Chapter 7!^^ I'm sorry for the really late update. :) Thank you so much for all the reviews! It was very much appreciated(:

"Miss Marie, please...I'm willing to be your slave forever or be thrown in a dark dungeon, but PLEASE, PLEASE, please don't let me do this!"

"Miss Marie, please, have mercy!"

"We're going to behave from now on, we promise!"

"Please, Miss Marie, I beg you!"

After hearing Marie's decision, Maka and Soul went out of their heads and panicked. Why does she need to put them in one category? Geez, this is a free city, man!

Marie ignored their protests. "I'm sorry, Maka and Soul, but the both of you need this! How are you supposed to work together if you can't even get along with each other?"

Soul butted it. "We'll be good already, we promise!"

Marie just put on a sly grin and chuckled. "Sorry. It's too late for apologies."

"But Miss Marie-!"

"Please, woman, be reasonable!"

"There's no way I'm going to act with this stupid guy!"

"Shut up, Brain Freak!"

"Shut up yourself! I'm talking!"

"STOP!" Marie snapped suddenly. Once again, the meister and weapon became quiet, but kept on giving death-ray looks at each other.

"Geez, people. You're really pushing me to do this, aren't you? Well, I'm really doing this. No buts, ifs, or whatever." Marie sighed.

"But Miss Marie-!"

"NO PROTESTS!" Marie already shouted. The two students were shocked so they just kept their mouths shut.

Marie heaved a sigh again. "Geez. Now Maka, please come here and pick a kind of romance from this fishbowl." She gestured Maka to the bowl, which contains two slips of paper. "There are two kinds of romance categories: the teen romance and the adult romance. The teen romance is the typical love story between teenagers. Adult romance? Well, you already know that. Let's just say it's MORE than love. Love that you don't expect." Maka felt like barfing when she heard that. Soul's eyes widened and whispered to Maka silently, "Hey, you'd better get the teen romance or else you're so dead." Maka gave him a glare that could have frozen a big swimming pool. "Do you think I want to get that adult-thingy-romance too? STUPID."

Maka and Soul's conversation was cut of by Marie. "Hey, are you two even listening? HELLO!" The meister and weapon shut their mouths and said,"Yes. We're sorry."

Marie sighed then continued. "On with my instructions. Maka, when you have already picked one, please don't open it. Give it to me." Maka just nodded and gulped when she heard that. As she went up the aisle to get a category, she felt her heart pounding fast because of nervousness. Please, she prayed. Please don't let me get the adult romance. I'm going to freak out if I do!

Finally, Maka reached the fishbowl and picked a slip of paper and gave it to her teacher. Then she went back to her place, breathing heavily. She was pretty sure that Soul felt the same way, because she can hear his deep breaths. Their fellow classmates just watched them, curious of what will happen.

Watching Marie unfold the paper was torture for Maka and Soul. They just want to get over this drama class. Is that TOO MUCH to ask for?

After like what felt like hours for the meister and weapon, Marie opened the paper.

Then she smirked and flashed a sly grin.

Judging by their teacher's facial expression, Maka didn't think that the category that she picked was the one that she had in mind. Suddenly, she turned a little pale and felt a little dizzy. Please, she pleaded. Please don't tell me...

"Adult romance." Marie said with a grin.

The whole class was silent after that. So quiet that you could have heard a tiny pin drop. But the silence didn't last long when Black Star broke it. "DUDE, THAT IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!"

After Black Star's outburst, the rest of the class followed after him and began howling also. They began teasing Maka and Soul. "YIEEEE!" "GOOD ONE!" "MAKA AND SOUL SITTING ON A TREE, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! YEAAAHHH!"

Maka felt like fainting. Soul just stood there, shocked. Marie stared at them and laughed, which joined at the class' chorus.

After the howling and cheering, Marie called the two. "Maka, Soul, come here." The partners went to Marie. She handed them a leaf of bond paper, which includes the script. "I'm giving you exactly 20 minutes to rehearse this. Please hurry up; time is running out."

Maka got the script from her teacher's hands with disgust. Soul looked the same.

"Please go outside and practice. I'll call you when your time's already up." Marie said.

"Gee, thanks." Soul said sarcastically. They turned their backs and started going outside when suddenly Maka stopped in her tracks. She was going through the script when she suddenly saw a word that made her tremble.

"Kiss."

