Maka woke with a start. She was in her room, in wet cloths and she sensed another presence.
"Come out, I know you're here no point in hiding."
"Soul perception or you are very paranoid." she saw Kid get up from a chair in the corner of her room. "I'll go with the first because my father said you are his best and one of the most talented students."
"Why are you here?" Maka walked to her closet. It was light out so maka assumed once she collapsed she was brought home. "I don't want to talk to you. I have the worst feeling you knew and you just wanted to make me think you were-"
"I didn't know it was you." kid said harshly, he was hurt that she would accuse him of such a thing. "I'm still that confused boy you met at the cafe, look maka we can take a nontraditional approach to this."
This interested her. From Maka had read and heard about arranged marriages women were treated like property and not given a say at all. She still wanted to finish making soul a death weapon, she wanted to travel on her own and enjoy it.
"Look Maka if it wasn't obvious i was attracted to you and unless i was reading the situation wrong you liked me too.." Kid was a little embarrassed admitting this. "Let's look at it this way. Maka Albarn will you be my girlfriend until you're ready to be my wife?"
The blond girl tilted her head. "So you're saying that we only 'date' until i'm ready? How is that gonna work i'm going to be mrs. death in a week."
"Maka i don't really want this either, but let's look at it as a engagement." Kid reached into his pocket. "I have two rings here, you chose when the wedding one is staying on, the engagement one is yours for whenever." hkid was nervously rubbing the back of his neck. "I don't expect you to where them, but know it's up to you." Kid went to the window to leave.
"Why would i trust you?" Makas cold tone was wavering.
"Well… there's gotta be some butterflies somewhere, wanna share?" kid tried. Leaving the small velvet box on her dresser.
"Hey kid, i expect a proper first date pick me up at the front door at eight."
(time skip)
Soul was sitting lazily on the couch. "Hey maka, Batman's on."
"Not tonight Soul. what time is it?" Maka ran down stairs putting on a pair of black wedges.
"Seven fifty five," soul tuned to see his meister in a emerald green, and a little short for his liking, sundress with Black thigh highs and a black leather jacket. Her hair was in one ponytail and black waterliner made her eyes pop. these were date clothes. "you are not going out like that."
"You're not my father, it's just a date soul you dont think id be the kind of girl to put out on the first date do you." the intensity in her eyes told him to choose his words carefully.
"No i'm just worried, i'm your weapon i need to watch out for you. The girl rolled her eyes putting in some shinigami mask earrings.
The doorbell ran and before Maka could go for it soul answered.
"oh , Hi you must be Soul, the demon scythe correct?" Kid put out his hand. "Death the Kid pleasure to meet you."
Soul glared at his hand. "Soul play nice, sorry about him he's protective." maka stepped out the door, "Bye soul I'll be home by eleven."
"So my lady, how does dinner sound?" Kid tried to keep his voice cool. He saw her nod then said. "The fall fair is open, so that after?"
"Sounds fun?" Maka's voice was lacking emotion. "Kid, I don't want to hate you, in fact before yesterday i really liked you, so can we drop the marriage thing for tonight? Just be a normal boy and a normal girl on a normal date?"
Kid nodded as the two walked in awkward silence. "Hey maka do you want to do something fun?" he summoned Beelzebub. He got on and he instructed for her to got on the board and get on
Maka recently did as she was told. She was a little scared she knew what it was and what it did. As Kid shot the bored up Maka held on tight. "Kid what are you doing?" she squeezed her eyes shut and tightened her arms.
"Open your eyes, were not going up anymore." Kids voice was soft. Maka slowly opened her eyes. She doesn't know if it was fear or the sight of Death City but she forgot how to breathe.
Kid slowly headed toward the downtown area. The small homes and the fluorescent lights of restaurants and stores put her in a trance. KId looked behi ned him to see her eyes widen as they lowered. "And here we are." Kid lowered into the restaurant Maka was at with her father not even five days ago.
Maka got down as kid walked her in. "hi reservations please."
"Death the Kid for two." the woman's eyes widened as she looked between them.
"This way please she hurried over to a table on the side that was a little boxed in. it was a lot nicer than the regular floor places. This was weird to be here with a boy on a date.
Though the day started with keeping her guard up Maka finally relaxed by dessert and they got into deep conversations she couldn't have with most of her friends. This was nice having a nice conversation with a guy on the same intelligence level as her. Maka had begun to talk about her schooling and teachers.
"oh , i start there next wednesday." Kid sounded pretty excited.
"Good luck getting my class to like you…" Maka shivered at what the class has done to subs.
"They already do, doing a short viewing i Kicked a boy named Ox's ass." maka laughed as she bit into a bite of a chocolate cake.
To Kid this was going great. She was laughing talking and didn't seem even remotely mad. "So Maka I know we agreed not to talk about it but how does this work, i mean we only have a week of being normal teenagers." make sighed and motioned for him to continue. "I think we give this week a sort of couple run so to say. Tomorrow you can tell your friends you are dating, we go out all week get comfortable with each other, and thursday we tell them we're getting married, friday i say we do something all day."
"Well… i see you have thought this through." maka shook her head it was a lot to take in at once though she knew Kid was right. "You make it sound easy."
"I've had sixteen years to think about it and my weapons already know, but if you need help i'm here." Kid took this time to take both her hands. "We are both going to have a hard time with this."
"Kid," His eyes darkened like he knew she wanted to go home. "Let's get the check and go to the fair." Kid smiles gratefully.
(time skip)
It was around ten thirty when Kid agreed to one last ride. "Your weapon will kill me if were late and you know it.
"Oh hush he's a cinnamon roll, i want to go on the ferris wheel." she grabbed his hand and ran for it. Kid blushed a little the more comfortable she got the bolder she got. Once they were on the ride she still didn't let go of his hand. "It's so pretty up here."
"Yes it is you should see the view at sunset." kid smiled at her. "We can go sometime this week i know the perfect place. Maka looked at him and smiled nodding furiously. They sat in an oddly comfortable silence.
Kid decided it was time to be a little more forward. He unlocked their hands and put his arm around her. At first maka tensed then she relaxed and leaned into him slightly. "You know this i could get used to easily." kid whispered into her hair.
Maka nodded hating to admit she enjoyed the date a lot. Kid brought back his board and fle her home.
"Well Maka albarn you are one hell of a first date." Kid stuck out his hand and.
"Well Death the Kid for a death god you are one hell of a wimp." wid looked confused as she pulled him down to her eye level. "You have got to take a chance." she kissed him. It was quick and innocent beut before he could even react she was into the door.
Maka found it odd when people the next day at school said they saw a giant bird screaming happily that night.
