Chapter 3

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! JUST KIDDING, IT'S FEBRUARY! Tomorrow's my birthday! I turn 21~ WOOOOO!
So very sorry for the late update, I'll explain at the end of the chapter if you are interested haha…

But now please enjoy my story!


He was finally back to school, greeted by so many faces. His bones were all healed. Everything was back to normal. Just kidding. He has been a nervous wreck walking around school. Realizing just how many ghosts there were in this building. At least his home was ghosts free.

Soul walks to his locker, seeing the ghost boy Jon, whom Maka always talks too. He knew it was him, realizing his locker used to be Jon's. What luck. Jon notices Soul could see him. Soul proceeds to ignore him while opening his locker.

"Did you have a nice vacation? Aren't you lucky not having to do any make up work." Jon smiles at him, noticing he is being ignored.

"I know you can hear me. Maka already told everyone how you can see us now after your accident. We are not allowed to bug you though. But I'm not gonna listen so Ha!"

Soul stares at Jon. "I don't understand why you are still here, like crossover already. So uncool."

Jon stutters, "Wha- you-I"

Soul grabs his book, placing it in his bag. He looks back at Jon, "I was a ghost for like ten minutes and already hated it. You been one for like five years? Come on man."

Jon huffed and disappeared.

Soul smiled and walked to his class. He passes Maka who had her nose in another book. He shakes his head and sits down in the last row. Black Star comes bouncing up the stairs seeing his friend.

"Yahoo! Soul, I missed you buddy!"

"We saw each other almost everyday!"

Black Star waves his hands, "No, I mean, at school. So boring not having you here, I was failing by myself."

Soul snorts, "I fail one test and you hold it against me. I can't fail or my parents will pull me out."

Black Star nods, "Good thing I have Kid in some of my classes so I can copy his homework."

Soul laughs and shakes his head, he looks up too see a ghost girl fly into the room. She goes over to Maka but she ignores her, the ghost girls shrugs and starts dancing around the room. Soul starts to feel nervous, is he able to ignore the ghost if they talk to him with people around?

He turns his head only to be face to face with the ghost, he screams and jumps out of his chair. Everyone stops what they were doing and looks at him. He looks over at Maka, she looks at him worried but then glares at the ghost.

"Mr. Evans, are you alright?" His teacher asks in a stern voice, he could only nod and sit down. Black Star puts a hand on his shoulder, "Dude, what was that?"

"I uh, do that now, flash backs from my accident." He lies. Black Star pats his back, "Aw man, I'm here for ya."

When lunch finally came around, Soul started to search for Maka. He couldn't take it, it wasn't even a full day of school yet and he was already falling apart. On the streets, it's easier because you just keep walking but at school, you are stuck to a desk for almost an hour. So of course a ghost will come up to him and try to talk.

Why can't they just talk to the other ghosts? Why him? He finds Maka on the rooftop, sitting on a bench, reading a book.

"Maka!" Soul shouts relived. Maka looks up, "Oh, hey Soul." She sees his exhausted form. "Ruff first day back?"

He sits down on the ground and pouts, "Yes, all these ghosts wont leave me alone. I don't know what to do."

Maka closes her book and sits it down. "You got to learn to ignore them Soul."

"But it's really hard! They just keep talking and talking. I can't take it anymore. Please make it stop."

Maka sits down in front of him, "I'm sorry, that you have to see ghosts too, but I don't know how to make it stop."

Soul shakes his head, "No, make them leave me alone during class."

"I can't do that either, they are not going to listen to me."

He moans, covering his face. "Soul, you don't mind being able to ghosts?" Maka asks.

Soul looks down at his hands, "Well it's complicated, I hate how they come talk to me during class and now everyone gives me wired looks. But it's also somewhat cool that I can see them. They tell me their stories and move on, and it was cool seeing you handle that boy at the hospital."

Maka blushes, why was she blushing? "It's nice to know I'm not alone."

Soul looks up at her, "Maka, but please can you help me? I know I don't deserve it, but I need to know how to handle this, I freaking screamed in the middle of class!"

Maka bites her lips, he did bully her, so why should she help? But then again he has been nothing but nice to her since the accident.

"I will only if you do one thing."

"What is it?"

"Since you are popular, get people to stop bullying me and then I will help you with the ghosts. We do have a lot of our classes together."

Soul smiles and jumps up, "Deal, I will protect you Maka, I swear! Thank you!"

She feels herself blush again, smiling at him.


