"Maka, are you sure you want to go to this thing?" Soul asked from his room, where he was changing.
"Why? Do you not want to go anymore?" Maka asked from her room, where she was changing.
"I just, I just don't have anything to wear, costume wise."
Maka rolled her eyes. She was already undressed and ready to get into her costume so, she just grabbed the nearest blanket and wrapped it around her bare body.
"Alright, hold on."
Maka tied a knot at the top of the blanket so it would stay together as she moved. She walked across the hall to Soul's room and smiled.
"So, what's the trouble?" She asked peering into Soul's closet.
"I don't have anything that could pass for a costume." Soul passed every shirt and pair of pants in his closet. "Nothing."
"Well, sure you do, look here." Maka pointed to an old blue dress shirt that probably didn't fit Soul anymore.
"What, this?" Soul pulled the shirt out from behind the others and held it up. "I got this for the first party we had at DWMA, that was three years ago. It probably doesn't even fit me."
"That's the point."
"Huh?" Soul was confused.
Maka took the shirt off the hanger and put it on Soul.
"See, I can hardly breathe."
Maka nodded. "Now breathe."
"The shirt will rip."
"I know. That's the point."
"What are you planning?"
"I have some fake blood from last year so, I can cover the spots that are ripped in blood. Then, you can tell people that you're a zombie or something, I don't know. Whatever you want." Maka smiled.
"You are a genius." Soul kissed Maka's cheek. "What're you going as, the girl who got eaten by a snuggie?"
Maka laughed. "No, I just wrapped this around myself to come help you." Maka shook her head. "Now, if you don't mind I'll go change into the angel skin."
Soul smiled and nodded. Maka went back to her room to change.
In less than 7 months we'll have a baby, Maka thought as she rubbed her belly.
I'm going to be someone's dad at 18, Soul thought. He didn't know it, but his face was filled with worry at the time.
"Hey!" Tsubaki yelled over to Maka and Soul.
"Hey Tsubaki!" Maka yelled back.
Tsubaki walked over to them.
"You're an angel!"
"It seems that way, huh?" Maka mocked.
"What gave her away? The wings?" Soul wiggled Maka's feathery wings under his palms. "Or maybe the halo?" He flicked her halo with his index finger.
Maka nudged Soul in the rib cage. "Stop being a jackass."
"Ow," Soul muttered as he rubbed his side.
"So, what're you, a zombie?" Tsubaki was now glaring at Soul.
"Yeah, I guess."
Suddenly, there were three people walking, one person running, and one person slowly approaching Soul, Maka, and Tsubaki.
"SOUL!" Black Star yelled as he ran toward Soul.
"BLACK STAR!" Soul yelled as he ran toward Black Star.
"OH SOUL!"
"BLACK STAR!"
They embraced each other with a hug.
"They really do need help," Kid said as he came into view.
"I'm afraid so," Liz said.
"Ha ha ha weirdos," Patti said coming up from behind Liz.
Crona creeped up behind her a few minutes later.
"Hey Maka," Crona said in his usually shaky voice.
"Hey Crona."
Maka put on a big smile for him, she knew he probably didn't know how to handle a party full of people dressed up as different things.
"So, what are you suppose to be?" she asked him.
Crona looked down at what he was wearing, as if he didn't remember.
"I think Liz told me it was a pirate costume."
Crona had multiple rags for clothes on and a single black eyepatch. And when Ragnarok came out he looked like a parrot, except he didn't like being a parrot so he didn't come out often.
Liz came up behind Crona.
"It is! Doesn't he totally look rugged?"
"He looks nothing like him old self, that's for sure." Maka laughed.
"Isn't that the point of Halloween?"
Maka smiled and nodded. "So, what're you?" She asked.
Liz's mouth fell open. "Isn't it obvious." She flipped her hair back. "I am a model."
Maka looked at Liz again, examining her clothes. She had a seriously short red, plaid skirt and a red plaid top that looked like a bra on, with matching knee-high black boots.
"Uh. . .No, it isn't obvious. First look at you, you look like a prostitute."
"Oh ho ho ho."
"Santa!" Patti screamed, coming out from behind Liz.
Patti was a giraffe for the party. Eve though all she was wearing was yellow, you could tell she was a giraffe.
"Look at you with the 12 pound cleavage," Liz said.
"Come on Liz, I'm," Maka quieted her voice to a whisper. "I'm pregnant, you know that, and my dad wanted me to come to this thing. He wanted me to where Mama's costume."
"Okay."
"I'm sorry I said your costume looked like something a prostitute should wear. You do look very hot, though."
