The forever piece
Chapter 2: Reunion
Kid had thrown the party in order to celebrate his latest success with the record company. Of course there isn't a better way in celebrating it than throwing a mingle party with every worker in his company and inviting his friends. I beat Liz was the one who came up with the idea. She always liked to party and go to night clubs when we were in our teen years. Liz was always the party animal while Kid was her owner, keeping her in check and taking care of her.
Kid and Liz live a couple of cities away from Death City so we drive to the city in our car. The car was packed with our bags and formal clothes for the party. I was excited to see Kid and Liz again and Patty. I hadn't seen Patty in some time now. The last time I heard from her was months ago and that is when she sent Soul and I a postcard from Africa. She had been on safaris and volunteered to save the giraffes and help the wounded giraffes by taking them to a vet. She is a brave one.
"We are almost there." Soul says while keeping his eyes on the road. "What are you thinking about? You have been quiet for some time now."
I sigh loudly. Ever since Tsubaki brought up marriage and her pregnancy, my mind had started to wander. The idea of getting married to Soul and having a child with him is very intriguing. The whole growing old together is something I want and there isn't anyone else I want than Soul. He has always been my first love and I don't want any second or third one. I want Soul and that is what I'm sure about. Then there was that nagging feeling in my chest, the feeling that I wasn't quite okay with it. I don't know why I'm feeling like that, but that is what I'm feeling.
"Can't tell you. It is a secret." I say while I look out the window. "I promised Tsubaki I wouldn't tell anyone."
Soul nods slowly. "Is that so? You can't even tell that to me?"
I shake my head but then I remember Soul can't quite seem me since his eyes are glued on the road. "No, I'm the only exception since I am her best friend."
Soul sighs, "I understand. I can't make you break girl code." Soul then drives up on Liz's driveway. My eyes widen. It looks like they are living in a giant modern white castle with black touches to it. Their garden is large and has exotic and rare bushes and trees. It is absolutely beautiful.
"Wow…"
"Beautiful, isn't it?"
"Yeah. It looks like they pulled out a castle of a fairytale."
Soul chuckles and gets out of the car. He leans inside of the car and smirks at me. "When you are done admiring their mansion, you can help me with our bags."
I blush a bright red and get out of the car. It is something with him that always gets my heart to flutter and my fingers to tingle. It is kind of weird that after all of these years he still gets me to blush and my heart to speed up and my body to heat up. I like it.
"I'm already finished." I say and get out of the car. Soul has already opened the car door and gets our bags out. I grab my suitcase along with my dress and hang it over my shoulder. Soul closes the car and locks it.
"Maka!"
I smile wide when I see Liz on the porch waving toward me. "Hi Liz! I hope we aren't too late! We had some trouble with the traffic!"
Liz runs down from the porch and up to me. "All the others are already here and getting their rooms ready. You have to hurry up and get your things on your room. Dinner is almost ready." Now I see just how large Liz's belly is. She must be pretty far in but she isn't at the end yet. She still has two or three months left of her pregnancy.
Soul walks up next to me and smiles toward Liz. "You know we aren't the fastest ones when it comes to get settled. Show us our room fast then." I stomp Soul on the foot and he groans loudly in pain. He is lucky I'm not wearing any heels or else he would be hurting much more.
"Soul. You don't have to be rude."
"He is right. Let me show you your room." Liz says and she greets us inside of her and Kid's home. Liz walks up a staircase and walks along a corridor to the end of it and opens a door to us. "Welcome to your home over the weekend."
I walk inside and I see a large queen-size bed with white and black sheets. On the wall hangs a TV and inside the room is a door leading to what I'm guessing is a bathroom and a door that leads out to a small balcony. Beside the bed is a wardrobe in mahogany, I wonder how they are able to have an entire hotel in their home. Kid does make very good money to take care of his housewife and his child.