"What the-" Maka began to say.

"What?" Soul said.

Maka didn't answer Soul. She just went back to her teacher, who was seated comfortably on her chair reading a book.

"Um, Miss Marie," Maka said, looking at her teacher in the eyes, "Are we really going to do EVERYTHING that the script requires us to do?"

Marie gave Maka a confused look. "Why, of course, my dear."

Maka's eyes widen. "So does that mean that this Peanut Head and I need to...KISS?"

Marie chuckled and looked at Maka calmly. "Yep."

Soul heard what their teacher just said and butted in. "Whoa, whoa, WAIT!" He said. "Kiss each other? No way in a million years will I do that!"

Marie looked at Soul and said, "Oh. No way in a million years, huh? Then that only means that you want to kiss your meister. You said after a MILLION years. Then that means, after a million years, you're willing to kiss her." She smirked.

Soul sighed with frustration. "Geez, woman! Be serious! I'm freaking out here! And please, man, it's a FIGURE of SPEECH!"

Marie raised an eyebrow at him. "And please, MAN, I know that! Don't lecture me! I'm not stupid, you know!" She snapped. "And I'm sorry if the category that you have picked is Adult romance."

"But that's too much!" Maka cried. "Aren't first kisses supposed to be given to the person who you really love?"

Soul looked at Maka in disgust and shuddered. "Geez, Brain Freak, stop saying those things. It freaks me out. And it's so unlike you, for Shinigami's sake."

"Shut up, will you?" Maka said in frustration then turned to their teacher again. "Miss Marie, please, please, I'm begging you! Don't make us do this!"

Marie didn't pay attention to their protests and looked at her watch. "Only 17 minutes left for your rehearsal. I'm not going to give you an extension."

Maka and Soul heaved a sigh and stomped outside, a look of disappointment and defeat on their faces.

When Maka and Soul were already outside, they just stood their on the floor for a few minutes, not moving. As if they were statues made of stone.

Maka looked at Soul.

Soul looked at Maka.

They looked at each other with narrowed eyes.

After, like, three minutes, Soul broke the silence. "Okay, let's just get this over with!" He said.

"Fine with me. I don't want to do this more than you don't want to. Deal?" Maka said.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. But there's no way I'm going to do the smooch. Especially when it's with YOU. Geez, just thinking of it just makes me..UGGHH. Gross." Soul shuddered.

"Why, do you think I want to do that too?Please, dude. I hate to do that. Oh wait...I LOATHE to do that. And guess what? There's no way I'm going to lay my lips on you. I don't know if anyone already told you this, but your breath stinks like poo, man. That's why I feel sick when I talk to you. Do you brush your teeth, or what?" Maka fired back.

Soul rolled his eyes. "Just open the freaking script, will you?"

"You started the insulting, for Pete's sake." Maka opened the script and read some of the lines. "So, there are two characters here, obviously. The man's name is...Carlo." Maka bursted into laughter. "AHAHAHAHA! Geez, that's the name of my enemy in my old school who was once a guy but turned into a gay! I punched that dude in the gut a million times! AHAHAHAHA!"

"Shut up!" Soul said and snatched the paper out of Maka's hands. "Let's see what's your name, Miss Smarty Pants."

"Oh, I'm surprised you can still read after all the stupidity that you showed me today." Maka chuckled.

Soul gave her a glare. "I went to kindergarten, idiot." He read Maka's name. "Carmela." Soul bursted into BOISTEROUS laughter. "What the heck? CARMELA! AHAHAHAHA! What the heck, dude! Just plain...WHAT THE HECK!"

Maka turned a little red when she heard her character's name. Instead of freaking out, she just played it cool. "Oh, Carmela? Sure. That's cool."

Soul looked at her in astonishment. "Are you out of your mind, or what? You actually liked that name?"

Maka just put on a smile at his question. "Not exactly like, but it's better than having a once-guy-but-turned-into-gay name, right?" She laughed.

Soul narrowed his eyes at her then rolled his eyes. "Whatever."

Maka grinned. "Weak." Then she got the script from Soul. "Okay. Let's do this. You're going to memorize your lines first, since I know you need a lot of mastery because of that small brain of yours-"

Soul snapped. 'Hey, you're too much already!"