"It's okay." Liz smiled. "You look hot too."
"Thanks."
"Soul better watch out."
"I don't think so, everybody probably already knows that I'm. . .you know. Why would they want me?"
"I don't think it matters. Look around, ever since you came in thee door the guys have all been staring at you non-stop."
"Really?" Maka stopped to look around. It was true, all the guys were staring at her, unless she made eye contact, then they would look at their red solo cups.
"Why don't you have a costume?" Soul asked as he pulled his fist away from Black Star's.
"I do!" Black Star yelled.
"What is it then?"
"I'm a star!"
Soul's face turned from happy to see Black Star to irritated at him.
"Wow."
"Hey," Kid said.
"Hey. What're you suppose to be, a symmetrical mime?" Soul laughed.
"Ha ha, very funny. For your intuition, I am a symmetrical vampire." Kid pulled his red cape up over his body so nothing was showing but his face. He bared his fake, blood filled fangs.
"Nice."
Kid and Black Star shifted their eyes over to Maka.
"So, how are you doing with everything?" Black Star asked.
"Fine, I'm getting use to it all still."
"Hmm. . .Looks like Maka is already adjusted," Kid said still looking at Maka.
"How so?" Soul asked.
"C'mon man, you can tell she's ready," Black Star said.
"How?" Soul asked again.
"She has a certain. . .What's the word?. . .Glow to her. She seems happy, you can just tell she's ready," Kid said.
"You don't seem as happy. . .you don't seem ready," Black Star said.
Soul just continued to stare at them.
Black Star glanced back at Maka.
"Don't look now, but it looks like Maka's in for a new boyfriend."
Soul and Kid turned their eyes to see Maka and practically all the guys at the party surrounding her.
"This won't be good," Kid said.
"Of course it will! I'll be there!" Black Star yelled.
Kid sighed into his hand. "Idiot."
"Hey Maka," a guy at the party said.
"Hey. . ." Maka said, trying to figure out who he was.
"Dante."
"Dante." Maka smiled.
"I'm Atticus!"
"Hi, Atticus." Maka smiled again, but she had the feeling that whatever was happening wasn't good.
"Do you remember me?" A guy walked out from behind all the others and made himself the center of Maka's sight.
"Eita!" Maka smiled once more, but this time it was real.
"Hey Maka. How have you been?"
"Great! What about you?"
"I'm alright, I got accepted to Stanford a few weeks ago."
"That's great! I don't know if I'm even going to be able to go to college."
"You better get over there before she agrees to write his name on the birth certificate instead of your's," Kid said.
Soul growled, he stomped over to where Eita and Maka were standing.
"Soul," Maka said as he made his way over. "This is-"
"Eita, I know."
"I didn't know you knew Eita."
"Yeah, we've known each other since pre-school, if you can believe it," Eita said looking at Soul, who was still growling under his breath.
"Seriously?"
"Yeah," Eita said with a large smile plastered on his face.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Maka asked Soul.
"Because I. . ." Soul looked at Eita, then at Maka and realized she wouldn't believe him if he told her the truth. Better he didn't make a scene at the party so, he lied. "Because I didn't want you to see how good a guy he was."
Soul's fake smile was real enough to pass by Maka, but Eita saw right through it.
"I'm going to go get some punch, but it was nice seeing you again," Maka said as she walked to the beverage table.
"Maka!" Soul yelled to her across the room.
Maka turned her head and looked at him.
"Make sure it isn't spiked this time!"
"I know!"
Maka laughed and turned back to the table. She loved how worried he had gotten about her, it was sweet.
Maka reached for a cup, but ended up clutching the table.
"Maka, are you okay?" Tifa asked.
"Yeah," Maka said pushing herself off the table, "I'm okay, Tifa. .Just a little dizzy."
Maka smiled, but she really felt like crying again. She hated how her emotions were bouncing off the walls all the time. One minute she would be mad, another crying, another happier than a pothead with drugs.
"What're you doing here, Eita?" Soul asked.
"What's a matter, Evans? Are you scared I'm gonna steal your girl?"
"You stay away from Maka," he demanded.
"Why should I? She likes me."
"She won't when she finds out who you really are?"
". . ."
"Nice costume. Decided to show who you really are tonight?" Soul asked, his eyes never leaving Eita's. "A monster."
"You're never going to forgive me, are you?"
"Hell no."
"It was like five years ago, Soul, let it go!"
"How can I let it go?"
~Flashback~
"Eita, where are you going?" Soul asked.
"I'm leaving."
"Where?"
"I don't know."
"I'll come with you."
"No."
"Why not?!"