"Come down in ten. It isn't that hard finding the dining hall. Just walk down the stairs, take a right and then you will find it." Liz says before she exits the bedroom. I set down my clothing bag with my dress in on the bed. Soul drops everything on the floor and jumps on the bed and fortunately misses my bed.
"Soul. We are supposed to be unpacking." I say while I grab his clothing bag and mine and hang it on the bathroom door.
"We just got here. It is exhausting to drive for six hours. You know we can always unpack later." Soul says with his eyes closed and his arms behind his head.
I sigh and roll my eyes. While Soul keeps resting, I unpack my things and put the little clothes I brought with me inside of the wardrobe and my toothbrush inside of the bathroom. Ten minutes passes quickly and Soul and I walk down the stairs and follows Liz's directions. Inside of the dining room waits all of our friends.
Patty lights up more than usual when our eyes meet. "MAKA!" She runs toward me and throws her arms around me, and her legs wraps around my waist. Even though she has grown in size, she hasn't grown anything mentally. She is still the childish and hyperactive Patty she always been. "Wow Patty!" I say while I lose my balance but thankfully Soul puts his hand on my back and keeps me and Patty from falling backwards. "I'm glad to see you too!" I hug her back and she releases me and gets down on her feet.
"Did you get my postcards?" She asks excitedly.
I smile wide and nod. "Yes. You sent us very lovely pictures. I have put every single one of them in a special album." Which is completely true. All the pictures we ever took and all the pictures I ever got, I saved them all inside of a special album which will always get me to recall the good old days.
Black*Star tackles Soul to the ground and he grunts loudly in pain. Maybe I should have been there and caught him from falling this time. "Soul! Guess what! Guess what!"
Soul groans loudly while he pushes his friend away from him by pushing Black*Star's cheek away from him. "You idiot! That fucking hurt!"
"Shhhh!" Liz hushes loudly while she glares at Soul. "Don't curse in my house."
"Sorry." Soul says while he pushes Black*Star off of him while he rubs his back head. "My bad." That's surprising. Soul usually doesn't apologize for his bad language; actually, this is the first time I have heard him apologize for cursing.
"Apology accepted. You are lucky Amber isn't awake." Liz says while she crosses her arms. Amber is Liz and Kid's first daughter. She got her name because of her special features. Amber got her mother's golden blond hair and Kid's deep amber eyes. Kid and Liz said after she was born she is their little treasure and that she is their buddle of gold. So therefore she got her name Amber.
Kid wraps his arm around Liz and pulls her closer to him. "Let's stop this and go and have some dinner. I bet you are all hungry and our chef makes a wonderful chicken along with a mean chili sauce."
"Yay! Food! Food!" Patty chants while she walks toward the dining table.
"Oh boy! Food!" Black*Star is not far behind Patty, he has totally forgotten that he was going to tell something.
I giggle as I watch Patty and Black*Star fight over the food even though there is food for an entire army. I feel Soul's hand snake into mine and he squeezes it. "We should also join them. I'm starving." I smile and nod.
Kid was right. The dinner was delicious and fantastic. The chili sauce he was talking about was really hot and very delicious. Normally I don't go for the chili and spicy things (except for Soul's lips) but that sauce was really good and it fit well to the chicken. During the whole dinner I noticed Tsubaki not taking a sip from her red wine Liz had poured up for her. So even she didn't know about the pregnancy.
"Oh!" Liz says. "You should check this out! I got a photographer to take some pictures of―"
"Mommy?" We all turn around and we see Amber standing in the doorway rubbing her eyes while she holds her bear to her. "I can't sleep."
"Oh honey." Liz gets up from her chair and walks over to Amber and picks her up before she kisses her cheek. "Let me put you back in bed." Liz turns toward us. "You can go to the living room. I'm feeling for a girl's night." Liz then disappears and we do as Liz says. We take our drinks with us and leave the guys by the table talking about a poker night.
