When We Were Kids

by Dancing in Crimson

Maka isn't to excited about moving back to Death City Nevada after 6 years of living in California. She is also not excited to be living in the same city with her worst enemy Soul Evans, who picked on and tortured her for 7 years of her life. Can they start fresh or will to many old feeling rise to the surface and scare Maka away again.

7. Chapter 7

Hey Guys! :) I'm not going to be able to update tomorrow! so I'm gonna update again tonight to make up for it :) I hope you like this chapter!

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-Alli

Maka's POV

I'm literally freaking out right now! It's only my second say back in DeathCity and I have already gotten myself tangled in a huge, sticky web of drama. I hate drama, I've never liked it. I try to avoid it the best I can. But thanks to my big mouth I've managed to piss off Soul, Black*Star and even Liz! She's angry because I didn't tell her about my boyfriend. My fake boyfriend may I remind you. So in the past 24 hours I've got myself a fake boyfriend who just happens to be one of my best friends, piss of Liz and Black*Star and trying to scare Soul away from me. Boy for a girl who doesn't like drama and does not believe in love, I sure attract a whole lot of it.

I'm sitting in the park waiting for Josh to get here, he told me he would meet me at noon and it's already 12:30. I told Soul to meet us at 1 that way I have some time to fill Josh in. I wait a few more minutes and decide to call Josh. I pull my cell phone out of my messenger bag, just about to hit call when I hear the engine of a familiar motorcycle pull up in front of the park bench I was sitting on.

I see Soul hop off the bike looking more pissed then anything. I look away quickly when he catches my wife eyes. Then I see a large black truck pull up right behind Soul and see my very own fake boyfriend Josh Merow step out of the drivers seat and look at me with a crazy smile on his face. WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOST TO DO NOW! I scream to myself but work up a fake smile and sit up straighter.

"Yo, Albarn." Soul walks up to me and I meet his eyes and get entranced. We stare at each other until I hear Josh clear his throat. I jump back a little but smile and stand up and walk over to Josh. He smiles and pulls me into a hug, I wrap my arms around his neck and pull myself up a bit more to whisper in his ear, "Just go with everything I say if you get stuck just look at me for help unless you already know the answer for sure." He nods and I pull back and give him a kiss on the cheek. He smiles wider and looks over my shoulder to Soul whose glaring giant holes in the back of my head.

"Soul I see you already met Josh." I say with a fake smile and he nods sharply. "Yeah we met dude bought me something to help my headache." He shrugs and Josh speaks up, "Like I said, I've had my share of hangovers in the past." Then something inside me snaps. "MAKA CHOP!" I hit Soul in the head with my new 708 paged fantasy novel. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR ALBARN?" Soul screams out in pain clutching his head yelling to the sky. Josh bursts out laughing. "I can't believe you Soul! You shouldn't have gone out that late at night alone with a bottle of alcohol! Are you an idiot? You could've, oh I don't know tripped and hit your head on a rock, fall in a hole and couldn't get out, or, or GET EATEN BY CYOTES!" I yell at him as he picks himself off the ground.

A little girl walks past us when I shout that and starts crying to her mom, "Could I get eaten by coyote's mommy. I'm too young to die!" She pulls her moms arm and the mom sends me an evil death glare pulling away her crying child.

"Why would you care if I got eaten by a coyote? I thought you hated me!" he shouts back and Josh is just watching in fascination. "I d-do, but that doesn't mean other people won't miss you! Soul you had Black*Star and Tsubaki worried sick. And even Kid was freaking out this morning when he woke up." I say. "Wait Kid spent the night at your place?" Soul asks. "Yes so did everybody else jackass. We didn't get home until 3!" he just nods. "Can we be serious for a minute Maka," he pauses to look at my blank expression then continues. "Why do you even care what happens to me? You haven't asked or talked about me in the past 6 years and now you're suddenly interested in keeping me safe? What's with you? One minute I think you hate me and the next minute you show signs of caring for me." He looks me in the eye and I feel my face heat up. I completely forget Josh is watching us until I hear him chuckle.

"She always talked about you. All the time actually." He says and I look over to him with the best glare I can muster up at the second. "I DO NOT!" I shout and he comes closer and wraps an arm around my waist. "Sure you do. Every time you got a text from Tsubaki you would throw your phone at the wall and tell me about how she is cleaning up Soul from a fight he got into or watching Black*Star and Soul at her apartment because they got to drunk to go home." He says and again my face flushes.

I glance at Soul and see him smirking at me. 'God I hate that smirk!' I think before I speak up. "I was just upset that Tsubaki had to watch Soul like he was a baby. And I was even more upset that he couldn't act like an adult for once." I cross my arms and point my nose to the air. And I hear both boys laugh. "What's so funny?" I look over to Josh. Who just winks at me and then I look at Soul. "Maka, Maka, Maka." He shakes his head at me. "You may look totally different but you're till the same old Maka." "What I am not!" I protest and I stomp my foot. And he laughs again. "See! I remember that one time I put red hair dye in your shampoo bottle; your hair was red for a week. You gave me the exact same look you giving me now and even hit me with several different dictionaries." He laughs and I giggle remembering that.

