Author Note: I have nothing to say.
Maka: What's wrong?
Miki: Nobody's reviewed! *breaks down crying*
Tsubaki:Well, that's mean.
Miki: O.o when'd you get here?
Chapter 2- Christmas Surprise
Once Soul was better, wrapped tightly in bandages to keep his wound from re-opening, which made Maka and the rest of there friends glad, ecspecially since he'd gotten better just in time for the holidays.
Black Star and Kid had been taking the holidays worse than what they should have been, plastering fake smiles on there face, and the occasional Symmetry or God outburst, but really the rest knew it had to be something about that white two-demensional thing that had been pasted on cardboard and decorated with pink flowers.
Liz kept making small clicking noises with her tongue when they all met up on Christmas day, and she has passed out her presents that she has decorated herself with small bows and pictures of frogs for Patty.
That day they agreed to have Patty pretend to be Santa, who, was rather upset to learn that he wasn't actually real, but, rather a figment of cruel humor and imagination. She passed out a square box to each of them, something from Kid, that had it's hours of symmetry ruined in the five seconds that Black Star had in his hands.
Patty passed out her present, which was, much to everyone's surprise was a stuffed animal to which she thought was best suited for them, a haughty gorilla for Black Star and a gentle seal for Tsubaki.
Maka gave each of them a book, different things to fit there needs, oragami, romance novels, and others, hoping they'd please everybody. That was the one time that every body was happy to see a book.
But, the best part of the day wasn't getting gifts, or being able to see Kid and Black Star gag when they saw a postcard from the two-demensional freak appear in there mailbox, or even being able to see Liz have to kiss Kid's cheek when they fell under the mistletoe together.
The best part, the part that Maka, at least, thought was the best was when her and Soul went out to walk around in the streets, watching people run in and out of shops, shopping bags filled and the occasional cuss. It might have been chaos, but, somehow it was peaceful.
"So, Soul, now that your better what do you want to do?" She asked, putting one foot in front of the other, watching them stomp back down into the sandy streets of Death City. How she would love to see snow again, the time when she had gone to London to spend Christmas with her Aunt and Uncle.
"I dunno, anything I suppose." He said, shrugging. She frowned at his very unoptimstic attitude, even though it was Christmas for crying out loud. Was there anything she could do to make him at least a bit more excited?
"How about the sweet shop?" She suggested, pulling him closer to a store that had fudge and candy canes in display, surrounded by what she thought was coconut, and a little fake train with M&M on top.
"Sure."
She pulled him inside to find the store empty, a woman at the counter reading a newspaper, eyes darting back and forth across it, like she wasn't reading it rather she was watching it.
"Hello, welcome to Linda's Sweetest Sweet Shop, I am Laine, Linda's daughter, how can I help you?" The whole thing that tumbled out of her mouth sounded rather rehersed.
"Nothing, we were just looking," Maka said sweetly, bending down to examine the carmal apples underneath the case.
The woman shrugged, popped her gum and returned to her newspaper, like she was regretting being Linda's daughter.
"Hey, Maka, look at this," Soul called from the other side of the room, waving his hand back and forth manically to her. "They look like little snowmen."
She paused in front of a display case that Soul was standing in front of, digging her hands into her pockets. In the case were three or four white chocolate balls stacked to look like snowmen with chocolate chips for buttons, nose, and eyes.
They ended up leaving the shop without buying anything.
They walked back to there apartment, a silent agreement to not say anything and just listen to the soft playing of Christmas tunes that were playing from fuzzy speakers around the street.
Stores were closed, and the only thing that appeared to be open was the candy stores, Wal-Mart (when is not open?), and a Toy Store that went by the name Toy World. Maka stopped by the window of 'Toy World' watching the people pick out last minute presents, or them just filtering around, chatting with the owner.
There was a small girl with ribbons in her dark hair, a dress that fell just passed her kness and black shined shoes. If you looked close enough, you'd think that she was dressed for Easter Sunday instead of being the daughter of a successful lawyer.
She was crying over something, and when Soul came over to see what was taking Maka so long to catch up to him, they saw the girl point to a stuffed white polar bear, a pink bow wrapped around it's neck, black thread sewed into a smile.
She was pointing, and her father was ingnoring her as he walked around and occasionally stopped at a thousand piece puzzle, moving his mouth so that it sounded something like he was asking her if she would like to sit for five consecutive hours on her knees and try to figure it out.
"Okay, let's go Soul, I've seen enough," Maka said, turning away from window back to the sidewalk.
She was alone.
"Soul?"
He walked out of the Toy Store, carrying a lollipop, which he handed to Maka. "I got that from the kid, she was just so excited that I went to talk to her, because, you know, I'm that popular."
But, right before he left, Maka looked back inside to see the girl cuddliing the white bear, all of her ribbons taken from her hair and placed around the bear's neck.
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