We reach the living room and I bet Liz wanted us to check out the pictures of Amber. She was dressed in cute dresses with flowers in her hair. There were pictures of them as a family with Kid having his arm around Liz and Liz having Amber on her lap. My eyes locked at three pictures on the wall. The first picture is of Liz with her shirt pulled up and on her stomach it says "baby soon to arrive." On the second picture it is of Liz's much larger stomach and Kid kissing her stomach. The third picture is empty; it is just the golden frame with a black picture.
"I'm going to put the picture of the baby there." I turn and see Liz standing at the door frame. She smiles and walks toward me. "I know exactly how I want the picture to be. I want her in Kid's arms and me hugging Kid from behind."
"It is a great idea." I say while I watch at all the pictures with Liz smiling happily at the camera. "You look so happy."
Liz nods while she takes a sip from her alcohol-free cocktail. "Of course I am. Expecting your child with the man you love is the greatest feeling ever. It is tough with the pregnancy but I couldn't be any happier." Liz turns her body fully toward me. "Did you notice how Soul was looking at Amber earlier?"
I raise my eyebrow. I hadn't. I had been so busy watching Liz mothering her daughter to notice.
"His eyes." Liz says. "They sparkled and he smiled dreamily. I have seen Kid looking at other children like that before we had Amber. I have even seen Black*Star looking like that."
"What are you implying at?" I say while taking a sip of my red wine.
"Oh you know what I mean." Liz says while she smiles wide. "He wants to be a father. He wants to have a baby with you."
I almost spit out my drink. A baby. But we aren't even married yet and we haven't even discussed marriage or about any babies yet. We haven't really talked about any of those kinds of things. We always talk about achieving our personal goals, like for Soul, making more music and spreading his muse to the world while mine are improving my publish company as much as I can and make the world a better place for me and Soul.
"Yeah!" Patty says. Soul was looking all "awwww" before he supported his hand on his chin and looks so dreamily at Amber!" Patty says while she giggles loudly. "He looked soooo cute!"
"That's right." Tsubaki says smiling warmly. "I saw it too. He knows the order it comes in, I'm sure he will ask you to marry him really soon."
My cheeks heat up to unbearably hot. Bearing Soul's child. The thought has crossed my mind but then that nagging feeling returned. Something about pregnancies and marriage always brings out that nagging feeling, like something I have forgotten.
"Hold on!" I say while I hold my hands up. "We haven't even talked about marriage or babies! He won't just go down on one knee and ask without talking about it with me! We aren't there yet in our relationship! We are both very comfortable being boyfriend and girlfriend!" I try to get control over the situation and I should know when they get an idea to mind, they won't let go so easily.
"Maka, Maka, Maka." Liz says while she wraps her arm around me. "This is some advice from a married woman. Kid and I never talked about marriage. The word marriage didn't exist in our relationship, but there Kid was on one knee and proposing to me. Guys want it to be a surprise. They know how smart women are, and Soul knows just how smart you are, he won't bring up marriage since he is afraid you will be expecting it. He wants you to be as shocked as you were when he disguised himself as Alec in our teen years."
Oh I was shocked alright. When I was attending my senior year Soul had dressed up as a guy from Texas by the name Alec. He had done it in order of stopping me from "dating" Kilik even though we weren't a couple. He had really managed to convince me he was this Alec person before he revealed himself as Soul Evans. I was surprised alright. So surprised and happy.
"Liz." I say while shaking my head slightly. "I don't think Soul would pull a move like this without talking about it with me. He doesn't even know if I want marriage or kids. He wouldn't propose to me without consulting me about it."
"Like you consulted him about buying the publish company?"
"LIZ!" Tsubaki hisses.
"What? It is true. It is just the same as this. Maka bought the publishing company because she wanted to. Soul wants marriage and kids and he will propose to her and risk being rejected." Liz smiles warmly toward me. "But we all know she would never reject him. They are head over heels in love with each other and have you looked at them interact? It is amazing. Maka wouldn't jeopardize what they have by rejecting him."
Or would I? I don't even know that myself. I would have to talk to Soul about it in order to figure it out.
