!" She screamed and pushed Hiro away. Her cheeks were overheated and so were her ears. People were staring at them. From out in the crowd someone yelled. "You must be drunk to try to get with that dork!" Maka turned to look at the people around her. The voice didn't seem to belong to anyone, unless they changed it to hide their identity.

Maka didn't stay to hear anything else. She ended up on Kid's couch, luckily for her no one else was around. She didn't want to be there. What she wanted was to be at home, sitting on her own couch and watching some movie.

It hadn't even been thirty minutes.

Oh but she had to go. She was practically forced to come there. Maka slumped on the couch, driving herself deeper inside it as she remembered how she got to the wretched place.

"Soul, what are you doing? It's been two days! Shouldn't you be getting your stuff?" Maka said. She was dressed in her usual home clothes, sweats.

"Well, I obviously do not want to deal with Black*Star." Soul said

Maka nodded and looked around. "How'd you get in?"

Soul threw a lazy grin and turned his arm into a mini scythe.

"You picked the lock?!"

"No, I asked Jack the locksmith to open it and bake me a cake while at it." Maka rolled her eyes at his sarcasm.

"Since I know that I can't get you go, just lock the door back when you leave." Her stomach growled just as soon as she stepped into the kitchen. She would have to cook something to satisfy herself soon. "Hey, Soul? Did you eat all of the chicken?"

"Geez Maka, you're not fun anymore. It hasn't even been that long." Soul groaned.

"What about my question?" She called back.

"Oh but Maka~" Soul whined. He repeated her name until Maka answered his call.

"Soul! Would you stop?!" She frowned with a tint of blush fading away from her cheeks. Since Soul showed up she had been blushing way too much and the way he was acting reminded her of her father. Those were some unpleasant thoughts. "I answered you now answer me!"

"You need to get out more before you get even paler than you are." Soul said, suddenly realizing how tan he was compared to Maka. "There's this pool party going on at Kid's tonight and he asked me if I could go. I need you to go too. Why? Because what if there's a sudden attack and my meister isn't there? I'm useless as an alone weapon and since you're my meister, no one else can use me. I've tried with Black*Star before and it wasn't the best thing ever."

Maka poked her head around the corner of the wall that was blocking the view from living room to the kitchen. "Wow, you're asking me that? Aren't you going to be embarrassed if someone sees me carrying you around? Plus I don't want to hear it from all of your 'friends', I mean, my enemies." She cringed at the thought of seeing Black*Star and Kid outside of school again. The bullying would be even worse off of school property.

"Are you really asking me that? I freaking carried you to the nurses at school. Everyone saw me. I'm not embarrassed of you." He paused.

'Or am I?'

"Anyways, I'll just get to the point. If you don't come with me then I'll just spread rumors about you at school, decrease your popularity to the point when even the nerds that are way geekier than you try to mess with you, and do everything else in my power to annoy you." He took a breath and looked at her from the corner of his eye. Her pigtails were basically flying straight into the air and steam was shooting out from her ears. With her face completely red and eyes looking like a forest fire as she said.

"You blackmailer! You no good of an excuse for a partner! Hypocrite! And to think that you were my-"

"Your… friend?" He smirked. Even if Maka probably didn't see him as anything close to a friend he was going to ask.

"No acquaintance." She was still mad but at least she stopped yelling. "To me you're nothing but a partner and acquaintance. A childish one at that."

Soul stood up and swiftly walked over to the girl named Maka. Grabbing her hand and placing it over his heart, he said cheesley, "Feel that? It hurts. To me it feels like you've been my meister since I was... I don't know, like six. Yeah that's right. If you don't come then I don't know! I feel like I need you to be there."

The girl choked on her words as she tried to speak. "I'll think about it?" The demonish looking boy smiled and let go of her hand, backing up towards the door. "Cool, I'll pick you up in three hours. Oh and Maka? What I said, I didn't mean it. Well the part about you being my meister since way back… yeah I meant that. But you can't go back on your words!" The door closed and after him and the roar of the motorcycle's engine erupted.

Maka just stood there, frozen to the spot.

What a terrible time for Maka. She wasn't the girl she was a couple a days ago. Her guard was down just like it had been when Soul came into her bedroom. It was like he was on top of her and she couldn't move. Just when it seemed like he was about to kiss her, he backed away, shaking his head with a confused look plastered onto his face. He told her that she should keep the noise down and walked back out the door like nothing happened. Something did happen though. Well for Maka something did.

"Hey! I was… I was looking for you everywhere!" An obviously drunk person said. Maka expected it to be Hiro or Soul but instead it was… Black*Star? He was leaning against the fireplace hiccupping like an idiot.

"What do you want?" Maka rolled her eyes and growled. She was seriously in no mood for Black*Star to be messing with her now.

"Come on baby! Don't be so mad at your soon to be husband! H-Hiro was looking for you too. He asked me to help look for you but I decided that I'd make it my own… My own… Fuck." He slammed himself down beside Maka and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "What I'm trying to say is strip your panties and prepare to be snorted! B-Boarded, I meant boarded. Ha…" Black*Star had a cheesy grin on face, completed with lazy eyes.

"W-What? You guys need to stop touching me! Ugh, you're drunk too! Get your nasty hands off me!" She began tugging off his arms. Where the hell was her dictionary when she needed it? On the coffee table there were some options. A picture and Kid, Patty, and Liz, a vase and another picture of the three except it was flipped to where if you cut the room in half then it would but perfectly symmetrical.

