Okay, i wasn't really feeling this story at first, but you beautiful people convinced me otherwise.

So here you go, enjoy!

Well, my life hasn't gotten any easier.

I'm not saying that there's a higher power, but if there is, they must have fun tormenting me.

That's not cool, you say? Why am I acting like a whiny little girl, you ask?

I'll tell you.

Yesterday, me and Maka got sent on a mission. We went to some crappy little town in the middle of nowhere, because some dude was eating a bunch of human souls for fun.

Once we got there and Maka used her soul perception to find the creep in question, we scythed him. It wasn't much of a fight, since he was pretty slow on his feet. But he did get one good hit on Maka, and I fell from her hands as she went flying.

"Maka! Are you okay?" I immediately transformed back and ran to her side.

"Calm down Soul, I'm fine." Says the girl who just got thrown against a tree. She took the hand I offered to help her up, while trying to hide the wincing and whimpers caused by her tree related injuries.

"Sure, if you say so." By this time she was up and I was in weapon form again, and we kicked that creepy dude's ass.

And I asked her if was okay again, just before we got on my bike to go back to the academy.

"Soul! Quit worrying about me. I said I'm fine and I meant I am fine."

Jeez, you don't have to get angry about it.

I wasn't about to say that to her, because she was obviously ready to punch me in the face.

So we got on the bike and roughly ten minutes into our trip, I felt Maka's head fall against my shoulder and her grip around me relax a bit.

That was probably why she was so cranky earlier. She was tired.

Honestly, she calls me child, when she's the one who gets crabby if she doesn't get her nap.

I drive for as long as I can without stopping but my baby can only go so long without being filled up. So I get off the expressway and pull into the first gas station I see.

"Maka, you have to get up. Come on Sleeping Beauty, you pumping or paying?" I was trying to shake her awake so that she didn't do a face plant when I got off the bike. But she was ignoring me. Well, this was role reversal at its finest.

"Don't say I didn't warn you." I said as I got up and watched my meister face plant the leather seat, just as predicted.

Well, at least she was up now.

"Soul! What the hell?! Are you trying to break my nose? What did my nose ever do to you?"

She sprung off the bike almost as soon as her face made contact with the seat, and was now standing in front of me yelling, as I try to hide my satisfaction with my revenge. She dragged me out of bed quite violently some times, and this is what she gets for it.

"Hey, I tried to wake you up, but you were obviously emulating The Great Soul Eater." I replied with my patent pending Jack Ass Smirk.

"You're starting to sound like Black Star, you better watch it." Ooooh, burn.

"Wow, someone's cranky! I'll pay, you pump. Do you want anything?"

"No, I'm fine. Hurry up; it looks like it's going to rain soon." This made me look up, and sure enough, the sky was all dark and cloudy and shit.

"Oh great." With that, I went inside to pay and get myself a snack.

I walked into the gas station and the first thing I saw was the T.V. mounted above the cash register that was showing the local news.

"The green area here is a high pressure system that is coming in from the east and should be affecting this are soon. It'll be pretty bad, so try not to be on the road or outside. Stay tuned for updates on this storm."

"Aww, fuck." This earned me a disapproving look from the older lady behind the counter. Hasn't anyone ever told her that cool guys swear all the time?

I got out the DWMA credit card that comes with each mission, in case of emergency. Well, I would call this an emergency.

Handing the woman the card, I said, "Forty on three, please." She took the card and gave it the same look she gave me when I swore. That was probably because there was a picture of Lord Death on it. And if she didn't know who he was, then she was most likely weirded out by the picture. Oh well.

She swiped it and gave it back to me without saying a word. "Can you tell me where the nearest hotel is?"

At this, she looked up at me and then she narrowed her eyes out the window at Maka pumping the gas. I thought she was squinting because it was getting dark outside, but when she turned her eyes back to me and they were still slits, I knew I was wrong.

She saw me pull up on a bike, a hot girl in a mini skirt on the back, and I'm wearing a leather jacket, so she assumes I'm trouble. Oh, and I also said fuck. Big fucking deal. I don't have to deal with your shit, old hag.

I walk back to the snacks and grab a few kinds of chips, some beef jerky, some candy and some donuts, and get a couple pops to go with it all. Since we're going to be stuck here over night, we'll need some food. Going back to the bitch at the counter, I drop all my junk food for her to scan. Then I pick something off the display next to the register and toss it on the top of my pile of crap.

A condom.

And the look on that lady's face was priceless, let me tell you. I mean, obviously I would have no use for that condom any time soon; I just got it to piss her off even more. And hey, a guy can dream.

After that, she wouldn't look me in the eye. She just dumped all my stuff in a bag after I paid. But she left the condom on the counter.

I picked it up and she looked at me. I waved it at her.

"Fine, don't tell me where I can find a hotel. We'll just do it in a ditch or something. Have a good night, I know I will." This lady looked like she couldn't decide if she wanted to scream or cry. Priceless.

I took my bag and walked out the door.

"Jesus Soul, I was about to come make sure you didn't get killed or something. What took you so long?" My meister was walking toward me, and she actually looked kind of worried.

"Oh, sorry I was just talking to the cashier about the storm that's coming. Looks like we're gonna have to stay at a hotel or something. So I bought provisions." As I added that last part I held up the bag for her to see.

"Well let's get out of here before it starts pouring on us. So where is this hotel we're staying at?"

Ohhhh shiiiit. I was too busy insulting the old lady to care about the hotel.

"I'm sure there's one if we keep going. There's usually like ten as soon as you get off the expressway."

"So you're telling me you were in there chatting up the cashier all that time, and you didn't bother to ask where we could find a freaking hotel?" You know, sometimes I wish Maka wasn't as smart and observant as she is. But then I hit myself for wanting to change her.

"Lecturing me to death isn't going to get you anywhere, Maka. Now take this bag and get on the bike so we can find somewhere indoors to sleep. But I hear there are nice ditches around here if you would rather do that." I had to stop myself from laughing at my own joke, which made Maka give me a questioning look, since she didn't get the joke about the ditch. Oh well.

Did you like it? And did you get the joke about the ditch?

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