After two full weeks, Maka walks around the school happily. Soul kept his promised, she has not been bullied once. When someone even tries, Soul would appear out of nowhere and beat up the person. In return, she worked extra hard to get a lot of the ghosts to crossover. While others just agree to not bug Soul during class. He seemed happier too.

As she walks down the hall, she notices her friend, Crona, at his locker.

"Crona!" Maka happily yells as she walks over to him, "It's been three weeks since I last seen you. How have you been?"

Crona turns to her, "I been okay, I got my treatment at the hospital."

"Do you feel better now?"

Crona looks down at his feet, "Not really."

Maka pouts at her friend, sad knowing she couldn't help her depressed friend. "I thought a therapist would help."

"I just need to work on what she told me." He says. Maka nods, she then notices Soul walking, "Soul!" She happily calls out. He looks up from his phone and smiles, giving her a little wave. Crona looks at Maka funny.

Soul puts his phone in his pocket, "You know, I think I can get Jon to crossover."

"Really? How?"

Crona glares.

"I got him talking, like you do. I think I got him comfortable enough to know he can continue in the afterlife."

Maka smiles, "I've been trying for years, so if you get him to crossover, that just shows you can do this."

Soul smiles at Maka praise, he looks over at Crona, "Oh hi Patty's friend."

Maka looks at Crona, "Oh I forgot you became friends with Patty."

"She really likes him, she keeps telling me how sad she's been since he has not been here."

Crona look at Soul, "Yeah, she said the same thing to me when you were in the hospital." Soul notices a little attitude in his tone, he coughs, "Maka and Patty told me all about you."

"That's nice, I got to get to class, bye."

They watch him walk away, Soul turns to Maka. "He hates me."

"What? No he doesn't."

"You saw how he talked to me."

"I honestly never seen him talk like that, you never met him before either. After you came back, Crona went into the hospital for his depression."

"What's he depressed about?"

"He has a hard home life, we became friends when he moved here when I was in middle school. I still don't know the full details, he doesn't like to talk about it."

"How's he supposed to get help?" Soul asks. Maka rubs her forehead. "I don't know, its really worrying me though, he's suicidal."

Soul frowns at that, "Why don't you guys come hangout with me and my friends? He's already friends with Patty."

"I don't think your friends like me."

Soul places his hand on Maka's head, "I told them how cool you are, I want to tell them I can see ghosts now too, and I want you to be there with me."

Maka faces goes red, "Hey are you okay? You are really hot." Soul asks worried.

Maka feels her face, "I think I'm getting a little sick, better go to sleep early tonight."

"I'll take you home today, okay?"

Maka smiles, "Sure."


Patty walks into lunch and sees Maka talking to Soul, she smiles, and heads over. "Hi Maka!"

Maka looks at Patty in shock, she's never said hi to her before, "Oh hello."

"Have you seen Crona?"

"He should be on the rooftop, I was just about to head up there and eat lunch with him."

"It's getting cold out, you guys should eat lunch here," Soul says concerned. Patty smiles at them. She just keeps wondering what happen between the two. First Soul would bully her and other kids but then after the hospital, he's back as a new man, being nice to everyone. Protecting all the kids getting bullied, especially Maka.

Patty also learned her ways when she became friends with Crona, they ended up becoming lab partners and she got to learn a lot about him. A strange desire to protect him from everyone. She could feel he was avoiding her.

"Come on," Maka says, snapping Patty out of her thoughts, "Let's go find him."

They head to the rooftop, Soul follows them eating his bread. They open the doors and see Crona sitting on the edge of the roof, darkness surrounding him. Maka takes a step back, confused on what she was seeing. Patty looks at Maka and Soul, "Guys, what's wrong?"

Soul swallows his food, and walks over to Crona, "Uh, Crona, are you okay, not safe to sit right there, dude."

Crona gets up and walks over, "Did you see the darkness Maka?" He gives her a wicked smile, "I can't see it, but I can feel it." He starts to laugh.

Patty slaps Crona across the face. "Snap out of it!" She huffs, "Why are you talking about darkness?"

"Because, I decided to become part of it."


That's the end of this chapter…I will try my best to update next week.

So I do hope everyone is liking this story so far.

Sorry again that it look me long to update. My 2013 Microsoft expired. That's because I got it from my sis's old job and she doesn't work there anymore, I then had to wait to get paid to buy the newest version. But I had bills to pay so I had to wait again for the next pay check. Finally bought it.

I even wrote part of this story on my google docs, but couldn't figure out how to publish it to the website, so if there is a way, someone tell me haha.

I deleted half of this chapter and rewrote it, I kind of like the way I'm going with it. So stay tune on what happens next!

BYEEEE! From the birthday girl ;D