Black*Star's grin grew as he pulled her onto him. "Why not, you're basically naked now. I'm sure T-Tsubaki wouldn't act like t-this." His breath reeked with alcohol.

"I'm not her you disgusting freak!" Maka said. She couldn't use any of Kid's stuff, he would break into a million pieces if things weren't symmetrical like he'd like. She couldn't do it even if she didn't like him much. "If you don't… You're an idiot, even more of one when you're drunk." She couldn't say anything else. No words could come to her fast mind, or use to be fast. Maka tore away from him and stormed away, but not before she gave him a good slap. He wouldn't remember it anyways. As she went back towards the pool party someone moved away from the door. Whoever it was had a direct view from the party to the living room and were probably spying on her and the blue goof. Oh great.

She only got a glimpse of black swim trunks running away from the scene. Maka sighed and worked up enough courage to step outside of the house. If she didn't have a good time she would simply find Soul and tell him that she was leaving no matter what he said.

Taking a breath she pushed open the door and strutted out. No one paid attention her being as they were either in the pool, making out in any open space, or dancing in the yard. Immediately she spotted Hiro sitting at a table. He looked depressed and it made Maka wonder if Excalibur sung another song while she was inside. If he did it only affected him. Hiro was also surrounded by a couple of his friends. Soul, Patty, Liz, Crona, and Tsubaki while Kid was near the pool complaining about how some kid's swimming wasn't right. Black*Star was still inside though Maka had a feeling that he would come out at the most awkward time.

Walking by Hiro wouldn't hurt so she did. He only watched her for a second but when he did, his face lit up as she passed. His eyes followed her all the way to punch bowl until Soul punched him in the arm.

"You're fucking drooling again." He grumbled and went back to his plate. Hiro didn't answer, instead he just sighed.


"She may look like a bit of a dork at school but right now… She just looks so damn hot!" Hiro groaned. He covered his face in embarrassment. He couldn't let anyone other than his friends see him like this. "I just wanted to talk to her! And I wasn't even drunk yet. I can't deal with-"

"Will you shut the hell up? Your whining is getting on my nerves and I'm not in the fucking mood." Soul spat out. His friends turned to look at him surprised at how nasty he was acting. Maka had been in the house for a while now and Soul was suspecting that she was going to leave without him. Hiro had sent Black*Star to help find her, not knowing that he was already drunk.

"Soul? Don't you think that's a little bit too harsh?" Tsubaki put a hand on his shoulder, even though she was still getting to know him, and looked at him with concern. He just shrugged her off and stood up.

"Someone watch my food…" He mumbled and walked away, disappearing into the crowd. He stopped in front of the door which would lead straight into the living room. 'I shouldn't go in… it would be awkward if I saw her in there.' Blue hair caught Soul's attention just as he placed his hand on the door knob. He could see Black*Star talk and push Maka onto him. Something in Soul's body started to ache, even when Maka slapped the bastard. 'Godammit!' Soul screamed in his head. He didn't care if Maka could hear him or not, he just had to do something before he burst. Maka was coming towards him unaware that he was standing there.

Soul had mentally kicked himself to move. He quickly made his way back to the rest of the gang, Kid now gone. He quietly thanked Liz for guarding his food and gazed at Maka as she passed them. Hiro had his mouth hung open so far that Soul could have sworn that it was touching the ground. He was staring at Maka's legs and that made Soul want to punch him. "You're fucking drooling again." He said as he planned Hiro's and Black*Star's deaths, their very slow and painful deaths.

"Hiro's blushing! He's like a tomato!" Patty and Liz sang out. Tsubaki couldn't help but giggle and Crona just stared, unsure of what to do.

"I am not!" Hiro yelled at them. Soul just grinned.

"Well, as you continuously stare at the poor girl's butt the little hero's going to rise up. I think it's safe to say that you are." The girls blushed and Hiro checked himself.

"Again, I am not!" He wailed as Soul left them once again. This time he was actually going to speak to Maka. She looked bummed out as she leaned on the table with a cup and plate in hand when Soul approached her.

"Hey Maka, this party blows… I want to go home." Soul joined her and grabbed a cup too. Maka hummed and continued her lazy staring at her plate. "Our clothes are in the trunk of the motorcycle. Stay here and I'll go get them?" She hummed again. "Okay then."

Soul jogged out of the party and around the terribly large mansion. When he got to the front yard he was greeted with a maze of parked cars. He cursed himself for not remembering where he had parked the damn bike and raced through the rows of vehicles. By the time he found it he had wasted a good fifteen minutes. He sighed and threw a leg across the bike since he figured that he'd just bring it around the house and leave quickly. Then his phone started ringing.

"What's up?" He answered.

"Soul, y-you won't believe what's happening right now! Can you see it from where you are?" Black*Star was laughing his ass off as he spoke.

"No? I'm in the front yard. What's going on?"

"Get back here! You'll be so surprised that this slave could actually get someone."

"Slave huh." Soul whispered after he hung up. He could hear chanting off in the distance. His bike slowly stopped at the side of the house and he jumped off. He was really excited for what he was about to see but he froze when he saw it. The crowd of people were pushed aside by Black*Star as he grabbed Soul and pulled him to see the shock of a scene. Hiro was trapping some girl in a corner, trying to kiss her. He didn't seem to mind the punches and kicks she gave him. Soul screamed six words over the chanting and silenced everyone else.

"Get the fuck off my meister!"

|I DO NOT OWN SOUL EATER|

In this story Crona is identified as both she and he. Oh shit! Past me, your writing is so childish.