Maka ignored what he said. "-Then after you, it's me. We're going to rehearse it after." Maka suddenly remembered the kissing scene and gulped. How are we supposed to do that? she thought. Oh, forget it, Maka. Forget it. You'll get over this. Forget the freaking scene.

"Hello, earth to the freak." Soul snapped his fingers in front of Maka's face.

Maka blinked her eyes. "Anyway, you got what I was saying a while ago? I hope so. I know you're not that much of an idiot."

"Was that a compliment, or what?"

"I don't know. Maybe? Figure that out for yourself, stupid." Maka said then gave him the script. Soul just scowled then snatched it away from her for the second time.

After, like, five minutes, Soul was finished and gave the script back to Maka. "I'm finished, freak." He said smugly."Think you can beat my time of memorizing all the lines? Why, I finished quickly."

Maka just smirked. "Oh, really, huh? You just memorized a one-page script for 300 seconds, man. I bet you 50 bucks. I can memorize all of these things in 2 minutes or less."

Soul pretended to cough. "What? You? Oh, geez, dude. Stop bragging and get a life."

"Whatever. You don't want to take the bet? Fine then. I don't care. Wait, on second thought, I think I'll just cancel the bet 'cause you might lose. Oh, wait...You will really lose." Maka said and chuckled.

"You put it that way then, huh? FINE. Fifty bucks. Bet's on." Soul replied and looked at his watch. "Time starts now."

Maka just put on a sly grin. "Okay. Good luck, lamebrain. Be ready for your money. You asked for it." Then she kept quiet and started memorizing.

Soul just smirked. "Don't be so full of yourself, freak. You keep on bragging when in reality you can't really do-"

"Done." Maka cut him off then grinned.

Soul's eyes widen in astonishment the second time at Maka. "What the-? Are you serious?"

Maka looked at him in the eye and said, "Let's just rehearse it and find out, shall we?" She chuckled. "Don't forget our bet. Fifty bucks. Whoever will win shall get the prize right before we enter the freakin' classroom."

Soul gulped quietly. "On second thought..."

Maka looked at him. "What? Are you backing out, chicken?"

Soul narrowed his eyes at her comment, which made his adrenaline rushed. What? Soul Eater, don't tell me you're going to let yourself lose to this brainiac! It's just a stupid bet, dang it. Win or lose, whatever. You're not sure if she's even going to win anyway. Geez, just be cool!

He then said, "Who said I'll be backing out? You think you'll be the winner for this little bet that we're having, huh? Don't be so sure. Who can memorize a script in just 30 or more seconds only, anyway? That's impossible."

Maka just chuckled. "See it for yourself." Then they began rehearsing. Of course, they did not do the kissing scene.

After three minutes of practice, Soul can't believe what just happened. Maka memorized all her lines PERFECTLY. She didn't stutter. She was not mental blocked or whatever. It was smooth and perfect. He, who even memorized his lines for a longer time, was even the one who stuttered a little. The heck. Is this girl for REAL?

Maka looked at Soul after their rehearsal. "Now, do you believe me?" She said, smirking.

Soul looked at Maka in disbelief. "Are you an alien or something? That's impossible!" He cried.

"Well, you just saw it for yourself, didn't you?" She grinned.

"MAKA! SOUL! Time's up!" The meister and weapon heard their teacher from their classroom call them.

"Hey, my fifty bucks. Give it." Maka said to Soul, her hand stretched in front of him as they entered the classroom.

Defeated, Soul dugged the money out of his pocket and place it with frustration and force on his meister's hand. Maka laughed and put the money in her pocket in victory.

When Maka and Soul already entered the classroom, they felt anxious and nervous again. Their classmates howled and cheered for them for the second time when they laid a step on their room's floor. They only stopped when Maka gave them a "stop-it-or-else-you'll-regret-what-will-happen-to-you-later" look. They were horrified so they kept their mouths shut.

Marie, when she saw her two students, put up her creepy smile on her face again. Soul saw it and scowled. What the heck, he thought. Stop that, woman. It annoys me.

"Okay!" Marie said suddenly. She looks overly energetic than before. "Before you guys perform, maybe you won't mind putting on these costumes, would you?" She grinned and pulled a long white dress with a ribbon tied around it and a suit that would probably fit a prince from the box beside her, which is full of costumes and props.

Soul and Maka backed off, horrified.

"No way!"

"This is torture, man!"

"What the heck's with the gay costumes?"