"How did he pull that one off?" Josh asked. "My mama and papa had to baby-sit him for a few hours when I was 12. He did it when I was studying in my bedroom." I say. "Well I think you'd look hot with red hair." He says kissing my forehead. It's not the first time he's done it so I'm pretty used to it. Soul stiffens and looks away. "Well Soul do you believe me now?" I ask. "Sure whatever." He grumbles and I give Josh a smile. "Well I have to go show Josh my apartment he has a lot of unpacking to do." I say pushing Josh to his truck, when a big hand grabs my wrist. "Wait Josh is staying at your apartment?" Soul swallows loudly and I remember how that sounds, He and my 'boyfriend' sharing an apartment by ourselves. Yeah that doesn't sound quite right. "U-um y-yeah, I I have a guest bed-bedroom." I stutter and Soul gets that smirk again.

"I thought your dad said no boys if you want to keep the apartment?" Soul raises an eyebrow. "You wouldn't." I challenge and he says. "I would. I have your dads number in my phone one call to your old man and you have live with him for the whole summer am I right." "God damn it Soul why do you even have my dad's number?" I question. "I have my ways." He shrugs. "No he buys you beer doesn't he?" I cross my arms. "Only for another year then I can do it myself." He smiles cheekily at me and I roll my eyes.
"Where the fuck can Josh stay then he's only staying for 2 weeks and I don't want him to have to sleep in a motel." I say. "I have a spare bedroom." Soul says. "No, not happing. I am not about to let my boyfriend sleep in the same house as my arch nemesis." He chuckles. "Don't trust me Maka?" I flash of what happened years ago in the woods go through my head, and I flinch. "N-no sadly I don't you have never given me a reason to." I state and he looks at me. "Then let me give you a reason." He walks closer and I thank God Josh cuts in. "Ha ha very funny now back away." He steps in front of me and I sigh with relief. Soul just rolls his eyes.

"Not cool. Any way, Josh I insist you stay my place for the next couple weeks. No charge just helping a friend." he looks at me. "Thanks man that would be awesome." Josh says. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING? You can't stay with him!" I shout to him. "Don't worry babe, nothings going to happen. I just need a place to stay during the night, throughout the day I'll be hanging with you." He smiles and I feel a little better. "Fine whatever, but you listen here Soul, you try any funny business just remember that I got a bookshelf full of books that are just waiting to be permanently stuck in your skull." He chuckles holding his hands up saying he's innocent. "Chill Maka nothings going to happen." He assures me and I nod. "Come on you guys can follow me, to the place it's a few minutes from here." Soul says pulling on his helmet and getting on his bike. Josh and I get in the truck and follow Soul to his apartment.

"I don't know what I was I thinking, I'm so stupid." I say to myself once we get on the road. "Maka just shut up for second." Josh says. "You're not stupid, just a little crazy. Now I know what I'm doing, I'll hang out with you and your friends all day and then stay the night at Soul's and then I'll leave in first thing in the morning. I will barley see him I swear." He calms me down and I just nod.

Once we get to the apartment complexes I see that it's literally 2 minutes and 4 seconds away from where I live and that's walking distance, it would probably take 30 seconds to drive to where I live. "How long have you been living here?" I ask Soul when I open the truck door. "Since I was 16." He says and my eyes widen. "You've been living on your own for 4 years?" I say and he chuckles. "Yup and I fucking love it. No one tells you what to do when to pick up or anything." He unlocks his door and I hold my breath waiting to see a filthy stinky home but when I walk in I gasp in awe.

It was beautiful! Perfectly clean not even a dish sitting anywhere. I quickly push Soul and Josh out of the way and walk around. "Sure come on in." I hear Soul grumble but I ignore him. "Soul are you sure you don't have a maid or something! This place is amazing!" I say and I hear him laugh. "Nope it's just me; I'm a secret clean freak." He tells me as the y follow me into the kitchen. "There's a not even a dish in the sink! Soul I didn't know you were like this!" I say in amazement. He just nods, "It's my little secret." He smiles and I smile back when I get a text message.

My phone goes off and I quickly open the text. It's from Liz. 'Hey girl, is Josh there yet? Well we are all going clubbing tonight and you have to come. Tell Soul and bring Josh I want to meet this guy.' I sigh in annoyance. 'Whatever and yeah he's here. It's going fine but I don't think I'm up for clubbing it's not my thing." I reply back. 'MAKA ALBARN! I haven't seen you in 6 years and you're going to ditch me already? You're going. Where something sexy and meet us at Death Hollows tonight at 9 J see you there.' "Hey guys the gang is going clubbing tonight at some place called Death Hollows and want us to come."
I say and Soul freezes. "What's up with you?" I ask and he shakes his head. "Nothing, nothing at all. What time?" He asks and I shake off the strangeness from him off and answer. "9:00, they want to meet you Josh." He smiles, "Who doesn't" we laugh for a minute. "Well I'm going to get going, Soul no funny business, Josh watch Soul." I order and head to the door. "Yes mother." Soul sighs and Josh laughs. "Bye angel." He kisses my head and I fake a smile I hate being called Angel and apparently Soul noticed because he smirked at me and I run to the door as fast as I can, and make my way to my apartment right down the road, shaking off that feeling in my stomach.

So like I said I'm going to update again tonight to make up for not updating tomorrow! So be ready guys cause the next chapter's really intense, or at least i think so ;)

-Alli