"DWMA. Enroll there."
"If you leave I won't have a partner!"
"Even if I went there and tried to enroll they would kick m out right away, Soul. I've been to juvy six times already. I'm on probation, if I mess up one more time they'll send me away. I'll never see you again."
"Be good then!"
"It isn't that easy, Soul!"
"Why can't it be?"
"Soul. . ."
"Other than Wes, Eita you are my only family. Please don't leave."
"It's for your own good, Soul."
"How?"
". . .I slept with Rydia."
"What?"
"I'm sorry."
"You bastard, you aren't sorry!"
Soul threw a punch right in Eita's face, he fell to the ground by his bike.
"I deserve that."
"No. . .You deserve a lot more."
"But, you're right. I'm not sorry. Rydia liked it, she liked it more than she ever liked you."
Soul had to stop himself from pounding him even more into the ground. "Leave."
Eita picked himself off the ground, wiping the blood from his mouth.
"What happened to staying?" Eita asked sarcastically.
". . ."
Soul turned his back to Eita and started walking away.
"So, I guess this is the right kind of ending for a romantic drama, huh?" Eita laughed.
Soul shook his head, but didn't turn back.
~End of Flashback~
"You slept with my girlfriend."
Eita gave Soul a wicked smile.
"Do you guys still talk ever?" Eita asked.
"Who?"
"Rydia, or did you break u with her right away? I know you were dieing to give her your 'flower'." He laughed harder this time.
"We haven't spoken since that day, no."
"Are you sure you're okay?" Tifa asked.
"Yeah. . .I'm. . .fine. . ."
Maka fell to the wooden floor.
"Maka!"
Soul and the others all ran to the source of the yell.
When they all were surrounding Maka, she was still lying on the floor, unwavering.
Soul knelt and picked her up in his arms. "Maka! Maka can you hear me!"
"You should get her to Stein," Kid said.
"I'll drive you there!" Tsubaki offered.
"It's fine, I can get her there myself."
"Soul, you can drive her on a motorcycle while unconscious, and especially not when she's pregnant," Liz whispered.
"Yeah!" Patti screamed.
"It's alright guys," Black Star began, "I helped Soul pick out a car the other day."
"I guess you are ready, well, sort of," Kid said.
"Can I do anything to help?" Eita asked, coming into view.
"Stay away from them!" Soul demanded.
Eita walked away.
"What was that about?" Liz asked.
"Never mind that, just stay away from him."
With that, Soul left the party carrying Maka in his arms.
Halfway to Stein's house Maka woke up. She rubbed her forehead with her hand.
"Soul. . ."
"Maka, thank god."
"What happened?"
"You like passed out, or something. I don't know exactly I wasn't by your side."
"It's okay, I'm okay. We don't need to go to Stein's."
"Maka, you fainted out of nowhere, we're going to Stein."
"It said in Your Pregnancy: Week by Week that around week eleven I would start getting dizzy. I guess, I just fainted."
"You sure you're alright?"
"Yes, I'm fine. I like how you're so worried, though."
"Yeah, it's a new thing."
Maka smiled. "We can go home now."
"I think I'm gonna go to bed," Soul said as he stood up from the couch.
"Okay, but can I ask you something?"
Soul scratched his white sleep shirt. "I guess."
"Why didn't you tell me you knew Eita?"
"Maka, can we not get into this now?"
"Please," she begged.
"Eita was my meister before I met you."
"Wow. Why didn't you want to tell me that?"
"He hurt me, hurt me bad."
"What did he do?"
Maka was practically twisting one of Soul's old shirts that she wore for a sleep shirt because she was so anxious to hear the answer.
"He slept with my girlfriend, Rydia. And, I told him to leave. Never saw him again, at least until tonight."
"Is that why you were so tense at the party? You saw him talking to me."
"Soul, I'm not going to cheat on you."
"I know, but I can't help how I feel about you, or people when they're around you."
Maka smiled again. "You can go to bed now."
Maka lifted herself off the couch and headed off to her room, but Soul grabbed her arm.
"What's the matter, Soul?"
Soul didn't speak. He bent down on his knees and cupped Maka's tiny bump in his hands.
"Goodnight baby."
Soul pulled Maka's stomach closer and kissed her right on the belly button.
Maka giggled. "I never figured you would do something like that."
"Neither did I, but I guess I'm just," he smiled, "ready."
A.N. Thank you all for the reviews. Keep reviewing, I love reading all of them. I should tell you guys I'm leaning towards a boy for their child, but that doesn't mean you can't keep reviewing girl names. It really means so much to me that you all like this story so much.