The partners started babbling and babbling, complaining to their teacher. Marie, after countless complaints, held the costumes in front of their faces and gave them a stern look.A VERY stern look. You know, the monster slash creepy look. That was enough to make Maka and Soul be silent and follow her orders. Marie handed them their costumes and laughed evilly. Maka and Soul looked back at her and narrowed her eyes, then went to their own respective restrooms to change.

Five minutes later, Maka and Soul appeared in their classroom in their costumes. Their classmates applauded and gave them a standing ovation. Black Star has the greatest howl of all."OH, LOOK AT THEM! SO ADORABLE!"

Soul gave Black Star a death-ray glance and shot him the evil sign. Maka saw it and was shocked. She gave Soul a hidden yet very strong punch on the arm.

Soul looked at Maka, angry. "What the heck was that for?"

Maka looked at him in the eyes. "Don't you ever do that again or else!"

Soul was about to fire back when Marie clapped her hands and said, "Okay, class! Let us all keep quiet and watch Maka and Soul's version of 'Love me and never let me go!' Reminder, please keep quiet while their performance is going on." Marie motioned the two to go in front. "Start!"

Soul and Maka stared at their audience and gulped. Soul felt uncool for the very first time in his life. Maka never felt so nervous!

Well, it's now or never, Maka thought. This is it...

Soul was the who started. "Oh, Carmela...Please just listen to your heart. Come with me." He held Maka's right hand and put on a begging expression. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see his friends stiffling a giggle, especially Liz and Black Star. Those freaks are so going to get a piece of me later, he thought.

Maka turned to look back at him directly in his eyes and gave a sad expression. "Carlo, can't you see that everyone are so against of our love? Let's just..forget things...Perhaps we're not really for each other..."

Soul walked closer to Maka and touched her cheeks. They looked at each other directly at each other's eyes. This action caused a little wooting at the audience. Even Marie was fascinated. Maka and Soul just continued what they are doing, but there's only one sentence that was running through their minds that time: We're just following the gay script, we're just following the freaking script...

Soul then said, "Do you really love me, Carmela?"

Maka touched Soul's hands, then said, "I never stopped loving you..."

After that, the both of them froze. They know that the next scene will be the kiss. They suddenly turned red in front and looked down, panicking about what to do.

That's when Marie broke the silence surrounding them. "Hey, why did you stop? It was already going good!"

Maka and Soul got away from their position and faced their teacher. "Miss Marie, the next scene is the two characters were supposed to kiss! There's no way we are going to do that!" Maka cried.

When the whole class heard that, they started shouting, louder than before. "A KISS?" "EVEN BETTER!" "YEAH, MAN!"

Soul followed up Maka's protest. "This is so freaking unfair, lady!"

Marie narrowed her eyes at them. "Well, I'm sorry if the script requires you to do it! I selected that script randomly!"

"Miss Marie, please! This is too much!"

"DO IT!"

"No! We won't!"

"I said do it!"

"NO!"

"If you don't do it, I'll immediately give you an F for this semester!" Marie threatened.

"You are so unfair!" Maka and Soul said in unison.

"Well, if you just kiss, then this will all be over! It's just acting, geez!" Marie said.

The whole class followed their teacher's statement. "KISS! KISS! KISS! KISS! KISS!"

The chanting filled the room, louder than ever. Maka got fed up and shouted at the top of her lungs, "SHUT UP, YOU FREAKY PEOPLE!"

Maka's outburst suddenly filled the room with silence. They were horrified, again.

After minutes of silence, Marie went in front behind Soul's place. "Do it, or else-"

"I don't care if you give me failing marks for this school year! I'd rather have that than have my first kiss with this freak!" Soul said.

"Hey, you're starting again!" Maka replied.

Marie sighed in frustration, then said, "JUST KISS EACH OTHER ALREADY, DANG IT!" She pushed Soul towards Maka, causing him to fall onto her.

The whole class went drop-dead silent after that.

"Oh."

"My."

"Shinigami."

"Did that just happened?"

Hey guys! I hope you liked this chapter! ^^ And, um, I kind of got one of Maka's lines ("I don't want to do this more than you don't want to. Deal?") from a Lizzie Mcguire book. :)) I bet you didn't expect that Black Star will shout adorable! Ahahahaha :)) I'm sorry for the really late update! ^^

Please review! It will be very much appreciated :) Thank you, dudes! Take care always(: